altogether leaue them to themselves: and so they are Lade a prey to idle and lewd companions."-Pp. 587-8. J. F. MANSERGH.

Liverpool.

administration reminds me that I have a broadside consisting of a quaint engraving representing a Cheshire farmer riding into Stockport market on his cush (cow), to evade the unpopular tax that Pitt

BOOK OF MARTYRS (7th S. vi. 446).—The book had levied upon horses in 1784. The farmer has a inquired for is

"An Abridgement of the Booke of Acts and Monuments
of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Maister
John Fox and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctor
of Phisicke, for such as either thorough want of leysure,
or abilitie have not the vse of so necessary an history.
[A woodcut, above which] All day long are we counted
as sheepe for the slaughter' (Psalm 44); [and below]
How long Lord, holy and true' (Apocal., cap. 6, verse
10). Imprinted at London by J. Windet, at the assign-
ment of Master Tim, Bright, and are to be sold at Pauls
wharf, at the signe of the Crosse-Keyes, 1589."
Small quarto, black letter, in two parts, i. pp.
1-504; ii. pp. 1-288; table four sheets. It is not
a thin quarto, unless bound in two volumes, when
the second part would make only a thin book. At
p. 125, part ii., is the passage sought for :-

"Hooper had beene Graduate in the Universitie of Oxforde, in the time of the sixe Articles, Winchester conferred with him 4, or 5. daies together, and not prevayling with him, dismissed him to his M. Sir T. Arundel, whose Steward he had beene, when hee had forsaken Oxford for feare of the sixe Articles. After the conference with Winchester, he had intelligence of danger: and being counselled to provide for himself, went over beyond the sea, and being at Paris, stayed not long, till he was againe layd for. So hee returned againe into England, and was retayned of M. Sentlow. After that he departed againe beyond seas," &c.

Sutton Court is not mentioned, and Hooper is said to have been a retainer of the Arundel family in his flight from the persecution of the Six Articles, though afterwards "retayned of M. Sentlow."

W. E. BUCKLEY.

FOLK-LORE TALES (7th S. vi. 485).-If DR. HARDMAN likes African folk-lore tales, he should at once procure the two volumes of 'Uncle Remus,' in one of which he will find the same hare and tortoise story told with much humour. The introduction prefixed to one of the volumes is full of curious information about negro folk-lore in Africa and in the United States. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

THE GOLDEN HORN (7th S. vi. 389, 492).-Hammer writes as follows in his 'Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman,' vol. ii. p. 384 :

"Le Bosphore de Thrace......à son extremité méridionale......fait un coude à l'ouest et forme......le port le plus spacieux et le plus sûr, anciennement designé sous le nom de Corne-d'Or, à cause de sa configuration et des richesses aux quelles il donne passage."

The italics are mine. I have not been able to find the name in any classic dictionary. L. L. K.

label issuing from his mouth, "Pitt be D-d,"
and underneath the picture is the following

The Cheshire Farmer's Policy; or, Pill outwitted.
Tax on horses shall be void,

For on my cush I mean to ride.
Let each like me strive to outwitt,
And Drown all Taxes in a PITT.
Jonathan Thatcher, farmer, at top of Bank, near
Stockport, rode his cush (cow) to and from Stock-
port market on November 27, 1784.
JOSEPH BEARD.

Ealing.

MERCURY (7th S. vi. 448, 497).-If you asked a country man in Lincolnshire to direct you to the plant "mercury" he would at once take you to the Chenopodium bonus Henricus, especially if you pronounced it marquerry. It is commonly culti vated in cottage and other gardens to be eaten with boiled bacon, which combination is the Lincolnshire "gammon and spinach." J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster.

BIOGRAPHY (7th S. vi. 449).—A life of Prince Adalbert of Prussia is given in Vapereau's 'Dictionnaire Universel des Contemporains,' Paris, L. L. K.

1880.

TÊTE-A-TÊTE PORTRAITS IN 'TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE' (7th S. v. 488; vi. 10, 136, 175).—I have met with an evident proof that the memoirs in the Town and Country Magazine are not altogether fictitious. In the number for May, 1780, one of the portraits is that of 'The Dramatic Enchantress,' who in the appended memoirs is styled "Mrs. | R-b-n." This lady undoubtedly is the famous Mrs. Mary Robinson (Perdita), the date of her first appearance at Drury Lane, the principal characters in which she had appeared, and some other particulars of her which are well known being correctly given. J. F. MANSERGH. Liverpool.

'COUNT LUCANOR' (7th S. vi. 199, 289, 353).— MR. TROLLOPE may be surprised to hear that the version of this story which he remembers appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, vol. vi. p. 483 (1839), under the title of 'The Patron King,' by Mrs. Trollope! It is illustrated by an etching of the three French sailors showing the wonderful cloth to the king and R. R.

courtiers.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

TENNYSON'S "J. S.” (7th S. vi. 448).—This was James Spedding, to whom the poem was an offering of sympathetic condolence on the death of his brother. Spedding was the life-long friend of the

Tennysons; and a volume of unusual interest,
because of the friendship it enshrines, is the late
Charles Tennyson Turner's 'Collected Sonnets, Old
and New' (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.). This
volume contains all the author's sonnets, a touching
memorial poem by the Poet Laureate, and a critical
essay-one of his latest contributions to literature
-by James Spedding.
THOMAS BAYNE.
Helensburgh, N.B.

CHEESE-MAKING (7th S. vi. 446).-The following excerpts from Gervase Markham's 'The English Housewife,' fourth ed., 1631), may perhaps be of service to DR. MURRAY:

pp. 309-10 ("H. and C. Library "), he says that
Clive went to Bath under medical advice, removed
to Walcot, and goes on to give an account of his
suicide, without any intimation of a return to
London. If MR. WALFORD has any authority for
his return he should give it; but until he does so
he cannot expect us to receive his mere assertion
of a fact of which he can have no personal know-
ledge.
G. S.

UNCLE (7th S. vi. 449).—The term uncle's as applied to a pawnbroker's shop is said to be a pun on the Latin word uncus, a hook. Pawnbrokers employed a hook to lift articles pawned before spouts were "Having prepared your Cheese-fat answerable to the adopted. "Gone to the uncus," therefore, is exactly proportion of your curd with both your hands joyned tantamount to the more modern phrase "up the together, put your curd therein and breake it and presse spout." Dr. Brewer says the French phrase "à ma it down hard into the fat till you haue fild it; then lay tante" does not mean "to my aunt's," but "to the vpon the top of the curd your flat Cheese-boord, and a little small weight thereupon, that the whey may drop scoundrel's," the word tante in French argot being from it into the vnder vessell; when it hath done drop- the most reproachful word they can use in speaking ping take a large Cheese-cloth, and hauing wet it in the of a man. In French the concierge of a prison is cold water, lay it on the Cheese-boord, and then turne called uncle, because the prisoners are "kept there the Cheese vpon it; then lay the cloth into the Cheese-in pawn" by Government. In the seventeenth fat and so put the Cheese therein againe," &c.-P.204. When the cheese is "throughly drie" it is "fit to goe into the Cheese-hecke " (pp. 204-5). J. F. MANSERGH.

Liverpool.

The form chesford, with many others, may be a variant of cheese-vat, represented in the Craven dialect by chess-fat and in that of Northamptonshire by cheeseford, chesford, and cheese-foot. In the Shropshire Word-Book' there are given two forms, cheswit and chespit, with a note that a metrical glossary of about the fourteenth century glosses L. casiarium as chase-wite. Chessel may be a rendering of caseale, given by Dr. Littleton as meaning a cheese-press, and by him quoted from Columella. JULIUS STEGGALL.

BURIAL OF A HORSE WITH ITS OWNER (7th vi. 468).-I never heard of a man near Salisbury who ordered his horse to be slaughtered and buried with him, but near West Camel, in Somersetshire, about five miles from Yeovil, an atheist named White Parsons was buried in a field and his horse with him, according to his own directions. This took place some time in the beginning of this century. To commemorate the circumstance, a monument, which I suppose still exists, was erected over the grave. Report said his body was taken from his grave a few days after his burial, probably by resurrection men. But an old man told a friend of mine who lived near 66 that he was at work in a field hard by and he saw the devil take him off in a flash of fire."

Mere Down, Mere, Wilts.

THOMAS H. BAKER.

DEATH OF CLIVE (7th S. vi. 207, 293, 430, 518) -Mr. Gleig was a careful biographer, and no doubt investigated this question. In his 'Life of Clive,

Walloon provinces, because of his near connexion century a usurer was called "my uncle" in the with spendthrifts, called in Latin nepotes, nephews. J. W. ALLISON. Stratford, E.

goods pawned are frequently said to be at mine Grose says, "It likewise means a pawnbroker's ; uncle's, or laid up in lavender." Other significations antiquity. The two coarser slang significations of are given there, and all of them are of considerable aunt and uncle were formerly interchangeable. In Middleton's 'Trick to Catch the Old One' (1608) early instances will be found.

H. C. HART.

HUMPHREYS speaks of going by "Tiverton and Taunton," but this would be 172 miles, and Tiverton is not touched. The next in distance is that alluded to by MR. HUMPHREYS as being the "nearest to London," but this, passing through Axminster, Dorchester, &c., is 173 miles. Travellers then (as now) preferred the shortest road, though the safety ensured by travelling under the protection afforded by Government servants generally gave the choice in favour of the mail road. HAROLD Malet.

INKERMAN (7th S. vi. 509).-There is a short account of Inkerman in a History of the Russian War,' published by W. & R. Chambers. Diophantes, a general sent to the Crimea "by Mithridates, recognizing the strength of the position now called Inkermann, built a fortress there, and named it Eupatorion, in honour of his sovereign" (p. 264). Kaffa was the principal Genoese city in the Crimea. See Heylyn's 'Cosmographie' (1657), p. 842. J. F. MANSergh.

THE ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY' (7th S. vi. 346, 498).-I beg to assure ST. SWITHIN that he need be under no apprehension that the labour of searching 'N. & Q.' for dialect words will be wasted, seeing that the work was already undertaken some years ago. Mr. Britten, indeed, made a beginning, and the results were handed over to Mr. C. W. Sutton, of Manchester, who took up the work on Mr. Britten resigning it. All that was then done was the First Series and the greater part of the Fourth Series, and even here the provincialisms were indexed rather than transcribed with the illustrative quotations, in accordance with our dictionary's requirements; so that even this part of the work will have to be gone over again. Mr. Sutton's other occupations have prevented him making the progress that he would have wished, and he will be glad to have the help of any volunteers who will undertake to search any series or volumes for our purpose. His address is Free Library, King Street, Manchester.

Woodford.

A. SMYTHE PALMER.

HIGHERING (7th S. vi. 467).-Higher is a simple equivalent for raise. I have at present in hand a MS., formerly the property of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and recently mentioned in the Athenæum as forthcoming. It was written by a Major James Fraser, of Castle Leathers, a follower of Simon, Lord Lovat. After his assisting the chief to escape from France, they embark at Leith for the North

66 the

shortly after the outbreak of the rebellion of 1715.
Fraser writes that when off Fraserburgh
major immediately presented a gun at his [the
captain's] breast, and desired him to higher all
sails, or you are a gone man" (vol. ii. p. 50).
Jamieson does not give the word. I do not think
it is Scotch. ALEX. FERGUSSON, Lieut. Col.

F. W. FAIRHOLT (7th S. vi. 508). For par-
ticulars of his birth and parentage consult the
Athenæum of April 7 and 14, 1866, and the Illus-
trated London News of the latter date, as also for
the works written or illustrated by this accom-
plished artist and antiquary. The disposal of his
collection of pageants, consisting of from two to
three hundred volumes, is referred to in 'N. & Q.,'
3rd S. ix. 444. The editor of the Dictionary of
National Biography' intends to insert his name in
a forthcoming volume; see Athenæum, April 2,
1887.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

The use of a bunch of straw (or of hay) as a sign of danger and as a kind of ominous finger-post must be very ancient, for it was customary with the Romans to mark out in this way bulls which it was dangerous to approach. Hence the Latin proverb, "Fonum habet in cornu" ("He has hay in the horns"), viz., beware of the man, he is It is a "notice to passers by' surcrotchety. viving from the time when writing was unknown, or known but by a few. H. GAIDOZ.

THOMAS LUCAS, SOLICITOR-GENERAL (7th S. vi. 467).-Thomas Lucas served under Henry VII., and not Henry VIII. Neither his parentage nor time of decease appears to be recorded, and he is perhaps the only Solicitor-General of whom the precise years in which he held office are somewhat uncertain. He, however, was in office before 1503, in all probability succeeding Andrew Dymock upon

as not having taken place at a given time. It is a
matter for calculation.
ED. MARSHALL.
Oxford.

'BOOK OF JASHER' (7th S. vi. 468). The professed translation from the Hebrew by Alcuin was a hoax, perpetrated by Jacob Ilive, the printer, in 1751 (see Anecd. of Bowyer,' and Rowe Mores's 'Diss. on Founders,' p. 65). It was reprinted in 1829 and 1833. Dr. Donaldson's book was "Jashar :

Fragmenta Archetypa Carminum Hebraicorum in Masorethico Vet. textu passim tessellata, collegit, ordinavit, restituit, in unum corpus redegit, Latine exhibuit, commentario instruxit Jo. Gul. Donaldson, S.T.D., Cantab. Berolini, 1854," 8vo; another ed. 1860. It raised a

PRACTICAL JOKES IN COMEDY (7th S. v. 125, 215, 372; vi. 129, 238).—Revenez à vos moutons.storm, and among others J. J. S. Perowne came This quotation should be " revenons à ces moutons." See Jacob's edition of this farce in his 'Recueil de Farces Soties,' &c., p. 96, where he says in a note, of which I give a translation,— "All modern editions basing their authority on the reading adopted by Pasquier, gives 'à nos moutons.' It is with this variation that this line of Pathelin has become proverbial." A. COLLINGWood Lee.