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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY 15, ioi&
INDEX (continued).
Nodder
Norton
Nowell
Oakley
Oliver
Osmond
Ottaway
Parker
Pearee
Perkins
Perry
Phelps
Plucknett
Poore
Pothecary
Price
Prior
Read
Renaud
Repton
Richards
Richardson
Rigden
Robinson
Rogers
Ruddle
Satchwell
Seymer
Simpson
Snook
Standly
Stevens
Stewart
Stock
Sturgess
Swayne
Sweet
Tapp
Taylor
Thomas
Thompson
Titball
Todd
Tooke
Townsend
Turner
Vanderplank
Verrinder
Walker
Wapshare
Wenyere
White
- VVickins
Wilkins Wilkinson Williams Wilson Wyndham Yarham Young
INSCRIPTIONS WHICH HAVE DISAPPEARED.
Adlam
Albert
Cloterbrooke
Dyer
Glover
Golding
Goode
Goodridge
Horner
Hunt
Jay
Judd
Powell
Price
Smedmore
Wentworth
Wilson
Wise
H. B. W.
ASIAGO. The name of this place now
figures prominently in Italian and Austrian
bulletins of war. It was, and probably still
is, the chief place of a little district in the
mountains north of Vicenza, and a century
ago was inhabited by a Teutonic colony
known under the name of the " Sieben
Perghe " or " Sette Communi." W. S.
Rose, writing to Henry Hallam from Vicenza,
in October, 1817, gives a description of their
folk-lore and customs, some of which
according to him remind one of some of the
Celtic usages. The following is worthy of
notice :
" If a man dies by violence, instead of clothing him as the dead are usually clothed, they lay him out with a hat upon his head and shoes upon his feet, seeking to give him the appearance of a way- faring man, perhaps as symbolizing one surprised in the great journey of life."
In an episcopal visit to Asiago, in 1597, the statement occurs that " Cimbros se esse asserunt," and, according to Rose,Bossuet's catechism has been translated into their dialect and published under the title : " Dar kloane Catechismo vor dez Beloseland vortra'ghet in z'gaprecht von Siben Perghen. In Seminarien von Padebe, 1813." A vocabulary has been printed by Marco Pezzo P. Veronese in his ' Dei Cimbri Veronesi, e Vicentini ' (3rd edition, Verona, 1763) According to a German author, King Frederick IV. of Denmark visited them in 1709, and found that the language spoken at
lis own Court was not so polished as that
ieard by him in the " Sette Communi."
According to Baedeker, however, they all
ipeak Italian in our days. See W. S. R(ose),.
Letters from the North of Italy ' (London,. 1819), voL i. pp. 247 et seq. ; J. A. Cramer's
Italy' (1826), i. 125; Josiah Conder's
Italy' (1831), ii. 107.
It is a curious coincidence that the >erman name of Transylvania is also Siebenbuergen ; the seven burghs are represented by seven castles in the coat of arms of that ancient principalitv.
L. L. K.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
brmation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
n order that answers may be sent to them direct.
" STILL LIFE." This term, in its very
Deculiar use with reference to painting,' is
arobably, like many other terms of fine art,,
m importation from Dutch, which has the
equivalent stilleven (compare the German.
Still-kben). It does not seem easy to
explain quite satisfactorily how the designa-
tion " still life " has come to be applied only
to lifeless objects as a subject for painting.
Does the history of the term in Dutch throw
any light on the question ?
The oldest example of the term in English known to me is of date 1695. Can any earlier instance be found ?
^ , , HENRY BRADLEY.
Oxiord.
FLETCHER FAMILY. Joseph Fletcher, of Ballyboy, King's County, married Elizabeth Kershaw, had a son Richard, born 1798 ; also a cousin Joseph Fletcher of Tullamore, 1779, married Sarah Higgins of Dublin, December, 1798, died at Carlow, Ireland,. 1842; had a son William, born (c.) 1807,. married, at Dublin, Elizabeth Smith.
Ancestors of above with dates of birth, &c., will be appreciated.
WM. J. FLETCHEB.
1433 Jackson Street. San Francisco.
AUTHOR WANTED. There is a verse whose refrain goes something like this : These the qualities that shine In the Barons of the Rhine.
The qualities are pleasingly enumerated,, and that and the lilt of the verse tell me that it must be a ballad of Thackeray's, but I cannot find it in the only copy I have left.
It would be kind if any one could help me on such very scanty data. B. B T.
