Dyde is, I think, a Southern variant of the Northern surname Deede or Deedes, which occurs in Yorkshire in the fourteenth 2. The second badge of the regiment is a century; see Bardsley's Surnames.' Thus rose and crown, a white rose in the centre the English verb die becomes in Scotch dee, of a red one (part of the arms of Queen" lay me down and dee" (Annie Laurie'). Elizabeth).

would have helped towards the cost of re-erecting
them; but as they did not see their way to con-
tributing, the project was abandoned, and all
that remained of this masterpiece was used for
building purposes."
ALAN STEWART.

PADDINGTON POLLAKY (12 S. iii. 509).Gilbert's allusion was obviously to Ignatius Paul Pollaky, a Pole who, in the late sixties, established a private inquiry office at 13 Paddington Green, which he maintained till 1882. He further advertised himself as Correspondent to the Foreign Police Gazette.' I believe he was the first to set up an office of this description in the metropolis, though they are plentiful enough nowadays. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

privilege of selling spare milk, and, by a
system not unknown to modern milk-
vendors, she so cheated her customers that
the Earl, hearing of it, cancelled the privi-
lege. She then bewitched the Castle,
usually in the form of a black dog. The
St. Nicholas's, brought the evil one to rest
chaplain, with the Vicars of St. Mary's and
by reading passages of Scripture, and
of a dog to the height of Caesar's Tower, from
eventually followed the witch in the form
which she or it sprang into the stream, to a
chamber prepared under the mill dam.' Her
statue was placed upon the tower battle-
ments, and was there until blown down some
The statue
years back.
was obviously
one of the stone warders often placed on
castle battlements.

[MR. CECIL CLARKE also thanked for reply.] ARMS OF ENGLAND WITH FRANCE ANCIENT In 1879 I was informed that the schoolroom (12 S. iii. 419, 485).-There is a large chest at Horspath, near Oxford, had been perin the "buttery" at Durham Castle bearing sistently haunted by a ghost, to the general inside the lid the arms of France ancient- annoyance of the teachers and children; three fleurs-de-lis, 3 and 4; 1 and 2 being the but the parish priest, with cross-bearer, arms of England-three leopards (see auto-acolytes, &c., performed a solemn service of type reproduction of the chest open, Arch. exorcism, with good effect. Is there any Eliana, Second Series, xv. 296). I have truth in this tale? also seen in private possession a shield of J. HARVEY BLOOM. painted glass from a church in Durham county with same charges: 1 and 4, England; 2 and 3, France ancient.

The only authentic recent case I ever
heard of was the rectory at High Wycombe,
about thirty years ago.
E. E. COPE.

The Burgundians attacked Paris in July, 1465. Haggard in his Louis XI. and Charles the Bold' states of the besieged as follows:

"They caused the bourgeoisie to close the gate, after the Burgundians had been supplied in turn with all the paper, parchment, ink, sugar, and drugs that they demanded."

Prof. J. E. Thorold Rogers in his account

of Holland in “ The Story of the Nations,"

1889, p. 49, stated :

:

LAYING A GHOST (12 S. iii. 504).-The service as performed at Castle Acre in Norfolk, early in the nineteenth century, consisted in requisitioning the services of three of the neighbouring clergy, who read in rotation verses of Scripture, the ghost also reading and keeping pace with them. If the clerics managed to get a verse ahead, their power was established and the ghost laid. The recess the spirit was put to rest in had two candle-ends thrown in, from which, I presume, they were lighted during the ceremony. My informant, an old lady, aged 84, was present (so she said) when the event took place. The recess was an object If sugar was to be obtained in Alexandria of dread in my boyhood. It was securely at the commencement of the fifteenth barred, two wooden bars and an iron one century, it is probable that much was used crossing from side to side; but I believe it in the Courts of Europe, and that sugar was was merely an opening into a huge chimney-therefore well known to many. stack.

A somewhat similar story is told of Warwick Castle. An ancient dame had the

"There were flourishing manufactures in
In particular, sugar was
Alexandria and Cairo.
town, with such success and abundance that its
cultivated, extracted, and refined in the former
price fell, at the beginning of the sixteenth
century, to less than an eighth of what it stood
at in the beginning of the fifteenth."

I have always understood that at the roya! and other banquets the art of the sweetmeatmaker was much in evidence, and that this

was especially shown at the feast given by Sir Richard Whittington (Mayor 1419-20) to King Henry V.

Prof. W. W. Skeat in the small but interesting book The Past at our Doors' relates:

66

In the early days when sugar, which seems to have come into Europe through the Arabs after the Crusades, had not been introduced, wild honey from the woods was used instead. Even when introduced (in the form of the violet- and rose-coloured sugar, for instance, which reached England from Alexandria in the reign of Henry VII.) it long continued to be regarded as a rare and costly spice, and it remained so up to the time of the discovery of America at the end of the fifteenth century. It was first refined, and made into loaves by a Venetian, the loaves being mentioned in the reign of Henry VIII."

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

COBDEN'S STATUE IN ST. PANCRAS (12 S. iii. 508). In reply to the inquiry of H. C-N I can state that there is no connexion between the parish of St. Pancras and Richard Cobden. I cannot give any exact reply to the question why the site was chosen, except that it was a vacant space and it was thought that it might as well be filled by a bad statue. T. FISHER UNWIN.

CUTTING THE HAIR AS A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST HEADACHE (12 S. iii. 250, 307, 484). A heavy crop of hair is often regarded as being the cause of headaches. One of my brothers had his thick thatch thinned in order to prevent his suffering from the pain; and I think long or heavy hair is considered exhausting to the system of weedy little girls.

ST. SWITHIN.

1. Quinque sumus fratres, uno de stipite nati;
Sunt duo barbati, duo sunt sine crine creati;
Unus de nobis non est barbatus utrinque.
The prospect of discovering the author of this
particular variety of the riddle about the calyx
of a rose does not seem very hopeful. The riddle
was a favourite one, and is found in many shapes.

Reusner in his Enigmatographia,' 2nd ed., 1602, part i. p. 254, gives the following as

Joachim Camerarius's :

Quinque una fratres germani matre creati,
Flavo splendentem gestant in vertice comtum :
Glabri ex his duo visuntur semperque tenelli :
Sed tres promissa cernes horrescere barba:
Quorum gratus odor citris florentibus exit.
This is followed by a Greek version of the same
author, beginning

:

Quinque vides natos una de matre creatos, Sunt duo barbati, barbaque carent duo nati, Quintus et ornatus partim, partim spoliatus. To this a note is appended : 66 Cortices rosarum vocant sive alabastros, calycis partes." A comparison of these last lines with those quoted by MR. DAVIES tells against his proposed insertion.

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On p. 380, among Enigmata quædam miscellanea,' we get the riddle in a couplet :Sunt quini fratres, sub eodem tempore nati:

Barba duobus abest, et tribus illa subest. The fivefold division of the calyx is again referred to in a distich by Jacobus Susius, given on p. 369:

LETTERS FROM H.M.S. BACCHANTE: W. JOHNSON YONGE (12 S. iii. 328, 363, 450, 483). The connexion of Wm. Johnson Yonge with Sir Joshua Reynolds is not a little interesting. The Johnsons were Reading merchants. Samuel Johnson, born in 1685, son of Samuel of Reading, became a student of Christ Church, Oxford, and was given the College living of Great Torrington in Devonshire. His son William, who was Mayor of Torrington in 1757, married Elizabeth, sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and was the father of " the beautiful Fanny Johnson " who married Archdeacon Yonge, and was mother of the writer of the letters. Joshua and Elizabeth Reynolds were chil- 3. The lines of which A. K. T. desires to know dren of the Rev. Samuel Reynolds, Master of the source come from a poem called Somewhere' Plympton Grammar School. Joshua, after-written by Mrs. Julia Caroline Doir, and are to be found in The Treasury of American Sacred wards the celebrated painter, was born Song' (Henry Frowde, 1900). there in 1723, and, after being knighted in 1769, became Mayor of Plymouth in 1773.

Quintuplici strophio subtus circumque recincte
Quam Zephyro rides vere nitente calyx !
EDWARD BENSLY.

STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

Surnames of the United Kingdom: a Concise
Etymological Dictionary. By Henry Harrison.
Vol. II. Part 16. (Eaton Press, 18. net.)
THIS instalment deals with names from Tumson
to Waggener. It includes a good many of
medieval Latin and French origin, well known
and curious, especially under V, which letter also
modifications now established as independent
brings before us a number of West-Country

surnames.

larger than in recent instalments is illustrated A proportion of the names somewhat by apt quotations from documents and books.

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WE are much obliged to the Cambridge Press and to Mr. Sampson for an excellent selection of Hazlitt, prefaced by a brilliantly written introduction. The editor as a school teacher remarks that students' editions of Hazlitt generally confine themselves to his 'Characters of Shakespeare's Plays.' Good as these are, there is abundance of able criticism on the subject, and the selection here made does justice to Hazlitt's infinite gusto, which extended from poets to prizefighters. He got by his own account, which we can well believe, a great deal of enjoyment out of life; but he was a disagreeable person, so obsessed by ideas of revolution and despotism that he was always breaking into extravagances of suspicion and ill-humour. Politics made letters inhumane at that period, and we know what was done to Keats as the friend of Leigh Hunt. In saying, however, that "The Edin-logue 379 to Books on the Drama and Dramatic burgh cannot claim, like The Quarterly, to have killed a poet," Mr. Sampson seems to support Byron's rime about the "flery particle" and the "article" which made The Quarterly guilty of killing Keats. The editor must be aware that this accusation has long been recognized as false. Leigh Hunt, when he saw Byron's lines in manuscript, told him they were wrong, but Byron would not miss a point smartly set down. On the other side, Hazlitt retorted with Billingsgate on Walter Scott which it is difficult to tolerate even from a mad partisan. We have admiration for Hazlitt's prose, but he was extremely trying to his best friends, as the words from Lamb quoted in the introduction show. It would have been easy to produce similar testimony, e.g., from Leigh Hunt, who was on Hazlitt's side in politics. The man who on a walking tour preferred to walk alone lacked something that belongs to many lesser men. Yet no one at his best can have had a finer appreciation of good talk and good letters. In the virtues of domesticity Hazlitt was not great, and his choice of wives was not fortunate. We do not know why Mr. Sampson should withhold the title of his Liber Amoris.' The love frenzy it memorates is, after all, a part of Hazlitt, and a piece of human nature not ill recorded for the instruction of the world.

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The Introduction brings us thoroughly and easily thanks to epigrams--to an understanding of Hazlitt's position and ideas. It makes Napoleon seven years old when Hazlitt was born in 1778, but surely the former was born in 1769. The essayist began as a painter, and looked back with regret to his earlier days in France. This was the experience also of Thackeray.

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HEER MARTINUS NIJHOFF sends from the Hague two Catalogues-No. 428, general works and No. 429, La Réforme et le Protestantisme dans les Pays-Bas jusqu'à l'année 1600 (y compris les Précurseurs de la Réforme).' The first 13 entries in the former are "pièces historiques du seizième siècle," and, as they are rarities, the titles are set out in full.. One of them, printed in 1561, gives an account (in Dutch) of the coronation of Charles IX. at Reims in that year (50 fl.). Under Amérique is E. Gagnon's Chansons populaires du Canada,' with the melodies, 3rd ed., Quebec, 1894 (6 fl.). Under Chansons are two other collections-300 popular songs, &c., relating to Waterloo (60 fl.), and 20 patriotic and satirical songs, &c., relating to the war with Belgium in 1830 (35 fl.). A work that has a melancholy interest at the present time is

COL. H. SOUTHAM (Earliest Use of "Jingo ").— The Oxford Dictionary cites G. J. Holyoake in The Daily News of March 13, 1878, as the first to use the word " Jingo as a political nickname; but the extracts given show that he only adopted the word from the music-hall song then popular. The Dictionary traces the history of the word back to John Eachard's Grounds and Occasions of the "Contempt of the Clergy,' 1670, p. 34: "He....falls a flinging it out of one hand into the other, tossing it this way and that; lets it run a little upon the line, then tanutus, high jingo, come again!" The quotation from Oldham's 'Satires upon the Jesuits,' 1679, to which you refer, is the third example supplied by the Dictionary.

J. T. R. F. (Stones' End, Borough).-Much information on the subject will be found at 11 S. v. 289, 396, 515; vi. 231.

JAS. CURTIS ( Imp" of Lincoln Cathedral).— See under Devil: Lincoln,' 8 S. ii. 128, 210.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS (Chimney-Sweeper's Climbing Boys).-See the articles at 12 S. iii. 347, 462; and ante, p. 28.