"Now sinks the hum confus'd of busy Care,

And solemn Eve begins her placid reign; Mild Contemplation muses on the air,

And Silence bends before the vestal train.

"In this cold solitude, this awful shade,

Where sleeps the lyre of many a tuneful breath; The ghastly shroud, and dust-disturbing spade, Invite the shuddering thought to gloom and Death." Vol. vi. p. 131. The second is of a very different order; it ridicules the proceedings consequent on Sir Francis Burdett's imprisonment, and the legal decisions against him. It is entitled "An Elegy written in Westminster Hall," and is copied "from the Morning Post, May 20, 1811." I transcribe the first, and two or three other stanzas: "The Judges toll the knell of Burdett's fame,

The rabble-rout disperse with lack of glee; The Counsel homeward plod, just as they came, And leave the Hall to darkness and to me.

"For me no more the flaming press shall teem,
Nor busy printers ply their evening care;
No patriots flock to propagate my theme,
Nor lick my feet the ill-got wreath to share.

"Can golden box *, though worth a hundred pound,
Back to poor Burdett bring his forfeit fame?
Can honour's voice now on his side be found,
Or flattery shield him from contempt and shame.

FROM THE "EPITAPH."

"Here hides his head, now humbled to the Earth,
A man to John Horne and his faction known;
Fair talents never smiled upon his birth,
And Disappointment marked him for her own.
"Large were his wishes, but his lot severe,

To Tooke he owed his fortune and reverse;
He gained from John, 'twas all his portion, shame,
John gained from him, 'twas all he wished-his
purse."-Vol. xv. p. 255.

Such extracts almost need an apology; but as exhibiting the spirit of past times, and as having * Proposed to be presented to him.

somewhat of literary curiosity about them, they may be just worth inserting in the pages of "N. & Q." X. A. X.

cake, has nothing to do with "Wig turned up WHIG (3rd S. i. 436.)-Wig or whig, a sort of with curls." Whig or wig is the same word as whey - the watery portion of milk, of which the cake was made. C. R. SUPERSTITION (3rd S. i. 390.)-I have a referlation of the passage in Cicero, and again (reence to "N. & Q." 2nd S. v. 126, to an old transtranslated and referred to) by your enlightened is not original in his etymology. and instructive correspondent EIRIONNACH, So he C. R.

SINGULAR CUSTOM AT GRANTHAM (?) (3rd S. i. 482.)-I believe that the paragraph forwarded by MR. R. F. WHEELER appeared first of all in the Grantham Journal of some weeks' back, and that it then formed a portion of the hebdomadal supply of intelligence relating to the little town of Bowen, a place about twenty miles distant from the borough within which the organ arises which chronicles the eccentricity. Probably the Editor of the local paper read at Whitby, North Shields, or some other similarly responsible being before him, had used scissors and paste without observing that the Grantham Journal takes note of events happening in localities remote from its native town, which, although celebrated for

"A lofty steeple and a living sign," (which latter is now wanting) although graced by the Newton Monument and famed for its manufacture of gingerbread and a peculiar kind of biscuit called "Whetstone," has no such custom as that with which some inadvertence has coupled its name. ST. SWITHIN.

REMAINING COVERED IN THE ROYAL PRESENCE (3rd S. i. 208.)-With reference to a Lord Kingsale asserting his right to stand with his head covered in the royal presence, I have to state that John, 26th Lord Kingsale, came into the presence of George IV. at a levée in Dublin with his head uncovered, and his majesty at once said, "Put on your hat, Lord Kingsale; I like old customs." His lordship was accompanied by his grandson, the late Sir Andrew Agnew, who is the authority for this anecdote. DAVID C. A. AGNEW. Wigtown, N. B.

S.T.P. (3rd S. i. 231.)-I can answer for Scotland that the initials S.T.P. can be used only by a professor sometimes S.S.T.P. (Sacro-sanctæ theologiæ professor). A minister of the Gospel sometimes adds to his name V.D.M. (verbi Dei Licentiate, E.C.P. (evangelii Christi predicator). minister), and a Preacher, i. e. a Probationer or

Wigtown, N. B.

D. C. A. AGNew.

TWINKLING OF A BEDSTAFF (2nd S. vi. 347.)A woodcut in Wright's Domestic Manners and Sentiments of the Middle Ages, suggests to me that we have not yet hit on the nature of this instrument. Here we see the chambermaid in the seventeenth century making use of a staff to beat up the bedding, in the process of making the bed. The rapid use of this implement would quite give the idea of twinkling. Its size would make it much more suitable for fencing, than a mere pin, like that suggested by Johnson as used to keep the bedding in its place. It would, in fact, be precisely like a heavy single-stick; and would thus fall in with MR. BERNHARD SMITH'S idea at p. 487. The change from bedstaff to bedpost is, no doubt, recent. Horace Walpole uses the former word. VEBNA.

RABBIT (3rd S. i. 403, 490.)—With respect to the etymologies of your two learned correspondents, I confess I think "that much might be said on both sides "; but, at the same time, I venture to state that the pronunciation of the word in our West-country dialects, which is pretty nearly "Herpet," suggests a connexion with the Greek preτóv, a creeper: a connexion which those who have observed the extraordinary affinities between Greek and English in the nomenclature of common objects, will scarcely deem impossible. C. W. BINGHAM.

Allow me to inform DR. CHANCE that in ety

mology, letters of the same organ, as b and p, or as d and t, are regarded as identical: so that the only real difference between dapod and rabbit lay in the first letter. For the commutability of 7 and r with d and t, DR. CHANCE can only remember dáκpvov and lacryma; but I think he must have met with Cadiz and Cales, Madrid and Madril; and he must be aware that laisser Fr., lasciare It., are dejar in Spanish; that cicada is cicala It., cigale Fr., hedera, ellera It., lierre Fr. ; and that the Sicilian dialect turns the Italian l to dd, as in Mongibeddo for Mongibello. I cannot remember so many instances of the commutation of r with d and t, though I have met with many, but I do recollect the two following: Boccaccio frequently uses fedire for ferire, and porfido is the only Italian term for porphyry. I, therefore, consider my etymology a perfectly legitimate one. As to my assuming a syncope and apocope, it will surprise no one acquainted with the French and Portuguese mode of forming words from the

Latin.

SERVICE" AT THE HEALING" (3rd S. i. 496.) — The communication of X. A. X. gives the service as in the Book of Common Prayer in the reign of Anne.

Macaulay (vol. iii. p. 479, edit. 1859,) says that "it was not till some time after the accession of George I. that the University of Oxford ceased to reprint the Office of Healing, together with the Liturgy "—and he is therein correct.

I have before me a handsome copy of the Liturgy, bound up with the Old and New Testaments, and the title-page of each of them has — "Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, and to the University, MDCCXV."

It is folio size, but the sheets are folded in sixes; and this service occurs on the fifth leaf of signature I, immediately after the service for the 1st of August, on the King's Accession; with the close of which the service divides the first page of the leaf, and its own close divides the second page of the leaf with "His Majesty's Declaration," &c., prefixed to the Thirty-nine Articles. tents," which ends with the "Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the 1st of August"; but, as shown above, this service was undeniably printed officially, in 1715, in the reign of Geo. I., as an integral part of the Book of Common Prayer.

The service is not noticed in the "Table of Con

Some references are given by Macaulay in p. 480, which may be added to those in " N. & Q.," 3rd S. i. 314. LANCASTRIENSIS.

PETRIFIED HUMAN REMAINS (3rd S. i. 370, 437.)- The corpse referred to by MR. PARKIN, was evidently not petrified, but simply encrusted with a deposit from the water in which it lay, as is the case with extraneous bodies such as twigs, mosses, and birds'-nests-placed in our so-called petrifying springs. Hathersage is in the neighbourhood of the High Peak, about equidistant from Tideswell and Castleton, where such springs are abundant. The process is quaintly described in Cotton's Wonders of the Peake, London, 16-. I quote from the fourth edition, but am unable to give the date, the last two figures having been carelessly ploughed off by the binder: "Propt round with Peasants, on you trembling go, Whilst every step you take, your Guides do show In the uneven rocks the uncouth shapes Of Men, of Lions, Horses, Dogs, and Apes; But so resembling, each, the fancied shape, The Man might be the Horse; the Dog, the Ape; And straight, just in your way, a stone appears Which the resemblance of a Haycock bears, Some four foot high; and beyond that, a less Of the same Figure: which do still increase In height, and bulk, by a continual drop Which upon each distilling from the top, And falling still exactly on the Crown,

There break themselves to mists, which trickling down,
Curst into stone, and (but with leisure) swell
The sides, and still advance the miracle.
So that in time, they would be tall enough
If there were need, to prop the hanging roof."

DOUGLAS ALLPORT.

MME. LOUISE DAURIAT (3rd S. i. 486.)- This lady is a native of Paris, but the year of her birth is unknown. Her "Lectures on the Social Rights of Women," delivered at Ranelagh, were closed by order of the Préfet of Police, M. Franchet, as being too liberal. Her object was announced to be the restoration of her sex to the entire exercise of its prerogative; and to effect this, she has written on gymnastics, &c.

Mme. Dauriat has also written some historical novels, and a Cours d'Histoire Religieuse et Universelle, intended to be in four volumes, but of which only the first volume has appeared (Paris, 1828), see Quérard, La France Littéraire.

"For thou with all thy sweets must die."

D. C. A. AGNEW. "HURLOTHRUMBO" (3rd S. i. 411, 456.) — A copy of the music to this play is now lying before me. It is a thin folio of ten leaves, with the following title:

"The Songs in Hurlothrumbo Compos'd by Mr. Sam1 Johnson. London: Printed for ye Author, Sold by Dan. Wright at ye Golden Bass Violin, next ye Sun Tavern in Holborn; P. Warmsley at ye Harp in Piccadilly, and W. Smith at Corelli's Head agt Norfolk Street in the Strand."

This music is the most execrable stuff that can be imagined. E. F. R.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The Life of Sir Philip Sidney. By Julius Lloyd, M.A. (Longman & Co.)

now

If biographers have been tardy in doing justice to that accomplished scholar, gallant hero, skilful statesman, and faithful Christian, Sir Philip Sidney, they seem ready and anxious to make amends for their former neglect. The ink is scarcely dry in the pen with which we called attention to Mr. Bourne's Memoir, when we have to take it up again to record a fresh biography of this observed of all observers. The work before us treats rather of the man than his works-his actions rather than his writings. It brings before us some new materials derived principally from the State Paper Office, and records in a pleasing and graceful manner all the incidents of his life. Mr. Lloyd does not fall into the common fault of biographers-the indiscriminate eulogy of his hero; but while he admits the temptations and failings of Sidney, he justly describes him as "a genuine patriot, a loyal lover of freedom, a brave and a wise gentleman." Mr. Lloyd's Life of Sidney is an acceptable addition to our biographies of English Worthies.

Of Anagrams: A Monograph treating of their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with an Introduction, containing numerous Specimens of Macaronic Poetry; Punning Mottoes; Rhopalic, Shaped, Equivocal, Lyon, and Echo Verses; Alliterations, Acrostics, Lipograms, Chronograms, Logograms, Palindromes, Bouts Rimés. By H. B. Wheatley. (Williams & Norgate.)

This extensive, and in the original quaintly printed title-page, from the press of Austin of Hertford, describes the contents of this amusing little volume. The author professes, that

"As dogs hunt rats, so would he rifle

The

The dustiest nooks to find a trifle," and he has certainly hunted with some success. subject is a curious one, which Southey and Disraeli amused themselves by writing chapters upon: and Mr. Wheatley may, therefore, well be justified in going one step beyond them, and writing a book upon it- more especially when that book turns out to be a very amusing one to those who can take an interest in these quirks and quiddities of literature.

Reminiscences Personal and Bibliographical of Thomas Hartwell Horne, B.D., F.S.A., &c. With Notes by his

Daughter, Sarah Anne Cheyne; and a Short Introduction by the Rev. Joseph B. M'Caul. (Longman.)

Mr. Horne has been well called "the nursing father of modern English biblical criticism"; and this memoir of his long and well spent, if not eventful life, is a valuable encouragement to all to follow his example, and be persevering in well-doing.

History of the Parish of Ecclesfield, in the County of York. By the Rev. J. Eastwood, M.A. (Bell & Daldy.) Fourteen years' steady and conscientious inquiry into the history of the church and parish of which he was the Curate, has enabled Mr. Eastwood to produce one of the most complete Parochial Histories which we have ever met with. Originally undertaken without any view to publication, inasmuch as the district had been described by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, the death of that gentleman, and the extent of Mr. Eastwood's special researches both here and abroad, seem to call for its being made public; and we think students of topography will be well pleased that the author has yielded to the "request of friends," and given to the world the result of his long and laborious inquiries.

BOOKS RECEIVED.—

The Chronicles of Oatlands and its Neighbourhood. A Lecture. By Henry Gay Hewlett. (J. S. Virtue.)

A pleasant gossiping Lecture, delivered and printed for the benefit of the Oatlands' Schools. Buy it, Reader. The Iliad. Book I. In English Hexameters according to Quantity. By John Murray. (Walton & Maberly.) A fresh and interesting contribution to the Homeric and Hexameter question.

The Crisis of Common Prayer. A Letter addressed to the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster. By William John Blew. (C. J. Stewart.)

An able defence of the propriety of maintaining the Prayer Book in its integrity, called forth by Lord Ebury's proposed Bills; but which we hope are withdrawn not for this Session, but for all time.

Where shall we Go? A Guide to the Watering Places of England, Scotland, and Ireland. With Maps and Illustrations. Third Edition, revised and improved. (A. & C. Black.)

It is enough to call attention to the fact, that this useful Guide to Holiday Makers has reached a third edition, which has been revised and improved.

Hints to Anglers. By Adam Dryden. Illustrated with Maps. (A. & C. Black.)

This may be called a reply to the Angler's Query Where shall we go to fish?—and contains accounts of the best fishing stations in Scotland, with illustrative maps.

Notices to Correspondents.

Among other Papers of interest, which we have been compelled to postpone, are Mr. Collier's Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company; Mr. J. G. Nichols' The Feast of the Name of Jesus; Mr. Corner's Duddyngton the Organ Builder, and Southwark or St. George's Bar; Dr. Bell on Gloves: Mr. Armistead on Faroe and Fairfield; Mr. Bartlett's Forgetfulness after Sleep; Dr. Beke's Families of Field and De la Feid; Mr. Allport's North Devonshire Folk Lore, &c.

THE INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE THIRD SERIES will be issued with "N. & Q." of the 19th instant.

THE GENERAL INDEX TO THE SECOND SERIES will be ready very shortly.

ERRATUM. 3rd S. i. p. 515, col. ii. note t, line 1, for "Caro," read "Baro."

"NOTES AND QUERIES" is published at noon on Friday, and is also issued in MONTHLY PARTS. The Subscription for STAMPED COPIES for Six Months forwarded direct from the Publishers (including the Halfyearly INDEX) is 11s. 4d., which may be paid by Post Office Order in favour of MESSRS. BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET, E.C.; to whom all COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE EDITOR should be addressed.

QUERIES:-Duddyngton, the Organ Maker: Organs and Organ Builders, 26 John Abraham Anonymous Arms on separate Shields-The Rev. Legard Blacker Counsel and Causes-S. Dunstan -The Drensteignton Cromlech Flemish Hollandish-Japanese Marriage Custom-Jacob of Archamgere-Kent Arms - Number of known Languages in the Seventeenth Century-Nephritic Stone-Pavyor, Pavier, Pavor-Statistics of Premature Interments-Public Library, Dublin - Alexis St. Martin Sinnot and Dillon Families-Upsall-William of Dudley, 26.

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in 1831, vol. i. p. 54. It is to be regretted that the editor did not correct, or suggest the correction of, various misprints: thus on p. 61 we have "mustering" for blustering: on p. 62 either" for highly, and "shelves" for shoals; on p. 65 "through" for thought, &c. He took great pains in the collation of the later editions, but they repeated the blunders of the first.]

viij Marcij. John Danter. Entred unto him for his copie &c. a booke intituled A newe booke of newe conceits.

[Probably some early jest book, but not now known, at least under that title.]

xii Marcij.-Thomas Millington. Entred for his copie &c. a booke intituled The firste parte of the Contention of the twoo famous houses of York and Lancaster, with the deathe of the good Duke

The Ballad of Sir James the Rose-Jerusalem Chamber: Henry IV. Part II. Act IV. Scene 4-Butter, Butterfly, &c.-Marabou Feathers- Quotation wanted, 29. REPLIES:- Dr. Johnson on Punning, 30-Gloves, 31Forgetfulness after Sleep, 32-Families of Field and De la Feld: the Prefix "De la to English Surnames, 33- Blue and Buff, 34-"History of John Bull"-Sara HolmesCoverdale's Bible -. Mackelcan Family Literature of Lunatics-Analogy between Colours and Musical Sounds - Adjustment of the Eye to Distance- Plurality of Editions-Climate of England - Rats leaving a Sinking Ship Private Act-Birth-day of George III.-Longevity of Lawyers-Ferula - Turkey-cocks-Age of Newspapers Portraits of Archbishop Cranmer Braose FamilyCoins in Tankards, 34.

Monthly Feuilleton on French Books, 38.

Notes.

THE REGISTERS OF THE STATIONERS'

COMPANY.

(Continued from 3rd S. i. p. 503.) 23 Febr. [1593-4.] — Edward Allde. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad intituled A doleful Songe made by Robert Randole, borne in Wales.

vja.

[Ritson (Bibl. Poet. p. 309) speaks of this "doleful song" as if it had really been written by, and not for, this criminal: see also the next entry.]

John Danter. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad intituled A wofull and sorrowfull complaint of Robert Randall and Tho. Randall his son, who were executed at St. Thomas of Waterings the xxvj of February, 1593 vjd.

[The preceding entries must have been made in anticipation of the execution: Ritson gives the date erroneously. Stow says nothing of the crime committed, but it was probably piracy.]

5 Marcij.-Thos. Creede. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke intituled The Lookinge Glasse for London, by Tho. Lodg and Robert Greene, gent. vja. [This drama was printed in 1594 by Creede under the title of "A looking Glasse for London and England: Made by Thomas Lodge, Gentleman, and Robert Greene." It was three times reprinted, viz. in 1598, 1602, and 1617, and may be seen in the edition of Greene's Works,

Duke of Suff. and the tragicall ende of the prowd Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable rebellion of Jack Cade, and the Duke of Yorke's first clayme unto the Crowne . vjd.

[The Clerk copied nearly the whole title of the old edition of this drama, which was "Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington" in 1594. The only exemplar known is in the Bodleian Library, where its value is well understood, as a play to which Shakespeare wrote additions, and which appears in the folio 1623 of his works under the title of The Second Part of Henry the Sixth. In 1843 the Shakespeare Society reprinted the piece precisely as it stands in the unique 4to copy at Oxford.]

xvjmo Marcij.-John Danter. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke entituled The number of Novelties

vjd.

xxjo Marcij. Richard Jones. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke in [ti]tuled The most delectable and famous historie of the black Knight . . vja. [A romance of Chivalry, which, if it exist, we have never seen.]

xxijo Marcij.-Abell Jeffes. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad entituled A moste sweete songe of an Englishe Merchant that killed a man in Guidine, and was for the same judged to lose his head; and how in thende a mayden saved his lyfe, by T. Daloney vja.

[The Clerk, not being a very good geographer, could not read the name of the place in the MS. laid before him, and wrote Guidine for Embden. This is the ballad upon which a play called The Marchant of Eamden was founded, which was first acted at Henslowe's Theatre on 30th July, 1594, about four months after the date of the above entry. The ballad itself is inserted in Evans's Collection, i. 28, of the last edition. Malone mis-read Eamden, in Henslowe's Diary, Candew, and speculated,

erroneously of course, that the scene of the play was laid in the island of Candia.]