among the admissions to Merchant Taylors' Reginæ x Kal. Feb. anni CIOIOCCXXXV. A.SRE School, recorded in the books of the company Cardinalibus Justa fuerunt persoluta." Equus (which hitherto have been seldom consulted), the Ferdinandus Fuga Soc. Pal. Aplici. Archit. invent. following:J. P. Pannini d.- Balthasar Grabbugiani sculp. (3.) The long and winding funeral procession of (2) starting from the Vatican. Roicus Pozzi sculp. J. P. Pannini d. G. F. B.

ENGRAVINGS.-The widow of an antiquarian has submitted some engravings to me for my time, but he came from the opposite coast. Has Edward IV. landed at Ravenspurn at a later opinion respecting their worth. I shall be glad to the chronicler confounded one with the other? have them criticized by others, and to learn their At any rate, unless we have a very strong corrovalue, so far as is possible from the following par-boration of Walsingham's account, it is impossible to set aside that of Froissart, so probable in itself so direct, and so full of detail. I commend this question to your numerous readers.

around him. 4. A female saint lying upon the ground, with a crown upon her head and a sword by her side. Over her are clouds, and above the clouds a representation of the Holy Trinity, with an angel kneeling on either side (St. Catherine ?). 5. A saint clothed only with a cloth round his waist, holding a knife in his right hand, and walking through the deserted streets of a town (St. Bartholomew ?). 6. A saint, quite naked, kneeling against a rock, holding a crucifix in one hand and a book in the other. At his feet is a small lion standing upon a clasped book (St. Mark ?). 7. A number of people upon their knees in a house, with an angel flying through the open 8. A pope kneeling before a saint, and placing his tiara at his feet. The glass in question is apparently not older than the sixteenth century, and was probably brought to Strelley from some continental church. A. E. L. L.

door.

WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO LORD BROUGHAM.Masters and Workmen, 3 vols., 1851; The Farce of Life, 3 vols., 1852; Wealth and Labour, 3 vols., 1853; The County Magistrate, 3 vols. (1854); Naples: Political, Social, and Religious, 2 vols., 1856; The Fate of Folly, 3 vols., 1859; Uncle Armstrong, 3 vols., 1866.

down at the feet of the infant Saviour; the cross and the lamb, &c. It is a glowing painting, flesh tints like ivory. Whose is it? There is no monogram; I say it is by A. Carracci. If so, what is its value? The canvas is old looking. It has fortunately not been restored. Too refined for Rubens. F.S.A.

"OUR LADY OF HATE."-I come upon the following strange passage in Mr. Robert Buchanan's romance of "The Shadow of the Sword," now appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine:—

"The building was a ruin; the four walls with a portion of the roof being intact, but door and window had long been swept away-perhaps by human hands in the days of the Revolution. The walls were black and stained with the slime of centuries. Above the doorway, characters, Notre Dame de la Haine'; in English, but half obliterated, were these words written in antique 'Our Lady of Hate.'

'For the moment the traveller hesitated; then with a peculiar smile he quietly entered in. Just within the doorway was a stone form, on which he sat down, well screened from the storm, and surveyed the interior of the chapel.

"For chapel it was, though seemingly deserted and forsaken; and such buildings still stand in Brittany, as ghostly reminders of what, in its darkest frenzy, religion is capable of doing. Nor was it so forsaken as it

The above-mentioned works, all published by seemed. Hither still, in hours of passion and pain, came men and women to cry curses on their enemies: the T. C. Newby, of Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, maiden on her false lover, the lover on his false mistress, are said on the title-pages to be by Lord B- the husband on his false wife; praying one and all that Lord B*******, and the last by Lord B******м. Our Lady of Hate might hearken, and that the hated Now this is plainly intended to represent Brougham, one might die within the year. So bright and so deep but OLPHAR HAMST, in his Handbook for Fictitious had the gentle Christian light shone within their souls! Names, attributes six of them to Lord Belfast, Mother of God; and this one of Mother of Hate was Many as their own passions were the names of the who, according to Burke, died at Naples, Feb. 11, surely as sweet to them as that other.-Mother of Love." 1853, before the majority of them were published.-Gentleman's Magazine (Sept., 1876), vol. xvii., N. S., It seems to me extremely probable that they were neither the production of Lord Brougham nor of Lord Belfast; but I should be glad to receive through the columns of "N. & Q." some authoritative information on the subject.

Oxford.

W. H. ALLnutt.

AN OLD VOLUME OF POEMS (the third out of five or more) is before me, without covers, titlepage, or colophon, of which I wish to obtain the title and author's name, date of publication, &c. From foot-notes and other sources I find that the editor calls himself the Gleaner, and his work the "Harvest Home." He also refers in one place to vol. ii. of Gleanings in England. It includes several poems relating to Bath, or addressed to Bath persons, amongst others being Mr. Pratt's "Two Pictures of Old and New Bath."

BATHONIAN.

OLD PAINTING.-I have an old oil painting by me, 18 inches by 15 inches: "Holy Family." Mary, the infant in her lap, asleep; old Elizabeth looking over her shoulder; St. John stooping

p. 355.

Can it be true that there were (and are) chapels dedicated to "Our Lady of Hate" in Brittany? If so, were they sanctioned by the Church?

MIDDLE TEMPLAR.

ADDISON AND STEELE.-In his Essay on the Life and Writings of Addison, Macaulay speaks thus of Steele's Tatler:

"Addison had not been consulted about this scheme; but as soon as he heard of it, he determined to give it his assistance. The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. I fared,' he said, bour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighI had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' The paper,' he says elsewhere, was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than I intended it.''

The first quotation is from the preface to the fourth volume of the Tatler, but where is the second taken from? A. BELJAME. Paris.

dition of the sea-fisheries on the coast, occurs the following sentence:

"The sand smelt or atherine, a delicious breakfast fish, is now abundant at Torbay, and may be caught with paternoster baited with a small piece of mussel or rag

worm."

What species of tackle or fishing gear is "paternoster," and how does it come to be called so? A. SMYTHE PALMER.

Lower Norwood, S.E.

Replies.

PLANCHETTE.

(5th S. vi. 106, 191.)

reveal things unknown to the operator, or that it would bring back from the recesses of his own mind things that he had forgotten. Either the one or the other of these opinions I held to be a dangerous delusion, and a delusion the more likely to have bad effects inasmuch as the person in question was an extremely inaccurate observer, and one, as I had reason to know, with very small power of weighing evidence. I therefore tried the experiments again, and always with a like negative result as regards myself. I then tried with a pencil held in the hand without the planchette, and I found the results just the same; that is, after I had held it some time, and my mind began to wander, scratches were made, which with a little ingenuity I could torture into short words. Both "You do see, my goot patron, you do see, my with planchette and with the pencil only I have goot ladies, you do see, worthy Dr. Bladderhowl, frequently asked questions. When the replies and even Mr. Lofel and Mr. Oldenbuck may see, were unknown to me, the scratches always seemed if they do will to see, how art has no enemy at all quite unintelligible; when I knew them beforebut ignorance" so spoke that worthy scientific hand they were sometimes right (that is, if I read investigator Mr. Herman Dousterswivel. The the marks correctly, which is at least doubtful). statement is no doubt quite true, and would be I have, however, seen people, on whose honesty echoed by every man of science at present on our I could rely, write short words quite distinctly, planet; but Mr. Douterswivel meant by the words but they were for the most part meaningless. The "art" and "ignorance" something very different outcome of my experiments was the conclusion that, from what the patient explorers of nature mean with a person whose mind was trained to accurate when they use those terms. "Ignorance" meant observation, no result whatever could be obtained, with him the attitude of mind to which Jonathan but that with some others the mind will act on Oldbuck had reduced himself, that is, the position the fingers without the person being aware of it, of being unable to believe in occurrences out of and cause short words, or perhaps even sentences, the ordinary course of nature, without evidence to be written. I know of no other way of testing being forthcoming that such events really did the truth or falsehood of the alleged phenomena occur, and the habit of explaining mysterious except the course which I have followed. If I have events by known and ordinary causes, when things jumped to a negative conclusion without justly well known and quite ordinary are sufficient fully weighing all that may be said on the other side, I to account for them. This is, I imagine, the pre-am extremely sorry, and will promise a full apology cise position of many persons with regard to the mischievous toy called planchette. I have been silly enough to waste some valuable time in investigating its supposed properties, with what result your readers shall hear.

Several years ago-fourteen or fifteen perhaps a friend of mine, who had heard wonderful tales of what planchette would accomplish, purchased one, and on three separate occasions induced me to try its effects. Each time I did so the result was the same. While my attention was intently fixed upon it, no movement, and consequently no writing, took place; when my mind wandered, the pencil moved slightly and made scratches, not much unlike a short word, such as "no," "so," "yes," "in." From that time forward I thought no more about it for years. At length it happened that another person, in whose career I took interest, avowed himself to his friends to be a believer in planchette. As I had no personal communication with him, I never knew precisely what form his belief took; but I gathered from what I heard that he thought either that planchette would

on the truth being made known to me; but I must protest against the most pernicious assumption, which some persons have made in my hearing, that it is necessary to have faith to begin with. This is what the above quoted authority, Mr. Dousterswivel, so learnedly called the Magisterium. With such a reserve force behind me as this, I should not fear to convince any one that the earth was fat, or that the geological theory so elaborately and pleasantly set forth in Mr. Philip Henry Gosse's Omphalos, was as unassailably true as it is clever and entertaining. It seems to me that it is by no means a light matter that educated people should profess belief in these delusions. If a thing be true, it ought to be received, whatever it may lead to; but holding as I do that this belief in the mys terious powers of planchette has no foundation whatever in the nature of things, I consider it to be by no means a harmless superstition, but a highly dangerous vanity, inasmuch as it opens the way for a whole host of other fancies, like it in being independent of physical proof, but far more evil in their effects on the minds and morals of their

believers. Any one who is acquainted with the social history of the middle ages, or even of the seventeenth century, must know that this belief in the occult properties of things was not a mere harmless fancy, adding a glow of poetic mystery to the dull routine of human life, but a very serious evil, which contributed largely to the gross amount of crime, suffering, and sorrow that was prevalent. Educated people have for the most part got rid of this painful illusion now, but the greater part of us are not educated, and have little more power of weighing evidence than our ancestors had who served as jurors on witch trials.

There is one means of testing the powers of planchette which I have not tried, because I had not the material at hand. If, as the believers in the mysterious properties of planchette assert, the words written are not due to the volition of the writer, then it follows that a person who could not write and did not know his letters would be able to use it as well as the most apt penman. Let, therefore, some ignorant person who does not know B from a bull's foot be selected to try his powers upon it. If such a person produces a clear and distinct message, I shall then think that the matter requires further investigation. ANON.

[This discussion is now closed.]

Woodstock (P.'s Life, 13-15); his funeral (ibid., 16); supposed author of The Reasons of the Decay of Christian Piety (ibid., 17-19); his project for printing a Malay gospel (ibid., 156); patron of the Biblical scholar, John Mill (Sir E. Brydges, Restituta, i. 50); many notices of him in Humphr. Prideaux, Letters to John Ellis (Camd. Soc., see ind.). Jean Le Clerc, Bibliothèque Universelle, xii., reviewing the Bremen reprint, 1689, of Cyprian, says (p. 208) :—

"On est obligé de l'édition des œuvres de S. Cyprien, que l'on a suivie dans celle-ci, à Jean Fell, Evêque d'Oxford, à qui le public est aussi redevable de plusieurs autres ouvrages des Anciens, qu'il a le premier publiez, ou qu'il a fait rimprimer [sic] plus correctement, ou avec quelques additions. Ceux qui l'ont connu assurent qu'il emploioit à cela tout ce qui lui restoit de son revenu, après en avoir distribué la plus grande partie aux pauvres. On ne sauroit mieux travailler à l'instruction et à l'édification du public, qu'en imitant une si sage et si pieuse conduite, qui est néanmoins très-rare parmi les personnes de son rang, surtout deça la mer. Après avoir rendu justice en peu de mots à la mémoire de ce pieux et savant évêque," &c.

After protesting against Fell's excessive reverence for antiquity he proceeds, pp. 211-12 :

"Au reste l'on ne fait pas ces remarques contre l'Evêque d'Oxford, comme si l'on croioit qu'il eût tiré de son principe toutes les mauvaises conséquences qui en naissent, ou qu'il l'eût envisagé du même côté dont on vient de le faire; il est vrai qu'il condamne quelquefois avec assez d'âpreté ceux qui s'éloignent des sentimens de son auteur; mais la manière dont il a vécu convaincra toujours ceux qui en ont ouï parler, qu'à cela près, il n'abusoit pas trop souvent du respect excessif qu'il avoit pour l'antiquité."

Ibid., 374 :

L'Evêque d'Oxfort fit imprimer in folio Les Dissertations Cyprianiques de M. Dodwel, peu de temps après joindre à ce volume, pussent le faire." avoir publié son Cyprien, afin que ceux, qui les voudroient

There is a letter from Fell to Sancroft, on printAnt. Wood and Tho. Hearne; many of the collecing in the universities, in Gutch, Collectan. Cur., i. 269, seq., and many notices of him in the works of tions of MSS. contain letters or other materials for

his life.

JOHN FELL, BISHOP OF OXFORD (5th S. v. 228, 334.)-He restored impropriations (Jer. Stephens, addenda to his preface before Spelman On Tithes) urges White Kennett (K.'s Life, 6) to recover church property; his services to letters, Smith's Vite and his edition of Camden's Epistola (Lond., 1691), prefaces; gave instruction to Phil. Henry and cther poor scholars gratis (P. H.'s Life, ed. 4, 22, 23); letters of his at Arbury (Gent. Mag., July, 1807, p. 633 b); letter to him from Bishop Lloyd letter in the Academy, Aug. 7, 1975, p. 141, col. i.; of St. Asaph (Letters from the Bodleian, i. 26); another respecting the expulsion of Jo. Locke from Ch. Ch. in Mr. Pattison's article (Macmillan's Mag., Aug., 1875); compare on this business (which seems to be all that some writers care to The above note may serve as a contribution to a know of a most public-spirited man) Lord Gren- new edition of Athence Oconienses, a work displayville, Orford and Locke, Lond., 1829, 8vo.; Lording (as Mr. C. H. Cooper truly said) King, Life of Locke, i. 274-291. Letters to Lord ability," and singularly in advance of its age (and Scudamore, Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 11,046; see of most of its successors in England) by the exactalso R. North's Lives of the Norths, iii. 318;fect fairness which the author showed in applying ness of its bibliographical details, and by the perVita Thoma Hobbes, 111, seq., 124, 131, 134; for information directly to those of whom he dehis ed. of Eratosthenes (Gale, Script. Mythol., signed to write. If Nonconformists as a rule were præf. n. iv.; Grævius, Lectiones Hesiodea, c. 9, less communicative than Romanists, the fault was on Opp. et Dies, 383: "Vide Eratosthenis KATAσTEрioμοús, quos primus ad Aratum edidit theirs, not honest Anthony's. summe Reverendus Præsul Oxoniensis Joannes Fell, mihi, dum fata sinerent, amicissimus "); he employed Taswell (T.'s Autobiography, Camd. Soc., 23, cf. ind.) on his Cyprian, and Prideaux (P.'s Life, 2) on Florus; he built a parsonage at

no mean

JOHN E. B. MAYOR.

St. John's College, Cambridge.

"HORDE" (5th S. v. 306.)-The Hindústáni word Urdú, as used in " Urdú zabáni," camp language, and its English equivalent horde, are, as