9* s. xii. DEC. 19, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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explanation by "alios menses" But beyond
question Creech explained correctly. We
shall scarcely assign to Manilius the false
quantity of Gk. <recris, put into Lat. Phdsis.
Moreover it does not appear that the Greek
word was ever applied to lunar changes.
C. B. MOUNT.
RICHARD MARSHALL : JOHN MOREEN. The 1 D.N.B./ xxxvi. 269, states of Richard Mar- tial (or Marshall) that he "died, presumably in prison, some time in 1563." In this it follows Strype, 'Ann.,' i. ii. 49.
The 'D.N.B.,' xxxix. 170, also says that from the year 1561 nothing is known of John Mor- ren (Murren, Morwen, Moring, or Morven).
In both these statements the ' D.N.B.' is in error. On 21 February, 1567/8, the queen wrote to the Sheriff of Lancaster to appre- hend and commit various deprived priests, and among them " Murrey, chaplen to Boner, late Bushop of London,'"' and " Marshall, ones Deane of Christchurch in Oxford " (' S. P. Dom., Eliz.,' xlvi. 32). On 31 July and 4 October, 1568 (Gillow, v. 62, 63), John Molineux confessed that
" Vawse, Murren, M'shall, Peele, Ashbrooke, Priests, have been at his house, and there have been enterteyned for a night or two or a meale or two, some w h in the space of iii yeres, some w h in the space of theis two yeres now last past, and some sithence." ' S. P. Dom., Eliz.,' xlviii. 36, ix. Cf. Chetham Society, N.S., vol. iv. pp. xlviii-xlix.
At that date, then, all parties regarded both Marshall and Morren as alive, and if Marshall's recantation printed by Strype is
Genuine he must have repented of it. John lorren was alive and imprisoned in Salford Fleet in 1584 (cf. 'S. P. Dom., Eliz.,'clxvii. 40),
- ' condemned according to the statute for xii
monethes absence."
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
THOMAS KNAGGS. There is a brief notice of this person in 2 nd S. ii. 70, with a reference to the list of his thirty-one single sermons in Watt's ' Bibliotheca.' He was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1679, M.A. 1683. On 2 December, 1687, he was appointed afternoon lecturer at All Hallows, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, at a salary of 701. His sermon preached in that church on the Fast Day, 19 June, 1689, was printed. On 5 November, 1693, he preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at Bow Church, and in the printed copy he is described as chaplain to Ford, Lord Grey. His sermon at All- hallows on the Thanksgiving Day, 16 April, 1696, was also printed. His patron, Lord Grey, had now become Ford, Earl of Tanker- vile. Knaggs quarrelled with Dr. Atherton, "a strong passive-obedience man," and left
Newcastle for St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. His
successor at Allhallows was appointed 21
September, 1697, at a salary of SOL See
'Memoirs of Ambrose Barnes,' Surtees Soc.,
vol. 1. pp. 145, 431, 436, 444, 446-7. He also
printed, in 1697, an Assize Sermon which he
preached at St. Edmund's Bury in Suffolk,
23 March, 1696/7. In 1710 he further printed
a Fast Day sermon preached at St. Giles's,
15 March, 1709/10, on Proverbs iii. 5, 6. In
this he is described as chaplain to Fulk, Lord
Brooke. Another sermon against self- murder,
on 1 Kings xix. 4, was printed in 1708. He died
12 May, 1724 (Musgrave's 'Obituary ').
W. C. B.
BOTTLE TREE. In the new edition of Yule and Burnell's * Hobson- Jobson ' two sugges- tions are made regarding this tree, either that it is the baobab (Adansonia digitata) or the babool (Acacia arabica). The word, so- far, has been found only in a quotation from the late Mr. Aberigh Mackay's 'Ali Baba/ The question has now been finally settled in a communication kindly sent to me by Mr. C. S. Bayley, Resident at Indore. He writes :
" There can, I think, be no doubt that the tree meant is the Adansonia. Ali Baba was, as you of course know, Principal of the Rajkumar College here. There is one large baobab in the compound of the college, another in that of the First Assistant to the Agent of the Governor-General. Both are very striking trees, and the sight of the prisoner on extra - mural labour peacefully slumbering under these must have been quite familiar. The baobab (known to natives as the Khorasani Imli) is rare here, but there is a splendid grove of them near Mandu (planted by the Muhammadan kings),, whence doubtless these two were brought. The- bottle nests of the baya are found, but they are scarcely common enough to give a name in these parts to the babool."
W. CROOKE.
RIDING THE BLACK RAM. I have found this English local custom mentioned in a book written by J. von Csaplovics, a Hun- garian author, and published in 1842, en- titled 'England und Ungern.' His source was, no doubt, an illustrated broadside, printed for J. (but quaere Isaac) Pitts, of Great Andrew Street, Seven Dials. There is no date on the sheet, but all the gentlemen in the picture wear wigs and knee-breeches. A copy of the broadside is in the British Museum (press-mark 11621, K. 4, No. 168),. and, as the text is not very long, I may perhaps quote it in extenso :
(Title) "A humorous representation of the droll custom of Riding the Black Ram at East and West Enborne."
" At East and West Enborne, in the county of Berks, if a customary tenant die, the widow shall have what the law calls her Free-Bench in hall '
