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QUERIES:-- Catherine Pegge, by Lord Braybrooke William Basse and his Poems, by J.P. Collier Minor Queries:--Christmas Hymn--Passage in Pope--Circulation of the Blood--Meaning of Pallace--Oliver Cromwell--Savegard and Russells--Pandoxare--Lord Bacon's Psalms--Festival of St. Michael, &c.--Luther and Erasmus--Lay of the Phoenix--Agricola--Liturgy Version of Psalms

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, catalogues, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements

None of the commentators have noticed this, but I think my suggestion carries with it some weight.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

MARLOWE AND THE OLD "TAMING OF A SHREW."

"Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, Longing to view Orion's drisling looks, Leaps from th' Antarctic world unto the sky, And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath;"

I will not take up your space now with the parallel passages which I noted; but, should you wish it, and be able to make room for them, I will furnish you with a list. It is, of course, obvious that the one I have quoted proves nothing by itself; accumulated instances, in connection with the general question of style, alone become important. I will conclude, by giving a list which I have made out of Marlowe's plays, in favour of which I conceive there to be either internal or external evidence:--

"Locrine.

Tamburlaine the Great .

Jew of Malta.

Doctor Faustus.

Edward the Second.

Massacre of Paris.

Taming of a Shrew.

Dido, Queen of Carthage ."

SAMUEL HICKSON

St. John's Wood, Jan. 12. 1850

BEETLE MYTHOLOGY.

"P?N, P?N, mourtre m? ten sang, Et j'te do?rai de bouan vin blianc!"

which means, being interpreted,

"P?N, P?N, show me thy blood, And I will give thee good white wine!"

As he uttered the charm, the juvenile pontiff spat on poor Thammuz, till a torrent of blood, or what seemed such, "ran purple" over the urchin's fingers.

Paul-Ernest Jablonski's numerous readers need not be told that the said beetle is an Egyptian emblem of the everlasting and universal soul, and that its temple is the equinoctial circle, the upper hemisphere.

"Sus l'bord pi?sottaient, c?te-?-c?te, Les ?querbots et leas PAPANS, Et ratte et rat laissaient leux crotte Sus les vieilles casses et m?me dedans."

The Egyptians revere the beetle as a living and breathing image of the sun, quoth Porphyry. That will account for this restless delver's extraordinary talismanic renown. I think the lady-bird is "the speckled beetle" which was flung in hot water to avert storms. Pignorius gives us the figure of the beetle, crowned with the sun, and encircled with the serpent of eternity; while another, an onyx in the collection of Abraham Gorlaeus, threatens to gnaw at a thunderbolt.

Reuven's book on the Egyptian Museum, which I have not seen, notices an invocation to "the winged beetle, the monarch of mid-heaven," concluding with a devout wish that some poor creature "may be dashed to pieces."

Yours truly,

St. Martin's, Guernsey, Jan. 9. 1850.

EXTRACTS FROM CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER--WEIGHT OF BELLS IN ANCIENT TIMES--HISTORY OF A ROOD-LOFT.

I send you a few Notes, collected out of the Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

"1592. The broken Tennor waied xvjCxxj lb. The new tennor ys. xiijC di The greatest bell ys xxjC and di at lvjs. the C. The iiij bell ys xvijC and di and xiiij lb. The xiiij bell taken awaie was xiijC di. The ij bell carried awaie was viijCiij qters. The new bell viijC di. Som totall of the bells, yron, tymber, and workmanshipp lxxvl. vs. vd."

This appears to have been a sorry bargain, for soon after occur sad complaints of these bells, "very falsly and deceytfully made by Valentyne Trever." Perhaps your correspondent "CEPHAS" may explain the following entry:--

"1846. Item, paid for makying of a newe clapper to Judas bell xd."

"1460. Item, sol' pro le skoryng de la belles sup' le Rode lofte iiijd.

"1480. Item, paide for a doore in the rode lofte to save and kepe the people from the Orgayns xijd. Item, paide to a carpynter for makyng of the Crucyfix and the beme He standeth upon xls.

Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth once more, and this time for ever, the rood was destroyed, and the loft, though "reformed," did not long survive it.

The rapacious Puritans, of course, did not suffer any portion of the church-goods to escape their sacrilegious and itching palms, if convertible into money, so we read--

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

S.M.W., Dec. 22. 1849.

NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

OLD PAINTED GLASS

For poor ignorant people like myself pray insert the following, as perhaps some of your heraldic correspondents may afford some information for the benefit of your very humble servant,

F.E.

Newington, June 17. 1751.

Painted Glass in y' windows at Mr. Merser House is As foloweth 5 Coote of armse in 3 windowse in y' Kichen 2 Surkelor Coots of armse 6 Lians traveling 6 flours of Luse all Rede & a Holfe Surkel a top With 2 flours of luce y' Glass painted Rede Blew yoler & of a Green Shaye.

AELFRIC'S COLLOQUY.

S.W. SINGER.

Jan. 14. 1850.

LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING.

"Mr. Walter cannot here omit suggesting to the Public a few observations on his improved mode of printing LOGOGRAPHICALLY. In all projects for the general benefit, the individual who conceives that the trade in which he is engaged diminishes in its emoluments from any improvement which another may produce in it, is too much disposed to become its enemy; and, perhaps, the interest of individuals never exerted itself with more inveteracy than has been experienced by Mr. Walter from many concerned in the trade into which he had entered.

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