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been common) can be thought more feasible "Dope," TO DOPE," "DOPER" (11 S. than the one accepted by Wootton. The vi. 508; vii. 35, 97).-J. Redding Ware, the notching of the rolled pill-mass is clearly author of Passing English of the Victorian a comparatively modern device for saving Era' (London, Routledge, n.d.), also attritrouble, with a view to cheapness. "Pill-a- butes an American origin to doping," and cosher" is rarely, if ever, asked for in better- says the term came to be heard in England class pharmacies. A correspondent of The in the summer of 1900. He suggests it may Chemist and Druggist says that in his 'pren- have been derived from a proper name, but tice days it was sold (apparently not notched) that is only somebody's guess. in "pipes the length and diameter of L. R. M. STRACHAN. twelve 5-grain pills," at the rate of two pipes for three-halfpence! The formula was aloes, jalap, and colocynth-that of the old Pil. Coccia was aloes, scammony, and colocynth -with an excipient. He adds:

"The customers, I presume, bit off sufficient for their requirements, which would make pilules (?) officinales qui purgent fortement.' It always reminded me of the farmer who never required medicine. He chewed the end of a horseball occasionally, but then he never wanted no doctor's physic,' he said."

This speaks for itself, and the writer's note of interrogation after " pilules" is signifi

cant.

C. C. B.

Heidelberg.

Perhaps one of your American readers can explain the following use of the word “dope." A commercial circular was sent by a firm to a correspondent in the United States, and his reply began: "I am in receipt of your dope circular." Judging from the context, the word was not intended to be used in an uncomplimentary sense; but what is its precise meaning? B. T. K. SMITH.

THE MURDER OF SARAH STOUT AT HERTFORD (11 S. vi. 469; vii. 31).-Referring to MR. COURTNEY'S reply, I may mention that the bibliographers of the National DIED IN HIS COFFIN (11 S. vi. 468; Library are not the only scholars who have vii. 96). I know of two cases that occurred forgotten (?) "Sarah," to judge by a letter within five miles of one another. William signed "A Puzzled Inquirer" that apTeanby, an eccentric schoolmaster at Winter-peared in The Westminster Gazette of 17 Oct., ton, Lincs, who died 15 May, 1810, had 1910. I think the letter is worth reproducing long used a plain square headstone, with in N. & Q.' quaint epitaphs incised by himself, as his table, and his coffin as a cupboard (Associated Societies' Transactions, xix. 373).*

Marmaduke Constable, Esq., of Walcot, in the parish of Alkborough, who died towards the middle of the last century, had his coffin made many years beforehand. J. T. F. Durham.

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Some twelve or fifteen years ago there died in the North Country an old gentleman (with whom formerly I had some acquaintance) of remarkable intelligence, an occasional writer on economic subjects. I am not aware that he was eccentric," but I was told that he had a coffin made for himself and kept it up-ended in his bedroom or dressing-room. I asked a near relative of his not long ago if this story was correct. He said, Yes; that it was done to save pain and trouble at death; that the coffin -I think it stood in an alcove or recess was fitted with hooks, and was used as a hanging wardrobe-I think, with a curtain before it. Very sensible, too.

IGNORANCE IN HIGH PLACES.

It is

To the Editor of The Westminster Gazette. DEAR SIR,-An interesting collection of Quaker letters has just been issued. The volume contains a preface by a leading statesman [Augustine Birrell] who is also famous in literature. edited by a lady bearing a name known in literary circles for several generations [Mrs. Locker-Lampson]. It is brought out by that great publishing firm [Longmans], the story of whose cheque to Macaulay for 20,000l. as his share of the profits of the third and fourth volumes of his History --and that merely as a payment on account-is remembered by most of us.

Yet

This Quaker volume contains an account of the finding at Hertford of the body of Sarah Stout, "drownd in a River." The work is well annotated, but this incident is not elucidated by a single comment. The intelligent reviewer in the columns of a daily paper [The Times] thereupon remarked that he should like to know more of Sarah Stout. To none of these distinguished persons-prefacer, editor, publisher, reviewerdoes her name convey any information. a lawyer [Spencer Cowper], afterwards raised to the judicial bench, who was a member of one of England's leading families, was accused of her murder, and the scandal of the trial, with the subsequent proceedings instituted by his political opponents, threatened to mar the career both of him and his elder brother, a future Lord Chan*Here for "Crewell we feel the friendly stroke," cellor. The event, moreover, seriously affected &c., read Ere well, &c.

D. O.

the political fortunes of the Whigs.

The whole story of the tragedy of poor Sarah Stout occupies about four pages of Macaulay's History (chap. xxv., sub anno 1699). Shade of Macaulay! Are the contents of your volumes now forgotten by everybody ?—Yours, &c., A PUZZLED INQUIRER.

Pall-mall, S.W., 15 October. The annotations in brackets are, of course, mine. The letter was noticed by The Spectator in its review of the book-a most unusual thing. Perhaps your contributor, who is the author of The Secrets of our National Literature,' can tell us the real name of the writer. RALPH THOMAS.

GENERAL BEATSON AND THE CRIMEAN WAR (11 S. vi. 430, 516; vii. 57).—It is certainly singular that no account of General Beatson has found a place in 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' But in the notice of Sir James Y. Scarlett, who led the charge of the Heavy Brigade, he is mentioned as having saved his chief from riding alone into the Russian ranks, when he was endeavouring to cover

the retreat of the remnants of the Light Brigade.

Kinglake gives, as a reason for not recounting the part taken by Beatson in Scarlett's charge, that he had no opportunity of conversation with him, as the General had returned to India. Yet it seems strange that Kinglake, being in the Crimea, and being able to give such a minute account of Scarlett's following, and of the various phases of the fight, should have found nothing whatever to say of Beatson in relation to the staff. E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory, Hants.

W. B. H.

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Chauncy, in his Historical Antiquities of Herts, 'has several references to this man : "The Grant of this Mannor [Bradfield, now called the Fryers Parish of Rushden] was confirm'd again to the aforesaid Monastery of Wardon in Beds. by Rich. I. in the 10th Year of his Reign and remained there until the time of its Dissolution, when it came to the Crown: then King H. VIII. granted it to Richard Andrews of Hayles in the County of Gloucester." Hayles is now spelt Hailes, a chapelry in the parish of Didbrook. Henry VIII.

"APIUM" (11 S. vi. 489; vii. 55, 74).— Isidorus's derivation of this word from apex, mentioned at the second reference, might in kindness be allowed to die the natural, if often lingering, death of such etymologies." In view, too, of the passages in Greek and Latin literature in which the culinary uses of devov and apium are spoken of, is it not a little misleading to say the herb was never brought to table of old" ? EDWARD BENSLY.

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In "The Nomenclator; or, Roman ReRICHARD ANDREWES (11 S. vii. 70).-membrance, of Adrianus Junius, London, The I.P.M. and will of Richard Andrewes 1585, written by the sd. Ad. Ju. in Latine, are printed in Trans. Bristol and Gloucs. Greeke," &c., I have an early authority for Arch. Soc., xix. 362-3, as Appendix II. the Greek=apium, both="parsley." The of the Rev. J. M. Hall's paper on Haresfield Index to the Nomenclator' contains about Manor and Church,' in which will be found 1,400 principal words. Under A we have other matter relating to Andrewes and his apium, and under the heading De Re descendants, though there is none as to his Herbaria: "Apium = Parselie, Apium paancestry. Information as to some of the lustre, paludapium, wild parselie, or watergrants of lands in Gloucestershire made to parslie: smallage, as some say. Apium him will be found ibid., iii. 9 (note); xiii. grande," &c. 373; xiv. 161.

Mr. W. St. Clair Baddeley in his history of Hailes (A Cotteswold Shrine,' 1908),

Schrevelius's Greek Dictionary' (1836) gives the Greek for parsley, but no equivalent for celery. It is fairly evident that

there were several parsleys. Parsley was used at funeral entertainments "in the later ages of Greece, not like Homer's, of flesh alone, but all sorts of beans, peas, lettuces, parsley, eggs," &c. (Potter's Antiquities, 1775).

Parsley was brought to the table by the Greeks. The variety used in this manner is not likely to have been the same as that used for garlands: the latter were probably of the wild, or water, parsley, and, in all probability, are what Horace refers to when he invited Phyllis on Mæcenas's birthday.

With respect to the exact meaning (English) of apium belonging to local and historical botany, the latter may be; but it will be. I think, difficult to name a locality where, if parsley be asked for, celery would be given, or vice versa.

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

"SEX HORAS SOMNO" (11 S. vi. 411, 474; vii. 71).—The following extract from J. G. Seume's (1763-1810) autobiographical sketch Mein Leben ("Meyers Volksbücher," 359360, p. 32) might be of interest in this connexion :

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Essays,' 1884. A similar instance of human
depravity to that of Lord Audley was that
of John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and
Lismore, who was hanged at Dublin 5 Dec.,
1640 (D.N.B.'); Wood's Athenæ Oxoni-
enses,' ii. 892).
F. C. WHITE.

Cardiff.

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(11 S. vi. 349, 418).-Both The Saturday Review, 24 Aug., 1912, and MR. HOGAN attribute seven weeks to Lent: "the whole seven weeks of Lent," says the one; "the penitential seven weeks of Lent,' writes the other. In the Anglican branch of the Church it is usual to refer to the term as being of six weeks only, though I have no doubt that Rome and England mean to indicate the same length of time-i.e., from Ash Wednesday to, and including, Easter Eve, Sundays being, as ever, festivals. ST. SWITHIN.

“OF SORTS” (11 S. vii. 10, 56, 117).—I have heard the replies under this heading criticized on the ground that they make the phrase too modern. The critic believed that "of sorts "—used in a depreciatory sense-was the latest slang at Cambridge thirty years ago. It certainly goes back twenty-four years, as it occurs in Rudyard Kipling's play The Story of the Gadsbys," published in 1889. In the sixth scene:

Mrs. Gadsby. Oh, what 's that ugly red streak inside your arm?

"Ich hatte, wenn ich nicht Lust hatte zu arbeiten, ein gutes Talent zu schlafen: und tat mir etwas Gütliches im Morgenschlaf, da mich vor Mitternacht die Wanzen in dem alten verdammten Baue nicht ruhen liessen. Das sagte ich ihm [Martini, his headmaster] geradezu; und brummte. Einmal fand ich, als ich etwas spät aufstand, von seiner Hand mit Kreide an die Stubentur geschrieben: See septemve horas dormisse sat est iureñique senique. Ich veränderte das re in que und nun lautete es: Sex septemque (sechs und sieben, also dreizehn) horas. So blieb es stehen, bis er wieder kam. Ei, seht doch die Variante,' rief er halb komisch, halb strafend; nicht übel, gar nicht übel für Faulenzer, wie wir sind.' Hätte I er den Hexameter nicht ungebührlich zum Heptameter verlängert, so hätte die Schnurre nicht stattfinden können."

HEINRICH MUTSCHMANN. University College, Nottingham.

REFERENCE WANTED (11 S. vii. 10).The Lord Coventry (D.N.B.), 1578-1640, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, was appointed Lord High Steward for that day, and addressed Mervin, Lord Audley, &c., the prisoner, as follows :—

Oh, think upon your offences, which are so heinous and so horrible, that a Christian man ought scarce to name them, and such as the depraved nature of man (which of itself carrieth a man to all sin) abhorreth."--Trial of Mervin, Lord Audley, &c. (Cobbett's 'State Trials,' vol. iii. 7 Charles I., 1631).

These words were partly quoted by Lord Macaulay in his essay on Frederic the Great, p. 496, vol. i., of his Critical and Historical

Capt. G. Nothing. It's a mark of sorts.
Here the speaker is making light of the scar.
(Cf. "Tush, sweetheart, 'tis but a scratch.")
In the last scene :-

s'pose I should be a Marquis of sorts.
Maffin. If I could slay off a brother or two,
Here the speaker is implying that he has no
high opinion of being a marquis.
M. H. DODds.

SCHOPENHAUER AND WIMBLEDON (11 S. vii. 90).-The home of the school at Wimbledon conducted by the Rev. Thomas Lancaster, at which Schopenhauer was for a short time a pupil, was the fine old Jacobean house in the High Street known for the last forty or fifty years as Eagle House. It is now, and has for more than a quarter of a century been, the home of the well-known architect and scholar Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, Bt., R.A. Sir Thomas contributed a very interesting account of his beautiful house-which he described as "perhaps unique as a survival of the smaller rural or semi-rural homes of the prosperous London merchant in the seventeenth century "

In Cowper's Freemen of Canterbury William Bristow, "printer and stationer," became a freeman by apprenticeship in 1783. His name also appears in the Poll for the Knights of the Shire,' 1790 (p. 43), and again for 1802.

In Ingoldsby Country' Mr. C. G. Harper says :—

Ingoldsby, who composed the legend, invented the quotation as well, and those who seek the Rev. S. Pegg's Supplement will not find it."

to the Wimbledon and Merton Annual, 1791, where he is described as a "widower." 1903 (Wimbledon, Edwin Trim & Co.). It was in 1789, he wrote, that "the house and 17 acres of land were bought for 2,300l. by the Rev. Thomas Lancaster, who made the house a school, and let off part of the land for building along the frontage in Church Street, and in the little street along the east side of the garden which bears his name. Lord Nelson was then living at Merton, and was acquainted with Mr. Lancaster, who named the school Nelson House' in the hero's honour; and Mr. Brackenbury, who carried on the school in later years, has talked with an old pupil of Mr. Lancaster who remembered being brought with other boys to recite before Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton in the front parlour, for which they were rewarded by a half-holiday at the great man's request. The school was continued under the name Nelson House' successively by Mr. Stoughton, who built a large drawing-room at the back, now pulled down; Messrs. Stoughton and Mayer; Messrs. Mayer and Brackenbury; and finally by the Rev. Dr. Huntingford and his son-in-law Mr. Malan. By Dr. Huntingford the house was renamed 'Eagle House.' He used to have a school at Eagle House,' Hammersmith, and when he moved it hither he brought not only the name, but the Eagle which surmounts the middle front gable. During its scholastic period the house was gradually surrounded and somewhat buried by dormitories, dining halls, and

other offices

such as a large school of eighty or ninety boys required. These have now in great part disappeared, and the old house was reduced nearly to its old form when it came into the possession of the present writer in 1887."

G. L. APPERSON.

EXCISEMAN GILL (11 S. vi. 490; vii. 34, 94).-W. J. M. says that, according to an annotated edition of the Ingoldsby Legends,' the story and the reference quoted are equally mythical, and also that no supplement to Lewis's History of Thanet has been published. The publisher's name is, however, given as "W. Bristow, Canterbury." The full reference for the legend is quoted as Supplement to Lewis's History of Thanet, by the Rev. Samuel Pegg, A.M., Vicar of Gomersham-W. Bristow, Canterbury, 1796, p.

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Who was the Rev. Samuel Pegg, A.M. ? Was he merely an invented personage? Whether he was or not, the name of the alleged publisher, W. Bristow, Canterbury, is certainly genuine. According to Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes,' vol. iii.,

he was a printer and bookseller, Alderman of Canterbury and Treasurer of the Eastern Parts of the County of Kent, and died Aug. 30, 1808,

æl. 47."

His obituary is recorded in The Gentleman's
Magazine for 1808. William Bristow was
Mayor of Canterbury in 1795. His marriage
is registered at St. Dunstan's, Canterbury,

Who is the original authority for saying the It would seem to be quotation is mythical? a mixture of fact and fiction. The " Exciseman Gill" has been shown by correspondents of N. & Q.' to have been an active and zealous riding officer, pursuing smugglers and making seizures of contraband spirits. The publisher of the supposed' Supplement was а real personage. Moreover, there appears to be a chalk pit having legendary connexions with smugglers.

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If, therefore, the Rev. S. Pegg was a real person, there seems to be no reason why he should not have written a Supplement to Lewis's History of Thanet,' although copies may now be scarce.

G. H. W.

[The Rev. Samuel Pegge died in February, 1796, and while Vicar of Godmersham, Kent, made collections relating to the county. See 'D.N.B.']

FIRST FOLIO SHAKESPEARE (11 S. vii. 8, 56, 94).-MR. JAGGARD, referring to the Felton portrait, says (ante, p. 56): "This delineates in the background a bookcase containing folios." It should be clearly understood that MR. JAGGARD is here alluding, not to the picture itself (which has no background), but to the grossly misleading little stipple engraving (based on the equally misleading engraving by Trotter) published by William Darton in 1822. I would add that it is by no means certain that the volumes on the shelves are folios, for both the top and bottom of no single book are visible.

M. H. SPIELMANN.

HORACE PEARCE (11 S. vii. 30).-I have a memorandum that Mr. Horace Pearce died at his house--The Limes, Stourbridge-register from 1887 to 1 Oct., 1911. In addition in February, 1900. W. P. COURTNEY. AUTHOR WANTED (11 S. vi. 330).— One ship drives East, and one drives West, By the selfsame wind that blows,