able to announce as approaching completion The Bibliography of Folk-lore. Compiled and edited by Thomas Satchell.'

More than thirty years have passed since this announcement was made. When will the project be realized? W. B. GERISH.

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THREAD-PAPERS.-What, in early eighteenth-century journalistic language, were thread-papers As The Weekly Journal is a very scarce news-sheet, I may quote part of the letter in which the use of the term twice occurs. It is from Mist's Weekly Journal, 28 July, 1722 :—

Mr Mist, June 10, 1722. The following Letter and Song were lost by a young Lady: It will please her to have 'em again by your Hand, and save the Looser and Finder a great deal of Confusion. You may assure her all's safe, if she can but stand some reading of your Journal; but then she must look as grave as her Father does, when he spread your Excellencies before the Family. I am, Yours HONOUR. Don't mistake me for the Chamber-Maid by my Name.

Madam, May 1, 1722. You tell me it is your Opinion, that no man was ever heartily in Love, without being seiz'd, at one time or other, with a Fit of Poetry, &c.

This letter, too long to give in extenso, is accompanied by a Song' beginning

Haste, Shepherds, haste and come away, This joyful Sun gave Cloe birth, which is thus alluded to in the letter to the lady :

"If my Labours are honour'd with a Station among your Thread-Papers, I shall take it as a happy Omen: More Labours, more Thread-Papers. If not, e'en let them share the same Fate with the Author, that is, be set on Fire by you......" The writer signs himself Poor Strephon." J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

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Rector of Creek a 3rd part.

Rector of Cotesbroke a 4th part.

Rector of Coton &

Rector of Yelvertoft

}2 5th

militia does this refer?
To what particular assembly of the
Is it to be assumed
that rectors of parishes generally were
charged with a special levy for militia?
JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
ANNE BOLEYN OR BULLEYN: BULLEY
FAMILY.-Can any of your readers tell me
the correct way of spelling the name of the
second wife of Henry VIII. ? In the Life of
Archbishop Tait I see that he twice refers
to her, spelling the name Bulleyn. This
is the only instance I have seen of the
name being thus spelt.

In Queen Elizabeth's reign there was a well-known doctor named Bulley, who was said to be distantly related to the Queen. In that case the n must have been dropped about the middle of the sixteenth century. The PITT AND WILKES ON DISFRANCHISEMENT. Dr. Bulley, President of Magdalen College, question is of interest to me, as my cousin --May I venture to repeat a question which Oxford, from 1856 to 1890, considered that I put, without eliciting a reply, just his family were descended from a collateral eighteen years since (8 S. ii. 468) ? branch of the Boleyn or Bulleyn family. Where is to be found a list of the thirty- Will any one kindly tell me when the change six decayed boroughs which the younger in the spelling took place, if the name was Pitt proposed, in 1785, to disfranchise, and of the ten corporations which he desired should transfer the right of return to the

citizens ? And is there extant a list of the boroughs which Wilkes would have disfranchised by his proposal of 1776 ?

ever correctly spelt Bulleyn ?

H. A. B. at 8 S. i. 435; ii. 13.] [The spelling of the Queen's name was discussed

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GABRIEL GRANT, PREBENDARY AND ARCHDEACON OF WESTMINSTER.-Whom and when did he marry ? He is said to have married twice. He died in 1638.

G. F. R. B.

LACY AS A PLACE-NAME.-In some parts of Surrey-and I believe in other countiesLacy occurs as part of the name of an estate or village. I know of Polesden Lacy (where Sheridan lived), Camilla Lacy (the residence of Fanny Burney), Wilton Lacy, and others.

What is the origin of the suffix "Lacy"?
FRANK SCHLOESSER.

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JOHN HUDSON (LATE BURKITT & HUDSON). The terms Patricksmas" and Lukes-I should much like to know when John mas," presumably 17 March and 18 October, Hudson, printseller and publisher, 85, Cheap- are also used in the diary. Were those side, was carrying on his business. I have recognized term-days in Scotland at that found his label among the pasted paper on period? I can find no mention of them elsethe back of the frame of a portrait of a general (?) officer. I should guess 1820 as about the date of the portrait, which Hudson's date of business may help me to identify. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

8A, Bickenhall Mansions, W.

'PILGRIM'S PROGRESS' IMITATED.-Who was the author of The Progress of the Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times'? The seventh edition was printed in 1801 by J. Bateson for John Hatchard of Piccadilly, Though a little heavy, the parable is carried on with ingenuity. There are allusions to the elder Darwin, Fulton, and Godwin on p. 30; to the guillotine, p. 123; and to cosmopolitanism, pp. 159-60. The paper is

water-marked "M. & E."

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J. J. FREEMAN.

PATRICKSMAS":"LUKES

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"CARENT": MAS."-Can any reader give me the meaning of the old Scottish word carent"? It occurs several times in a diary of a Dumbartonshire minister of the year 1705, and appears to refer to some ecclesiastical assessment or interest, as carent due to the Mortification"; "he came in to speak about his carent, but brought no money "to give our obligement to transact his debts to the value of the price [of some land] against Whitsunday, bearing carent from Martinmas last." The word is not to be found in Jamieson's 'Dictionary.'

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where.

ANGLO-SCOT. [The 'N.E.D.' states that "Lukesmas" is now obsolete in Scotland, but was formerly a customary date (18 October) for payment of accounts. The latest example cited is from 1671, so that our correspondent brings the use of the word down to the next century.]

"INSTANT" OR "CURRENT.”—In 'N. & Q.' for 26 November last (p. 440) it is said that the late F. H. Collins died 66 on the 16th inst." Are we to understand that this use of the word "" instant is sanctioned by N. & Q.,' as I regret to see it is by some dictionaries?

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To our fathers it would have sounded much like saying that a man had died to-morrow.

T. S. O. [The use in question is, we think, generally recognized.]

REV. J. SAMWELL: REV. J. PEACOCK.I am anxious to find out what particulars I can respecting the Rev. John Samwell and the Rev. John Peacock, who were successive ministers of Broadway Meeting, co. Somerset. All I know of Mr. Samwell is that he was in office in July, 1763, and that a small annuity was bequeathed to him and his successors in that year. I am told that he relinquished his ministry to study medicine, but that after a time he resumed his old position. Whether this was so or no, the first instalment under the legacy was apparently paid on 10 March, 1765, to Mr. Peacock, who seems to have been his

successor.

Mr. Peacock preached a sermon which was published, and witnessed a wedding in Broadway Church in 1768. He was still in shortly after, as he was succeeded by the office in 1775, but vacated that position Rev. John Lewis in 1777. In 1766 he published a book entitled 'Hymns and Spirituel Songs,' designed to supersede Dr. Watts's compositions.

of either Mr. Samwell or Mr. Peacock, I If any one can throw light on the history shall be very grateful.

JOHN W. STANDERWICK.

Broadway, Ilminster.

ROEITES OF CALVERTON.-Several of the Nottingham local histories comprise fragmentary notices of a sect founded about 1780 at Calverton, Notts (the_birthplace of the stocking-frame), by one John Roe, an illiterate inhabitant of that village. The

members were called Roeites, otherwise Re- I remember seeing in N. & Q.' another formed Quakers (although not recognized version of the last couplet, readingby the Quakers proper), and the sect never The bud may have a bitter taste, extended beyond Calverton itself, where But wait and smell the flower. their one chapel and burial-ground-long Which is the original form? ago disused-are yet pointed out. Howitt, in one of his rural books, describes what he saw at a service in the chapel. I should be glad to learn if there exists any work of reference likely to supply a definite account of the Roeites and of their tenets.

William

A. STAPLETON.

Replies.

WATSON SURR

EXHIBITION OF 1851: ITS MOTTO. (11 S. ii. 410, 452, 493.)

ANDREW ARTER'S MEMORIAL, HAMMER-THE motto The earth is the Lord's," &c., SMITH.-Can any one throw light upon the must, as MR. WARD states, be regarded unpretentious stone pillar which stands in as the motto of the Great Exhibition. It the roadway near the corner of Beavor Lane, was well known to be a favourite with the Hammersmith, almost opposite Ravens- Prince Consort, and in addition to its appearcourt Park ? ing on the cover and title-page of the Official Catalogue, it is placed on the title-pages of the volumes of the Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. These I possess, in addition to my father's copy of the corrected edition of the Official Catalogue. The latter bears the imprint of Spicer Brothers, wholesale stationers, and of W. Clowes & Sons, printers, Contractors to the Royal Commission. Its price was 1s. in the building, and ls. 3d. if bought at the City office or of booksellers.

The pillar in question, which is about a yard in height, and stands about a foot from the curb an excellent position, one cannot help thinking, for taking a wheel off a cart on a foggy evening-bears on the side nearest the high road the following inscription:

Andrew Arter
October
1877.

There are traces of wording on at least one other side, but they are very faint. Who was Mr. Arter ? WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

CHURCH WITH WOODEN BELL-TURRET. I should be glad if I could be assisted to locate the subject of a water-colour drawing, probably 1820 or earlier, depicting the exterior of the south side and east end of a small stone church consisting of nave and chancel. The nave shows a doorway and two windows, the latter placed noticeably high in the wall; the chancel, a large and a small doorway at the side, and a threelight, square-headed east window of the debased period. All the doors and windows have heavy hood-mouldings. The west end of the nave carries a square wooden bellturret. The site is on high ground, with village roofs lower on the left, and woods beyond. Under the east window are plain iron rails round a tomb. W. B. H.

COWPER'S "
GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS
WAY."-Will any contributor tell me the
correct reading of Cowper's words in his
famous hymn God moves in a mysterious
way"? The whole verse runs :-

His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour.

The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

At the foot of the cover are these words: :Say not the discoveries we make are our own. And God our instructor, out of that which is The germs of every act are implanted within us, concealed,

the

Developes the faculties of invention. This also appears in Latin on the back of title :

Ne nostra, ista quæ invenimus, dixerisInsita sunt nobis omnium artium semina, Magisterque ex occulto Deus producit ingenia. Underneath, the translation is given as on the front cover (except that the third line reads "And God our instructor, from his concealment "), and below this is the fol lowing:

Humani Generis Progressus,

Ex communi omnium labore ortus,
Uniuscujusque industria debet esse finis:
Hoc Adjuvando,

Dei opt. max. voluntatem exsequimur.
The progress of the human race,
Resulting from the common labour of all men,
Ought to be the final object of the exertion of each

individual.

In promoting this end, We are carrying out the will of the great and blessed God.

A short introduction states that the mottoes were selected by Prince Albert.

This corrected edition contains a report of the opening proceedings, the address read

by Prince Albert, the Queen's reply, and the prayer by the Archbishop of Canterbury. My father has written on the cover: "Second edition, 34 pages of advertisements, no duty." The back page is occupied by Bennett the watchmaker, who paid 1,000 guineas for the privilege, which was the largest sum at that time ever given for a single advertisement. The Religious Tract Society have the third page of the cover; and among others who have pages are John Murray; Colman of mustard fame; C. Cox, King William Street, Strand (devoted to works originally published by Charles Knight); and Charles Knight, 90, Fleet Street, his Cyclopædias and other books.

On p. 32 of Part I. of the Official Illustrated Catalogue it is stated that the Committee appointed

"to suggest inscriptions for the Prize Medals recommended for the medal to be executed after design No. 1 the following line, very slightly altered, from Manilius ( Astronomicon,' v. 737) : Est etiam in magno quædam respublica mundo. For the medal from design No. 2, the following line from the first book of the Metamorphoses of Ovid (v. 25):—

Dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit.

BARLOW TRECOTHICK, LORD MAYOR (11 S. ii. 209, 298, 335).-A portrait of Barlow Trecothick, if found, would be of interest to Bostonians, for some of his relatives were born here; others lived here; he himself was married here on 2 March, 1747, to Grizel Apthorp, a daughter of Charles Apthorp of Boston; he was a friend to the American cause before the outbreak of the Revolution; and from 1765 to 1772 he was the agent in London for New Hampshire. He died not 2 June (as sometimes stated), but 28 May, 1775 (London Chronicle, 27-30 May, 1775, xxxvii. 511).

His father was Capt. Mark Trecothick, a mariner, who presumably died late in 1734 or early in 1735, as letters of administration were granted to his widow Hannah on 22 March, 1735. The estate was inventoried at 341. 28. Barlow Trecothick's brother Mark, also a mariner, was married here to Sarah Davis on 2 April, 1740. In his will, dated 2 August, 1745, Mark appointed the above-mentioned Charles Apthorp his executor, and mentioned my Hond Mother Mrs Hannah Trecothick of Boston Widow," Imy Sister Hannah Trecothick," and my Brother Edward." Charles Apthorp renThe widow, Sarah Trecothick, does not mention any Trecothick in her will, dated 28 January, and proved 14 February, 1750; but in an account rendered 8 October, 1763, by her executor (her brother Amos Davis) there is the item, "To Barlow Trecothick, 1,2711. 28. 1ld."

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For the medal design No. 3, the following line dered his account 7 April, 1747. from Claudian ( Eidyll.,' vii. 20)—

Artificis tacitæ quod meruere manus." Messrs. Spicer Brothers were the exhibitors of a large roll of paper 46 inches wide and 2,500 yards in length. This was the first time that the public were informed that it was possible to make paper of any length.

JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.

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Barlow Trecothick's sister Hannah was

born here 2 December, 1724; and here married James Ivers on 23 September, 1753. Their son James Ivers was born here 7 July, 1754; graduated at Harvard College in 1773; took the name of Trecothick on the death of his uncle Barlow Trecothick; and died in

1843.

I do not think NEL MEZZO is quite correct as to the motto of the Exhibition. The motto on the title-page of the Official Catalogue is "The earth is the Lord's and all that therein is, the compass of the world and they that dwell therein." The quotation he gives as the motto is the inscription on one of the medals, and the fault that he finds A portrait of Barlow Trecothick's first with its Latin is not apparent in the intro-wife, by Robert Feke, presumably taken duction to the Catalogue, where the offending before her marriage, still exists (or did exist word "concordia' is correctly given in 1878) in Boston. She died at Addington, "concordi." The quality of the Com- Surrey, 31 July, 1769, leaving no children. mittee appointed to suggest inscriptions for On 9 June, 1770, Barlow Trecothick married the prize medals was too high to make such Ann Meredith. A portrait of her by Reya blunder possible. The members were :— nolds is reproduced in Graves and Cronin's The Hon. W. E. Gladstone, The Lord Lyttelton, The Hon. T. B. Macaulay, The Rev. H. G. Liddell, Head Master of Westminster School.

J. T. STEELE,
Secretary, Spicer Bros., Ltd.

History of the Works of Sir J. Reynolds.' In the same work (iii. 987) Mr. C. W. Franks says:

"I was wrong in saying that Alderman Trecothick had no children. He had a son, and that son an only child, a daughter, who married Capt. Strachey, lately of Bownham, co. Gloucester."