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NOTES AND QUERIES. no B. v. Ju a, HIM.
"The Great Duke gave order at the same
time to Juan Nikitouits Gaversky, to assemble the Nobility of the neighbouring Provinces, and the foot- Regiments of Colonel Kormicliel and Col. Hamilton, which made up above 4000 men, and to besiege the City of Pleskou. The Inhabitants, at first, pretended to stand out, but their courage and strength soon fail'd them, so that they were forc'd to make an accommodation, at the cost of the Authours of the Sedition, who were put to death, or sent into Siberia."
W. F. PRIDEAUX.
Adam Olearius or Oelschlaeger was born in Anhalt about 1600, and died in 1671. He was secretary of the embassy sent in 1633 by the Due de Hplstein Gotterp to the Czar and to the King of Persia, a mission which lasted nearly five years. Besides his 4 Voyages tres curieux et renommes faits en Moscovie et Tatarie et Perse, 1 he wrote numerous works. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.
Swallowfield, Reading.
- CENTURY OF PERSIAN GHAZELS,' 1851 (10 th
S. v. 108, 456). I have to thank MR. NUTTALL for his answer to my query. The tenth poet and author of the odes on pp. 30-33 is Ahli Khorasani, who lived a few years earlier than his namesake Ahli Shirazi, with whom he is much confused by biographers. He seems to have died in 1495. JAS. PLATT, Jun.
SIXTEEN BISHOPS CONSECRATED AT ONE TIME (10 th S.v. 347, 417). MR. DODGSON is right in his conjecture that the number of bishops consecrated by the Pope on 25 Feb- ruary was fourteen, and not sixteen. I have five cuttings from various papers, all of them giving the number as sixteen ; and a corre- spondent very kindly points out how the mistake in all probability occurred : -
'* The date of the Consistory was 21 Feb., that of the consecration, 25 Feb. Nineteen French arch- bishops were preconized in the Consistory; but four of them, being translated from other sees, were already consecrated. Thus fifteen were left to be consecrated. Mgr. Dechelette, auxiliary of the Archbishop of Lyons, was consecrated at Lyons on 25 March, so that fourteen were consecrated by the Pope for the following Sees: Vannes, Versailles, Valence, Laval, Rodez, Bayonne, Nevers, Dijon, Mende, Aire, Agen, Ajaccio, Fre"jus, and St. Jean- de-Maurienne."
FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
"REVENUE": ITS PRONUNCIATION (10 th S v. 427). The word "revenue," with the accent on the second syllable, was probably
- used in the House of Commons in the last
generation " : probably it is still so used by a few. Speakers Peel and Gully used to say "revenue." I think, though I am not sure, that Mr. Balfour did the same. Possibly some other members said " revenue." There
was an idea among some members that
" revenue" was the traditional pronunciation
of the Speaker. The general pronunciation
in the House during 1892-1905 was "revenue."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
In the course of the trial of the Launceston election petition in that town, before the late Mr. Justice Mellor, in May, 1874, I heard the late Mr. Serjeant Parry more than once use the pronunciation " revenue." DUNHEVED.
Shakspeare has " revenue " and " revenue." In the first scene of * Midsummer Night's Dream ' are the lines :
Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue. In the same scene Lysander says : I have a widow aunt, a dowager Of great revenue, and she hath no child.
E. YARDLEY.
MAY LIGHT AND YOUNG MEN'S LIGHT IN PRE- REFORMATION CHURCHES (10 th S. v. 429). The "lights" mentioned in such items were not necessarily candles or torches, although lights of some sort appear to have been used upon most occasions of religious festival, Christmas being known as the Feast of Lights. But under "fights" were com- prehended the Yule log and the May bonfire, and the "May light" in the accounts in question was probably the latter. Dr. Stukeley, in his 'Itinerarium Curiosum,' 1724, p. 29 (quoted in Brand's 'Antiquities,' Ellis, 1853, vol. i. p. 241, note), says :
"There is a May-pole hill near Horn Castle, Lincolnshire, where probably stood an Hermes in Roman times. The boys annually have a bone- fire, and other merriment, which is really a sacrifice or religious festival."
With regard to "yongmenis lyght,"it may be noted that in statute 33 Henry VIII. cap. 9, "youngmen"= yeomen (see Nath. Bailey's 'Diet.,' 1740).
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
Having gone through many churchwardens' accounts lately, I am quite familiar with these items for "lights." The different lay guilds of the parish generally contributed to a " store " in honour of their patron saint, and a part of the money would be expended in tapers to burn before the shrine of this saint or at obsequies, &c. Most parishes had their guild of "young men," who were frequently, as at South Tawton, responsible for the brewing and selling of church ale, of which they handed over the profits to some parish "store."
In some parishes there were guilds of women, and we hear of the "wyffs store"
