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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. X. Dec. 1, '60. 



oi* inform me of his parentage? He is called 

 in his admission to Gray's Inn, son and heir of 

 "Edmund Hutchins, of Georgham, co. Devon, 

 Gent." D. S. 



Kempenfelt Family (2-^^ S. viii. 427.) — The 

 original portrait of Admiral Kempenfelt, inquired 

 . for by Cii. Hopper, is now in the collection at 

 Greenwich Hospital. The arms described as im- | 

 paled with the Admiral's are those of his mother, ; 

 Ann Hunt. He had, besides sisters, a brother I 

 Magnus, as well as Jonas and Gustavus ; but all 

 died young, except the latter and the Admiral, and 

 none left any issue. Their nearest relatives were 

 the Troughton family (descendants of a sister of 

 Ann Hunt), to whom Gustavus left the Kempen- 

 felt propert3', and who have representatives now 

 living. T. E. S. 



"Too WISE TO ERR, TOO GOOD TO BE UNKIND " 



(1" S. iii. 279.; viii. 539.) — The source of the 

 iibove quotation has been frequently, but (I be- 

 lieve) inefTectually inquired after in the pages of 

 " N. & Q." In a small volume, entitled Thoiiglds 

 of Peace for the Chridian Sufferer, 6th edit. 

 (Hamilton, Adams, k Co., London, 1843), and 

 consisting of appropriate texts of Scripture fol- 

 lowed by short pieces of sacred poetry, the distich 

 in which the line occurs is quoted as the composi- 

 tion of the late liev. John East, incumbent of St. 

 Michael's, Bath, and runs thus : — 



" Too wise to err, too good to be uukiud, 

 Are all the movements of the Eternal Mind." 



Several other quotations from poems by Mr. 

 East occur in the same volume, but the name of 

 the poem in wiiich the ot''ten-cited line is to be 

 found is not given. I am not aware whether any 

 collection of IMr. East's poetry has been made * ; 

 but now that the source of the quotation has been 

 determined, I should think that no dIfBculty Avill 

 be found in the identification of the poem in 

 Avhich the line occurs. Mr. East was a frequent 

 contributor of sacred poetry to various religious 

 publications. The discovery that the line in 

 question is the composition of Mr. East, is due to 

 3Iiss Harvey, a lady residing in this town. 



John Pavin Pnii>i,ipe. 



Haverfordwest. 



Mode of concluding Letters (2""^ S. x. 326. 

 376.) — My experience leads me to a diflcrent 

 conclusion from INIr. Workard ; more particu- 

 larly as to " faithfully " being commercial. In 

 the lax usage of the present day, that form is used 

 indiscriminately enough, but I scarcely ever meet 

 with it as a conclusion to connnercial letters. 

 " Obediently " is more often employed in that 

 department. " Faithfully," wliere used with strict 



\_* Mr. East published a small volume entitled Songs of 

 my Filgrimage, where it is probable the lines may be 

 found. It is not in the British Museum. — Ed.] 



propriety, is religious. In that way I use it, and 

 such is, I think, the general usage. Religious, 

 meaning thereby the primitive sense of the word 

 " as given " — I quote from Trench's Study of 

 Words (p. 11. ed. 2.) — " to parents and children, 

 husbands and wives, men and women fulfilling 

 faithfully and liolily in the world the several 

 duties of their stations," — "Faithfully" as used 

 to conclude letters may veer from this its stricter 

 meaning, just as words as to their roots are said 

 to ride loosely at their anchors. Such is the case 

 with these epistolary formula;. Therefore, without 

 adverting to the other remarks made by Mr. 

 Workard, I simply enter a demurrer against 

 that gentleman's defamation of the ending " faith- 

 fully," as it is, I consider, the most important of 

 these expletives, if I may so term them. I be- 

 lieve, too, it is most in danger of being misapplied 

 in these davs of rapid and hurried correspondence. 



F. S. 

 Churchdown. 



Furmety (2"'' S. x. 389.) — Furmety, or, as it 

 is generally termed here, frumety, is still a fixvou- 

 rite dish in Derbyshire, and if Paul Pkv, who 

 inquires in " N. & Q." about it, ever visits this 

 county, he will not have much difficulty in meet- 

 ing with it. The way in which the wheat is 

 prepared is this. The wheat, having been first 

 waslied, Is placed in an earthenware jar with a 

 cover (generally called a stew-pan here) with 

 cold water, and set in the oven over-night. Here 

 it is allowed to " cree," as the Derbyshire folks 

 call it, i. e. to soften gradually, for the night and 

 next day, or perhaps a little longer. When taken 

 out, and gone cold, It is a compact mass of wheat 

 Imbedded in a gelatinous matter. When used it 

 is put Into a pan over the fire with millc, and 

 when it boils a little flour thickening is stirred in 

 it, and it is served up with sugar and nutmeg. 

 The " creed wheat " is still carried about some of 

 the villages in this county in cans for sale, and 

 even in Derby itself I do not unfrequently hear 

 the cry "Want any wheat?" as I pass by some 

 of the side streets. Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. 



Derby. 



Fruniity Is the old and still used name of a prepa- 

 ration of wheat yet very common in North Lincoln- 

 shire. The wheat is prepared by being " knocked " 

 in a sack, or bruised in a mortar. I will give a 

 receif)t for making a pint of wheat into frumity, 

 though it is usually made in large quantities by 

 what Dr. Kitchener calls the finger and thumb 

 rule : 1 pint of wheat gently stewed in 1 quart of 

 water over the fire or in an earthen pot in the 

 side oven till It is quite tender ; when cold it will 

 become a stIiF jelly : In this state It is often eaten 

 with milk, cold or hot, and It is called "creed" 

 wheat. To make It into frumity, thicken a quart 

 of new milk with two table-spoonsful of fine 



