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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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S. Morton) having long been out of print, and 

 being now never met with. What the public 

 know of Leyden and his works is chiefly through 

 the loving references to him in the writings of Sir 

 Walter Scott, " Christopher North," and others, 

 who were his personal friends. A republication, 

 therefore, of his Poetical Remains., would not only 

 further the object of those who take an interest in 

 his memory, but would confer a boon on those 

 of the present generation endowed with a taste 

 for poetry, Colton, surely a competent judge, 

 in transcribing into his Lacon a piece of Leyden's 

 (" Ode to an Indian Gold Chain "), says : — 



" There is so much of true genius and poetic feeling of 

 the highest order in the following stanzas that I cannot 

 withstand the temptation of enriching my barren pages 

 with so beautiful a gem. This ode of Dr. Leyden's, in 

 my humble opinion, comes as near perfection as the sub- 

 lunary muse can arrive at, when assisted by a subject 

 that is interesting, and an execution that is masterly." 



C. B. 



Standard Office, Montrose. 



Bull and Bear on the Stock Exchange QH^"^ S. vii. 

 172. 264. 324.) — My authority for what I stated 

 on this subject is a note to an article on the South 

 Sea Bubble in Sketches of Imposture, Deception and 

 Credulity, p. 265. (Tegg, 1837), to which I made 

 reference. On looking back, I acknowledge that 

 it may be regarded as applying only to the part 

 of the statement that immediately precedes it, 

 and so it appears to have been considered by J. 

 G. N. I take this opportunity to point out the 

 following additional testimony in support of what 

 I wrote; — Johnson's Dictionary (Todd, 1827), 

 under word " Bear " * ; Swift's Works, by Sheri- 

 dan (1808), vol. xviii. p. 414. * ; Gentleman' s Ma- 

 gazine, vol. xxxii. p. 19., from any or all of which 

 I shall be happy to forward extracts to J. G. N. 

 if he desires it. These notices may also satisfy A. 

 A. that the terms we/e in use since 1720, not- 

 withstanding Horace Walpole's (real or pre- 

 tended) ignorance of their application. in 1761. 



Charles Wylie. 



50. Devonshire Street, 

 Portland Place, W. 



Bohert Luchyn, M.P. (2=^'^ S. vii. 341.)— Ro- 

 bert Lukyn, a native of Soham in the county of 

 Cambridge, was made a freeman of the town of 

 Cambridge, and elected an alderman, 17th Jan. 

 1614 — 5. He was mayor for the year commenc- 

 ing Michaelmas, 1615 ; was elected one of the 

 members of Parliament, 10th Oct. 1623; and was 

 again mayor for the year commencing Michael- 

 mas, 1626. On 16th Aug. 1639, he was elected 

 mayor for the third time, btit refused to serve by 

 a letter containing his reasons, which were ap- 

 proved of. He died shortly before 11th May, 

 1641, when John Lowrey, Esq. M.P., was elected 



* The authority quoted in both the above is Warton 

 on Pope, a book Thave not at hand to consult. 



an alderman in his stead. John Luykn, elected 

 alderman 17th Aug. 1635, was mayor for the 

 year con^mencing Michaelmas, 1636. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 

 Watling, Street (2"^ S. ii. 272.; iv.58. 114.; vii. 

 347.) — If we reject Camden's interpretation of 

 " Stratum Vitellianum," and do not believe this 

 great road, which passed from Dover to Mona 

 through Roman stations, to have been a Eoman 

 work originally, we cannot take a better etymo- 

 logy than Mr. West's (vol. ii. 272.), whose refer- 

 ence to the poem of Golyddan (combined with the 

 probable existence of a Gaelic tribe in the Cantref 

 y Gwaelod) is a very interesting contribution to 

 British antiquities. I should think that Mr. 

 BucKTON could not have noticed it. E. C. H. 



Weights and Measures (2°^ S. vii. 295.) — By 

 Act of Parliament, 5 Geo. IV. c. 74 , the Imperial 

 measure was established as the legal standard 

 throughout the United Kingdom. It is, however, 

 not improbable that in some remote districts an 

 attachment to long-established custom may occa- 

 sion a continuance of the local mode of dealing 

 previously in use, which differed in almost every 

 county. Full information on this subject will be 

 found in the Reports of Committees, and other 

 papers printed by order of the House of Commons, 

 with a view to the enactment of a uniform system. 

 In 1825, Mr. Gutteridge published certain tables 

 to facilitate the introduction of the new standard, 

 to which he prefi.xed an abstract of some of the 

 evidence submitted to Parliament. The various 

 bushels in use are there described ; and in Corn- 

 wall it is said to be "24 gallons. The double 

 measure of 16 gallons is also used in the eastern 

 parts, and runs occasionally to 17 or 17^; the 

 triple in the western." R. S. Q. 



Layloch, or Lilac (2""^ S. vii. 293.) — In describ- 

 ing the queen's and the princess's dresses at the 

 Handel Jubilee in Westminster Abbey, on 26th 

 May, 1784, we are told that the queen's dress was 

 of straw colour with laylock bows, and the prin- 

 cess's pale laylock with white, bows. At the pre- 

 sent Queen's drawing-room held on 14th April 

 last. Her Majesty is said to have worn a train of 

 lilac satin, &c. I understand that laylock in 1784 

 was the same colour as lilac in 1859. Webster 

 says, the shrub commonly called the lilac " is a 

 native of Persia, and is a species of the genus 



{ Syringa." It may be a native of Persia, but I 



' cannot admit it to be a species of the Syringa. 



I May I request to be informed what is the proper 

 botanical name of the lilac ? 



: The purple lilac grows to a large size in Lin- 

 colnshire, and is there called in common parlance 



j the Roman Willoro. How can it have received 

 this name ? The word lilac, when used to denote 



I a colour, should have some specific designation, 



i because there are different varieties of the flower, 



