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up, which was as followeth, Sir Francis Child 1860, Sir Richard Levit 1660, Sir Peter Daniel 1616; but it being too late then, they Adjourned till this day (October 4,) where being met upon the Hustings, they declared Sir Francis Child to be duly Elected.'

The incoming Chief Magistrate was evidently determined even to enhance the popularity thus proved, for, when he returned to the City on Lord Mayor's Day, after being sworn at Westminster,

"in Cheapside he had proper Speeches made to him by Persons upon 4 several Pageants, which have been laid aside for several Years,"

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cerning the period during which a simile has been used is unsatisfactory. In Ray's 'Proverbs' there is the simile " as sick as a cushion," which is also used by Swift in his Polite Conversation,' but no later instance has as yet been found. Was the phrase already obsolescent in the beginning of the eighteenth century? On the other hand, as hard as nails is now a very common simile, but it does not seem to be recorded before the middle of last century. Is no earlier instance known? (Similes with "doornail" are known many hundred years earlier.)

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(iii.) It is often extremely difficult to understand what has given rise to a particular simile. Why is an extremely angry person said to be as mad as hops or

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sentation of a Goldsmith's Shop, with Men at work,
and a person representing St. Dunstan, who is
the Patron of the Goldsmiths, who made a Speech
therefrom."
as
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

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ENGLISH COLLOQUIAL SIMILES.-For some time past I have been collecting material for a book on Intensifying Similes in English,' 2.e., proverbial phrases such as these: as As a juggem ear, i.e., a quagmire, 58." black as night,' As open as day,' As When transcribing this for his book Hazlitt clear as the sun,' As pale as the moon,' must have had his eye on the preceding As merry as a grig,' As mad as hops,' line: "As plain as the nose on a man's &c. It is, of course, absurd that a work of face." Hence the misquotation. But the this kind should be undertaken in a nonmatter does not end there. At p. 57 of Bohn's English country, far away from English Handbook' (58 must be a misprint) there libraries and English-speaking surroundings, is: As plum as a jugglem ear." This is but present conditions make it unavoidable. also found in Ray, 1768, and probably also I have now brought together some 10,000 ibid., 1678, and no doubt is a misprint for quotations, comprising some 3,000 such juggle-mear or juggle mear," which is similes and matter bearing upon them the form given by Lean, who nevertheless but much is still left in a rather unsatis also copies Bohn. In the same way" nannyfactory state owing to the following hen" may be the result of misquotations or misprints.

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To begin with, I should be grateful for notes concerning the following forty similes :

1. As innocent as Moses in the bulrushes.Used by Vachell. Known elsewhere?

2. As good as gold.-Instances earlier than 1845. 3. As good as pie. Some American instances known. Does it occur in British English also? Does it always refer to good behaviour?

4. As holy as a horse. Instances known from

1530. Is it found later?

5. As innocent as a devil of two years old (Swift, 'Polite Conversation ').-What is the exact force of the phrase? Is it known elsewhere? 6. As bad as Jeffries (Wise, 'New Forest,' 1863). Is this a proverbial phrase current in Hampshire? Does it refer to Judge Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes?

7. As honest as the skin between one's brows.— Instances later than 1643 ? It is used in the 'Ingoldsby Legends.'

8. As true as the needle to the pole.-Modern

instances?

9. As true as a gun (Ben Jonson).-Later instances? An American writer has "As true as a gun barrel."

10. As true as touch (Spenser). Any later

instances?

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BAUGHTON,'

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN : SICILY.-I have in my possession a letter dated "Worcester, 18th December, 1833," written by my uncle, Ewen Henry Cameron, to his sister. He was at the time articled to his uncle, Archibald Cameron, a Worcester solicitor, and was the second son of the Rev. Charles Richard Cameron, Incumbent of St. George's, Can any one explain the following words ?Donnington Wood, Salop. "Will you have the goodness to tell my fatherthat we have lately heard from Mr. Newman that he is in Sicily for the sale of Baughton, and that he should be glad to know what debts he [my father] has paid, and what he is aware of being due, independently of legacies, &c. The: latter particulars he had better send here, and we will forward them after adding what we know on the subject.'

that Mr. Newman must have been John It seems clear from the allusion to Sicily Henry Newman; I can, however, find no other evidence that his visits to Sicily wereowned any property there. for business purposes, or, indeed, that he Baughton" is

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an English name, and the assumption is that if he owned any property there or was the executor of any one who owned such to it by its English owner. property, the name must have been given.

GEORGE H. CAMERON, Archdeacon of Johannesburg.

Box 1131, Johannesburg.

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LIEUT.-COL. LEWIS (BAYLY) WALLIS. (See 12 S. ii. 474.)—Sir Nicholas Bayly, who, as mentioned, married Caroline Paget (by whom he was ancestor of the present Marquis of Anglesey), was married twice. His first wife died in 1766. His second wife was AnneHunter, who outlived her husband (he died in 1782), dying May 18, 1818, when at Millfield, Surrey, aged 79. By the second marriage Sir N. Bayly had a son who in

1796 was gazetted lieutenant-colonel of the STOCKER FAMILY.-I should be glad if 95th Regiment of Foot. In 1800 Albany any correspondent could throw light on the Wallis, the solicitor and friend of D. Garrick connexion, if such existed, between the (vide 'Garrick's Friends,' 12 S. ii. 307), died, Stockers of Colyton and Sidmouth and and left practically the whole of his large those of London, who came originally estate to Lady Bayly, with reversion to her son Lieut.-Col. Lewis Bayly on condition that the latter took the surname of Wallis. I am anxious to have some details of this Lieut.-Col. Lewis (Bayly) Wallis, particularly the date of his death.

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WILLIAM OF ORANGE INSCRIPTION.-A medical gentleman in Norwich possesses a curious carving representing William of Orange in a floreated framework, embellished with oranges, and with the following inscription:

WELEKOM O HOGE VORST VINT REIS MET
VREDE TRIT VOORT VADERLAN ALS U
VOORSATE DED.

This Flemish inscription seems to have a letter or two missing, but has been translated :

"Welcome, O High Prince, find rest with peace. Step forth for the Fatherland, as thou didst aforetime."

Both the carving and the words are interesting. Can any reader of N. & Q.' suggest any origin for this memento, or any better rendering of the inscription ?

92 Queen's Road, Norwich.

JAMES HOOPER.

from Eaton Socon, Beds. The earliest record I have of Stockers at Colyton is of 1646, and I am still of opinion that they came from Sidmouth (only a few miles away), where there were Stockers just a century earlier: I believe these came to Sidmouth from Sherborne and Poole, or possibly from Basingstoke, and if so can probably claim to be offshoots of the Beds family, for the Sherborne, Poole, and Basingstoke Stockers use the arms, either singly or quartered, of Sir Wm. Stocker, 1485, who certainly belonged to the Beds family.

John Stocker was seized and imprisoned at Bremen when on an embassy to Prussia, whereupon the Government of that day, as stated in Patent Rolls 1453/24/5, immediately acted as follows:

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Commission to Thomas de Scales, Kt., Wm. Yelverton, and the Prior of Bishops Lynn, reciting that Mastr Thomas Kent, clerk to the Council, and John Stocker, citizen and merchant of London, sailing of late on an embassy of the King to Prussia, were taken by men of Lubeck and brought to Lubyk and there imprisoned, and some of that town, to wit Henry George Lang, and others, came to Bishops Lynn with certain of their goods and are still there, and the King by letters patent, by advice and consent of the Council, appointed the Mayor and Aldermen of Bishops Linn to enquire touching all men of Lubyke in the said town, and to arrest and keep them safely till further orders," &c.

This embassy is mentioned in Palgrave's 'Antient Kalendars' and Rymer's 'Fœdera.'

CHARLES J. STOCKER STOCKER.

"IN COMMENDAM. -Would any reader kindly give the origin of this phrase? It looks like the first words in some old legal formula. T. LLECHID JONES.

Llysfaen Rectory, Colwyn Bay.

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[First instance of phrase in N.E D.' dates from 1658. Use without "in" quoted from 1563-87; the quotation-from Foxe-would lead one to think earlier examples might well be found. Commenda" is Med. Latin for depositum," something held in charge. Used of a benefice held by a clerk-or also a layman-till the proper incumbent was forthcoming; and of a benefice of which the revenues went for life to some lay person.]

EWALD : SIR JOHN CUTLER.-Quoting from Lord Beaconsfield's early speeches, Alexander Ewald, the author of The Earl of Beaconsfield and his Times,' published in 1884, cites these enigmatic words: “ You remember, gentlemen, the story of Sir John FOLK-TALE: THE KING AND THE FALCON. Cutler's hose." I should like to know the-In a well-known folk-tale a king is accompoint of the sarcasm. What is the literary appraisement of Ewald's work? I have already formed high opinions of it, though only on the threshold.

M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney, N.E.

panied by his faithful falcon, which dashes the cup from his hand as he is drinking from a spring. The king in his anger kills the falcon, and discovers afterwards that the water is poisoned. I shall feel obliged for a reference to this tale. EMERITUS.

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CARDINAL GALLI: PORTRAIT BY VELAS-
QUEZ.-In an account of the King of
Rumania's collection of pictures given in
The Times of Dec. 8, 1916, at p. 7, it is
stated that "There are two, if not three,
works by Velasquez, one a splendid portrait
of Cardinal Galli." This was presumably
Marco, Cardinal Galli, who died July 24,
1683.

When was this portrait painted and where ?
Has any reproduction of it been published?
If so, where and by whom?

What was the precise relationship between
this Cardinal Galli, and the more famous
Tolomeo, Cardinal Galli, Secretary of State
to Gregory XIII. ? As to this latter see
11 S. xi. 279. I am anxious to know whether
any portrait of Tolomeo, Cardinal Galli, is in
existence.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Many kinds of stinging insects are in America popularly called wasps. Of course in this country wasps may safely be allowed to crawl on one with little chance of their stinging unless they are ill-treated. I should be glad of information on the foregoing subject. ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

WALL STREET, NEW YORK.-I am told that the name of this well-known financial district came from a wall constructed in the early days against intrusion by Indians. I should like to know if this is so, and some details of the matter.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN.-Not the least curious of Hotten's publications was a wellprinted and bound volume of 120 pp. :

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of "Ah, Happy England. A forecast general lament, a Poem in 5 acts, by Empson Edward Middleton, Poeta Deo, Author of [&c.]. London (For the Author) John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1871."

REMINISCENCES OF A SCOTTISH GENTLEMAN.'—In 1861 there was published by Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. the very interesting 'Reminiscences of a Scottish Gentleman,' by "Philo Scotus." The author was Philip I do not think it was ever included in Hotten's Barrington Ainslie, who was born in Edin-printed list of publications, but the following burgh in 1785. samples of its author's riming powers may show that it was something of a literary curiosity :—

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The Reminiscences are brought down to 1825, when the author, then engaged in business in Liverpool, concludes :

Poets and princes own a common P.

But cross and crook must form the Poet's T.

"If that which I have related meets with
approval, I will proceed forward, and resume the
relation of interesting public events, and much
connected with my personal comfort and experi-
ence during my subsequent residence of twenty-publishing" for the Author"?
four years in Scotland."

She faints; attendants or some ancient toad-eh ?
Remove her quickly, leaving you the goad eh ?
Is any other instance known of Hotten

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I am anxious to know if the promised
second instalment of these Reminiscences
has ever seen the light.
F. G. B.

WHITE HART SILVER, DORSET. Can any
of your readers kindly tell me whether the
White Hart Silver (a fine imposed by
Henry III. on Dorset) is still paid into the
Exchequer as it was in his day? Any in-
formation regarding this query will be wel-
(Miss) M. CRAIG.

come.

22 Taylor Road, Wallington, Surrey.
WASP-STINGS.-When in the United
States in 1910 I was seriously informed by
a credible person that, so long as a person
holds his breath, a wasp cannot sting him.
My informant declared that he had put this
to the test on several occasions and had
never been stung, saying that he had seen
the sting of the wasp slipping off his finger
when the insect attempted to sting him.
He admitted that he had not tried handling
a wasp without holding his breath, to find |
out whether the wasp could then sting him.

W. B. H.

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HEART IN HAND.-Has this symbol ever has been translated by Algar Thorold; and been traced to an origin? It was the signSt. Catherine of Siena as seen in her of the Fleet marriage (Num. Chron., 3rd Letters,' edited by Vida Scudder (London, Series, xi. 97, No. 5), and occurs on an 1905), may be consulted. A recent publicaengraved "Love Token in my possession, tion is St. Catherine of Siena: her Life and c. 1800; also on one of Spence's tokens Times,' by C. M. Antony (Burns & Oates), (Atkins, p. 123, Nos. 516, &c.), a few years a work highly to be recommended. The earlier. It does not appear on seventeenth- Flower of the New World' (1899) is an -century tokens, nor do I find it as an inn sign. account of St. Rose of Lima by F. M. F. P. B. Capes. There is a life of the same saint in the series The Saints and Servants of God," edited by Father Faber of the Oratory (London, 1847). This is a paraphrase of Rosa Peruana: Uita Mirabilis et Mors Pretiosa S.Rosæ a Sancta Maria,' by Leonard Hansen (1725). Beautiful and sympathetic sketches of St. Dominic, St. Catherine, and St. Rose may be found in Edward Hutton's 'Studies in the Lives of the Saints' (Constable, 1902).

RYSLEY.-Can any reader of N. & Q.' supply a description of the arms of the Rysley family, some members of which were resident in Cambridgeshire in 1411 ?

Saffron Walden.

Replies.

R. HEFFER.

THE DOMINICAN ORDER.

(12 S. ii. 510.)

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The learning of the Order found its culmination and glory in the genius of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose life has been written by many authors. For those who cannot have access to the original a translaSo great and glorious is the Order of tion but recently begun of the Summa St. Dominic; so honourable its long roll of Theologica' is being made by the Fathers saintly and heroic names, around many of of the English province. Amongst the whom has grown up a several library; so greatest names of the Order stands that of varied and romantic its history; so noble its the "Universal Doctor," the most erudite of missionary enterprises in medieval Europe, the Schoolmen, Master of the Masters,' in the New World, in Japan; that in a brief magnus in magia, maior in philosophia, space I can only hope to indicate just a few maximus in theologia," Albert of Cologne. modern English books which deal with the His life has been translated by the Rev. F. H. Black Friars, their literature and traditions. Dixon (Washbourne). 'St. Catherine de A very useful little brochure is The Ricci: her Life, her Letters, her Community,' Dominicans: Letters to a Young Man on by F. M. Capes (Burns & Oates), is made the Dominican Order,' translated from the doubly valuable owing to its preface, a French of Père Duchaussoy, O.P., by the Treatise on the Mystical Life,' by the late Very Rev. Bede Jarrett, the present Pro- Father Bertrand Wilberforce, O.P. The vincial, edited by the late Very Rev. Fr. John mystical writings of the Blessed Henry Suso Procter. This further has a bibliography, have been completely translated into French Some Works in English by Dominican by Père Thiriot, in two volumes (Paris, 1899). Writers.' The Spirit of the Dominican English versions of the autobiography and Order,' by Mother Frances Raphael, O.S.D., The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom will be found extraordinarily interesting, as easily to be procured. Short Lives of the giving many details of the daily life, the Dominican Saints' (Kegan Paul) is, I observances, the active and contemplative believe, unfortunately out of print. I have work of the Order. Both the above are found the Penny Lives of Dominican published by Messrs. R. & T. Washbourne. Saints and Blessed," published by the The same authoress has written a Life of Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, useful and our Holy Father St. Dominic' of interest. (Longmans, Green & Co.), and as the spirit of an Order to be studied au fond must be traced first to its Founder from whom it has its being,' this study, too, is of no small value and importance. Perhaps the best modern biography of St. Catherine of Siena, “the Holy and Seraphic Mother," is that by Prof. Edmund Gardner. Her 'Divine Dialogue

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It is worth noting that the Dominican Office and Mass differ considerably from the Roman rite. The Dominican liturgy is extremely dignified and magnifical, and when seen at such a church as S. Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, at St. Thomas's Priory, Hawkesyard, or at Haverstock Hill, its beauty and solemnity are very apparent.

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