Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 | Page 4

together in one grave."
The tradition here recorded may be correct. At any rate, it carries with
it more plausibility than that recorded by Mr. Cunningham.
EDWARD F. RIMIBAULT.
[Some additional and curious allusions to this probably mythic virago
are recorded in Mr. Halliwell's _Descriptive Notices of Popular English
Histories_, printed for the Percy Society.]
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A NOTE ON SPELLING.--"SANATORY," "CONNECTION."
I trust that "NOTES AND QUERIES" may, among many other benefits,
improve spelling by example as well as precept. Let me make a note on
two words that I find in No. 37.: _sanatory_, p. 99., and _connection_,
p. 98.
Why "sanatory laws?" Sanare is _to cure_, and a curing-place is, if you
like, properly called sanatorium. But the Latin for health is _sanitas_,
and the laws which relate to health should be called sanitary.
Analogy leads us to _connexion_, not _connection_; _plecto_,
_plexus_, _complexion_; _flecto_, _flexus_, _inflexion_; _necto_,
_nexus_, _connexion_, &c.; while the termination ction belongs to
words derived from Latin verbs whose passive participles end in ctus as
_lego_, _lectus_, _collection_; _injecio_, _injectus_, _injection_;
_seco_, _sectus_, _section_, &c.
CH.
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Minor Notes.
_Pasquinade on Leo XII._--The Query put to a Pope (Vol. ii., p. 104.),
which it is difficult to believe could be put orally, reminds me of Pope

Leo XII., who was reported, whether truly or not, to have been the
reverse of scrupulous in the earlier part of his life, but was remarkably
strict after he became Pope, and was much disliked at Rome, perhaps
because, by his maintenance of strict discipline, he abridged the
amusements and questionable indulgences of the people. On account of
his death, {132} which took place just before the time of the carnival in
1829, the usual festivities were omitted, which gave occasion to the
following pasquinade, which was much, though privately, circulated--
"Tre cose mat fecesti, O Padre santo: Accettar il papato, Viver tanto,
Morir di Carnivale Per destar pianto."
J. Mn.
_Shakspeare a Brass-rubber._--I am desirous to notice, if no
commentator has forestalled me, that Shakspeare, among his many
accomplishments, was sufficiently beyond his age to be a brass-rubber:
"What's on this tomb I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax."
_Timon of Athens_, v. 4.
From the "soft impression," however, alluded to in the next scene, his
"wax" appears rather to have been the forerunner of gutta percha than
of _heel-ball_.
T.S. LAWRENCE.
_California._--In the _Voyage round the World_, by Captain George
Shelvocke, begun Feb. 1719, he says of California (_Harris's
Collection_, vol. i. p. 233.):--
"The soil about Puerto, Seguro, and very likely in most of the valleys,
is a rich black mould, which, as you turn it fresh up to the sun, appears
as if intermingled with gold dust; some of which we endeavoured to
purify and wash from the dirt; but though we were a little prejudiced
against the thoughts that it could be possible that this metal should be
so promiscuously and universally mingled with common earth, yet we
endeavoured to cleanse and wash the earth from some of it; and the
more we did the more it appeared like gold. In order to be further
satisfied I brought away some of it, which we lost in our confusion in
China."
How an accident prevented the discovery, more than a century back, of
the golden harvest now gathering in California!
E.N.W.
Southwark.

_Mayor of Misrule and Masters of the Pastimes._--the word Maior of
Misrule appears in the Harl. MSS. 2129. as having been on glass in the
year 1591, in Denbigh Church.
"5 Edw. VI., a gentleman (Geo. Ferrars), lawyer, poet, and historian,
appointed by the Council, and being of better calling than commonly
his predecessors, received his commission by the name of 'Master of
the King's Pastimes.'"--_Strutt's Sports and Pastimes_, 340.
"1578. Edward Baygine, cursitor, clerk for writing and passing the
Queen's leases, 'Comptroller of the Queen's pastimes and revels,' clerk
comptroller of her tents and pavilions, commissioner of sewers, burgess
in Parliament."--Gwillim, _Heraldry_, 1724 edit.
A.C.
Roland and Oliver.--Canciani says there is a figure in the church porch
at Verona which, from being in the same place with _Roland_, and
manifestly of the same age, he supposes may be _Oliver_, armed with a
spiked ball fastened by a chain to a staff of about three feet in length.
_Who are Roland and Oliver_? There is the following derivation of the
saying "a Roland for your Oliver," without any reference or authority
attached, in my note-book:--
"--Charlemagne, in his expedition against the Saracens, was
accompanied by two '_steeds_,' some writers say 'pages,' named Roland
and Oliver, who were so excellent and so equally matched, that the
equality became proverbial--'I'll give you a Roland for your Oliver'
being, the same as the vulgar saying, 'I'll give