Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 | Page 6

told, 'As for monsters, because they be no _newes_, of them we were
nothynge inquysitive.' Such is the rise, and such the progress of the
word _news_, which, even in 1551, was still printed _newes_!"
W.J.
Havre.
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FOLK LORE.
Charming for Warts (Vol. i., p. 19.; vol. ii. p. 150.).--In Lord Bacon's
_Sylva Sylvarum, or a Natural History in Ten Centuries_ (No. 997.),
the great philosopher gives a minute account of the practice, from
personal experience, in the following words:--
"The taking away of warts, by rubbing them with somewhat that
afterwards is put to waste and consume, is a common experiment; and I
do apprehend it the rather, because of mine own experience. I had from
my childhood a wart upon one of my fingers; afterwards, when I was
about sixteen years old, being then at Paris, there grew upon both my
hands a number of warts (at least an hundred), in a month's space; the
English Ambassador's lady, who was a woman far from superstition,
told me one day she would help me away with my warts; whereupon
she got a piece of lard with the skin on, and rubbed the warts all over
with the fat side, and amongst the rest, that wart which I had from my
childhood; then she nailed the piece of lard with the fat towards the sun,
upon a post of her chamber window, which was to the south. The
success was, that within five weeks' space all the warts went quite away,

and that wart which I had so long endured for company; but at the rest I
did little marvel, because they came in a short time and might go away
in a short time again, but the going of that which had stayed so long
doth yet stick with me. They say the like is done by rubbing of warts
with a green elder stick, and then burying the stick to rot in muck."
J.M.B.
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MINOR NOTES.
_Capture of Henry the Sixth._--At Waddington in Mytton stands a pile
of building known as the "Old Hall," once antique, but now much
indeed despoiled of its beauty, where for some time the unfortunate
king, Henry the Sixth, was concealed after the fatal battle of Hexham,
in Northumberland. Quietly seated one day at dinner, "in company with
Dr. Manting, Dean of Windsor, Dr. Bedle, and one Ellarton," his
enemies came upon him by surprise, but he privately escaped by a back
door, and fled to Brungerley stepping-stones (still partially visible in a
wooden frame), where he was taken prisoner, "his legs tied together
under the horse's belly," and thus disgracefully conveyed to the Tower
in London. He was betrayed by one of the Talbots of Bashall Hall, who
was then high-sheriff for the West Riding. This ancient house or hall is
still in existence, but now entirely converted into a building for farming
purposes: "Sic transit gloria mundi." Near the village of Waddington,
there is still to be seen a meadow known by the name of "King Henry's
Meadow."
In Baker's _Chronicle_, the capture of the king is described as having
taken place "in _Lincolnshire_," {182} but this is evidently incorrect; it
is Waddington, in Mytton, West Yorkshire.
CLERICUS CRAVENSIS.
The New Temple (Vol. ii., p. 103.).--As your correspondent is interested
in a question connected with the occupants of the New Temple at the
beginning of the fourteenth century, I venture to state, at the hazard of

its being of any use to him, that I have before me the transcript of a
deed, dated at Canterbury, the 16th of July, 1293, by which two
prebendaries of the church of York engage to pay to the Abbot of
Newenham, in the county of Devon, the sum of 200 marks sterling, at
the New Temple in London, in accordance with a bond entered into by
them before G. de Thornton and others, the king's justices.
S.S.S.
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QUERIES.
ESSAYES OF CERTAIN PARADOXES: POEM ON NOTHING.
Who was the author of a thin 4to. volume with the above title, printed
for Tho. Thorpe, 1616? The contents are, "The Praise of K. Richard the
Third--The French Poetes--Nothing--That it is good to be in Debt."
The late Mr. Yarnold has a MS. copy of the "Praise of K. Richard," to
which was prefixed the following dedication:--
"TO THE HONOURABLE SIR HENRY NEVILL, KNIGHTE."
"I am bolde to adventure to your honors viewe this small portion of my
privatt labors, as an earnest peny of my love, beinge a mere Paradoxe in
prayse of a most blame-worthie and condemned Prince, Kinge Richard
the Third; who albeit I shold guilde with farre better termes of
eloquence then I have don, and freate myself to deathe in