Minor Queries.
195. Chaucer, how pronounced.
—What is, or was, the original pronunciation of the name of the poet Chaucer? Was, or was not, the ch in his day a guttural? And was not the name Hawker or Howker?
JAMES LAURIE.
196. The Island of Ægina.
—Having occasion to make some inquiry about the island of Ægina, in Greece, I have been sadly perplexed by the discrepancies of the modern authorities I have had an opportunity of consulting. The principal of these relates to the site of the temple of Jupiter, or Zeus Panhellenios, which Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary, and M'Culloch's and Fullerton's Gazetteers, place in the N.E. part of the island; Fullerton, however, saying also that Mount St. Elias lies in the south part, though he does not say that the temple is built on that mount. But Blaikie's Gazetteer says that the temple stands on Mount St. Elias, which, according to Fullerton, is in the south. With this agrees the map in the Topographisch-historisch Atlas von Hellas, &c. von H. Kiepert, Berlin, 1846, which distinctly places the "Tempel von Zeus Panhellenios" in the south part of the island while the temple in the north-east is called "Tempel von Athena." The Atlas to Anacharsis' Travels places it also in the south. Which of these authorities is right? or, can any of your readers tell me, from personal knowledge, in what part of the island the said Temple of Zeus Panhellenios really stands?
JAMES LAURIE.
197. Statute of Limitations Abroad.
—With so many foreigners sojourning among us, I should be glad if you could, by throwing out a hint in your paper, obtain from them what is the statute of limitations of the several countries to which they belong.
CURIOSUS.
198. Tapestry Story of Justinian.
—There is a series of ancient tapestries in Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, representing certain events in the life of the emperor Justinian. One of these exhibits him in the act of making his celebrated Digest of Law, surrounded by his lawyers; in a second, he is manumitting slaves before the temple of Janus, at the time, I presume, when he proclaimed the eternal peace, which lasted two years; in a third, he appears crowned, on his knees, swearing, it should seem, to observe the Lex Romana, which is held up to him in an open book by two lictors; in the fourth, he is seen in a wild country, with a hunting spear in his hand, coming, as it were by surprise, and in great alarm, upon two hounds in the agonies of death. A dish, from which they may have taken poison, lies on the foreground; and a stream, which may possibly have been poisoned, gushes from a neighbouring rock. Figures in the background seem to be slinking away from the scene here represented.
I shall be much obliged to any of your correspondents who can point out to me the ancient author in whose writings the circumstance alluded to in the last-mentioned picture is detailed.
W. N. DARNELL.
199. Praed's Works.
—Can any reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform me if there be a collected edition of the works of Praed? Many of your readers are familiar with his fugitive pieces published in Knight's Quarterly Magazine, The Etonian, and other periodicals. And all, I am sure, who are acquainted with him, would be glad to see his graceful and elegant productions published in a collected form.
K. S.
200. Folietani.
—Who founded the order of Folietani, or leaf-eaters (to the exclusion of all grain and meat)? where and when? What Pope dissolved the order, and is the Bull extant?
A. N.
201. Berlin Mean Time.
—In the Nautical Almanac the day is supposed to commence at noon according to the custom of English astronomers. Foreigners, however, ordinarily commence the astronomical day at midnight, at least those of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain do. But can you or any of your correspondents tell me whether it is from the midnight succeeding, or the midnight preceding our noon of the same number? For instance, taking the longitude of Berlin to be 0h 53m 35s .5 East, would the present moment, which is September 17, 3h 40m 30s Greenwich mean time, if expressed in Berlin mean time, be September 17, 16h 34m 5s .5, or would it be September 16, 16h 34m 5s .5? (I have reckoned to days by ordinals, as, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, &c., without a 0-day, which, however, the foreigners generally use, employing a cardinal number, the hours minutes, and seconds being considered as a fraction to be added.) I ask this question because so many things now are announced in Berlin mean time.
DX.
202. De Foe's House at Stoke Newington.
—About the year 1722 De Foe built here a large and handsome house for his own residence. Is it still standing, and where? Many mansions in the neighbourhood appear to have been erected about that time.
SPERIEND.
203. Oxford Fellowships.—
"Upon this occasion I might repeat what I have observed before, page 33. of these Annals, where the highest fellowships in Oxford in 1534 or 1535 did not exceed 6l. 13s. 4d., nor the lowest fall under 3l., and that was in Brazen Nose College; at which time New College fellowships were but rated at 3l. 9s. 4d., nor any of Magdalen fellowships (except two for Yorkshire that were obliged to go and preach in the countries abroad) above 3l. 15s. 4d., as may be found in Mr. Twine's MS."—Smith's Annals of Univ. Coll. p. 372.
Can any of your correspondents throw any light upon the parenthetical clause printed in Italics?
E. H. A.
204. Leonard Fell and Judge Fell.
—Mr. Josiah Marsh, in A popular Life of George Fox, 8vo., London, 1847, p. 83., mentions "Leonard Fell of Becliff, a brother of the judge."
I shall be obliged by a reference to the authority on which this statement rests. George Fox frequently mentions both Leonard Fell and Judge Fell; but I cannot find in his Journal the slightest hint that they were in any way connected. Fell is a common name in the north of Lancashire. Leonard Fell was one of the preachers who sometimes accompanied George Fox in his wanderings. Judge Fell was a staunch member of the Church of England.
LLEWELLYN.
205. "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
—Will you, or one of your correspondents, have the goodness to inform me whence is derived the quotation "Cleanliness is next to Godliness?"
A MUSSULMAN.
206. Davies Queries.
—I shall feel much obliged by a correct description of the monument erected to Sir John Davys, Davis, or Davies, the celebrated lawyer and poet, in St. Martin's church, London, and particularly of the arms, crest, and motto (if any) which are on it.
I wish to know also the correct blazon of the following coats of arms: Thos. Davies, a fess inter three elephants' heads erazed; and Davis of London, on a bend cotissed inter six battle-axes three daggers: there is some mention of these arms in the Har. MSS., but I wish to know the correct colours of the shields and their charges?
LLAW GYFFES.