Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 127, April 3, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 127, April 3, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Bee-Park._--This term is used in Cornish title-deeds. What species of
inclosure does it express? Do any such exist now?
C. W. G.
[We have never met with the word, and can only guess at random
that it is _quasi_ "the bee-croft," the enclosure where the bees
were kept; always remembering that formerly, when honey was an
article of large consumption, immense stores of these insects must
have been kept. In royal inventories we have "honey casks"
enumerated to an immense amount.]
_A great Man who could not spell._--Of what great historical character
is it recorded, that though by no means deficient in education, he never
could succeed in spelling correctly? I have an impression of having read
this in some biography a few years since, and I think it was a great
military commander, who always committed this error in his despatches,
though a man of acknowledged high talents and well-informed mind, and
conscious of this defect, which he had endeavoured in vain to overcome.
SAMPSON ANRAMENII.
[Does our correspondent allude to the Duke of Marlborough, who was
avowedly "loose in his cacography" as Lord Duberly has it?]
_Glass-making in England._--The appearance in your pages of several very
interesting Notes on the First Paper-mill in England leads me to beg
space for a few Queries on another subject of Art-History.
1. _When_, _where_, and under what circumstances, was the first
manufactory for _glass_ established in England?
2. What writer first notices the introduction or use of glass, in our
island?
3. Are there any works of authority published devoted to this material?
If so, may I request some of your learned contributors to direct me to
them, or, in fact, to any good notice of its early history?
JOSIAH CATO.
5. Holland Place, North Brixton.
[Fosbroke, in his _Encyclopædia of Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 397.,
has given some curious notices of the early manufacture of this
useful article. The art of glass-making was known to the early
Egyptians, as is fully discussed in a Memoir by M. Boudet, in the
_Description de l'Egypt_, vol. ix. _Antiq. Mémoires_. See also the
_Encyclopædia Metropolitana_, vol. viii. p. 469, which contains
many historical notices, from a neat and concise sketch published
by Mr. Pellatt, of the firm of Pellatt and Green, whose works are
scientifically conducted on a scale of considerable magnitude.]
_Eustace._--Was Eustachius Monachus ever in Guernsey?
MORTIMER COLLINS.
[It is very probable. Some of the crew of this renowned pirate
were captured at Sark. See Michel's Introduction to the _Roman
d'Eustache le Moine_, 8vo. 1834, where copies of most of our
records, and of the passages in our early historians, in which
Eustace is mentioned, have been collected with great care.]
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