2°d S. N" 62., Mae. 7. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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quits her hold, and the judge awards the child to 

 her. 



The former incident vr&s frequently quoted in 

 the pulpit. The Emperor Claudius {Suetoniiis in 

 Claud., 0. XV.), when a woman refused to acknow- 

 ledge her son, ordered them to be married. The 

 mother confessed her child at once. Probably 

 this is the incident for which the inquiry was 

 made. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Fashions (2''^ S. iii. 33.) — A correspondent 

 asked for some notices of fashions in dress, &c. I 

 therefore send a few notes on the subject. 



A Merry Andrew wore a laced hat in 1714. 

 (Spectator, 572.) 



In 1793-4, pantaloons, cropped hair, and shoe- 

 strings, the total abolition of hair powder, buckles 

 and ruffles characterised the men, while ladies 

 exhibited heads rounded a la Victime, a la Guil- 

 lotine. (Wraxall's Memoirs, i. 142.) 



The fashion of ladies of quality taking Brazil 

 snufF in church is mentioned in Spectator, 344. 



In 1692 gentlemen wore a neckcloth called 

 Steenkirk, so called from being first noticed at 

 that battle ; for a similar reason a famous wig in 

 1706 was called Ramilies. (lb. 335.) 



Whiskers were not worn in 1712. Ladies rode 

 in hat and feathers, coats and periwigs. (lb. 331.) 



They beat drums under a bridegroom's win- 

 dows at the same period. (lb. 364.) 



Colours in dress marked the politics of the 

 wearer. " The spirit of party did not blend with 

 the colour of Burke's apparel ; he rarely or never 

 came to the House in Blue and Buff." ( VVraxall, 

 ii. 275.) 



Fox used to attend the House when a young 

 man in a hat and feather; but in 1781 usually 

 wore a frock coat and buff waistcoat, the uniform 

 of Washington. (lb. ii. 229.) 



Rigby was dressed in a dress suit of purple, 



without lace or embroidery, close buttoned, with 



his sword thrust through the pocket. (lb. ii. 214.) 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



" Thanh be to Thee, O Lord" (2"" S. iii. 155.) 

 — I may state that in the Scottish episcopal 

 churches in the diocese of Aberdeen, it is very 

 generally done, the precise words used being 

 " Thanks be to thee, O God, for this Thy glorious 

 Gospel." ^ 



In the late Bishop Terry's edition of a Scotch 

 Prayer-Book, published in 1849, these words are 

 inserted in the rubric. This Prayer-Book is not 

 regarded as authoritative, but in this and some 

 other points the rubric may be taken as a fair test 

 of the existence of this catholic practice in the 

 Scotch churches. J. B. 



Aberdeenshire. 



"TAe Essay on Man" (2"'i S. iii. 3.)— Will 

 M. C. A. be kind enough to say through •' N. & 



Q." if the pagination of part i., and epistles 2. 3. 

 and 4. of The Essay on Man, is continuous from 

 1. to 80., and at the same time give a copy of the 

 Advertisement at the end of the 4th Epistle, as 

 noted in the second paragraph of his article. 



S. Wmson^ 



Traditions through few Links (2"*^ S. ii. passim.) 

 — Sir Walter Scott, in a letter to Lady Stuart, 

 thus writes of his mother : 



" As she was very old, and had an excellent memorj-, 

 she could draw without the least exaggeration or affecta- 

 tion the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have 

 been able to do anything in the way of painting the past 

 times, it is very much from the studies with which she^ 

 presented me. She connected a long period of time with' 

 the present gsneration, for she remembered, and had ofteri 

 spoken with a person who perfectly recollected the battle- 

 of Dunbar, and Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry inta 

 Edinburgh." 



Threlket.d. 



Cambridge. 



Mayors re-elected (2°'^ S. ii. 384. 477. ; iii. 19. 



99. 159.) — The following is a list of the* lord 

 mayors * of London, who have held office for more 

 than three years : — 



A.D. Times. 



Henry Fitz-Alwyn - 1189-1212. 24 



Robert Serle - - 1217-22. 6 , 



Richard Reuger - - 1223-6. 4 



Roger le Due - - 1227-31. 5 



Andrew Bokerell - 1282-7. 6 



Richard Harden - 1254-8. 5 



Thomas Fitz-Thomas - 1262-5. 4 



Gregory Rokeslie - 1275-81. 7 



Rauf de Sandwitch - 1286. 88-93. 6 



Sir Johan Breton - 1294-7. 4 



Johan Blount - - 1301-7. 7 



Nicholas Faryndone - 1308. 13. 20. 3. 4 



Hammond Chyckwell - 1319. 21-2. 24-5. 27. 6 



Johan Lewkyn - - 1348. 58. 65. 6. 4 



Since 1366 several lord mayors have served a 

 second, and some few a third year ; but there is 

 not a single instance, I believe, of one having been 

 re-elected for a fourth time. (See Haydn's Dic- 

 tionary of Dignities.) Mekcatok, A.B. 



Mistletoe, how produced? (2"'* S. iii. 60.) — P. 

 J. F. Gantillon will be probably disappointed 

 with the result of his experiment last Christmas, 

 as the berries of the mistletoe are not generally' 

 ripe before March or April. 



W. E. M. is disposed to think that the seed ia 

 never dropped in the muting of birds ; but I be- 

 lieve it is well known in Herefordshire, that the 

 berry of the mistletoe is a favourite food of the 

 m/sscZ- thrush (Turdus viscinorus). Indeed, it is 

 thought, from the fact of the glutinous pulp of the 

 berry being sometimes made into a kind of bird- 

 lime, that the proverb — " Turdus malum sibi 



* To be accurate I should say " fourteen mayors and 

 one lord mayor," for it was not until the year 1354 that 

 the prefix of "lord " was granted by Edward III. to the 

 chief magistrate of the city. 



