similar lists are in' MSS. B. 355 and C. 20; and 'De Mirabilibus Mundi tempore Alexandri' in MS. A. 273. W. D. MACRAY.

A list of these wonders is contained in Wm. Harrison's 'Description of England in Holinshed's 'Chronicles.'

W. ROBERTS CROW. PRINT "IN PRINT" (10 S. ix. 447).— To the interesting examples collected by SIR J. A. H. MURRAY I wish to add the following:

"They that sport and laugh at sinne are fooles, and damned fooles, reprobate fooles, fooles in folio, fooles in print."-Otes on Jude, p. 462.

The sermons of Samuel Otes were printed in 1633, but preached about thirty years earlier. Any book-collecting reader of 'N. & Q.' who has a chance of getting this work should seize the opportunity. Otes tells of the Pigmæans, the frog Borexo, the beast Bonosus; the adamant, the elephant, the basilisk; earthquakes, tobacco, sleepi"seventeen hundred miles thick, and odde." One could well imagine Ben Jonson or Shakspeare "sitting under Samuel Otes

ness, covetousness. For him the earth is

of Sowthreps in Norfolke."

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

Southwark Dr. Woodward does not mention; possibly its arms were not adopted before the publication of his work. But of Westminster, which I gather were given with reference to the arms of the Archbishop in the list in The Westminster Calendar,' Dr. Woodward makes the following observations :

"The arms lately assumed by Cardinal Archbishop Vaughan are Gules, an archbishop's cross The archin pale or, over all a pall proper. bishop's eminent predecessors, Cardinals Wiseman and Manning, were content to use only their paternal arms, and had no idea of assuming a coat which (since no tinctures are marked on the archiepiscopal seal) appears to the ordinary observer to be a direct annexation of the arms of the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury! It is curious that even the appearance of such a thing

should have had the sanction of an officer of the

College of Arms."

Antigua, W.I.

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J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

ealing and easing cannot both be right. 'EALING" (10 S. xi. 87).--The forms Easing is probably wrong, and due to confusion of with a long s. Ealing is a remarkable, but legitimate formation, from the A.-S. alan (with long a), to kindle; and means kindling," the precise sense required. The A.-S. aled (with long ), 66 meaning fire," is allied to the Icel. eldr, ARMS OF ENGLISH ROMAN CATHOLIC Dan. ild, fire, whence the prov. E. elding, BISHOPS (10 S. x. 228, 316, 458).-MR. fuel. The derivative on-eal is now spelt HIBGAME in his query states that in the illustrations in The Westminster Calendar for 1908' of the arms of the Archbishop of Westminster and of the Roman Catholic bishops of England, the arms given are, in nearly every case, those of the bishop's own family. He notes Southwark as an exception. Argent, on a saltire gules a key or, and a sword argent, hilted or, he assumes to be the arms of the diocese, and asks where illustrations of the arms of the other dioceses are to be seen.

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anneal.

Ealing means burning, from O.E. ælan, to burn, kindle. Cp. Sco. eldin, fuel, and Eng. an-n-ealing.

H. P. L.

An ealing is a shed against another building, a "lean-to," and is still in dialect use in West Yorkshire (vide 'Dialect Dictionary').

Easing is a contracted form of eavesing, i.e., the edge of a roof of a building, or of the thatch of a stack, which overhangs the side. Eaves was formerly used for " roof," and hence for dwelling (vide Hist. Eng. Dict.,' s.v. Easing' and Eavesing').

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J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

I think that MR. HIBGAME will probably find the reason of this to be that such official arms are virtually non-existent. The late Dr. John Woodward, a high authority on these matters, in his book on 'Ecclesiastical MENDEZ PINTO (10 S. x. 488; xi. 76).— Heraldry' (1892), p. 499, states that up To those who still believe in Fernão Mendez to the present time Roman Catholic prelates in England have very rarely adopted any official arms." He gives one diocese, however that of Salford-wherein official arms had been recently assumed by the then bishop, as Azure, a seated figure of the Blessed Virgin, crowned, sceptred, and holding in her hand a scapular supporting the Holy Child proper.

Pinto's good faith and veracity" I would point out that in my introduction to Letters from Portuguese Prisoners in Canton, written in 1534 and 1536,' printed in The Indian Antiquary in 1902, I was able, by means of these letters (then published for the first time), to convict the writer, or writers, of the notorious Peregrinaçam of several sheer mendacities, and, by refer

ence to the authentic histories of the Portu- an original MS. done at that time, and now guese in Asia, to show that it is doubtful in the hands of Mr. Benjamin Cole, of

in the extreme if Mendez Pinto ever ex- Oxford."
perienced many of the adventures credited
to him in that book.

I also expressed my disbelief that the book, in its entirety at any rate, was written by Fernão Mendez, since it was not published until 1614, some thirty years after its reputed author's death, and more than fifty after his return from the East. I believe it to be a concoction in which the Jesuits had a hand, for the glorification of Francis Xavier (see the reprint of the Letters' referred to, pp. 35-9). The old English translation by Henry Cogan, Gent.," is a greatly abbreviated one, the chief omissions being the chapters at the end referring to Xavier. In consequence, apparently, of a remark of mine that

'it is much to be regretted that no competent scholar has undertaken to properly edit the Peregrinaçam,' showing how much is fiction and how much fact, and of the fact how much is from personal experience and how much stolen from earlier writers,"

Taunton.

CHAS. WM. TERRY.

ORKNEY HOGMANAY SONG (10 S. xi. 5, 72).-The line in the modern version of this song as sung in Stromness,

Get up, old wife, and shake your feathers (see Eng. Dial. Dict.,' s.v. feather-to steer one's feathers, to bestir oneself), does not occur in an old version from the same place, which will be printed, with music, in the April number of The Orkney, Shetland, and Caithness Miscellany of the Viking Club. It, however, occurs in another modern MS. version in my possession as

Rise up, guid wife, and shake your feathers. In the Walls, 1893, version ('Sagabook' of the Viking Club, vol. ii. p. 40) it is rendered :

Gude wife, rise up, and be na sweer.
Sweer means lazy: the same idea.
The lines

Gie 's the lass wi' bonnie broon hair,
Or we 'll knock your door upon the floor,
not in the old version, but are found

The lassie wi' the yellow hair,

If we get her we 'll seek nae mair,

the Lisbon Academia Real das Sciencias
in January, 1903, commissioned Senhors are
Coniglieri Pedroso and Gonçalve Vianna in the Walls version as
to undertake a new edition of the Pere-
grinaçam on the lines of Yule's 'Marco
Polo.' Whether these gentlemen have done
anything towards the fulfilment of their
task I cannot say, as I have heard nothing
further of the scheme. In any case, the
need of such an edition is a crying one.
In conclusion, I may remind those who put
their faith in Mendez Pinto that after the

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appearance of the Peregrinaçam' there became current among the Portuguese a saying, "Fernão, mentes ? Minto." ("Fernão, liest thou? Much.")

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DONALD FERGUSON.

CHARLES JAMES AURIOL (10 S. xi. 108).— See Foster's Alumni Oxonienses,' where it will be found that his brother Edward Auriol was Rector of St. Dunstan's-in-theWest, London, until his death, 10 Aug., 1880. His relatives will be easily traced

for further information.

followed by
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not recorded. But in the Sandey, 1836,
version (Orkney and Shetland Miscellany,
vol. i. p. 266) we have :-

Open the door! we maun be in,
We are a' Queen Marie's men,
To keep us out is surely sin,
An' that 's before Our Leddie!
But gif you dinna open the door, &c.
We'll ding it owre upon your floor, &c.
In the latter case there is no mention of a
lassie.
A. W. JOHNSTON.

59, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W.

JUDGE GASCOIGNE AND PRINCE HARRY: F. SOLLY FLOOD (10 S. xi. 121). The concluding paragraph of Mr. F. J. COLLINSON's note hardly does justice to the late Frederick Solly Flood, who is there set down as being

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not even a member of the

He

English Bar." Solly Flood, who was Attorney-General of Gibraltar from 1866 to 1877, was in fact called to the English Bar at Lincoln's Inn on 6 May, 1828. practised for some thirty-eight years on the Midland Circuit, at the Parliamentary Bar, and elsewhere in this country, with no little success; and his name remained amongst those of his brother barristers in the Law List' down into 1888, the year of his death.

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The Law Times of 7 April, 1866, in commend- 'KERSEY (10 S. xi. 85).-Even more ing his appointment to Gibraltar, mentioned direct evidence connecting Kersey the place that he had been one of the Commissioners with the manufacture of woollen stuffs selected by Lord Melbourne to inquire into may be found in the wills of those engaged the laws of foreign countries, and described in the industry. These may be consulted his report as one of the ablest in the Blue- at Norwich. Locally there is no doubt at books." See also the obituary notice of all; the memory is part of the history of him that appeared in The Law Times of many a small town and village in East 9 June, 1888. Anglia. It was and is quite a common custom all over the world to call a material by the name of the place where it is made. At the same time it would be well to know if the writer of the article in the 'N.E.D.' had any evidence to the contrary when he suggested a doubt as to the origin of the name, to which PROF. SKEAT has rightly drawn attention. FRANK PENNY.

The title of "Q.C." was bestowed upon him in the heading to his article, as printed by the Royal Historical Society (new series, vol. iii.), and also in the list of the Fellows of that Society at the end of the same volume.* But was this anything more than an editorial error? I ask this question because, if Solly Flood really became Queen's Counsel, it seems strange that the fact should have been ignored in the annual ' Law List'; in the obituary notice of him in The Times of 22 May, 1888, as well as in that in The Law Times (supra); and also in such books as Foster's Men at the Bar' (1885) and Burke's 'Landed Gentry' (1898), vol. ii. p.148. See also death column, Times, 21 May, 1888. Whatever may be the right answer to my question, the weight that ought to be attached to Solly Flood's considered opinions about the story of Judge Gascoigne and the Prince must remain the same. So far as legal erudition was needed for an inquiry into the truth of the story, he seems to have possessed it abundantly. I notice that his conclusions were adopted by the writer of Judge Gascoigne's life for the 'D.N.B.,' xxi. 46. See also the 'D.N.B.,' xxvi. 46. H. C.

GLOSSARIES TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS (10 S. xi. 89).—I suspect that these glossaries had nothing to do with the author. I remember once glancing at one of them, and I thought it rather poor and inaccurate. There is surely room for some one to make a really scholarly glossary; only I hope that it may be made by one who knows the history of the English language, or it will not be worth much. Meanwhile, the English Dialect Dictionary' explains all the words well. WALTER W. SKEAT.

·

Scott in his own' Advertisement to Edition 1829' says:

"The Author also proposes to publish, on this occasion, the various legends, family traditions ...together with a more copious Glossary, and Notes explanatory of the ancient customs," &c.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

FIG TREE IN THE CITY (10 S. xi. 107).— The fig tree referred to was certainly standing three years ago; and a fine, healthy tree it was, bearing fruit annually. It stands, or stood then, in front of the old Aldgate Ward Schools, which have since been absorbed by the Cass foundation. The premises are, or were, up a passage leading out of Mitre Street. A good photograph of the tree was reproduced in Some Notes on the Ward of Aldgate' published by Messrs. Eden Fisher & Co. in 1904 to commemorate the election of Alderman Sir John Pound, Bt., as Lord Mayor. ALAN STEWART.

For a good many years past a fig tree, to my knowledge, has flourished, as far as leafage is concerned, in Bridewell Place, New Bridge Street. It ascends from the basement at the rear of Bridewell Royal Hospital, and for many seasons must have refreshed the eyes of passers-by. J. GRIGOR.

RICHARD MOSLEY ATKINSON (10 S. xi. 108). -If G. F. R. B. will communicate with me, I think I can give him at any rate something of the information he requires. JOHN H. HOOPER.

Tutnall, near Worcester. Richard Mosley Atkinson became Vicar of Whatton, Notts, 16 Dec., 1800.

X.

HENRY BRIERLEY.

PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY SHELLEY (10 S. 349, 438). In my copy of The Liberal some former owner has lightly pencilled "L. Hunt "" opposite the title of the poem. It looks rather like a female hand. It is

*He seems to have been a Fellow for a very hardly safe to trust to newspaper authority. brief period, for he is not in the list either in the preceding volume or in the succeeding.

Ulverston.

S. L. PETTY.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Oxford English Dictionary.-Premisal-Pro-
phesier. (Vol. VII.) By Sir James A. H.
Murray. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)
THIS triple section contains abundance of interest,
and includes 2,612 main words, 942 combinations
explained under these, and 368 subordinate
entries of obsolete forms. The number of illus-
trative quotations is no fewer than 20,450, which
is, as may be guessed, far in advance of previous
dictionaries.

a

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were

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note as to changes in Parliamentary usage regarding the previous question." Thackeray has, it is pointed out, kept up the Shakespearian pribbles and prabbles in the Newcomes.' 68 Prig "will repay perusal, both for its analysis and its examples. To the latter we should add Why, what a pair of prigs hast thou made of us! (Latimer to Fairford, Letter 3, Redgauntlet.') "Prime Minister " also introduces some interesting Parliamentary history; it only won its way to full recognition in 1905. The artistic sense of primitive as applied to painters is not traced further back than 1892; in The Spectator and Athenæum. The quotations for primroses are well divided into (a) in glossaries To "premonition" might have been added and vocabularies, (b) in herbals, botanical works, the definition in Myers's glossary to his Human &c., (c) in literature. In the last section the Personality' (1903), A supernormal indication editor has resisted what must have been surely of any kind of event still in the future.' We a temptation-to quote Shakespeare's "primare pleased to see Elia's Roast Pig' quoted for roses that die unmarried" from The Winter's premonitory moistening.' "Prenzie," the Tale.' He gives us Milton's "rathe primrose"; odd word in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and the remaining quotations are from Foote's (III. i. 94), is described as probably an error,' Nabob' (1772), Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell' with no guesses or conjectures. This we regard (the well-known phrase), and-The Daily News as a wise abstention. "Prepare" is a long and of 1899! Thus the whole of the nineteenth valuable article, including the schoolboy sense, century is left unrepresented as regards standard familiar in preparation and its brief form prose and poetry. This is, we think, a great pity, prep.' The last form is noted as "used at especially as no particular research was needed. Clifton College from the beginning," but it could "Primroses, cowslips, pansies, and the regular probably be traced further back, to Rugby School open-eyed white blossom of the wood-anemone or other old foundations. The scholastic ....were set under our feet as thick as daisies prepositor," præpostor,' are well provided in a meadow." occurs in The Wood' chapter with examples. We should have given more of Miss Mitford's Our Village.' Tennyson has than one quotation from Shakespeare for " pre-in' In Memoriam,' LXXXV., posterous," to include both tragedy and comedy. Pre-Raphael and Pre-Raphaelite' both used in early days for the celebrated band of painters. It is, however, inviting controversy to mention Rossetti among the three names given, as F. G. Stephens pointed out that he was not of the original band. The quotation from Dickens's Household Words (1850) might now be made from his collected papers in volume form, available in more than one edition. The quotations for prerequisite would be strengthened by the following: "To report conversation, it is a necessary prerequisite that we should be completely familiar with all the interlocutors," Lock hart, Life of Scott,' vol. iv. Chap. v. p. 151 (1837). Presbyter and Presbyterian admirably done. The various words under the heading "present" show how thorough the work of the Dictionary' is. There is no quotation for "president presiding deity, patron, or guardian," later than 1697. Lovers of literature may recall with us the last paragraph of the last chapter of Tess of the D'Urbervilles': "The President of the Immortals (in Eschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess." President"= head of college is noted as used in four instances in Oxford, and one in Cambridge. The many senses of press (noun and verb) are carefully investigated. "Pressman" journalist, a word we do not care for, does not occur, apparently, earlier than G. A. Sala's time in 1859. Pretty has an obscure and interesting history, figuring in its earlier meanings as cunning, crafty, wily.' We add to the adjective used absolutely the note that the fair green at golf, as opposed to the rougher ground outside, is called the pretty"; also the ornamented mark or line on a drinkingglass. "Fill it up to the pretty is heard in such cases as an order. There is an interesting

Knowing the primrose yet is dear, The primrose of the later year, As not unlike to that of Spring. Keats writes on 10 April, 1818, from Teignmouth to J. H. Reynolds: I found a lane banked on each side with store of Primroses, while the A reference earlier bushes are beginning to leaf." salad in view of its historic interest. The followmight have been made to Beaconsfield's primrose ing passage we quote from Pages from a Private Diary' (p. 245, new edition, 1903), more for its question than as suitable for the tribute to Beaconsfield's feeling on a disputed which includes, of course, the Primrose League and Dictionary,'

A lady writes to me [in 1897] about Beaconsfield's affection for the primrose :

"I see that doubt is again thrown on the late Lord Beaconsfield's love for primroses. However incongruous such an affection may appear, he certainly felt it. There is an old man in my little country town, a very, very commonplace old labourer, who, once, long ago, did rough digging work at Hughenden, and he declares that from the earliest garden primrose to the latest to be found in the woods, Lord Beaconsfield was never to be seen without a primrose in his buttonhole-one blossom and no more which struck the man, who would have preferred a posy.'

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