Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Old Playing Cards._--In 1763 Dr. Stukeley exhibited to the Antiquarian
Society a singular pack of cards, dating before the year 1500. They were
purchased in 1776, by Mr. Tutet, and on his decease they were bought by
Mr. Gough. In 1816 they had passed into the possession of Mr. Triphook,
the bookseller. Query, where are they now?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Canongate Marriages._--According to the _Newgate Calendar_, vol. ii. p.
269., there seems to have existed, about the year 1745, a sort of
_Gretna Green_ in the Canongate of Edinburgh. It is long since I read
that _famous_ work, but I made an excerpt at the time, which is as
follows:
"It was customary for some of the ministers of the Church of
Scotland, who were out of employment, to marry people at the
ale-houses, in the same manner that the Fleet marriages were
conducted in London. Sometimes people of fortune thought it
prudent to apply to these marriage brokers; but, as their chief
business lay among the lower ranks of people, they were deridingly
called by the name of 'Buckle the Beggars.' Most of these
marriages were solemnized at public-houses in the Canongate."
This statement "comes in such a questionable shape," and from so
"questionable" a quarter, that really one cannot be blamed for
questioning it. Surely the ministers referred to must have been men
deprived of their charges? Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." speak to
this subject? I am certain that the Scottish clergy of that age would
never have suffered any _Buckle the Beggars_ to rank with them as
regular preachers, though "out of employment."
R. S. F.
Perth.
_Devil, Proper Name._--Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me
whether there are any persons now existing of the name of Devil; or who
bear the devil on their coat of arms? In 1847 I saw upon the panel of a
carriage in London the _devil's head_ for a crest. To what family does
this belong? "Robin the Devil" is mentioned in _Rokeby_, cant. vi. st.
32. The following is from the _Monthly Mirror_, August, 1799:
"Formerly there were many persons surnamed 'the Devil.' In an
ancient book we read of one Rogerius Diabolus, Lord of Montresor."
"An English monk, Willelmus, cognomento Diabolus. Again, Hughes le
Diable, Lord of Lusignan. Robert, Duke of Normandy, son of William
the Conqueror, was surnamed 'the Devil.' In Norway and Sweden
there were two families of the name of 'Trolle,' in English,
'Devil;' and every branch of these families had an emblem of the
devil for their coat of arms. In Utrecht there was a family called
'Teufel' (or Devil); and in Brittany there was a family of the
name of 'Diable.'"
W. R. DEERE SALMON.
_Hendurucus du Booys; Helena Leonora de Sieveri._--Their portraits
engraved by Cornelius Vischer from paintings by Vandyke. Who were they?
G. A. C.
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