Benisch translates it, and which sufficiently expresses the idea, though, as I said before, "aspect" would perhaps be better, and is certainly preferable to "prospect." In the first part of the first passage (Ezek. xl. 44) the vulgate has "facies," but the Douay renders "prospect," like the A.V. It may be of some, though chiefly local, interest that part of the last of these passages in Ezekiel (xliii. 4) is placed over the screen of the parish church (St. Margaret's) of Lee. The inscription runs, "Majestas Domini per viam portæ," the whole verse being "Majestas Domini ingressa est templum per viam portae quae respiciebat ad orientem."
Blackheath.
Queries.
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Knifeboard of an Omnibus.—A few months ago I sent Dr. Murray a note of Leech's cartoon in Punch of 15 May, 1852, and he told me it was the earliest instance known to him of this use of the word. Lord John Russell is represented sitting in the rain on a single "form" on the roof of an omnibus, and saying, "Oh! you don't catch me coming out on the knifeboard again to make room for a party of swells." There appears no means of access from the rear of the omnibus, not even the perpendicular iron ladder that lasted on into the eighties.
Can any of your readers tell Dr. Murray when the knifeboard was introduced, and when first called by that name? Was the seat originally single, or back to back? Was it the seat or its back that struck some ingenious person as resembling the domestic knifeboard, and wherein did such resemblance consist?
I have not heard the word for several years: is it obsolete? The thing it described is, we may hope, obsolescent at the least.
Oxford.
'The Situation of Paradise.'—Can one of your readers give me any information relative to the following work?—
'The
I should be glad to know author, &c., either through your paper or direct. R. Simms.
Newcastle, Staffs.
[It is attributed by Halkett and Laing to Henry Hare, second Lord Coleraine, for whom consult 'D.N.B.' under 'Hare.']
James Denew, Auctioneer.—I am anxious to trace this auctioneer or his successors, and should be much obliged if any of your readers could kindly assist me. A sale of Charles Boothby Skrymshire Clopton's effects was advertised in the Times of 27 September, 1800, by James Denew, auctioneer, of 30, Charles Street, Berkeley Square.
6, Pall Mall.
"Bench." At Greenock the word "bench" is used for the elders' or the chancery platform in churches. Can you give me any information as to its being employed otherwise or in other districts of the country in the same connexion? It has been in use in this district with the meaning stated for at least one or two generations. Office-bearer.
Taverns in seven dials and Soho.—I should be glad of any information with regard to the position and status of the following taverns in Seven Dials between the years 1740 and 1760 or thereabouts: "The King's Arms," Tower Street, Seven Dials; "The Tower," Tower Street, Seven Dials; "The Fox and Goose," King Street, Seven Dials.
Also with regard to the following in Soho about the years 1780 and 1800: "Carlisle Arms," Queen Street, Soho; "Greyhound," New Compton Street, Soho; "Angel," St. Giles's Churchyard, Soho; "Coach and Horses," Frith Street, Soho; also the "Talbot," Tottenham Court Road, between 1767 and 1780.
St. Stephen's Club, Westminster.
"Silver Trumpet." In a letter of 5 November, 1681, an anonymous correspondent writes, apparently to Sir William Frankland:—
"I am told from a very good hand that your neighbour at Nunnington[1] will have the silver trumpet, and then Jack Talbot, &c., may stay at home if he pleaseth." Hist. MSS. Comm. Report on the MSS. of Mrs. Frankland-Russell-Astley, 1900, at p. 47.
Does the "silver trumpet" mean some house-
- ↑ Glossed, in a note, "Sir Richard Graham, cr. Viscount Preston in 1680."
