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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xii. NOV. 21, 1903.
Thursday 14 to Tuesday 19 August, 1561
Mr. Vincent's object was to disprove a story
which, previously to his investigations, ha
found universal acceptance, that the queen
had in the year above mentioned paid a visi
to the Tollemache family at Helmingham, ir
Suffolk. His paper, which is entitled ' Queen
Elizabeth at Helmingham,' has since been
reprinted with some additions.
H. W. FORSYTH HARWOOD.
" TABBY ALL OVER ; ' (9 th S. xii. 249, 312). Jon Bee [i.e., John Badcock] in his edition o:~ Foote's ' Works,' 1830, vol. i. p. 28, gives th< following note :
" Tabby, another name for quitting, or stiffenin< the dress by sewing it double with wool between."
And in 'Taste,' Act I. (same edition, i. 66) Carmine, painting Lady Pentweazel's por trait, and asking her to put her shoulders back and chest forward, is answered :
"Don't mind my shape this bout; for I'm onlj in jumps. Shall I send for my tabbys ?
" Cat: No, madam, we ! 11 supply that for the present."
In O'Keefe's comic opera * The Farmer Jemmy Jumps is a staymaker in London ; he is a fortune-hunter who pretends to be a fin< gentleman. ADRIAN WHEELER.
f COL. HORTON (9 th S. xii. 229). For par ticulars respecting this officer see 2 I1(l S vi 131 ; 3 r<1 S. xi. 153, 363.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
PRIMROSE SUPERSTITION (9 th S. xi. 448 ; xii. 33, 234). I remember many years ago being shown some flowers at Midhurst which 1 was told were obtained by the planting of prim- roses upside down. In shape they" were half- way between a primrose and a cowslip, and were of a maroon colour with deep yellow eyes. I, of course, expressed admiration, but had considerable doubts in my own mind as to their origin. E. E. STREET.
Chichester.
" CLAMEUR BE HARO " : " CRIER HARO :; (9 th 5. xii. 126, 272). Jfarois an old French word said by Korting to be derived from an old German word herod. signifying " hither," but it was specially used as a cry of distress. It was, I believe, chiefly used in Normandy and in the Channel Islands. Lafontaine uses the word, * Cria haro sur le pauvre voleur."
H. A. STRONG. University, Liverpool.
PEWS ATTACHED TO HOUSES (9 th S vii 388 517 ; viii. 89, 191, 288, 428 ; ix. 31 ; xii. 296).- Ihe Grange, an old Jacobean mansion in
Broad hembury, Devon, has recently been
sold. In the conditions of sale it states that
"the permanent and exclusive right over a
pew in the church, with the customary
nominal liability towards the maintenance
of the roof immediately above it, will pass to
the purchaser of Lot 1 " (i.e., the mansion).
A. J. D.
BULL PLAIN, HERTFORD (9 th S. xii 269). The large open space (alm.ost a square) just at the foot of the main street of Totnes, Devon, is called " The Plains." In this place formerly existed the bull-ring, as described by Mr. T. W. Stain thorpe, A.M.I.O.E., in his paper on 'Ye Ancient Bull-Ring at Totnes,' read before the Devonshire Association in August, 1896. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.
Lancaster.
BASILICAS (9 th S. xii. 168, 315) "Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio." I regret that my query was ambiguous in form. With the architectural meaning of the term I was not unfamiliar ; it was of its hierarchic meaning 1 was ignorant. Fr. C. H. Bowden ('Simple Diet, for Catholics') says : "Basilica. One of the principal churches of the highest dignity ; other classes are : cathedral, collegiate, bap- tismal, parochial, mother (matrices), or filial churches." Smith and Cheetham (' Diet. Chris.
Antiq.') say : "Seven churches at Rome
are styled basilicas by pre-eminence and enjoy certain honorific privileges." This number is wrong ; there are thirteen such churches, usually divided into five greater and eight lesser basilicas. The five greater basilicas (those of St. John Lateran, St. Peter, St. Paul without the Walls, St. Mary Major, and St. Lawrence) are respectively in some way (as I understand from Moroni's 'Dizio- nario Ecclesiastico') connected with the five greater Patriarchates of the Latin rite, viz., those of the West, of Constantinople, of Alexandria, of Antioch, and of Jerusalem, smith and Cheetham obtain the number seven 3y adding two of the lesser basilicas, viz., Sta. Croce in Gerusalernme and San Sebas- lano. May I split rny single query into five ?
1. Are even the lesser basilicas of Rome of ugher rank than cathedrals?
2 What "honorific privileges," if any, do ^e lesser basilicas enjoy 1
3. Is there any practical connexion at the present day between the greater basilicas and he greater Patriarchs 1
4. Have the four lesser Patriarchs (viz., of 'enice, Last Indies, West Indies, and Lisbon) ny connexion, theoretical or practical, with
ny, and, if so. which, of the eight lesser
oman basilicas ?
