Replies to Minor Queries. William Chilcott (Vol. iii., pp. 38. 73.). - The few notes which follow are very much at the service of your correspondent. William Chilcott, M.A., was rector of St. George's, Exeter, where he died on May 30, 1711, at the age of forty-eight. The coat of arms on the tablet to his memory indicates that he married a Coplestone. His daughter Catherine died in August, 1695. The first edition of the Practical Treatise concerning Evil Thoughts was printed at Exeter in 1690, and was dedicated to his parishioners. Robert Chilcott, whom I take to be the brother of William, was rector of St. Mary-Major in Exeter, and died Feb. 7, 1689. There does not appear to be any evidence that the persons above mentioned were descended from the Chilcotts of Tiverton, though the identity of the Christian names renders it probable. If the object were to trace their ancestors or their descendants, much might be added to the suggestions of E. A. D. by searching the registers at Tiverton, and by comparing Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1810, p. 213., and Polwhele's Devon, vol. iii. p. 351., with Harding's Tiverton; in various parts of which eight or nine individuals of the name are mentioned; especially vol. i. book ii. p. 114.; vol. ii. book iii. pp. 101, 102. 167. 183., and book iv, p. 20., where the connexion of the Chilcotts with the families of Blundell, Hooper, Collamore, Crossing, Slee, and Hill, is set forth. Failing these, the object might be attained by reference to the registers at Stogumber, co. Somerset, and of Northam, near Bideford, with the inscribed floorstones in the church there. Something might perhaps be learned of their descendants by reference to the registers at Exeter, and those at Morchard-Bishop, where a John Chilcott resided in 1700; Nympton St. George, where a family of the same name lived about 1740; North Molton, where C. Chilcott was vicar in 1786; and Dean Prior, where Joseph Chilcott was vicar about 1830. A Mr. Thomas Chilcott, who was an organist at Bath, married Ann, daughter of the Rev. Chichester Wrey. This lady died in 1758, and was buried at Tavistock, near Barnstaple. The coat of arms on the tablet to her memory is almost identical with the coat of the Rev. William Chilcott of Exeter first above mentioned. J. D. S. Fossil Elk of Ireland (Vol. iii, p. 121.).- In the Edinburgh Journal of Science, New Series, vol. ii., 1830, p. 301., is a curious paper by the late Dr. Hibbert Ware, under the title of“ Additional Contributions towards the History of the Cervus Eury. ceros, or Fossil Elk of Ireland." It is illustrated with a copy of an engraving of an animal which Dr. II. W. believes to have been the same as the Irish elk, and which was living in Prussia at the time of the publication of the book from which it is taken, viz. the Cosmographia Universalis of Sebastian Munster: Basiliæ, 1550. Dr. H. W. in this paper refers to a former one in the third volume of the first series of the same journal, in which he advanced proofs that the Cervus was of a race which had but very recently become extinct. W. C. TREVElyan. Edinburgh, Feb. 19. 1851. 66 66 Canes Lesos (Vol. iii., p. 141.).—In a note to Beckwith's edition of Blount's Jocular Tenures, 4to. 1815, p. 225., Mr. Allan of Darlington anticipates your correspondent C. W. B., and says, respecting Blount's explanation of "Canes lesos," "I can meet with no such word in this sense: why may it not be dogs that have received some hurt? læsos Clancturam should be clausturam, from lado." and so it is given in the above edition, and explained S. W. SINGER. a tax for fencing." "By Hook or by Crook" (Vol. iii., p 116.).— However unimaginative the worthy Cit may be for whose explanation of this popular phrase J. D. S. has made himself answerable, the solution sounds so pretty, that to save its obtaining further credence, more than your well-timed note is needed. I with safety can contradict it, for I find that "Tusser," a Norfolk man living in the reign of Henry VIII., in a poem which he wrote as a complete monthly guide and adviser for the farmer through the year, but which was not published till 1590, in the thirty-second year of Queen Elizabeth, has the following advice for March 30 : illustration, for in my difficulties I have rarely consulted his edition in vain; and, in my humble opinion, it is as yet the most practically useful and readable edition we have. FIAT JUSTITIA. Cor Linguæ, &c. (Vol. iii., p. 168.).—The lines quoted by J. Bs. occur in the poem "De Palpone et Assentatore," printed in the volume of Lutin Poems, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, edited by Mr. T. Wright for the Camden Society, 1841, at p. 112., with a slight variation in expression, as follows: "Cor linguæ fœderat naturæ sanctio, Tanquam legitimo quodam connubio ; Ergo cum dissonant cor et locutio, Sermo concipitur ex adulterio." Mr. Wright's only source quoted for the poem is MS. Cotton. Vespas. E. xii. Of its authority he remarks (Preface, p. xx.), that the writer's name was certainly Walter, but that he appears to have lived at Wimborne, with which place Walter Map is not traced to have had any connexion; and if Mr. Wright's conjecture be correct, that the young king alluded to in it is Ileury III, it must of course have been written some years after Walter Map's death. J. G. N. pp. Under the Rose (Vol. i., pp. 214. 458.; Vol. ii., 221. 323.). noticed Sir T. Browne's elucidations of this phrase. I am surprised that no one has (Vulg. Err. lib. v. cap. 21. § 7.) Besides the explanation referred to by ARCH.EUS (Vol. i., p. 214.), he says: "The expression is commendable, if the rose from any naturall propertie may be the symbole of silence, as Nazienzene seems to imply in these translated verses — Utque latet Rosa verna suo putamine clausa, Sie os vinela ferat, validisque arctetur habenis, Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris.'" Miching malicho is lurking mischief, or evil doing. To mich, for to skulk, to lurk, was an old English verb in common use in Shakspeare's time; and Malicho, or Malhecho, misdeed, he has borrowed from the Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian were then affectedly used in common conversation, as we have seen French used in more recent times. The He explains "the Germane custome, which Quarto spells the word Mallicho. Our ancestors were over the table describeth a rose in the seeling not particular in orthography, and often spelt accord. (Vol. ii, pp. 221. 323.), by making the phrase to ing to the ear." I have since looked at MR. COLLIER'S note to which he refers, and find that he interprets miching by stealing, which will not suit the context; and abundant examples may be adduced that to mich was to skulk, to lurk, as MR. SINGER has very properly explained it. Thus Minsheu: "To MICHE, or secretly hide himself out of the way, as TRUANTS doe from Schoole, vi. to hide, to cover," and again "A micher, vi. Truant." MR. COLLIER'S text, too, is not satisfactory, for he has abandoned the old word Malicho, and given Mallecho, which is as far from the true form of the Spanish word as the old reading, which he should either have preserved or printed Malhecho, as Minsheu gives it. I am glad to see from your pages that MR. SINGER has not entirely abandoned Shakspearian refer only to the secrecy to be observed "in 80ciety and compotation, from the ancient custome in Symposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of roses about their heads." - Асне. Impatient to speak and not see" (Vol. ii., p. 490.). There is no doubt of the fine interpretation of your correspondent; but it is not illustrated by the Latin. Also, I apprehend, “indocilis pati" is not put for "in locilis patiendi." It is a common use of to- proud to be praised; angry to be so ill-treated. It illustrates a line in Hotspur, the construction of which Warburton would have altered : "I then, all snarting, and my wounds being cold, To be so pestered," &c, i. e. at being. May I mention a change in Troilus and Cressida which I have long entertained, but with doubt: And with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retires to chiding fortune." Old Tract on the Eucharist (Vol. iii., p. 169.).— The author of the tract on the Eucharist, referred to by ABUBA, was the Rev. John Patrick. The title of the tract, as given in the catalogues of Archbishop Wake, No. 22.; of Dr. Gee, No. 73.; and of Peck, No. 286., of the Discourses against Popery during the Reign of James II., is as follows: "A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church relating to the Eucharist, wholly different from those of the present Roman Church, and inconsistent with the Belief of Transubstantiation; Nubes Testium, and other late Collections of the Exeter, March 3. 1851. And then, after a poem at p. 97., he commences a short sketch of his life with "I shall give you an account of myself and dealings, the more content to carry it." that (if possible) you may wipe off some dirt, or be That part of his life which would bear upon this subject reads thus, p. 98.: When (at Cambridge) I spent some years vainly enough, being but fourteen years old when thither I came, my tutor died, and I was exposed to my shifts. Coming from thence, at London God struck me with the sense of my sinful estate by a sermon I heard under Paul's." The wonderful success of his lecture at Se pulchre's caused it to be asserted by his enemies, that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but stage buffoonery. (See p. 100.) "At this lecture the resort grew so great, that it contracted envie and anger . . . There were six or seven thousand hearers . . . and I went to Holland: " 66 thereby leaving his character to be maligned. I do not believe, from the tone of the condemned man's Legacy, that he would purposely avoid any mention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and usually performed the part of a clown;" in fact it appears, that immediately on his coming into London he was awakened by the "sermon under Paul's, which stuck fast:" he almost directly left for Essex, and was converted by "the love and labours of Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;" Essex, when it is asserted that he was "a player so that he was mostly preaching itinerantly in tion, and a book autograph of Hugh Peters, are at in Shakspeare's company." That Legacy in questhe service of DR. RIMBAULT. BLOWEN. Miscellaneous. tracts published on the Roman Catholic controversy during the reign of James II. In a collection of more than two hundred of these made at the period of publication, and now in my library, the names of the authors are written upon the titles, and this is attributed to Mr. Patrick. In another collection from the library of the late Mr. Walter Wilson, it is stated to be by Bishop Patrick. Bishop Gibson reprinted the tract in his Preservative against Popery, London, 1738, fol. vol. ii. tit. vii. pp. 176-252.; and in the table of contents says that it was written by "Mr. Patrick, late preacher of the Charter-house." 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