"Very likely, my dear; I never was a good speaker, his party zeal seems to have been of good service what should I say?" to him, for he thereby obtained a post in the revenue at Bridgewater, where he died at an adD. WHYTE. vanced age. "The best of them.' Why, that seems just as plain and common. If I had had time to think, I should have said, "the most superior young men." But with your education you must know.' "What must Rosy know, mother?'...... "Whether it's right to say "superior young men,' said Mrs. Vincy, ringing the bell. "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang.'"-Middlemarch, bk. i. pp. 171, 172. (Add. MS. 5751 A. f. 83.) "Elizabeth R. By the Quene. "We woll and comaunde yo" that vpon the sight hereof ye Delyu' or cause to be Delyuerid vnto Raffe hope yeoman of or Robes and Adam Blande our skynn' threscore (o. ex.) and six of the best of or sable skynnes being in yo' chardge at of Pallaice of Westm' to furr vs a night gowne of black wrought vellat layde ou' with a passamet lace of murry silke and golde/ Also that ye delyu' vnto Walter fysshe or Taylor xvi (o. ex.) yards qrter of Murry sattyn to make a strayght bodied gowne for vs. And one qarter of a yard (o. ex) of the same stuff to make paterns of gardings/ Tenne yards (o. ex.) of purple cloth of siluer with wurks to make vs a frenche kyrtell. And six yards (o. ex.) and a half and half a quart' Crymesyn cloth of gold tyssued with gold and siluer to make the trayne of a ffrenche kyrtell for vs/ And thiese o l'res signed with our hand shalbe your sufficient warraunt and Dischardge for the delyuerye of all the said percells/ Yeven vnder our signet at o' said Pallaice of Westm' the xxth of ffebruary in the leventh yere of oure Raigne. F. B. DRINKING WHILE STANDING (5th S. vi. 424.)Among the Staffordshire cottagers it is considered a mark of good manners when any person drinking in an inferior's house stands up to take the first draught. HIRONDELLE. "THE CRITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND," &c. (5th S. vii. 8), was written by John Oldmixon, historian and poet, who died in 1742. According to S. Jones (Biog. Dict., in-18, Lond., 1796),— "he was a violent party writer, and severe and malevolent critic. He was a man of learning and abilities; and, exclusive of his strong biassed prejudice, and natural moroseness and petulance, far from a bad writer." He opposed the Stuarts, and attacked the great writers of his age with envy and ill-nature; but "A HELP TO ENGLISH HISTORY" (5th S. vii. 9.) -If all that MR. TUTTLE wants is a dictionary of names of families successively holding any particular title of peerage, any "Peerage" will, of course, answer his purpose for existing titles; while the last edition of Burke's Extinct Peerage has an index (pp. 627-636) which will do the same for extinct ones. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Bexhill. MR. TUTTLE will find Sharpe's Peerage of the British Empire a useful book in giving him the names and some notice of all the members of the peerage, both extant and extinct, from the Norman Conquest to Will. IV. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP. MR. TUTTLE will find what he requires in Sir Harris Nicolas's Historic Peerage, revised, &c., by W. Courthope (Murray, 1857). A. C. A MONDAY CHRISTMAS (5th S. vi. 507.)-The lines quoted were certainly "unearthed" from the Harl. MSS. many years prior to 1865, as they are reprinted in Denham's Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings, Percy Society, 1846. Varia from MS. 2252, "of the fifteenth century": "That yere on the Monday, wythowte fyne, Hyt shalbe prophytabylle; Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. MANUEL. BELL CLOTH (5th S. vi. 468, 520.)-If MR. NORTH was to obtain an exact transcript of the inventory from which he quotes, I have little or no doubt that "bell cloth" would prove to be a misreading for "bell clock." I have several times met with the expression "bell clock" in early churchwardens' accounts, signifying, as I suppose, a clock which struck the hours on one or more of the bells. J. CHARLES Cox. Surely this is a burial cloth, probably abbreviated in the following manner, “be'y'll." H. FISHWICK, F.S.A. FARRABAS: FURBISH (5th S. vi. 426.)-This name is most likely a corruption of Firebrace, for an account of which family see 4th S. iii. 240, where the writer says, "The name (Firebrace) was formerly spelt Ferbrass, Ferbrace, Fferebras, and Farbras." Among those persons who emigrated to "Virginia" in the seventeenth century I find, 66 in Hotten's List of Emigrants, &c., to the American Camden, New Jersey. EUGENIA VILLANA (5th S. vi. 409.)-There were three Villani (John, Matthew, and Philip; the first two were sons of the last), natives of, or living at, Florence during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Also a John Peter James Villani, of Sienna, who published a book in 1692, entitled La Visiera Alzata. HIRONDELLE. THE "TE DEUM" (5th S. iii. 506; iv. 75, 112, 312; v. 330, 397, 514; vi. 76, 136, 450, 520.)-I was aware that there were different MSS. of the Septuagint, the chief of which were the Vatican, the Alexandrian, and the recently discovered Sinaitic, just as there are the same MSS. and many others, of more or less value, of the New Testament; but I do not think one would, for this reason, speak of two Septuagints, any more than one would of two or more New Testaments. never before printed. London, printed Anno Dom. "Muses Farewel to Popery and Slavery, &c....... Printed W. HODSON (5th S. vi. 377.)-Will N. H. C. THURSTON THE ACTOR (5th S. vii. 29.)-The Merry Foresters of Sherwood was a pantomime brought out at Covent Garden in 1796, but I do not know the author's name. K. S. B. FEN (OR FEND?) (5th S. vi. 348, 412; vii. 58.)— I can supply a parallel to the school experience of your correspondent RIVUS in Essex from my own at Winchester College thirty years ago. When one boy, wishing to avoid doing something unpleasant, sought to impose the job upon one of his companions, he said "Finjy you!" or sometimes "Finjy that!" which expression was passed on I did not know, however, of the variation in from one to the other, until, as Mr. R. B. MansIsaiah ix. 6, and am obliged to MR. BLENKINSOPP field defines it in the glossary appended to his for pointing it out. I have only the Roman edi-School Life at Winchester College (London, J. C. tion, which is, I believe, the most esteemed, without notes, and it did not occur to me to consult others. None, I feel sure, would support MR. RANDOLPH's theory by giving πατηρ αἰώνιος. ALEPH. 111, Lincoln Street, Portland, U.S.A. STATE POEMS (5th S. vi. 401.)-I possess a fourth part of the 4to. series described as E, 1689, with the following title : "The Fourth (and last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c.; containing-I. A Panegrick on O. Cromwell, and his Victories; II. Oceana and Britannia; III. An Essay upon the E. of Shaftsbury's Death; IV. A Satyr in Answer to a Friend; V. An historical poem; VI. The Rabble; VII. The fourth Satyr of Boileau to Mr. W. R., Jan., 1657; VIII. A Letany for the Fifth of November, 1684; IX. A short Letany, to the tune of Cock-Laurel X. An Essay upon Satyr. by Mr. J. Dr-den; XI. The City Ballad, 1682. Most of which Hotten, 1870), he who said "Finjy" last had to do it. The Wykehamical patois was, like the Heathen Chinee's, peculiar, but the word is evidently the same as Rivus's fen or fain. A. C. BLACKSTONE. I do not think that I can add much to the learned communications which have appeared in "N. & Q." respecting the word fen, excepting that I can testify to the use of the term by schoolboys prior to the battle of Waterloo, and can endorse the meaning suggested by an illustration. A schoolfellow of mine either was or pretended to be shortsighted, and when endeavouring to shoot a marble into a particular hole, he was wont to creep and crawl far beyond the given line, and to approach surreptitiously as near as possible to the desired hole. Whenever, therefore, we played with this short (or rather long) sighted creeper, we used to cry out "fen creeping," "fen crawling," meaning, I suppose (though we did not then study the import of the term), that we protested against an exceptionable action. In my school days "N. & Q." was, unhappily, not in existence; it is therefore left to me, after sixty years, to make a note of an incident E. C. HARINGTON. in my schoolboy life. The Close, Exeter. "IN JESUM CRUCI AFFIXUM": JOHN OWEN (1st S. vii. 283; 5th S. vi. 541; vii. 59.)—I have a copy of some of John Owen's works," Epigrammatum Joan. Oweni, Cambro-Britanni Oxoniensis. Editio postrema, correctissima. . . . Amsterodami, 1647." It contains several books of epigrams. There is also a letter addressed to Owen, speaking as if he were still alive, and this is dated thus, “Dabam cursim Hamburgi, anno æræ Christianæ M.D.C.XXVII. exeunte Junio." Is the date of his death, 1622, as given by MR. MARSHALL, quite certain ? O. W. TANCOCK. “WHITTOWER" (5th S. vi. 467, 542) is doubtless a whit-tawer, i.e. a tanner who taws or dresses white leather. To taw is properly to soften by working or pulling about, A.-S. tawian, and is near akin to A.-S. teohan, teogan, to tug or pull; Goth. tiahan; Icel. toga and tjúga; Lat. duc-ere; A.-S. toh, tough; tow, taw, flax tugged out, tow"; and the verb to tow, formerly spelt togh: "Vouchsafe to togh us at your Royall Stern." Sylvester, Du Bartas, p. 202, fol., 1621. A. SMYTHE PALMER. Lower Norwood, S.E. VESSELS PROPELLED BY HORSES ON BOARD (5th S. vi. 388, 543; vii. 59.)—In my note on this subject I stated that age (having been born in 1813) prevented any exact recollection on my part of the facts in connexion with the horse packet plying between Norwich and Yarmouth. I cannot but think that MR. LE NEVE FOSTER must be rowing in the same boat with myself. He says that steam navigation between Yarmouth and Norwich commenced in 1813; and that in 1817 a frightful explosion" (which I distinctly recollect) "took place on board the packet, killing several persons, and injuring others very seriously. It was consequent on this catastrophe that the horse packet was started." I can hardly reconcile this with the probable course of events, and that after steam had been in use for four years the owners should have taken so retrograde a step as a resort to the cumbersome means of "horses on board," instead of the more sensible application of a new boiler. In a few days the centenary of James Watt is about to be celebrated, and the progress of steam reviewed for the last one hundred years. If the fact is really as stated by your correspondent, it would be an interesting episode in the mighty revolution which was going on throughout the world. W. S. L. HENRY INGLES (5th S. vi. 490; vii. 14.)—In Carlisle's Endowed Grammar Schools is the following note on this former Head Master of Rugby :"1794. Henry Ingles, D.D., was Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Master of Macclesfield School, whence he came to Rugby. He resigned in 1806." Vol. ii. p. 682. dowed Grammar Schools, London, 1827, he alluded to : -- thus "The Annual Examination before the Trustees takes place at their meeting on the third Tuesday in July. Upon which occasion, on the suggestion of the late for learning is invited from each of the universities, and Master, Henry Ingles, D.D., some person of eminence nominated by each of the Vice-Chancellors to examine the Sixth Form previous to the disposal of the exhibitions." Perhaps some account of him might be found in the Registrum Regale, and it is possible that, if not a D.D. of Cambridge, he might have proceeded to that degree at Oxford after incorporation. Very likely, too, the obituary notices of the Gentleman's Magazine would at the time of his death contain high scholastic position. some memoir of one who had once held such a JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. PROVINCIAL FAIRS (5th S. vi. 108, 214, 278, 353.)-Market Harborough Oct. fair. The old custom of proclaiming this fair for nine days has, I hear, long been discontinued. G. O. "GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND" (5th S. vi. 414.)-I am not quite certain what the point is that C. P. E. requires information on; but if it is whether Samuel Jackson Pratt's work was published, and when, he can refer to Allibone's Dictionary and the London Catalogue, 1800-27. OLPHAR HAMST. A. O. V. P. will send his name and address to me, SIR CHARLES LUCAS (5th S. vii. 67.)- If between three and five, I will give him information or call upon me any afternoon, except Saturday, about the memoir of Sir Charles Lucas. J. E. MARTIN, Librarian. Library, Inner Temple. AUTHORS AND QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. vii. 49.) "The Ex-Ale-tation of Ale" is the first poem or ballad in An Antidote against Melancholy: made up in Pills, 1661. A copy of the book is in the Library of the British Museum, and it has been reprinted by Mr. J. Payne Collier. W. CHAPPELL. See The Ex-Ale-tation of Ale, London, 1671. There is a copy in the Dyce Library, South Kensington Museum. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. R. F. S. By Half-Hours among some English Antiquities. tions amount to three hundred-more than there are pages in the book. Every chapter is thoroughly readIn the account of Rugby in Sixty Views of En-able; the one on Roman roads, &c., especially so. With regard to the word celt (the stone implement), it is here derived from Latin celtis or celtes, a chisel. It would be impossible to find the word with this signification in any Latin author. On this point we quote the following from the Examiner (January 13, p. 56): "The word celt, first used towards the end of last century for the designation of bronze axes, and then of flint instruments, which were at that time supposed to have been peculiar to the Keltic races, is generally believed to be a Latin word, used already by the Romans in a similar sense. This, however, is shown, in an elaborate article of the Allgemeine Zeitung, to be a mistake. The word celtis has simply arisen from an erroneous reading of a passage in the Vulgata (Job xix. vs. 23 and 24). The word certe was misread, in the fifteenth century, as celte; and as the passage in question speaks of sharp instruments, celtis was declared to be a Latin word, meaning a chisel. Forcellini, in his Lexicon Totius Latinitatis, gives so-called references to classic antiquity. They are proved, however, by the writer of the article in question to be either non-existent, or to repose on a forged text of the most ridiculous description. After this it will be desirable to confer a new name upon the collections of celts." Mr. Jewitt quotes Mr. John Evans as to the first use of the word celt, giving the date 1696, and in Beyer's Thesaurus Brandenburgiensis. The British or Welsh word for a flint was cellt. Need we go further for an origin The passage in the Book of Job runs thus: "Quis mihi tribuat ut scribantur sermones mei? Quis mihi dat ut exarentur in libro stylo ferreo et plumbi lamina vel celte sculpantur in silice" (edit. 1647). Notes on the Poems of Alexander Pope, by Horatio Earl of Orford. Contributed by Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bart., of Ledeclune and Morar. From the Copy in his Possession. (F. Harvey.) ONLY 300 copies of this curious little book have been published. It contains the notes made by Walpole on the margins of his various editions of Pope. The most interesting passages are those in which Walpole has produced the sources from which Pope took other people's thoughts, and gave them expression of his own. Often he took the expression itself, merely translating it, if the original writer was a foreigner; and occasionally he is to be found a simple imitator. The notes show how extensively Walpole read, and how unscrupulously Pope took his good things wherever the original authors had deposited them. In a note on a passage in the Essay on Man, Walpole marks how Pope was indebted for it to Pascal. It is very singular that, knowing Pascal so well, Walpole should have omitted to note that, long before Pope wrote "The proper study of mankind is man," Pascal had written for him, "L'étude de l'homme, c'est la vraie étude que lui est propre." The key to the pseudonyms in the second of the Moral Essays is certainly wrong in interpreting "Atossa" as being "the Duchess of Marlborough." MESSRS. RIVINGTON have published a second edition of The Gospel of the Childhood, by the Dean of Norwich, a proof of the perfect success of a perfect and remarkable book. From the same firm we have a second edition also of The Book of Church Law, by the Rev. J. H. Blunt. This valuable book of reference, in the very handiest of forms, is edited by the Chancellor of Lincoln, Dr. Phillimore. It is all that it professes to be-"an exposition of the legal rights and duties of the parochial clergy and the laity of the Church of England." MODERN LAKE DWELLINGS.-The Irish cranoges and the Swiss and other lake-dwellings of pre-historic periods have their parallels at the present time. Lieut. Cameron, in his book, Across Africa, reports that a little lake north of Kilamba, and named Lake Mohrya, is studded with houses built on piles, six feet above the water. The inhabitants allow no one to visit them, and the people on the shores keep no canoes. A perpetual "Not at home" seems to be established. A History of Landholding in Ireland, by Mr. Joseph Fisher, is passing through the press and will shortly be published. It will be remembered that the same author has published a History of Landholding in England. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. H. A. KENNEDY.-In the deprecation, "From all sedition," &c., after the words "privy conspiracy," was added in 1549 " from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities." This phrase was omitted after 1561. According to Mr. Blunt, see his useful Annotated Book of Common Prayer, "Cosin, in his First Series of Notes, says that the Puritans (of James I.'s time) wished to have it restored. It had been in the Primer of 1545, with abominable for detestable." to be authentic: "No, Sir. Voltaire put the same quesL. R.-Dr. Johnson did not believe Ganganelli's Letters tion to the editor of them that I did to MacphersonJohnson, vol. ii. 294, edit. 1874). 'Where are the originals?'" (see Boswell's Life of Dr. PAROCHUS will find in the Rev. Dr. Newman's Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation, several instances in which he denies the Papal infallibility. But PAROCHUS will not find an absolute denial of the doctrine by which the Pontiff is placed on an equality with the Creator. B. G. S. writes that "Ubique fecundat imber" (pp. 28, 76) is a motto attributed, by mistake, to the family of Higginbottom, and that it is the Winterbottoms who bear for arms Az., gutté d'eau. DENNE DENNE.-A reply to the Hollingbery query (3rd S. xii. 329) appeared subsequently at p. 447 of the same volume of "N. & Q." J. T. M.-The Walrond query appeared in our last number, p. 69. H. S. L.-For "As mad as a hatter," see "N. & Q.," 4th S. viii. 395, 489. RIVUS. The phrase quoted is not in Shakspeare's Sonnets. G. R. R. asks where he can obtain a recitation called Shamus O'Brien, or a book containing it. G. L. G.-We cannot decide till we have seen the papers. E. L. C.-By the late Mortimer Collins. Not published. REV. DR. SIMPSON.-You shall have proofs of all. ERRATUM. Mrs. Gilbert (Anne Taylor, of Ongar) died at the age of eighty-four, and not seventy-four, as was mistakenly stated at p. 67. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1877. CONTENTS. - N° 163. NOTES:-Original Letters of Dr. Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith, 101-Provincial Bibliography, 102-Billiard Books, 103 - King and Emperor-Ritherdon Family-Irish Hedge Schools-The Ansariah and the English, 105-English Dialects-The Admirable Crichton-A "Cathedral," 106. QUERIES:-W. Peirpoint, Arm.: St. Paul's Cathedral, 108"Ecclesiastical Gallantry," &c.-J. Nevil-J. Thomson"The Scottish Gallery "-St. Stephen-St. Peter's Wife: St. Paul's Sister-Misapplication of the Letter "H"-Ulster Dialect-Church Window, 107-Norman Cross HospitalOwen: Mylton-O. Cromwell, Jun.-W. Hogarth-" Mr. Julienne at Paris"-Madame de Pompadour-Yorkshire Saying-Authors Wanted, &c., 103. " give the most complete account of Parliamentary proceedings (if it) be continued. The naked papers without an Historical (note just?) interwoven require some other book to make them understood. I will date the (prevailing?) Facts with some exactness, but I think in the margin. You told me on Saturday that I had received money on this work, and had got down 131. 2s. 6d. reckoning the half guinea of last Saturday; as you hinted to me that you had many calls for money I could not press you too hard, and therefore I shall desire only as I send it in two guineas for a sheet of copy, the rest you may pay me when it may be more convenient, and even by this short payment I shall for some time be very expensive. The Life of Savage I am ready to go upon, and in Great Primer and Pica notes reckon on sending in half a sheet a day, but the money for that shall likewise lye REPLIES:-"Beef-eater," 108-Holles v. Ireton, 109-Books by in your hands till it is done. With the Debates shall on Special Subjects, 110-Haydon's "Autobiography"-Quatrain on the Eucharist, 111-Joannes de Sacro Bosco-Mews I not have business enough? If I had but good Pens. Gate The Handbook of Fictitious Names," 112-The -Towards Mr. Savage's Life what more have you got? Unicorn-The Rochdale Library-Old Ballads-Spanish I would willingly have his tryal, &c., and know whether Minister to England, 1786-" Clipper," 113-"Hospitium his Defence be at Bristol, and would have his Collection -Vision of the Western Railways"-Gray's "Elegy of Poems on account of the Preface-the Plain Dealer"The Borough Boy"-"On Tick"-Testamentary Burials all the Magazines that have anything of his or relating -"Maudlin Flood," 114-Barataria - The Titmouse"Boughten"-Bisset Family-Dante as a Painter, 115to him. I thought my letter would be long, but it is "The Martyr of Erromanga"-Scandinavian Mythology-now ended, and I am, Sir, your, &c., Popular Names of Fossils-Rev. J. Norris, 116-Jewish "SAM. JOHNSON. Names-Appointment of a Public Prosecutor-"Rame in Essex"-"Love's Pilgrim": J. Hooley-Carlyle's EssaysA Satire-Axel Oxenstjerna, 117-Addison: Dent-Smallest Books in the World-Rev. R. S. Hawker, 118-" Hudibras," 119. Notes on Books, &c. Notes. ORIGINAL LETTERS OF DR. JOHNSON AND I. "To Mr. Cave. [No date.] "Sir, I believe I am going to write a long letter, and have therefore taken a whole sheet of Paper. The first thing to be written about is our Historical Design.* You mentioned the proposal of printing in Numbers as an alteration in the scheme, but I believe you mistook some way or other my meaning; I had no other view than that you might rather print too many of five sheets than of five and thirty. "With regard to what I shall say on the manner of proceeding, I would have it understood as wholly indifferent to me, and my opinion only, not my resolution. ( )? "I think the insertion of the exact dates of the most important events in the margin, or of so many events as may enable the reader to regulate the order of facts with sufficient exactness, the proper medium between a Journal which has regard only to time, and a history which ranges facts according to their dependence on each other, and postpones or anticipates according to the convenience of narration. I think our work ought to partake of the Spirit of History which is contrary to minute exactness; not of the regularity of a Journal which is inconsistent with Spirit. On this therefore I neither admit numbers or dates nor reject them. "I am of your opinion with regard to placing most of the resolutions, &c., in the margin, and think we shall Qy. The History of the Council of Trent or the Parliamentary Debates." "The Boy found me writing this almost in the dark, when I could not quite easily read yours. I have ( the ( ) nothing in it is well. "I had no notion of having anything for the Inscription, I hope you don't think I kept it to exact a price. -I could think on nothing till to-day. If you could pay me another guinea for the hf. sheet, I should take it very kindly to night, but if you do not shall not think it any slight. I am almost well again." II. "To Mr. Cave. [No date.] "Sir,-You did not tell me your determination about the Soldier's Letter, which I am confident was never printed. I think it will not do by itself, or in any other place so well as the Mag. extraordinary. If you will have it at all I believe you do not think I put it high, and I will be glad if what you give for it you will give quickly. "You need not be in care about something to print, for I have got the State Tryals, and I shall extract Lager (?), Atterbury, and Macclesfield from them, and shall bring them to you in a fortnight, after which I will try to get the South Sea Report, and then I hope to proceed regularly. I am, &c., III. "SAM. JOHNSON." "To the Rev. Mr. Pennick, at the Museum. "Sir,-I am flattered by others with an honour with which I dare not presume to flatter myself, that of having gained so much of your kindness or regard as that my recommendation of a Candidate for SOUTHWARK may have some influence in determining your Vote at the approaching election. "As a man is willing to believe well of himself I now indulge my vanity by soliciting your vote and Interest for MR. THRALE, whose encomium I shall make very compendiously by telling you that you would certainly vote for him if you knew him. "I ought to have waited on you with this request, even though my right to make it had been greater. But as the election approaches and I know not how long |
