Belgravia, June 12. 1851.
The second King of Nineveh who burned his Palace (Vol. iii., p. 408).
—D. X. will find all that is known of this king in the Armenian version of Eusebius's Chronicle, 53., and in the Chronographia of Georgius, Syncellus (and subsequently Patriarch) of Constantinople, p. 210. B. The former gives as his authority Abydenus, and the latter Polyhistor. Both passages will be found in Cory's Ancient Fragments. The Median king is called in both Astyages, and not Cyaxares; but the date of the catastrophe being fixed by Ptolemy's Canon in 625 B. C., the reviewer, I suppose, considered himself justified in altering the name to that of the king who appears from Herodotus to have governed Media at that date.
E. H. D. D.
Legend in Frettenham Church (Vol. iii., p. 407.).
—Your correspondent C. J. E. may find some account of the legend illustrated on the walls of Frettenham Church in the Calendar of the Anglo-Catholic Church, from which it appears that St. Eligius, Eloy, or Loye, is the hero of the incident. He was the patron of blacksmiths, farriers, &c.; and accomplished, on one occasion, the shoeing of a refractory horse by amputating the leg; and the operation performed, he replaced the severed member. Doubtless, as C. J. E. suggests, the shoeing might have been effected without so much periphrasis; but perhaps the saint intended to teach the animal docility, and inspire the spectators with a more palpable proof of his supernatural powers, than the performance of the operation by his mere ipse dixit would have afforded. The church of Durweston, Dorsetshire, is named in his honour, and a rude sculpture over the doorway commemorates the incident.
C. A.
Natural Daughter of James II. (Vol. iii., pp. 224. 249. 280.).
—When the answer of C. to my inquiry first appeared, I doubted whether after such strong reproof I ought again to address you; but as your valuable paper was intended for the ignorant as well as for the learned, and as C. (Vol. iii., p. 334.) places your respected correspondent MR. DAWSON TURNER in the same class as my humble self, I no longer hesitate.
When I proposed the Query, I had no ready access to any book which would easily give me the required information, and it did not appear to me to be any great sin in making use of "NOTES AND QUERIES" for what I conceive is its legitimate object, the communication of knowledge; and I do not think the space my Query occupied was wasted when it called forth the interesting reply of P. C. S. S.