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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. X. Aug. 25. 'CO, 



but the rapidity of the current called the Lachine 

 Rapids. The narrowest part of the riyer at Mon- 

 treal is the site of the new Victoria bridge, [which 

 is exactly two miles. Wn. 



Clerical Incumbencies (2""* S. x. 76.) — I give, 

 from the Clergy List of 1857, a table of such in- 

 cumbents as were inducted before 1800. In the 

 names to which an asterisk is prefixed a change 

 has since taken place. 



Bromham. Wilts. *H. Bayntun. 1793- 



Ashprington. Devon. *Jacob Ley. 1795- 



Beckford. Gloucester. J. Timbrill. 1797- 



Brettenham. Suffolk. *S. Cole. 1798- 



Croston. Lancashire. S. Master. 1798. 



Darlington. Devon. *K. H. Froude. 1799. 



Denbury. „ „ 1798. 



Drayton, Fenny. Leic. *S.B. Heming. 1797. 



Enmore. Somerset. *J. Poole. 1796. 



Etchingham. Sussex. *H. Totty. 1792. 



Fagan, St. i Glamorg. *W. B. M. Lisle. 1792. 



Faringdon. Hants. *J. Benn. 1797. 



Felstead. Essex. *J. Awdry. 1798. 



Gresley. Derby. ♦G. W. Lloyd. 1793. 



Hale, Gt. Line. *R. Bingham. 1796. 



Hartland. Devon. *W. Chanter. 1797. 



Hooton Roberts. Yorks. C. W. Evre. 1796. 



Kettlestone. Norfolk. J. Cor}'.' 1796. 



Hull. Yorks. J. H. Bromby, 1798. 



Stalmine, near Lan- Lane. J. Rowley. 1799. 



caster. 



Merryn, St. Cornw. *J. Bailey. 1791. 



Mounton. Monm. E. Lewis. 1789. 



Narbnrgh. Suffolk. W.Allen. 1799. 



Norton Fitzwarren. Somerset. J. Guerin. 1797. 



Otterhampton. „ J. Jeflfery. 1794. 



Poole, St. James's. Dorset. P. W. Jolliffe. |1791. 



Preston, St. George's. Lane. R. Harris. 1797. 



Shalden. Hants. *C. H. White. 1797. 



Shereford. Norfolk. J. Cory. 1796. 



Sibson. Leic. ♦T. Neale. 1792. 



Thruxton am King- Heref. *H. Wetherell. 1799. 



ston. 



Tostock. Suffolk. J. Oakes. 1792. 



Upminster. Essex. ' J. R. Holden. 1799. 



Westbury-upon-Se- Glouc. 'R. Wetherell. 1798. 



vern. 



Westerham. Kent. *R. Board. 1792. 

 P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Poems by Bukns and Lockhart (2°* S. x. 

 43.) — Your correspondent * has given us " The 

 Jingler," — "a poem," as he says, " attributed to 

 Burns," but on what authority, he adds, he does 

 not know : and that I implicitly believe. " The 

 Jingler " is no more like an emanation of Robby 

 than of Rothschild. It has none of Burns's fa- 

 miliar rhythm — none of his point — none of his 

 fire. I would wager a plack that it was not written 

 by Burns ; that it was not written by a Scotch- 

 man : with much English spelling, it has some 

 Scottish spelling ; — an easy affair ; but there is 

 no Scottish phraseology ; there are Scottish words, 

 but no Scottish combination of words ; it has not 

 /•the Scottish mind: it wants couleur locale. I 

 could be more minute, but it is not worth while. 



I have a hazy recollection of having heard or 



read, somewhere, sometime, a set of verses with 

 an initial line, of which, 



" It was j'ou, Christy, j'ou," 

 sounds to me like a paraphrase : a stage song, I 

 think. Some other contributor to " N. & Q." 

 may be able to help me out here. 



I believe (and I hope I may not be doing 4> 

 injustice), that your correspondent is playing 

 " Puck Steevens." At any rate I will give him 

 a lock of my hair if he can show that " The 

 Jingler" was written by Burns ; and I will bestow 

 on him " my bonnie black hen," if he shows that 

 it was written by any Scotchman at all. 



KiRKTOWN SkES'E. 



Aberdeen. 



Meaning of "End" in Bunyan (2"'* S. x. 208.) 

 — George Offor is a name which one always 

 recognises with pleasure, whether as affording a 

 reply to some curious inquiry into the history or 

 value of old editions of the Bible, or as a zealous 

 illustrator of the literature and life of John Bun- 

 yan. It was, I confess, with some surprise that I 

 read his queries relative to what had always ap- 

 peared to me, and as I supposed to "readers in 

 general," the very obvious and familiar meaning 

 of " end," as the word is used in the passages 

 cited ; while the definition from Richardson seems 

 quite beside the mark. Perhaps, indeed, the phrase 

 " I was with him most an end," may not be quite 

 so intelligible as the other, but it is common 

 enough among the good people of Yorkshire, and 

 means that the greater part of my time was passed 

 with, that being " an end," that I " most " sought, 

 secured, and enjoyed. As to the well-known 

 rhymes, alike clever in expression and pertinent 

 in meaning, 



" For having now my method by the end, 

 Still as I pull'd it came, and so I penn'd,"&e., 



it appears to me so familiarly plain, and obviously 

 significant, that other words can hardly make it 

 more so, at least to common readers. The idea 

 is plainly a comparison between the catching hold 

 of the cue of a story when conceived in the mind, 

 and reeling it off" in words by the agency of the 

 pen, and the getting hold of the thread of a clew 

 (or story) and unwinding it : a beautiful simile, 

 I think, and illustrated alike by the extrication 

 of the delicate filatures from the cocoon of the 

 silkworm, and, had the attempt been successful ! 

 the raising of the Atlantic cable. How much more 

 beautiful and precious than the former ; how much 

 more marvellous, as well as more durable than 

 the latter, that noble production of Bunyan's ge- 

 nius, for the editing and illustration of which, as 

 well as for the best life of its immortal author, 

 English piety and English literature are so greatly 

 indebted to George Offor. H. 



I have often heard the phrase " most an end " 

 used in Yorkshire to denote "constantly," "almost 



