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"SAPO CARBONIS DETERGENS." Proprietors of the Coal-Tar Pill, "Pilula Carbonis Detergens," and Solution of Coal-Tar. Liquor Carbonis Detergens," particulars of which are enclosed with each Tablet of Soap. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1878. CONTENTS. - N° 232. "This day Witsonday is cald, For Wisdom and Wit seuene fold Was gouen to the Apostles as this day." NOTES:-Whitsuntide, 441-The Bibliography of Archery, In Yorkshire it is called Whissun-day, i.e. Wisdom442-Shakspeariana, 444-Mexico: Mosarabic Service- day, an appellation much used by the common George Cruikshank, 445-Miles Corbet-Tea-Hogarth- people. "Bandana" Pocket-handkerchiefs, 446. QUERIES:-Electoral Facts, 446-Exelby Family-The Right REPLIES:-Bowing to the Altar, 449-The Choir Stalls at Reboul, 452-Moses with Horns-Ember Days, 453-"Lord 66 Others, again, have derived the term from White Sunday, in supposed allusion to the white garments of the neophytes, as Whitsunday was one of the two chief seasons for baptism. Against this view it has been argued that the newly baptized were for the most part infants, except in national or apostolical conversions. Wheatley quotes a letter from Gerard Langbain, in which he cites a passage from some MS. in the Bodleian Library, where it is said that the day is called Witsonenday or Vitsonenday, because our ancestors were in the habit of giving to the poor on that day all the Slavonic, 455-Indexes-"Imp"-Collegiate Biographies- milk of their ewes and kine, which was called, in some places, the whites of kine," in others, "whitemeat." Once more, it has been asked whether we can find any festival of the White Sun to assist us in ascertaining the history of the word. "It appears," says a correspondent of "N. & Q.," "possible that a heathen but religious custom prevailed in spring of asking for a white, clear summer sun, and that Whitsun-day took its name from this observance." This, however, seems highly fanciful and improbable. As far as the arguments in favour of the other derivations are concerned, the evidence for each is very equally balanced. It interested in the subject will not relax their efforts is, indeed, to be hoped that etymologists and others to bring it to a satisfactory solution. Hogarth, 456-" Acre "-Neville Queries-An Old Print- Notes on Books, &c. Notes. WHITSUNTIDE. Espirito Santo; in Portugal, Pascoa do Espirito In Spain the day is usually called Fiesta del Santo. In Italy it goes by the name of Pasqua bloom. In Russ it is Trinity Day, probably as Rosata, because at this season the roses are in full filling up the commemoration of the Blessed Trinity.+ The origin of the word Whitsun, which has been warmly discussed in these columns,* is still an undecided question, and seems likely to remain so. It is certainly a misfortune that an expression which serves to denote one of the greatest events in the history of Christianity should remain unsatisfactorily explained. It has been suggested that we should look for its derivation in the word Pentecost, which has become in German Pfingst; but this is mere conjecture, as etymologists have been unable to show how the transition from Much interesting and gorgeous ritual was anPentecost to Whit or to Whitsun was effected. ciently associated with this festival. It was usual, Dr. Neale, however, in his essay on Church Festi- in the Catholic times of England, to dramatize the vals and their Household Words, favours this view, descent of the Holy Ghost, a practice alluded to and says, "It is neither White Sunday (for, in in Barnaby Googe's translation of Naogeorgus. A truth, the colour is red), nor Huit Sunday, as the remnant of the old customs of Whitsuntide is eighth after Easter, but simply by the various corretained at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, which is ruptions of the German Pfingsten, the Dansk annually strewn with rushes. The same practice Pintse, the various patois Pingsten, Whingsten, &c., was also kept up at Heybridge Church, near derived from Pentecost." Some have sought for Maldon, Essex. Formerly at Monk Sherborne, its origin in Wytsonday, i.e. Wit or Wisdom Hampshire, the parish church was decorated with Sunday, because of the light and knowledge which birch; a similar custom also was followed at King's were shed upon the Apostles on this day, a deriva- Pion, near Hereford. Whitsuntide was also the tion we find suggested by a writer of the four-season, in bygone times, for much festivity and merriment. teenth century :Our ancestors had their Whitsun Ales-meetings usually held in some barn near the church, in which feasting formed the prominent 2nd S. ii. 154; 3rd S. vii. 479; 4th 8. xi. 437; 5th S. i. 401-403; viii. 2 (MR. PICTON's article should be consulted), 55, 134, 212, 278. † See Kalendar of the English Church, 1865, p. 72 |