Miscellaneous.

"Beggarly Bisley,Strutting Stroud,Hampton poor,And Painswick proud."

"Beggarly Bisley,

Strutting Stroud,

Hampton poor,

And Painswick proud."

W. H. BAXTER.

—I have to thank both MR. CROSSLEYand DR. RIMBAULTfor their information regarding thePorts, of which I have willingly availed myself by consulting the various works to which they refer; and I have been fortunate enough to see atranslationof the greater portion of the Straloch lute-book. Hitherto, however, I have failed in my endeavours to discover two of theportsmentioned by MR. TYTLERnamely, PortGordonand PortSeton, both of which I am anxious to obtain.

E. N.

—Allow me to add to the list of books on this subject,Atlas sacer sive ecclesiasticus, Wiltsch, published at Gotha in 1843.

W. S.

—I am inclined to think that this phrase has more to do with the animate than the inanimate. It is a common saying in Devonshire "please thepixies," orfairies, and this reference is much more likely; as our ancestors were most particular in their superstitious attentions to the requirements of this most mischievous fraternity.

C. R.

is quite common in the North of England; in Lancashire it is perhaps especially so. It signifies to shift, to move, to give way: as, speaking of a thing, a wall or foundation, which has moved from its position, we should say, "it has shunted;" or of a thing which requires moving, "Shunt it a little that way," "Shunt it at the other end."Shunt, to move, to slip, to give way;shuntu, they move;shuntut, they moved.—See Bamford'sLancashire Dialect: Smith, Soho Square.

The wordgrin, in the same county, signifies a noose to catch hares or other game, as well as the act of grinning with the teeth. The wordginis seldom used, except to express a horse gin-wheel, or theblue-ruinof the Pandemoniums.

P. D.

"Star of my soul! thine ardent eyes are bentOn the bright orbs that gem the firmament:Would that I were the heaven, that I might beAll full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.""You look upon the stars, my star! would I might beYon heaven, to look with many eyes on thee."

"Star of my soul! thine ardent eyes are bentOn the bright orbs that gem the firmament:Would that I were the heaven, that I might beAll full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee."

"Star of my soul! thine ardent eyes are bent

On the bright orbs that gem the firmament:

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be

All full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee."

"You look upon the stars, my star! would I might beYon heaven, to look with many eyes on thee."

"You look upon the stars, my star! would I might be

Yon heaven, to look with many eyes on thee."

—As your correspondents have not thrown much light upon this subject, I will here mention that the use of this name in the sense alluded to has probably originated from a "waiting gentlewoman" who figures in Beaumont and Fletcher's comedy ofThe Scornful Lady. As this play appears from Pepys'sDiaryto have been a great favourite after the Restoration, it was then most probably that the term came into use.

J. S. WARDEN.

—G. H. K. appears to consider the object of H. C. K.'s Query a tradesman's token. This is by no means the case. It is a jetton, or counter, such as was formerly much in use for casting accounts, on a principle very similar to that of the abacus. They are found in vast numbers in England, but were principally manufactured at Nuremberg, where a large trade in them must have been carried on. The greatest manufacturers of the "Rechenpfennige" were the members of the families of Schultz, Laufer, and Krauwinckel. Of the three Krauwinckels, the productions of Hans are most numerous. Many of them have legends of a moral or religious character, as "Gottes Segen macht reich," God's blessing maketh rich; "Gott allein die Ehre sey," To God alone be the glory; "Heut rodt, Morgen todt," To-dayred, to-morrow dead, &c. The date 1601 occurs on several of those of Hans K., with mythological devices.—See Snelling'sTreatise on Jettons, or Counters.

J. E.

The legend on the counter described signifies

"John Kravwinckel in Nuremberg."

℞"God's kingdom remains always."

I know not the signification of the solitaryE. Snelling (Treatise on Abbey Pieces, &c.) has engraved and described many of these counters, and to him I must refer H. C. K. Hans means John, and has no reference to the Hanseatic League.

W. H. S.

Edinburgh.

—Lodeandload, in Cornwall, is the name given to the vein thatleadsin the mine; or, theleadingvein. The wordlodeis also in common use in Cambridgeshire, having similar reference to the watercourses by which the fens are drained.

Lodestar.The pole-star; theleadingstar, by which mariners are guided. The magnet isload-stone, that is, leading, or guiding stone. (Nares'Glossary.)

"O, happy fair!Your eyes arelode-stars——."Midsummer Night's Dream.

"O, happy fair!

Your eyes arelode-stars——."

Midsummer Night's Dream.

WM. YARRELL.

Rider Street.

Lode seems to have been anciently used as signifying merely a ditch to carry off water. (See "Inquisition, 21 Henry VIII." in Wells'sHist. of Bedford Level, vol. ii. pp. 8-17.) Lode means to carry. (Promptorium Parvulorum, ed. Way, p. 310.) The termlodeis now used to signify a navigable ditch. In Cambridgeshire we have Soham Lode, Burwell Lode, Reach Lode, Swaffham Lode, and Bottisham Lode.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

—Your correspondent S. WISWOULDwill find some slight information respecting this worthy in Daniel'sMerrie England in the Olden Time(Bentley, 1842), vol. i. p. 217.

It appears that Mr. Bindley had an unique engraving of her, and that a well-known alehouse at Holloway (of which a token is extant, with the date 1667) was sacred to her memory as Mother Redcap, as well as that in the Hampstead Road.

JOHNEVANS.

—The monuments referred to by ÆGROTUSare in the church of Aldworth: the effigies are certainlyremarkable, especially one for its size and attitude. Another noticeable circumstance is that most of the figures are of older date than the tombs on which they lie, or than the church which contains them. The building consists of a nave and south aisle; and, at the time of its original construction, three canopied recessed tombs were introduced in each of the side walls to receive the effigies which must have existed in the older church. The style of the architecture belongs to the age of Edward III. There are nine figures altogether, some of them greatly mutilated. They are not entirely unknown to archæologists.

I may take this opportunity of calling attention to another very fine monumental effigy, of which I believe no moderately good representation has been published, at Tilton in Leicestershire. There are two figures in the church of as early dates as those at Aldworth, one an armed male, and the other a female. The former is in "edgering" mail, and is of good character; but the latter is of superior design, and very well executed, though unfortunately in a coarse material. The right arm is bent, and the hand brought up to the breast; the left hangs naturally by the side, and has the fore-arm and (bare) hand exposed from among the folds of the drapery. Slight traces of colour are discoverable.

R. C. H.

The village of Aldworth, in Berkshire, where the effigies of the De la Beche family are to be seen, is about five miles from the Goring Station, on the Great Western Railway,viâStreatley. Hewett'sHundred of Comptonfurnishes a very interesting account of the ten monumental effigies which represent various members of the ancient family of De la Beche in that church, and will be read with no small pleasure.

FRANCISPOCOCK.

Stanford.

—However affected it may appear, these words have been more generally pronouncedCookandCooper.

J. H. L. (Vol. iv., p. 76.) adduces the instance ofCowperbeing made to rhime toTrooper. And I have just stumbled upon a passage inCowleywhereCokeis the answering word toTook.

"May heBe by his father in his studytookAt Shakspear's plays instead of my LordCoke.""Sylva; a Poetical Revenge," p. 44.,Works, Part II., London, 1700, fol.

"May he

Be by his father in his studytook

At Shakspear's plays instead of my LordCoke."

"Sylva; a Poetical Revenge," p. 44.,Works, Part II., London, 1700, fol.

RT.

Warmington.

—Fully agreeing with my friend H. H. in his opinion of the brass of the Abbess of Elstow, considered as a portrait, I should yet be glad if your correspondents would send to "N. & Q." the names of any effigies which may appear to them exceptions to the rule of conventional portraiture, especially if of earlier date than the latter half of the sixteenth century. H. H. has mentioned one, Nicholas Canteys, 1431, at Margate: and I am inclined to add another in the well-executed little brass of Robert de Brentingham at East Horsley, Surrey; this is about the date of 1380. The artists of that time, in brasses as well as in painted glass, wood-carving, &c., may have sometimes desired to produce a portrait, but certainly they seldom succeeded: a religious severity of expression atoned for the deficiency. In English coins it is well known that there is no appearance of a portrait before the reign of Henry VII.

The particularcostume, however, of the deceased was more attended to in monumental effigies; and it is this fact which renders the study of them so serviceable towards a knowledge of the manners and habits of our ancestors. Care was even taken not to omit any peculiarity which may have distinguished the deceased; of which the long beard of Sir Wm. Tendring, at Stoke, by Layland, is perhaps an instance, and many others might be quoted. If any decided portraits are known instone effigies, it would I think be desirable to communicate such to the pages of "N. & Q."

C. R. M.

—It does not appear to me that the mottoes sent by your inquirer C. T. are very difficult to solve. The first is Latin:

"VITATRANOVULAESTOLIM."

He says he is not certain as to one or two letters. I suspect the firstOshould beQ, and theVshould beI. It will then read:

"Vita tranquila est olim."

"Life is henceforth tranquil."

A very proper motto for a fire-side.

The second is Italian:

"VE DAL AM DARO."

I suspect theRshould beT. It will then read:

"Ve da'l amico dato."

"Given to you by the friend."

If the word isdaro, it will be—

"I will give it to you from the friend."

JAMESEDMESTON.

Homerton.

The arms given by your correspondent C. T. are those of Cavendish (quartering Clifford), one of that family having been created Earl of Newcastle in 1610. Becoming shortly after extinct, John Holles, Earl of Clare (who had married the heiress of Cavendish), was created by King William III. in 1694 Marquis of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.

Might not the chimney-piece have adorned a mansion of the Cavendish family, who probably resided in Newcastle during the period above alluded to?

The motto underneath (which isnotthe family motto of Cavendish) certainly at first sight looks puzzling enough; will the following solution suffice, which I merely throw out as a first thought that may lead to a better elucidation?

"Vita : tran : ovula : est : olim."

Presuming "ovula" to be the diminutive ofovum(I am not sure if I am correct), and "tran" (if correctly transcribed) to be a component part of one of the numerous compounds oftrans(saytransitorius), may not the passage befreelytranslated: "(Our) transitory life (was) once (as mysterious, or hidden, or minute as) is (the germ of vitality) in an egg?"

If C. T. could give a description of the second coat, some connecting link may possibly be supplied toward unravelling the motto.

HENRYW. S. TAYLOR.

Southampton.

—One of the mottoes which puzzle your correspondent C. T. is Welsh, and means thatretribution will follow violence: "he will pay (i.e.suffer) for striking."

Σ.

—Bishop Ridley, in his conference with Bishop Latimer, whilst they were confined in the Tower, makes use of the expression: "For surely, except the Lord assist me with His gracious aid in the time of His service, I know I shall play but the part of awhite-livered knight."

CARL.

—The brasses of John Killyngworth, 1412, formerly in Eddlesborough Church, now in Pitson Church, Bucks; and of a priest at St. Peter's, near St. Alban's, have this inscription upon them:

"Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior, quod servavi perdidi."

That at St. Alban's has an English translation:

"Lo, all that ever I spent, that sometime had I;All that I gave in good intent, that now have I;That I never gave, nor lent, that now aby[3]I;That I kept till I went, that lost I."

"Lo, all that ever I spent, that sometime had I;

All that I gave in good intent, that now have I;

That I never gave, nor lent, that now aby[3]I;

That I kept till I went, that lost I."

[3]So in my authority.

The same inscription is on a brass as late as 1584, at St. Olave's, Hart Street, London. (SeeOxford Architectural Society's Manual of Monumental Brasses.)

UNICORN.

In Warner'sGlastonbury, plate 18, fig. E., is a veryearlyrepresentation of the pelican feeding her young with her own blood: an emblem of Christ's love for His church. The stone was dug out of the ruins of the Abbey.

In Parker'sGlossarythe symbol is explained by a quotation fromOrtus Vocabulorum:

"Fertur, si verum est, eam occidere natos suos, eosque per triduum lugere, deinde seipsum vulnerare, et aspercione sui sanguinis vivos facere filios suos."

H. F. E.

—In accordance with the suggestion of E. P. M., I forward you a few instances of a change between the spelling, and pronunciation:

Spelling.Pronunciation.ChadwellCaudle.Wymondham (Norf.)Wyndham.—— (Leicestersh.)Wŭmundham.SwaveseySwaysey.LolworthLolo.WhitwickWhittick.ScarfordScawford.Croxton KerrialCrōson,theolong,and Kerrial entirelydropped.

R. J. S.

Examples of these are more numerous to the north of the Tweed than C. appears to imagine. The following list, which includes a few surnames, is the result of rather a hurried search:

Spelling.Pronunciation.AnstrutherAnster.AthelstanefordElstanfurd.BethuneBeaton.CassilisCassils.CharterisCharters.CockburnCoburn.Croxton KerrialCrōson,CockburnspathCoppersmithColquhounCohoon.CrichtonCryton.Dalziel or DalyellDee-ell.FarquharFarkar.HalketHacket.InglisIngils.KembackKemmick.KilconquharKinnenchar.MacleodMacloud.MarjoribanksMarchbanks.MenziesMeengis.MethvenMeffen.MonzieMonee.RestalrigLastalrik.RutherglenRuglen.RuthvenRivven.SciennesSheens.SanquharSankar.UrquhartUrcart.WemyssWeems.

Arbroath is a corruption of Aberbrothok, Gretna of Gretenhow, and Meiklam of M'Ilquham: but probably one of the most remarkable transformations in Scotland is to be found in the name of a small village, a few miles to the south of Edinburgh,whereBurdiehousehas usurped the place of Bordeaux.

E. N.

—I beg to direct your attention to the accompanying extract, which furnishes a reply to MR. FRASER'SQuery:—

"Whoever is acquainted with Irish history, or whoever has had opportunities of mixing with the natives of that country, cannot be ignorant that they claim a descent from a long race of Milesian kings, who reigned over them for thirteen centuries before the Christian æra. The stock from which this long line of monarchs emanated is traced to a pretended Milesian colony, supposed to have emigrated from Spain into Ireland under the conduct of Heremon and Heber. The most rational inquirers, however, into the subject consider it as nothing more than a tissue of imaginary events, originating in the fertile fancies of their bards. A very brief and general abstract of this contested part of Irish history shall be given in the words of Mr. Plowden:

"'About 140 years after the Deluge, Ireland was discovered by one Adhua, who had been sent from Asia to explore new countries by a grandson of Belus: he plucked some of the luxuriant grass as a specimen of the fertility of the soil, and returned to his master. After that the island remained unoccupied for 140 years; and about 300 years after the Flood, one Partholan, originally a Scythian, and a descendant from Japhet in the sixth generation, sailed from Greece with his family and 1000 soldiers, and took possession of the island. They all died off, and left the island desolate of human beings for the space of thirty years. Afterwards different sets of emigrant adventurers occupied and peopled the island at different periods. About 1080 years after the Deluge, and 1300B.C., Niul (the son of Phenius, a wise Scythian prince), who had married a daughter of Pharaoh, inhabited with his people a district given to him by his father-in-law on the Red Sea, when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. The descendants of that Phenius (called more generally Feniusa Farsa) were afterwards expelled by Pharaoh's successors on account of their ancestors having favoured the escape of the Israelites through the Red Sea. They then emigrated and settled in Spain, whence, under the command of Milesius, a colony of them sailed from Brigantia in Galicia to Ireland, gained the ascendancy over the inhabitants, and gave laws and a race of monarchs to the island. The Milesian dynasty continued to govern Ireland without interruption till about the year 1168, when it ceased in the person of Roger O'Connor, and the sovereignty was assumed by our Henry II. Of this race of kings the first 110 were Pagan, the rest Christian.'"

Barlow'sHist. of Ireland, vol. i. pp. 22-4.

GEORGERICHARDS, M.A.

Queen's Coll., Birmingham.

—The remark of your correspondent EYE-SNUFF, "that any lay scholar of adequate attainments in theology is competent to receive this distinction, and any university to bestow it upon him," is incorrect in two ways, as far as the university of which I am a member is concerned. A reference to the Oxford University Calendar, or to the Statutes of the University, will show him that no one can take the degree of B.D., or D.D., without first exhibiting his letters of priest's orders: and the theological attainments represented by the degree D.D. are next to nothing; the exercise required for B.D. used to be a mere form, and I believe is little more now; a certain number of terms kept in the university, and payment of certain fees, being all that is necessary for proceeding D.D. The case is the same, I imagine, at Cambridge.

W. FRASER.

—I have heard it said, of course with little regard to probability, that this once popular song was written by George IV. when Prince of Wales.

W. FRASER.

—I have heard it argued that the wordbull, meaning an incoherent blunder, was derived from the Pope's Bulls, the tyrannical contents and imperious tone of which often made so odd a contrast with the humility of the subscription, "Servus servorum Dei," that the namebullwas applied to anything that seemed absurdly inconsistent or self-contradictory.

W. FRASER.

—We have good evidence that the Saxons used the places of sepulture which they found in England; and it is well known that Anglo-Saxon remains have often been discovered in the vicinity of churches, a fact which leads to the supposition that churches occupied the sites of Pagan temples. The bones of animals have often been found on and near the sites of our London churches.

J. Y. A.

—I am led to think there is an error in the notice of your correspondent R. S. F. on the above subject. The seed of St. John's Fearn cannot be gathered on Midsummer Eve, inasmuch as at that time it is in a merely embryotic state. The seed attains perfection late in autumn, and it remains attached to the dry brown stem until shaken off by the autumnal and winter blasts. The taking of it, therefore, is not, according to those versed in such mysteries, the easy task of a Midsummer twilight, but must be performed amid the darkness of a winter's night. On the midnight of Saint John the Evangelist, to whom the seed and plant are dedicated, must it be shaken, not pulled, from its stem. Very probably mystic virtues were imputed to the seed before the introduction of Christianity. And it were not perhaps hazarding too much to suppose that the old superstitious monks assigned it to Saint John from an idea that the potency of the seed might have influenced the wondrous revelations with which he, more than any other of the disciples, or all the disciples, was favoured.

The Camden Society, of which the fourteenth Annual Meeting on Monday last passed off most successfully, has just issued to its MembersThe Chronicle of The Grey Friars of London, edited from a MS. in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum. This very interesting document, which altogether escaped the research of the industrious and voluminous Strype, though it had passed through the hands of Stowe, who had either the possession or the loan of the original MS., was written by one of the Grey Friars, who appears to have watched narrowly, and recorded carefully, the religious changes of the times, more particularly, those which occurred within the sphere of his personal observation in the city of London, and the metropolitan church of St. Paul. As he retained possession of his register, and continued his labours after the dissolution of his house, and the dismissal of the rest of his fraternity, he has preserved to us many particulars of great historical value; and his work has this additional claim to attention, that, whereas the majority of the existing documents are records of the Reforming party, this comes from one of the Reformed, and presents us accordingly with the other side of the case. The work is edited by Mr. J. G. Nichols, whose name is a sufficient guarantee for the fidelity with which the document is printed, and the learning and care bestowed upon its illustration.

The Publications of the Antiquarian Etching Club.—Part III., 1851, presents us with no less than thirty-three etchings by Members of the Club (of course of various degrees of merit), of objects of antiquarian interest, comprising Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Fonts, Sepulchral Monuments, Portraits, Fac-similes, copies of rare prints, and numerous other vestiges of antiquity calculated at once to instruct the archæologist, and preserve in a pictorial form a record of much which, but for theburinsof the members of this useful little Society, might have been lost for ever.

It is but a few weeks since we noticed the admirable second volume of theCatalogue of the London Library, by Mr. J. G. Cochrane. We have now to record the death of that gentleman on Tuesday last. He was a most worthy man, and a good scholar; and possessed a vast fund of bibliographical knowledge. His death therefore will be felt, not only by his own immediate friends, but also by the institution which he had served so ably and so zealously ever since its formation.

It would be treason to the Brothers Grimm, and to our own love of the literature of the people, if we did not notice and (as it deserves it) say a good word of a new and complete translation of the world-renownedKinder und Haus Mährchen, which Messrs. Addey have commenced publishing under the title of Grimm'sHousehold Stories. They are very faithfully translated from the last edition; and we specify this because the littleAlmaine 4to.first edition of 1819 has long been one of our household books, and finding that the translation did not agree with the versions there given, we have compared it with the edition of 1843, and so discovered, first, that the translator has used the later edition; and secondly, what we were not till now aware of, namely, that these great scholars, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, amid their more learned labours, have not disdained to revise and enlarge their collection of nursery stories, which have been the delight of the children of all Europe. What a justification is this for the attention which is bestowed in "N. & Q." on our own English Folk Lore!

FABRICIIBIBLIOTHECALATINA. Ed. Ernesti. Leipsig, 1773. Vol. III.

THEANACALYPSIS. By Godfrey Higgins. 2 Vols. 4to.

CODEXDIPLOMATICUSÆVISAXONICI, opera J. M. Kemble. Vols. I. and II. 8vo.

ECKHEL, DOCTRINANUMORUM. Vol. VIII.

BROUGHAM'SMEN OFLETTERS. 2nd Series, royal 8vo, boards. Original edition.

KNIGHT'SPICTORIALSHAKSPEARE. Royal 8vo. Parts XLII. XLIII. XLIV. L. and LI.

CONDER'SANALYTICALVIEW OF ALLRELIGIONS.8vo.

HALLIWELL ON THEDIALECTS OFSOMERSETSHIRE.

SCLOPETARIA, or REMARKS ONRIFLES, &c.

SOWERBY'SENGLISHFUNGI.Vol. III.

SUPPLEMENT TOSOWERBY'SENGLISHFUNGI.

EUROPEANMAGAZINE. Vols. XXIII. XXIV. and XXV.

POETICWREATH. Small 8vo. Newman.

GEMSFROMBRITISHPOETS. 4 Vols. Tyas.

THEWORKS OFLORDBYRON. Vols. VI. VII. and VIII. 12mo. Murray, 1823.

MALLET'SPOEMS. Bell's edition.

MALLET'SPLAY OFELVIRA. 1763.

JOANNISLELANDICOLLECTANEA. Vol. V. 1774.

BISHOPPATRICK'SCOMMENTARY ON THEBIBLE. The Volumes containing Joshua and Judges. Small 4to.

KENT'SANTHEMS. Vol. I. folio. Edited by Joseph Corfe.

THEMATHEMATICIAN. Vol. I. No. I. 1844.

BACK'SVOYAGE OF THETERROR, 8vo.

L'HISTOIRE DE LASAINCTEBIBLE, par ROYAUMONDE: à Paris, 1701.

JOHNSON'S(DR. S.) WORKS, by MURPHY. Trade Edition of 1816, in 8vo. Vol. XII. only.

*⁎* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price,carriage free, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.

REPLIESRECEIVED.—Prentice Pillars—Cross on Counsel's Briefs—Many Children—Merchant Adventurers—Burning Fern brings Rain—Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant—Sir E. Seaward's Narrative—Rhymes on Places—Pedigree of Roper—Pigeons' Feathers—Monumental Plate at Lewes—Portrait of Mesmer—Where was Cromwell buried—Kakous—Passage in "Measure for Measure"—De la Beche Monuments—Daniel Defoe, &c.—"Thirty Days hath September"—Buro Berto Beriora—St. Christopher—Monument to Mary Queen of Scots at Antwerp—Ednowain ap Bradwen—Sir R. Howard's Conquest of China—Corrupted Names of Places—My own Crow, &c.—Jasher—"And tye"—Taylor Family—Scologlandi and Scologi—Couch—The Martyr Rogers—Dr. Fell—Chantrey's Sleeping Children, &c. (from H. G. T.)—Ground Ice—Mr. Van Butchell—"Up Guards, and make ready!"—British Ambassadors—Cromwell's Head—Stops when first introduced—Serpent with human Head—Burials in Woollen—Knollys Family—Sterne at Sutton—"'Tis tuppence now"—Game Feathers—Age of Trees—Baxter's Pulpit—Sally Lunn—Was Queen Elizabeth dark or fair—Martinique—Duchess of Lancaster—Etymology of Poison, &c.

MR. FOSSandMR.LOWER.The communications for these gentlemen (addressed to our care) have been forwarded to them.

J. G. W.is thanked.His list shall be made use of.

C. B.We should be much obliged for theOLDYSarticle.

THEOLDCOUNTESS OFDESMOND.We have several more very interesting communications on this subject, which we hope to insert very shortly.

C—S. T. P.will be inserted.

A. N.We shall be obliged by the Note onCagots.

H. M.The Queries shall receive early attention.We are so full just now, we fear to enter on theJOHNBULLquestion.

C. F. A.is referred to ourNotices to CorrespondentsinNos. 129.and130.The line is from Congreve'sMourning Bride.

C. H. M.will find the information he requires respecting Fletcher of Saltoun's aphorism respecting Legislators and Ballad-makers in our1st Vol., p. 153.

Neat Cases for holding the Numbers of"N. & Q."until the completion of each Volume are now ready, price 1s. 6d., and may be hadby orderof all booksellers and newsmen.

VOLUME THEFOURTH OFNOTES ANDQUERIES,with very copiousINDEX,is now ready, price 9s. 6d. cloth boards.

"NOTES ANDQUERIES"is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels, and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday.

MOURNING.—COURT, FAMILY, and COMPLIMENTARY.—The Proprietor of THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE begs respectfully to remind families whose bereavements compel them to adopt Mourning Attire, that every article of the very best description, requisite for a complete outfit of Mourning, may be had at this Establishment at a moment's notice.ESTIMATES FOR SERVANTS' MOURNING, affording a great saving to families, are furnished; whilst the habitual attendance of experienced assistants (including dressmakers and milliners), enables them to suggest or supply every necessary for the occasion, and suited to any grade or condition of the community. WIDOWS' AND FAMILY MOURNING is always kept made up and a note, descriptive of the Mourning required, will insure its being sent forthwith, either in Town or into the Country, and on the most Reasonable Terms.W. C. JAY, 247-249. Regent Street.

ESTIMATES FOR SERVANTS' MOURNING, affording a great saving to families, are furnished; whilst the habitual attendance of experienced assistants (including dressmakers and milliners), enables them to suggest or supply every necessary for the occasion, and suited to any grade or condition of the community. WIDOWS' AND FAMILY MOURNING is always kept made up and a note, descriptive of the Mourning required, will insure its being sent forthwith, either in Town or into the Country, and on the most Reasonable Terms.

W. C. JAY, 247-249. Regent Street.

LONDON NEWSPAPERS AT REDUCED PRICES. The Times, Herald, Post, Daily News, and Chronicle, posted punctually on the Morning and Evening of the Day of Publication, and the Day after Publication. Clean Copies and punctuality guaranteed. For List of Prices addressJAMES BARKER, 19. Throgmorton Street, Bank. Established 20 Years.

JAMES BARKER, 19. Throgmorton Street, Bank. Established 20 Years.

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for MAY contains:—1. Admiral Blake.2. Monument at Brent Pelham (with Engravings).3. Our Lady of Boulogne.4. Speech of Lord Chancellor Jeffreys.5. Margaret Fuller Ossoli.6. Ulrich von Hutten: the closing Scenes.7. William Combe and his Works.8. English or "Anglo-Saxon."9. Contemporary Historical Notes 1659 and 1660.10. Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban: What is Treasure Trove? Fresh Observations on the Roman Wall, by the Rev. J. C. Bruce—Roman Road from the Humber to York—A Visit to Herbaldown Hospital, by Albert Way, Esq.—The term "Bridge" applied to Landing-places—Mrs. Joan Whitrow, of Twickenham.With Notes of the Month, Review of New Publications, and Reports of Archæological Societies.This Magazine contains, in its OBITUARY, Biographical Memoirs of:—1. The Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar. 2. Prince Felix von Schwartzenberg. 3. Lord Rendlesham. 4. Lord Dunsany. 5. Lord Panmure. 6. Hon. Frederick West. 7. Sir John Shelley, Bart. 8. Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart. 9. Sir Henry Wheatley, Bart. 10. Captain Sir Samuel Brown, R.N. 11. Major Eardley-Wilmot, R. Art. 12. Dymoke Welles, Esq. 13. William Iremonger, Esq. 14. Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. 15. Rev. John Keate, D.D. 16. William Jacob, Esq., F.R.S. 17. John Landseer, Esq. 18. Arthur Jewett, Esq. 19. Mr. R. A. Davenport. 20. Richard Gilbert, Esq. 21. Thomas Allason, Esq. 22. David Bremner, Esq. 23. Mr. Edward Fitzwilliam. 24. Mrs. Kelly.The Magazine for April contained Memoirs, among others, of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, Sir John Franks, Basil Montagu, Esq., Dr. Murray, R.C. Archbishop of Dublin; Thomas Moore, Esq., Rev. Christopher Anderson, Samuel Prout, Esq., Mr. William Watts, Johnson Jex, &c. &c.NICHOLS & SON, 25. Parliament Street.

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for MAY contains:—

1. Admiral Blake.

2. Monument at Brent Pelham (with Engravings).

3. Our Lady of Boulogne.

4. Speech of Lord Chancellor Jeffreys.

5. Margaret Fuller Ossoli.

6. Ulrich von Hutten: the closing Scenes.

7. William Combe and his Works.

8. English or "Anglo-Saxon."

9. Contemporary Historical Notes 1659 and 1660.

10. Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban: What is Treasure Trove? Fresh Observations on the Roman Wall, by the Rev. J. C. Bruce—Roman Road from the Humber to York—A Visit to Herbaldown Hospital, by Albert Way, Esq.—The term "Bridge" applied to Landing-places—Mrs. Joan Whitrow, of Twickenham.

With Notes of the Month, Review of New Publications, and Reports of Archæological Societies.

This Magazine contains, in its OBITUARY, Biographical Memoirs of:—1. The Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar. 2. Prince Felix von Schwartzenberg. 3. Lord Rendlesham. 4. Lord Dunsany. 5. Lord Panmure. 6. Hon. Frederick West. 7. Sir John Shelley, Bart. 8. Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart. 9. Sir Henry Wheatley, Bart. 10. Captain Sir Samuel Brown, R.N. 11. Major Eardley-Wilmot, R. Art. 12. Dymoke Welles, Esq. 13. William Iremonger, Esq. 14. Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. 15. Rev. John Keate, D.D. 16. William Jacob, Esq., F.R.S. 17. John Landseer, Esq. 18. Arthur Jewett, Esq. 19. Mr. R. A. Davenport. 20. Richard Gilbert, Esq. 21. Thomas Allason, Esq. 22. David Bremner, Esq. 23. Mr. Edward Fitzwilliam. 24. Mrs. Kelly.

The Magazine for April contained Memoirs, among others, of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, Sir John Franks, Basil Montagu, Esq., Dr. Murray, R.C. Archbishop of Dublin; Thomas Moore, Esq., Rev. Christopher Anderson, Samuel Prout, Esq., Mr. William Watts, Johnson Jex, &c. &c.

NICHOLS & SON, 25. Parliament Street.

Back to Index Next