P.S. Throughout the Matrimonial Service I observe M. attached to the man's name, but N. to the woman's.
Dancing Trenchmore ([Vol. iii., p. 89.]).—Your correspondent S. G. asks the meaning of this phrase? Trenchmore was a very popular dance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The earliest mention I find of it occurs in 1564, and the latest in 1728. The figure and the musical notes may be seen in the fifth and later editions of The Dancing Master. See also Chappell's National English Airs, vol. ii. p. 181., where some amusing quotations concerning its popularity are given. Trenchmore (the meaning of which we have to seek) was, however, more particularly the name of the dance than the tune. The dance, in fact, was performed to various tunes. In proof of this I give the following quotation from Taylor the water-poet's Navy of Land Ships, 1627:
"Nimble-heel'd mariners (like so many dancers) capring in the pompes and vanities of this sinful world, sometimes a Morisco, or Trenchmore of forty miles long, to the tune of Dusty my deare, Dirty come thou to me, Dun out of the mire, or I waile in woe and plunge in paine: all these dances have no other musicke."
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
Demosthenes and New Testament ([Vol. iii., p. 350.]).—If your correspondent C. H. P. had referred to the Critici Sacri, he would have found his questions answered. With regard to the quotation from Acts xvii. 21., I beg to inform him that Drusius makes the same reference, but generally only, as Pricæus; while Grotius gives the passages with particular references, in the same manner as Lagnerius. As to the passage from St. Matthew xiii. 14., he would have found, had he consulted the Critici Sacri, that Grotius quotes the same passage from Demosthenes as Pricæus; but, as far as I can see, they are the only commentators in that work who observed the parallel passages. However, the fact of its being "employed as an established proverb by Demosthenes having been generally overlooked," as C. H. P. supposes, is not quite correct, as it is mentioned in the brief notes in Dr. Burton's Greek Testament, Oxon., 1831.
H. C. K.
—— Rectory, Hereford, May 3. 1851.
Roman Catholic Church ([Vol. iii., pp. 168.] [409.].).—E. H. A. will find the information which he requires in the Notizie per l'anno 1851. It is a very small annual published at Rome by authority. Its price cannot exceed 4s. or 5s.
F.
Yankee, Derivation of ([Vol. iii., p. 260.]).—In Webster's American Dictionary, and in the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific, J. M. will see the etymology of Yankee, which M. Philarète Charles supposes not to be given in any work American or English.
NORTHMAN.