Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853

and Queries, Number 190, June
18, 1853, by Various

Project Gutenberg's Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853, by
Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and
with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away
or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of
Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Geneologists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20369]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES
AND QUERIES ***

Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Library of Early Journals.)

Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected:
they are listed at the end of the text.
{589} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
* * * * *
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
* * * * *
No. 190.] Saturday, June 18, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition
5d.
* * * * *
CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits 589 The Megatherium
Americanum in the British Museum 590 Remunerations of Authors, by
Alexander Andrews 591 Coincident Legends, by Thomas Keightley
591 Shakespeare Readings, No. VIII. 592 Shakespeare's Use of the
Idiom "No had" and "No hath not," by S. W. Singer, &c. 593
MINOR NOTES:--The Formation of the Woman, Gen. ii. 21,
22.--Singular Way of showing Displeasure --The Maids and the
Widows--Alison's "Europe"-- "Bis dat, qui cito dat:" "Sat cito, si sat
bene" 593
QUERIES:--
House-marks 594

Minor Queries:--"Seductor Succo"--Anna Lightfoot --Queries from the
"Navorscher"--"Amentium haud Amantium"--"Hurrah!" and other
War-cries --Kissing Hands at Court--Uniforms of the three Regiments
of Foot Guards, temp. Charles II.--Raffaelle's Sposalizio--"To the
Lords of Convention"-- Richard Candishe, M.P.--Alphabetical
Arrangement-- Saying of Pascal--Irish Characters on the Stage--
Family of Milton's Widow--Table-moving 595
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Form of Petition,
&c.--Bibliography--Peter Francius and De Wilde-- Work by Bishop
Ken--Eugene Aram's Comparative
Lexicon--Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan--Coins of Europe--General
Benedict Arnold 596
REPLIES:--
Parish Registers: Right of Search, by G. Brindley Acworth 598 The
Honourable Miss E. St. Leger, a Freemason, by Henry H. Breen 598
Weather Rules, by John Booker, &c. 599 Scotchmen in Poland, by
Richard John King 600 Mr. Justice Newton 600 The Marriage Ring
601 Canada, &c. 602 Selling a Wife, by William Bates 602 Enough
603
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Wilkinson's Mode of
levelling Cameras--Collodion Negative-- Developing Collodion
Process--An iodizing Difficulty 604
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Bishop Frampton--Parochial
Libraries--Pierrepont--Passage in Orosius --Pugna Porcorum--Oaken
Tombs and Effigies-- Bowyer Bible--Longevity--Lady Anne Gray--Sir
John Fleming--Life--Family of Kelway--Sir G. Browne,
Bart.--Americanisms, so called--Sir Gilbert Gerard, &c. 605
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 610 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 610 Notices
to Correspondents 610 Advertisements 611

* * * * *
Notes.
ON THE USE OF THE HOUR-GLASS IN PULPITS.
George Herbert says:
"The parson exceeds not an hour in preaching, because all ages have
thought that a competency."--A Priest to the Temple, p. 28.
Ferrarius, De Ritu Concion., lib. i. c. 34., makes the following
statement:
"Huic igitur certo ac communi malo (the evil of too long sermons) ut
medicinam facerent, Ecclesiæ patres in concionando determinatum
dicendi tempus fereque unius horæ spatio conclusum aut ipsi sibi
præscribant, aut ab aliis præfinitum religiosè observabant."
Bingham, commenting on this passage, observes:
"Ferrarius and some others are very positive that they (their sermons)
were generally an hour long; but Ferrarius is at a loss to tell by what
instrument they measured their hour, for he will not venture to affirm
that they preached, as the old Greek and Roman orators declaimed, by
an hour-glass."--See Bingham, vol. iv. p. 582.
This remark of Bingham's brings me at once to the subject of my
present communication. What evidence exists of the practice of
preaching by the hour-glass, thus treated as improbable, if not
ridiculous, by the learned writer just quoted? If the early Fathers of the
church timed their sermons by any instrument of the kind, we should
expect their writings to contain internal evidence of the fact, just as
frequent allusion is made by Demosthenes and other ancient orators to
the klepshydra or water-clock, by which the time allotted to each
speaker was measured. Besides, the close proximity of such an
instrument would be a constant source of metaphorical allusion on the
subject of time and eternity. Perhaps those of your readers who are

familiar with the extant sermons of the Greek and Latin fathers, may be
able to supply some illustration on this subject. At all events there
appears to be indisputable evidence of the use of