Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"I have used the expressive proverbial phrase _Cock-on-a-Bell_,
familiarly corrupted into Cock-and-a-Bull, in its true and genuine
application to the fabulous narratives of Popery. There is some
measure of antiquarian curiosity attendant upon it, which may
rival the singular metamorphosis of the _Pix und Ousel_ into the
familiar sign of the _Pig and Whistle_. During the Middle Ages, as
we learn incidentally from Reinerius, _Gallus-super-campanam_ was
the ecclesiastical hieroglyphic of a _Romish Priest_: and as the
gentlemen of that fraternity dealt somewhat copiously in legends
rather marvellous than absolutely true, the contempt of Our
English Protestantism soon learned proverbially to distinguish any
idle figment by the burlesque name of a _Cock-on-a-Bell_ story,
or, as we now say, a _Cock-and-a-Bull story_."--From _An Inquiry
into the History and Theology of the Ancient Vallenses and
Albigenses_, by George Stanley Faber, B.D., 1838, p. 76. n.
J. R. R.
_Mary Queen of Scots--Her Monument and Head._--I find in Grose's
_Antiquarian Repertory_, 2nd edition, vol. iii. p. 388., an account of a
monument which was formerly to be seen in the Church of St. Andrew, at
Antwerp, to the memory of Mary Queen of Scots; and it is therein
related, on the authority of "an ancient MS.," shown to the author by "a
Flemish gentleman of consequence and learning," that two of Mary's
attendant ladies, named Barbara Mowbray and Elizabeth Curle, buried the
head of their unfortunate mistress there, having been permitted, on
leaving England after her execution, to carry her head with them.
Can any of your readers inform me whether this monument still exists,
and whether anything is known of a portrait of Mary said to have been
placed by these ladies near the monument? Also, whether there is any
truth whatever in the above strange story.
C. E. D.
Queries.
THE BOOK OF JASHER.
The inclosed cutting is from the _New Monthly Magazine_ for March 1829.
What has become of the translation of the "Book of Jasher" named
therein, and was it ever published as promised?
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