Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853

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and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20369]
Language: English
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{589} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 190.] Saturday, June 18, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits 589 The Megatherium Americanum in the British Museum 590 Remunerations of Authors, by Alexander Andrews 591 Coincident Legends, by Thomas Keightley 591 Shakespeare Readings, No. VIII. 592 Shakespeare's Use of the Idiom "No had" and "No hath not," by S. W. Singer, &c. 593
MINOR NOTES:--The Formation of the Woman, Gen. ii. 21, 22.--Singular Way of showing Displeasure --The Maids and the Widows--Alison's "Europe"-- "Bis dat, qui cito dat:" "Sat cito, si sat bene" 593
QUERIES:--
House-marks 594
Minor Queries:--"Seductor Succo"--Anna Lightfoot --Queries from the "Navorscher"--"Amentium haud Amantium"--"Hurrah!" and other War-cries --Kissing Hands at Court--Uniforms of the three Regiments of Foot Guards, temp. Charles II.--Raffaelle's Sposalizio--"To the Lords of Convention"-- Richard Candishe, M.P.--Alphabetical Arrangement-- Saying of Pascal--Irish Characters on the Stage-- Family of Milton's Widow--Table-moving 595
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Form of Petition, &c.--Bibliography--Peter Francius and De Wilde-- Work by Bishop Ken--Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon--Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan--Coins of Europe--General Benedict Arnold 596
REPLIES:--
Parish Registers: Right of Search, by G. Brindley Acworth 598 The Honourable Miss E. St. Leger, a Freemason, by Henry H. Breen 598 Weather Rules, by John Booker, &c. 599 Scotchmen in Poland, by Richard John King 600 Mr. Justice Newton 600 The Marriage Ring 601 Canada, &c. 602 Selling a Wife, by William Bates 602 Enough 603
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Wilkinson's Mode of levelling Cameras--Collodion Negative-- Developing Collodion Process--An iodizing Difficulty 604
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Bishop Frampton--Parochial Libraries--Pierrepont--Passage in Orosius --Pugna Porcorum--Oaken Tombs and Effigies-- Bowyer Bible--Longevity--Lady Anne Gray--Sir John Fleming--Life--Family of Kelway--Sir G. Browne, Bart.--Americanisms, so called--Sir Gilbert Gerard, &c. 605
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 610 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 610 Notices to Correspondents 610 Advertisements 611
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Notes.
ON THE USE OF THE HOUR-GLASS IN PULPITS.
George Herbert says:
"The parson exceeds not an hour in preaching, because all ages have thought that a competency."--A Priest to the Temple, p. 28.
Ferrarius, De Ritu Concion., lib. i. c. 34., makes the following statement:
"Huic igitur certo ac communi malo (the evil of too long sermons) ut medicinam facerent, Ecclesi? patres in concionando determinatum dicendi tempus fereque unius hor? spatio conclusum aut ipsi sibi pr?scribant, aut ab aliis pr?finitum religiosè observabant."
Bingham, commenting on this passage, observes:
"Ferrarius and some others are very positive that they (their sermons) were generally an hour long; but Ferrarius is at a loss to tell by what instrument they measured their hour, for he will not venture to affirm that they preached, as the old Greek and Roman orators declaimed, by an hour-glass."--See Bingham, vol. iv. p. 582.
This remark of Bingham's brings me at once to the subject of my present communication. What evidence exists of the practice of preaching by the hour-glass, thus treated as improbable, if not ridiculous, by the learned writer just quoted? If the early Fathers of the church timed their sermons by any instrument of the kind, we should expect their writings to contain internal evidence of the fact, just as frequent allusion is made by Demosthenes and other ancient orators to the klepshydra or water-clock, by which the time allotted to each speaker was measured. Besides, the close proximity of such an instrument would be a constant source of metaphorical allusion on the subject of time and eternity. Perhaps those of your readers who are familiar with the extant sermons of the Greek and Latin fathers, may be able to supply some illustration on this subject. At all events there appears to be indisputable evidence of the use of the hour-glass in the pulpit formerly in this country. {590}
In an extract from the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of St. Helen, in Abingdon, Berks, we find the following entry:
"Anno MDXCI. 34 Eliz. 'Payde for an houre-glasse for the