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permallach. He died soon after tlie latter date, 

 leaving by his wife Nicholas Moncrieif a son, Sir 

 Hugh Moncrieif of Tipperniallach, 6th baronet ; 

 on whose decease, unmarried, in 1744, the estate 

 of Tippermallach went to his sister's son, John 

 MoncriefF, minister of Rhynd. 



John, the author, is called " the famous physi- 

 cian," and may have been a regular practitioner. 

 The first edition of his work appears to have been 

 entitled The Poor Mmi's Physician, or Beceipts 

 by Mr. John Moncrieffi^ Tippermallach. R. R. 



Pen and the Sword (2""* S. li. 463.) — Will your 

 correspondent *. admit among his noted persons, 

 who combined the military with the literary cha- 

 racter, the celebrated John Wilkes ? who was 

 author of the North Briton and many other pub- 

 lications, some of which we forbear even to reca- 

 pitulate as being too licentious, and who was dis- 

 tinguished by an unexampled defiance of decorum 

 and propriety, — witness his establishment of the 

 Satanic Club at Medmenham, near Great Marlow, 

 which was called the Monks of St. Francis, with 

 the motto, " Fais ce que tu voudras." He was 

 Colonel of the Buckinghamshire Militia, atid so 

 violent a democrat as to be the idol of the mob 

 and the demigod of the rabble ; and such was his 

 general conduct, that the minister of the day, 

 thinking it little short of treasonable, recom- 

 mended his Majesty, George IH., to dismiss him 

 from the Bucks Militia, in the usual form, of noti- 

 fying to him " that His Majesty had no further 

 occasion for his services," — a manner of discard- 

 ing from a military post without a court-martial ; 

 and though such instances are rare, yet the same 

 sovereign also dismissed Charles, eleventh Duke of 

 Norfolk, for giving a toast considered as disloyal 

 at a public dinner to commemorate the birthday of 

 Charles James Fox. SuniNBE. 



Cricket (2'>'i S. ii. 410.) — " The Author of The 

 Cricket Field " is probably aware of the allusion 

 to cricket by D'Urfey, in the song " Of noble 

 race was Shenkin." The stanza is as follows : 



" Her was the prettiest fellow 

 At football or at Cricket, 

 At hunting chase, or nimble race, 

 How featlv her could prick it." 



The song occurs in a book called Pills to Purge 

 Melancholy (vol. ii. p. 172., 4th edit., 1719). It is 

 mentioned by Strutt in the Sports and Pastimes 

 (p. 83.). W. T. 



Oxford. 



Showdes (2"'^ S. ii. 414.) — Looking over 

 Hunter's Hallumshire Glossary for something 

 quite different, I came upon the answer to my 

 Query about this word : 



" Shetvds, the outer coat of oats, sometimes called 



As Ecclesfield forms part of Hallamshire, and 

 chaff would be very proper for laying up armour 

 in, no doubt the above is the true meaning of the 

 word in question. J. Eastwood. 



Armorial (2"'' S. ii. 450.) — In Glover's Ordinary 

 of Arms, the coat mentioned by Mr. F. S. Growse 

 is assigned to Leyborne ; but I cannot find that 

 name in connexion with Bildestone. J. C. Rust. 



Norwich. 



Oak' Apple Day (2"'' S. ii. 405.) — Is it not 

 probable that the May baby, carried in a box like 

 a coffin, was originally an effigy of King Charles I. ? 

 The speech of the old woman, confounding one 

 monarch with the other, would favour the con- 

 jecture that, though at first distinct memorials of 

 the two kings, they have come to be confounded 

 now and commemorated together. F. C. H. 



Almshouses recently Founded' (2'''^ S. ii. 189.300. 

 439.) — At Erdington, Warwickshire, by Mr. 

 Mason, of the firm of Elkington and Mason, 

 Electro-platers of Birmingham. H. J. 



Handsworth. 



Mr. Wm. Turner, of Millhill, Blackburn, Lan- 

 cashire, and Shrigley Hall, Cheshire, father of the 

 Miss Turner whose abduction by Mr. Gibbon 

 Wakefield caused such a sensation, one of the 

 first gentlemen elected to represent Blackburn in 

 parliament, some time during his membership, 

 1832 — 41, founded some almshouses in Black- 

 burn. Prestoniensts. 



Sangaree (2"-^ S. ii. 381.) — J. P. will find this 

 word in the French Diet. Nat. (par Bescherolle, 

 Paris, 1846), written Sang-gris. Rabelais, liv. iv. 

 ch.xlii., says: 



"LaKoyne respondit que moutarde estoit leur sangreal 

 et banme celeste." 



And chap, xliii. : 



" Lequel il gardoit religieusement comme un autre san- 

 greal, et en guerissoit plus enormes maladies." 



See also Menage. R. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



Skoymus (2""^ S. ii. 429.) — Mr. Wilkinson 

 does not say in what version of the Te Deum this 

 word occurs. Halliwell, in his Archaic Diction- 

 ary, gives '■'■ Skoymose : squeamish, — 



" Thou art not skoymose thy fantasty for to tell." 

 Basle's King Johan. p. 11. 



but, as usual, without venturing on a derivation. 



May it not be related to the Anglo-Saxon 

 word secamu, sceomu : shame, disgrace, naked- 

 ness ? It would not be difficult to trace some 

 affinity between the ideas it conveys and those 

 expressed by the Latin word horreo. 



C. W. Bingham. 



