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RHONA BOSWELL'S LOVE-LETTER, by Theodore Watts - SIR CHARLES MURRAY, K.C.B.-GEORGE WASHINGTON and the EARL of RUCHAN-MR. DYKES CAMPBELL-ELEPHANT: ALABASTER-MR. BENTLEY-MR. LOCKER-LAMPSON. ALSO LITERARY GOSSIP. SCIENCE Prof. Smith's Mathematical Papers; Library Table; The OFFICE for ADVERTISEMENTS, Bream's buildings, Chancery - lane, E.C.. Published by JOHN C. FRANCIS, Bream's-buildings, Chancery-lane, E.C. de Dun LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1895. CONTENTS.-N° 181. Translations of the New Testament, 467 the torn papers, and, recognizing their value, he pieced together parts of the letters and of the decaying fragments of the map, which he pubNOTES:-Milton's Estotiland, 461-Inventory of Church lished in 1558, with conjectural restorations of Plate and Ornaments, 462-Benyowszky, 463-"Statue of the Miracle"-Remarkable Prophecy, 464-Marshal Ponia- those parts and names which he could not decipher. towski -MSS. of the Rev. B. Rand-"Links"-J. Y. Aker- The letters contained accounts, derived from the man- Shrovetide, 465-"Pant "-Mud - Sir W. ScottVanishing London-New Bronze Coins-Prof. Adams, 466. reports of fishermen, of various islands in the QUERIES-Captain-Lieutenant-Deputy Philazer-Great Atlantic. The distorted names of these misplaced Bed of Ware-R. Hengist Horne-Halderman-" Poudre islands were deemed of great authority, and appear Palmer: Kingsmill-Sir Thomas More-Sir H. Hammond on subsequent maps for more than a century. One Churchyard Curiosities - Weever" Cat's-meat Ber- island, which is called Icaria, is placed near Icemons"-Brown Baronetcy-"Quis talia audivit?" 468-land, some four hundred miles to the south-west Dog's-eared," &c. - Agnes Gowge-Staunton -Authors Wanted, 469. of it. Icaria has been identified by Mr. Major REPLIES-Ploughing Oxen, 469-David-Descendants of with Kerry in Ireland, which was doubtless fre'Anelida and Arcite,' 471 - Higham-"If" meaning quented by the Faröe fishermen, whose accounts "Whether "-Nicknames of Soldiers-Knights of St. Gre of its position must have been misunderstood by gory-Milton's 'Comus'-"Red Whip"-Churching of Women-Charles I. at Little Gidding-Wirewatter, 472- the elder Zeno. The next island, still further to Lauder and Cruden-J. Gregor Grant-Cock-fighting. 473 the south-west, is called Estotiland. No such -"Artists' Ghosts"-Spinning-wheels-Chum, 474- island being found in the required place by the Watertight"-Schisms among Wesleyans - Leather Drinking Jacks-"Still and on"-"Letter-gae," 475- navigators and codfishers of the sixteenth and Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London -Mendip Hills-Moth seventeenth centuries, it was pushed by the and Grimbald, 476-Courthorpe Clayton - Lewin-Iron and Garlic-Pamela-Lewes, 477-Arrian on Coursingchartographers further and further to the west, Brontes in Ireland'-Picture of Nelson's Death-Miss being identified by Ortelius in 1570 with Labrador, Wilkins's Books-An American "Small Book"-The Rose whence the "Estotilande ou Terre de Laborador Charity at Barnes, 478- The Synagogue'-Dyce Sombre -"Left-handedness"-Foster-children, 479. on Jaillot's map of 1694. NOTES ON BOOKS :-Baring-Gould's English Minstrelsie' -L'Intermédiaire'-'The Antiquary,' Vols. XXIX. and John Knox, 470-Hicks-Alderman Humble-Chaucer's XXX. Hotes. MILTON'S ESTOTILAND. (See 8th S. vii. 421.) Estotiland is one of the ghost-names of geography. Unknown on any map before 1558, it then appeared on the famous Zeni map, to the confusion, for more than a century, of geographers and navigators, as the name of a great Atlantic island, in search of which Frobisher and Davis vainly sailed. Its history is curious. Nicolò Zeno, a Venetian merchant, venturing into the northern seas, was wrecked in 1390 on the Faroes, the Norse name of which he distorted into Frislanda. There he was befriended and employed by a chief whom he calls Zichmni, who has been identified with Henry Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, who in 1379 had claimed the earldom of Orkney, and at the time of Nicolò's arrival was establishing himself in the Faroes. Nicolò wrote letters to Venice urging his brother Antonio to join him. Nicolò died in 1395, and his brother ten years later. Letters from the brothers, and a map which they had constructed, were preserved among the archives of the Zeni palace at Venice. The second part of the story now begins. A younger Nicolò Zeno, born in 1515, inherited the palace, and when still quite a child tore up the papers in childish fashion, as he tells us. Long afterwards, some hundred and fifty years after the voyage of the elder Zeno, he came across some of What can have been meant by Estotiland is difficult to determine. Mr. Major considered it to be Newfoundland; but it is most unlikely that any Faröe fishermen should have ventured 80 far before 1390, leaving no record or tradition of their voyage, or that it should then have borne a name with the Teutonic suffix -land. It is far more probable that the elder Zeno should have misunderstood the accounts of the fishermen, or that the younger Zeno should have misplaced some fragments of the torn and decayed map. Since Estotiland appears as the nearest island to Icaria, which is now generally admitted to have been Kerry, we should seek for it on the Irish rather than on the American side of the Atlantic, where Zeno placed it. Estotiland may possibly be Zetland, as Shetland was then called, but Shetland is more probably the Estland of the map. It seems more likely that Estotiland, so near to Kerry, is a perversion of the name Scotland, which was still given to the north of Ireland, whence the Scots had come, till the eleventh and even till the thirteenth century, or it may have been Argyle, which succeeded to the Scottish name as Scotia Minor, Ireland being Scotia Major. But the Zeni map is so wild and the Venetian transformation of names so wonderful (witness Sinclair transformed to Zichmni) that identifications must always be uncertain, though, if we take away the euphonic vowels, Stotland is a fair Italian approximation to Scotland. The identification of Estotiland with Ulster, the Irish Scotland, is confirmed by the fact that the next island to Estotiland is Drogeo, which looks like Donegal. New South Walles and New North Walles, which on Jaillot's map lie to the north-west of Hudson's Bay, are easier to explain. In 1631 Capt. James explored the coasts of Hudson's Bay, calling the western shore New South Wales, in honour of the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles II., and giving the name of New North Wales to the contiguous district to_the_north. These names are still found in Dr. Butler's 'School Atlas,' published in 1826. The Chucagua River, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, seems to be the Chickasawha River, in the State of Mississippi, so named from the great Chickasaw tribe, now merged in the Choctaws. From their conflicts with the French settlers the Chickasaws would probably be named on a French map. Lower California was long thought to be an island or archipelago, and the Gulf of California was called Mar Bermejo by the Spaniards. ISAAC TAYLOR. INVENTORY OF THE PLATE AND ORNAMENTS I venture to think that the accompanying list of plate and ornaments belonging to the church of St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, in the City of London, in 1552, may prove of interest to your readers. There are several points of curious detail in this list. In the first place, no mention is made of either chalice or paten. Among the vestments, &c., are the following, which require explanation :— Six Copes of red cloth of silver, for children. A Vestment of white for Lent. Eight Altar Cloths of white silk, with drops of blood for Lent. I suppose that the children's "copes" were capes or tippets. I cannot find that white was authorized for Lent according to Sarum or Roman use, but in ancient English use white was allowed during Lent until Passion-tide on weekdays Copes and Vestments. A Cope of red cloth of gold, Priest, Deacon, and SubDeacon. Another of red cloth of gold, Priest, Deacon, and SubDeacon. Three of cloth of gold, Priest, Deacon, and SubDeacon. Three of red sarsnet and bawdekin, Priest, Deacon, and Sub-Deacon. Three of white bawdekin, Priest, Deacon, and SubDeacon, Two of red bawdekin, Priest, Deacon, and SubDeacon. A Vestment with flower de luces, Deacon and Sub- Two Copes of blue bawdekin with herons' heads. Another with grapes of gold. Six Copes of red cloth of silver for children. A Cope of black serge with stars of gold. Three Copes of white damask, the suit complete. A Vestment of crimson velvet, the orphreys of it the birth of our Lord, with angels of gold. with spangles of gold. A Vestment of crimson velvet, orphreys cloth of gold A Vestment of red velvet, the orphreys cloth of gold. Another of blue velvet, the orphreys of red and white crimson, with Mary and John. velvet and roses of gold. A Vestment of white damask, the orphreys of red velvet, with our Lady and St. Michael. A Vestment of black velvet, the orphreys of red satin, with a picture of our Lady. A Vestment of black velvet, with the orphreys of red velvet. satin. with the picture of Christ on the Cross, A Vestment of white for Lent. A Vestment, the orphreys of white cloth of gold. A Cope of gold for a child. A Vestment of red silk, orphreys green with swans of gold. A Vestment of black velvet, with dolphins and bells of silver, and a Deacon to it. A Canopy of red sarsnet with chalices and flowers, Cross Cloths and Banner Cloths. A Cross Cloth of green silk with a picture of Jesus and the Fishmongers' Arms. A Cross Cloth of white sarsnet, with a picture of our Lady and Gabriel. A Passion Banner of red saranet and several others. A Crosier Staff with a picture of S. Nicholas on one side and S. Peter on the other side. Altar Cloths of Silk, Canopys and Curtains of Silk. Eight Altar Cloths of green and red damask, with flowers, and seven curtains to them. Six Hangings for Altars of green satin and three curtains to them. Seven Hangings of white damask and with flowers. natura," with two curtains. Two Altar Cloths of black silk with an "Ecce quod Eight Altar Cloths of white silk with drops of blood for Lent. Six Corporas Cloths of cloth of gold. |