NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. JAN., ma
was especially sliown at the feast given by
Sir Richard 'Whittington (Mayor 1419-20)
to King Henry V.
Prof. W. W. Skeat in the small but interesting book ' The Past at our Doors ' relates :
" In the early days when sugar, which seems to have come into Europe through the Arabs after the Crusades, had not been introduced, wild honey from the woods was used instead. Even when introduced (in the form of the violet- and rose-coloured sugar, for instance, which reached England from Alexandria in the reign of Henry VII.) it long continued to be regarded as a rare and costly spice, and it remained so up to the time of the discovery of America at the end of the fifteenth century. It was first refined and made into loaves by a Venetian, the ' loaves ' being mentioned in the reign of Henry VIII."
HERBERT SOUTHAM.
COBDEN'S STATUE IN ST. PANCRAS (12 S. iii. 508). In reply to the inquiry of H. C N I can state that there is no connexion between the parish of St. Pancras and Richard Cobden. I cannot give any exact reply to the question why the site was chosen, except that it was a vacant space and it was thought that it might as well be filled by a bad statue. T. FISHER UNWIN.
CUTTING THE HAIR AS A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST HEADACHE (12 S. iii. 250, 307, 484). A heavy crop of hair is often regarded as being the cause of headaches. One of my brothers had his thick thatch thinned in order to prevent his suffering from the pain ; and I think long or heavy hair is considered exhausting to the system of weedy little girls.
ST. SWITHIN.
LETTERS FROM H.M.S. BACCHANTE : W. JOHNSON YONGE (12 S. iii. 328, 363, 450, 483). The connexion of Wm. Johnson Yonge with Sir Joshua Reynolds is not a little interesting. The Johnsons were Read- ing merchants. Samuel Johnson, born in 1685, son of Samuel of Reading, became a student of Christ Church, Oxford, and was given the College living of Great Torrington in Devonshire. His son William, who was Mayor of Torrington in 1757, married Elizabeth, sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and was the father of " the beautiful Fanny Johnson " who married Archdeacon Yonge, and was mother of the writer of the letters. Joshua and Elizabeth Reynolds were chil- dren of the Rev. Samuel Reynolds, Master of Plympton Grammar School. Joshua, after- wards the celebrated painter, was born there in 1723, and, after being knighted in 1769, became Mayor of Plymouth in 1773.
He was a great friend of Dr. Burney, the
father of Madame D'Arblay, which accounts
for the latter' s mention of the Johnsons
in her Memoirs. The Johnsons are now
merged in the family of Furse of Halston,
Devon, and will be found under that name
in Burke' s ' Landed Gentry.'
There were several intermarriages, notably that of William Johnson Yorige himself, who married his first cousin. His cousin the late Archdeacon Furse also married his first cousin, as did the latter' s son, the present owner of Halston, whose wife was a Miss Dolignon, a great-granddaughter of Arch- deacon Yonge of Swaffham. F. H. S.
AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S.
iii. 510).
1. Quinque sumus fratres, uno de stipite nati ; Sunt duo barbati, duo sunt sine crine creati ; Unus de nobis non est barbatus utrinque. The prospect of discovering the author of this
particular variety of the riddle about the calyx
of a rose does not seem very hopeful. The riddle
was a favourite one, and is found in many shapes. Reusner in his ' JEnigmatographia,' 2nd ed. 5
1602, part i. p. 254, gives the following as
Joachim Camerarius's :
Quinque una fratres germani matre creati, Flavo splendentem gestant in vertice comtum : Glabri ex his duo visuntur semperque tenelli : Sed tres promissa cernes horrescere barba : Quorum gratus odor citris florentibus exit.
This is followed by a Greek version of the same
author, beginning :
Ttfvre /JLICLS Kdffit* Sia. vi)8vos ^avaSuvres.
On p. 373, among ' JEnigmata incertorum auctorum,' we hav,e a form in three lines closely akin to that quoted by MB. RANDALL DAVIES : Rosa.
Quinque vides natos una de matre creates,
Sunt duo barbati, barbaque carent duo nati,
Quintus et ornatus partim, partim spoliatus. To this a note is appended : " Cortices rosarum vocant sive alabastros, calycis partes." A com- parison of these last lines with those quoted by lR. DAVTES tells against his proposed insertion.
On p. 380, among ' j3Enigmata qusedam mis- ellanea,' we get the riddle in a couplet : Sunt quini fratres, sub eodem tempore nati :
Barba duobus abest, et tribus ilia subest.
The fivefold division of the calyx is again referred to in a distich by Jacobus Susius, given on p. 369 : Quintuplici strophio subtus circumque recincte
Quam Zephyro rides vere nitente calyx !
EDWARD BENSLT.
3. The Vines of which A. K. T. desires to know
- he source come from a poem called ' Somewhere '
written by Mrs. Julia Caroline Doir, and are to be found in ' The Treasury of American Sacred Song ' (Henry Frowde, 1900).
STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.
