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"The scholar was versed in all magical lore, Most famous was he throughout college; To the Red Sea full many an unquiet ghost, To repose with king Pharaoh and his mighty host, He had sent through his powerful knowledge." F. C. H. Captain Grose, in his Provincial Glossary, says:

"Of all places the most common, and what a ghost least likes, is the Red Sea: it being related, in many instances, that ghosts have most earnestly besought the exorcists not to confine them in that place. It is nevertheless considered as an indisputable fact that there are an infinite number laid there, perhaps from its being a safer prison than any other near at hand."

Although this passage does not answer the question, it may be of use to your correspondent E. L. R. F. W. S.

ENGRAVED OUTLINES: No. VIII. (3rd S. viii. 29.)

"Suenan chirimias, y sale escuchando el Arzobispo Dox
BERNARDO, y en acabando de tocar, cantan dentro.
"Music. En el pozo está el tesoro

Mas rico que la plata, y mas que el oro,
Bebed, bebed, que nativa

Está la mina en él del agua viva. Calderon, La Virgen del Sagrario, Jorn. iii. t. i. p. 420, ed. Keil, Leipsique, 1827. The stage-direction and the verses correspond so nearly, that I think there can be no doubt that the outline is intended to illustrate the above. La Virgen del Sagrario is not one of Calderon's prominent dramas, and I am not aware that it has been translated into English. Further inquiry is desirable.

The engraving No. vii. does not suit any passage in La Virgen. H. B. C.

U. U. Club.

BISHOP BUTLER'S BEST BOOK (3rd S. xii. 23.)The passage referred to, but somewhat inaccurately, by Mr. Froude, occurs in the preface to Bishop Butler's Sermons :

"For the sake of this whole class of readers, for they are of different capacities, different kinds, and get into this way from different occasions, I have often wished that it had been the custom to lay before people nothing in matters of argument but premises, and leave them to draw conclusions themselves; which, though it could not be done in all cases, might in many."

S. L.

FAMILY OF DE TONI: ARMS (3rd S. vii. 497.)It is incidentally stated in the discussion on "Albini Brito: the Heraldic Puzzle" that the De Tonies, descended from Ralph de Toni, standard

bearer to William the Conqueror, bore eagles for their arms. I shall be very much obliged for an authority for this statement, as it appears from a Roll of Arms of the reign of Edward I. in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, and published in The Archæologia (vol. xxxix. pp. 402-421) that the arms of Rauf Thorney were argent a maunch gules. I notice (p. 420) that to Lucas Thani are assigned-azure, three bars argent; and to Richard Thani-argent, six eagles displayed, sable. I conceive that the last-mentioned persons were of a different family, and that the descendants of the Conqueror's standard-bearer bore the arms first blazoned. Any definite information upon this point will be esteemed a favour. JOHN MACLEAN.

Hammersmith.

JOHNNY PEEP (3rd S. xii. 5.)—In reply to the query of H. K., I beg to state that I assigned the story to Drummond of Hawthornden on the authority of Ruddiman, the poet's biographer, as quoted in Chambers's Lives of Illustrious Scotsmen. I was quite aware that the anecdote had been popularly connected with Burns, and that it was also assigned to some other poets. Whether the story is correctly attributed to Drummond I cannot say, but most certainly it has been erroneously given to Burns, unless we are disposed to accuse the great Scottish bard of plagiarism, of which he was certainly incapable. It is, I find, extremely difficult to obtain the original version of a story. The anecdote about Burns and the Cumberland yeomen I feel satisfied had no foundation whatever. CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D.

2, Heath Terrace, Lewisham, S.E.

THE LATE REV. R. H. BARHAM: "DICK'S LONGTAILED COAT" (3rd S. xi. 476, 531.)—I have just had the number of Blackwood sent me in which "Dick's Long-tailed Coat" appears. It is headed "Family Poetry, No. 1." April, 1831, No. CLXXIX. vol. xxix. The first verse is this:

"Zooks! I must woo the Muse to-day,
Though line before I'd never wrote.
'On what occasion?' do you say?

Our Dick has got a long-tail'd coat!" "My Cousin Nicholas " was begun in Blackwood, No. ccxx., April, 1834, vol. xxxiv. It is possible the title may have been altered to "Nick's Longtailed Coat," but still I should be glad of any information as to why it is omitted from the Ingoldsby Legends, amongst which it seems to deserve a place quite as much as "Misadventures at Margate," or "Nursery Reminiscences," &c. &c. R. C. S. W.

WALSH OF CASTLE HOEL (3rd S. xii. 14.) — Apart from the question of family, I should be glad if PINGATORIS would favour me with the details of his reference (Harl. MS. No. 1143), as I am unable to consult it. May I ask at what

period, and by whom, the arms mentioned were assigned to Kadwalader ap Gronwy, for this reason, that heraldic ordinaries, I am inclined to believe, were of Norman introduction, and are, so far as I am aware, never found in the arms of ancient Keltic (?) families? I lately heard some very suggestive remarks, by an Irish scholar, on the question of the latter arms, but should scarcely be warranted in bringing them forward in aid of my hypothesis. The prototype of the arms of Walsh of Castle Hoel, according to my suggestion, are amongst the most ancient in the kingdom (as will be seen by a reference to a copy of Dugdale's Warwickshire, in the British Museum), and therefore there is no disparagement of Walsh.

SP.

BUTTERFLY (3rd S. xi. 342, 449, 506.)-Perhaps it is worth while to add to the quotations already given, the following one from one of the "old masters" of the English language:

"And so befel that as he cast his eye
Among the wortes on a boterflye,
He was war of this fox that lay ful lowe."
Chaucer: Nonne Prestes Tale, 1. 453.
WALTER W. SKEAT.

drawn with one side of the face like Alexander,
and the other like Caracalla." ARCHIMEDES.
PLAYS AT ETON (3rd S. xi. 376, 467.) — Having
looked in vain for an answer to the question of
R. I. respecting plays at Eton, I beg to tell him
all I recollect on the matter, which, however, is
but little. I left at election 1831, and early in
that year, or late in 1830, a play was acted in
We rehearsed for The Rivals; I
Long Chamber.
say "we," for I was at first a member of the corps
dramatique, but was soon found to be so hope-
lessly bad, that the manager was compelled to re-
ject my services, and I resigned at once and for
ever all pretensions to histrionic fame. If my re-
collection does not fail me, after several rehearsals
this play was given up, because "Bob Acres " was
not satisfied with his performance of that part.
What other play was substituted I am not quite
sure, but I am confident it was not an original
piece, written or adapted for the occasion. I think
I heard afterwards that "Keate' expressed his
disapprobation of the theatrical attempt in such a
manner as prevented any recurrence of the Long
Chamber stage.
C. Y. CRAWLEY.

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Cambridge. TOMB AT BARBADOS (3rd S. xii. 9.)—There was OLD SEALS ON CHARTERS, ETC. (3rd S. xii. 25.) a full account of this tomb, or rather vault, of the Bees' wax was used for the more ancient seals. Chase family, with a drawing of the position of What is now used is lac. (See Kitto, Matt. xxvii. the displaced coffins, in The Spiritualist Maga-66; also "N. & Q." 3rd S. xi. 527.) The method zine about three years ago, and another by myof the Arabs at the present day is of great anself in No. 335 of the Dublin University Magazine tiquity. "The seal-ring is used for signing letters (1860). The builder and first owner of the vault and other writings; and its impression is conwas a Mr. Elliott. sidered more valid than a sign manual." (Gen. xli. After a lapse of many years, there being no representative in the island of the 42, Job ix. 7.) The modern Egyptians "dab a Elliott family, Colonel Thomas Chase took upon it with one of the fingers, and it is sion of the vault, and then commenced the phe- having first touched his tongue with another pressed upon the paper,, the person who uses it finger, and moistened the place on the paper which is to be stamped." (Lane's Mod. Egyp., L. E. K., i. 44.) The necessity of sealing arose from the universal ignorance of writing.

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A. C. M. will find this mystery related and discussed in Once a Week, 1st series, vol. xii. pp. 319, 476, 560. At p. 476 it is suggested that an influx of water might cause the disturbance of the coffins. JOHN ADDIS, JUN.

TWO-FACED PICTURES (3rd S. xi. 257, 423, 510.) There have been signs constructed on this principle in this city, except that three faces were presented. A person coming up the street would see the likeness of one person, and when directly opposite of another, whilst one coming down the street would see a third likeness. A brewer's firm, consisting of three persons, had their names placed upon their sign in this way. UNEDA. Philadelphia.

I have just found what is perhaps the oldest recorded instance of a two-faced picture in a note on the absurd apeing of Alexander by Caracalla, in Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Oxford ed. 1827, chap. vi. p. 165. Caricatures had been seen by Herodían (lib. iv. p. 154), “in which a figure was

little ink

T. J. BUCKTON.

"MORNING'S PRIDE" (3rd S. xii. 36.)—If MR. HOSKYNS-ABRAHALL will look again at his Christian Year he will see it is almost inevitable that Mr. Keble referred to the rainbow, mentioned in verse 2, as the context to the word pride in verse 3, which runs on without any break in the language; thus we have "from thee," i. e. from the rainbow, "the swain takes timely warning," &c. Shower and rainbow, rainbow and showers frequently alternate with great rapidity. I remember to have counted three different rainbows in one mountain ramble of about ninety minutes, in Westmoreland; but in my former remarks I referred more particularly to the counties of Middlesex, Bucks, and Berks. It appears that "Morning's Pride" is called a shower by some, a mist by others; do we not all mean the same? A mist

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sweet, gentle character. The last speech is justly given to her. By the way, in King John, Act II. Sc. 1, the first and third speeches should be headed K. Philip, and not Lewis.

"Me shall you find ready and willing." Taming of the Shrew, Act IV. Sc. 4.

A word or more has evidently been lost at the end. In my Edition and Expositor I supplied both; but I find that elsewhere this word always precedes those with which it is joined, The lost words may then have been as you, or at once, or something similar.

"The fairest grant is the necessity."

Much Ado about Nothing, Act I. Sc. 1. Those who have written notes on this did not understand it, and perhaps the same may be true of those who are silent. Yet the meaning is plain, though peculiarly expressed. It is this: the fairest, most gracious grant of your suit by Hero is the necessity, the thing needed, what we want. It is not improbable that the poet wrote "is thy necessity," which would make the passage less enigmatic.

"The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat."-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Sc. 1.

Shallow had asserted that "the dozen white luces was an old coat, and Sir Hugh had misunderstood him. He here corrects him, telling him that the luce was the fresh-water fish of that name. He then adds, "the salt fish is an old coat too," if he was alluding, as is supposed, to the arms of the Fishmongers' Company, "6 Azure, two sea-luces in saltire with coronets over their mouths"; or he may have only reiterated his assertion, saying "the same fish is an old coat," and the printer, misled by "fresh fish," may have made it "salt fish."

"That no dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple." Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 4. Whether the critics have understood this or not, I cannot say, as I have never seen a note on it; but, to my shame, I must honestly confess that I myself have misunderstood it, in the strangest manner. I could of course explain how I came to do so, but "it skills not." To understand it, we must take the first and last "scruple" in the moral sense, the second as the weight, the third part of the dram. I owe this simple and natural explanation to J. J. A. Boase, Esq., of Alverton Vean, Penzance, the best Shakespearian I have ever known.

"And to thrill and shake,

Even at the crying of your nation's crow,
Thinking his voice an armed Englishman."
King John, Act V. Sc. 2.

Here again we have nonsense; for no one has ever heard of the crow as peculiar to France. Collier's folio read crowing and cock for "crying"

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