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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[S"-! S. X. Dec. 8. '60. 



it was allowed to hang naturally. This your cor- 

 respondent contradicts on no authority but his 

 own recollection of the period in question, which 

 cannot be good for much, as he was only, accord- 

 ing to his own statement, an infant at the very 

 beginning of the century, and I willingly admit 

 that the fashion went out very shortly after. The 

 very authority which he quotes, Mr. Repton's 

 paper on Hats, states that the fashion of pigtails 

 " continued till as late as the beginning of the 

 present century." And I myself, though, as I sup- 

 pose, some seven years younger than Antipigtail, 

 can well remember the appendage being worn by 

 many neither very venerable nor very old gentle- 

 men. The queue continued to be worn in the 

 navy certainly till after the close of the long war, 

 and I myself sailed with one man who wore it as 

 late as the year 1822. S. H. M. 



Pun (2"'' S. x. 299.) — This word as meaning 

 " to pound " or " to strike," would in the Staf- 

 fordshire vernacular not be pronounced short, 

 as m piin, a witticism, but long and broad, as 

 pun or poon. W. A. Leighton. 



Your correspondents have been very obliging 

 in their efforts to settle the derivation of this 

 word, but they have left the other part of my 

 Query unanswered. 



Can instances of puns be adduced from English 

 writings previous to the Elizabethan age ? 



C. J. Robinson. 



Unintentional Puns (2"^ S. x. 286.) — 



" Matrimony not suited to the Domestic Life of Genius. 

 — This Debate, for the present topic has sometimes 

 warmed into one, is in truth ill adapted for controversy ; 

 the heart is more concerned in its issue than any espoused 

 doctrine terminating in partial views." — From The Li- 

 terary Character, by I. D'Israeli. 



J. F. S. 



Witty Classical Quotations (2'"* S. ix. 116. 

 247. 311.) — About fifty years ago the eccentric 

 John Randolph of Virginia and Mr. Dana of 

 Connecticut were fellow -members of the United 

 States House of Representatives. They belonged 

 to different political parties. On one occasion 

 Mr. Dana paid some handsome compliments to 

 Mr. Randolph. When the latter spoke upon the 

 question before the House, he quoted from 

 Virgil : — 



" Timeo Danaoi et dona ferentes." 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Beauseant (2"* S. ix. 170. 334.) —This word has 

 generally been considered to be the cri de guerre 

 of the Templars ; but on referring to the famous 

 Charles's Roll (Harl. MS. 6589., printed also by 

 Leland, Collect. 1707), we find: — 



" Le baucent del temple dargent al chef de sable a un 

 croyz de goules passant. . 



" Le baucent del hospitale de goules a un croj'Z dar- 

 gent fourme." 



I The haucent or heauseant here seems to signify 



I the armorial bearings rather than the cri de guerre, 



! The banner is generally represented as per pale 



! sable and argent without the cross; in fact, if by 



j passant, as applied to the latter, we are to consi- 



j der it means " over all," it would be false heraldry 



1 as regards the chief. Perhaps Mr. Waltord or 



i Mr. Papworth would kindly help us out of our 



j difficulty. A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



Irish Bishops Translated to England (2"'* 

 S. X. 347.) — Abhba will find a list of these, as 

 well as of bishops translated to Ireland, in the 

 Appendix to vol. iv. of Archdeacon Goiionh Fasti 

 Ecclesice Ilibernicce, p. ii. He will find some far- 

 ther references on this subject if he consults the 

 Index Rerura appended to the 5th volume of that 

 work, which has been just published, and consists of 

 illustrations, corrections, and additions to the pre- 

 ceding volumes, to which are added General In- 

 dexes to the whole work, the contribution of 



John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Yellow-hammer (2"^ S. Ix. 426.) — Mr. Hughes 

 has called on the readers of " N. & Q." to settle 

 the orthography of the above word. As none of 

 your correspondents have accepted the challenge, 

 I venture, in the absence of a better authority, to 

 offer a varia lectio. The German word for the 

 bunting, amnier, would certainly appear to sanction 

 Mr. Johns' omission of the 7«, but I rather incline 

 to the reading, with a slight variation, suggested 

 by the use of Homber, its west country synonyme, 

 as Mk. Hughes informs us. The reason for pre- 

 ferring his pronunciation is furnished by its clas- 

 sification : the yellow-hammer belongs to the 

 genus Emberiza, and is described by ornitholo- 

 gists as Emberiza citrinella, which would give us 

 the corrupted forms, ember, or amber; I should, 

 therefore, be disposed to merge the two designa- 

 tions, and write the name of this bird yellow-am- 

 ber, unless a closer and more correct orthography 

 is preferred ; as in similar words, e. g. comber, 

 climber ; the unsounded b would account for the 

 popular corruption Yellow -ammer. F. Phillott. 



Order for the Burial of the Dead (2"* S. 

 x. 410.) —The whole of the Burial Office, as well 

 as the rest of the Common Prayer-Book, was noted 

 to simple and appropriate music by John Mar- 

 becke, organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 

 A.D. 1550. As is well known a perfect copy of 

 this valuable book has been published by Dr. 

 RiMBAULT (Novello), price five shillings, and a 

 more expensive edition by the late Mr. Pickering, 

 A.D. 1844. Neither of these, however, would, I am 

 afraid, answer the requirements of Regedonum, as 

 the melody only is given, and the old words differ 

 materially from our present version of the Prayer- 

 Book 



