Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 | Page 6

claims for his cattle? Johnson has, "Boose, a stall for a
cow or ox (Saxon)."
A.C.
_Gradely._--What is the meaning, origin, and usage of this word? I
remember once hearing it used in Yorkshire by a man, who, speaking
of a neighbour recently dead, said in a tone which implied esteem:
"Aye, he was a very gradely fellow."
A.W.H.
_Hats worn by Females._--Were not the hats worn by the _females_, as
represented on the Myddelton Brass, peculiar to Wales? An engraving
is given in Pennant's _Tour_, 2 vols., where also may be seen the hat
worn by Sir John Wynne, about 1500, apparently similar to that on the
Bacon Monument, and to that worn by Bankes. A MS. copy of a
similar one (made in 1635, and then called "very auntient") may be

seen in the Harleian MS. No. 1971. (_Rosindale Pedigree_), though
apparently not older than Elizabeth's time. With a coat of arms it was
"wrought in backside work"--the meaning of which is doubtful. What is
that of the motto, "Oderpi du pariver?"
A.C.
_Feltham's Works, Queries respecting._--
"He that is courtly or gentle, is among them like a merlin after
Michaelmas in the field with crows."--_A Brief Character of the Low
Countries_, by Owen Feltham. Folio, London, 1661.
What is the meaning of this proverb?
As a confirmation of the opinion of some of your correspondents, that
monosyllables give force and nature to language, the same author says,
page 59., of the Dutch tongue,--
"Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being
compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue."
Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me of the titles of Owen
Feltham's works. I have his _Resolves_, and a thin folio volume, 1661,
printed for Anne Seile, 102 pages, containing _Lusoria, or Occasional
Pieces; A Brief Character of the Low Countries_; and some Letters.
Are these all he wrote? The poem mentioned by Mr. Kersley,
beginning--
"When, dearest, I but think of thee,"
is printed among those in the volume I have, with the same remark, that
it had been printed as Sir John Suckling's.
E.N.W. {134}
_Eikon Basilice._--
"[Greek: EIKON BASILIKAE], or, _The True Pourtraiture of His

Sacred Majestæ Charles the II_. In Three Books. Beginning from his
Birth, 1630, unto this present year, 1660: wherein is interwoven a
compleat History of the High-born Dukes of York and Glocester. By
R.F., Esq., an eye-witness.
"Quo nihil majus meliusve terris Fata donavere, borique divi Nee
dabunt, quamvis redeant in aurum Tempora priscum."
Horat.
"[Greek: Otan tin' Euraes Eupathounta ton kakon ginske touton to telei
taeroumenon]."
_G. Naz Carm_.
"----more than conqueror."
"London, printed for H. Brome and H. March, at the Gun, in Ivy Lane,
and at the Princes' Arms, in Chancery Lane, neer Fleet Street, 1660."
The cover has "C.R." under a crown. What is the history of this volume.
Is it scarce, or worth nothing?
A.C.
"_Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest?_"
--Whence comes the sentence--
"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest?"
E.N.W.
_Carpets and Room-paper._--Carpets were in Edward III.'s reign used
in the palace. What is the exact date of their introduction? When did
they come into general use, and when were rushes, &c., last used?
Room-paper, when was it introduced?
JARLTZBERG.

_Cotton of Finchley._--Can some one of your readers give me any
particulars concerning the family of Cotton, which was settled at
Finchley, Middlesex, about the middle of the sixteenth century?
C.F.
_Wood Carving in Snow Hill._--Can any one explain the wood carving
over the door of a house at the corner of Snow Hill and Skinner Street.
It is worth rescuing from the ruin impending it.
A.C.
_Walrond Family._--Can any of your readers inform me what was the
maiden name of _Grace_, the wife of Col. Humphry Walrond, of Sea,
in the county of Somerset, a distinguished loyalist, some time
Lieutenant-Governor of Bridgewater, and Governor of the island of
Barbadoes in 1660. She was living in 1635 and 1668. Also the names
of his ten children, or, at all events, his three youngest. I have reason to
believe the seven elder were George, Humphry, Henry, John, Thomas,
Bridget, and Grace.
W. DOWNING BRUCE.
_Translations._--What English translations have appeared of the
famous _Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum_?
Has La Chiave del Gabinetto del Signor Borri (by Joseph Francis Borri,
the Rosicrucian) ever been translated into English? I make the same
Query as to _Le Compte de Gabalis_, which the Abbé de Rillan
founded on Borri's work?
JARLTZBERG.
_Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse._--Can any of your
correspondents tell me the origin of the term "Bonny Dundee?" Does it
refer to the fair and flourishing town at the mouth of the Tay, or to the
remarkable John Graham of Claverhouse, who was created Viscount of
Dundee, after the landing of the Prince of Orange in England, and

whose