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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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Ecclesiastical Geography_ (Vol. v., p. 276.).--There is a work on this
subject by I. E. T. Wiltsch, _Handbuch der Kirchlichen Geographie and
Statistik_, Berlin, 1846, 2 vols. 8vo., which, in so far as I have
looked at it, appears to be carefully done.
J. C. R.
_Butts Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 501.).--I read yesterday an article signed
COWGILL, asking information concerning the family of Butts, anciently of
Thornage, Norfolk. Sir William Butts, physician to Henry VIII., and Dr.
Robert Butts, my great-grandfather, formerly Bishop of Norwich, were of
that family, and if your correspondent will communicate privately with
me, I shall be happy to receive from him, and communicate to him, any
particulars of a public character concerning a family of which I am
nearly the only representative. My address is "Rev. Edward Drury Butts,
Camesworth, Bridport."
E. D. B.
_Friday at Sea_ (Vol. v., p. 200.).--The story to which your
correspondent? refers may be found in a note to one of Fennimore
Cooper's sea novels; I do not remember which, and am unable at present
to ascertain by reference to the book itself. If my recollection be
accurate, the novelist speaks of it as an event of which he had personal
knowledge, and does not quote any earlier authority.
K. E.
It is a most curious circumstance connected with the superstition
sailors have regarding putting to sea on a Friday, which will now have
greater weight attached to it than ever, that I can inform your
correspondent, W. FRASER, that the ill-fated Amazon, Captain Symons, did
really sail on a Friday, as he suggested she might have done.
The day was January 2, 1852, by Lloyd's Lists, which is the day of the
month the West India mail always leaves this country.
J. S. O.
Old Broad Street.
_A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box_ (Vol. v., p. 274.).--The
printed leaves inquired for by A SUBSCRIBER, are from the _Irish Union
Magazine_, No. 2., April, 1845, and are quoted at p. 182. of Wilde's
_Closing Scenes of Dean Swift's Life_, where may be found several
particulars of the snuff-box inquired about. The inscription within the
lid is curious, and is copied by Wilde.
E. D.
_English Translation of the Canons_ (Vol. v., p. 246.).--M. tells us
that in the second clause of the 36th canon of 1603, the words _quodque
eodem taliter uti liceat_ are translated "and that the same may be
lawfully used," the word _taliter_ being altogether omitted in the
English. What authority is there for this statement? In all the copies
of the English Canons that I have examined, the translation is exact,
viz., "and that it may lawfully _so_ be used;" and that the form now
presented for subscription at ordination agrees with this, may be
inferred from the fact that the words are so printed in Mr. Hodgson's
_Instructions for the Clergy_ (6th edition, p. 8.).
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