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
7th. Who has on sale the most extensive collection of Welsh books, and
those relating to British history?
P. B. W
7. Harrington Street, Regent's Park.
"VCRIMDR" _on Coins of Vabalathus_ (Vol. v., p. 148.).--As no professed
Oriental scholar has directed any attention to this word yet, and as,
although root in the words Karimat and Akram appears the same, the
analogy to VCRIMDR is not very obvious, I may mention that on searching
further I have found the adjective _Ucr_, with the various meanings,
_weighty_, _precious_, _esteemed_, _honourable_. I leave it to
Orientalists to tell us if VCRIMDR is a compound or an inflexion of
_Ucr_. I regret that owing to a peculiarity in my handwriting, De Gauley
was twice substituted for De Sauley in my last note, Vol. v., p. 149.
W. H. S.
Edinburgh.
_Lines on Woman._--
"Oh, woman! thou wert born to bless
The heart of restless man; to chase his care;
To charm existence by thy loveliness,
Bright as a sunbeam--as the morning fair.
If but thy foot trample on a wilderness,
Flowers spring up and shed their roseate blossoms there."
Will any of your readers be kind enough to favour me with the completion
of the above stanza, as well as to state who is the author of the same?
J. T.
_Penkenol._--John Aubrey, the antiquary, in his _Collections for North
Wilts_, Part I. p. 51. (Sir Thomas Phillips's edition), describing the
stained glass in Dauntsey Church, uses the following expression:
"Memorandum. The crescents in these coats: Therefore Sir John
[Danvers] was not the _penkenol_."
The word is correctly printed from the original MS. Can any of your
readers explain its meaning?
J. E. J.
_Fairfax Family Mansion._--On the right-hand side of the road between
Tadcaster and Thorpe Arch, Yorkshire, extends the domain of the Fairfax
family. The mansion, a comfortable old fashioned red-brick Tudor-looking
structure, stands some two hundred yards back in the grounds through
which, from the road to the front door of the house, extends a fine
avenue of chestnuts, terminated at the roadside by a pair of venerable,
rusty, and decaying iron gates _which are kept closed_; the entrance to
the park being by a sort of side gateway of insignificant and field-like
appearance further on. Can any of your readers give me the facts, or the
local tradition which accounts for this peculiarity? I believe it is a
family incident of somewhat historical interest, and a subject on which
I am desirous of information.
G. W.
_Postman and Tubman in the Court of Exchequer._--In the _Legal Observer_
of the 24th April, I find the following:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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