Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
[All the above contributors to this valuable literary journal were
Nonjurors. It may not be generally known that the principal editor
was Samuel Jebb, M.D., of Peter House, Cambridge, who subsequently
attached himself to the Nonjurors, and accepted the office of
librarian to the celebrated Jeremy Collier. Dr. Jebb was also
assisted by Mr. Wasse, Dr. Wotton, Dr. Jortin, Dr. Pearce, and
others.--ED.]
_Inscription at Dundrah Castle._--In the course of a summer spent in
Argyleshire, I paid a visit to old Dundrah, or Dundarrow Castle, which
stands between Inverary and Cairndhu, on the southwest. It is now a
small farm-house. The tenant refused me admission under half-a-crown, so
I contented myself with a survey of the exterior. Over the doorway I
found the following inscription carved in the stone:
"I ' MAN ' BEHALD ' THE ' END ' DE ' NOCHT '
VISER ' NOR ' HEIEST ' HOIP ' IN ' GOD."
The meaning is evident, though what connexion it has with the old castle
I am not able to say. I send it you, as I have not seen it noted in any
book.
C. M. I.
_Derivation of Charing._--Mr. Peter Cunningham, in his most entertaining
work, _The Handbook of London_, tells us that the origin of _Charing
Cross_ has never been discovered.
It lies buried in the venerable pages of Somner and Skinner. It was
first propounded by the former in his Notes on Lipsius, appended to
Meric Causaubon's _Commentatio de Quatuor Linguis_, in v. SCURGI. The
A.-S. _cyrrung_ (from _cyrran_, avertere) is, as he tells us, _aversio_:
"Atque hinc, a viarum (scil.) et platearum diverticulis, ut in
compitis, pluribus apud nostrates locis hoc nomen olim inditum,
quod postea in _Cerring_ mutatum, tandem transiit (ut nunc dierum)
in _Charing_; quomodo quadrivium sive compitum illud nuncupatur in
suburbiis Londinensibus, ab occidente, prope Westmonasterium,
_Charing Crosse_, vulgo dictum; _Crosse_ addito, ob crucem ibidem,
ut in compitis solitum, olim erectam."
Q.
Queries.
POEM BY NICHOLAS BRETON.
I have recently purchased a small manuscript in quarto, containing
fifteen leaves, written about the year 1590, which consists of a poem in
six cantos, without title or name of the author, but which, I feel
convinced, from the style, is one of the numerous works of Nicholas
Breton. In the hope that some of your correspondents may be able to
identify the poem, which may possibly be printed in some of Breton's
very rare works, I subjoin the commencing stanzas:
"Where should I finde that melancholy muse,
That never hard of any thinge but mone,
And reade the passiones that her pen doth use,
When she and sorrow sadlye sitt alone
To tell the world more then the world can tell
What fits indeed most fitlye figure hell.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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