Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 | Page 6

of the whole year referred to has been examined, without
finding any notice of the subject.
Should any of your readers have met with the statement elsewhere, it
may happen that there is some error in Collins's reference to his
authority; and a clue to the right roll, or any other notice of the division
of this great inheritance, will be acceptable.

G.
_Draytone and Yong._--The following note was found by me among
the Exchequer Records, on their sale and dispersion, a few years ago:--
"I praye you fellowe Draytone do so invehe for me as to Resave all
svche moneye as is dewe to me from the handes of Ser Vincente
Skyner Knyghte or else wheare from thos offysers of the excheqer And
this shalbe yovr discharge. Written the laste daye of Janvarye 1607.
Henry Yong."
Can your subscribers inform me who the writer was? Mr. Payne Collier
states that there was an interlude-maker of the name of Henry Yong in
the reign of Henry VIII. Is it likely that the note was addressed to
Michael Drayton?
ROBT. COLE.
Upper Norton Street, Jan. 23, 1850.
_The Fraternity of Christian Doctrine._--I think I see some names
among your correspondents who might inform me where I shall find
the fullest account of the Fraternity of Christian Doctrine, established
by St. Charles Borromeo in the diocese of Milan. I am acquainted with
the regulations for their establishment in _Acta. Concil. Mediol._, and
with the incidental notices of them which {214} occur in Borromeo's
writings, as also in the later authors, Bishop Burnet, Alban Butler, and
Bishop Wilson (of Calcutta). The numbers of the Sunday schools under
the management of the Confraternity, the number of teachers, of
scholars, the books employed, the occasional rank in life of the teachers,
their method of teaching, and whether any manuals have ever been
compiled for their guidance--are points upon which I would gladly
gather any information.
C.F.S.
_Treatise by Englebert, Archbishop of Treves._--Bishop Cosin (in his
_Hist. Trans._ cap. vii. §12) refers to _Engelb. Archiep. Trevirensis, ap.
Goldasti Imper._ tom. i. In Goldast's Politica Imperialia there is a
treatise by S. Engelb. Abb. Admoutens in Austria: but I find neither the
author referred to, nor the treatise intended, by Cosin. According to
Eisengrein, who is followed by Possivinus, there were two Engelberts;
viz. Engelbertus, S. Matthiæ _Treverensis_, Benedictinæ possessionis
Abbus, patria _Mosellanus_, who lived A.D. 987; and S. Engelbert,
who flourished A.D. 1157, and who is described as Admontensis

Benedictinæ posessionis Abbus, Germanus. Can any of your
correspondents kindly direct me to the intended treatise of the
Archbishop of Treves?
J. SANSOM.
Oxford, Jan. 9. 1850.
_New Year's Day Custom._--I shall be glad if any of your readers can
inform me of the origin and signification, of the custom of carrying
about decorated apples on New Year's Day, and presenting them to the
friends of the bearers. The apples have three skewers of wood stuck
into them so as to form a tripod foundation, and their sides are
ornamented with oat grains, while various evergreens and berries adorn
the top. A raisin is occasionally fastened on each oat grain, but this is, I
believe, and innovation.
SELEUCUS.
_Under the Rose._--That the English proverbial expression, _Under the
Rose_, is derived from the confessional, is, I believe, generally
admitted: but the authorship of the well-known Latin verses on this
subject is still, as far as I am aware, a _rexata quæstio_, and gives a
somewhat different and _tantaleau_[1] meaning to the adage:--
"Est Rosa flas Veneris, quem, quo sua furta laterent, Harpoerati, Matris
dona, dicavit Amor. Inde rosam mensis hospes suspendit amicis,
Convivæ ut sub ca dicta tacenda sciant."
Can any of your correspondents obligingly inform me to whom these
not inelegant or unclassical lines are to be attributed?
ARCHÆUS.
Wiesbaden, Dec. 15. 1849.
[Footnote 1: See Pindar's First Olympic Ode.]
_Norman Pedigrees._--Can any gentleman inform me where (in what
book) may be found the situation of the places from which the
companions of William the Norman took their names? Such French
names as have De prefixed--in fact, a _Gazetteer_? Also, where may be
found--if such exist--pedigrees of the same _worthies_?
B.
_Dr. Johnson's library._--I have long wanted to know what became of
the library of Dr. Samuel Johnson (of our city), or if he had any
considerable collection of books. Perhaps some of your correspondents
would answer both these queries. I happen to have a few, some of

which were used in compiling his Dictionary, and are full of his marks,
with references to the quotations, most of which are to be found in the
Dictionary. I have also his own Prayer-Book.
T.G. LOMAX.
Lichfield, Jan. 11. 1850.
_Golden Frog._--In the church of Boxstead, in the county of Suffolk,
there is a large and very handsome monument of marble, in