of the Bodleian Library" (Oxford, 1864). A branch of the family settled in the time of Henry III. at Nateby Hall, Garstang, in Lancashire. (See Chetham Soc., vol. cv.) Henry Fishwick.
Anagrams on Pius X. (10ᵗʰ S. i. 146).—Anagrams on Giuseppe Sarto are not difficult to make. Perhaps Mr. Dodgson may be interested in these of mine:—
1. Petrus is e pago, i.e., A Peter is this rustic.
2. O Pie, gratus spe, i.e., O Pius, acceptable art thou in thy hope.
3. I, spes pura: tego, i.e., Go forth, pure hope: I protect thee.
4. At Ego spes puri, i.e., But I am the hope of the pure men.
5. Pius, agros pete, i.e., Pius, go into the country! John B. Wainewright.
Iosephus Sarto spells ius paro, hostes, "I prepare the law, O foes!" hero post iussa, "a hero after the commands" or "to the lord after the commandments"; hos portas, Iesu! "thou bearest these men, O Iesus!" ius est phos; ora! "law is light; pray thou!" E. S. Dodgson.
St. Mary Axe: St. Michael le Querne (9ᵗʰ S. x. 425; xi. 110, 231; xii. 170, 253, 351, 507; 10ᵗʰ S. i. 89, 157).—I think Col. Prideaux will allow, on further reflection, that the phrase "ubi bladum venditur" will admit of an interpretation allusive to a corn-dealer as well as to a corn-market; and even if it could be shown with certainty that "market" were meant, most markets have a beginning in some individual retailer's enterprise—in this case that of a corn-dealer as well as of a miller whose "querne" was actively employed in grinding corn for the neighbourhood. J. H. MacMichael.
William Hartley (10ᵗʰ S. i. 87, 156, 198).—Mr. A. R. Bayley supplies additional information as to Dr. Joseph Hartley which I had forgotten, through lapse of time, though his family was related to that of my wife. When I last met him, twenty-five years ago, he kept up his connexion with Leeds. In Walford's 'County Families' for 1901 appears, "Rev. Salter Saint George John, eldest son of Lieut.-Col. Joseph Hartley, LL.D. Cantab., of the Old Downs, Hartley, Kent." The italics are mine. His circuit was the south-eastern. Mistletoe.
The English in France (10ᵗʰ S. i. 164).—In the chapel of the Abbey of Fontevraud (which is now used as a convict prison) are preserved the effigies of some of our earlier kings and queens who were buried there. Some twelve years ago I was saluted by a gamin in the streets of Rouen with the cry of "Goddam." He seemed somewhat taken aback when I thanked him with mock politeness for his compliment. I believe this epithet to be an amusing survival, though possibly not quite of the nature H. 2 is in quest of, of the English occupation. R. W. B.
Boulingrin remains a generic term for lawn or grass-plot in France to this day, and boulin is a putting-hole. St. Swithin.
Dorsetshire Snake-lore (10ᵗʰ S. i. 168).—One cannot but think that Red Cross has hit upon a dying relic of serpent worship. Dr. Phené could probably explain why this superstition with regard to snakes and "worms" never dying till after sunset should be prevalent in several counties. Indeed, I think in his contributions to the discussions of the archaeological societies he has alluded to the subject, but I cannot say where. In Miss Jackson's 'Shropshire Folk-lore,' 1883, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, it is remarked as follows:—
"Not having a section devoted to Reptiles, I must here, for want of a better place, mention the popular belief that an adder can only die at sunset, and insert the Shropshire saying,
If the ether 'ad the blindworm's ear,
And the blindworm 'ad the ether's eye,
Neither Mon nor beäst could safe pass by."
In the first volume of the Folk-lore Record there is a collection of West Sussex superstitions lingering in 1868, by Charlotte Latham, where it it said:—
"We believe in Sussex that a snake, though cut in two, cannot die until the sun has set, and I have heard of a labourer declaring that the 'queer marks' on the body of the deaf adder could be made out to be
If I could hear as well as see,
No mortal man should master me."
Miss Jackson heard this version when young:—
If the adder could hear, and the blindworm could see,
Neither man nor beast would ever go free.
The belief with regard to "sunset" is probably owing in its origin to the fact that snakes die hard. To give an instance. A viper fell over the cliff, and was picked up in the belief that it was a grass snake. It was played with for two days by the children, but eventually bit both the discoverer and his butler, but not before it was supposed to have been killed by the drawing-room poker, and it was while examining the apparently dead reptile that the butler was bitten. It
