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are worth calling at or not. Almost every door has 

 its marks : these are varied. In some cases there is a 

 cross on the hrick-work, in others, a cypher: the figures 

 1, 2, 3 are also used. Every person may for himself 

 test the accuracy of these statements by the examina- 

 tion of the brickwork near his own doorway . . . thus 

 demonstrating that mendicity is a regular trade, carried 

 out upon a system calculated to save time and realise 

 the largest profits ! " 



A. A. D. 



" The bright lamp that shone* in Kildare's holy 

 fane " (Vol. v., p. 87.). — Moore has given a refer- 

 ence himself as to where the story of the " inex- 

 tinguishable fire of St. Bridget," alluded to in his 

 melody, may be found: viz. Giraldus Camb. de 

 Mirab. Hibem. dist. ii. c. 34. A. A. D. 



T Hyme (Vol. v., p. 152.), — Mr. Chadwick in- 

 quires the meaning of this word. In Bosvvorth's 

 Anglo-Saxon Dictionary I find, " Hyme, a horn, 

 corner ; " " Hime, an angle, a corner ; " and in 

 Halli well's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial 

 Words I find ^'■Hirne, a corner." In many vil- 

 lages in the fen districts of Lincolnshire are found 

 places called the Hirne, the Hume, or the Horn's- 

 end all being portions of the respective villages 

 situated in an angle or corner at the extreme end 

 of the parish. 



" Horncastle in Lincolnshire, the Banovallum of the 

 Homan geographer Ravennas, derives its name from 

 its situation in an angle formed by the junction of two 

 small rivers, the Bane and the Waring. Horncastle is 

 a corruption of Hymcastre, a fortification in an angle 

 or corner." — See Weir's^Homcastle. 



P.T. 

 Stoke Newington. 



Stops, when first introduced (Vol. v., p. 1.). — 

 In the Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie, by Baret, 

 published in 1580, may be found the comma, colon, 

 semicolon, and period. The semicolon appears, as 

 far as my observation has gone, to have been there 

 used, not as a stop, but as a note of contraction. 

 The point of interrogation is plentifully scattered 

 throughout the same work ; as also, the index 0°. 



Fbanciscus. 



'' Heraldical MSS. of Sir H. St. George Garter 

 (Vol. v., p. 59.). — Your correspondent as to MSS. 

 formerly at Enmore may learn their fate on apply- 

 ing to Mr. Woodgate, of Lincoln's Inn. I think 

 the MSS. were sent to the then Lord Perceval. 

 Mr. N. B. Acworth, of the English bar, would 

 also probably know. J. R. P. 



Kingswei, Kings-xvay, or Kinsey (Vol. iv., 

 p. 231.). — In addition to the instances In Oxon and 

 Wilts, already mentioned, the town of Kinsey 

 occurs on the high road leading from Prince's Ris- 

 borough to Thame. Is Kinsey, in this case, a 



Not "lay." 



contraction for Kings-way, as in Oxon ; and is 

 this a continuation of King Athelstan's road ? 



B. Williams. 



Fouxihe's Memoirs. — At Vol. iv., p. 455., on the 

 subject of the Due d'Enghlen's murder, Fouche's 

 Memoirs are quoted in proof that the saying, 

 " C'etalt pire qu'un crime, c'etait une faute," was 

 claimed as his own by that famous police minister. 

 Indeed, I have little doubt of the fact, which, 

 however, can derive no confirmation or authority 

 from the quoted work ; for this nominal autobio- 

 graphy has been pronounced, on a regular trial 

 before the French tribunals, an utter cheat and 

 imposition ; though referred to by Mr. Alison, in 

 his History of Europe, volume the fifth, p. 482. 

 (original edition), as genuine, as well as by Lord 

 Brougham in the third volume of his Statesmen ; 

 yet with less decided assertion than by the Scotch 

 historian. Fouche's family at once denounced the 

 fabrication, and obtained heavy damages from the 

 printer ; who equally succeeded against the writer, 

 Alphons de Beaumont, and was awarded large 

 damages for the imposition. (See Gentleman's 

 Magazine for November, 1842.) It is at present 

 perfectly understood that the sharp and apt anti- 

 thesis, however immoral, was Fouche's. 



Talleyrand's reputation for ready wit fixed on 

 him the paternity of numerous bans mots, which 

 have proved to be of alien birth. Voltaire, Piron, 

 Mirabeau, in France ; and Chesterfield, Selwyn, 

 Wilkes, &c. in England ; with Curran in Ireland, 

 and many others, have similarly obtained credit 

 for pointed expressions not of their utterance, as 

 to the rich are generally given by rumour more 

 than they possess. " On ne prete qu'aux riches,'* 

 is an apposite proverb, long since indeed stated by 

 the sententious Euripides : " 'Opuacn Se ot Si56vTes 

 fls Toi xpVaTtt" (In Fragmentis). Cicero tells us, 

 in his letter to Volumnius (Epistol. Famil. lib. vii. 

 ep. 32.), that the sayings of others had been thus 

 similarly fathered on him : " AIs omnia omnium 

 dicta In me conferri ; " and complains, half-hu- 

 morously and half-serlously, that his supremacy of 

 wit was not suflSiciently protected from usurpers 

 or intruders : " Quod parum diligenter possesslo 

 salinarum mearum, ate procuratore, defendltur,'* 

 &c. J. R. (Cork.) 



The Pelican as a Symbol of our Saviour (Vol. v., 

 pp. 59. 165.). — Shakspeare, in Hamlet, alludes 

 to the popular notion respecting this bird : 

 " To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms, 



And like the kind, life-rendering pelican, 



Repast them with my blood." 

 The best representation I have ever seen of the 

 pelican feeding her young occurs in the works of 

 a Roman printer, in the early part of the eighteenth 

 century, Rocco Bernabo, who has taken for his 

 device a pelican feeding her five young ones, a 

 erown of thorns encircling them. . 



