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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



r ['ind S. No 64., Jan. 10. '57. 



Thanks after reading the Gospel (2""^ S. ii. 467.) 

 — In my own little church this custom is still 

 retained. Before the Gospel, the congregation 

 say : " Glory be to Thee, O God;" and after it, 

 " Thanks be to Thee, Almighty God." 



C. W. Bingham. 



Bingham's Melcombe. 



Mr. J. Eastwood may include Buslingthorpe, 

 CO. Lincoln, among the churches in which this 

 ancient custom is retained. There are, I believe, 

 other churches in this neighbourhood where the 

 words are still used. J. Sansom. 



Buslingthorpe. 



Full forty years ago, when I was curate of 

 Cricklade, Wilts, through a lapsus lingucB I once 

 said, after reading the Gospel, "Here endeth," 

 &c., whereupon there burst forth a full congre- 

 gational respond, " Thanks be to Thee, O God ; " 

 proving, no doubt, the traditional custom, for it is 

 not authorised by the present Rubric. I think I 

 have sent a note of this before, with other litur- 

 gical bygone customs, but I cannot give a re- 

 ference, as the binder has got my late volumes. 



H. T. Ellacombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



This custom is observed in the church at Isell- 

 on-the-Derwent, near Cockermouth. W. H. H. 

 Oxford and Cambridge Club. 



Clans of Scotland : Scotland in the Tenth Cen- 

 tury (2°'* S. ii. 431.) —Your correspondent McC. 

 will find considerable assistance, in respect to what 

 he wants, upon an examination of that very useful 

 " Index of Subjects " prepared by Mr. Shiells, and 

 appended to the Catalogue of the Library of the 

 Society of Writers to the Signet, 4to., Edinburgh, 

 1837, under the heads " Clans" and "Scotland." 



T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Jumbols (2"'i S. ii. 262.) —If Mr. Bruce will 

 take the trouble to call at Christie's, 412. Oxford 

 Street, he will find that cakes made under this 

 name are not yet obsolete. They are made of the 

 same materials as gingerbread, but rolled thin and 

 curled, so as to eat quite crisp. Alpha. 



Wilkins of Gloucestershire (2"^ S. ii. 490.) — I 

 can find no such family entitled to arms. The 

 following are from Edmonson's Heraldry : 



"Wilkins (of Cole-Orton, co. Leicester). Gu. two 

 swords in salt arg., hilts and pommels or; on a ch. of the 

 2nd, three mullets pierced sab. Crest. A demi-griffiu 

 regardant gu,, holding in his dexter claw a sword erect 

 arg., hilt and pommel or. (Granted by Sir Henry St. 

 John, 1685). 



"Wilkins (of Thong, co. Kent*). Erm. on a bend 

 Bab. three martlets arg. : a canton or charged with a rose 

 gu. Crest. A boar passant regardant, pierced through 



* Query. 



the shoulder with an arrow arg. bendways sinister, the 

 boar biting the arrow. 



" Wilkins (of Kent). Erm. on a bend sab. three 

 martlets, or ; a cant, of the 3rd. 



" Wilkins (of Northumberland). Gu. on a chev. arg. 

 betw. three welks or a fl.-de-lis sab." 



Resupincs. 



Nicknames of American States (2""^ S. ii. 475.) 



— Is there not an error in a})plying the term 

 " Green Mountain Boys " to the inhabitants of 

 Rhode Island ? They surely belong to Vermont, 

 which means the Green Mountain. I know 

 natives of the latter state who call themselves 

 " Green Mountain Boys." J. Doran. 



Continuation of Candide (2""^ S. ii. 229.) — I 

 have before me a neat edition of Candidas, or 

 All for the Best, in two parts. Translated from 

 the French of M. De Voltaire. London, Printed 

 for B. Long 'and T. Pridden, 1773. 12nio., pp. 

 252., the Continuation, or Part II., commencing at 

 p. 169. There is no Preface to either of the 

 parts. G. N. 



Abinger Epitaph (2"^ S. ii. 306. 397. 478.) — 

 I cannot but be amused by the laborious inquiries 

 of your correspondents respecting the epitaph on 

 a blacksmith, now called in your pages the Abinger 

 epitaph. They do not seem to be aware that it 

 is to be found in the Elegant Extracts, p. 843., in 

 a more correct form, which is this : 



" My sledge and hammer lie reclin'd, 

 My bellows too have lost their wind, 

 My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, 

 My vice is in the dust all laid. 

 My coal is spent, my iron gone, 

 My nails are drove, my work is done. 

 My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, 

 My soul, smoke-like, soars to be blest." 



Whether the Elegant Extracts were published 

 in 1796, I do not know, but believe they were; 

 and probably In all the cases mentioned, the vil- 

 lage poets took their lines from recollections of 

 what they had read in that work. From whence 

 the editor transferred it to his pages, I have tried 

 in vain to discover. I have a note that it is to 

 be found in Bothwell churchyard, but was never 

 there myself, nor have means of inquiring from 

 any one on the spot. A. B. C. 



John Moncrieffof Tippermallach (2"'> S. ii. 371.) 



— John Moncrieff of Ti{)permallach, or Tlbber- 

 mallach, was son of Hugh Moncrieff of Alalar, 

 brother of Sir John Moncrieff, 1st baronet of Mon- 

 crieff of the creation of 1626, and succeeded to 

 that estate in virtue of a special destination in his 

 favour by an old cadet of the house of Moncrieff", 

 William Moncrieff of Tibbermallacb. On the 

 death of his nephew Sir James, at the end of tlie 

 seventeenth or beginning of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, he became 5th baronet, after the family 

 estate had been alienated. In 1699, he is called 

 John ; and in 1709, Sir John Moncrieff of Tip- 



