logue, so presumably they were sold at the E.
date named by Mr. Wheatley-March, 1795.
Was this sale also held on the premises ?
It is said ('Memorials of Christie's, W.
Roberts, i. 19) to have been conducted by
the same firm.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.

By G-d that's heavenly! so in turn you talk,
And round the Groves at charming Sudbrook
walk;

And hear the Cuckow and the Linnet Sing,
Lord G-d!-that's vastly pleasant in the
Spring.

D. Dear Witty Marlborow street, for once be wise,
Nor Happiness you never knew despise.
You ne'er enjoyd the Triumph of Disgrace,
Nor felt the Dignity of Loss of Place.

PRINCE RUPERT. - There is a legend that the Prince, riding by Shepperton Church, fired a pistol at the weathercock and hit it. E. Not lost my Place! yes but I did by G-d! This being considered an accident he fired

again, and brought the weathercock down.

Tho' y Description on't is mighty Odd :
I felt no Triumph, found no Dignity,
I cryd, and so did all my Family.

Sure thou art the lowest of the lowest Race,
God's! is there not in Politics a time,
When keeping Places is the greatest Crime ?

I cannot find any authority for this story, D. What! shed a Tear because you lost a Place ! and ask for help.

J. J. FREEMAN.

GOLDSMITH AND HACKNEY.-It appears

since,

I once resign'd my Place about the Prince,
But then I did it for a better Thing,
And got by that the Green Cloth for the King.

that Oliver Goldsmith in 1762 was lodging E. Yes, Yes, that Doctrine I have learnt long in Canonbury. Is there any record extant of the celebrated dramatist showing his occasional visits to the neighbouring village of Hackney. Milton and Charles Lamb are connected with this old borough, and I am anxious to discover whether Samuel Johnson and Goldsmith and their coterie paid occasional trips to its rustic shrines.

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

Replies.

GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON AND HIS
LITERARY CIRCLE.

D. Thou hast no Taste for popular Applause,
Which follows those that join in Virtue's
Cause:
Argyle and I are prais'd by every Tongue,
The Burden of each free born Briton's Song !
E. You, and the Duke.-d'ye think you are
popular?

By G-d they lye that tell you that you are:
Walpole now has got the Nation's Voice
The People's Idol, and their Monarch's Choice!
D. When the Excise Scheme shall no more be

blam'd,

When the Convention shall no more be nam'd,
Then shall your Minister and not till then,
Be popular with unbrib'd Englishmen.

E. The Excise and the Convention!

your Blood!

D-mn

(10 S. xii. 461, 504; 11 S. i. 70, 443.) I HAVE a long series of letters from Charles Ray (domestic chaplain to Robert Butts,

Bishop of Ely) from 1722 to 1750, written

You voted for them both, and thought them
good:
Or did not like the Triumph of Disgrace,
And gave up your Opinion, not your Place.

to his cousin, my great-grandfather, Samuel D. To Freedom and Argyle I turn my Eyes!

Kerrich, D.D., Vicar of Dersingham, Nor

folk. In the course of a long letter, dated

For them I fell, for them I hope to rise,
And after Years in Ignominy spent,
I own my Crime, -I blush, and dare repent.

But that's the voluntary and resign'd:
Yours is a damn'd enforc'd Reluctance,
A Newgate Malefactor's after Sentence:
Who sighs because he has lost the power to

sin,

29 August, 1741, Ray says: "The Dialogue between Earle and Doddington is admired E. St of Repentance there's one charming kind,

As you repent, that you're no longer in.
But since we are Rhiming, pray for once hear

me

Whilst I like other Poets prophesy:
Whenever Walpole dies, (and not before)
Then shall Arg-e come into power:
And when he shall be paid his long Arrear,
And got once more £9000 P' year.
When every Campbell that attends his Grace,
Shall be restor'd to Parliament and Place,
When every Scotch man in his train is serv'd,
One English man may chance to be preferrd.
This is a truth, I know it to my Cost,
Tis he can tell it who has felt it most.

ALBERT HARTSHORNE.

'RAPE OF PROSERPINE, BY PAUL VERON- when under examination made a point of

ESE (11 S. i. 328, 398).-I have compiled, but not yet published, a classified list of Italian pictures (earlier than 1580) with subjects relating to ancient mythology and history; so I am able to assert that Paul Veronese never painted 'The Rape of Proserpine.' The subject occurs in the School of Lionardo, and was also treated by Dosso Dossi (Mells Park), Padovanino (Venice Academy), and Jacopo Bassano (Doria Panfili Gallery). A beginner may have taken the last-named picture (photographed by Anderson, No. 5363) for a Paul

Veronese.

Paris, 4, Rue de Traktir.

S. REINACH.

LONDON CHILDREN'S OUTDOOR GAMES (11 S. i. 483). - From PRINCIPAL SALMON'S list I miss the following:

on

1. Woggle, a game the principle of cricket, but played with a short piece of wood instead of a ball, and holes instead of wickets.

translating every Greek or Latin name for a bird by siskin, and every name for a tree (or plant?) by galingale.

EDWARD BENSLY.

[Replies also acknowledged from MR. JOHN HODGKIN and MR. TOM JONES.]

"TEART" (11 S. i. 466, 497). This word is in use in North Wiltshire at the present time (I have heard it several times recently) with the significance of something "sharp."

It is described in 'A Glossary of Words used in the County of Wiltshire, by Y. E.

Dartnell and the Rev. E. H. Goddard: 1, painfully tender-sore, as a wound ; 2, stinging, as a blister; 3, tart, as beer turning sour.

See also Aubrey, 'Nat. Hist. Wilts,' p. 22, "it is so cold and tort," applied to a river, and it is so acrimonious, p. 28. T. S. M.

I have met with the word "teart" in

2. Tip-cat, which I saw played a few Gloucestershire, where it means something

days ago in a City lane. 3. Prisoners' base.

WM. H. PEET.

"ARABIS": "THLASPI" (11 S. i. 406). —

"Arabis" is presumably the Greek 'Αραβίς. It could not be for [in] Arabis locis," though strange things have happened before now in botanical nomenclature. Θλάσπις (or θλάσπι) is explained by Pape and Liddell and Scott as a kind of cress, the seeds of which were crushed and used as mustard. They offer a derivation from θλάω (crush). Liddell and Scott give as a further suggestion "shepherd's purse." Bishop Cooper, Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ et Britannicæ, 1573, has, s.v. Thlaspi (which is there spelt Thlapsi), "An herbe called also Nasturcium tectorum, Capsella, and Scandulacium. It hath the smacke of mustarde seede, and therefore it is called Sinapi rusticum." Bailey's 'Forcellini' calls thlaspi "mithridate mustard." "Drabe" is described in Faber's 'Thesaurus' as "nasturtium orientale."

To determine the precise equivalents in modern scientific classification to the terms employed by Greeks and Romans to describe their own fauna and flora is a very difficult business. An interesting work in this line is Prof. D'Arcy Thompson's 'Glossary of Greek Birds,' published some years ago by the Clarendon Press. But one may sympathize with the practical method said to have been followed as an undergraduate by a distinguished Cambridge classical scholar, who, as the legend runs,

that smarts or is painful. If any one is suffering from a wound or a sore spot, the question there will be, not "Does it hurt??" but "Is it teart? 22 as an expression of symJ. BAGNALL. pathy.

Is not this word the adjective "teart?" used as a substantive? The word (pronounced "teert") used to be continually heard in Gloucestershire when I lived in the Cotswold district, and can hardly have become obsolete yet. A painful cut, boil, or wound, too tender to be touched, was always described as "terrible teart." The stinging sensation inflicted by severe cold would often draw forth some such greeting as Zharp this marnin', zur, yent it? I d'vind it main teart to the vengers."

Church Fields, Salisbury.

CHARLES GILLMAN.

about ten o'clock in blue and buff uniforms.... Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale, D. 870,

After supper Captain Morrice was placed in the chair, and sang the 'Baby and Nurse' in his very best stile, and the Fair Assembly chorussed with the most heartfelt spirit. The Ladies then drank his health, and cheered him three times with true festive glee; upon which Captain M., after thanking the fair company for the honour of their charming approbation, gave as a toast

Buff and Blue, and Mrs. Crew;

which Mrs. Crew very smartly returned in a glass

with

Buff and Blue, and all of you."

This disposes of the more romantic story

of how the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV.)

"after supper concluded a speech sparkling with gallantry by proposing, amidst rapturous acclamation:

Buff and Blue,

And Mrs. Crewe.

To which the lady merrily replied:

Buff and Blue,
And all of you."

we find the plural burghes; and in 'Lydgate's Minor Poems, p. 210, we find the plural bourghes. The modern pronunciation is no sure guide, because in a large number of instances it has been affected by the insinuating influence of the usual spelling.

Any one who desires further information will find it in Ellis's great work on 'English Pronunciation; he convincingly shows that the Anglo-Saxon u was replaced by the Norman ou in hundreds of instances, chiefly

in the thirteenth century or later.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

DUNCAN LIDDEL AND JO. POTINIUS (11 S. i. 447). - Dr. Irving, in a brief sketch of Duncan Liddel contained in his 'Lives of Scottish Writers,' implies that he wrote various mathematical and astronomical treatises as well as the medical publications which generally appear after

But it is easy, of course, to see how a tale of his name. The 'Propositiones Astronomicæ this kind grows with gossip.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

Meanwhile, we know that the name is

was no doubt one of the treatises to which Irving refers. His sketch, however, deals mainly with the medical works which Liddel produced. Potinius is not mentioned; neither is Schindler nor Volcer. Even Moreri apparently knows them not.

Is there not some mistake about Schindler? No. 10 in MR. ANDERSON'S query appears to be the title of some sort of funeral oration or order of service at the death of Schindler in 1604. Yet in Darling's 'Cyclopædia Bibliographica it is distinctly stated that Prof. Valentine Schindler of Helmstadt did

not uncommon. There is a Bourton in not die until 1611, some years after Liddel

Berkshire, and another in Gloucestershire, both found in Anglo-Saxon charters.

In Birch, 'Cartularium Saxonicum,' i. 516, in a charter dated 821, we find "Scriuenham, Burgtun," &c. This refers to Bourton near Shrivenham, Berkshire, in which Bourstands for burg, another spelling of burh, which is now spelt borough. It therefore means borough-town."

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In the same, iii. 37, we find " to burhtune"; where burhtune is the dative of burhtun, as above. The reference is to Bourton-onthe-Water in Gloucestershire. Hence this likewise means "borough-town."

These two independent examples at once establish the probability that the same explanation is applicable to other cases.

The spelling with ou proves nothing at all; Burton is a form that arose in the thirteenth century, and Bourton is a later form, commoner in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This is easily verified by referring to the 'N.E.D.' or to Stratmann. In

had returned to Scotland. Which of the two dates-1604 or 1611-is correct? Or were there two professors named Schindler in succession at Helmstadt ? W. SCOTT.

WALL-PAPERS (11 S. i. 268, 350). - The printing of paper for wall coverings seems to have become an established industry in England at the close of the seventeenth century. Houghton, 'A Collection for Improvement of Industry and Trade, 30 June, 1699, states :

"The next in course is printing, which is said to be known in China and other eastern countries long before it was known in Europe: But their printing was cutting their letters upon blocks in whole pages or forms, as among us our wooden pictures are cut: And a great deal of paper is now-a-days so printed to be pasted upon walls, to serve instead of hangings; and truly if all parts of the sheet be well and close pasted on, it is very pretty, clean, and will last with tolerable care a great while; but there are some other done by rolls in long sheets of thick paper made for the purpose, whose sheets are pasted together to be so long as the height of a

"At the Blue Paper Warehouse in Aldermanbury (and nowhere else) in London, are sold the true sorts of figur'd Hangings, some in pieces 12 yards long, others after the manner of real Tapistry, others in imitation of Irish stitch, flower'd Damasks, &c."

In 1752 The Covent Garden Journal

states:

"Our printed paper is scarcely distinguished from the finest silk, and there is scarcely a modern house which hath not one or more rooms lined with this furniture."

RHYS JENKINS.

SHAKESPEARE: "MONTJOY ET ST. DENNIS" (11 S. i. 447). -At the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, when a certain knight of France hurled himself and his horsemen upon the English archers, his battle-cry was "Montjoie! St. Denis!" This incident, derived from contemporary chroniclers, and related in several popular English histories, proves that the French war-cry must have been in use long before Shakespeare's day. See Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, p. 856. According to Brewer, even the kings of England had as their war-cry W. S. S. "Montjoie St. George."

"WORTH IN PLACE-NAMES (11 S. i. 389, 458). A more probable derivation of the word is that from O.E. weorthan, pre

served in Scott's "Woe worth the chase," &c. It thus corresponds to the Norfolk a Being, familiar to readers of 'David Copperfield, and moré satisfactorily explains such words as Padworth, Tadworth, the place of toads or frogs. Cp. Molesworth?

CENTURY :

H. P. L.

LONDON TAVERNS IN THE SEVENTEENTH "THE COCK TAVERN " (10 S. xii. 127, 190, 254, 414; 11 S. i. 190, 472). There is, I think, a slight error in MR. UDAL'S interesting reminiscences of "The Cock" in Fleet Street. He says that "the gilt effigy (claimed to be of Grinling Gibbons's carving) "reappeared in its old place over the doorway of the premises occupied on the south side of Fleet Street, which were built in the place of the old tavern on the north side. The Cock sign, however, outside 22, Fleet Street, is, I believe, but a facsimile of the original, now in the grill-room. This I learnt from personal inquiries some ten years ago, and I was informed that a portion of the original bird had been cut away, for

the purpose of more conveniently fixing is in its place.

A few years before the reign of the "plump head waiter," a pleasant picture of the tavern is afforded by a peep into 'The Epicure's Almanack of 1815 :

"How we came to think of the Cock at Temple

Bar, by daylight, we cannot tell. It has the best porter in London, fine poached eggs and other light things seldom called for before seven or eight in the evening. There are two good reasons for this: 1stly, the room at Mid-day is almost as dark as Erebus, so that the blazing-faced Bardolph himself would hardly be able to quaff a tankard by the light of his own countenance. 2ndly, the situation of the Cock is just half way between the heart of the city and the purlieus of Covent Garden and Drury Lane.... One box at the end of the room is occupied by a knot of sages who admit strangers into their fraternity on being presented with a crown bowl of punch. Mine host used to smoke his pipe among them nightly. Marsh, the oyster-man, attends here the whole season with his Natives, Miltons and Pyfleets: he hath the constancy of the swallow, and in the opening of the shells the dexterity of the squirrel.'

But some considerable time before Tennyson patronized the chops and steaks and the port of the old tavern, to say nothing of its oysters, and long before the poet jocularly resented on a certain occasion the omnibus as he conductor's remark "Full inside" entered the vehicle after a meal in which the flavour of the meat was quite independent of sauces, William the head waiter had been known to habitués of the place. A writer in The Sportsman's Magazine of, I think, the year 1857 (p. 104), says that he "had, like others, no thought superior to the Cock stout from the glass.... William knew our ways, and Charles was getting into them. We are inclined, however, to give our more particular directions to James. We think the Cock chops superior to the steaks," &c.

Charles, who for twenty years had been well known to a large circle of barristers and journalists who dined daily at "The Cock," and whose real name was Edward Thorogood, died in July, 1905, having been the successor, as head waiter, of Tennyson's "William."

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

Wroxton Grange, Folkestone.

KEMPESFELD, HAMPSTEAD (11 S. i. 409, 478). PROF. SKEAT and the 'N.E.D. had already been consulted, and it is accepted that A.-S. cempa became Middle English kempe, meaning a fighter, a warrior; but one desires to find out whether in some cases land named from association with the words owes its origin to having been occupied or owned by a warrior of the local manor, soldiers provided by the manorial lord,

or from the ownership of one having Kemp The other notable example of the form is

had a grant of a small holding until the King could provide for him by marriage. In this In 'Gaieties and Gravities,' by James and case the lands were to be worth 50 shillings annually, and were worth 51. 10s. 6d. in tale about the steamboat from London to

ber, 1562, N. W. HILL.