LEIGH HUNT.-In Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature' (editions from 18441892) there is included among the representative selections from Leigh Hunt a "Dirge ("Blessed is the turf, serenely blest "). I have not found this elsewhere attributed to or acknowledged by Leigh Hunt. Can any reader trace it for me? F. PAGE.

MORGAN PHILLIPS.-This Roman Catholic worthy, one of the founders of Douay College, where he died 1570, was also known and referred to as Phillip Morgan. Where was he a native of originally? ANEURIN WILLIAMS. SPENCER TURNER.-Information is desired about this man. He had a nursery at Holloway Down, Essex, in 1787 (?) Had he any connexion with Turner's oak? J. ARDAGH.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following must belong to some work between 1700-1770. Are they from Pitt's speeches?

1. "My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron."

2. "To hinder insurrection by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably by having no subjects, is an expedient that argues no great profundity of politics. It affords a legislator little self-applause to consider that, where there was formerly an insurrection, is now a wilderness." L. H. P.

Replies.

TERCENTENARY HANDLIST OF

NEWSPAPERS.

(12 S. viii. 38. See vii, 480.) EVERYONE interested in the history of newspapers and periodicals must be grateful to Mr. J. G. Muddiman and to The Times for the compilation and publication of the "Handlist to the former for undertaking such laborious work, and to the latter for enabling it to be printed for the use of students. The more the 'Handlist is used the more its value will be appreciated and if, with the co-operation of readers of N. & Q.', the earlier history of the press can be brought to completion a very necessary piece of research will be available for posterity. Mr. Muddiman will be the first to acknowledge that such a work as his must be incomplete, more especially, perhaps, in the provincial section, and here I think he might well have asked publicly for assistance in compiling lists and so have made his 'Handlist The fugitive nature of provincial papers is of even more value. well known and records of many can only be obtained by using local knowledge.

Two other suggestions are offered. Having put the index to a fairly close test the need for more direct reference to the titles is felt. The chronological arrangement having been

for titles more difficult than would have been the case had the group of papers under each year been numbered. For example, under 1888 in section II. there are 126 titles and had these been numbered from 1 onwards and referred to in the index as 1888 (1), 1888 (2), &c., instant reference could have been made. The initial labour would have been greater and the cost of printing added to, but the ultimate saving in time to users of the list would have been immense.

Secondly, the index would have been more complete had it included the titles of papers which were the successors, under different names, of earlier ones. As examples I give (1) the (second) Gloucester Mercury (1856), which was a continuation of The Gloucester Free Press (see p. 240, col. 2), and (2) The South Midland Free Press, the continuation of The Northamptonshire Free Press. Neither is indexed. Unless one has

PART II.-PROVINCIAL.

The Cirencester Flying Post and Weekly Miscellany. No. 42, Oct. F, 1741 to No. 164, Feb. 6, 1774. In Bingham Library, Cirencester. [See my note in 'N. & Q.,' 11 S. x. 325-6.]

The Gloucester Gazette; and South Wales, Worcester and Wiltshire General Advertiser. Vol. ii., No. 100, July 8 (Gloucester). Last number seen Nov. 18, 1796.

Jan. 28.

1833. The Wag. No. 3, Nov. 24.

1834. The Official Gazette of the Trades Unions.

1801. Continued as The Gloucester and Cheltenham Herald, Jan. 7, 1826. Last number seen June 2, 1828.

The People's Police Gazette. No. 29,

Mar. 1.

The Pioneer and Weekly Chronicle.

Nos. 2-8, New Series, July 19 to Aug. 30; No. 9 [Entitled] Pioneer and Official Gazette with which is Incorporated the Weekly Chronicle, Crisis, and The New Moral World, Sept. 6; No. 10 [Entitled] The Pioneer and Official Gazette of the Associated Trades Union, Sept. 13. Twopenny Dispatch. No. 21, Nov. 1. Weekly Police Gazette. No. 2, Jan. 11; Vol. ii., No. 27, July 4, 1835. 1835. The Axe and Working Man's Advocate. No. 1, Sept. 5.

The New Political Register. No. 1, Oct. 17. People's Weekly Dispatch. No. 1, Oct. 4. 1836. Carpenter's London Journal. No. 1,

zine. Nos. 1-52, Dec. 28, 1815 to Dec. 23, 1816.

1830. The Tewkesbury Yearly Register and Magazine, 1830-1849. Issued annually. 1832. The Gloucester and Cheltenham Standard. Nos. 1-8, Sept. 1 to Oct. 20. 1838. The New Moral World and Manual of Science. No. 203, Sept. 15 (Birmingham).

Victoria Journal or Moral Folitical and Social Reformer. No. 1, July 21 (Manchester).

1839. The Gloucestershire Paul Pry. No. 7, Aug. 17 (Gloucester).

1841. The Gloucestershire Beacon. Nos. 1-2, Feb. to Mar. 1841 (Gloucester).

1843. The Mirror of Schism. No. 1, June 3, 1843. No. 5, Oct 7, 1843 (Gloucester). Tewkesbury Magazine and Literary Journal. Nos. 1-3 (All), May to July. 1846. Tunbridge Wells Looker On. No. 8, Aug. 14. 1861. The Triad (Cheltenham). Nos. 1-2 (All)

Nov. to Dec.

1866. The Cheltonian. No. 1, March 1866 to Oct. 1869. Continued as The Cheltenham College Magazine, Nov. 1869 to Continued as The ChelAug. 1874. tonian, Oct. 1874. In progress. Harmer's Monthly Illustrated

No. 2, May 19.

Journal No. 1, May 1868 to April 1869 (Cirencester).

The Glocestrian. No. 1, 1874. Continued as The London Amateur and The Glocestrian, March 1879 to March 1880. Continued as The Glocestrian, May to July 1880.

1875. The Gloucester Independent. No. 3,

Oct. 23.

1876. The Gloucester Herald. No. 1, May 6. 1877. Cheltenham: a fortnightly serial. No. 1, Nov. 15; No. 8, St. Patrick's Day, 1878.

1878. The Bee (Cheltenham). No. 2, June. Gloucester Guardian. No. 2, June 27. Gloucestershire Templar Record and Quarterly Guide. Nos. 2-5, May 1878 to Feb. 1879 (Stroud).

1879. Gloucester Observer. Nos. 1-3, June 14

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NOTES.

ceased.

1880. The Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine.

No. 1, February. In progress.

9, 1722. A complete file to beyond 1885 is in private hands.

Gloucestershire Wasp. Nos. 1-7, Oct. 29 to Dec. 10 (Gloucester).

1882. The Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Congregational Magazine. No. (Bristol).

1, Jan.

1885. The Philistine. No. 1, Oct., 1885. Continuation of Cheltenham Working Men's College Magazine (276, col. 2) (Cheltenham).

Glocestershire. Continued to Vol ii.,.
No. 10, Apr. 19, 1822.

227 (2) The Looker On. This is also given under 1836 (229, col. 1) the later date being a new series. Publication discontinued July 24, 1920.

289 (1) Gloucestershire Magpie. For 1892 read

300 (1)

1893.

Stroud Weekly Press. No. 1, June 28, 1895.

tional Magazine.

No. 1, Jan. 1888;

Vol. 2, No. 9, Sept. 1889.

1889. Glo'strian. No. 1, Jan. 1889; Vol. 3, No. 3,

1891 (Gloucester).

1893. The Cheltenham Mirror. No. 15, Feb. 28. 1897. The Independent. A monthly review. No. 1, May 1897 to No. 3, July 1897 (Gloucester).

1901. The Protestant Chronicle. Nos. 1-13, Oct. 15, 1901 to Oct. 22, 1902. 1907. The Cryptian. No. 1, Dec. 1907. In progress (Gloucester).

The Gloucestershire Scholastic Magazine. No. 1, Jan. 1907 to Vol. 4, No. 23, July 14, 1914 (Cheltenham). 1909. The Plutonian Magazine. 1909 (Gloucester).

1910. The Gloucester Free Press.

col. 1).

1911. The Calton Magazine for boys and girls. April 1911 to Spring 1913 (Goucester). The Gloucester Conservative and Unionist monthly. No. 1, October 1909 to No. 25, December 1911.

The National School Magazine. No. 1, December, 1911. In progress. No issue between Easter 1915 and Midsummer 1920 (Gloucester).

1912 Gloucester Technical Schools Magazine. Nos. 1-2, December to March 1912-13.

More Hall Magazine. Nos. 1-19, May 1912 to October 1916 (Stroud).

1913. Bristol and Gloucestershire Automobile Club Monthly Journal. No. 1, Jan. 31, 1913 to Vol. iii., No. 12, December 1915, Vol. v., No. 3, March 1917.

tinued April 1918 as The_Linkman. Discontinued July 1918. For Upton St. Leonards, read Gloucester.

Index, Sec. I.-Cleave's has been placed after Clerkenwell and may therefore be missed. Index, Sect. II.-Reading Mercury, 218, omitted;, ROLAND AUSTIN.

'POOR UNCLE NED '(12 S. vi. 287; vii. 373, 438, 514; viii. 36).—I have two books which contain a vast number of songs (words only) viz., St. James's Song Book,' printed and published by R. March & Co., St. James's Walk, E.C., and 'Cole's Funniest Song Book in the World,' edited, &c., by E. W. Cole, Melbourne: Cole's Book Arcade, London: 25 Paternoster Row, E.C. Neither In the first a former owner has written "1896" under his is dated. name. The following is the song as it appears in the St. James's Song Book,' p. 545 :

UNCLE NED.

There was an old nigger, his name was Uncle Ned,
He died a long while ago;

He had no wool on the top of his head,
In the place where the wool ought to grow.
Hang up the shovel and the hoe, the hoe,
Lay down the fiddle and the bow,
There's no more work for poor old Ned,
He's gone where the good niggers go.
nails were longer than the cane in the brake,,

No eyes had he for to see.
He had no teeth to eat the hoe-cake
So was forced to let the hoe-cake be.
Hang up the shovel, &c.

On a very cold morning poor uncle Ned died,
And ev'ry nigger said, he was very much afraid,
In his grave they laid him low,
His like they never more would know.
Hang up the shovel, &c.

The version in 'Cole's Funniest Song Book,' p. 257, is the same except that the second line is :

He died long ago, long ago.

That the song is some seventy years old or more is evidenced by Delane's 'Journal,' quoted at the first reference.

What sort of bread or cake is or was a hoe-cake? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

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In an old volume of music I find this pathetic ballad, with a frontispiece portrait of the hero. It was published by the Musical Bouquet," 192 High Holborn. No date, but the book itself was bound up some time in the fifties of last century. The first verse runs :

I once knew a nigger, his name was Uncle Ned,
He died a long while ago,

He had no wool on the top of him head,

Just the place where the wool ought to grow
Chorus

Hang up the shovel and the hoe, the hoe,
Lay down his fiddle and his bow.
There's no more toil for poor old Ned,
He's gone where all good niggers go.

Torquay.

S. PONDER.

TULCHAN BISHOPS (12 S. viii. 52).-' Tulchan is a Gaelic term meaning "a little heap," then, a stuffed calf-skin placed under a cow's nose to induce her to give her milk, then, derisively, applied to the titular bishops in whose names the revenues of the Scottish sees were drawn by the lay barons, who thus had "ane tulchen lyk as the kow had or scho wald gif milk, ane calfis skin stoppit with stra" (Lindesay, ante 1578), quoted in N.E.D.' J. T. F. Winterton, Lines.

Nominal bishops, not consecrated or even in priest's orders, who held office in Scotland

He had no wool on de top of his head

On de place where de wool ought to grow.

Den lay down de shubble and de hoe,
Hang up de fiddle and de bow,

Dar's no more work for poor Uncle Ned,
He's gone where de good niggers go.

E. C. WIENHOLT. 7 Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath, S.E.3.

THE FIRST LORD WESTBURY (12 S. viii. 51).-My old friend the late J. B. Atlay in the section of his Victorian Chancellors' which treats of Lord Westbury (Richard Bethell) in commenting on his overbearing demeanour, writes as follows:"No one was immune, not the Court itself, nor the solicitors who instructed him, least of all his juniors. One of these, Charles Neate, Fellow of Oriel, and in after years member for the City of Oxford, was goaded beyond endurance- Shut up, you, fool!' are the words which are said by the late Thomas Mozley to have been addressed to him and retaliated in a fashion which all but lost him his gown, and did compel his disappearance from

as tulchan means a stuffed calf's skin set up in sight of a cow to persuade her to give her milk. See J. H. Blunt, 'Dictionary of Sects, Heresies,' &c., 1874, p. 543, and note. W. A. B. C.

Grindelwald.

In accordance with the Concordat at Leith (February, 1572) and the General Assembly at Perth (August, 1572) bishoprics were in the gift of lay lords who appointed to the bishopric those who would take the smallest stipend, while they themselves enjoyed the full emoluments of the see. These were called, in ridicule, “tulchan bishops." Tulchans is the Gaelic name for calf-skins filled with straw which were placed before cows to induce them to yield their milk more readily. C. G. N.

I. F. will find in the late Bishop Anthony Mitchel's Short History of the Church in Scotland,' London, Rivingtons, 1911 ("Oxford Church Text Books Series "), the information he requires on pp. 60 and 61. It appears that after the Reformation in Scotland when, in 1560, Episcopacy was banished, and the superintendent system founded, there were two distinct parties in the Church of Scotland, one for Episcopacy,