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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s. No 68., April 18, '57. 



ences as a Winchester boy. As this point is in- 

 teresting, and as I cannot find the poem in any 

 edition of T. Warton's Poems (father's or son's), I 

 hope that this will meet the eye of your corre- 

 spondent Mr. Walcott, and that he will kindly 

 help me to a solution of the question. T. Q. 



Oddities in Printing. — Can any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." inform me of a list of books printed 

 contrary to the usual mode of black type on a 

 white ground ? I have a sermon on Excise^ 

 printed in white letters on black paper ; and 

 Chidley's Complaints of those who break the Law 

 of God by killing of Men for Theft, 1652 ; Wilkes's 

 infamous Essay on Woman, 1772 ; and Le Livre 

 Rouge, or Hed Book, a list of French pensions, 

 Dublin, 1790. These three are red letters upon 

 white paper. Many books, especially Bibles and 

 New Testaments, were printed in black upon a 

 greenish yellow paper in the sixteenth century. 

 Are these singularities noticed in any work on 

 printing ? George Offor. 



University Hoods. — What is the difference in 

 the M.A. and B.A. hoods of the Universities of 

 Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, and Durham ? 



M.A. (Balliol). 



Colours of Hoods. — What is the colour of the 

 hoods for each degree worn at Dublin, Durham, 

 S. Bees, and Birkenhead ? Notsa. 



Receiving the Hood. — In what manner does the 

 graduate at Oxford ot" Cambridge receive the 

 hood of B.A. and M.A. ; and what is the form of 

 words used on occasions of these ceremonies ? 



A Student. 



Working Man's College. 



The Chauntry, near Ipswich in Suffolk. — What 

 was the building called the Chauntry originally ? 

 From the name it appears to have been connected 

 with some religious house in former times ; and I 

 have been informed that various ecclesiastical 

 relics have been discovered in the grounds at- 

 tached to the building. The present possessor. 

 Sir Fitz-Roy Kelly, purchased the estate from a 

 family of the name of Collinson, descendants of 

 the well-known botanist of last century, Peter 

 Collinson ; but it had only been in their possession 

 since the year 1799, and then also by purchase, 

 but from whom I do not know. What I wish to 

 ascertain is, who were the original owners of the 

 place, and how it came into their possession, with 

 any notices of its having existed at the dissolution 

 of religious houses in England ? A. 8. A. 



[The Chauntry was so named from its being built on 

 lands given by Edmund Dandy, in 1514, for endowing a 

 chauntry in the church of St. Lawrence, Ipswich, for a 



secular priest to offer at the altar of St. Thomas in behalf 

 of himself and his relations. Kirby, in his Suffolk Tra- 

 veller, 2nd edit., says, " The present house was built by 

 the late Edward Ventriss, Esq., Master of His Majesty's 

 Court of King's Bench, of whose heirs it was purchased 

 by the late Sir John Barker, Bart, and is now [1764] 

 vested in his son Sir John Fytch Barker, Bart., who re- 

 sides here." From a MS. of Suffolk families, quoted in 

 Davy's Suffolk Collections in British Museum, it appears 

 that " the family of the Cutlers have been owners of the 

 house called the Chauntry, and that Benjamin Cutler, 

 Esq., was the owner of it in 1655." At the death of Mi- 

 chael Collinson (son of Peter Collinson) on Aug. 21, 1795, 

 the Chauntry descended to his only son, Charles Streyn- 

 sham Collinson, at that time resident in India {Gent. 

 Mag., Sept. 1795, p. 792.). The next notice of this pro- 

 perty that occurs to us appeared in the Ipsioich Journal 

 of July 30, 1836 : " On Tuesday last the Chauntry estate 

 at Sproughton was sold by auction by Mr. Garrod. The 

 capital mansion house, with 13 a. 1 r. 4 p., was purchased 

 by Col. Neale, we understand, for Charles Lillingston, 

 Esq., for 6800Z. exclusive of timber and fixtures. A farm- 

 house adjoining, called the Lower Chauntry, with 65 a. 1 r. 

 5 p., was knocked down for 3200/., and has since been 

 purchased by Robert Woodward, Esq." Charles Lilling- 

 ston, Esq., died on Aug. 28, 1851, and his son Charles 

 Win. Pownall Lillingston was killed whilst leading the 

 attack on the fort of Seistan, early in 1851. In the fol- 

 lowing year the Chauntry became the residence of Sir 

 Fitz-Roy Kelly.] 



The Devil looking over Lincoln. — Can any cor- 

 respondent explain the meaning of the expression 

 so frequently quoted, " like the devil over Lin- 

 coln " ? I here cite two passages where it occurs \. 

 one from Pope's " Imitation of the Second Epistle 

 of the Second Book of Horace ; " the other from 

 Kenilworth : 



" Heathcote himself, and such large-acred men, 

 Lords of fat Ev'sham, or of Lincoln fen, 

 Buy every stick of wood that lends them heat, 

 Buy every pullet they afford to eat. 

 Yet these are Wights who fondly call their own 

 Half that the devil o'erlooks from Lincoln town." 



Ver. 240. to 246. 



And Giles Gosling, the host of the Black Bear of 

 Cumnor, thus addresses Tressilian : 



" Here be a set of good fellows willing to be merry ! do 

 not scoWl on them like the devil looking over Lincoln." 

 — Kenilworth, Vol. i. p. 19. (edition of 1831.) 



OXONIBNSIS. 



[The following explanation of this saying is given by 

 Fuller in his Worthies, under Oxfordshire and Lincoln-" 

 shire, art. Proverbs : — " Some fetch the original of this 

 proverb from a stone picture of the Devil, which doth (oi? 

 lately did) over-look Lincoln College. Surely, the archi- 

 tect intended it no farther than for an ordinary antick, 

 though beholders have since applied those ugly looks to 

 envious persons, repining at the prosperity of their neigh- 

 bours, and jealous to be overtopt by their vicinity. The 

 Latines have many proverbs parallel hereunto, to express 

 the ill aspects of malevolent spectators, as, ' Cyclopicus 

 obtutus,' and the Cyclops, we know were deformed at the 

 best, (envy makes a good face look ill, and a bad, look 

 worse,) ' Vultus TitanicUs,' ' Vultus Scythicus,' ' LimiS ocu- 

 lis 03 oblique inspicete,' ' Thynni more videre,' (to look 

 line a thuni/,) a fish, which, as Aristotle saith, hath but 

 one eye, and that, as some will have it, on the left side ; 



