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COLERIDGE'S LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE. EDWARD, DUKE -Dykes Campbell, in a foot-note to p. 184 of his Life of Coleridge,' states, in reference to the 1811-12 course of lectures on Shakespeare, that more extended reports of the first eight lectures, by a Mr. Tomalin, have recently been discovered, and may yet be published." Can any reader of N. & Q.' inform me as to the whereabouts of these reports? J. SHAWCROSS.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. The iron dogs, the fuel, and the tongs, The fire-brands, ashes, and the smoke, Do all to righteousness provoke.

OF YORK, AND MISS FLOOD.-In contemporary newspapers it is hinted that there was a liaison between a sister of Henry Flood, the Irish statesman, and Edward, Duke of York, brother of George III., who died in September, 1767. A secret marriage is also suggested. As the matter does not appear to have become notorious, it may be a mere journalistic canard, but I should be glad to know of any reference to the rumour in memoirs of the time. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

MUNRO OF NOVAR.-According to Leaves from the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy

2. Monsters of imagination, begotten upon a cloud Nevill,' the very fine collection of pictures of of Statistics. (This is before 1860.)

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Munro of Novar was sold in order to help the Turks, in 1878, by his successor and heir the late Mr. Butler Johnston, M.P. I am trying to trace the present whereabouts of in the collection, and should be glad to some of the pictures which I know were learn where an annotated sale-catalogue

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I should like to know what the MS. Coll. Arms 1st M. 14, f. 29, from which there is Handbook' (p. 91), says of the embalming. an excerpt in the English Church Pageant Henry V. died at Vincennes in 1422.

ST. SWITH IN.

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DUELS BETWEEN WOMEN.-In The Town and Country Magazine, xvii. 626, there is a story of a duel between Miss Roach or Le Roche, afterwards Lady Echlin (see 10 S. xi. 501), and another lady, who is styled REV. JONATHAN CLAPHAM. "the Fair Hibernian." Again, in The Clapham was instituted Rector Carlton House Magazine for August, 1792, lingham by the King in 1660. vol. i. p. 359, it is stated that "Lady Almeria he had published three works : Braddock and Mrs. Elphinstone had not a vindication of psalm-singing, with rules long ago an affair of honour in Hyde Park, to direct weak Christians how to sing to first with pistols, and afterwards with edification"; and a 'Discovery....of the swords." Possibly these anecdotes were Damnable Doctrines of the Quakers.' intended to be facetious, and as I have Little else is known of him. I should be never come across any corroboration I glad of any information bearing on his regard them with suspicion. Is there a parentage and history. reference to such an incident in any other contemporary publications ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

Was he the same Jonathan Clapham who in 1684 published a sermon' Christian Obedience Recommended'?' Obedience to Magis

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trates,' a sermon on the same text, Titus historian, for thirty years Treasurer of the iii. 1 (1683), is by the British Museum Congregational Union of England and Wales. Catalogue ascribed in one place to Jonathan Mr. Hanbury died at 16, Gloucester Villas, Clapham, and in another page to John Brixton, in 1864, leaving all his property Chapman. Replies direct will oblige. to his only daughter, Mary Ann. The latter was living at Brixton in 1868, but not in 1870. I cannot trace when she died, nor what became of her father's books. Are W. J. C. relatives now living? any "VOLKSBÜCHER. HERAUSGEGEBEN G. O. MARBUCH."-I have a copy of this very interesting publication (Nos. 1-34, 1838-42), bound in four volumes. I should like to learn whether or not this is a complete set. Perhaps some German scholar among your readers can give me the desired information. Included in the collection are many old-time histories and stories, such as The Life and Death of Dr. Faust,' a metrical version of Reynard the Fox,' some Arthurian tales,

83, Grange Road, Bradford. ROBERT NEWMAN, ENGRAVER.-I should be very much obliged for any information relating to the above. He was born at Wincanton, Somerset, in 1768, and I believe was of some repute; but I can find nothing further about him, and his name does not appear in the ordinary books of reference. W. P. D. S.

BUTTERWORTH: ITS DERIVATION.-Will any of your contributors kindly inform me what is the origin or meaning of this placename? Butterworth is a part of the borough of Rochdale, and from it all people of that name more or less claim to spring.

Col. Fishwick in his History of Rochdale,' p. 114, gives an ancient spelling or reading of the name as "Botterwort."

Dr. Colby March in his 'Rochdale PlaceNames writes that Butterworth, formerly Botwerth and Botesworth, 1270, is from Norse buthor, the bittern. "Worth" is a fenced field or farm (allied to N. garth, A.-S. yard).

Canon I. Taylor says that in Buttermere, Butterhill, and Buttergill we have the N. Christian name Buthar.

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Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

W. NIXON.

ASTRONOMY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Where can an account of the astronomical knowledge possessed by the building guilds and monks of the Middle Ages be obtained, or where may references to such knowledge be found?

Mr. H. Brierley (who was connected with Rochdale), in a lecture he gave last March at Rochdale, 'On Places and Sur-put on a names,' stated as follows :—

"Butterworth was absolutely allied to Rochdale. He never knew any one of that name anywhere else who did not claim relationship with Rochdale. In the Peninsular War the soldiers of that name from Lancashire used to say, 'We're all Johnny Butterworth's lads.' 'butter.' Butterworth had nothing to do with It was often spelt Bot or Bedworth, and in Cheshire it was Bud; originally it was 'Bodder,' meaning a messenger."

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In support of Mr. Brierley's statement I find that Ferguson in his Surnames as a Science,' at p. 46, gives "Bod, Bud,' as envoy," and includes in this section O.G. Botthar; Botterus, Domesday; Eng. Butter,

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Butterton, a village in Staffordshire on the borders of Derbyshire, may be allied

with Butterworth.

W. H. VAUGHAN.

BENJAMIN HANBURY'S LIBRARY.-I should be glad of any information which might help me to find what became of the library of Benjamin Hanbury, the Nonconformist

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"BRANNE AND WATER": BREAD AND WATER.-In the villages near when I was a child it was a rare event for any one to be taken to the "Bastile," as the workhouse It was a was then called by every one. general opinion, too, that often they were "bread-and-water diet; why, however, none seemed to know. Is there any early mention of bread and water as a diet for poor persons, other than prisoners ? In The Old Spelling Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost (Chatto & Windus, 1907), we read: "Ferdinand: Sir, I will prononc your sentence: you shall fast a weeke, with Branne and Water.'

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life would be more intolerable than on bread
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THOS. RATCLIFFE.
Worksop.
CAPT. GEORGE FARMER. (See 6 S. ii. 467,
522;
iii. 237; 7 S. iv. 409, 473, 537; vii.
158; 8 S. vi. 365; ix. 398.)-The subject of
the portraits of Capt. Farmer and the
engravings of the well-known naval engage-
ment which he fought have been dealt with
at the above references, but I have recently
acquired two further pictures of the engage-
ment about which I should be glad of some
further information.

1. This is a coloured lithograph of the Combat entre la action, and is entitled

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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 URLLAD. appear?

'THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION.'-Was this song written by Charles Dibdin or William Pitt? The first verse is :

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"WHAT THE DEVIL SAID TO NOAH."At a meeting of the Church Reform League at the Church House, Westminster, 18 June the Rev. J. G. McCormick, Vicar of St. Paul's, Prince's Park, Liverpool, warned the Church against laissez-faire by telling this story: "I said to the village umpire at a cricket match, in reference to the weather, It looks as if it's going to clear up.' 6 Ah ! replied the umpire, that 's what the Devil said to Noah." I think," commented Mr. McCormick, the same gentleman is always saying that to the Church."

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Is "What the Devil said to Noah" current proverbial saying, or was it momentary invention of the umpire ? is not in the 'Dialect Dictionary.'

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

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Buffing. This may be the original form of the somewhat difficult word bluffing." At any rate, it has about the same sense. To "stand buff," or buff it," meant to make a bold stand on poor backing; hence subsequently "buffer came to be a technical term for a false witness or straw bail."

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Diving hooks.—“ Diving in eighteenthcentury slang meant picking pockets. Comtwentieth 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.

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MR. R. H. THORNTON asks for proof of the early use of campus in England in the sense of "playing-field." In Act II. sc. i. of the play "How a Man may choose a Good Wife from a Bad,' first published in 1602, and reprinted in Dodsley's Old Plays ' (ed. Hazlitt, vol. ix. p. 26), a schoolboy is made to say :

Forsooth my lesson's torn out of my book...... Truly forsooth I laid it in my seat While Robin Glade and I went into campis. The use is no doubt due to the custom of making schoolboys talk Latin.

Sheffield.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

"Brills" is defined in Jamieson's' Scottish Dictionary as spectacles in general, but more strictly double-pointed ones.

Campus. Mackenzie, History of Newcastle (published in 1827), describing a disused Dissenters' burying-ground in Percy Street in that town, adds: "It now forms the Campus Martius of the young gentlemen belonging to Mr. Bruce's Academy. The gravestones are preserved in the surrounding walls." RICH. WELford.

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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.

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Dandles.-Coles has to dandle, "indulgeo, manibus gestare super genibus agere. Hence the hands readily become the "dandles."

Devil's tail.-Possibly there is some 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.

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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.

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.

Buffer.-See "buffard" in Halliwell's and Stratmann's dictionaries. An A. N.

word of imitative origin.

Caly. Apparently a form of "callow," bald.

Dandles. An error for "daddles"? See Halliwell and the Slang Dictionary,' and cp. "Dalles in the Towneley Mystery Plays.'

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Drawbacks. Perhaps akin to drawgloves (Nares), and the jerk-finger game so popular with the gamins of Italy, Malta, &c.

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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

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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 66 Germaniæ Tabula' it is called Gulick," in the Juliacensis Ducatus.

May I point out that "holland" in the singular means a certain kind of linen, and that hollands (with the s) means dutch gin?

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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 yap, 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.

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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, there were several who deserved hanging. rence appears instead of " Lawne.' The Servian writer does not state where he obtained this anecdote.

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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

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JOHN PAUL OR PAUL JONES (10 S. xi. 447). MR. ATTON wishes to know whether 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.

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