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Bible-backed. — Hump - backed, roundshouldered. In the Tichborne trial the following evidence was given: Was he a big lad? "Yes....He was humpy or bible-backed " (4 S. xii. 227). The allusion appears to be to the adaptability of such a sloping back, like a lectern, for resting a Bible upon it while reading.

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Caly. Would smooth caly ground perhaps be ground so level as to be suitable for playing the game of cales (skittles or ninepins) on? "Kails are sometimes so spelt. Cradley." To mow corn with a cradle scythe." See the art of cradling corn, Ellis, Mod. Husb.,' 1750, V. ii. (quoted in E.D.D.'). A cradle (in mowing), "Machina lignea falci affixa [ut seges demessa melius componatur]," (Elisha Coles's 'Eng. Latin Dict.,' 1755.

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Dandles.-Coles has to dandle, "indulgeo, manibus gestare super genibus agere. Hence the hands readily become the 66 dandles."

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Devil's tail.-Possibly there is connexion between the part of a printingpress so named and the saying to pull the devil by the tail," meaning to go to ruin headlong, and to be reduced to one's last shift:

"The immense disproportion between the solid assets and the liabilities of the enterprise made experienced Parisian financiers say from the first that the company was pulling the devil by the tail, and a perusal of M. Monchicourt's report must confirm this view."-European Mail, 2 Aug., 1890, p. 30, col. 2.

"So fond of spending his money on antiquities that he was always pulling the devil by the tail."Bentham, 'Works,' x. 25.

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ment at the garrison allowing themselves to be shut up in the town, adding, "But we 'll soon get elbow room." If a clergyman was also called Elbow-Room, then two public men living at the same time must have had the one nickname.

Fanny Wright was an Englishwoman. She married a Frenchman named D'Arusmont ; passed most of her life in America, where she was the first advocate of Woman's Rights; and died at Cincinnati in 1852. The 'D.N.B.' gives a full account of her. M. N. G.

Buffer.-See "buffard " in Halliwell's and Stratmann's dictionaries. An A. N. word of imitative origin.

Caly. Apparently a form of "callow," bald. Dandles.-An error for "daddles"? See Halliwell and the Slang Dictionary,' and in the Towneley Mystery

cp.

"Dalles

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Drawbacks.-Perhaps akin to drawgloves with the gamins of Italy, Malta, &c. (Nares), and the jerk-finger game so popular

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Floreat.-The coin inquired about is that known as Dublin money, or more commonly St. Patrick's halfpenny and farthing. These bear on the obverse King David kneeling and playing a harp; a crown above; legend FLOREAT REX. The reverse has St. Patrick. My specimen has a piece of brass inserted (the metal of the coin being copper), and this is, I believe, a usual characteristic of the coin. Dr. Aquilla Smith considers they were issued in Dublin between the Restoration and 1680, when the Regal copper coinage was established. A quantity of the Irish money was shipped to America. WILLIAM GILBERT.

8, Prospect Road, Walthamstow.

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SEETHING LANE (10 S. xi. 485).-It may interest PROF. SKEAT to learn that the ancient name of this lane occurs, at least Rolls of the City. I made a note of it some once, as Syfethenlane in the Husting original Roll to see if the name could be years ago, and have just now consulted the read Syfechenlane"; but I am bound to adhere to the former spelling.

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The Guildhall, E.C.

REGINALD R. SHARPE.

Elbow-Room was the nickname of General JAMES INGRAM, PRESIDENT OF TRINITY Burgoyne. When Boston was besieged he COLLEGE, OXFORD (10 S. xi. 429).-The arrived with reinforcements from England, obituary notice of Dr. Ingram in The Gentleand is said to have expressed great astonish-man's Magazine for November, 1850, states

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that he was placed at Warminster School in 1785, entered a commoner at Winchester College in 1790, and removed in Feb., 1793, to Trinity College, Oxford." I believe that this statement, which the 'D.N.B.' (loc. cit.) reproduces with verbal alterations, is substantially correct, and that the substitution in the Index and Epitome' of "Westminster for "Warminster" is an error. In 1785 the Rev. Thomas Huntingford, who had been a Winchester scholar, was master of Warminster School. He died on 18 March, 1787, and was succeeded, both at the school and at the rectory of Corsley, by his elder brother George Isaac Huntingford ('D.N.B.' xxviii. 306), who had been an assistant master at Winchester since 1776, or perhaps earlier. G. I. Huntingford returned to Winchester upon his appointment as Warden of the College in December, 1789, and Ingram was one of his pupils who followed him from Warminster. It is not clear that Ingram was at Winchester in 1790, as he is not on the school roll of that year; but he was certainly there in 1791 and 1792.

On the death of Thomas Huntingford, his widow (Mary) and their children became members of G. I. Huntingford's household. The widow was buried in Winchester Cathedral in September, 1814. I should be glad to ascertain her parentage. Her daughter Charlotte Oliver married in July, 1796, Timothy Stonhouse Vigor, Archdeacon of Gloucester (1804-14), and was grandmother to George Ridding, the late Bishop of Southwell.

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DR. JOHNSON'S UNCLE HANGED (10 S. xi. 429, 495).-I met with another version of this, curiously, in a grammar of the Servian language, by M. E. Muza. Among the reading exercises is a story to the effect that Dr. Dzonstn,' when asking a lady to marry him, candidly confessed to her that he had no money, and that an uncle of his had been hanged. Some women would have made Johnson feel that he had "perdu un 'ABRIDGEMENT OF CALVIN'S INSTITUTION bon taisir," as an old French author pic(10 S. xi. 488).-For Christopher Fether-turesquely puts it; but this one justified stone see Foster's Alumni Oxonienses,' his confidence by replying that she had no early series, ii. 494(9); and for Richard more money than he had, and that though Martin, D.N.B.,' xxxvi. 290. In Lownde's 'Bibl. Man.,' ed. Bohn, 1858, i. 351, "Lawrence appears instead of "Lawne."

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GULIX HOLLAND (10 S. xi. 470).-" Gulix appears in The New English Dictionary.' The derivation given is Gulik, the town of Juliers. The three quotations given range from 1696 to 1880. That of the eighteenth century has Guilix." Add:

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"Holland......a curious sort of linen, principally the manufacture of the provinces of Holland, Friesland, &c., whence it is named; the principal mart or staple of this cloth is Haerlem, whether it is sent from most other parts as soon as wove, to be whitened, &c. It is wove of various widths and finenesses, according to the purposes intended for; that for shirting commonly called Gulix Holland, a yard wide; that for sheeting and aprons wider; e Friesland Holland is esteemed the strongest

no member of her family had been hanged, there were several who deserved hanging. The Servian writer does not state where he obtained this anecdote.

JAS. PLATT, Jun. JOHN PAUL Or Paul Jones (10 S. xi. 447). MR. ATTON wishes to know whether 66 any other John Paul' signatures survive," and, if so, where they are. In the preface to the 'Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Paul Jones,' published at Edinburgh in 1830, we read :

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Editor has been furnished with the letters written "Besides the above papers and documents, the by Paul Jones to his relations in Scotland, from the time that he was a ship-boy at Whitehaven [i.e. in 1759] till he died an Admiral in the Russian Service and the wearer of several Orders."

At i. 13-17 the editor quotes from letters dated 22 Sept., 1772, and 5 Aug., 1770.

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In the same year (1830) there was published at New York the 'Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones, including his Narrative of the Campaign of the Liman. From original Letters and Manuscripts in the Possession of Miss Janette Taylor.' In his preface the editor (Robert Sands) says:"Miss Janette Taylor, a niece of Admiral Jones, arrived in this country some months ago, having in her possession original copies of all the documents which were before the Editor of the biography above commented upon [i.e. the Edinburgh

'Memoirs '], with others which were not.'

At pp. 20-22 of the New York work are printed the two letters mentioned above. Are they the two letters of which MR. ATTON says that he has himself seen the signatures? At p. 31 we read :—

"At the time when Paul settled (or more properly, supposed he meant to settle) in Virginia, it would seem that he assumed the additional name of Jones. Previous to this date, his letters are signed John Paul."

This statement, coming from Jones's niece, and the remarks of the Edinburgh and New York editors, indicate that there were once in existence many letters signed John Paul." Where such letters are now to be found, I regret that I cannot say.

Boston, U.S.

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ALBERT MATTHEWS.

RICHARD

CARLYLE AND FREEMASONRY: CARLILE (10 S. xi. 370, 437).-If the price of Carlile's Freemasonry' has gone down to one shilling, as stated by MR. HERON-ALLEN, it has had another fall, as for some forty years the price on the bookstalls has been half-a-crown.

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learned source from which it emanates (a
contributor to N. & Q.') how it is that the
Freemasonry
is not
is
included. It
curious Holyoake should omit all mention of
this book, which is the only one of Carlile's
that has survived. RALPH THOMAS.

"GOVERNOR OF THE ENGLISH NATION
(10 S. xi. 428).--According to 'Members of
Parliament: Part I. Parliaments of England,
1213-1702' (Blue book), the members for
Shoreham in the Parliament summoned for
20 Jan., 1557/8, were Anthonius Hussey,
armiger, and Ricardus Baker, armiger.

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These names are taken from the Crown

Office List in the absence of Original Re

turns."

ROBERT PIERPOINT. [See ante, p. 4.]

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According to The English Catalogue,' it was issued in 1836, with the notorious A variant of this saying is "All the world Little Billing is & name of Dugdale as publisher, at five and Little Billing.' shillings. The copy in The National Library parish in Northamptonshire with (in 1841) is of the year 1860; they have not the a population of only a hundred and one, 66 "All original edition, which is probably very ч Great Billing had four hundred. therefore rare. It was first published in The Repub- the world and Little Billing lican in 1825. means, like "All the world and his wife," every one, and do not forget Little Billing, small part of the world though it be.

The 'D.N.B.' has a biography of Carlile, signed with the well-known initials G. J. H., and nobody else was so well qualified to write it. Nevertheless the full name of the father, who published a collection of mathematical questions, should have been given. I find from De Morgan's Arithmetical Books,' 1847, p. 79, that it was Richard. Holyoake's article is instructive, though it suffers from compression. He was wise enough to put the bibliography into other hands, so we shall be glad to hear from the

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There is a similar phrase, but with a
"All the
somewhat dissimilar meaning,
world and Bingham," which is accounted for
by a notice-board once posted on an ancient
hostelry at Newark, bearing the words,
Passengers and parcels conveyed to all
parts of the world, and Bingham." (See
The Antiquary, Jan., 1892, p. 45; and
J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.
3 S. iii. 233.)
[MR. TOM JONES also thanked for reply.]

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that he "was placed at Warminster School in 1785, entered a commoner at Winchester College in 1790, and removed in Feb., 1793, to Trinity College, Oxford." I believe that this statement, which the 'D.N.B.' (loc. cit.) reproduces with verbal alterations, is substantially correct, and that the substitution in the Index and Epitome' of "Westminster " for Warminster is an error. In 1785 the Rev. Thomas Huntingford, who had been a Winchester scholar, was master of Warminster School. He died on 18 March, 1787, and was succeeded, both at the school and at the rectory of Corsley, by his elder brother George Isaac Huntingford (D.N.B.' xxviii. 306), who had been an assistant master at Winchester since 1776, or perhaps earlier. G. I. Huntingford returned Winchester upon his appointment as Warden of the College in December, 1789, and Ingram was one of his pupils who followed him from Warminster. It is not clear that Ingram was at Winchester in 1790, as he is not on the school roll of that year; but he was certainly there in 1791 and 1792.

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On the death of Thomas Huntingford, his widow (Mary) and their children became members of G. I. Huntingford's household. The widow was buried in Winchester Cathedral in September, 1814. I should be glad to ascertain her parentage. Her daughter Charlotte Oliver married in July, 1796, Timothy Stonhouse Vigor, Archdeacon of Gloucester (1804-14), and was grandmother to George Ridding, the late Bishop of Southwell.

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and best of any others, being never callendered nor whitened with pap, like the others, but imported just as it comes from the whitster, and is a yard, quarter, and a half wide."-A New General English Dictionary,' begun by Thomas Dyche, finished by William Pardon, 10th ed., Dublin, 1758.

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Juliers (in German Jülich) is in what is now a part of Prussia, about 22 miles west of Cologne. In Nicolas Visscher's Belgii Regii Tabula' and in Frederic de Wit's Germaniæ Tabula' it is called "Gulick," in the Juliacensis Ducatus.

May I point out that "holland" in the singular means a certain kind of linen, and that "hollands (with the s) means dutch gin? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[PROF. MOORE SMITH also refers "Gulix" to Gulike or Juliers.]

DR. JOHNSON'S WATCH (10 S. xi. 281, 494). There is no various reading yàp, and there is no "for" in any of the English versions. The insertion therefore must have been a slip of memory on the part either of Johnson or (much more probably) of Boswell, who states that he saw the dial himself. Perhaps it still exists. W. T. LYNN.

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DR. JOHNSON'S UNCLE HANGED (10 S. xi. 429, 495).-I met with another version of this, curiously, in a grammar of the Servian language, by M. E. Muza. Among the reading exercises is a story to the effect that Dr. Dzonstn," when asking a lady to marry him, candidly confessed to her that he had no money, and that an uncle of his had been hanged. Some women would have made Johnson feel that he had perdu un 'ABRIDGEMENT OF CALVIN'S INSTITUTION bon taisir," as an old French author pic(10 S. xi. 488).-For Christopher Fether-turesquely puts it; but this one justified stone see Foster's Alumni Oxonienses,' his confidence by replying that she had no early series, ii. 494(9); and for Richard more money than he had, and that though Martin, D.N.B.,' xxxvi. 290. In Lownde's no member of her family had been hanged, 'Bibl. Man.,' ed. Bohn, 1858, i. 351, Law- there were several who deserved hanging. rence appears instead of Lawne." The Servian writer does not state where he obtained this anecdote.

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JOHN PAUL OR PAUL JONES (10 S. xi. 447). MR. ATTON wishes to know whether any other John Paul' signatures survive," and, if so, where they are. In the preface to the Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Paul Jones,' published at Edinburgh in 1830, we read :—

"Besides the above papers and documents, the Editor has been furnished with the letters written by Paul Jones to his relations in Scotland, from the time that he was a ship-boy at Whitehaven [i.e. in 1759] till he died an Admiral in the Russian Service and the wearer of several Orders."

At i. 13-17 the editor quotes from letters dated 22 Sept., 1772, and 5 Aug., 1770.

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The signature to the former is omitted, but learned source from which it emanates (a that to the latter is John Paul." contributor to N. & Q.') how it is that the In the same year (1830) there was pub-Freemasonry is not included. It is lished at New York the 'Life and Corres- curious Holyoake should omit all mention of pondence of John Paul Jones, including his this book, which is the only one of Carlile's Narrative of the Campaign of the Liman. that has survived. RALPH THOMAS. From original Letters and Manuscripts in the Possession of Miss Janette Taylor.' In his preface the editor (Robert Sands) says:"Miss Janette Taylor, a niece of Admiral Jones, arrived in this country some months ago, having in her possession original copies of all the documents which were before the Editor of the biography above commented upon [i.e. the Edinburgh 'Memoirs '], with others which were not." At pp. 20-22 of the New York work are printed the two letters mentioned above. Are they the two letters of which MR. ATTON says that he has himself seen the signatures? At p. 31 we read :—

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The 'D.N.B.' has a biography of Carlile, signed with the well-known initials G. J. H., and nobody else was so well qualified to write it. Nevertheless the full name of the father, who published a collection of mathematical questions, should have been given. I find from De Morgan's Arithmetical Books,' 1847, p. 79, that it was Richard. Holyoake's article is instructive, though it suffers from compression. He was wise enough to put the bibliography into other hands, so we shall be glad to hear from the

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"GOVERNOR OF THE ENGLISH NATION (10 S. xi. 428).--According to 'Members of Parliament: Part I. Parliaments of England, 1213-1702' (Blue book), the members for Shoreham in the Parliament summoned for 20 Jan., 1557/8, were Anthonius Hussey, armiger, and Ricardus Baker, armiger. These names are taken "from the Crown Office List in the absence of Original Re

turns."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[See ante, p. 4.]

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"ALL THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE (10 S.. xi. 490).—Anstey, in the New Bath Guide, 1766, says (p. 130, 4th ed., 1767):

You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too;
And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host,
For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast;
How he welcomes at once all the World and his
Wife,

And how civil to Folk he ne'er saw in his Life!
Swift uses the phrase, with a host of other
colloquialisms, in his 'Polite Conversation,'
the third dialogue, and doubtless it was
in popular use long before his satirical pen
noted it.
G. L. APPERSON.

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