in literature, and science and art. The pedigree is one of the most perfect on record. But Lord Bacon himself," who knew everything" else, knew nothing of his own name. SAMOHT NEHCEEB. Meaning of Bacon (Vol. ii., pp. 138. 247.).- As, on reconsideration, I perceive there is some doubt as to the meaning of the word bacons in Foulques Fitzwarin, I send you the passage in which it occurs, that your readers may form their own opinion concerning it :

"Pus après, furent les portes de le chastel, qe treblées erent, ars e espris par feu que fust illumée de bacons e de grece."

I must in addition add, that I was mistaken as to the meaning of hosebaunde, which was possibly only the French mode of writing husband.

APODLIKTES.

Form of Prayer for King's Evil. Mr. Lathbury, in his Convocation, p. 361., states that this form appeared in Prayer-book of 1709. This was not, however, its earliest appearance, as it is found in a quarto one bearing date 1707, printed by the Queen's printers, Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb. It occurs immediately before the Articles, and is simply entitled, “At the healing." N. E. R. (a Subscriber.) [Prayers at the Healing may be found in Sparrow's Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, &c., p. 223. 4to. 1661. Consult also, Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 573.; The Antiquary's Portfolio, vol. ii. p. 179.; Aubrey's Letters, vol. i. p. 250.; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. ii. pp. 495505.; Christian Observer (1831), p. 119.]

The

"Aver."-Hogs not Pigs (Vol. ii., p. 461.).—In Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, the thin oat-cake (common in many mountainous parts of England) is called "aver-cake," or "haver-cake." Loyal Dales Volunteers were surnamed "The Haver-cake Lads." Previously to seeing the Note of G. M., I imagined the "aver to be derived from "avena" (Lat.), "avoine" (Fr.). What dictionary defines " aver (French) as denoting the annual stock or produce of a farm?

D. 2.

E. M., in his Note on J. MN.'s remarks on hogs, mentions that the term aver, averium, is still used in Guernsey. Is not this word closely connected with the Eber of the German Jägers? E. H. K.

Pilgarlic (Vol. ii., p. 393.).—Sir John Denham spelt this word Peel-garlick- it may be found in one of his Directions to a Painter- but the passage in which it appears is scarcely fit for quotation. The George of the couplet referred to was Albemarle, who had been wounded during the fight in the part of his person which Hudibras alludes to when he tells us that one wound there

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In Northleigh church, beneath an arch between the chancel and a chapel, is a fine perpendicular tomb, with two recumbent figures in alabaster, — a knight in armour, with the Collar of SS; the lady with a rich turban and reticulated head-dress, and also with the Collar of SS. The figures are Lord and Lady Wilmot; and attached to the monument are two small figures of angels holding shields of arms; on one is a spread eagle, on the other three cockle shells, with an engrailed band."

JASPER.

Filthy Gingram (Vol. ii., p. 467.).—The name "toad-flax" is evidently put by mistake, in Owen's Dictionary, for "toad-stool," a fungus, the Agaricus virosus of Linnæus. The common name in the North of England is " poisonous toad-stool." It is a virulent poison. See *248. 407, 408., in Sowerby's English Fungi. D. 2. Toad-flax, the yellow Antirrhinum, certainly does stink. C. B.

The Life and Death of Clancie, by E. S. (Vol. ii., p. 375.).-There is a copy in the Bodleian Library. J. O. Í.

"Rab. Surdam" (Vol. ii., p. 493.).—EDINENSIS. gives the above as the inscription on a tomb-stone, and requests an explanation. It is very probable that the stone-cutter made a mistake, and cut "Rab. Surdam" instead of "Rap. Surum," which would be a contraction for " Rapax Suorum," alluding to Death or the Grave. It seems im

possible to extract a meaning from "Rab. Surdam" by any stretch of Latinity." G. F. G. Edinburgh.

"Fronte Capillatâ," &c. (Vol. iii., p. 8.).The hexameter cited vol. iii., p. 8., and rightly interpreted by E. H. A., is taken (with the slight alteration of est for the original es) from "Occasio: Drama, P. Joannis David, Soc. Jesu Sacerd. Antv. MDCV.," appended to that writer's Occasio, Arrepta, Neglecta; in which the same implied moral is expressed, with this variation :

“Fronte capillitium gerit, ast glabrum occiput illi."

G. A. S.

Lines attributed to Charles Yorke (Vol. ii., p. 7.). The editor of Bishop Warburton's Literary Remains is informed, that the lines transcribed by him, "Stript to the naked soul," &c., have been printed lately in a work entitled The Sussex Gar

"Occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken; or, at least, turneth the handle of the bottle first to be received, and after the belly, which is hard to clasp."

L.

Taylor's Holy Living. I should be obliged by any of your readers kindly informing me whether there is any and what foundation for the statement in the Morning Chronicle of Dec. 27th last, that that excellent work, Holy Living, which I have always understood to be Bishop Taylor's, "is now known" (so says a constant reader) "not to be the production of that great prelate, but to have been written by a Spanish friar. On this account it is not included in the works of Bishop Taylor, lately printed at the Oxford University Press." I do not possess the Oxford edition here mentioned, so cannot test the accuracy of the assertion in the last sentence; but if the first part of the above extract be correct, it is, to say the least, singular that Mr. Bohn, in his recent edition of the work, should be entirely silent on the subject. I should like to know who and what is this Spanish friar?" has he not "a local habitation and a name?" W. R. M.

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[A fraud was practised on the memory of Bishop Jeremy Taylor soon after his death, in ascribing to him a work entitled Contemplations of the State of Man in

this Life, and in that which is to come, and which Arch

The

deacon Churton, in A Letter to Joshua Watson, Esq., has shown, with great acuteness and learning, was in reality a compilation from a work written by a Spanish Jesuit, named John Eusebius Nieremberg. treatise Holy Living and Dying is unquestionably Bishop Taylor's, and forms Vol. III. of his works, now in the course of publication under the editorship the Rev. Charles Page Eden.]

Portrait of Bishop Henchman (Vol. iii., p. 8.).Your correspondent Y.Y. is informed, that there is in the collection of the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove, a full-length portrait of Bishop Henchman, by Sir Peter Lely. This picture, doubtless, belonged to the Chancellor Clarendon. Lord

eminent bookseller at Brighton, but now removed to Newick, Sussex. The lines appear to have been written on Mrs. Grace Butler, who died at Rowdel, in Sussex, in the 86th year of her age, by Alexander Pope, but, according to Taylor, not inserted in any edition of Pope's works. The lines will be found in the 9th and 10th Nos. of The Sussex Garland, p. 285., under "Warminghurst." W. S.

Richmond, Surrey.

Rodolph Gualter (Vol. iii., p. 8.).—

Rodolph Gualter naquit à Zurich en 1519, et y mourut en 1586. Il fit ses études dans sa ville natale, à Lausanne, à Marbourg, et en Angleterre. Rodolph, son fils, mort en 1577, avait fait de très bonnes études à Genève, en Allemagne, et à l'université d'Oxford."

The above I have extracted from the account of

him given in the Biographie Universelle, which refers as authority to "J. B. Huldrici Gualtherus redivivus seu de vita et morte Rod. Gualtheri oratio, 1723," in the Biblioth. Bremens., viii. p. 635. In this memoir I find it stated:

"Annoy" used as a Noun (Vol. ii., p. 139.). Your correspondent CH. will find three good instances of the use of the word annoy as a noun (in addition to the lines cited by him from Wordsworth) by Queen Elizabeth, George Gascoigne, and Mr. Keble:

"The doubt of future woes exiles my present joy,

And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy."

See Ellis' Specimens of Early English Poets, ii. p. 136.

"And as they more esteeme that merth
Than dread the night's annoy,

So must we deeme our dayes on erth
But hell to heauenly joye."

Good Morrowe; see Farr's Select Poetry, &c., p. 38.
"High heaven, in mercy to your sad annoy,
Still greets you with glad tidings of immortal joy."
Christian Year, "Christmas Day.'

H. G. T. Culprit, Origin of the Word (Vol. ii., p. 475.).— See Stephen's Commentaries on the Laws of England, iv. 408. note (p). C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge, Dec. 14. 1850.

Passage in Bishop Butler (Vol. ii, p. 464.). — The "peculiar term" referred to by Bishop Butler is evidently the verb "to blackguard." It is for this reason that he inserts the condition, "when the it respects is present." We may abuse, person revile, vituperate an absent person; but we can only "blackguard" a man when he is present. The word "blackguard" is not recognised by Johnson. Richardson inserts it as a noun, but not as a verb.

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Wat the Hare (Vol. ii., p. 315.).—Your correspondent K. asks what other instances there are of Wat as the name of a hare? I know of one. On the market-house at Watton the spandrils of an Elizabethan doorway have been placed, taken from some old building in the town. This has a hare on one side, a ton on the other, -a rebus of the town name Watton. H. H.

The Letter (Vol. ii., p. 492.). — Yerl for Earl, and yirth for earth, &c., are, to this day, quite common in Scottish orthoëpy among many of the lower classes. G. F. G. Did Elizabeth visit Bacon at Twickenham Park? (Vol. ii., pp. 408. 468.).. To this question your correspondent J. I D. replies with a quotation from Nichols (edition of 1823), who dates her visit in 1592 or 1593. I had looked into Nichols's first edition (1788) without finding the subject mentioned; and I am now inclined to think, as at first, that it is altogether a misapprehension. Sir Francis Bacon, in His Apologie in Certaine Impututions concerning the late Earl of Essex, written to the Right Hon. his very Good Lord the Earle of Devonshire, Lord-lieutenant. of Ireland." Lond. 1604, in 16mo. pp. 74., says, at p. 32. :

"A little before that time, being about the middle of Michaelmas terme, her Maiestie had a purpose to dine at my Lodge at Twicknā Parke, at which time I had (though I professe not to be a poet) prepared a Sonnet, directly tending and alluding to draw on her Maiesties reconciliation to my Lord," &c. &c. This I conceive to have reference to an intention of Elizabeth, rather than to an accomplished fact. At p. 14. of this work, Bacon says he had sold Twickenham Park some time ago to Reynold

Mock-Beggar (Vol. ii., p. 478.). — The origin of this term was discussed in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1840. Two localities so called were cited (vol. xiv. p. 114.), with the opinion of Sir William Burrell, that some buildings so named at Brighton had been “ a mendicant priory." Another writer (p. 331.) suggested that the term was applied to country houses when deserted or uno cupied; or to rocks, as one near Bakewell, where the semblance of a ham might attract a wayfarer from the high road, only to deceive his expectations of relief. J. G. N.

Midwives Licensed (Vol. ii., p. 408.).—On this subject I would refer S. P. H. T. to Burn's Ecclesiastical Law, under the head of " Midwives," which is all nearly that can be ascertained at present on that head. Among other things it says in the oath taken of them,

"You shall not in anywise use or exercise any manner of witchcraft, charm, or sorcery, invocation, or other prayers, than may stand with God's law and the king's." M. C. R.

History of Bohemian Persecution (Vol. ii., p. 358.). See note to Worthington's Diary and Correspondence, vol. i. p. 154., for a notice of this work of Comenius, and his other publications relating to the Bohemian church. JAS. CROSSLEY.

“Earth has no Rage" (Vol. iii., p. 23.).— "Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd." These are the concluding lines of Act III. of Congreve's Mourning Bride. They stand, however, thus, in the edition to which I have referred: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd."

Manchester, 11. Jan. 1851.

JAS. CROSSLEY.

Couplet in De Foe (Vol. ii., p. 310.).

"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise, And good men wicked liberties despise." This couplet is altered from the following couplet in De Foe's True Born Englishman :·

"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise, But Englishmen do all restraint despise." See collection of his writings, vol. i. p. 20., edit. 1703. JAS. CROSSLEY. Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth (Vol. iii., P 23.). "The Secret History of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. In two parts. By a person of Quality. Cologne: printed for Will with the Wisp, at the Sign of the Moon in the Ecliptick. M.D.CLXXXI." is the title of a small volume in my possession, containing some curious hints corroborative of the first part of Mr. Ives' MS. note mentioned in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. iii. p. 11.). If this be the book to which your correspondent, J E. C., refers in your last number, he is perfectly welcome to the perusal of my copy. WILLIAM J. D. ROPER.

Vane House, Hampstead, Jan. 18. 1851. Abbot's House at Buckden (Vol. ii., p. 494.).— MR. C. H. COOPER asks, "will M. C. R. explain his allusion to the Abbot's House at Buckden ?"

Being only an occasional visitor there, I can give no other explanation than it is universally called so by the inhabitants of the place. The house is very low-roomed, and only one story high; it has been compoed over, so that there is nothing very ancient in the look of the brickwork, excepting the chimneys, which form a cluster in the centre. The door I mentioned, evidently is an ancient one. A good deal of iron about it, and in square compartments.

When I was there recently, I was informed of a discovery in a public-house formerly called the Lion-now, the Lamb. A gentleman in the place came into possession of some pamphlets respecting Buckden; in one of which it is said, that this house was originally the hostel where the visitors and domestics used to go when the bishop had not

room at the palace for them, and that it would be found there was an "Agnus Dei" in the ceiling of one of the lower rooms. The consequence was, search was made for it: and what seemed a plain boss, where two beams crossed each other, on being cleansed and scraped, turned out to be as the book said, and which I saw only last week. The clergyman has the pamphlet above alluded to. Whether this, and the abbot's house, belonged to the palace I cannot say. The road now runs between them.

The "Agnus Dei" is seven or eight inches in diameter; the lamb, &c., in the centre, and the round it. words "Ecce Agnus Dei" in a circular border

This is all the information I can now give.

M. C. R. Bab in the Bouster (Vol. ii., p. 518.).—In your makes an observation regarding valuable periodical your correspondent "MAC." "Bab in the Bowster," which is not correct so far as regards this part of the country at least. He says "it is now danced with a handkerchief instead of a cushion," whereas the fact is I have never seen it danced but with a pillow, as its name "Bab in the Bowster (Anglice bolster)" would seem to denote. The manner of dancing it is, the company having formed itself into a circle, one, either male or female, goes into the centre, carrying a pillow, and dances round the circle with a sort of shuffling quick step, while the others sing,— ̈ ̧ "Wha learn'd you to dance, you to dance, you to dance,

Wha learn'd you to dance, Bab in the Bowster brawly?"

To which the dancer replies:

"Mother learn'd me to dance, me to dance, me to dance,

Mother learn'd me to dance, Bab in the Bowster brawly."

He or she then lays down the pillow before one of the opposite sex, when they both kneel on it and kiss; the person to whom the pillow has been presented going over the above again, &c., till the company tires.

here, particularly among young people, and at I may add that the above is a favourite dance children's parties in particular it is never omitted. If your correspondent wishes the air to which it is danced, I shall be glad to send it to him. GLENIFFER.

Paisley.

Si Cloudesley Shovel (Vol. iii., p. 23.).—“H. J." will find a "Note" in Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Englishmen (vol. iv. p. 47.), of the circumstances attendant upon Sir Cloudesley's death, as preserved in the family of the Earl of Romney, detailing the fact of his murder, and the mode of