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B.W.
_Leicester's Commonwealth_ (Vol. ii., p. 92).--See _Gentleman's Magazine_,
December, 1845, for many remarks upon this work.
J.R.
_Midwives Licensed_ (Vol. ii., p. 408.).--I find the following question
among the articles of inquiry issued by Fleetwood, Bp. of St. Asaph, in the
year 1710.
"Do any in your parish practise physic chyrurgery, or _undertake the
office of a midwife without license_?"
E.H.A.
_Volusenus_ (Vol. ii, p. 311).--Boswell, writing to Johnson from Edinburgh,
Jan. 8. 1778, asks:
"Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the
Latin name of Volusenus, according to the custom of literary men at a
certain period? It is entitled _De Animi Tranquillitate_."
E.H.A.
[Mr. Croker, in a note on this passage, tells us that the author,
Florence Wilson, born at Elgin, died near Lyons, in 1547, and wrote two
or three other works of no note.--ED.]
_Martin Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--CLERICUS asks for information
touching the family of Martin, "in or near Wivenhoe, Essex." There is a
large house in the village, said to have been the seat of Matthew Martin,
Esq., member for Colchester in the second parliaments of George I. and II.
He died in 1749. He had been a commander in the service of the East India
Company. Only one party of the name now lives in the neighbourhood, but
whether he is of the family or not I cannot say. He is described as "Edward
Martin, Master, Royal Navy."
A.A.
_Swords used in Dress_ (Vol. i. 415.; vol. ii. 110. 213. 388.).--Might it
not have happened that swords went out of fashion after the middle of the
last century, and were revived towards its close? In old prints from 1700
to 1720, they appear to have been universally worn; later they are not so
general. In 1776-90, they appear again. My grandmother (born in 1760) well
remembers her brother, of nearly her own age, wearing a sword, say about
1780. Some of Fielding's heroes wore "hangers."
A.A.
_Clerical Costume_ (Vol. ii., pp. 22. 189.).--The use of scarlet cloth is
popularly recommended in Berks and in Devon as a cure for the rheumatism.
It should be wrapped round the "ailing" limb.
H.G.T.
_Tristan d'Acunha_ (Vol. ii., p. 358.).--The latest and best description of
this isle is to be found in _A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New
Zealand, together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan d'Acunha_. By A.
Earle. Longmans, 1832.
GOMER.
_Swearing by Swans_ (Vol. ii., pp. 392. 451.).--Though I can give no reason
why the birds of Juno should have been invoked as witnesses to an oath, the
Query about them has suggested to me what may perhaps appear rather an
irrelevant little note.
Cooper, in his _Raven's Nest_, makes Mr. Aristobulus Brag use the
provincialism "_I swanny_;" "by which," observes the author, "I suppose he
meant--_I swear!_" Of course, this has nothing to do with swearing by
swans, more than sounding like it; argument of sound being very different
from sound argument. Mr. Cooper does not seem to have given a thought to
the analysis of the phrase, which is no oath, merely an innocent
asseveration. "I's-a-warrant-ye" (perhaps when resolved to its
ungrammatical elements, "I is a warranty to ye") proceeds through
"I's-a-warnd-ye," "I's-warn-ye" (all English provincialisms,) to its remote
transatlantic ultimatum of debasement in "_I swanny_."
G.J. CAYLEY.
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