Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 | Page 8

Goldsmith's Rents, near Three
Legged Alley, between Fetter Lane and Shooe Lane."
Can any of your correspondents give an account of the subsequent
career of Dr. Sermon?
[Greek: D]
An Infant Prodigy (Vol. ii., p. 101.).--There are parallel cases in the
hagioloists (_Hist. de l'Eglise Gallicane_, par Longueval, tom. iii. p.
430. 1782):
"S. Amand après cette mission étant repassé dans la Gaule, eut bientôt
occasion de montrer l'intrépidité de son zèle ... L'amour des femmes,
écueil fatal des jeunes princes, fit en peu de temps oublier à Dagobert
les leçons qu'il avoit reçues de S. Arnoux et de S. Cunibert. Il se livra à
cette passion avec tant de scandale, qu'il eut jusqu'à trois femmes à la
fois qui portoient le nom de reines, sans parler d'un grand nombre de
concubines ...
"Amand, après un assez long exil, 'refusa d'abord l'honneur de baptiser'
l'enfant de son maître: 'mais les instances que le roi lui fit faire par
Ouen et Eloi firent céder sa modestie à l'obéissance. L'enfant fut
aussitôt apporté le saint évêque l'ayant pris entre ses bras, lui donna sa
bénédiction, et récita les prières pour le faire catéchumène. L'oraison
étant finie, comme personne ne répondoit, Dieu délia la langue du jeune
prince, qui n'avoit pas plus de quarante jours, et il répondit
distinctement amen.'"

This happened in 630 at Orleans, and the holy abbot who attests the
miracle was present when it occurred. Had St. Amand learnt
ventriloquism during his missionary excursions?
And now permit me to tell your correspondent CH. that Abp.
Bramhall's Dutch is quite correct. "Mevrouw" is still the title of
empresses, queens duchesses, Countesses, noble ladies, ministers of
state's and other great men's wives.
G.M.
Guernsey.
_A Hint for Publishers._--Many, like myself, have no doubt
experienced the inconvenience of possessing early impressions of
books, of which later editions exist with numerous emendations and
errata.
Would it not be practicable for publishers to issue these emendations
and errata in a separate form and at a fair price, for the benefit of the
purchasers of the preceding editions?
Were this plan generally adopted, the value of most books would be
materially enhanced, and people would not object, as they now do, to
order new publications.
HERBERT.
"_He who runs may read._"--There appeared in Vol. ii., p. 374., a new,
and, in my opinion, an erroneous, interpretation of part of ver. 2., chap.
ii. Habakkuk. It appears to me probable that a person reading the vision
might be struck with awe, and so "alarmed by it" as not to be able "to
fly from the impending calamity" in the way which your correspondent
imagines. I prefer Archbishop Newcome's explanation:--"Let the
characters be so legible that one who hastily passeth on may read them.
This may have been a proverbial expression."
If you be pleased to insert this, readers may judge for themselves which

is the right interpretation.
PLAIN SENSE.
_The Rolliad._--The following memoranda relative to this word were
given to me by one who lived during the period of its publication, and
was, it is believed, himself a contributor. Wraxall, in his _Memoirs_,
states that the work was nearly all written by Richardson; this is not
true. The principal writers were Gen. Fitzpatrick, Lord John
Townshend, Dr. Lawrence--he had the chief control. They met in a
room at Becket's, the bookseller; they had a secretary and copyist.
None of the contributions went to the newspaper in the original
handwriting. The Morning Herald was the paper it is believed, in
which they first appeared, although that journal was on the eve of going
over to the opposite party. The "ode" to Wraxall, was written by Tickell,
author of "Anticipation.".
W.A.
November, 23. 1850.
_The Rolliad._--
From _The Times_, about 1784.
ROLLIAD.
_Political Eclogues._
ROSE.
Line 21. ed. 1795.
"Mr. Rose, Mr. Rose, How can you suppose I'll be led by the nose, In
voting for those You mean to propose, Mr. Rose, Mr. Rose?"
The above epigram is inserted in my copy of the Rolliad.

Can any of your readers give the names of the {440} authors of the
numerous pieces in the second part of "Political Miscellanies."
F.B.R.
_The Conquest._--Permit me to point out the erroneous historical idea
which obtains in the use of this phrase. Acquisition out of the common
course of inheritance is by our legists called _perquisitio_, by the
feudists _conquisitio_, and the first purchaser (he who brought the
estate into the current family) the conquereur. The charters and
chronicles of the age thus rightly style William the Norman
_conquisitor_, and his accession _conquæstus_; but now, from disuse
of the foedal sense, with the notion of the forcible method of
acquisition, we annex the idea of victory to conquisition,--a title to
which William never pretended.
W.L.
Twickenham.
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QUERIES.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES.
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