are worth calling at or not. Almost every door has its marks: these are varied. In some cases there is a cross on the brick-work, in others, a cypher: the figures 1, 2, 3 are also used. Every person may for himself test the accuracy of these statements by the examination of the brickwork near his own doorway... thus demonstrating that mendicity is a regular trade, carried out upon a system calculated to save time and realise the largest profits!" A. A. D. contraction for Kings-way, as in Oxon; and is Fouche's Memoirs. — At Vol. iv., p. 455., on the subject of the Duc d'Enghien's murder, Fouché's Memoirs are quoted in proof that the saying, "C'était pire qu'un crime, c'était une faute," was claimed as his own by that famous police minister. Indeed, I have little doubt of the fact, which, from the quoted work; for this nominal autobiohowever, can derive no confirmation or authority. “The_bright lamp that shone* in Kildare's holy fane" (Vol. v., p. 87.).-Moore has given a reference himself as to where the story of the "inex-graphy has been pronounced, on a regular trial tinguishable fire of St. Bridget," alluded to in his melody, may be found: viz. Giraldus Camb. de Mirab. Hibern. dist. ii. c. 34. 99 A. A. D. Hyrne (Vol. v., p. 152.).—MR. CHADWICK inquires the meaning of this word. In Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary I find, “Hyrne, a horn, corner; "Hirne, an angle, a corner; and in Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words I find "Hirne, a corner." In many villages in the fen districts of Lincolnshire are found places called the Hirne, the Hurne, or the Horn'send all being portions of the respective villages situated in an angle or corner at the extreme end of the parish. "Horncastle in Lincolnshire, the Banovallum of the Roman geographer Ravennas, derives its name from its situation in an angle formed by the junction of two small rivers, the Bane and the Waring. Horncastle is a corruption of Hyrncastre, a fortification in an angle or corner."-See Weir's Horncastle. Stoke Newington. P. T. before the French tribunals, an utter cheat and imposition; though referred to by Mr. Alison, in his History of Europe, volume the fifth, p. 482. (original edition), as genuine, as well as by Lord Brougham in the third volume of his Statesmen; yet with less decided assertion than by the Scotch historian. Fouché's family at once denounced the fabrication, and obtained heavy damages from the printer; who equally succeeded against the writer, Alphons de Beaumont, and was awarded large damages for the imposition. (See Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1842.) It is at present perfectly understood that the sharp and apt antithesis, however immoral, was Fouché's. 66 Talleyrand's reputation for ready wit fixed on him the paternity of numerous bons mots, which have proved to be of alien birth. Voltaire, Piron, Mirabeau, in France; and Chesterfield, Selwyn, Wilkes, &c. in England; with Curran in Ireland, and many others, have similarly obtained credit for pointed expressions not of their utterance, as to the rich are generally given by rumour more than they possess. "On ne prête qu'aux riches," Stops, when first introduced (Vol. v., p. 1.).— is an apposite proverb, long since indeed stated by In the Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie, by Baret, the sententious Euripides: "Opwoσ de oi didóvtes published in 1580, may be found the comma, colon, eis Tà xohuara" (In Fragmentis). Cicero tells us, semicolon, and period. The semicolon appears, as in his letter to Volumnius (Epistol. Famil. lib. vii. far as my observation has gone, to have been there ep. 32.), that the sayings of others had been thus used, not as a stop, but as a note of contraction. similarly fathered on him: "Ais omnia omnium The point of interrogation is plentifully scattered dicta in me conferri;" and complains, half-huthroughout the same work; as also, the index.morously and half-seriously, that his supremacy of wit was not sufficiently protected from usurpers or intruders: "Quod parum diligenter possessio salinarum mearum, ate procuratore, defenditur," J. R. (Cork.) FRANCISCUS. Heraldical MSS. of Sir H. St. George Garter (Vol. v., p. 59.).-Your correspondent as to MSS. formerly at Enmore may learn their fate on applying to Mr. Woodgate, of Lincoln's Inn. I think the MSS. were sent to the then Lord Perceval. Mr. N. B. Acworth, of the English bar, would J. R. P. also probably know. Kingswei, Kings-way, or Kinsey (Vol. iv., p. 231.). In addition to the instances in Oxon and Wilts, already mentioned, the town of Kinsey occurs on the high road leading from Prince's Risborough to Thame. Is Kinsey, in this case, a Not "lay." &c. The Pelican as a Symbol of our Saviour (Vol. v., Pp. 59. 165.).— Shakspeare, in Hamlet, alludes to the popular notion respecting this bird: "To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms, The best representation I have ever seen of the The pelican has a long bag or pouch, reaching the entire length of the bill to the neck. In feeding its young, the bird squeezes the food deposited in the bag into their mouths, by strongly compressing it upon its breast with the bill. (See Calmet and Shaw.) Hence the popular idea. MARICONDA. Feb. 10. 1852. Bow-bell (Vol. v., pp. 28. 140.). Your correspondent W. S. S. is, I think, right in supposing Bow-bell to be almost synonymous with Cockney. I quote a passage from the London Prodigall, which had once the honour of being attributed to Shakspeare. "Enter Sir Lancelot Weathercock Young Flowerdale, &c. (Sir Arthur Green-hood, Oliver, &c., had been on the stage before.) "Lan. Sir Arthur, welcome to Lewsome, welcome, by my troth. What's the matter, man? why are you vext? Lan. O fie, Sir Arthur, press him? He is a man of reckoning. Wea. I that he is, Sir Arthur, he hath the nobles. The golden ruddocks he. Ar. The fitter for the warrs: and were he not in favour With your worships, he should see, That I have power to press as good as he. Oli. Chill stand to the trial, so chill. Flow. I marry shall he, presse cloth and karsie, White pot and drowsen broth: tut, tut, he cannot. Oli. Well, Sir, though you see vlouten cloth and karsie, chee a zeen zutch a karsie coat wear out the town sick a žilken jacket, as thick a one as you wear. 'Flow. Well sed, vlitan vlattan. Oli. A and well sed cocknell, and boe-bell too. What doest think cham aveard of thy zilken coat, no fer vere thee." Page iv. Warmington. RT. Cou-bache (Vol. v., p. 131.).—In MR. SINGER'S note on the word cou-bache, in the enumeration of the cognate words which would appear to contradict the usual interpretation, he would seem to have forgotten the Greek Bora, which confirms it, and has precisely the meaning of a shaded mountain valley, and certainly belongs to the same tribe of the Indo-Germanic languages as the pure Saxon bæccha. RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE. White-livered (Vol. v., p. 127.).—The expression white-livered had its origin in the auspices taken by the Greeks and Romans before battle, in which the examination of the liver and entrails of the victim formed an essential part. If the liver were the usual shape, and a blood-red colour, the omen was favourable; if pale or livid, it was an augury of defeat. The transition from the victim to the inquirer was easy, and a dastard leader, "Oh! Leoline," &c. (Vol. v., pp. 78. 138.).— "Oh! Leolyn, be obstinately just; Indulge no passion, and deceive no trust : Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther, shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fute, that was but choice, before." Athelwold, a Tragedy, by Aaron Hill. Act V. Scene: The Garden. translation of Juvenal, as a note on the words These lines were first quoted by Madan, in his "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."-Juv. Sat. ii. 83. He prefaced the lines by confessing that he could not recollect where he had met with them; but tion, 1817), assigns them to "Athelwold, a forGifford, in his translation of Juvenal (3rd edigotten tragedy by Aaron Hill." I have referred to the play, for the sake of obtaining a correct copy of the quotation, and a reference to Act and Scene. Temple. C. FORBES. is now only to divert a part of the stream to a corn mill; but a weir may have been erected here in ancient times for the purpose of catching salmon, as it is the first weir above Chester on the river Dee. The name of Saint Erbyn is not to be found in the Calendar of Welsh Saints; but I apprehend that the authority of the commissioners of Henry VIII. may be deemed sufficient for placing his name in the next edition of the Calendar that shall be published. Wrexham Regis. The quotation from Bosworth is doubtless correct. Blomfield, in his History of Norfolk, when describing Stoke-ferry, says: "This town stands on the river Wissey, and in the Book of Domesday it is wrote Stoches; not taking its name from stoch, (i. e.) some wood, but from stow, a dwelling or habitation, and ches, or kes, by the water." There are two villages of the name of Stoke in Norfolk, and both are situate on small streams. West Newton. J. F. F. A Baron's Hearse (Vol. v., p. 128.). The editorial reply in this page has referred to the Note on Funerals which I prefixed to Machyn's Diary; and from that book may certainly be gathered the best possible notion of the style and character of the hearse, and other paraphernalia attendant upon funerals in England during the sixteenth century. But in a book which I edited for another Society, namely, The Unton Inventories, 1841, will be found the authority for Lloyd's statement relative to the funeral of Sir Henry Unton: it is the certificate in the College of Arms, which states that he was buried at Faringdon "with a baron's hearse, and in the degree of a baron, because he died ambassador leidger for France." A Lord Mayor of London, dying in office, was in like manner interred with the observances due to a baron. It appears from Sir Henry Unton's papers that he was usually addressed as "My Lord" whilst in France as ambassador. May I inquire whether that practice is still kept up towards ambassadors who are not peers? or, if not, when did it cease? JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS. The Bed of Ware (Vol. v., p. 128.).—There is an engraving of the Bed of Ware in Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, and another in Shaw's Ancient Furniture. J. G. N. [We are also reminded by MR. C. H. COOPER that it is engraved in Knight's Pictorial Shakspeare.] Symbolism of Death (Vol. iii., pp. 450. 501.). -Will you permit a Note to say, that Herder, after Lessing, and in continuation of his essay, wrote on the subject of "Death, as symbolically represented by the Ancients." Lessing's treatise lately mentioned by one of your correspondents, without any notice of Herder's. J. M. was I send the General Wolfe (Vol. iv., p. 438.). following "Notes from Newspapers," thinking they may be of service to 3.: "His Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Col. Wolfe to be Inspector of all the marines. " - London and County Journal, May 13, 1742. "To Rome from Pontus, thus great Julius wrote, London Chronicle, August 18. 1774. These lines are headed "An Epitaph intended for General Wolfe." They are signed by E. D. In the Illustrated London News of Jan. 24 is the popular air known as "General Wolfe's Song," which, according to Sir H. Bishop's "note," is said to have been composed by him the night previous to the battle on the Plains of Abraham. H.G.D. Proverb (Vol. iv., p. 239.).— Fuller defines a proverb "much matter decocted into few words." -Worthies, ch. ii. R. W. C. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. When we remember the ill-drawn and gaudily coloured prints with which, until these few years, it was the fashion to illustrate all books intended for the use and amusement of young people, we cannot but be forcibly struck with the improvement which has taken place in this respect. These remarks have been suggested to us by a couple of children's books just issued by Messrs. Addey, in the illustration of which those tasteful publishers have employed the able pencil of Hablot Browne. The first, Home and its Pleasures, Myrtle, contains eight adinirable designs; while Aunt Simple Stories for Young People, by Mrs. Harriet Effie's Rhymes for Little Children—and Aunt Effie is a most capital writer of Rhymes for Babyland-is enriched with no less than twenty-four illustrations, some of which are rich in the peculiar humour of this artist. To the same house we are also indebted for a work of still higher interest, namely, a new and complete edition of The Danish Fairy Legends and Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, containing (besides a Memoir of the Author) no less than forty-five tales, translated direct from the original language, and not through any German version. 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