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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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THE DEFECTS OF HIS QUALITIES " (9 th S. i
67). In the dictionary of Larousse, 1875 .v. 'Defaut,' the phrase is quoted from the ritings of Bishop Dupanloup : " Heureus homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de se ualites ! " I have always understood the hrase "the defects of one's qualities" tc mean the defects usually found in company with certain qualities for instance, a man having the quality of thrift is liable to a corresponding defect in generosity.
A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.
SAN LANFEANCO (9 th S. i. 364). ST. SWITHIN may rest assured that Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, has not been canonized, or otherwise accepted as a saint by ecclesiastica' authority, and it is strange that the late Dean Hook and the author of Murray's ' Handbook, both careful persons, should have made the blunder to which he has directed attention They are, however, not alone in their error. In the lists of saints in Potthast's
- Bibliotheca Historica Medii ^Evi ' the name
of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, is given, and his feast day is said to be 28 May. The Rev. Richard Stanton in his ' Menology of England and Wales ' says that "in the 'Nova Legenda' Lanfranc has the title oi saint, and elsewhere he is called ' Blessed,' but it does not appear that the public honours of sanctity were accorded to him." P. 231.
Butler in his * Lives of the Saints/ in a note under St. Anselm, points out that Capgrave and Trithemius regarded Lanfranc as a saint, adding that
no marks of such honour have ever been allowed to his memory either at Canterbury, Caen, or Bee, nor, as it seems, in any other church, and William Thorn's ' Chronicle ' is a proof that all had not an equal idea of his extraordinary sanctity."
Lanfranc's position seems to have been similar to that of Waltheof, Simon de Mont- fort, Richard Scrope, the murdered Arch- bishop of York, Grossteste, Bishop of Lincoln, and others who were loosely spoken of as saints, but never received authentic recogni- tion by the Church. EDWARD PEACOCK.
BATH APPLE (9 th S. i. 228, 317, 375). Now that we have the context, there seems to be no reason why " eat another bath apple " may not be a mere periphrasis for " eat another apple at Bath "; i.e., go to Bath once more.
e contrast is, obviously, to "the air of Eartham." If I were to say, in a familiar letter, in which a mild joke is surely permis- sible, that " I find the Cambridge air bad for me, and I am going to eat another Lowestoft herring," surely this would be quite intelli-
gible".to my correspondent, even if Lowestoft
had no particular fame for herrings. One is
not obliged, in every private letter, to speak
by the card. It will be observed that the
object of using the expression was to bring
in the comment that "it will not be very
wholesome for her fame"; and it is, obviously,
easier to say this with respect to the imagi-
nary eating of an apple than to say the same
thing in a plainer manner and with a more
highly moral tone. WALTER W. SKEAT.
ARCHER FAMILY (9 th S. i. 47). If MARIE ARCHER will forward me her address and at the same time advise me as to the particular branch of this family to which she belongs, I may be able to furnish her with some information of interest, as I have for years past been engaged in the collection of materials for a history of the Archer family.
G. H. ROWBOTHAM.
11, Wilbraham Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Mane.
FAMILY OF BACON (8 th S. xii. 147, 289). A list of pedigrees and manuscripts in the British Museum relating to the Bacon family of Weston, co. Bucks ; of Harleston and Shipdenborn, co. Norfolk ; of Burton Latimer, Northants ; of Oldfield ; of Twyford, Hants ; of Drinkstone, Redgrave, and Hessett, co. Suffolk ; of Whiteparish, Wilts ; and of Lon- don, Norwich, Essex, Surrey, and Cambridge, may be seen in part i. of Foster's ' Collectanea Genealogica ' (June, 1881). C. H. C.
South Hackney.
" DAWKUM " (9 th S. i. 347). Halliwell in his 'Dictionary of Provincial Words' and Wright in his ' Dictionary of Obsolete English ' give bhe word as dawkin, meaning a foolish, self- conceited person, whereas N. Bailey in his dictionary, 1759, and Dr. Ash, 1775, both give
- he meaning of dawkin as a dirty, slatternly
woman. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.
71, Brecknock Road.
Wright in his l Provincial Dictionary ' gives dawkin a, foolish, self-conceited person, as obtaining in the North. C. P. HALE.
MOTTO OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS (8 th S. xii. 267). The line
Nee prosunt domino, quse prosunt omnibus, artes was quoted by Burton from Ovid. It is ine 524 in the first book of the 'Meta- morphoses.' Apollo tried in vain to win the leart of Daphne by showing that he was a
- ood doctor. His success would have been
etter, as some French critic has said, had e proved himself a good dancer, poet, and layer on the harp. JAMES D. BUTLER, Madison, Wis., U.S.
