maid; the scribe calls it "Venus's sport,'
Milton has " Nocturnal sport." The scribe
says in one stanza :-

He spoake her faire, thinking to wooe the maid
To sport with him a while within the shade;
almost identical in word and rhythm with
the familiar line in Lycidas:-
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade.

Among slighter coincidences I may cite the use of "ingrate" in the form of reproachful address. The scribe says of Scylla, repulsed by Minos :—

And crying thousand times ingrate she flung
Herselfe into the raging sea, and clung.

In Paradise Lost,' God says of man :-
Ingrate, he had of me

All he could have.

The following are some of the most common phrases and words in use :-

BACK TEETH PULLED OUT. A horse is said to have its "back teeth pulled out" when it is thought to have been “pulled" by a jockey and restrained from winning.

BOYS (THE): THE "LEGS." The three-card trick, pickpocket, dishonest Turf flotsam and jetsam.

Busy. A horse is said to be "busy" when it is known to be out to win and expected so to do. Conversely, when a horse is described as "not busy," the inference is that it is not being backed, is not expected (or wanted) to win.

BUYING MONEY. Laying heavy odds on a favourite.

CHUCKED IT. If at some stage in a race a horse is seen to "shut up," and refuse to gallop his best, it is said to "chuck it."

CLAIMING THE FIVE. Five pounds weight "allowed to apprentice jockeys. DEAD MEAT. are so described. DODDLED IT.

(III. 97.)
And Abdiel addresses Satan as "Ingrate'
(V. 811). Peck* cites it as an example of
Milton's tendency to shorten a word.
"Heaven's King" is a favourite phrase of easily is said to
Milton, which the scribe also uses :—

But from their blood such wicked impes did spring
As still bore hatered unto heaven's King.

In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King.
(P.L.,' II. 751.)
But thou art serviceable to Heaven's King.
('P.R.,' I. 421.)

Both Milton and the scribe often write of
Nymphs, Naiades, Dryads, and even an
Oread is once invoked by each. In the script
we find :-

:

Jove spies a nimph of chast Diana's traine
Calisto hight

and elsewhere:-
:-

:-

The naiades with frutes and flowers doe fill
His sever'd horne which abounds in plenty still;
while Milton has nearly the same words :-
Nymphs of Diana's train, and Naiades
With fruits and flowers from Amalthea's horn.
(P.R.,' II. 355-6.)
We shall meet with many more examples
of the kind. Is it possible that similarities
so numerous and varied can occur by accident
and that there is really no connexion, direct
or indirect, between the script and Milton ?
HUGH C. H. CANDY.
(To be continued.)

RACE-COURSE JARGON.

So much interest was aroused by the Glossary of Racing Stable Terms I sent recently to N. & Q.' that I thought a list of paddock jargon might be worth preserving. * Op. cit., p. 106.

Horses which are not out to win

A horse which wins a race very "doddle it."

DOG HORSE. A 'tucked-up," jaded, overtrained animal in poor condition is spoken of as "a dog horse " or a knacker." The term may also be applied in derision to an animal not lacking in condition but outclassed.

DOGS BARKING IT. A stable secret which has leaked out and is common property is referred to as the dogs are barking it.' "A street-corner tip" is an alternative phrase.

sweats with the excitement or anticipation of a FUNKING. A nervous horse, or one which race in store is said to be "funking."

GONE DOWN. When horses leave the paddock for the starting point. Also an unsuccessful bet. GOOD THING. A race which looks "a gift" for

a certain animal.
HEAD PULLED OFF. An alternative term for
"back teeth pulled out."

HOT POT. A horse which has been heavily backed.

INSIDE. Tattersall's Ring.

JOHNNY ARMSTRONG. The action of "pulling" or restraining a horse.

KID. An apprentice. One often hears the remark, "He isn't a kid's horse; he wants a man on his back."

KIDDING. A jockey who has something up his sleeve and sits still on his mount, or by some means deceives those riding against him, is said to be 'kidding." He may also "kid' to his horse by his tactics and come with a rush at the

finish.

AN EARLY ARMY LIST.
(See ante, pp. 104. 122.)

The following page was inadvertently omitted from the end of this Army List:

Bell and Falcon, Winchester Street, 1665.
Three Kings, Westminster, 1676.
Queen's Arms, Newgate Street, 1682.
Golden Ball, St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 1676.
Greyhound, Smithfield, 1667.

Plough, St. Mary Colechurch, 1652.
Goat, Minories, 1683.

Swan, Tower Street, 1649-50, &c.

Two Greyhounds, Paternoster Row, 1656.
Angel and Crown, St. Benetfink, 1692.

Bell, Walbrook, 1709.

White Hart, East Smithfield, 1652.
Rose, Bishopsgate Street, 1674.

Goat, West Smithfield, 1677.

Cock and Bell, Birchin Lane, 1666.

Red Lion, Whitechapel, 1675.

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THE GRASSINGTON GLASS.-More than a hundred years ago a doctor named Penty was murdered in a wood near Grassington in Upper Wharfedale. A few hours before he met his fate he called at the Anglers' Inn, Kilnsey, in consequence of a disturbance which attracted his attention as he was passing along. When he was leaving and had remounted his horse "the landlady brought him the usual stirrup cup.”

Just as he was returning the glass. . . the horse gave a start and the glass fell upon the floor, but to their astonishment did not break. Such a circumstance as this was considered an

Lady Anglesey's Gardens, Covent Garden," omen of evil, and after the doctor had departed,

1661.*

Red Lion, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, 1676.
Star, Cornhill, 1683.

White Hart, Bishopsgate, 1672.

Rose, Ludgate Hill, 1691.

Bull and Gate Inn, Holborn, 1713.

Katherine Wheel, Leather Lane, 1666.
Bull's Head, St. Sepulchre's, 1667.
Crown, Fleet Street, 1697.

Chequer, St. Bride's, 1643.

King's Head, St. Saviour, Southwark, 1649.
Cherry Garden, St. Giles in the Fields, 1655.*
Angel, St. Peter's, Cornhill, 1666.
Key and Crown, Gracechurch Street, 1680.
Cock and Pie, St. Giles in the Fields, 1694.
George Inn, St. Sepulchre's, 1682.

King's Head, St. Michael's, Cornhill, 1673.
Blue Boar, Water Lambeth, 1680.
Swan Inn, Gardiner's Lane, Westminster,

1666.

Mitre Tavern, Great Wood Street, 1650.
White Hart, St. Andrew, Holborn, 1659.
Greyhound, St. Andrew, Holborn, 1685.
Golden Ball, St. Bartholomew the Less, 1706.
Crown, St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 1654.
Red Lion, Cripplegate, 1706.
Green Dragon, St. James, Westminster, 1709.

the innkeeper and his wife shook their heads
sorrowfully, and feared that something lamentable
was about to happen. The glass, connected, as
it afterwards seemed to be, with a terrible crime,
came to be treasured as a relic, and until a com-
paratively recent period was preserved at Grass-
ington. So precious was the relic, indeed, that
on the owner of the glass going to America.
some years ago, he took it with him, and there
Stories Retold,' by Jas. Burnley, pp. 308, 309.)
it is probably extant to this day. (Yorkshire

I think I should have regarded the escape
of the glass from breakage as a good omen.
I know I felt thankful enough when two or
three months ago a valuable wine-glass I
pushed off a sideboard was picked up from
the floor intact, and I do not find that the
vessel's escape from injury has brought me
more than usual misfortunes. Pictures
have come thundering from my walls despite
my solicitude for their safety, but I still
survive. However, I have just "touched
wood."
ST. SWITHIN.

ALEXANDER CRUDEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY.— This interesting compiler appears to have been much persecuted for supposed frenzy. This occasioned numerous pamphlets by him exposing the several persecutions, trials and treatment that together make a perplexing bibliography for the collector. The following list is supposed to be complete, but additions will be welcome :

Corrector.
Wм. MCMURRAY.

3. 1754. The Adventures of Alexander the Wherein is given an Account of his being unjustly sent to Chelsea and of his bad usage during the time of his Chelsea-Campaign, * Of course these are not strictly signs, but which continued Seventeen Days, from the the references may be useful.

twelfth to the twenty-ninth of September 1753, &c.

4. 1754.

Ditto. The Second Part. 5. 1754. To the Worthy Liverymen of the City of London. An Appendix to the Adventures of Alexander the Corrector. No title, but dated London, April 25, 1754.

6. 1755. The Adventures of Alexander the Corrector. The Third Part.

7. 1755. Alexander the Corrector's Humble Address and Earnest Application to our Most Gracious King, &c.

8. 1756. The Corrector's Earnest Address to the Inhabitants of Great Britain.

9. 1755. Letter from Alexander the Collector [sic] to the Speaker and Members of the House. Single leaf, folio.

10. 1755. Alexander the Corrector to the Inhabitants of Cambridge. Single leaf.

No. 1 is transcribed from an imperfect copy, so may be identical with Case of a Citizen of London, Bookseller, who was in a most unjust manner sent by one Robert Wightman of Edinburgh to a Private Madhouse' (1739).

SOUTHWARK'S LAST COWSHED. This is in Globe Street, close to Blackfriars Road; it contained usually about a dozen animals in two large stalls, one above the other, an inclined plank leading up to the top loft, the milk being usually sold to invalids. The building will soon cease to exist, as the L.C.C. will not renew its licence. J. ARDAGH.

Queries.

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

DATE OF HULL HALL-MARKS ON SILVER.On a chalice and cover, in use at Ulceby Church in North Lincolnshire, the following marks are stamped: (1) The Hull town's arms (three ducal crowns in pale); (2) the Equally, I am unable to attribute a date letters K.M.; (3) the letter E, which in form somewhat resembles the reflection to his (11) History of Richard Potter, a sailor, who was condemned for receiving of the figure 3 as seen in a looking-glass; Prize Money but reprieved, being innocent. (4) the Hull town arms again. Each of these marks is on an escutcheon. At the British Museum, Sloane MSS., 4053, f. 358, is (12) A Testimonial from

some Aldermen in favour of A. Cruden (1734).

It is also singular to note that although these pamphlets and his Concordance' are so frequently met with, examples of his autograph, even scraps of MSS. or letters, are comparatively rare.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

A COUNTRY RECREATION IN QUEEN ANNE'S TIME. Thus it was advertised in The Post-Man of April 19-21, 1711 :

the middle of the seventeenth century, there I understand that for a short time, about was an Assay Office open at Hull, and that its hall-mark was the Hull town's arms, as above.

From a paper by Mr. T. Sheppard, M.Sc., reprinted in 1919 from the Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, I gather that

pieces bearing the Hull hall-mark are very scarce, most of those known-other than spoons-being in the possession of churches or corporations in Hull and the district.

Pre

Mr. Sheppard, who is the Curator of the All Gentlemen and Ladies that are disposed to Hull Museum, in his description of a silver recreate themselves in the Country; this is to give tankard belonging to the Museum, states Notice that the Lady Butterfield's Feast will be that it bears the Hull hall-mark on an kept at Nightingal Hall, near Wanstead in Essex, | a mile beyond the Green Man, the last Wednesday escutcheon, and the letters E.M. on another, of this present April, where will be a very good repeated; and that the letters E.M. are Entertainment for that Day and for all the the initials of Edward Mangy, or Mangie, Year after Her Ladyship gives a Challenge a Hull silversmith, the only dated example to all England; to Ride or Leap a Horse, Run of whose work is for the year 1666. on Foot, or Hollow with any Woman 2 years younger than she, but not a Day older, because sumably the letters K.M. are the initials she will not undervalue herself. Gentlemen and of another member of the same family. Ladies, some of the Chear will be a Barbequide A form of the letter E is the date, according Shoot. to the London hall-mark, 1662. Do provincial hall-marks bear corresponding letters? Can the maker of the chalice be recognized by the initials K.M., and what is the date of the chalice ?

The phrase last given would seem a variant of "barbecued" defined in the N.E.D.' as" boiled or roasted whole." Mrs. Raffald gives in her English Housekeeper' (1769) a way how "to barbecue a Leg of Pork" One query more: Is it known during and Barham in his Ingoldsby Legends' which years the Hull Assay Office was open? (1847) pays tribute to the taste of bar. (CANON) JAS. M. J. FLETCHER. becu'd'sucking-pig." ALFRED ROBBINS. The Close, Salisbury.

P. J.

THE HOG IN THE POUND, OXFORD STREET, in Lancashire before their return to Glou1830.-I am very anxious to learn if any cestershire near the close of 1600, when the print or engraving of this public-house name is found in a shortened form. I (1830) is in existence. The licence for should be particularly glad to be given some this house was held from 1830 to 1833 records of the family from 1400-1500 ? by William Goldsworthy. Jacob Larwood, in his History of Signboards,' mentions UNIDENTIFIED SAINT.-References to a it as being (1726) the place where Catherine fraternity of "St. Arasym," or "St. HeraHayes, landlady, murdered her husband; sun," which appears to have existed in the she was burnt at Tyburn. It was formerly Church of St. Mary, Staining, in the fifteenth the starting-place for coaches, and on that century, occur in contemporary wills. Who account possibly some sporting prints may was this saint ? WM. MCMURRAY. show the place. In 1860 the premises were re-named The Scotch Stores " and are now occupied by Henry Finch, Ltd. The number of the premises was 122, Oxford Street, in 1830, but in the renumbering of the street in 1880 it was made 250.

I shall be glad to answer any communications and shall appreciate the same.

JOHN GOLDSWORTHY ADAMS. 1427, John's Road, Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A.

HERENDEN FAMILY.-I have seen a small book containing a pedigree of this family upon the reverse of the title or in some similar position at its opening pages. Can anyone supply the name of the volume and its author? Unfortunately I have mislaid the reference, and Marshall's Genealogist's Guide' does not supply it.

WM. MCMURRAY.

JACOBITE CARDS.-Some time ago I was shown a pack of cards which were described to me as being Jacobite playing cards. They were used by those holding Jacobite sympathies in Lancashire during that period of the seventeenth century. believe these cards were also used for propaganda purposes, each card having a sort of crude cartoon or drawing on the reverse side. Is anything further known about similar

BROMLEY'S COLLECTION OF LETTERS.In A Collection of Original Royal Letters, written by King Charles the First and Second, King James the Second, and the King and Queen of Bohemia; together with Original Letters written by Prince Rupert, Charles Louis, Count Palatine, the Duchess of Hanover, and several other distinguished Persons, from the year 1619 to 1665,' by Sir George Bromley, Bart., and published packs of cards ? by John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, 1787, occurs one from the Queen of Bohemia to her son, Prince Rupert (Letter 133), from The Hague, in which she makes much mention of her godson." Can any of your numerous readers state who this godson was ? The fact of his having "cashiered Harry Benet and Harry Killigrew from his service as soon as he [the godson] came to Bruges may afford a. clue. Is this Harry Benet " the same individual as Henry Bennet, who was created Baron Arlington, in 1664, by Charles II. ?

CURIOUS.

PENDEBURY OF LANTHONY ABBEY.I shall be glad of any information about William of Pendebury, Prior of Lanthony Abbey, Gloucester, 1324, who resigned and was reinstated 1326, and died 1362. I have reason for thinking the origin of the family might be found in the history of the Norman Abbey of Caen English Abbey of Sion, London.

or the

FREDERIC CROOKS.

I

GUN-FLINTS. As gun-flints are still made in England, as they are not in the United States, it may be that these two questions, which have failed of reply through the best newspaper in America, may find answers through the columns of N. & Q.,' viz. :How can gun-flints be sharpened so as to strike sparks ?

What does " picking" flints mean?
BURDOCK.

WILLIAM WOTY (1731 ?-1791), POET.—I should be grateful for any particulars of the life and work of Woty, in addition to those contained in the D.N.B.' and The Gentleman's Magazine for 1791, especially as to his acquaintance with Francis Fawkes, with whom he edited The Poetical Calendar,' and with Dr. Johnson. Boswell

only mentions Johnson's sketch of Collins,

under date 1763, contributed to the Cal-
endar.'
RUSSELL MARKLAND.

I have also reason for thinking that REV. ALFRED STARKEY.--I have a volume descendants of the said family may be traced of poetry entitled Love's Weakness is