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Universelle des Musiciens' of Schow, that the word is a river-name, and Joseph Fétis, who says:-to that instance I can now add the Asbourne ost fort pauvre car dans les années 1635," Schoo," which occurs under the following 164 1642, les procurateurs de Saint Marc lui forms, Scolebroc, Scolebrok, Scolbrok (1331). Recordèrent, une première fois 40 ducats, et and Skolobrok (1378). Chacune des deux autres 20 ducats per mera Here again it is carità (par simple charité) comme il est dit purely a stream name. I can quote two dans les régistres de la Cathédrale. Il écrivit other references for Derbyshire, **Schula musique de l'opéra Ercole in Lida, qui fut chawe," near représenté au théâtre della Cavallereza à Venise, en 1645. Il avait aussi commencé la composition d'Argiope autre opéra, mais il n'acheva pas cet ouvrage, qui fut terminé par Alexandre Leardini d'Urbino, et représenté au théâtre Saint Jean et Saint Paul, en 1649." ANDREW DE TERNANT.

36, Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. THE COLOURS OF HORSES (12 S. xi. 169, 212, 357). Sixty years ago, in the Shires,

there was but one version :

One white leg buy a horse,
Two white legs try a horse,
Three white legs shy a horse,
Four white legs shoot a horse.

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Repton (XII cent.), and Scoulewode," in Scarcliff (1413). These two instances practically preclude derivation from either "shaw," or its O.N. cognate skogr." In my humble opinion this element, whatever its origin may be, is related to the Flemish river-name Scheldt (skelt), called by the French Escaut esko), which may contain the root of tha: common river-designation esk. I may be permitted to say that Davis's Derbyshire Place-names,' published in the Journal o the Derbyshire Archæological Society in 1880. is useless for modern purposes, and has beer superseded by Walker's monograph, published by the same Society in 1914-5, and even that gives us no help when we come to such obscure forms as the one under discussion.

Derby.

F. WILLIAMSON.

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MEDAL-AND-CUP MEN (12 S. xi. 330). with Synonymous Pot-Hunters," Le.. exhibitors of beasts at cattle-shows wh sought their profits in the medals and cup

awarded, rather than in the butchering value of their exhibits. The fat beasts a the cattle-shows were famous, but nc: advantageous except as prize-winners. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

"C.E." (12 S. xi. 329). These letters "Common

Era,"

G. F. R. B. The opium poppy (papaver somniferum) or chesboll, corrupted into cheesebowl," was so called in the fifteenth century because, as the N. E. D.' supposes, of the shape of the seed vessel. The chesboll got confused are an abbreviation of with the somewhat similar name of the usually used after the Jewish date, e.g., yea onion, chibol (ribol and chebok), dialect 4761 (from the Creation) is 1001 C. E., whic forms of which are jibbole and chepple, and to all intents and purposes is 1001 A.D. S. the Scotch sybow, which derive from Fr. that the letters and figures used by th ciboule, Span. cebolla, Ital., cipollo. The Oxford University Press mean that th chibol was intermediate in size between the period covered is from 969 A.D. to 1204 A.D common onion and the leek, and was used in A long account will be found in the Jewis and salads, but is little known in England at Encyclopedia' the Encyclopædi the present day. Britannica,' under Calendar.'

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N. W. HILL.

SCHOW" IN PLACE-NAMES (12 S. xi. 230, 317). I do not propose to reply at length to correspondents, except to say that I do not believe any of the suggested alternative meanings quite meets the case. I have

ARCHIBALD SPARKE

Surely C. E. stands for Christian Era. The reason for a Jew preferring to use this expression rather than A.D. is obvious.

E. W. B.

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DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH WANTED (12 S. xi. 331).- 4. George Gumbleton. According to Foster, Mr. George Gumbleton was born in 1844. He died about 1897, in London. The Inner Temple Treasurer's Office could no doubt supply the exact date. W. H. QUARRELL.

4.-Foster's 'Men at the Bar,' 1885, has George Gumbleton, B.C.L., B.A. Christ Church, Oxon, born 1844, younger son of the late Rev. George Gumbleton, of Belgrove, Queenstown, Co. Cork; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 26 Jan. 1870. He was reporter in the Queen's Bench Division, and died in or about the 'nineties. W. B. H.

5. Mary E. Hawker (Lanoe Falconer),

1848-1908.

12. Robert White (Antiquary of New castle), 1802-1874.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

"CLOCK HOUSE" (12 S. xi. 272, 335).Stow's Survey (ed. Thoms), at p. 176, says of the Palace of Westminster :

dean of St. Stephen's, with the wages of sixpence a day out of his Exchequer. Thoms adds this note from 'Anecdotes and Traditions,' published the Camden by Society:

paid eight hundred marks for Justice Ingham, in the reign of Edward I, a fine, for that a poor man, being fined in an action for debt at thirteen shillings and fourpence, the said justice, being moved with pity, caused the roll to be razed, and made it six shillings and eightpence. This case Justice Southcote remembered, when Catlyn, chief justice of the King's Bench in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, would have ordered a razure of a roll in the like case, which Southcote utterly denied to assent unto, and said openly that he meant not to build a clock-house; for," said he, ' with the fine that Ingham paid for the like matter, the clock-house at Westminster was builded and furnished with a clock, which continueth to this day." JOHN B. WAINWRIGHT. 66 ELF-SHOT " (12 S. xi. 347).-Chambers's Scots Dialect Dictionary' has::Elf-shoot, v. to bewitch; to shoot with an elf-arrow.

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Elf-shot n. a flint arrow-head; a disease or injury to persons or cattle, credited to fairy malice; the lady's mantle.-ppl. adj. shot or injured by fairies.

Was the plant used to cure the injury? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE CHILDREN (2 S. vii. 260; 12 S. xi. 351, 372).— John Ray, F.R.S., who was at the Hague, 28 to 31 May, 1663, went to "Laus-dun,' when he was there and copied the major part of the inscription (see his 'Travels,' 2nd ed. (1738), Vol. i., p. 26).

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JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. DESCENDANTS OF PERKIN WARBECK (12 S. xi. 248, 378).-Richard, Duke of York, was born at Shrewsbury, Aug. 17, 1473, and the person described as Perkin Warbeck was not born until the following year. The Duke of York was married in his infancy, Jan. 15, 1478, to Anne, only child and heiress of John, first Duke of Norfolk, a very powerful nobleman, and it is incredible that the Duke of York could have been smuggled out of the tower unknown to the Duke of Norfolk. If

The said palace, before the entry thereunto, the Duke of York was taken out of the tower, hath a large court, and in the same a why was he taken in preference to his brotower of stone, containing a clock, which striketh every hour on a great bell, to be ther the Prince of Wales?

What evidence

heard into the hall at sitting time of the is there that Lady Catherine Warbeck had a courts, or otherwise; for the same clock, in a son named George Edward? And who was calm, will be heard into the city of London. the "Sir James Douglas" whose daughter, King Henry VI gave the keeping of this clock, with the tower called the clock-house, Janet, is said to have

been married to

and the appurtenances, unto William Walsby, George Edward? I cannot trace

son.

Credence was given to the story by Horace ABORIGINE (12 S. xi. 269, 332).-In the Walpole and some others, because, I pre absence of any ascertained nominative sinsume, the Duchess of Burgundy, the sister gular in Latin for "Aborigines," anyone is of Edward IV, and aunt of the unfortunate justified in using any nominative singula princes, supported Perkin Warbeck's claim that he thinks fit in English. The to be the rightful King of England. I. 'Thesaurus Linguæ Latina' (1900) says the should be borne in mind that Lady Tich- nom. sing. is only found in glossary-writers. borne thought that Arthur Orton was her It quotes "aborigo" as nom. sing. from such a writer, but without any reference I am keenly interested in this matter, except "Gloss." The statement in the because Lady Catherine Gordon was really a 'O.E. D.,' under "Aborigen," that "Abor Seton-her grandfather, Alexander Seton, igines "had no sing. in Latin, thus seems to first Earl of Huntly, having taken the go too far. Schwegler, Romische Gesname of Gordon-and I shall be glad to learn chichte' i. 199, thinks the nom. sing. may if there is any documentary evidence extant be " aboriginis," like the nom. sing. of the of the birth of George Edward as a son of adjective "cognominis," but he does not Lady Catherine by Perkin Warbeck. commit himself to this. Pauly-Wissowa's May I add that it seem strange that. Real-Encyclopädie,' under "Aborigines," Robert Lindsay, the great Scottish discuses the derivation, as does Schwegler: chronicler, who must have known more about but neither authority comes this story than Horace Walpole, wholly clusion. ignored it.

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

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Devonshire

39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. THE APOCRYPHA (12 S. xi. 271). It is In the Transactions of the usual to find the Apocrypha in Bibles from Association, 1900, pp. 564-5, there is a copy 1525 to 1800, unless the contrary is stated. of the M.I. of Sir John Perring, in the In the case of many 17th and 18th century Membland Chapel of Holbeton Church, near Bibles it is difficult to determine whether a Ivybridge, Membland, South Devon. The words place of burial is given as S. Pancras,

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I find in my copy of N. Bailey's English Dictionary,' 31st edition, London, MDCCLXX, the word "Uncle" does not appear, the words passing from "Uncivil" to Unclean. It is also absent from E Coles's English Dictionary,' London, 1717. W. S. B. H.

M. No Apocrypha" mean that the list of books omit them, but even then they are UNCLE AND OTHER OMISSIONS IN DICoccasionally inserted, so says the Preface to TIONARIES (12 S. xi. 170. 357).--I may give the 'Historical Catalogue of Printed Q. V. the fact that in Grimm's great German Bibles,' issued by the British and Foreign Wörterbuch' (the would-be parallel of our Bible Society. In England the opposition to Oxford Dictionary '), the word Cultur the insertion of the Apocrypha came from (Kultur) is not to be found. the Puritans, and took final form in the Westminster Conference (1648). The books commonly called the Apocrypha, not being of Divine inspiration, are no part of the Canons of the Scripture; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be in any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings." This means the exclusion of the Apocrypha from the Bible and from use in the Church service, MINISTER OF HEALTH (12 S. xi. 131).--I which the Puritans demanded in 1689. It was under the impression that was not until 1827, after two years' sharp Williams was the first responsible publicis: dispute, that the British and Foreign Bible to advocate the establishment of a Ministry Society decided to exclude the Apocrypha of Health, thirty-two years ago, in his from all its publications of the Bible. On Later Leaves.' A Farringdon Street stall the Continent this decision provoked a storm has yielded a volume, A Ministry of of disapproval, which ended in 1850. Health,' Chatto and Windus, 1789, by Dr Benjamin Ward Richardson, and it appears

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that he should be credited with having first made the suggestion. The book contains his address on A Ministry of Health,' delivered before the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain at the Stafford Congress, in October,

1878.

H. PROSSER CHANTER. REFERENCES WANTED (12 S. xi. 350).-1. The passage asked for is in Mark Pattison's Books and Critics,' a lecture delivered at Birmingham on October 29, 1877, and published in the Fortnightly Review for November of that year :

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'How insignificant an item of household expenditure is the bookseller's bill in a middleclass family! A man who is making £1,000 a year will not think of spending £1 per week on books." (p. 672).

A higher standard was upheld by him on another occasion. In Recollections of Mark Pattison' which appeared in Temple Bar for January, 1885, Mr. Theodor Friedrich Althaus writes:

"I went on to ask him [the occasion was his first walk with Pattison] about his own library. He said. I have the largest private

collection in Oxford-about sixteen thousand

volumes; and, after speaking of the delight he took in gathering the books about him, added: There actually are many men with incomes of £500, who don't spend as much as £50 on books.' p. 34 in Temple Bar, vol. lxxiii and p. 4 in the off-print of Mr. Althaus's

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EDWARD BENSLY.

to the Essex attempt, Such a wicked imagination was determined and attempted by a that ever your Majesty made:' to which her most unkind gent, the most adorned creature Majesty rejoined: He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors: this tragedy was played 40tie times in open streets and houses. (Nichols, Progresses of Elizabeth,' iii. 552).

A. R. BAYLEY.

HERALDRY: CHURCH BRASSES (12 S. xi. 350).Some of the many books on brasses give the heraldry of the shields on brasses, but besides these there are Transactions of various Societies and pamphlets printed for private circulation. The latter quote heraldry and family history somewhat fully. I have a number of these, especially those referring to Yorkshire brasses and if Mrs. Cope likes to send me a list of heraldry required, I will try to find the proper descriptions. WALTER E. GAWTHORP.

HERALDIC: FOREIGN STATES AND DUKEDOMS (12 S. xi. 331, 375).-Siebmacher's huge Wappenbuch' ought to be useful in this connexion. It has been in course of publication (at Nürnberg) trated, and, with its various divisions, subfor over half a century. It is fully illusof additions, corrections, &c., divisions, arms of extinct families, appendices extends to volumes. The second about one hundred armorial bearings of non-German Sovereigns Abtheilung' of the first volume contains the and States (1857), and another section (1894) is devoted to "Die Europäischen Fürstengeschlechter nicht Römish-Kaiserlicher oder Siebmacher fills several shelves in the British bundesfürstlicher Extraction." Reading Room. It is a fascinating work.

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EDWARD BENSLY.

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The late Mark Fattison, who had 16,000 volumes, and whose lightest word has therefore weight, once stated that he had THE ECCLESIOLOGIST (12 S. xi. 331). been informed, and verily believed, that there This publication of the Cambridge Camden were men of his own University of Oxford Society (afterwards the Ecclesiological Society) who, being in uncontrolled possession of an- was first published in November, 1841. It nual incomes of not less than £500 thought seems to have run into 29 volumes and ceased they were doing the thing handsomely if they in 1868. The first four volumes were printed expended £50 a year upon their libraries. in Cambridge, and volumes v. to xxix in But we are not bound to believe this unless London. Volume iv was called New Series we like. There was a touch of morosity Volume i.' when it was disconnected from the about the late Rector of Lincoln, which led Cambridge Camden Society. The first edition him to take gloomy views of men, particularly of No. 1 (November, 1841) is very scarce, as Oxford men.' it was suppressed shortly after it had been issued in consequence of a remonstrance respecting the remarks on the then recently 2.-A performance of Richard II' (probably erected St. Paul's Church, Cambridge: "The Shakespeare's play) took place on Saturday, flippant tone in which this paper is written, 7 February, 1600/1, the day preceding the one appears to us singularly offensive. The followfixed by Lord Essex for his rising in the ing sentence may serve as a specimen - As streets of London. Staunton in his Intro- the altar is not yet put up, and, probably, not duction to this play says that Queen Eliza yet thought of, we cannot say where it will beth in a conversation with the accom- be placed: indeed, we are inclined to fear plished William Lambarde, twelve months that it has been forgotten altogether." afterwards (4 August, 1601), on the occasion remonstrance was signed by Professors Willis of his presenting her with his pandect of her and Sedgwick, J. M. Heath, W. H. Thompson, Rolls in the Tower, when, looking through J. Grote, W. C. Mathison, W. J. Conybeare, the records, she came to the reign of Richard A. Thacker, M. A. Atkinson, Fellows II she remarked: I am Richard II, know Trinity, and three others. ye not that?' Lambarde replied, in allusion

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I am keenly interested in this matter, because Lady Catherine Gordon was really a Seton-her grandfather, Alexander Setor first Earl of Huntly, having taken name of Gordon-and I shall be glad to ' if there is any documentary evidence of the birth of George Edward as Lady Catherine by Perkin Warbe May I add that it Robert Lindsay, the g chronicler, who must have k this story than Horace ignored it.

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Readings in English Social History from
Contemporary Literature. Vol. v. 1689-1837.
Edited by R. B. Morgan. (Cambridge Uni
versity Press. 4s.)

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MR. MORGAN'S selection of readings to illus arum German- trate a period so lengthy and so crowded with it Prior's version matter has JAMY been made with considerable usical Miscellany, success. It seems curious to adopt Macaulay Fardel of Epigrams,' as a "contemporary source for the character of the English Squire of 1688; we think that story will be found in Washington Irving and Moritz are given gives an anecdote of an rather too much space, and Coxe's account of v having been condemned to the South Sea Bubble seems disproportionately ful exaction, just as the hang- stiff reading. The omissions Bibles it is place the rope round his neck, Still, the volume contains many attractive (casting-counters) with which things, provides a pretty good survey of the copy wa "No Ar his jailor's bill, suspecting in his superficial aspect of English life during the unlawful exaction (Les Contes et eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, books c d'Eutrapel, 1586, chap. xxiii, edn. and is illustrated with well-chosen pictures. F. P. BARNARD. Benham's Guide to Colchester. By W. Gurney

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Some Aspects of the Genius of Giovanni
Boccaccio. By Edward Hutton. (Oxford
University Press. 1s. 6d.)

are striking.

Benham. (Colchesteer, Benham & Co. 15.) THE average merit of local guide-books has been so considerably enhanced of late that to say of one that it is among the best is no poor compliment. Mr. Gurney Benham is no doubt to hearing his Colchester well-accustomed He has here further Guide thus described. secured himself in his ample right to have it so by enlarging this fifteenth edition of his work. PERHAPS, even to those who actually know with scholarly accounts of recently found a better, Boccaccio appears too predominantly tiquities, and with numerous additions to the as the author of the Decameron,' with the already lavish illustration of the text. Much character implied thereby. The general to be recommended from the first, the Guide reader may know that he was the lover of may now be still more warmly recommended. Fiammetta, the friend of Petrarch, the industrious and multifarious scholar, the enthusiast whose patience won for Italy and Europe the knowledge of Homer; but these sides of his life lie a little in abeyance. The essay before Notice to Correspondents. us brings them forward most attractively, and should stimulate lovers of Italian literature whose acquaintance with Boccaccio is EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed relatively superficial to a renewed study of to "The Editor of Notes and Queries,' him. For those who have not the opportunity Essex St., Strand, W.C.2." -Advertisements to do this it offers a clear, finely conceived and Business Letters, and Corrected Proofs well-proportioned delineation of him, which by "The Publisher "at The Bucks Free Press itself is worth adding to one's mental stock. 20, High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks,

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