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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. MAY, MIS.
-Exhibitioners from 1617 ; of Owsloy Ex-
hibitioners from 1627. The school was
founded in 1499 by John de Combe, one-time
Precentor of Exeter Cathedral, and is,
therefore, among the earliest Grammar
Schools in the country.
W. G. WILLIS WATSON. Exeter.
Unless my memory fails, the registers of my old school. Appleby, Leicestershire, had, up to the time of my leaving, forty years or more ago, been carefully kept and preserved fi-om the foundation of the school by Sir John Moore of London in 1697. I believe they contain an entry proving that, Samuel -Johnson was at one time a candidate for the headship. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.
Walsall.
I can help MB. HILL JULIAN to access to the register of one of the London endowed schools. At St. Andrew's, Hatton Garden, the old registers exist in MS. from the latter part of the seventeenth century. The oldest register has been published with index and very full annotations by Messrs. A. W. Cannon, 39 Great Maryborough Street, at Is. Qd. W. P. B.
Liverpool.
NEW MILK AS A CURE FOR SWOLLEN LEGS (12 S. iii. 273, 431). The cure for swelling in the legs as the result of an " Aguish Distemper," about which DR. MAGRATH'S Westmorland squire wrote in 1692-3, can be illustrated from the experience of John Evelyn, who wrote in his Diaiy under Feb. 7, 1681/2:
" Having had several violent fits of an ague, recourse was had to bathing my legs in milk up to the knees, made as hot as I could endure it ; and sitting so in it in a deep churn, or vessel, covered with bankets, and drinking carduus posset,* then going to bed and sweating, I not only missed that expected fit, bxit had no more, only continued weak, that I could not go to church till Ash-Wednesday."
EDWARD BENSLY.
"RAISING CAIN" (12 S. iv. 77). This expression does not appear to me to present much difficulty. Cain was the first mur- derer, and Ms killing Ms brother is the first act of violence mentioned in the Scriptures. The expression is figurative, and implies the creating of such a scene of violence and disturbance that murder would not be unlikely to result. WM. SELF WEEKS.
- Mr. Austin Dobson explains in his edition
that this is Carduus benedictus or blessed thistle, used as a posset-drink for fevers, referring the reader to Miller's 'Herbal,' 1722, p. 114.
Farmer's ' Dictionary of Americanisms '
says that to raise Cain is " to be dangerously
quarrelsome, to make a disturbance," and
thus, as one can understand, to revive the
characteristics of the early man of wrath.
ST. SWITHIN.
YOUNG LADIES' COMPANION (12 'S. iii. 476, 522). I venture to suggest that what DR. WILLIAMSON is seeking is one of the two following :
1. With Wood-cuts. Instructions in Household Matters ; or, The
Young Girl's Guide to Domestic Service. Written by A Lady, With an especial view to Young Girls intended for Service on leaving School.
2. Third Edition.
The Young Lady's Friend ; A Manual of Practical Advice and Instruction to young Females, on their entering upon the Duties of Life after quitting School. By a Lady.
These were published under the sanction of the Committee of Council on Education a short time before 1845, as they are adver- tised in another work published by John W. Parker the same year. J. W. B.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. iv. 18). 2. In Edward FitzGerald's ' Such Stuff as Dreams are made of. 9 Drama, taken from Calderon's " La Vida es Sueno," ' Act I. sc. ii., King Basilic, speaking of his son Segismuiid's birth, which caused his mother's death, after describing the eclipse, earthquake, and other portents by which it was attended, says : In such a paroxysm of dissolution That son of mine was born ; by that first net Heading the monstrous catalogue of crime, . I found fore-written in his horoscope. This is apparently the passage of which MR. F. R. CAVE is in search. The Spanish original is
El delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacido.
EDWARD BENSLY.
(12 S. iv. 50, 90.)
5. There can be no doubt that 'Od.,' xxii. 412, is what the querist wanted ; but he and other readers may be interested to have a parallel passage :
ov yap etrO\a Kar6avovffL KpTO,u.e~v ETT' avdpdffi.
Archilochus Fragm. Bergk, No. 64 ; Hiller (Teubner, 1907), No. 60 ; Liebel 2 , No. 41. J. K. ST. J. S.
(12 S. iv. 106.)
3. Words are easy as the wind ? Faithful friends are hard to find.
These lines are from Shakespeare's ' Passionate Pilgrim,' part xxii., beginning
Whilst as fickle Fortune smil'd, Thou and I were both beguil'd. The first line quoted by your correspondent should read
Words are easy, like the wind.
JOHN WILLCOCK, jun. St. Bingan's Manse, Lenvick.
