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a history of what he did with pen and pencil to 

 illustrate the eventful period of our national his- 

 tory on which, as it appears, he exercised so 

 considerable an influence. James Sayers was 

 obviously no common man, and he has not been 

 so long dead (he died, I have understood, in 

 1823) as to render it difficult to do some justice 

 to his memory. T. 



Pateeson the Acctionbeb. — We occasion- 

 ally meet in booksellers' Catalogues, &c. with 

 allusions to Paterson as the " well known," the 

 " eccentric," the " celebrated " auctioneer. Where 

 can we meet with any account of his works and 

 eccentricity, and the grounds of his celebrity ? 



P. A. 



Akchdeacons of Dublin. — Allow me to ex- 

 press a hope that some reader of " N. & Q." may 

 be both able and willing to supply a few parti- 

 culars respecting John Haines, who was appointed 

 to the archdeaconry of Dublin in the year 1625; 

 Michael Delaune, A.M., in 1672; and Thomas 

 Hawley in 1710. Archdeacon Cotton, in his 

 valuable Fasti Ecclesice Hibernicce, has recorded 

 very little more than their names, and the dates 

 of their appointments. Abhba. 



Mekchants' Mark or Trade-Mark. — The 



first law case in England touching a trade-mark 

 which I have met with is in Popham's Reports, 

 and the first in Chancery in Atkyns. Counsel, at a 

 late day, arguendo, said that the law of trade- 

 marks was as old as the year books. I am compil- 

 ing a work on trade-marks, and want to get at 

 printed facts touching their antiquity, not only In 

 England but on the European continent. I am 

 aware there is a Cutlers' Guild in Sheffield ; but is 

 there any publication of its regulations, and what 

 king granted it ? What other guilds of the same 

 character are there in England, and where are 

 their rules and privileges to be found ? Is there 

 really any earlier case than that of the cloth-seller 

 in Popham ? 



Marks are seen on ancient Roman articles. 

 Were there any Roman laws protective of work- 

 men who used them ? 



I find traces of municipal regulations on trade- 

 marks In France as early as 1660. What is there 

 definitely prior to this ? In what other European 

 countries were trade-marks used, and such use re- 

 lated In olden time, and how early ? 



Did not the ancient printers use their mono- 

 grams by way of protective trade-mark ? E. C. 



Duke of ISTewcastle Family. — There is a 

 notion among some of the Clintons of the State 

 of New York, that one of the Newcastle family 

 came over in the early part of the seventeenth 

 century, and that they are descendants. Is there 

 any thing likely to justify this idea ? C. E. 



New York. 



" As Poor as Job's Turkey." — - 1 want to be- 

 come better acquainted with Job's turkey — " As 

 poor as Job's turkey." I can quite imagine the 

 state of Job's poultry-yard ; but am unable to find, 

 in any natural or unnatural history, any thino' 

 about this miserable turkey. Professor Owen must 

 know all about ! From whence comes the phrase ? * 



E.G. 



Joseph D. — In a letter of Charles Lamb to 

 Mr. Manning (see Final Memorials, vol. i. pp. 

 128-29., I find the following allusioii to a pQ§t 

 named Joseph D : — 



" Now as Joseph D , Bard of Nature, sings, going 



up Malvern Hills, 



' How steep I how painful the ascent,' &c. 



" You must know that Joe is lame, so that he had some 

 reason for so saying. These two lines, I assure yon, are 

 taken totidem Uteris from a very popular poem. Joe is 

 also an Epic poet as well as a Descriptive, and has written 

 a tragedy, &c." 



Who is the poet here alluded to ? 

 In a letter to Coleridge in the same vol. (p. 

 118.) Lamb says : — 



"I have just received from D a magnificent copy 



of his guinea Epic. Four-and-twenty books to read in 

 dog-days ! " &c. 



Probably this was the same author. 



Iota. 



" The Angel and the Shepherds." -^ In Mx* 

 Halliwell's Dictionary of Old Plays, I fii^d the fol" 



lowing title : — 



" The Angel and the Shepherdes. A Newe Dialogue 

 betwene the Angell of God and the Shepherdes in the 

 Felde concernynge the Nativitie and Birthe of Jesus 

 .Christ our Lorde and Savyoure, no less Godlye than 

 swete and pleasante to reade, lately compyled by T. B. 

 Imprinted by me John Daye." (No date.) 



Is there ^ny probability that the author of thig 

 piece was Thomas Becon, an eminent theological 

 writer In the reign of Queen Elizabeth ? In his 

 Worches, in 3 vols, folio. London, 1564, printed 

 by Daye, there Is " The Dialogue of Chrystes 

 Byrth," It would appear from Watt's Bihliotheca 

 that several of the pieces contained in the Worches 

 were printed separately by Daye. Iota^ 



Charnock's " Loyalty." — Mr- Charnock, au- 

 thor of Biographia Navalis, Sfc, wrote a historical 

 play called Loyalty, or Invasion Defeated, published 

 m 1810. What is the subject of this piece ? 



Iota. 



Ale and Beer : Barm and Yeast. — What is 

 the real difierence between these phrases ? They 

 are all of pure Anglo-Saxon derivation ? In some 

 counties the strongest brewing is called ale, in 

 others the reverse. Has barm any affinity to 



[* Job's turkey has already formed the subject of a 

 Query in our 1'* S. vii. 1 80., where we are told " he had 

 but one feather in his tail," and was moreover " so thjn 

 he was obliged to lean against a fence to gobble." — Ed. 



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