Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 | Page 8

It came from the hand, and seemed to indicate at
least the theological partialities of the lady[1] who culled and bound
together the various portions of the wreath.
W.
[Footnote 1: A daughter of the late Joseph Shrimpton, Esq., of High
Wycombe.]
Dutch Language.--"E. VEE" will be indebted to "ROTTERODAMUS,"
or any other correspondent, who can point out to him the best modern
books for acquiring a knowledge of the Dutch language,--an
Anglo-Dutch Grammar and Dictionary.
Horns.--1. Why is Moses represented in statues with horns? The idea is
not, I think, taken from the Bible.
2. What is the reason for assigning horns to a river, as in the
"Tauriformis Aufidus."
3. What is the origin of the expression "to give a man horns," for
grossly dishonouring him? It is met with in late Greek.
L.C.
Cambridge, March 27.

Marylebone Gardens.--In what year did Marylebone Gardens finally
close?
NASO.
Toom Shawn Cattie.--I find these words (Gaelic, I believe, from _Tom
John Gattie_) in an old Diary, followed by certain hieroglyphics,
wherewith I was wont to express "recommended for perusal." I have
lost all trace of the recommender, and have hunted in vain through
many a circulating library list for the name, which I believe to be that
of some book or song illustrating the domestic life of our Western
Highlanders. Can any of your readers assist me in deciphering my own
note?
MELANION.
_Love's Last Shift_.--In the first edition of Peignot's Manuel du
Biblioplide, published in 1800, the title of Congreve's "Mourning
Bride" is rendered "L'Epouse du Matin." Can any of your readers
inform me whether it is in the same work that the title of "Love's Last
Shift" is translated by "Le dernier Chemise de l'Amour?" if not, in what
other book is it?
H.C. DE ST. CROIX.
_Cheshire-round_.--"W.P.A." asks the meaning of the above phrase,
and where it is described.
_Why is an Earwig called a "Coach-bell?"_--Your correspondents,
although both kind and learned, do not appear to have given any
satisfactory answer to my former query--why a lady-bird is called
Bishop Barnaby? Probably there will be less difficulty in answering
another entomological question--Why do the country-people in the
south of Scotland call an earwig a "coach-bell?" The name "earwig"
itself is sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still
more utterly unintelligible.
LEGOUR.

Chrysopolis.--Chrysopolis is the Latin name for the town of Parma,
also for that of Scutari, in Turkey. Is the etymological connection of the
two names accidental? and how did either of them come to be called
the "Golden City?"
R.M.M.
Pimlico.--In Aubrey's Surrey, he mentions that he went to a Pimlico
Garden, somewhere on Bankside. Can any of your correspondents
inform me of the derivation of the word "Pimlico," and why that
portion of land now built on near to Buckingham House, through which
the road now runs to Chelsea, is called Pimlico?
R.H.
April 1. 1850.
Zenobia.--I have read somewhere that Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, was
of Jewish origin, but am now at a loss to retrace it. Could any of your
correspondents inform me where I have read it?
A. FISCHEL.
_Henry Ryder, Bishop of Killaloe_.--"W.D.R." requests information in
reference to the paternity of Henry Ryder, D.D., who was born in Paris,
and consecrated Bishop of Killaloe in 1692.
_Belvoir Castle._--In the Harleian Miscellany, vol. iv. p. 527., is a
Pindaric Ode upon Belvoir Castle, which Mr. Nichols reprinted in his
_History of the Hundred of Framland._ Can any of your readers inform
me who was the author of this very singular production?
T.R. Potter.
_St. Winifreda._--Can any of your readers refer me to any history or
recent discoveries relative to St. Winifreda?
B.

_Savile, Marquis of Halifax._--It is stated in Tyers's Political
Conferences (1781), that a Diary of his was supposed to be among the
Duke of Shrewsbury's MSS.; and when Mr. Tyers wrote, in the hands
of Dr. Robertson. Can any of your readers give information about this
Diary?
C.
_Salt at Montem._--Will you allow me, as an old Etonian, to ask the
derivation of "salt," as it used to be applied to the money collected at
Eton Montem for the Captain of the Colleges? Towards investigating
the subject, I can only get as far as Salt Hill, near Slough, where there
was a mount, on which, if I remember rightly, the Captain waved a flag
on Montem day. A brief account of the origin of Montem would be
interesting; and it is especially worth noting now that the pageant is
suppressed.
A.G.
Ecclesfield, March 14, 1850.
_Ludlow's Memoirs._--"C." is anxious to learn if the manuscript of
Ludlow's Memoirs is known to exist, or to receive any information as
to where it might probably be found.
Ludlow died at Vevay, in Switzerland, in 1693, and the Memoirs were
published at Vevay shortly after.
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