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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 66,, April 4. '57. 



Ph3-sic, Medicine, Morality, Chronology, Geography, As- 

 tronomy, Ehetoric, and Grammar; the Lives and re- 

 markable Actions of their Kings, Statesmen, Legislators, 

 Judges, Warriors, Historians, Orators, and Poets. With 

 an Account of and Extracts from their Ancient Bards 

 and Historians, forming a complete Body of Northern 

 History, from the most remote Antiquity to the begin- 

 ning of the Seventeenth Century. By John Callander 

 of Craig-Forth, Esq. Edinburgh, printed by Bell and 

 Murray, for W. Strahan, London, and W. Gordon, Edin- 

 burgh, JIDCCLXXVIII." 



There is annexed to It an address " to the 

 reader," consisting of two pages and a half. Then 

 follow six pages and a half of "Specimen of the 

 Bihliotheca Septentrionalis.'" Was this book ever 

 published ? If it was, is it to be had or seen ? 

 From the specimens the author seems to have 

 sedulously studied his subject. J. S. s. 



[This learned work was never published: an inter- 

 leaved copy of the prospectus is preserved in the British 

 Museum. John Callander, Esq., of Craig Forth, was a 

 member of the Scottish bar, and editor of Two Ancient 

 Scottish Poems : the Gaberlunzie-Man, and Christ^ s Kirk 

 on the Green, Edinb. 1782, to which he has appended some 

 curious philological notes. Mr. Callander was a member 

 and Secretary for Foreign Correspondence of the Royal 

 Society of Scottish Antiquaries, in whose library will be 

 found a great mass of his unpublished MSS. Among 

 these is a series of annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost, 

 of which the first book was printed in J 750 by way of 

 specimen. Mr. Callander died at a good old age on Sept. 

 14, 1789. Several of his letters are published in a little 

 work entitled Letters from Thomas Percy, D.D., Bishop 

 of Bromore, John Callander, etc., to George Paton, Edinb. 

 1830.: 



" London Directory." — When and by whom 

 was the first London Directory published ? Has & 

 Directory been published from that time to this 

 without interruption by one party or another? 

 and also where can they be seen ? Storeb. 



[The first London Directory was suggested by Mr. 

 James Brown, a native of Kelso in Scotland, born May 23, 

 1709, educated at Westminster, and died at Stoke New- 

 ington, Nov. 1788. In 1732, having arranged its plan, 

 he committed the practical working of it to Mr. Henry 

 Kent, a printer in Finch Lane, Cornhill, who published it 

 under the title of Kent's Directory; or, a List of the Prin- 

 cipal Traders in Loyidon. This was succeeded b}' a host 

 of competitors for public favour, such as The Polite Intel- 

 ligencer ; Gentleman's Register ; British Imperial Kalendar ; 

 Holden's Triennial Directory; Boyle's Court Guide; Royal 

 Kalendar; Court and City Register — all were in existence 

 in the last century, and many of them continued into the 

 present. The Post Office Directory commenced in the 

 year 1800, as a humble duodecimo of 300 pages, which is 

 now developed into a large octavo of 2700 pages. A writer 

 in the Edinburgh Review for July, 1856, remarks, that " a 

 collection of London Directories, varied in kind and in 

 date, would be a literary curiosity, a type of progress, a 

 record of development, analogous to the yearly advance- 

 ment of the great city itself. It would show, not onlj' 

 the extent to which houses and inhabitants have in- 

 creased in number; but also the changes in the social 

 and commercial arrangements of successive generations. 

 Yet so far as London is concerned, it is very doubtful 

 whether anything like a complete set of old Directories is 

 in existence, Qur great na^ion^l library is extremely 



deficient in this class of books : it is far exceeded by the 

 collection, imperfect though it be, possessed by the Incor- 

 porated Law Society."] 



Thomas Lord Lyttelton, — I wish to find some 

 work relating the circumstances attending the 

 death of the above nobleman, which I have heard 

 stated in a lecture-room was attended by circum- 

 stances of a most fearful and solemn character, 

 and of which I desire to be more accurately and 

 clearly informed, I cannot find any reference to 

 such circumstances in Knight's Cyclopcedia. 



Edward Y. Lowne. 



[An account of Lord Lyttelton's supposed vision 

 may be found in Nash's History of Worcestershire, Supp., 

 p. 3G. See also Boswell's Johnson, edit. 1853, p. 763., 

 where occurs the following note by Mr. Croker: "There 

 were two supposed appearances, one of a spectre to Lord 

 Lyttelton announcing his death three days before the 

 event, and another of Lord Lyttelton himself to his friend 

 Mr. Miles Peter Andrews (then at his partner Mr. Pigou's 

 at Dartford), about the hour that his lordship died in 

 London. The whole story is told in the Gent. Mag. 1815, 

 i. 597., with details which substantially agree with what 

 I have heard Mr. Andrews himself relate more than once, 

 but always reluctantly, and with an evidently solemn 

 conviction of its truth. See also Gent. Mag., 1816, ii. 

 422."3 



Tessone : Wolves. — Your editorial request for 

 information respecting wolves in England induces 

 me to submit the following extract from the 

 Rotuli Hundredorum, vol. ii., " Huntingdonshire," 

 p. 627. : 



" Et (Ics Joiis Engaj'ne tenet pftcm de dno Reg' in 

 capit' ad canes suos pascend quib3 canibus Crit ad lupu 

 wipe catu broccu & tessone & lepore in iiij comitat' & di' 

 videl3 in comit' Norhomt' Hunt' Oxon' Bokingham & 

 Roteland." 



Here we have in so late a period as 7 Edw. I., 

 hounds kept for wolf hunting. 



I want to know the difference between hroccH 

 and tessone. A brock is certainly a badger, and 

 so, I suppose, is tesso, from the Dutch form Das 

 of the Gevman Dachs and Latin Tuxus ; but if so, 

 why are both names used ? The two volume 

 edition of Du Cange does not contain tessone, nor 

 several other dog-latin words of the Rotuli, a list 

 of which I must at some future time ask you to 

 insert in " N, & Q." What a boon to archajolo- 

 gists would a moderate-sized Dictionary Medics et 

 Infimae Latinitatis, with English explanations, and 

 especial references to Domesday Booh, and other 

 English records, and published at a reasonable 

 price, be ! 



An old male badger (hroccU or tessone, which ?) 

 was killed in a railway cutting at Brundall, be- 

 tween Norwich and Yarmouth, a few weeks ago. 



E. G. R. 



[That these animals are two distinct species is evident, 

 the latter meaning a wild hog, as intimated in the follow- 

 ing extract from Du Gauge's Glossary, Paris edition, 

 1736: "Occitanis Tessones sunt porcelli, qua notione, 

 usurpator in veteri CeremoniaU MS- B. M. Deaurataj ; " 



