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"Whereunto I had added (with the forementioned author) as followeth:--Such deceivers, no doubt, are many who, being never trained up in reading or practice of physicke and chirurgery, do boast to doe great cures, especially upon women; as to make them straight that before were crooked, corbed, or cramped in any part of their bodies, &c. But the contrary is true; for some have received gold, when they have better deserved the whetstone."--Goodall's _Royal College of Physicians_: London, 1684, p. 306.

J. S. S.

Bath.

_Surname of Allen_ (Vol. vii., p. 205.).--Perhaps A. S. A. may find the following words in Celtic of use to him in his researches as to the origin of the name of Allan:--_Adlann_, pronounced _all[=a]nn_, means a spearman or lancer; _aluin_, a white hind or fawn (Query, Do any of the name bear a hind as a crest?); _allin_, a rocky islet; _alain_, fair, bright, fair-haired, &c.

FRAS. CROSSLEY.

_Belatucadrus_ (Vol. vii., p. 205.).--Papers concerning the god Belatucadrus are to be found in the _Archæologia_, vol. i. p. 310., vol. iii. p. 101., vol. x. p. 118. I take these references from Mr. Akerman's useful Archæological Index.

C. W. G.

_Pot-guns_ (Vol. vi., p. 612.; Vol. vii., p. 190.).--In the parish of Halvergate, a train of seventeen pot-guns is kept at the blacksmith's shop. MR. WOODWARD is correct in stating that they are "short cylinders set perpendicularly in a frame, flat-candlestickwise;" but each pot-gun at Halvergate is set in a separate block of wood, and not several in a frame together. By touching the touchholes of each pot-gun successively with a bar of red-hot iron, and with the aid of two double-barrel guns, a royal salute is fired at every wedding or festive occasion in Halvergate.

E. G. R.

_Graves Family_ (Vol. vii., p. 130.).--Your correspondent JAMES GRAVES will find a tolerable pedigree of the Graves family, commencing in the time of Edward IV., in the first volume of Dr. Nash's _Worcestershire_; and, in the notes thereto, many interesting particulars of various learned members of the family. Independent of the three portraits mentioned by your correspondent, of which I possess fine proof impressions, I have also one in mezzotinto of Morgan Graves, Esq., of Mickleton, county of Gloucester, and Lord of the Manor of Poden, in the co. of Worcester.

J. B. WHITBORNE.

_Portrait Painters_ (Vol. vii., p. 180.).--The name of the Derby artist was _Wright_, not _White_. I have seen several portraits by him of great excellence. The time of his death I do not recollect, but I think the greater part of his works were executed in the latter part of the last century. Have not some of them been exhibited in Pall Mall? I have not the means at hand of ascertaining the fact, but I think he painted the "Blacksmith's Forge," which was so admirably mezzotinted by Earlom.

E. H.

_Plum Pudding_ (Vol. vi., p. 604.).--Southey, in his _Omniana_, vol. i. p. 7., quotes the following receipt for English plum puddling, as given by the Chevalier d'Arvieux, who in 1658 made a voyage in an English forty-gun ship:

"Leur pudding était détestable. C'est un composé de biscuit pilé, ou de farine, de lard, de raisins de Corinthe, de sel, et de poivre, dont on fait une pâte, qu'on enveloppe dans une serviette, et que l'on fait cuire dans le pot avec du bouillon de la viande; on la tire de la serviette, et on la met dans un plat, et on rappe dessus du vieux fromage, qui lui donne une odeur insupportable. Sans ce fromage la chose en elle-même n'est pas absolument mauvaise."

Cheese is now eaten with apple puddings and pies; but is there any nook in England where they still grate it over plum pudding? I have heard the joke of forgetting the pudding-cloth, told against Lord Macartney during his embassy in China. Your correspondent will find plum porridge and plum puddings mentioned together at page 122. vol. ii. of Knight's _Old England_.

THOS. LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

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_Muffs worn by Gentlemen_ (Vol. vi., _passim_.).--The _Tatler_, No. 155., describing a meeting with his neighbour the upholsterer, says:

"I saw he was reduced to extreme poverty by certain shabby superfluities in his dress; for notwithstanding that it was a very sultry day for the time of year, he wore a loose great coat and a _muff_, with a long campaign wig out of curl," &c.

ERICA.

_The Burial Service by heart_ (Vol. vii., p. 13.).--In the Life of the Rev. Griffith Jones, the celebrated founder of the Welsh circulating charity schools, is this note:

"Living amongst dissenters who disliked forms of prayer, he committed to memory the whole of the baptismal and burial services; and, as his delivery was very energetic, his friends frequently heard dissenters admire his addresses, which they praised as being extempore effusions unshackled by the Prayer Book!"

E. D.

_Burrow_ (Vol. vii., p. 205.).--BALLIOLENSIS says that in North Gloucestershire "the side of a thick coppice is spoken of as a very _burrow_ place for cattle." He understands this to mean "sheltered, secure from wind;" and he asks to what etymology this sense can be attributed. I suspect the Anglo-Saxon _bearo_, a grove or copse, is the word here preserved. As a wood forms a fence against the wind, and is habitually so used and regarded by the agricultural population, the association of ideas is suitable enough in this interpretation. _Bearo_, first signifying the grove itself, might easily come to mark the shelter which the grove afforded. But there is also a compound of this word preserved in the ancient charters, in which the fitness of a place as a pasture for swine is the prominent notion. Kemble, _Cod. Dipl._, No. 288.: "Hæc sunt pascua porcorum, quæ nostrâ linguâ Saxonicâ _denbera_ nominamus." In the same sense the compound with the word _weald_ (= a great forest) is found: weald-_bero_. The wood was considered by our forefathers as propitious to their swine, not only for its shelter, but also for the masts it supplied; and this may have further helped to associate _bearo_ with the comforts of cattle.

ORIELENSIS.

"_Coming home to men's business_" (Vol. vii., p.235.).--It is hardly requisite to state to the readers of "N. & Q.," that many editions of Bacon's memorable, beautiful, and didactic _Essays_ appeared in the distinguished author's lifetime, obviously having experienced (proved by prefatory epistles of different dates) the repeated revision and emendations of the writer. The _Essays_ were clearly favourites with him, as well as with the then reading public. They were first published in 1597, preceded by a letter addressed "To M. Anthony Bacon, his deare Brother." The _ninth_ edition was issued the year before his death, which took place April 9, 1626. In that edition is added a dedication "To the Right Honorable my very good Lo. the Duke of Buckingham, his Grace Lo. High Admirall of England;" signed, "FR. ST. ALBAN:" previous signatures being "Fran. Bacon" (1597); "Fr. Bacon" (1612); "Fra. Bacon" (no date). In this dedication to the Duke of Buckingham first appeared the passage inquired about: "I doe now (he tells the Duke) publish my _Essayes_; which, of all my other workes, haue beene most current: for that, as it seems, they _come home to Men's Businesse and Bosomes_."--How accurate, yet modest, an appreciation of his labours!

A HERMIT AT HAMPSTEAD.

My copy of Lord Bacon's _Essays_ is a 12mo.: London, 1668. And in the epistle dedicatory, the author himself tells the Duke of Buckingham as follows:

"I do now publish my _Essays_; which, of all my other works, have been most current: for that, as it seems, they _come home to men's business and bosomes_."

This will carry J. P. eleven years further back, at all events.

RT.

_Heuristic_ (Vol. vii., p. 237.), as an English scholar would write it, or _Hevristisch_, as it would be written by a German, is a word not to be found in the sixth edition of Kant's _Critik_ (Leipzig, 1818), nor in his _Prolegomena_ (Riga, 1783).[3] Your correspondent's copy appears to have been tampered with. The title _Kritik_ should be spelt with the initial _C_, and _reinen_ should not have a capital letter: the Germans being very careful to prefix capitals to all substantives, but never to adjectives. The above-mentioned edition of the _Critik_ was sent to me from Hamburg soon after its publication. It was printed by Fröbels at Rudolstadt in 1818; and is unblemished by a single _erratum_, so far as I have been able to detect one. Allow me to suggest to H. B. C. to collate the pages in his edition with the sixth of 1818; the seventh of 1828; and, if possible, with one published in Kant's lifetime prior to 1804; and he will probably find, that the very favourite word of Kant, _empirisch_, has been altered in a few instances to _hevristich_. MR. HAYWOOD is evidently inaccurate in writing _evristic_, which is wrong in Greek as well as in German and English.

Instead of giving the pages of his copy, your correspondent will more oblige by stating the divisions under which this exceptional word occurs, in the running title at the top of each page of his copy; together with two or three lines of the context, which I can compare with my own copy. I {321} have not here the facility of resort to a British Museum, or to German booksellers. Should your correspondent find any difficulty in effecting collation of his edition with others, I shall be willing to part with my copy _for a short time_ for his use; or, if he will oblige me with his copy, I will collate it with mine, and return it within the week with the various readings of the cited passages.

T. J. BUCKTON.

Lichfield.

[Footnote 3: The former is the _synthetic_, the latter the _analytic_ exposition of his system of mental philosophy.]

_"Cob" and "Conners"_ (Vol. vii., p. 234.).--These words are Celtic. _Cob_ means a mouth, a harbour, an entrance. _Conners_ appears to be a compound word, from _cuan_, a bay or harbour, and _mar_ or _mara_, the sea; pronounced "Cuan wara," then shortened into _Conner_. Conna-mara, in the west of Ireland, properly spelled _Cuan na mara_, means "bays of the sea."

FRAS. CROSSLEY.

_Lady High Sheriff_ (Vol. vii., p. 236.).--Your correspondent W. M. is informed that in Duncumb's _Herefordshire_ there is no mention made of the fact, that a lady executed the office of high sheriff of the county. The high sheriffs for the years 1768--1771 inclusive were Richard Gorges, William Nourse, Price Clutton, and Charles Hoskyns, Bart. The lady alluded to would be the widow of one of these.

H. C. K.

---- Rectory, Hereford.

Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, exercised the office of hereditary sheriff of Westmoreland, and, at the assizes at Appleby, sat with the judges on the bench (temp. Car. I.) Vide Blackstone's _Comment_., and Pocock's _Memorials of the Tufton Family_, p. 78. (1800.)

I may add that ladies have also been included in the commission of the peace. The Lady Bartlet was made a justice of the peace by Queen Mary in Gloucestershire (Harl. MSS); Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII., was made a justice of peace; and a lady in Sussex, of the name of Rowse, did usually sit on the bench at the assizes and sessions amongst other justices _cincta gladio_ (_op. cit._).

W. S.

Northiam.

_Death of Nelson_ (Vol. vii., p. 52.).--The "beautiful picture which hangs in a bad light in the hall of Greenwich Hospital" was not painted by West, but by Arthur William Devis, a very talented artist, but somewhat careless in financial matters. He was a pupil of Zoffeny, was in India for some years, where he practised portrait-painting with considerable success. The well-known print of the "Marquis Cornwallis receiving the Sons of Tippoo Saib as Hostages," was from a picture painted by him. The "Death of Nelson" at Greenwich was a commission from the house of Boydell, Cheapside; and a large print was afterwards published by them from it. Devis met the vessel on its return to England, and on its way homeward painted, very carefully, the portraits of the persons represented in his picture, and also a very exact view of the cockpit in which the hero died. The picture has great merit, and deserves to be better placed.

T. W. T.

_Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662_ (Vol. vi., pp. 435. 564.; Vol. vii., p. 18.).--As a small instalment towards completing this desirable object, I send you the following:

1551. Humphrey Powell. Folio. (Emmanuel Coll.) 1552. Jugge and Cawood. 4to. 1553. Grafton. 8vo. (White Knight's, 3283.) 1564. Jugge and Cawood. 4to. 1565. W. Seres. 8vo. (Christ Church, Oxford.) 1571. Cawood. 4to. (White Knight's, 3539.) 1580. Widow of R. Jugge. Folio. 1607. Barker. Folio. (Sir M. Sykes, Part III., 1019.) 1615. Barker. Folio. (St. John's Coll., Oxford.) 1632. Barker. 4to. (In my possession.) 1634. Edinburgh. 12mo. 1636. Bill. Folio. (Bindley, Part I., 955.)

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Passage in Juvenal_ (Vol. vii., p. 165.).--The Delphin edition of Juvenal, in a note on Sat. x. v. 365., says: "Sunt qui legunt, Nullum numen _abest_." It would be very easy, in carelessly copying a MS., to substitute either word for the other. When MR. J. S. WARDEN has ascertained which is the true reading, he may fairly call the other an "alteration."

R. Y. TH--B.

_Tennyson_ (Vol. vii., p. 84.).--The first Query of H. J. J. having been already answered (p. 189.), in reply to his _second_ inquiry, I beg to inform him that he will find the custom referred to in the passage of the "Princess," of which he desires to know the meaning, fully explained in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for October 1848, p. 379.

W. L. N.

_Capital Punishment_ (Vol. vii., p. 181.).--Your correspondent S. Y. may find the date of the last instance of capital punishment for exercising the Roman Catholic religion in Bishop Challoner's very interesting _Memoirs of Missionary Priests_: Keating, 1836. Every reader of Fox's _Book of Martyrs_ should, in fairness, consult the above work. There is another earlier work, _Théâtre des Cruautés des Hérectiques de nostre temps_, Anvers, 1588; but it is unfortunately very scarce.

W. L. N.

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