10 S. VII. MARCH 23, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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lines on the monument to the Quebec men
killed in the Boer War, " Not by the power
of commerce, art, or pen," &c., are from the
pen of the Rev. Dr. F. G. Scott, Rector of
the Anglican Episcopal Church of St.
Matthew, St. John Street Without, Quebec,
who wrote them expressly for the monument.
G. H. J.
CAMOENS, SONNET com. : " FRESCAS BELVEDERES " (10 S. vii. 190). In Burton's ' Lyricks of Camoens,' 1884, p. 160, the opening lines of this sonnet are rendered as follows :
By bents encircled, blooming green and gay, Pour the pure waters flowing fro' this fount. Unfortunately, bent is a term of varied signification ; but I think it is permissible to conclude that Burton took the same view of this passage as MR. MAYHEW, and that bents here denotes some kind of ornamental grass. JAS. PLATT, Jun.
In my edition of Camoens that of Barreto, 1720 this sonnet is numbered ccix. Unfortunately, there are no notes to the sonnets. The Portuguese-English dictionary of Valdez (seventh ed.) gives : " Belvedere, s.m. (bot.), belvidere (a plant of China)." La Fayette's pocket dictionary (1897) gives: "Belvedere, s.m., belvedere, the herb broom." These modern diction- aries, therefore, favour the idea of a plant, but both give the word as masculine. Does MR. MAYHEW know of yet a third meaning of the Italian word ? The sole sense given to the word in Alberti's Italian-French dictionary (1788) is a slang and vulgar expression for " that part of the body with which one sits." E. E. STREET.
Camoens can hardly have been under- stood to have surrounded a mere fountain with fine prospects of landscape. The allu- sion certainly seems to be to the toad-flax, of which there are, according to Sprengel, no fewer than ninety-three varieties under the generic name of Linaria. However, the particular species in question is evidently that described in Nathaniel Bailey's ' Dic- tionary,' 1740, s.v. ' Belvedere,' which is explained as being the " Herb Broom Toad
Flax." J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
HOLDEN FAMILY (10 S. vii. 188). H. will find an account of the Rev. Edward Holden, rector of Barsham in Suffolk from 1774 to 1797, in my ' Notes on Barsham juxta Beccles,' vol. xxii. p. 76, New Series of The Genealogist. He was son of Edward Holden, of Algerio (sic) ; see Foster's ' Al. Oxon." He married Susanna, daughter of the Rev
Thomas Missenden, and was father of the
Rev. Manning Holden, of Caius College,
Cambridge, and of Charles Holden (also of
aius College), aged eighteen in 1784,
vicar of Great Cornard, Suffolk ; also of
Susanna Holden, who married the Rev.
John Love, of Great Yarmouth. See Venn's-
List of Members of Caius Coll.' and Palmer's
History of Great Yarmouth,' vol. i. p. 285,,
vol. iii. p. 365. (Mrs.) F. H. SUCKLING.
High wood, Hants.
Consult Hunter's ' Familiae Minorum Gen- ium,' also * Musgrave's Obituary,' Harleian Society's Publications.
The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740, p. 317,. has :
' Deaths June 13, Samuel Holden, Esq., Gover-
pany, a Director of the Bank,
nd Member for Eastlow, Cornwall, worth 80,000/..
nor of the Russia Company, a Director of tn<
He left two maiden Daughters."
HENRY JOHN BEARDSHAW. 27, Northumberland Road, Sheffield.
WORPLE WAY (10 S. iv. 348, 396). The word was originally wapple and whapple. The entry in Wright's ' Dialect Dictionary ' has ample references in evidence that it simply means " bridle-way." Naturally, these references come nearly all from ' N. & Q.,' as 1 S. ix. 125, 232 ; 6 S. vii. 348 ; 7 S. vii. 437.
This is one of the words easily trans- formed by careless locution. On Stanford's large map of London (first ed.) it occurs in Wandsworth as Warple, in Putney as Whirlpool, in Wimbledon as Walpole. At Mortlake they have it Worple.
EDWARD SMITH.
("There are also communications on the subject at 1 S. ix. 478 ; 6 S. viii. 54, 373 ; 7 S. vii. 269, 314.]
JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON (10 S. vii. 149). The remarkable collection of books, pam- phlets, views, &c., relating to the " South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi scheme of John Law " was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge in May, 1897. The collection con- tained 481 articles.
The Athenceum (8 May, 1897, p. 617) expressed the hope that the collection might be " permanently lodged in the Guildhall." A fortnight later (p. 683) the same paper announced that its sale had realized 240?. The auctioneers would no doubt give the name of the purchaser.
W. P. COURTNEY.
PITCH-CAPS PUT ON HUMAN HEADS AND SET ON FIRE (10 S. vii. 169). There is a natural tendency to receive with suspicion much which was written and rewritten
