FOLK-LORE: THE TIGRESS CROSSING The Library. A RIVER WITH HER WHELPS (cliv. dinner problem in India Voyage to Guiana. By ander Harris. some twenty-five years ago; three matches broken in half were a school sermon to let their wit be now. Odd Memories' (1908), p. 52, is the following:- I have a study chair of Dean Goulburn's Much Hadham. 1. The passage cited by R. E. T., as I re- The preacher was the Rev. Edward M. JOHN R. MAGRATH. HARCOURT'S "Relation" is one of the minor un- The Editor has great experience in the voyage. (reproduced So many of the great Elizabethan sailors But after all, it is Harcourt's exploit and of the eighteenth century history of science, Banks, rich and young and kindly, and come com- tion of Iceland by England, which grew out of Church and State: Political Aspects of Six- being as yet largely speculative deeply felt by JACK SHEPPARD. I am collecting materials for Printed and Published by The Bucks Free Press, Ltd., at their Offices, 20, High Street, bound cloth. Price 30/-. SIXTH SERIES (1880-1885), SEVENTH SERIES (1885-1891), EIGHTH SERIES (18921897), NINTH SERIES (1898-1903), TENTH SERIES (1904-1909), in paper covers. Price 18/each; postage, 6d. ELEVENTH SERIES (1910-1915). Bound cloth. Price 21/-; postage 6d. TWELFTH SERIES (1916-1923) Bound cloth. Price 21/-; postage 6d. When replying to advertisements please mention "NOTES AND QUERIES." Rates 1s. 10d. 9d. 8d. per line. 7d. The line is of about 7 words. CONTENTS. - No. 2. MEMORABILIA:-19. NOTES:-Berkeley Hunting papers, 21-Jottings about Dr. Edmond Halley, 24-The old order changeth, giving place to new: "Port" and Starboard" Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Mme. de Sévigné-Graham Bell, 25-Changing London: The Shoeblack-Our Grandmothers' Slang, 26. QUERIES:-Fleurs-de-lis in the Arms of Thomas Guy-The Traiteur, 26-Twacks-Ernst von Levden-Baron Friedel, artist-Confederate States' Flags-Folk names of flowers-Janitor of the Tower of Windsor Castle-Ironside of H.E.I.C.S. Bengal: Journals Reserved rents in 1800, 27William, Prior and Bishop-Philip Davey-Lancaster authors-Dickson Family of Heslington, Yorks-Cheyne and Keynes Families-" Autres temps, autres mœurs" Soldiers' songs' Author wanted, 28. REPLIES:-Trinity Sunday, 29-" Grimalkin" in a letter of Madame de Sévigné-George I in London, 30-Sir Walter Raleigh and BrixtonCater Family-Invernahyles, 31-King's ships built in Southampton neighbourhood-The workhouse in Bishopsgate Street-Eleven and eleven -Alport Family, 32-Earrings: double and treble ear-piercing-The "Duchess of Douglas"-Lady Almeria Carpenter, 33-Walter Needham, M.D., F.R.S.-Churchgarth-Folk-customs: guising" and "Kirn suppers "-The Horse in folk-songs and tales-Rogers of Lotta: Humphrey Rogers -Pitt: origin of name-Professor John Price, 34 -"Strawbenger": a straw hat-Silver salversAuthors wanted, 35. THE LIBRARY:-' Officers of the Bengal Army, 1738-1834'- Glimpses of the History of Painswick with a Bibliography of its Literature.' NOTES & QUERIES. VOLUME CLIV. THE TITLE PAGE and SUBJECT INDEX will be published at the end of the current month. Orders accompanied by a remittance should be sent to "NOTES AND QUERIES,” 20, High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks, England. Price: 2s. 7d. post free. BINDING CASES for VOLUME CLIV, in same blue cloth, will be available at the time. Price: 3s. 3d. post free. The above will also be on sale at our London Office, 14, Burleigh Street, London, W.C.2. BINDING CASES FOR VOLUME CLIII. PUBLISHER'S BINDING CASES for VOL. CLIII. (July-December, 1927) are now on sale, and should be ordered from NOTES AND QUERIES," 20, High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks, England, direct or through local bookbinders. The Cases are also on sale at our London office, 14, Burleigh Street, W.C.2. Price 3s., postage 3d. SETS FOR SALE. FIRST SERIES (1849-1855), 12 Volumes and General Index, bound cloth, (2 volumes and General Index in Publisher's cloth), second hand, clean and sound, £3 3s. SECOND SERIES (1856-1861), 12 volumes, uniformly bound in cloth, second hand, clean and sound, £2 2s. THIRD SERIES (1862-1867), 12 volumes, uniformly bound in cloth, second hand, clean and sound, £2 2s. THIRD SERIES (1862-1867), bound half leather, marbled boards, in new condition. £10 10s. FOURTH SERIES (1868-1883), bound half leather, marbled boards, second hand, in good condition, £7 7s. FIFTH SERIES (1874-1879) bound half leather, marbled boards, second-hand, in good condition, £7 7s. WANTED. THIRD SERIES. - General Index SIXTH SERIES. - Vol. vii (Jan.-June, 1883). SEVENTH SERIES.-Vol. v (Jan.-June, 1888). Vol. vi (July-Dec., 1888. EIGHTH SERIES. - Vol. i (Jan.-June, 1892). Fleurs-de-lis in Arms of Thomas Guy Trinity Sunday 21 26 29 NOTES AND QUERIES is published every Friday, at 20, High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks (Telephone: Wycombe 306). Subscriptions (£2 2s. a year, U.S.A. $10.50, including postage, two half-yearly indexes and two cloth binding cases, or £1 15s. 4d. a year, U.S.A. $9, without binding cases) should be sent to the Manager. The London Office is at 14, Burleigh Street, W.C.2 (Telephone: Chancery 8766), where the current issue is on sale. Orders for back numbers, indexes and bound volumes should be sent either to London or to Wycombe; letters for the Editor to the London Office. Memorabilia. IN generations to come students of the agricultural economics of the early twentieth century may read with interest an account, supplied Dr. Arthur G. Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture for July of this year, of a West Riding Farm. The point of the story is that, during a period of deep agricultural depression, the holder of this farm, when all direct and overhead charges had been met, made surplus which ranged from 3.1 per cent. to 23 per cent. on his capital during the six years 1921 to 1927. This success, due first and foremost to ingenuity, skill, adaptability and a genuine feeling for animals, was attained largely by the collection of a good herd of Welsh cattle, but still more conspicuously by the pigs and the clever and unusual lines on which their management is run. For the year 1925-6 the pigs made a profit of £406, using land which had previously been regarded as useless. That represented a net profit of 48 per cent. on the capital invested, while the dairy made a profit of 19 per cent. The farm is a mixed one of 150 acres, situated on the coal measure soils of the West Riding, and is thus not an average farm in regard to position. Nevertheless, this account of it, with its figures and other details (not to forget the illustrations) should be noted as a useful contribution towards the understanding of the farming of the day. Mr. Bond, in his 'July on the Farm,' notes that growth this year has been backward owing to the cold, dry weather of May. Also, indoor fodder having run short, stock had to be turned out to grass rather too early for the good of the grass, by which the effect of the weather was aggravated. Mr. Bond remarks, as everybody has done, the preva lence of buttercups and daisies in the pastures. The prospects of the cornfields are said to be not unsatisfactory, or even better than that, in the Eastern Midlands, particularly in regard to barley. In July comes up the question of the hoeing of the sugar beet crop, and it is still disputed, whether deep or shallow hoeing is the better. Experiment has chiefly favoured the latter, as it points also in favour of frequent hoeing. On the question of mowing of pastures, Mr. Bond has some counsels which, apart from their substance, interested us by the technical use in them of the poetical word "sward." The condition of the sward of meadows and of pasture fields differs, he tells us. The sward of pasture-fields gets matted, but meadows show little tendency that way; and to keep pastures clean in the sward close grazing is useful. Another word we noticed is the description of pond waterings for pasture fields as " mere "waterings. THE June number of the Bulletin of the as Institute of Historical Research prints, as respectively eleventh and twelfth of their series of Select Documents, (1) part of a tripartite indenture made in 1299 between the Wardrobe, the Frescobaldi and "Pascasius Valentini called the Adalit," a Knight of Aragon, and (2) an unpublished poem on Bishop Stephen Gardiner. The latter is a most carefully written MS. from the title of which the author's name has been expunged possibly in the reign of Mary Tudor, the poem being a violently Protestant production. It is, however, possible to make out the name "William Palmer," and M. Pierre Janelle, who contributes the article, has brought together a certain number of references to Palmer from contemporary sources and is inclined to think the man who wrote the poem was a Palmer of Gloucester, one of the "50 gentlemen called pensioners," who figured in the reception of Anne of Cleves. The importance of the poem is principally biographical, in which regard M. Janelle rates it highly, claiming that it presents a psychological study of Gardiner's aims and motives which deserves great attention. The article is to be continued. The library of the Institute has recently been presented with a collection of material relating to the history of English roads formed by the late C. F. Hardy. Mr. Hardy believed that the calculations of the early map-makers and postal authorities were based upon mile, a view for which he found evidence, among other places, in the postal regulations in the Domestic State Papers. a ten-furlong |