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NOTES:-A list of non-jurors, 39-Islington as a Circus centre, 43-The Hugos no Huguenots, 44-Ben Gunn and Caliban An interesting

class of Holy Well-Changing London, 46.

QUERIES:-" Bender "-Samuel Cox, President of the Barbados Council-The Anti-GallicansJ. H. Reynolds: play wanted-The Manor of Checkendon, Co. Oxon. Charles Scott, Lieut. Bengal Artillery Hassell Family Bacon of Cyfartha, 47-Timbs: Account of Sir Richard Phillips-Peculiars: printed editions-Printed stuffs-" Half and half" beer in France soldier's song-Cow on trial-Reference wanted,

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REPLIES:-Family Bibles-"Bill" at Harrow, 49
-Ravenshaw, Raynshaw or Renshaw Parish
registers and accuracy, 50-Braham the singer:
Thackeray "Cardigan MSS."
Conyers
White Bear Inn, Piccadilly, 51 Sanadon,
Horatian Critic Maria (Hamilton) Bell por-
trait painter Books from the Ashridge
Library "Culage," 52 Cranbourne River-
Sir John J. Hansler Nasr-ed-din Hodja, 53.
THE LIBRARY: 'English River-names'
'Journal of Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations.'

OBITUARY: -Charles Drury.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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NOTES AND QUERIES is published every Friday, at 20, High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks (Telephone: Wycombe 306). Subscriptions (£2 2s. a year, U.S.A. $10.67, including postage, two half-yearly indexes and two cloth binding cases, or £1 15s. 4d. a year, U.S.A. $8.56 without binding cases) should be sent to the Manager. The London Office is at 14, Burleigh Street, W.C.2 (Telephone: Chancery 8766), where the current issue is on sale. Orders for back numbers, indexes and bound volumes should be sent either to London or to Wycombe; letters for the Editor to the London Office.

Memorabilia.

IN Tract No. xxxi the S.P.E. (that is to say the Society for Pure English, to whom

we would suggest that their full designation should appear somewhere on each of their pamphlets and that a note of terms of mem

bership has a futile air if the real name of the Society is altogether omitted) the S.P.E. has just published an excellent and suggestive tract by Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith called Needed Words.' The suggestion it carries is not so much how to provide what is needed as how profitably to become fully conscious of the need, and thereby to grow aware of the immense effect of words thought, since we think best about what we can speak of best, and tend to ignore that for

which we can find no words.

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Our greatest needs lie in the region of general ideas; and Mr. Pearsall Smith easily makes instances of the gaps plain to us by mentioning those foreign-principally French -words with which at present we fill them up, such as mœurs, blasé, ennui, provenance and a score of others. He seems to think the French vocabulary for the expression of relations and generalisations richer and better fitted to render delicate shades of meaning than our own. Perhaps the truth is that, here as elsewhere, English and French cover different parts of that field: for example, if we have no exact equivalent for mœurs French has no equivalent for, and has had to borrow, our "sport."

Mr. Pearsall Smith frankly approves of "scientist": and his approval illustrates the modern departure from the old canons

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something to answer for. On the other hand, it may possibly be argued that we are increasing in ability to assimilate foreign phrases. His best practical suggestion is towards the invention of new woras by the use of syllables at present unoccupied : pedient of which gas" is the most brilliant example. The adoption into standard English of old words, dialectal words and modern folk words also offers possibilities; there is further what our author does not mention, though whether as assistance or menace it is not to be ignored the great pro

liferating vocabulary of America.

Mr. Roger Fry tells us of a number of words needed in art. Here are half-a-dozen examples: equivalent of œuvre an artist's

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AN example of attempt to improve our vocabulary in the direction of courtesyand this very aspect of the language question might afford a good deal of amusement and instruction-may be seen in a recent leading article in The Times and letters which it called forth. Plumber" has long been a word invested under the auspices of Punch as well as of the householder in his experience-with comic and vexatious associations, in part arising from inadequate appreciation of what the plumber, to be a plumber at all, has to know and be able to do. Mr. J. Parker Smith, in The Times of Jan. 14, told Nothing made the late Lord Kelvin

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us that more angry than any joke against a plumber. He used to say, water is infinitely more difficult to control than electricity." In consideration of this, it seems, we are invited, in exchange for "plumber," which is an old word, with substance and the note of a good craft about it, to talk of the domestic engineer." This illustrates one of the com

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domestic engineer." The latter might, indeed, find favour with the profession itself

on the ground that it is too cumbrous for

jesting with: but, perhaps, that estimation of advantage is itself short-sighted. Exceptis excipiendis the name of a calling which does

not lend itself to a joke is fitted to remain in that queer limbo between the human and

the "robot" which seems continually en

larging its borders, and needs no reinforcement from the side of language.

and Hopkins, Smith, Patrick, Denham, Blackmore and Milbourne, the writer goes on:]

The Verfion published by Mr. Tate and Dr. Brady is equally devout and poetical, and maintains an even and conftant Beauty: While we are converfant with it, we cannot be Strangers to the delightful Sound of David's Harp; and were it most advantageous for Chriftians to confine themfelves in publick Pfalmody to the very Words of the Hebrew Pfalmist, we might say of this Tranflation what David faid of Goliah's Sword, there is none like it. But it feems very reasonable to fuppofe, that the Pfalms,

when applied to the Christian State and Worship, must be most likely to raife devout Affections, and touch all the Springs of

facred Joy.

To this End Dr. Watts has obliged the Publick with an Imitation of David's Pfalms, which is beautify'd with a Variety of devout Thoughts; the Method there fol

THE Editor of the Library appends to the December number a note in which he remarks that this has all the appearance of being a dramatic number. It has indeed worked out to being virtually that a circum- low'd is admirable, the Colours are very rich, stance that may prove useful to the student the Images exceeding strong, and the Diction

of drama, who thus gets four or five first-rate studies handily together. There is first Mr. R. Crompton Rhodes's Some Aspects of Sheridan Bibliography'; then, Mr. Edwin Eliott Willoughby's 'An Interruption in the Printing of the First Folio, followed by Mr. Peter Alexander on 'Troilus and Cressida' and then by 'Eastward Ho! 1605,' an article of Mr. R. E. Brettle's. To this a Note is added by Dr. Greg expressing disagreement with Mr. Brettle's arguments. The question at issue is whether it was the printing of the

play or the performance of it which brought

trouble with the authorities.

FOR the first time for thirty years Mount

in a peculiar Manner delightful.

How fine and natural is the Turn which

he gives the Third Verfe of the First Pfalm.

He like a Plant of generous Kind
By living Waters fet,

Safe from the Storms and blafting Wind,
Enjoys a peaceful State.
Green as the Leaf and ever fair
Shall his Profeffion shine,
Whilst Fruits of Holiness appear
Like Clusters on the Vine.

In the 48th Pfalm he takes Occafion from the Description of the Excellency of Sion, to

thew the Beauty of Gofpel Worship; this Thought will appear very delicate to the

Kenya was climbed again on the 5th and and polite Reader.

8th of this month. The climbers were Mr. P. Wyn Hams, Assistant District Commissioner at Kakamenga, in Kavirondo; Mr. G. A. Summerfelt, of Turbo; and Mr. E. E. Shipton, of Nveri. They were accompanied by twenty-two African porters who climbed to the glaciers, and whose willingness (they did not once fail the white men) earned hich tribute of praise. Both the twin-peaks, Nelion first and then Bation, were ascende 1.

Two Hundred Years Ago.

I doubt not that every judicious Critick will grant that the following Lines in his Verfion of the 68th Pfalm, have an uncommon Strength and Beauty.

So Pilgrims on the scorching Sand,
Beneath a burning Sky,
Long for a cooling Stream at Hand,
And they muft drink or die.

But I must tranfcribe a great Part of this Work if I should attempt to point out its Beauties. The World feems not altogether infenfible of them, by the kind Reception they have given this Performance;

From the London Journal, Saturday, Janu- fince the Bookfellers inform'd us about ary 18, 1728/9.

[The following is from a letter to the Editor of the London Journal on translations of the Psalms. After comments on Sternhold

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Year ago, that they had fold above Fourteen Thousand of them; which will not seem strange to those who have perus'd this valuable work.

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Literary and Historical Notes.

A LIST OF NON-JURORS.

COPIED from the covers of a portion of a folio copy of the Prayer Book of 1662 the following lists of non-jurors are chiefly in two hands. Mr. Broxap thinks the older and more feeble is that of Bishop Gandy and the larger and firmer that of Dr. Rawlinson, the benefactor of Oxford. The names have evidently been written at various times, and here and there there are single entries, but most are in groups of from four or five to ten or a dozen. The list begins with a series of entries of the Gandy family on the upper cover. These seem to me to be in Bishop Gandy's writing. Then on the two fly-leaves at the beginning of the book, comes a long series chiefly in the larger hand, but having

Jan. 11, 1716/17.

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30, 1716/17.

The end fly-leaf, of Burials, is also in the same two hands, but much more intermixed. On the reverse of this are two lists of Churchings and Marriages. Here and there the entry is initialed "H. G.," and this no doubt is Henry Gandy's attestation that he performed the ceremony. The general interest is not great, but the lists may contain names and dates which fill in other lists in your readers' hands and so add a little to the completing of records of an honest, lost cause. Personally, I am indebted to it for the date of death and place of burial of a collateral, the Rev. John Cock, M.A., Vicar of St. Oswald's, Durham, whose library still mains in the vicarage house. The names marked by an asterisk are in Canon Overton's list; those with a dagger are connected by name with those in the same list. others are unmentioned therein. script is verbatim et literatim. A few queries in brackets excepted.

UPPER COVER.

Baptised Henry ye son of Peter Gandy and Ann his wife.

20, 1716/17. Bapt. Thomas ye son of Wm. Mitchell and Mary his wife.

Bapt. Mary ye daughter of Mrs. Simmons.

April. 10, 1717. Bapt. John ye son of Geo. Car, etc.

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Sepr 28, 1717. Anne ye daughter of *Hen. and Anne Gandy was Baptizd by ye Rev.
Mr. Samuel Hawes.* She was born Sept. 22, 1717, about 6 a clock in the morn-
ing. Registered Oct., 12, 1717. Hopl.

Aug. 26, 1718. Baptizd. Elizabeth ye daughter of Peter Gandy and Anne his wife.
Oct. 7, 1718. Baptizd. Hannah ye daughter of John Collesson, Knight and Baront

and Elizabeth his wife.

Oct. 27, 1718. Baptizd. Mary ye daughter of Mr. Wm. Davies (? Dawes) and Mary his wife.

May 27, 1719. Bapt. Kath: Susan daughter of Sr Jno Collesson and Eliz. his wife.
Sept. 24, 1719. Bapt. Eliz. daughter of Peter Gandy and Anne his wife.

Jan. 7, 1719/20. Bapt. Thomas ye son of James Betenham* and Mary his wife.
May 17, 1721. Bapt. Anne ye daughter of James Bettenham* and Mary his wife.
June 20, 1721.
Bapt. Hannah Collesson daughter of Sr Jno Colleson and Elizabeth

his wife.

July, 13. Chd. (Churched).

Aug. 10, 1721. Bapt. Mary daughter of Dr. Charles Driver and Mary his wife.

P.B. Aug. 15 (P.B., i.e. Publicly admitted into the Church).

Aug. 30, 1721. Baptizd. Elizabeth ye daughter of Edmond Ashley and Eliz: Judith his wife.

Mar. 22, 1721 (? 1722). Wm. Dunlap adult.

25, 1722. Joseph Barton adult.

July 16, 1722. Bapt. Dorothea ye daughter of Rd. Kitchin and

Aug. 24 (Pub. Bapt.).

Nov. 5, 1722. Bapt. Alexander Jh: son of *Georg Strahan and
Nov. 26, 1722. Bapt. James ye son of James and Mary *Bettenham

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*Mr. Berkley.

St. Anns, Westr.

*Mr. Pert.

St. Andrews.

Mr. Crawford.

Mr. Hillyard. *Mr. Pincock.

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