2»'» S. X. July 21. '60.] 



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that Cotgrare could have confounded such words 

 as dodeliner and coqueliner ; and Chambaud gives 

 as a familiar expression, coqueliner- un enfant, to 

 dandle, to cocker, to pamper a child. W. H. 



The Spanish Pilgrim (2"^ S. ix. 503.) — In 

 my copy of this work I find the following in the 

 handwriting of a former owner who signs himself 

 " Tho. Baker, Coll. Jo. Socius ejectus : " — 



" I send j'ou 2 Books, the English Gentleman and 

 Spanish Pilgrime, the author of the last being j'our coun- 

 tryman and some 24 years old, and was in Towne here 

 and gave to every Head of a Colledge one of his Books, 

 &c. Read it, and you will find strange passages of that 

 yong man's miseries. 



" Yours, &c. 

 " Christ Coll. Nov. 1 [1629]. " Joseph Mead. 



" To S' Martin Stuteville, K'. at 

 Dalham, Suffolk." 



As The Spanish Pilgrim contains no personal 

 narrative, this letter must refer to another work 

 bearing. the same title.* Delta. 



End (2""^ S. viii. 432. 522. ; ix. 493.) — Your 

 correspondent seems not to be strictly correct in 

 his etymology. Lane End, for instance, is a con- 

 siderable village in the middle of the high road 

 from Marlow, while at Wood End, not far off, 

 there is but one house. I think, however, the 

 difficulty may be solved thus : — In the register of 

 the parish of Great Hampden, Bucks, are the 

 following entries of burials : — 



" 1678. Mary Harper, the wife of Will™ Harper, who 

 dyed in a barne at Honour End, or Inn, was buried 21 

 day of Octob', 1678. 



" 1682. Anne Williams, widow, a Traveller who dyed 

 at Honor Inne barne was buried the 26 of June, 1682. 



" 1775. Dec. 28'^ M'. John Stone, of Honor's Inn." 



The spot is always called Honor End to this 

 day. Some years ago this part of the country 

 was nearly all wild common, with very bad roads, 

 and there were no doubt solitary inns at short 

 distances for the accommodation of the few per- 

 sons who might have business at the different 

 villages or scattered farm-houses. The " Tra- 

 vellers," a name given to hawkers, and what we 

 call " tramps," usually slept in the barns. From 

 the circumstance that the place alluded to is 

 called indifferently Honor End and Honor Inn, 

 we might gather that when, from change of times 

 and improved methods of travelling, these inns 

 fell into disuse and were closed, the name still 

 remained attached to the spot ; but as the inn 

 was no longer there, the word end was used in 

 preference. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Banfius : Bladwell (2"^ S. ix. 502.) — The 

 following excerpt from Crawfurd's Peerage of 



[* James Wadsworth, who was a native of Suffolk, had 

 just published The English Spanish Pilgrim, 4to. See 

 Wood's ^iftena, iv. 1077.— Ed.] 



Scotland, published at Edinburgh in 1716, from 

 p. 33-4., will answer the query put : — 



" George Ogilvie of Dunlugass .... married Beatrix, 

 daughter of George Lord Seaton, by whom he bad 

 Walter his successor, and a daughter married to Sir 

 Alexander Frazer of Philorth. He departed this life 

 anno 1612, in the uncommon age of 105. Upon him Dr. 

 Johnston wrote this epitaph : — 



" Vixit Olympides ter septem Banfius aetas, 

 Ter fuit illustri posteritate minor : 

 Virtutes numera, paucos liquisse nepotes 

 Cum perils paucos evoluisse dies." 



H^nce this very aged individual, certainly 

 George or Sir George Ogilvy of Banff, was the 

 " worthy " whose name your correspondent Q. 

 desires ; and it may be only added, as shown too 

 by the above work and other authorities, that 

 George his grandson (through Sir Walter, his 

 son and heir) was created a baronet by Charles I. 

 in 1627, and afterwards Lord Banff in 1642. 

 This noble house continued until early in the 

 present century, when it failed in the direct male 

 line, and the honours became dormant, but repre- 

 sentation as heirs general by female descent, 

 together with the estates, now vest in the old and 

 knightly family of Abercromby of Birkenbog. 



J.R. 



The Lion and the Unicohn (2°'* S. ix. 501.) 

 — James I. was the first who united the lion and 

 unicorn heraldically, adopting the latter beast from 

 the supporters of the Scottish sovereigns. The 

 conjunction of these animals on an ecclesiastical 

 vestment of the period of the Reformation must 

 be attributed to religious symbolism rather than 

 to any heraldic arrangement : the lion typifying 

 fortitude and strength, while the unicorn is em- 

 blematical of fortitude and chastity. As such 

 the former may have reference to our Lord " th^ 

 Lion of Judah," and the latter may be an emblem 

 of the blessed Virgin Mary. The tradition with 

 regard to the unicorn, that it would never be 

 caught, except by a virgin, and that if its skin 

 was at all defiled it pined away and died, is well- 

 known. Its capture was a favourite subject with 

 the mediaeval artist. I have before met with these 

 animals as a powdering for a vestment, I think 

 among the Inventories in Sir William Dugdale's 



History of St. Bald's. 



G. W. W. Minns. 



Pencil Writing (2"" S. ix. 403. ; x, 15.)— It is 

 probable that Martial (xiv. 5.) by the word pugil- 

 lares means the small portable memorandum- 

 book or tablets carried by the Romans, which 

 were either thin slips of wood' (id. 3.) or of ivory 

 (called from the number of leaves diptycha, trip- 

 tycha, &c. &c.) and covered with wax to be written 

 upon by the stilus, by which also the writing could 

 be easily effaced. That Martial alluded to this 

 seems clear from ib. 4., where the five-leaved 

 tablets are called " Quincuplici cera." It would 

 occupy too much space to enter into a long treatise 



