Various - Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850

other neccessaries belonging to the saide

loft xiiij l . xiij s . ix d .

Item, paide to a paynter for payntyng the

same xij d .

"1562. For bearinge stones for the muringe up of the

dore of the late rood lofte viij d ."

The rapacious Puritans, of course, did not suffer any portion of the church-goods to escape their sacrilegious and itching palms, if convertible into money, so we read—

"1645. Received of Arthur Condall in part of 5li for

the screen and Organ-loft 1 s ."

S.M.W., Dec. 22. 1849.

The Bagnio in Long Acre. —Mr. Cunningham mentions the Queen's Bagnio in Long Acre. Query, was this the same as the Duke of York's Bagnio? S. Haworth published, in a small 12mo. volume, without date, "A Description of the Duke of York's Bagnio, in Long Acre, and of the Mineral Bath and new Spaw thereunto belonging."

Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. —Richard Leveridge, the celebrated singer, after his retirement from the stage, kept a tavern in this street. Here he brought out "A Collection of Songs, with the Music, by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London, Engrav'd and Printed for the Author in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 1727." The frontispiece was designed and engraved by Hogarth.

Duke Street, Westminster. —Miss Hawkins, in her Anecdotes , p. 186., speaking of Lady Lucy Meyrick, says, "On quitting her husband's family, she came to reside in Duke Street, Westminster, and lived in that house which had been Prior's , and which exactly faces Charles Street ."

Richmond Buildings, Soho. —Horne Tooke resided here in 1775. He afterwards removed to Frith Street.

Clare Market , originally called New Market , was established about the year 1660, by Lord Clare.

"The city and my lord had a great lawsuit, which lasted many years, to the great expence of the city; but from the inequity of the times the city and my lord agreed, and gave it up to the lord; and now it is become one of the greatest markets in the adjacent parts; and from the success of this noble lord, they have got several charters for the erecting of several others since the year 1660; as that of St. James, by the Earl of St. Alban's; Bloomsbury, by the Earl of Southampton; Brook Market, by the Lord Brook; Hungerford Market; Newport Market; besides the Hay Market, New Charingcross, and that at Petty France at Westminster, with their Mayfair in the fields behind Piccadilly."— Harl. MS . 5900.

London House Yard. —Here was formerly the town house of the Bishop of London, which, being consumed in the great fire, the house in Aldersgate Street, formerly called Petre House , was rented for the town residence of the bishop, since which it obtained the title of London House .

For poor ignorant people like myself pray insert the following, as perhaps some of your heraldic correspondents may afford some information for the benefit of your very humble servant,

Newington, June 17. 1751.

To take an account of what Coats of Arms or other Paintings are in the windows of the House Mercer lives of Mr. Filmer.

The singular error which Messrs. Lye and Thorpe have fallen in the passage pointed out by Mr. Hampson in Aelfric's very interesting Colloquy , is the more remarkable as Aelfric himself afforded a complete illustration of the passage, in his Glossary , where we have "BULGA, hýdig-faet ." It is possible, therefore, that higdifatu is a mere error of the scribe. Now Du Cange, v. Bulga , cites this very passage from Aelfric's Glossary , and adds, "i.e. vas ex corio confectum ," but his whole article is worth consulting. That the Latin word in the Colloquy should be Cassidilia is quite clear. Thus in an old MS. English Gloss on the Bible (penes me), the passage in Tobit, viii. 2., "Protulit de Cassidili suo," is rendered, "brouzt forth of his Scrippe ." Coverdale has it, "take out of his bagge ," and Luther, "langte aus seinem Sücklein ," which word is exchanged for büdel in the Saxon version. In two old Teutonic Glosses on the Bible published by Graff ( Diutiska , ii. 178.), we have the following variations:—

Another Gloss in Graff's 1st vol. p. 192., on the word Cadus , may perhaps throw some light on the subject. The philological student need not be reminded of the wide application of the word vas , Lat., fazz , O.G., and faet . A.S.; but for my own part, I conclude that the shoewright intended to designate by higdifatu all sorts of leathern budgets . Every Anglo-Saxon student must be so sensible of the great obligation he is under to our distinguished scholar Mr. Thorpe, that I trust it will not be deemed invidious or ungracious to point out another passage in this Colloquy which seems to have hitherto baffled him, but which it appears to me may be elucidated.

To the question, "Hwilce fixas gefehst thu?" the fisherman answers, "Aelas aud hacodas, mynas, aud aelputan, sceotan aud lampredan, aud swa hwylce swa on waetere swymath, sprote ."

Mr. Thorpe, in the 1st edition of his Analecta , says, "What is intended to be meant by this word [ sprote ], as well as by salu [the correspondent word in the Latin], I am at a loss to conjecture." In his second edition, Mr. Thorpe repeats, "I am unable to explain salu otherwise than by supposing it may be an error for salice . In his Glossary he has "spro't, ii. 2.? sprout, rod?" with a reference to his note. I must confess I cannot see how the substitution of salice for salu would make the passage more intelligible, and the explanation of spro'te in the Glossary does not help us. The sense required appears to me to be, quickly, swiftly, and this will, I think, be found to be the meaning of sprote . In the Moeso-Gothic Gospels the word sprauto occurs several times and always in the sense of cito, subito ; and though we have hitherto, I believe, no other example in Anglo-Saxon of this adverbial use of the word, we are warranted, I think, in concluding, from the analogy of a cognate language, that it did exist. In regard to the evidently corrupt Latin word salu , I have nothing better to offer than the forlorn conjecture that, in monkish Latin, " saltu't " may have been contractedly written for saltuatim ."