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See a pin an' pick it up,

All the day you go in luck;
See a pin an' let it lie,

You'll want a pin before you die.

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Pins were then much dearer than nowonly a small portion of a sheet for penny-piece," as that coin used to be generally called. This rime varied in construction in the second and last lines, but the meaning was the same-to recognize the value of small things.

The second rime as I first knew it ran :—
Pins an' needles, needles an' pins,
When a man's married his trouble begins.

The third rime ran :—

It warn't last night, bu' th' night before,
Three big beggars knoud at the door;
I made haste to let them in,

An' was knockt down wi' a rowlin' pin.
Another was

Gimme a pin t' stick i' ma shin,
Ter carry my legs to London;

and as we said this we jumped on the back of the nearest lad or lass, and pretended with our heels "to spur the horse."

My mother said these rimes to amuse us, and as it seemed she knew them from her mother, it would not be easy to say anything 22 of any. about the "earliest instance The looking for pins and picking them up was general with children as well as with grown-up people. Women placed these found pins securely in their gowns ; and there was hardly a man who had not pins stuck in the edge of his waistcoat

collar.

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Worksop.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

MOON SUPERSTITIONS (10 S. xii. 406).— That of seeing the moon first through glass is very common. I had once a curious illustration of its effects. A patient, who was in bed with some temporary illness,

was so anxious not to see the moon through glass that she got out of bed, rather thinly clad, and went downstairs through cold passages to find an open window through which she could see it. The result, as might be expected, was an attack of pleurisy or pneumonia, I forget which.

I believe it is not at all an uncommon occurrence for the observance of a superstition to be the cause of the evil it was J. FOSTER PALMER. intended to avert. Royal Avenue, S. W.

FEET OF FINES: IDENTIFICATIONS (10 S. xii. 450).—" Burnedhis " is Brundish in Hoxne Hundred, Suffolk.

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Bonegeton MR. ROWE will have a difficulty in identifying with any place in Suffolk. W. A. COPINGER.

Manchester.

With regard to the Buckinghamshire portion of this query, Eselebergh" is Tothe Ellesborough (near Aylesbury). wyk" is now Tetchwick (between Waddesdon and Bicester).

A pedigree of the De Altâ Ripâ family (Hawtrey of Checquers) will be found in Lipscomb's History of Bucks,' vol. ii. p. 192.

Upton.

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CAMELARIO,” " SPANISH TERM (10 S. xii. 48). See El Delincuente Español. El Lenguaje,' por Rafael Salillas, Madrid, 1896, p. 221: Camelar, en el sentido de seducir y de engañar: muy usada, como su derivado camelo, engaño." Camelario, then, would be engañador. A. D. JONES. Oxford.

The work MR. PLATT refers to is an almanac interspersed with humorous verse of no great merit. The verb camelar is often used in what is called genero chico or zarzuelas. The noun camelario may possibly be a corruption of calendario, but this is a mere surmise.

Zaragatorio, I am told, is used in the sense W. L. POOLE. of "droll, festive." Montevideo.

A NEW LIGHT ON THE DOUGLAS CAUSE

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(10 S. viii. 3).—As Mr. R. Storry Deans has written a monograph in his 'Notable Trials,' and Mr. A. Francis Steuart has edited a whole volume upon this famous cause in the Notable Scottish Trials series, it may be presumed that the subject has continued to attract attention since Mr. Percy Fitzgerald wrote his book on Lady Jean. and my 'Story of a Beautiful Duchess was published. Possibly some other writer

at some time or other may be led to sum
up the whole evidence, and so it will not
be out of place to mention that a letter of
mine upon this subject appeared in The
Athenæum on 11 Jan., 1908, and another
in The Nation at the end of February or
beginning of March of the same year.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Last Journals of Horace Walpole during the Reign of George III. from 1771 to 1783. 2 vols. (John Lane.)

THIS new edition of the Journals of Horace Walpole is contained in two volumes, well printed, neatly bound, and bearing a bookstamp of the arms of Walpole. The preface and notes to the former edition by Dr. Doran (a name well known to N. & Q.') are added; and a new and interesting Introduction by the editor, Mr. A. Francis Steuart, completes the work, which is illustrated by numerous well-reproduced portraits of celebrities mentioned in the Journals. We particularly commend to notice the portraits of the beautiful Duchess of Gloucester (Walpole's niece) and the Duchess of Cumberland (Mrs. Horton). There is a copious and convenient Index to each volume.

The last Journals, now before us, contain many invaluable comments on Parliamentary debates, foreign news, and Court gossip, but two principal Features are to be noted as permeating both volumes: firstly, the narrative of the marriage of Walpole's niece Maria Walpole, Countess Dowager Waldegrave, to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester and of their subsequent married life; and secondly, the origin and course of the War of Independence in America.

The story of the Duchess of Gloucester is well known. Sir Edward Walpole, the elder brother of the author of these Journals, ran away with a pretty seamstress, Mary Clement; but, owing to the high position of his father he never dared to marry her. From this illegitimate union came three daughters, and their fortunes are recorded in these Journals by their kindly and observant bachelor uncle.

The second girl, Maria Walpole, married James, second Earl Waldegrave, and after his decease married George III.'s brother the Duke of Gloucester. The marriage was for some time kept quiet, but was ultimately revealed to the King, and acknowledged by him, though with great bitterness, following as it did on the marriage of the Duke of Cumberland to Mrs. Horton. Maria lived and died as Duchess of Gloucester, but her life was somewhat embittered towards its close by the infatuation of the Duke of Gloucester for one of her ladies-in-waiting, the Hon. Almeria = Carpenter; and it is curious to note that the litigation lately subsisting in the BosvilleMacdonald suit suggests that the wife of the third Lord Macdonald of the Isles, viz., Maria Louisa la Coast, was the child of Almeria Carpenter by the Duke of Gloucester. Horace Walpole does not mention this lady's

birth or her mother's name in his Journals, but the information as to the Duke of Gloucester's association with Almeria Carpenter is supplied by the editor.

As regards the American War, its origin and causes are fully discussed in the middle of the first volume, and an almost weekly diary of the events of the war appears in the subsequent pages.

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The Journals in question form a continuation of the same author's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III.,' and in Walpole's own words they are rather calculated for my own amusement than for posterity. I like to keep up the thread of my observations. If they prove useful to anybody else I shall be glad, but I am not to answer for their imperfections.'

Horace Walpole was no mere scribbler, but a gentleman holding a position which gave him every chance of exercising his talents of intellecIt is tual observation and literary application. not within the scope of this notice to mention the many items of interest in the Journals; but among the many hundreds of them we would call attention to his description of the heated debates on the Royal Marriage Bill; the failure of the Scottish banks; the right of the Commons to control the finances of the realm; the description of the appearance of Lord Chatham when in bed with the gout; the insignificance of German princes and princesses as compared with our own high nobility; the Gordon Riots; and the births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and separations which occurred in the Court circles of the times. These are only a sample of the many interesting subjects mentioned in the Journals; and in the notes will be found biographical references to celebrities, and many quotations and epigrams on the subjects to which they refer.

Horace Walpole, in fine, although a man of strong political bias and a great lover of gossip. had a genius for friendship, and a fund of sound sense which adds much to his political writing. On p. 6 of the editor's Introduction we notice two misprints in the middle of the page, where the "second Earl of Oxford" should in both We instances be the second Earl of Orford. heartily commend the volumes to our readers. A History of the Oxford Museum. By H. M. and K. Dorothea Vernon. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)

"6 Philo

ENGLISH Science had its birth in Oxford. The
members of the seventeenth-century
as it was called-Wallis,
sophical Society,"
Bathurst, Petty, Willis, Seth Ward (expelled
from Cambridge by the Puritans), Sydenham,
Christopher Wren, and Robert Boyle-fled from
the fumum et opes, strepitumque of the metro-
polis to gather in the peaceful hall and garden of
Wadham College, under the leadership of its
enlightened Warden, Dr. Wilkins; the oldest
Museum, the oldest Physick Garden, in England,
still preserve the names of Elias Ashmole, of Lord
Danby and the two Tradescants.
tion decadence crushed the newborn impulse:
philosophy was scoffed at, discredited, opposed;
until in the opening nineteenth century it was
represented only by two or three professors,
who drew meagre salaries, and gave no lectures.

But Restora

The pioneers of its revival were Daubeny and Buckland; but Daubeny, though widely learned and an able writer, was helpless as a teacher, and Buckland, a brilliant lecturer and a great

geological discoverer, early despaired of forcing science on the University, and would take no steps to promote it until the British Association, meeting at Oxford in 1847, proclaimed in tones which left a sting behind the scandal of its miserable equipment and its inefficient teaching. From this time the advocates of reform threw a new spirit into their efforts : their numbers, largely increased, were led by a champion of rare force, persistence, tact, and prescience. In Henry Acland, lately settled in Oxford as a medical practitioner and Lee's Reader in Anatomy, they possessed, say the authors of this little volume with equal truth and justice, a protagonist who had the patience and perseverance, the enthusiasm and unflagging energy, needed for both waiting and working....The foundation of the Museum, and to a great extent the establishment of an Honour School in Science, were in the first place due to his efforts."

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A few men still survive who were contem; porary with, and took part in, the ten years' struggle which preceded the renaissance. On one side was an acknowledged need: professors demanding space for apparatus, specimens, lectures; stores of material overflowing their narrow bounds, and locked away in drawers or boxes; the old Ashmolean a mockery; Buckland's treasures houseless, as was the unrivalled entomoOn the other side all logical Hope Collection. proposals for a new museum were vehemently opposed-by conservatism hating all things new; by economists predicting limitless outlay; by Tutors jealous of Professors; by classicists denouncing science as intrusive; by the orthodox condemning it as subtly ministrant to false doctrine, heresy, and schism. Acland " worked and waited,' gathered round him students, published letters and pamphlets modestly representing Science as the handmaid, not the rival, of Theology; by this means converted Pusey, whose nigra pecudes throughout the country, obediently following their leader, turned the scale of Convocation votes. In 1856 30,000l. were granted for the immediate erection of a Museum; the first stone was laid by the Chancellor, Lord Derby; and by 1860 the partially completed building was handselled by the famous British Association meeting, at which Wilberforce and Huxley disputed over Origin of Species.'

The

The beautiful details of the new edifice, superintended and developed by Woodward's genius, brought Art as well as Science into Oxford. Woolner and Pollen, Morris and Burne-Jones (the two latter still undergraduates), served under and helped him; Ruskin came to bless, suggest, contribute. Busts of the great men of science, from Bacon onwards, were presented by munificent donors; the columns of the arcades represented a geological series; their capitals were carved in botanical sequence by the Irish brothers O'Shea; the iron supports of the central glass roof were wrought into fruit and foliage by Skidmore.

All these interesting details, already lapsing into oblivion, are rescued and preserved in Dr. and Mrs. Vernon's careful compilation, which enumerates also the famous teachers whom the New Learning brought successively to enrich the professorial staff: Phillips, Brodie, Rolleston, Clifton, Moseley, Burdon-Sanderson, Turner, Prestwich, Tylor. One deserving name we are

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sorry that they should have omitted-that of Charles Robertson, Aldrichian Demonstrator, and Tutor for the Anatomical School. Many men notable to-day look back with gratitude to his conscientious teaching; many, too, amongst the most beautiful biological preparations on the Museum shelves are the work of his dexterous fingers. Living into the opening of a new century, Acland saw, in space, cost, extension, usefulness, his conception trebled; saw ideas embodied which he could not have imagined, yet which were evolved from his immature origination, and due to his self-sacrificing toil. So it has always been. Other men labour, that we may enter into their labours; we in our turn sow and rear, in the belie that, to an extent beyond our knowledge, yet not beyond our hopes, we are forwarding the cause of humanity.

Longer Poems, with Introduction and Notes by The English Parnassus : an Anthology of two Scotch professors, Mr. W. M. Dixon and Mr. H. J. C. Grierson, is another of the excellent collections of the Clarendon Press. The volume begins with the Prologue to The Canterbury Khayyam.' The Preface indicates that in the Tales,' and ends with FitzGerald's Omar case of this poem, and Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold, "considerations of copyright have excluded the use of some later emendations."

The last phrase is inadequate in view of the Mr. Dixon, who has produced a 'Primer of Tennychanges Tennyson made in In Memoriam.' son, knows perfectly well that the whole of Canto XXXIX, as printed in the final form of In Memoriam' is missing in the text used here. doubt if it is fair at all to reproduce earlier versions This fact should have been frankly stated. We of pieces worked over with the utmost care by an artist like Tennyson. At any rate, both in his case and that of FitzGerald the edition used, with the year of its production, should have been

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Notices to Correspondents.

and address of the sender, not necessarily for pubON all communications must be written the name lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

We cannot undertake to answer queries privately. nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them.

EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Pubishers" at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.

CECIL CLARKE ("Raleigh or Ralegh "?).-See the numerous contributions at 7 S. i. 252, 396, 455; x. 102, 345, 491; xi. 77, 195; 9 S. vii. 7, 158, 191, 455.

V. S. A. (Trichinopoly).-We regret we cannot exchange.

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INDEX.

TENTH SERIES.-VOL. XII.

For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED,
EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, OBITUARIES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS,
SHAKESPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS, and TAVERN SIGNS.]

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Westminster Abbey: western towers, 64

Abridgement of Calvin's Institution,' 12

Abyssinia: W. H. Coffin in, 108, 230; Spanish
priests in, 189

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Ackerley (F. G.) on 'Haughendo":

oath, 56

Parodies of Kipling, 238

Ackermann (R.) on Thackeray queries, 27

Acorn, 18-gun brig, and slaver Gabriel, 28

Actor v. preacher, 246

Fylde

Actors, travelling, courts for, c 1477, 267
Actresses, notable, their burial-places, 449, 513
Adam (F. A. S.) on parodies of Kipling, 128
Addison (Joseph) and death, 346

Addy (S. O.) on combined monastic and parochial
churches, 168

Scottish churches, their ownership, 168
Adoxography, meaning of the word, 387
Agassiz (Robert) and Mlle. Langes, 7
Agri on astronomy in the middle Ages, 9
Albany Baths, York Road, Lambeth, 429

Alleyn (Giles and Christopher), of Holywell, 341
Allot (R.), errors in England's Parnassus,' 235
Althorp (Lord) in the House of Commons, 1806, 6
Alvary or Alvery, Christian name, 309, 397, 416
Alveredus or Auveray, Christian name, 397, 416
Alvery or Alvary, Christian name, 309, 397, 416
Amberelli (Marie), Court of Requests, 258
America, 5th of November in, 364, 458
American on Spare family, 130

American Hygienic Press Association on vacuum
cleaning, 308

American Indians, monuments to, 87, 230, 358
Amyraut (Moses), Westminster scholar, 209
Anderson (P. J.) on bibliography of theses, 27
Bibliographical terms, 205
Historiographers Royal, 106
Inverness bibliography, 227

Andrasta, alluded to by W. Baxter, 1733, 489
Anecdotes, parliamentary, works on, 227
Angel or Anger (John), d. 1751, 6
Anniversaries, book of, 428
Anonymous Works :-

American in Paris, 410
Daniel Fosqué, 169
Excursion to Jersey, 38

Gin a bogie meet a bogie, 509
Golden Lyre, c. 1830, 407, 473

Hora Subsecivæ, 1620, 101, 162

How a Man may choose a Good Wife, 1602, 67
Letters of Runnymede, 80

Short Whist, 264, 318, 357
Vortigern and Rowena, 508
Yahoo, 130, 177, 275

Anscombe (A.) on Cyranus Lucii Regis Pincerna,

269

London: origin of the name, 114

Antiquary's Books, suggestions, 383

Apperson (G. L.) on "All the world and his wife,"

13

De Quincey quotations, 139
Hopscotch, 329

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Apples, their old names, 137, 254, 398
Apssen Counter, in Sussex will of 1583, 349
Araminta,' comic recitation, 288, 338
Arbeiter on Right as a trivet," 376
Archer (H. G.) on Braile's big well, 367
Delaval (Sir Francis Blake), K.B., 476
Louis XIV. Tablecloth, 451

Statues in the British Isles, 277

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Archibald (R. C.) on William Gush, painter, 267
Architect on Godstone stone used in the City, 227
Architecture, Chinese god of, 29

Alexandra Institute for the Blind, its history, 68 Arden family, 386

All right, origin of the phrase, 228, 314, 433
Allchin (J. H.) on Caxton's birthplace, 394

Aristotle Tommy Short on, 70, 392; and the
Golden Rule, 510

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1820, 309,

Arthur (Prince), 1502, and window in St. Mar-
garet's, Westminster, 269, 357, 453
Astronomy in the Middle Ages, 9, 71
Augustinian house at Steeple, Essex, 210
Austen (Canon G.) on Whitby Church, 468
Austin (A.) parodies of his poems, 128, 177, 238
Austin (Roland) on Abbots of Evesham, 78
Cainsford, Gloucestershire, 436
Australasia, Macaulay on olive trees in, 86
Automaton dancers, Dickens on, 58
Auveray or Alveredus, Christian name, 397, 416
Aviation, use of the word, 86; early attempts at,
126, 178. See Flying Machines.

Ayno (Guy and Agnes), and Heynow family, 61
Ayrshire, ships of Spanish Armada wrecked off,
249, 330, 393

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Ayscough (S.) and Taxatio Ecclesiastica Nicho-
lai IV.,' 107

Axon (W. E. A.) on

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British Controversialist,' 173
Crozier (Robert), Manchester artist, 355
'Daniel Fosqué,' 169

Johnson (Dr.) and Strahan's ' Virgil,' 85
Moore's Lalla Rookh,' 368

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Newspapers in 1680, 243, 358

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Paltock (R.), author of Peter Wilkins,' 286
Shylock tract, 76

Southey (Robert), 46

Vegetarian, its derivation, 511

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in Mardyke, 475

Mauraden, its meaning, 149

Richard II. at Chester, 166

Seacome or Seacombe family, 287
Sotby and Bleasby Manors, Lincs, 29

B. (R. W.) on Fleetwood of Calwich, 373

B-r (R.) on Dickens: Shakespeare: woodbine,

334

Drawbridges still in use, 198
Haltwhistle, 507

La Roche (Miss), Lady Echlin, 38
Name-corruption: Mountain Bower, 38
St. David: " Taffy-on-a-stick," 118
Triple chancel arches, 255

Twelve surname, 149

B. (S.) on Neil and Natt Gow, 172

B. (W.) on sacred place-names in foreign lands,

314, 493

B. (W. C.) on Abbots of Evesham, 78

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Abridgement of Calvin's Institution,' 12
Bier-Right: ordeal by touch, 137
"Branne and water," 78

Cah cabriolet in Dickens, 514

Christmas Bibliography, 506

Crusoe (Robinson), literary descendants, 79

Dickens Shakespeare: woodbine, 411

Elizabeth (Queen) and 17 November, 404

Gow (Neil and Natt), 172

Gray's Elegy' and ploughing customs, 391
Hen, white, 16

High Stewards temp. Elizabeth, 513
Imprisonment: jury, 68

Louis XIV. tablecloth, 498

Paine (Thomas), his remains, 118
Pestal (Col.), 95

Pig grass fioning grass, 92

Postscript of a woman's letter, 18
Shakespeare illustrations, 84
Womack (Dr. Laurence), 492

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