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of his Cumbrian dialect, aud with his law instead 

 of low, and his loio instead of Zaw, his jy and his 

 peaze, and' his marvellous Scripture names, is too 

 often an awful fellow to "sit under." True he 

 does not talk of Victoria/* our Queen, nor christen 

 your daughter Emma?* Ann, as a Cockney would 

 do, because in " the provinces " we can connect 

 two vowels without an r between them. But if a 

 little more attention was bestowed on English 

 reading and elocution both at St. Bees' and else- 

 where, many a good man would escape the ridicule 

 his vulgarisms bring upon him. P. P. 



Query about a Snail (2°'^ S. iii. 11.) — I am 

 almost inclined to think that the words here given 

 by Mr. Halliwell may bear reference to the 

 Laidly Wo7'm, a fabulous monster which, in remote 

 times, is said to have devastated the county of 

 Durham, slaughtering men, women, and children, 

 and setting armed troops at defiance. It is, I be- 

 lieve, supposed by antiquaries at the present day 

 that by the word worm a serpent or dragon was 

 meant ; but it is not improbable that the author 

 of the Kaleiider of Shepherdes may have under- 

 stood the word in a somewhat more literal sense, 

 and by a stretch of the imagination adapted the 

 story to a Snail. The histories of the county of 

 Durham will give further particulars ; and it is 

 possible that some of the traditions may have re- 

 presented it under the form of a snail. 



Henry T. Riley. 



Quotation wanted : " IVe'iie wept, we^ve bled" 

 Src. (2"''S. iii. 128.) — Anon will find the line, 

 but not exactly as he gives it, in Cowley's Dis- 

 course concerning the Government of Oliver Crom- 

 well. Works, 8th ed. fol. London, 1693. p. 60. 

 The whole stanza is as follows : 



" Come the Eleventh plague rather than this should be, 

 Come sink us rather in the Sea — 

 Come rather Pestilence and reap us down ; 

 Come God's Sword rather than our own. 

 Let rather Koman come again, 

 Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane, 

 In all the bonds we ever bore, 



AVe griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept ; we never blushed 

 before." 



The lines were quoted in the House of Commons 

 with great effect, if I recollect rightly, by the late 

 Sir Robert Peel in repelling a violent personal 

 attack made on him by William Cobbett. 



E. A. D. 



Bokenham Family (2""^ S. iii. p. 12.) — There 

 are buried in the church of Weston Market, co. 

 Suffolk, 1. Richard Bokenham, Esq., Sept. 2, 

 1721, aged 80; 2. Lady Catherine Berners, of 

 Berners, relict of R. B. Esq., Nov. 29, 1743, aged 

 89. The name Bokenham (under the forms Bo- 

 kingam, Buckingham) frequently occurs in the 

 parish register, as early as, if not earlier than, 1628 : 

 m that year (March 12) was baptized " Walsing- 



ham Buckingham, the sonne of Mr. Wiseman 

 Buckingliam." J. B. Wilkinson. 



Devonshire anti-Cromwellian Song (2°'^ S. iii. 

 68.) — More than forty years ago I heard a va- 

 riation of the verse given by Royalist, which 

 ran thus : 



" We'll bore a hole through Aaron's nose, 

 And in it put a string, 

 Then lead him to the horse's pond, 

 And straightway throw him in." 



There was more, which I forget ; but this was 

 sung at the time in mockery of Methodist hymns, 

 possibly, too, of the puritanism of Cromwell. 



F. C. H. 



Trafalgar Veterans (2""^ S. iii. 78.) — The 

 Rev. Henry Bellairs mentioned by N. L. T. as 

 having been a midshipman on board the " Vic- 

 tory" at Trafalgar, was actually on board the 

 " Spartiate," 74, in that action, and was wounded. 

 He held a commission afterwards. It is true, in a 

 Light Dragoon regiment ; but your correspondent 

 has omitted to mention the remarkable fact that 

 the reverend veteran fought at Waterloo as well 

 as at Trafalgar. S. H. M. 



Hodnet. 



Amulet (2""^ S. iii. 113.) — The L&t. amuletum is 

 without doubt from the Arabic hamd-il, a small 

 kur'an, suspended from the neck as a preserva- 

 tive ; also a necklace of flowers ; pi. of himdlat, 

 lit. taking upon oneself; undertaking for ; also a 

 sword-belt, from hamala, to carry (portavit onus 

 in dorso), whence hammdl, a porter. The Arabs 

 may have used both the sing, and pi. to signify 

 the same, and the Latin word may have come 

 from himdlat. R. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



Imps (2"'^ S. ii. 459.) — In Devonshire this name 

 Is applied to the " suckers or shoots from the roots 

 of trees." A friend of mine, who wished to im- 

 prove the fences of some property he had pur- 

 chased, was told by his labourer, " he must dig up 

 all the imps, root out all the mutes (decayed stumps 

 of old trees), and clear off all the loitches (young 

 elms. "3 W. CoLLYNS. 



Deer Leap (2"'^ S. iii. 47. 137.) — I believe 

 there were two things to which the term deer 

 leap, or — as It was more commonly called — buck 

 leap, was applied. 



It was generally applied to a narrow strip of 

 land adjoining to, and running round the outside 

 of, the paling or fence of an ancient park. The 

 breadth of this strip was the distance which it 

 was supposed a deer could leap at one bound ; 

 and hence Its name was derived. 



The remains of what was said to have been part 

 of the buck leap of Shirley Park, Derbyshire, 



