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[2nd s. N« 64, Mar. 21. »67. 



not apse be a corruption of abscess f thus abscess, 

 .obsess, abses, abse, apse. R. S. Chabnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



In Cornwall this word is pronounced " nimpin- 

 gale." " Apse " is with us an evident corruption 

 of abscess. When the deep tissues and bone of 

 the finger are implicated, the disease is called a 

 " veak." Perhaps the following quotation from 

 Carew's extraordinary account of John Size, the 

 uncouth creature in the household of Sir William 

 Beville, may help some one of your readers to 

 throw light on the latter word : 



"In this sort he continued for dinars yeeres, untill 

 (vpon I wot not what veake or unkindnesse), away he 

 gets and abroad he rogues," &c. — Survey of Cornwall, 



ed. MDCCLXIX. 



T. Q. C. 



Bodmin. 



Early Mention of Tobacco (2"* S. iii. 207.) — I 

 do not know the date of Dekker's English Vil- 

 Innies, but I find in the second part of his Honest 

 Whore, which is entered on the books of the Sta- 

 tioner?' Company on the 29th April, 1608, an al- 

 lusion to the practice of " drinking tobacco," which 

 was then the common phrase for smoking it. 

 Again, in the Roaring Girl, written by Middle- 

 ton and Dekkar, and performed in 1611. The 

 •' mincing and shredding of tobacco " is men- 

 tioned, and " a pipe of rich smoak " was sold for 

 " sixpence." Pishet Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Stamp Duty on Baptisms (2°'^ S. iii. 206.) — It 

 was enacted, by the 23 George III. c. 67., that 

 after the first day of October, 1783, a stamp duty 

 of threepence should be paid to his Majesty upon 

 the entry of every burial, marriage, birth, or 

 christening in the register of every parish, pre- 

 cinct, or place in Great Britain, under a penalty of 

 51. for every entry. And that the churchwardens 

 should provide- a book for each entry to be made 

 therein ; and the parson, vicar, curate, or other 

 person receiving the duty was to be allowed two 

 shillings in the ^pound for his trouble. By the 

 25 George III. c. 75. the tax was extended to 

 Dissenters. The Act was repealed by the 34 

 George III. c. 11., the tax ceasing Oct. 1. 1794. 



John Bookeh. 



J. G. N. is referred to " N. & Q." 1^' S. ii. 

 10. 60. ; iii. 94. Both parochial and non-parochial 

 registers of that date have stamped printed forms, 

 or the minister submitted the book to the tax 

 collector from time to time, and paid the total 

 amount due in respect of the several entries. 



J. S. BUEN. 



Roman Measures (2°^ S. iii. 170.) — The forms 

 3y"4, 1/3, express fractional parts, and are equi- 

 valent to %, J. Thus, 201 3/4, implies 201| ; 



and 6 1/3 is equivalent to 6 J. Probably the 

 letter /is employed by the author, as standing for 

 frazione (fraction). Thos. Boys. 



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