9*s.m.JusEi7,m] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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gairnan, A.-S. geornan=desiderare, Jamieson,
s.v., quotes from Ram say's 'Scottish Proverbs/
p. 83, "You may be greedy, but ye 're not
greening." Cp. English yearn.
THOMAS BAYNE. Helensburgh, JS\B.
QUOTATION IN 'THE BROOKES OF BRIDLE- MERE' (9 th S. iii. 368). The remark that " Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children" is Thackeray's C Vanity Fair,' vol. ii. ch. xii.). H. E. M.
St. Petersburg.
[Other replies are acknowledged.]
GOLDSMITH'S TRAVELS (9 th S. iii. 368). It may seem peculiar to make a suggestion in reply to my own query, but it has since occurred to me that Goldsmith may have meant by Campania the French . province of Champagne, first called by that name, I believe, in the time of Clovis, and in Latin books termed Campania. This receives some confirmation from the fact that otherwise France is not mentioned in the early lines of ' The Traveller.' W. T. LYNN.
Blackheath.
' MORO,' AN OPERA (9 th S. iii. 407).' Moro ; or, the Painter of Antwerp,' music by M. W. Balfe, translated and adapted by Win. Alex. Barrett, was first performed in this country at Her Majesty's Theatre on 28 January, 1882. If your correspondent will communi- cate direct with me, I may be able to put him in the way of obtaining the desired copy of the libretto. E. J. THOMAS.
144, Sewardstone Road, Victoria Park, E.
JAMES II. AT ROCHESTER (9 th S. iii. 384). Is not " Peter Lombard " wrong in referring to the owner of Abdication House, Rochester, in the time of James II. as Sir Edmund Head ? Harrison Ainsworth gives his name as Richard in his 'James the Second.' The following paragraph, taken from the Daily Mail of 28 December, 1898, is an interesting commentary to the note at the above refer- ence :
"Abdication House, High Street, Rochester, formerly the residence of Sir Richard Head, Bart., M.P. for the city some 220 years ago, who received James II. there previous to that king's flight to the Continent, has just been brought wider the auc- tioneer's hammer. It was sold for 2,200?. The garden at the rear of the house from which James escaped to the Medway still exists."
JOHN T. PAGE.
West Haddon, Northamptonshire.
" MEAD AND OBARNI " (9 th S. iii. 306, 413). I should like to thank C. C. B. for the quo- tation from Harris. It decidedly increases
our knowledge. In the first place, in "Sodden
Mead " it gives us " Mead Obarne " inter-
preted into English. " Sodden," in its Eliza-
bethan sense, is the exact equivalent of Russian
obarni. I consider this, a proof of the correct-
ness of my etymology. Cherunk, as C. C. B.
suggests, may be "cherry mead," connected
with Russian chertmukha, a cherry. Matty -
n&vo is " raspberry mead."
JAMES PL ATT, Jun.
" Obvarni " is the proper Russian word for "scalded." It is the adjective formed from varit'=to boil ; 06=about.
H. A. STRONG.
CHARLES STUART (9 th S. iii. 387). Is not the conformation to the Church of England from the Roman Catholic faith a gossip's story ? By one account it took place at St. James's Church ('N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. vii. 1), by another at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (p. 41), and now it is alleged that the new church in the Strand (St. Mary le Strand) was the edifice chosen for the recantation of Charles Stuart. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.
71, Brecknock Road.
" TABLE DE COMMUNION " (9 th S. i. 25, 251 ; ii. 33, 211). It appears from Littre that sainte table may mean either the altar at which the celebrant communicates or the rail at which the houselling folk take the holy sacrament, though for the special heading with the latter sense the words are reversed in position, table sainte. Hence it is easy for an Anglican, used to hearing altar, holy table, the Lord's table, and Communion table as synonyms, to take table de Communion as Matthew Arnold did. Is it certain that this never refers to the tabula, or surface of the altar ? The Abbe Felix Poirier, professor in the lofty Seminary of Laval, author of several theological works, sends me the following note on the question :
' ! Si trqva la vera significanza della voce table de. Communion apud Catholicos nel famoso 'Diction- naire des Antiquit^s Chretiennes ' de Martigny, e nel piu recente libro di Jules Corblet, ' Histoire du Sacrement de 1'Eueharistie ' (Geneve, 2 voLs.). Si vi legge (torn. ii. p. 171) : ' Quand les fideles com- mencerent a communier a genoux et non plus debout on dut diminuer la hauteur des canceUi ou se servir d'un meuble portatif qu'on appela table de Communion, bane de Communion, appui de Communion. Le chancel fut souvent aussi remplac par une balustrade peu 61ev6e, ayant line surface plane qu'on recouvrait d'une nappe de toile garnie de dentelles. Le pretre seul communia & Yautel, qui n'a jamais dans 1'antiquite signifie' table de Communion.'"
It will be admitted that Judas communi- cated at a Communion table, which Catholics consider to have been the first Christian altar.
