tolaris Auctore Davide Hartley, A.M. et R.S.S., to which he added Conjecturæ quædam de Sensu, Motu, et Idearum Generatione. Editio secunda, Bathonia, 1746. As he lived till August, 1757, we may suppose that the benefit he derived from the medicine was permanent. Besides

"The concurring testimony of all the best authorities of the time gives us assurance of the signal benefit that was often derived from the use of Stephens's...... remedy, which consisted especially of a mixture of calcined eggshells and Castile soap."-British and Foreign Medical Review, vol. xii. p. 391. D. D.

[See "N. & Q.," 1st S. xii. 366; 4th S. ix. 84]

A FOLK-LORE SOCIETY (5th S. v. 124, 294, 457 vi. 12.)-MR. RATCLIFFE has mistaken (p. 457) the name of the newspaper in this district which makes "antiquarian notes," &c., "a principal feature in its weekly issue." It is the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, and not the paper he mentions, that MR. RATCLIFFE must have had in his mind. The "Notes and Queries" of the Weekly Chronicle were commenced about three years ago. ERNEST WELLS.

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The Glasgow Weekly Herald has a correspondents' column, wherein not infrequently bits of folklore crop up among the "Questions, Answers, and Memoranda." I thoroughly agree with your correspondents that a Folk-Lore Society is now become almost a necessity, and hope sincerely that the project may not be allowed to fall to the ground, but that we may very soon have an energetic and useful Society. A great field lies still open for cultivation; and I have little doubt but that when the scheme is thoroughly ventilated, there will be no lack of the needful members to support and carry out its aims. The proposal of ST. SWITHIN is an opportune one, and with able men to guide the Society we need not fear any failure. WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

"GONE TO JERICHO" (2nd S. ii. 330, 395; 5th S. v. 415, 474.)-In the parish of Stapleford, Leicestershire, is a farmhouse called Jericho Lodge; and a portion of land near is marked on the Ordnance map as Jericho pastures. A stream passing through the pastures divides Leicestershire from Rutlandshire. I am unable to give the origin of the name in this instance. To wish a person in Jericho is not an uncommon form of objurgation in Leicestershire.

THOMAS NORTH.

WHIPPING DOGS OUT OF CHURCH (5th S. iv. 309, 514; v. 37, 136, 419.)-In Baslow Church, an ancient chapel of Bakewell, Derbyshire, there is still preserved the implement of a dog-whipper. There are also persons yet alive, or only recently deceased, who can recollect its use. The thong of

the whip is about three feet long, and is fastened to a short ash stick, round the handle of which is a band of twisted leather. I do not think that wonderful instrument in the church of ClynnogFawr, North Wales, for dragging dogs out of church has ever been noticed in "N. & Q." It is a long pair of iron "lazy-tongs," with short spikes fixed at the ends. J. CHARLES Cox.

It appears from the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of Worksop, from which a few items are copied in White's Worksop, the Dukery, and Sherwood Forest, 1875, that in 1597 the sum of 9d. was "paid to old Verde for whipping of dogs," whole year" the sum of 12d. was paid in 1616. and "for whipping dogges out of ye church one

Nottingham.

J. POTTER BRISCOE.

I have a copy of the Book of Common Prayer, "Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge," 4to., 1637, and the Absolution in the Morning Prayer is to be pronounced by the "Minister." In the Communion Service the rubric before the General Confession runs as follows: "Then shall this general confession be made in the name of all those that are minded to receive the Holy Communion, either by one of them, or else by one of the ministers, or by the priest himself, all kneeling," &c. Do the words "either by one of them" occur in any other edition?

This edition of 1637 is, I believe, scarce, not being in the Lea Wilson collection.

Randolph Gardens, W.

A. BATEMAN.

The rubric to the Absolution in the Book of Common Prayer of 1637 says:

"The absolution or remission of sinnes to be pronounced by the Presbyter alone, he standing up, and turning himself to the people, but they still remaining humbly upon their knees.""

M. V.

E. R. W.

GARRICK FAMILY (5th S. v. 528.)—In the Annual Register for 1780, among the marriages, is this announcement (October) "Captain Garrick to Miss Leigh, daughter of Sir (E)gerton Leigh, Bart." In Burke's Peerage and Baronetage she is stated to have been married secondly to Grazebrooke, Esq." I do not find this second marriage mentioned in the pedigree given in Fitzgerald's Life of Garrick, 1868, but Burke is quite correct. Mrs. (Captain) Garrick's second husband was Benjamin Grazebrook, Esq., of Stroud, co. Gloucester. He died s.p. April 2, 1837, and she, at an advanced age, March 7, 1847. Captain Nathan Garrick was the grandfather of the gentleman just deceased, and son of George Garrick, a younger brother of the great actor. H. S. G.

SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE (5th S. v. 509.)-S. T. P. has curtailed of its fair proportion the facetious epigram of Cailly, which Ménage, after having derived the word haquenée from equus, very candidly records in his second edition :

"Haquenée vient d'equus sans doute,
Mais il faut avouer aussi,
Qu'en venant de la jusqu'ici,
Il a bien changé sur la route."

Ménage, tom. ii. Paris, 1750.

Of Ménage's etymologies, Christine, Queen of Sweden, used to observe :

"Non seulement M. Ménage veut savoir d'où vient un mot, mais encore où il va.' Ménage, tom. ii. p. 357, Paris, 1729.

Conservative Club.

WILLIAM PLATT.

TOMB AT BARBADOES (3rd S. xii. 9, 58, 97, 257.) -The singular circumstances connected with this subject have been turned to account by Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks in her story entitled "The Pride of the Corbyns," published in the Belgravia Annual for the current year. J. MANUEL. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

16.)-Will MR. JERRAM be good enough to inform DERIVATION OF "COUSIN" (5th S. v. 405; vi. me how the derivation of cousin from consanguineus "violates more than one common rule of Romance etymology"?

Z.

The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development. By William Stubbs, M.A.. Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford. Vol. II. Ir is natural to suppose that the treatment of English (Clarendon Press.) constitutional history "in its origin and development must take considerable time to work out. Mr. Stubbs makes some demands upon our patience, but he gives us good measure, even to running over, in the matter of each instalment. His second volume contains but four historical, the other two being analyses of "The System chapters, and of these two only can in strictness be termed of Estates and the Constitution under Edward I.," and of " Royal Prerogative and Parliamentary Authority." Both are important subjects, especially when touched by a master hand. But the student of the present generation, to say nothing of the future, has plenty of work still before him ere he can hope to have gained a complete grasp of Mr. Stubbs's views on the constitutional history of England. It is impossible altogether to avoid some comparison of the styles of two leaders like Mr. Freeman and Mr. Stubbs in dealing with the works of either historian. Their excellences and their defects seem alike to mark them off from writers who do not belong to their school. That which is really great in this school-its painstaking research, its elaborately minute accuracy, its wide inductions, its really comprehensive survey of comparative history and politics-will, we dat not, outlive its mannerisms, from which Mr. Stubbs, though less marked than Mr. Freeman, is not free. It is, we believe, quite possible rightly to appreLewis," just as it is possible to value highly the character ciate St. Louis of France without calling him St. of Alfred the Great while refraining from the practically unknown orthography "Elfred.' We can only regret that necessary limitations of space must prevent us from judgment as a comparative historian. To our thinking, quoting passages illustrating the breadth of Mr. Stubbs's this is one of his most valuable qualities, but one to will do well to gather into his note-book all the fragwhich as yet he has not given full scope. The student ments of this aspect of the Regius Professor of Modern History which he will find scattered through the present volume. We should have been glad if Mr. Stubbs had expressed some opinion concerning the curious resem

blances which seem to crop up in the provisions of the "Mad Parliament to the Venetian Constitution, at once so complicated and so thoroughly oligarchic, and which make but a meteoric appearance in our history. We need hardly say that Mr. Stubbs brings out in relief the part played by the Church of England in fighting the battle of national and constitutional liberty, and that his view of St. Edmund, of Pontigny fame, is not identical with that of some modern pilgrims. We can only add, that we believe Mr. Stubbs would confer a great boon on the historical student if he were to give to the world a comparative history of the principal constitutions of medieval Europe, such as his past and present works show him to be so capable of giving.

An Archaic Dictionary, Biographical, Historical, and Mythological, from the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Etruscan Monuments and Papyri. By W. R. Cooper, Secretary to the Society of Biblical Archæology. (Bagster & Sons.)

Is this work, which now represents the satisfying of a want for which remedy seemed hopeless, we have, as the Introduction states, "the first register of six thousand once famous and till now forgotten names, whose history lies in their epitaph-fuimus." The Archaic Dictionary begins with "A,Water,' a mystical pool near the celestial Nile," and "A, An Egyptian measure. It was equal to twenty-six centilitres." Again, "AA" is defined as "one of the demons who accuse the soul of the deceased in the Hall of the two Truths." Under the last letter, Z, we find "Zak-Dina-Isha," meaning "has not an equal" (like Nonsuch or Non-pareil), "the name of the great palace of Sennacherib, on the river Tigris." Zarathustra. the Zoroaster of the Greeks, is interpreted "Splendour of Gold." Those who read of a deity called "Zarvan-akar-ana," will learn here that the words signify "Time without limits," or eternal. These few samples are as single grains from a marvellous measure piled to overflowing.

THE monthly magazines, among able contributions for general readers, contain much that has special attractions. Those who love to study old authors will be gratified by an article on Donne in Temple Bar. The Faust Legend" in Macmillan is also an article likely to be acceptable to readers of " N. & Q." Those to whom Horace is a friend, and who have always been friends to Horace, are confidently directed to "Horace's Art of Conduct" in the July Cornhill.

RE "WORTHIES OF LEEDS, &c."-The Rev. R. V. Taylor, B.A., of Edlington Rectory, near Rotherham, and author of the Churches of Leeds, &c., who is prepar ing for the press a second volume of the Worthies of Leeds, de, would be glad if any of our readers could supply him with any sources of information respecting1. Mr. Robert Braham, a poet, born at Leedes, and author of the History of the Wars of the Trojans, translated from the Italian of Guy Callumna, fol., Lond.. 15/5. &c. 2. Augustine Ryther, a native of Leedes, and a noted engraver of copper-plates in London, author of a Ducourse concerning the Spanish Fleet invading England in 1588; various maps by Saxton, 1590, &c. 3. Thomas Atkinson, a native of Leedes, who was Master of the Mint at Edinburgh about 1620, who was author of a History of Metals in Scotland, MSS. in the late Dr. Sibbald's library, &c.

SHELLEY'S FAMILY.-As any information relating to our famous poet Shelley and his family must be interesting to many of your readers "at home and abroad," I may here observe that Ianthe, the daughter of the poet, died a few days since, after a short illness. She was a lady of

very retiring habits and of unostentatious piety, and never happier than when engaged in works of kindness and charity towards her poorer neighbours, who will long lament her death. She married, early in life, Mr. Jeffries Esdaile, of Cothelestone, Somerset, a charming locality on the spur of the far-famed "Quantocks," the beauties of which have been sung, and not unfrequently, by Wordsworth and Coleridge. I have been informed, on reliable authority, that this lamented lady was in possession of a small volume of manuscript poetry of her father, some of which may favourably be compared with the never-to-be-forgotten lines on the "Skylark" and the "Sensitive Plant," and I wish I could hold out the hope to your readers that their publication may be anticipated. ARTHUR KINGLAKE.

Haines Hill, near Taunton.

THE following forecast is from the late Mr. Walter Thornbury's Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads (1857):"GONE!

Some day, a friend shall, whispering low,
Ask for me at the muffled door,
Hushing the humming of a song,
As one shall answer, He is gone.'
Then duns shall creep on stealthy foot,
Peering about the half-shut gate;
And when they push it, rough and strong,
Then one shall answer, 'He is gone.'

Yes, kinsmen from a distance, come
Hearty and eager to the door,
Shall, after waiting cold and long,
Hear the hushed answer, 'He is gone.""
W. T., ob. 1876.

H. A. B. writes:-"Can you give me any information as to the value-the literary value-of Anecdotes relatives à quelques Personnes et à plusieurs Evènemens Remarquables de la Revolution. Par J. B. Harmand (de la Meuse). Paris, 1820?"

A CORRESPONDENT asks for any information respecting the origin and history of the Household Troops trooping the colours annually on the anniversary of the Queen's birthday.

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M. T.-Le Houx's first edition of Basselin's Vaux-deVire appeared just three hundred years ago, 1576. Le Houx died in 1616, the year also of Shakspeare's death. Of the first edition no copy is known to exist. Some good specimens of the drinking songs of Basselin or Le Houx may be found in Mr. Walter Besant's Studies of Early French Poetry.

MR. LEADER (Sheffield) gives the same date as our correspondent did. 5th S. v. 523, for Wentworth's marriage, and adds that Mr. Hunter verified it from the parish register at Londsborough.

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The next man of letters whom I consulted was one whom I have frequently characterized, and I believe justly, as being as learned as Selden and as witty as Sydney Smith, and whose kindness exceeded, if possible, his learning and his wit-the Rev. Samuel Roffey Maitland, the author of The Dark Ages. He was not the librarian only, but the friend and trusted counsellor of good Archbishop Howley in perilous times. He never held a piece of church preferment in his life, but, from love of letters, gave up his own house at Gloucester, and removed himself and his extensive library to a house in London, which cost him two hundred pounds a year, in order to act as librarian at Lambeth, with an annual salary of forty pounds. Honoured for ever be the memory of Dr. Maitland! I spent a few hours with him at Gloucester, about a twelvemonth before his death. He was greatly altered, but his old kindliness and pleasant ways were as fresh as ever. He had a folio volume before him when I went to him in his library, but my welcome was scarcely over before he took from the side of it the last "N. & Q.," and said, "Here it is, I never miss reading it."

If my readers knew the veneration in which Dr. Maitland's name is held by those who had the

good fortune to enjoy his friendship, they would pardon this digression.

But to return to my interview with him in 1849. I called upon him at Lambeth, told him what I had in contemplation, and he expressed his willingness to help me, but added, “I wish instead you Would give us that little paper you once proposed, in which we could all ask and answer one another's questions." But I had forsaken my first love, and I do not think that in any of my many consultations with Mr. Bruce on the subject of my new project, it ever occurred to either of us to revive The Medium; so for some time I remained loyal to the Cynthia of the minute, and met the eulogiums of my learned friend on the old scheme with renewed arguments in favour of the new one. But as the discussion proceeded, Dr. Maitland produced so many cogent arguments in favour of the original sumpsinus, as against the new mumpsinus, that when I left Lambeth I was in a state of great doubt whether it would not be better, to speak after the manner of Tattersall, in the coming race for fame, to scratch the Postal Reform colt, and make the running with Medium.

The more I weighed what Dr. Maitland had urged, the more I seemed impressed with it; but would he who was, especially in all such matters, my guide, philosopher, and friend, Mr. Bruce, see it in the same light, and, if so, would it induce him to join with me in working out our old idea? He had returned to London, and was deeply engaged in those studies which enabled him to throw so much

light upon our history from the time of Elizabeth to the Commonwealth.

When I communicated to him my conversation with the learned Librarian of Lambeth, and recapitulated all he said in favour of the Medium, and of its great utility to all men of letters, he admitted it as being identical with the views which he had entertained when our project was first started. But on my asking him, such being his opinion, whether he felt disposed to renew our old scheme of endeavouring to establish such a periodical, he explained, with characteristic frankness, the reasons which prevented his then engaging in any such undertaking-reasons more creditable to his nice sense of honour than convincing to my judgment. But he added that, if I thought fit to establish such a journal on my own account, he would render every assistance in his power.

This was a heavy blow and great discouragement to me; and it was not till after many further consultations with him and other literary friends that, acting on his judgment-I have no right to say in consequence of his advice-and after talking the matter over with others to whose opinions I attached great weight, I determined to take upon myself the risk and responsibility of starting "the little paper" in which literary men could ask and answer one another's questions.