10"' S. I. JAN. 2, 1904.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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the incidence of the accent," but by variety
in the place of the ceesura. Thus :
Remote, unfriended, | melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt | or wandering Po,
Or onward | where the rude Carinthian boor
Against the houseless stranger | shuts the door,
Or where Campania's plain | forsaken lies,
A weary waste j expanding to the skies.
The normal division of the syllables raaj be said to be five-five, and the permissible variations to be four-six, six-four, three seven, and seven-three.
The skilful reader, by judicious pauses and suitable accelerations and retardations makes the two divisions of each line occupy the same time: and the skilful versifier so arranges his words that the pauses, &c., may seem to arise out of the meaning to be ex- pressed, and not to have been merely dictatec by the exigencies of the metre. C. J. I.
'PRACTICE OF PIETY' (9 th S. xii. 485). This was perhaps the most popular devotional book of the seventeenth century. It was translated into several languages, and was carried almost by everybody everywhere. It was written by Lewis Bayly ; see ' D.N.B.,' iii. 449 ; 'N. & O ,' 6 th S. xii. 321.
W. C. B. [MR. W. B. GERISH sends the same information.]
JACOBIN : JACOBITE (9 th S. xii. 469, 508). There is a work, doubtfully attributed to Defoe, entitled 'Hannibal at the Gates ; or, the Progress of Jacobinism,' and published in 1712. But Defoe does not. so far as I am aware, use this spelling. J. DORMER.
FLAYING ALIVE (9 th S. xii. 429, 489). If there is any truth in the following story, told by Geoffrey of Monmouth, flaying alive was not peculiarly Oriental :
"In his days [King Morvid's] did a certain king of the Moranians land with a great force on the
shore of Northumberland Morvid thereupon,
collecting together all the youth of his dominions, marched forth against them, and did give him
battle and when he had won the victory not a
soul was left on live that lie did not slay. For he commanded them to be brought unto him one after the other that he might glut his blood-thirst by putting them to death, and when he ceased for a time out of sheer weariness, he ordered them to be akinned afire, and burned after they -cre skinned."
E. MARSTON.
8t. Dunstan's House.
^ FABLE AS TO CHILD-MURDER i;v JEWS (9 th ^. xii. 446, 497). As MR. HUTCHINSON gives no reference to John Aubrey (whom he calls John Audley), it may be' worth while to record that the story to which he alludes is to be found in the ' Letters/ vol. ii. pp. 492-4. JOHN B. WA IN E WRIGHT.
QLTEEN ELIZABETH AND NEW HALL, ESSEX
(9 th S. xii. 208, 410, 477, 496). ME. HOOPER
says, "Elizabeth gave New Hall to the Earl
of Sussex." I assume that this Xew Hall is
not " Newhall Josselyne, co. Essex.' 1
FOLK-LORE OF CHILDBIRTH (9 th S. xii. 288, 413, 455, 496). Swift alludes to the parsley in the following (' Letters,' vol. ii. p. 241, London, 1768) ' Receipt for stewing Veal ' :
Take a knuckle of veal : You may buy it or steal it.
Then what 's joined to a place, With other herbs muckle ; That which killed King Will, And what never stands still. Some sprigs* of that bed Where children are bred, &c.
IB AGUE.
DR. PARKINS (9 th S. xii. 349). -The ' D.N.B.' knows him not, but it has coigns for less remarkable men. The only way in which I can help your correspondent is by quoting a communication of Mr. J. Beale (at one^ time a contributor to these columns) to the Grant- ham Journal of 24 August, 1878 :
"The following titular paradigm of a pamphlet now before me may form a suitable note for remarks : ' Ecce Homo ! Critical remarks on the infamous publications of John Parkins, of Little Gonerby, near Grantham ; better known as Doctor Parkins: who impiously and blasphemously styles himself The Grand Ambassador of Heaven ! par- ticularly in his Cabinet of Wealth, Celestial \\ ar- rior, and Book of Miracles ; in which he pretends to Command the Angels of Heaven, to Avert the Evils of Human Life, to Work Miracles, to Cast out Devils, to Destroy Witches, to Foretell t uture Events, &c , &c., being an attempt to expose the falsehood of his pretensions, and to prove that the only design of his writings is to beguile the weak and ignorant, and to promote the sale of (what he calls) his Holy Consecrated Lamens, founded on the absurd principles of Astrology. Interspersed with anecdotes. [Then a Greek quotation from Acts xiii. 10; next a quotation from Shakspear ; and then a quotation from Dr. Adam Clarke.] Grant- ham : printed for, and published by the author, and may be had of all booksellers. Storr, printer, irantham.' I understand that the book was printed at the premises now occupied by Mr. Bushby in Vine Street ; and that the name of the author was Weaver, in some way connected with the printing office. The selling price was I*. 6cZ. Its title \ddress 'To the Great Ambassador of Heaven! dated 'near Grantham, 4 th August, 1819/ and pre- ace take up pages i-vii, contents ix, x, and Homo ' with ' addendum ' pages 1-72. The ' Doctor s stated to have been the author of ' The Cabinet if Wealth,' 'Key to the Wise Man's Crown, Young Man's Best Companion,' 'Complete Herbal
- nd Family Physician,' 'Book of Miracles.' and
everal other valuable and useful publications, oesides 'The Celestial Warrior' (p. 4-3).
- " Parselv. Vide. Chamberlayne.'
