Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 | Page 7

doubt if my friend, who has treated the question
with so much ability, is altogether satisfied with his own explanation.
In the meanwhile, I would suggest one or two points for consideration.
In those parts which I have set down as Shakspeare's, and in which this

writer imagines he occasionally detects "a third hand," does the metre
differ materially from that of Shakspeare's early plays?
It will be observed that, in Act iii., Scene 2., there are two farewells, the
second being a kind of amplification of the first; both, however, being
in the part which I ascribe to Fletcher. Is it not probable that these were
written at different periods? And supposing Fletcher to have improved
his part, might there not originally have been a stronger analogy than
now appears between this play and the _Two Noble Kinsmen_?
The more it is tested the brighter shines out the character of Shakspeare.
The flatteries of James and Elizabeth may now go packing together.
The following four lines which I have met with in no other edition of
Shakspeare than Mr. Collier's, are worth any one of his plays for their
personal value; they show how he could evade a compliment with the
enunciation of a general truth that yet could be taken as a compliment
by the person for whom it was intended:
_Shakspeare on the King._
"Crowns have their compass; length of days their date; Triumphs, their
tomb; felicity her fate; Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker."
Samuel Hickson.
August 12. 1850.
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MINOR QUERIES.
_The Abbé Strickland._--In the third volume of the _Castlereagh
Correspondence_, an Abbé Strickland figures as a negotiator between
the English Catholics and the court of Rome. His name is also
mentioned unfavourably in the "_Quarterly_" review of that work. Will
some of your readers direct me where further information can be had of
him, and his ultimate destination?

J.W.H. {199}
_Aerostation, Works on._--Will you have the goodness to inquire for
me among your readers and contributors, for the _titles of any works
on_--or references to good articles in encyclopaedias or dictionaries
on--or for remarkable isolated passages relating to--_Aerostation_, or
the arts of, or attempts at, flying, either by means of mechanical wings,
&c., or by the aid of balloons.
C.B.M.
_Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury._--Can any of the readers of "Notes and
Queries" point out the route which was pursued by Chaucer and his
fellow-travellers on the pilgrimage which his genius has immortalised?
Is the route of the old pilgrims' road laid down upon any early maps? (it
is not, I believe, marked on the Ordnance Survey;) and would it be
possible to traverse it at the present time? Any hints upon these points,
and any references to objects of interest on the line of road inquired
after, will be thankfully received by
Philo-Chaucer.
"_Ædricus qui signa fundebat._"--In a chronicle of Battel Abbey,
compiled in the twelfth century, there is a list of the abbey's tenants in
the town of Battel. Among many such names as Gilbertus Textor,
Godwinus Cocus, Rotbertus filius Siflet, Rotbertus de Havena, I find
that of "Ædricus qui signa fundebat." As this phrase is susceptible of
several widely different renderings, I shall be grateful to any of your
ingenious readers who will give me their opinions as to its actual
meaning. I may add that Ædric was living about the year 1170, so that
the phrase can have no reference to events connected with the battle of
Hastings.
M.A. Lower.
Lewes, July 30. 1850.
_Osmund the Waterman._--In his description of the _Flowering Fern

(Osmunda regalis)_, Mr. Newman observes, that "the rhizoma
[root-stock], when cut through, has a whitish centre or core, called by
old Gerarde in his _Herbal_, 'the heart of Osmund the waterman.' My
lore is insufficient to furnish my readers with the history of the said
Osmund." (_History of British Ferns_, by Ed. Newman, 2nd ed., p.
334.) Can any of your readers supply this deficiency?
J.M.B.
_Logic._--What is the earliest printed book on logic? meaning the first
which gives the common theory of the syllogism. Does it contain the
celebrated words _Barbara, Celarent_, &c. The difficulty will probably
arise from this, that each book has some undated editions which are
probably earlier than the dated ones. Of books with dates there is the
exposition of Petrus Hispanus by Joh. Versor, in 1473, and the
_Summulæ_ of Paulus Venetus, in 1474; the first I find in Hain (who
had not seen it), the second I have seen. Can any one of your readers go
farther back?
M.
_Darvon Gatherall?_--Can any reader adduce further information
respecting an image, called _Darvon Gatherall_, brought from Wales at
the Reformation, than what is mentioned in one of the treatises
published