Surveillante et le Quebec, 1783,' and is the more interesting in that it is the only one from a French source that I have come across. It was Dessiné et lith. par Ferd. Perrot, Publié par Vor Delarue & Cie, Place du Louvre 10," Paris; and "Imprimé par Lemercier à Paris." I shall be glad of some information about Ferd. Perrot, and to learn where the original of the lithograph is to be seen, or was exhibited. The date of the engagement was 6 Oct., 1779. 2. This is a small engraving entitled 'The Heroism of Capt. Farmer,' and gives one the impression that it was once an illustration to some book. It is drawn by R. Smirke, engraved by T. Tagg, and was published 21 April, 1810, by J. Stratford, 112; Holborn Hill. Can any one tell me anything about the original? If I am correct in thinking that it formed an illustration to a book, in what book did it appear? URLLAD. 'THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION.'-Was this song written by Charles Dibdin or William Pitt? The first verse is : One night came on a hurricane, When Barney Buntline slewed his quid, "A strong nor' wester 's blowing, Bill, I do not know anything about William Pitt, In A Book of Verse for Boys and Girls' published at the Clarendon Press the lines are attributed to Charles Dibdin. "WHAT THE DEVIL SAID TO NOAH."At a meeting of the Church Reform League at the Church House, Westminster, on of the somewhat difficult word 66 century slang meant picking pockets. ComDiving hooks.-"Diving" in eighteenthtwentieth-century equivalent pare the dipping." Drawboys.-This was a commercial term for what are now called " 'leading articles." These are goods sold at cost to attract custom. One furniture dealer, for instance, will offer a saddlebag suite as leading line, another a bedroom suite. A friend of mine set up housekeeping at the lowest figure by going the round of the furniture men and buying nothing but "drawboys." If all took this trouble, the custom would soon die a natural death. JAS. PLATT, Jun. early use of Forsooth my lesson's torn out of my book...... 18 June the Rev. J. G. McCormick, Vicar of The use is no doubt due to the custom St. Paul's, Prince's Park, Liverpool, warned of making schoolboys talk Latin. the Church against laissez-faire by telling a Is What the Devil said to Noah current proverbial saying, or was it a momentary invention of the umpire? is not in the 'Dialect Dictionary.' It J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. 66 round- ment at the garrison allowing themselves to be shut up in the town, adding, But we 'll soon get elbow room.' If a clergyman was also called Elbow-Room, then two public men living at the same time must have had the one nickname. Bible-backed. - Hump - backed, shouldered. In the Tichborne trial the following evidence was given : Was he a big lad? "Yes....He was humpy or bible-backed " (4 S. xii. 227). The allusion appears to be to the adaptability of such a sloping back, like a lectern, for resting a Bible upon it while reading. Caly.-Would smooth caly ground perhaps be ground so level as to be suitable for playing the game of cales (skittles or ninepins) on? "Kails " are sometimes so spelt. Cradley."To mow corn with a cradle scythe. See the art of cradling corn, Ellis, Mod. Husb.,' 1750, V. ii. (quoted in 'E.D.D.'). A cradle (in mowing), Machina lignea falci affixa [ut seges demessa melius componatur]," (Elisha Coles's 'Eng. Latin Dict.,' 1755. Dandles.-Coles has to dandle, "indulgeo, manibus gestare super genibus agere." Hence the hands readily become the 66 dandles." some Devil's tail.-Possibly there is connexion between the part of a printingpress so named and the saying to pull the devil by the tail," meaning to go to ruin headlong, and to be reduced to one's last shift: "The immense disproportion between the solid assets and the liabilities of the enterprise made experienced Parisian financiers say from the first that the company was pulling the devil by the tail, and a perusal of M. Monchicourt's report must confirm this view."-European Mail, 2 Aug., 1890, p. 30, col. 2. "So fond of spending his money on antiquities that he was always pulling the devil by the tail."Bentham, Works,' x. 25. Diving hooks.-" Diver" is a slang name (or was) for a pickpocket (see Dictionary of the Canting Crew,' by B. E., Gent.). "Hooks" are fingers, and to hook is to steal. In the Northamptonshire dialect "hook-fingered " is dishonest. or Drawboy.-A boy employed by weavers to pull the cords of the harness in figure weaving, hence probably a fabric thus woven; more likely the superior fabrics marked at a low price which some shopkeepers placed in their windows to attract customers. These were called drawboys because they were not intended to be sold, but only meant as decoys. Duke.-A Cornish term for a tea-kettle ('E.D.D.'). J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. Fanny Wright was an Englishwoman. She married a Frenchman named D'Arusmont; passed most of her life in America, where she was the first advocate of Woman's Rights; and died at Cincinnati in 1852. The 'D.N.B.' gives a full account of her. M. N. G. 66 Buffer.-See buffard " in Halliwell's and Stratmann's dictionaries. An A. N. word of imitative origin. Caly. Apparently a form of "callow," bald. Floreat. The coin inquired about is that known as Dublin money, or more commonly St. Patrick's halfpenny and farthing. These bear on the obverse King David kneeling and playing a harp; a crown above; legend FLOREAT REX. The reverse has St. Patrick. My specimen has a piece of brass inserted (the metal of the coin being copper), and this is, I believe, a usual characteristic of the coin. Dr. Aquilla Smith considers they were issued in Dublin between the Restoration and 1680, when the Regal copper coinage was established. A quantity of the Irish money was shipped to America. WILLIAM GILBERT. 8, Prospect Road, Walthamstow. Elbow-Room was the nickname of General JAMES INGRAM, PRESIDENT OF TRINITY Burgoyne. When Boston was besieged he COLLEGE, OXFORD (10 S. xi. 429).-The arrived with reinforcements from England, obituary notice of Dr. Ingram in The Gentleand is said to have expressed great astonish-man's Magazine for November, 1850, states that he was placed at Warminster School in 1785, entered a commoner at Winchester College in 1790, and removed in Feb., 1793, to Trinity College, Oxford." I believe that this statement, which the 'D.N.B.' (loc. cit.) reproduces with verbal alterations, is substantially correct, and that the substitution in the Index and Epitome' of "Westminster for "Warminster is an error. In 1785 the Rev. Thomas Huntingford, who had been a Winchester scholar, was master of Warminster School. He died on 18 March, 1787, and was succeeded, both at the school and at the rectory of Corsley, by his elder brother George Isaac Huntingford ('D.N.B.' xxviii. 306), who had been an assistant master at Winchester since 1776, or perhaps earlier. G. I. Huntingford returned to Winchester upon his appointment as Warden of the College in December, 1789, and Ingram was one of his pupils who followed him from Warminster. It is not clear that Ingram was at Winchester in 1790, as he is not on the school roll of that year; but he was certainly there in 1791 and 1792. On the death of Thomas Huntingford, his widow (Mary) and their children became members of G. I. Huntingford's household. The widow was buried in Winchester Cathedral in September, 1814. I should be glad to ascertain her parentage. Her daughter Charlotte Oliver married in July, 1796, Timothy Stonhouse Vigor, Archdeacon of Gloucester (1804-14), and was grandmother to George Ridding, the late Bishop of Southwell. H. C. and best of any others, being never callendered nor whitened with pap, like the others, but imported just as it comes from the whitster, and is a yard, quarter, and a half wide."-A New General English Dictionary,' begun by Thomas Dyche, finished by William Pardon, 10th ed., Dublin, 1758. Juliers (in German Jülich) is in what is now a part of Prussia, about 22 miles west of Cologne. In Nicolas Visscher's 'Belgii Regii Tabula and in Frederic de Wit's Germaniæ Tabula ' it is called Gulick," in the Juliacensis Ducatus. 6 May I point out that "holland" in the singular means a certain kind of linen, and that "" hollands (with the s) means dutch gin? ROBERT PIERPOINT. [PROF. MOORE SMITH also refers "Gulix" to Gulike or Juliers.] DR. JOHNSON'S WATCH (10 S. xi. 281, 494). -There is no various reading yàp, and there is no "for" in any of the English versions. The insertion therefore must have been a slip of memory on the part either of Johnson or (much more probably) of Boswell, who states that he saw the dial himself. Perhaps it still exists. W. T. LYNN. DR. JOHNSON'S UNCLE HANGED (10 S. xi. 429, 495).-I met with another version of this, curiously, in a grammar of the Servian language, by M. E. Muza. Among the reading exercises is a story to the effect that "Dr. Dzonstn, when asking a lady to marry him, candidly confessed to her that he had no money, and that an uncle of his had been hanged. Some women would have made Johnson feel that he had perdu un ABRIDGEMENT OF CALVIN'S INSTITUTION bon taisir,' as an old French author pic(10 S. xi. 488).-For Christopher Fether-turesquely puts it; but this one justified stone see Foster's Alumni Oxonienses,' his confidence by replying that she had no early series, ii. 494(9); and for Richard more money than he had, and that though Martin, D.N.B.,' xxxvi. 290. In Lownde's no member of her family had been hanged, 'Bibl. Man.,' ed. Bohn, 1858, i. 351, Law- there were several who deserved hanging. rence appears instead of Lawne." The Servian writer does not state where he obtained this anecdote. 66 W. C. B. GULIX HOLLAND (10 S. xi. 470).-"Gulix " appears in The New English Dictionary.' The derivation given is Gulik, the town of Juliers. The three quotations given range from 1696 to 1880. That of the eighteenth century has Guilix." Add :— "Holland......a curious sort of linen, principally the manufacture of the provinces of Holland, Friesland, &c., whence it is named; the principal mart or staple of this cloth is Haerlem, whether it is sent from most other parts as soon as wove, to be whitened, &c. It is wove of various widths and finenesses, according to the purposes intended for; that for shirting commonly called Gulix Holland, a yard wide; that for sheeting and aprons wider; the Friesland Holland is esteemed the strongest JAS. PLATT, Jun. JOHN PAUL OR PAUL JONES (10 S. xi. 447). MR. ATTON wishes to know whether " any other John Paul' signatures survive," and, if so, where they are. In the preface to the 'Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Paul Jones,' published at Edinburgh in 1830, we read :— Editor has been furnished with the letters written "Besides the above papers and documents, the by Paul Jones to his relations in Scotland, from the time that he was a ship-boy at Whitehaven [i.e. in 1759] till he died an Admiral in the Russian Service and the wearer of several Orders." At i. 13-17 the editor quotes from letters dated 22 Sept., 1772, and 5 Aug., 1770. J The signature to the former is omitted, but that to the latter is John Paul." In the same year (1830) there was published at New York the 'Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones, including his Narrative of the Campaign of the Liman. From original Letters and Manuscripts in the Possession of Miss Janette Taylor.' In his preface the editor (Robert Sands) says:"Miss Janette Taylor, a niece of Admiral Jones, arrived in this country some months ago, having in her possession original copies of all the documents which were before the Editor of the biography above commented upon [i.e. the Edinburgh 'Memoirs'], with others which were not." At pp. 20-22 of the New York work are printed the two letters mentioned above. Are they the two letters of which MR. ATTON says that he has himself seen the At signatures? 31 we read :p. "At the time when Paul settled (or more properly, supposed he meant to settle) in Virginia, it would seem that he assumed the additional name of Jones. Previous to this date, his letters are signed John Paul." This statement, coming from Jones's niece, and the remarks of the Edinburgh and New York editors, indicate that there were once in existence many letters signed John Paul." Where such letters are now to be found, I regret that I cannot say. Boston, U.S. CARLYLE AND FREEMASONRY: RICHARD CARLILE (10 S. xi. 370, 437).-If the price of Carlile's Freemasonry has gone down to one shilling, as stated by MR. HERON-ALLEN, it has had another fall, as for some forty years the price on the bookstalls has been half-a-crown. According to The English Catalogue,' it was issued in 1836, with the notorious name of Dugdale as publisher, at five shillings. The copy in The National Library is of the year 1860; they have not the original edition, which is probably very rare. It was first published in The Republican in 1825. The 'D.N.B.' has a biography of Carlile, signed with the well-known initials G. J. H., and nobody else was so well qualified to write it. Nevertheless the full name of the father, who published a collection of mathematical questions, should have been given. I find from De Morgan's Arithmetical Books,' 1847, p. 79, that it was Richard. Holyoake's article is instructive, though it suffers from compression. He was wise enough to put the bibliography into other hands, so we shall be glad to hear from the learned source from which it emanates (a contributor to N. & Q.') how it is that the Freemasonry is not included. It is curious Holyoake should omit all mention of this book, which is the only one of Carlile's. that has survived. RALPH THOMAS. "GOVERNOR OF THE ENGLISH NATION (10 S. xi. 428).--According to 'Members of Parliament: Part I. Parliaments of England, 1213-1702' (Blue book), the members for Shoreham in the Parliament summoned for 20 Jan., 1557/8, were Anthonius Hussey, armiger, and Ricardus Baker, armiger. These names are taken from the Crown Office List in the absence of Original Re turns.' ROBERT PIERPOINT. [See ante, p. 4.] ALL THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE (10 S. xi. 490).-Anstey, in the New Bath Guide,' 1766, says (p. 130, 4th ed., 1767): You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And how civil to Folk he ne'er saw in his Life! Swift uses the phrase, with a host of other colloquialisms, in his Polite Conversation,' the third dialogue, and doubtless it was in popular use long before his satirical pen. noted it. G. L. APPERSON. ፡፡ GREEN DRAGON (10 S. xi. 129).-As invariably is the case with heraldic signs, the colour (in this instance vert), is no mere fancy of the sign artist, and furnishes an important clue as to the origin of the Green Dragon," which, as well by its colour vert as by its ubiquity in town and country, may be recognized as the badge of that celebrated nobleman and sagacious statesman William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, Regent during the minority of Henry III. It is, in fact, so described in a list of signs which had their origin in the heraldic badges of the nobility, or of royalty, compiled by Bagford in his MS. notes about the art of printing (Harl. MSS., 5910, vol. ii. p. 167). By his peaceful, but vigorous administration in reducing the turbulent barons to allegiance, the Earl of Pembroke became extremely popular, the sagacity of his statecraft filling England with wealth and luxury, by her commerce with the south of France (Strickland's ' Queens of England'). Probably the " dragon" is strictly a wyvern, a kind of flying serpent, the upper part resembling a dragon, and the lower an adder or snake, for the crest of the present Earl of Pembroke is a wyvern, wings elevated, vert, holding in the mouth a sinister hand, couped at the wrist, gules. The Earl, however, traces his descent from William Herbert ap Thomas, who was advanced to the earldom of Pembroke in the eighth year of Edward IV., about 250 years after the three years of the Regency of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. One with 'THE DIABOLIAD,' BY WILLIAM COMBE (10 S. ix. 227; xi. 458).—In case some budding bibliographer should be led astray, it may be well to record that copies exist dated 1677, a printer's error for 1777. of these is in the writer's possession, the blank names identified. The Fitzpatrick is added to the initial “F.......... on p. 3, line 14, in this exemplar. There is no name blank (or annotation) on p. 20. Possibly the Dublin edition was revised or recast. WILLIAM JAGGARD. Liverpool. name There is a very interesting reference to "The Diaboliad' in a letter from George Selwyn to Lord Carlisle, February, 1777; see Hist. MSS. Com., Fifteenth Report, Appendix, Part VI. 320 : "The author of a new Grub Street poem, I see, allows me a great share of feeling, at the same time that he relates facts of me, which, if they were true, would, besides making me ridiculous, call very much into question what he asserts with any reasonable man. I do not know if you have not, paltry as it is, I should send it to you. The received this performance. If I thought you had work I mean is called 'The Diaboliad.' His hero is Lord Ernham [sic]. Lord Hertford and Lord Beauchamp are the chief persons whom he loads with his invectives. Lord Lyttleton [and] his cousin Mr. Ascough are also treated with not much levity; well as C. Fox; and Fitzpatrick, although painted Lord Pembroke with great familiarity, as in colours bad enough at present, is represented as one whom in time the devil will lose for his disciple. I am only attacked upon that trite and very foolish opinion concerning le pene e le delitté led delitti, insatiable curiosity, and not from mauvais cœur. In acknowledging [it] to proceed from an odd and some places I think there is versification, and a few good lines, and the piece seems to be wrote by one not void of parts, but who with attention might write much better. believe that he does it without malice, but if I had "I forgive him his mention of me, because I leisure to think of such things, I must own the frequent repetition of the foolish stories would make me peevish. Alas, I have no time to be peevish." He was usher of Magdalen College School, JOHN SLADE, DORSET (10 S. xi. 488).Oxford, 1546-8; master 1548-9; ordained deacon in London April, 1554, being then M.A.; the master of Bruton School before 1554; Vicar of Stogumber 1556-9; Rector 1559; Rector of Clifton Maybank, Dorset, of Thornford 1559; and of South Perrot 1561. He supplicated for the B.D. degree 2 Nov., 1570. (See Macray's Magd. Coll. Register,' ii. 88, 89; Frere's Marian Reaction,' p. 270.) . suffered at Winchester 30 Oct., 1583 (as to The Catholic martyr John Slade, who whom see Father Pollen's Acts of English Martyrs,' pp. 49-62; Cath. Rec. Soc. v. 8, 39, 48-50, 395), was taken in Dorsetshire, which was reported to be his native county. Was he a son of the Rector of South Perrot ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. lii. 365. For Matthew Slade see 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,' His elder brother Samuel (1568of Embleton, Northumberland, 1612?) was M.A.Oxon. 1594, then Vicar but resigned the living to travel in search of MSS., and died in Zante. Their mother was Joan |