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Notes And Queries.
NOTES AND QUEEIES .
Some notice also , I believe , has appeared of this , since your correspondent asked the question , in a number of the Builder . "V . T . " Sir , — Great dispute " amongst the learned " subsists about the origin of " Piccadilly , " but as I cordially desire to encourage your evident , and , * as I hear , successful , endeavour to render the Freemasons' Magazine acceptable to the Brethren , by diffusing information through its pages , I will give the more received opinions upon this question to your readers , and especially to your correspondent " 2 . " In the reigns of James I . and Charles I . " pickadils , " or , as they were called
Sir , — I rejoice that you have introduced "Notes and Queries" into your pages , as a medium of intellectual information and fraternal communication amongst the members of our beloved Order . In reply , therefore , to the inquiry of " T . L . F ., " I beg to refer him to limbs' Curiosities of London " ( Bogue , 1855 ) , where he will find that Canonbury is the site of the country house belonging to the Priors of the Canons of St . Bartholomew , and that the device of the "bolt , " or arrow , through a " tun , " on the garden-house , is the rebus of the last prior , Bolton : — " Old Prior Bolton with his bolt and tun . "
TO THE EDITOB OF THE FREEMASONS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE ,
sometimes , " peccadilloes , signified the ruffs worn by the gentry , from " pica" a Spanish and Italian word , signifying a spear-head , which the stiffened points of these ruffs , or " peckadils , " i . e ., " little picas , resembled . The Glossographia of Blount applies the word to the hem of a skirt or edge , a stiff collar or band ; hence Hudibras calls the pillory , the wooden peccadilloes ; so that some say that the skirt , or extreme house of the suburbs that way , gave the name to the whole street ; or that Higgins , a tailor , who built it , got his money by " piccadellas . " The road is referred to in Stow ' s narrative of Sir T . Wyatt ' s rebellion in 1554 , as
' the highway on the hill over against St . James ' s , " and Gerard in his Herbal , 1596 , Bays that the " wild bu-glosse growes upon the drie ditch-bankes about Fickadilla . " The spelling in old chronicles is notoriously incorrect , and the pre-
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• When the Lodge and its labours awhile are postponed , And each Brother iscalPd to refresh him , Witt our hearts and our voices to harmony toned , We'll drink our Grand Master—God bless him ! " The jewels and gold of an emperor ' s crown ,
On a tyrant s stern brow may repose ; And the face of diplomacy smooth out its frown , More surely to ruin its foes . But the heart of a Mason would scorn such deceit , Nor may tyranny ' s fetters oppress him ; And his sway ' s so benign , that whenever we meet , We'll drink our Grand Master—God bless him !" '¦¦ ¦ ¦
Who is God in China—Shin or Shangte ? By the Bev \ G-. C , Malan , M . A . London : Bagster and Sons . This volume reached us too late to do justice to its learned contents ; we must therefore reserve our notice of it until the June number .
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Notes And Queries.
NOTES AND QUEEIES .
Some notice also , I believe , has appeared of this , since your correspondent asked the question , in a number of the Builder . "V . T . " Sir , — Great dispute " amongst the learned " subsists about the origin of " Piccadilly , " but as I cordially desire to encourage your evident , and , * as I hear , successful , endeavour to render the Freemasons' Magazine acceptable to the Brethren , by diffusing information through its pages , I will give the more received opinions upon this question to your readers , and especially to your correspondent " 2 . " In the reigns of James I . and Charles I . " pickadils , " or , as they were called
Sir , — I rejoice that you have introduced "Notes and Queries" into your pages , as a medium of intellectual information and fraternal communication amongst the members of our beloved Order . In reply , therefore , to the inquiry of " T . L . F ., " I beg to refer him to limbs' Curiosities of London " ( Bogue , 1855 ) , where he will find that Canonbury is the site of the country house belonging to the Priors of the Canons of St . Bartholomew , and that the device of the "bolt , " or arrow , through a " tun , " on the garden-house , is the rebus of the last prior , Bolton : — " Old Prior Bolton with his bolt and tun . "
TO THE EDITOB OF THE FREEMASONS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE ,
sometimes , " peccadilloes , signified the ruffs worn by the gentry , from " pica" a Spanish and Italian word , signifying a spear-head , which the stiffened points of these ruffs , or " peckadils , " i . e ., " little picas , resembled . The Glossographia of Blount applies the word to the hem of a skirt or edge , a stiff collar or band ; hence Hudibras calls the pillory , the wooden peccadilloes ; so that some say that the skirt , or extreme house of the suburbs that way , gave the name to the whole street ; or that Higgins , a tailor , who built it , got his money by " piccadellas . " The road is referred to in Stow ' s narrative of Sir T . Wyatt ' s rebellion in 1554 , as
' the highway on the hill over against St . James ' s , " and Gerard in his Herbal , 1596 , Bays that the " wild bu-glosse growes upon the drie ditch-bankes about Fickadilla . " The spelling in old chronicles is notoriously incorrect , and the pre-
Untitled Article
• When the Lodge and its labours awhile are postponed , And each Brother iscalPd to refresh him , Witt our hearts and our voices to harmony toned , We'll drink our Grand Master—God bless him ! " The jewels and gold of an emperor ' s crown ,
On a tyrant s stern brow may repose ; And the face of diplomacy smooth out its frown , More surely to ruin its foes . But the heart of a Mason would scorn such deceit , Nor may tyranny ' s fetters oppress him ; And his sway ' s so benign , that whenever we meet , We'll drink our Grand Master—God bless him !" '¦¦ ¦ ¦
Who is God in China—Shin or Shangte ? By the Bev \ G-. C , Malan , M . A . London : Bagster and Sons . This volume reached us too late to do justice to its learned contents ; we must therefore reserve our notice of it until the June number .