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idea, and giving information too valuable to allow 

 of its being abridged for your pages. H. J. 



Handsworth. 



Leaning Towers and Crooked Spires (2"*^ S. iii. 

 18.) — Respecting the crooked spire of Great 

 Yarmouth church, now pulled down, a facetious 

 friend and antiquary, who remembers it standing 

 when he was a boy, says that traditionally it 

 became awry as follows. The ladies of Great Yar- 

 mouth were in ancient times, long since immemo- 

 rial, distinguished as being as chaste as Aspasia ; 

 however, at length a nymph of immaculate purity 

 presented herself for the hymeneal altar, when the 

 spire was so much delighted and surprised, that it 

 involuntarily made an obeisance out of compli- 

 ment to the fair virgin, and never afterwards re- 

 sumed its upright position again. Jocosus. 



" Tfie Oxford Sausage " (2"<^ S. ii. 332.) — My 

 copy of the Oxford Sausage has a date ; it runs : 



" The Oxford Sausage, or Select Poetical Pieces, written 

 by the most celebrated Wits of the University of Oxford, 

 adorned with Cuts engraved in a New Taste, and Designed 

 by the Best Masters. 



' Tota merum Sal.' — Lucr. iv. 1156. 



London, printed for J. Fletcher & Co.-, at the Oxford 

 Theatre, in St. Paul's Church Yard, and sold by the 

 Booksellers of Oxford and Cambridge, 176-1, pp. 203." 



The table of contents occupies six pages. The col- 

 lection is a very good one ; it would, however, be 

 considered in these days rather too free. 



S. Wmson. 

 Brickwork, its Bond (2°'^ S. iii. 149.) — I more 

 than suspect that Thowel is no bricklayer, and 

 mistook a wooden house faced with mathematical 

 tiling for one of brick. These tiles were much in 

 use some years since, especially near the sea. 

 Many specimens may be seen at Brighton of tlie 

 black glazed tile. The corners of a house so 

 built always betray it. ^ A. Holt White. 



The First Brick Building in England (2"'' S. iii. 

 95.) — Your correspondent, Dk. Doran, is in error 

 when he names a castle of the reign of Henry VI. 

 as the earliest brick building in the kingdom. The 

 art, which had been lost since the time of the Ro- 

 mans, is said to have revived at least half a cen- 

 tury sooner than the above date, viz. in tlie time of 

 King Richard II., and Kingston -upon-IIull claims 

 the first specimens of the revived art. Sir Micael 

 de la Pole repaired and strengthened the town 

 wall with towers of brick ; these no longer remain ; 

 but the transept of Trinity Church, also of the 

 same material, is considered the oldest brick build- 

 ing, not Roman, in Britain. I refer your corre- 

 spondent to The Parliamentary Gazetteer, art. 

 "Kingston," and to Tymms' County Topographer, 

 vol. vi., which are my authorities. R. L. 



Gt. Lever. 



Gbthe's Paganism (2"'' S. iii. 69.) — 



" Die Orthodoxen waren ungehalten gegen den alten 

 Heiden, wie man Gothe allgemein in Deutschland nennt ; 

 sie fUrchteten seinen Einfluss auf das Volk dem er durch 

 Iftchelnde Dichtungen, ja, durch die unscheinbarsten Lie- 

 derchen, seine Weltansicht einflosste ; sie sahen in ihm 

 den gefahrlichsten Feind des Kreuzes, das ihm, wie er 

 sagte, so fatal war wie Wanzen, Knoblauch, und Tabak ; 

 neralich so ungefahr lautet die Xenie, die Gothe auszus- 

 prechen wagte, mitten in Deutschland, ein Lande wo 

 jenes Ungezeifer, der Knoblauch, der Tabak, und das 

 Kreuz, in heiliger Allianz uberall herschend sind." — 

 Zur Geschichte der neuern schonen Literatur in Deutsch- 

 land, von n. Heine, Th. 1. p. 114., Paris, 1840. 



"So ungefahr lautet die Xenie," rather indi- 

 cates a conclusion drawn by Heine from ihQ Xenie 

 generally, than a passage to be quoted. If there 

 is such it has escaped my notice ; but the Xenie, 

 though pleasant reading, are seldom read continu- 

 ously. The indexes to Boas's and Saupe's editions 

 are of titles and names only. This is not a reply 

 to J. T. N.'s Query, but it may suggest the track 

 on which one may be found. " H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



A Leading Coach: Bohhy Groom (2"'' S. iii. 68.) 

 — May not this expression be held to signify a car- 

 riage, the horses of which were led by grooms in 

 state liveries, for the purpose of conferring ad- 

 ditional dignity upon the royal personages for 

 whose use the equipage was designed ? Of tlie 

 etymology of the term " bottle groom" I am ig- 

 norant; but, as according to Bailey the word 

 hobby signifies a "mare," it would not be diflicult 

 to comprehend the duties of a groom with this 

 prefix to his name. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



The hobby groom seems to have been a ser- 

 vant kept in the royal stables, as a mounted 

 messenger, to be despatched on any necessary 

 occasion or emergency. When George III. was 

 seized with that afflictive malady which caused 

 so much concern to his loyal subjects, lie was, 

 Nov. 29, 1788, removed from Windsor to Kew ; 

 and a few days after the following extract from 

 the London Chronicle appeared in that paper : 



« Kew, Friday Night, Dec. 5, 1788, 

 \ past 10 o'clock. 

 " Hurst, the hohhy- groom, is this moment sent, as fast as 

 possible, to bring air.Dundas (the medical gentleman 

 attending his Majesty) from Richmond." 



Theta. 

 Thirty Years' War (2"'> S. ill. 148.) — I beg to 

 inform your correspondent J. X. H. that in my 

 copy of the Geschichte des drcissigfdhrigen Kriegs, 

 published at Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1850, the 

 following are the words attributed to Gustavus 

 Adolphus at the battle of Liitzen : 



" Ich habe genug, Bruder, suche du nur dein Leben zu 

 retten." 



E.J. 



Liir peter, Cardiganshire. 



