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flour, boiling the milk, gently adding the creed 

 •wheat, with the addition of "spice," the common 

 name for currants, &c., i pound of currants, ^ 

 pound of raisins, 2 ounces of green peel, 2 ounces 

 of loaf sugar, a quarter of a small nutmeg. I liope 

 Paul Pry will try this receipt. I shall be happy 

 to furnish any culinary antiquary who may wish 

 it with receipts for other local dainties, of which 

 we have several. Lucr Pbacock. 



The Manor, Bottcsford, Brigg. 



Your receipts for making this composition may 

 be very good for aught I know, for 1 am no cook ; 

 but 1 would advise you to beware how you ex- 

 clude from our use some of our favourite dishes. 

 Your company must be very confined, and your 

 feasts very limited, if you have not met with 

 many of the delicacies which by your dictum you 

 would expunge from our bill of fare. AVhere 

 have you been living, to say that Scotch collops, 

 basty-pudding, and toad in a hole, have passed 

 out of common use ? And it is clear that you 

 have never partaken of civic hospitality, when 

 you place " cup" in the same category. You will 

 lose all your popularity, and lots of subscribers 

 (me among the number), if you thus limit our 

 enjoyments by interfering with our larder. You 

 have our respect as a literary authority, — take 

 care you do not lose it by pretending to culinary 

 science. Sotkr. 



Plattt (2"'^ S. X. 368.) — Platty (not Platey) 

 is a word used in Kent, to express a crop of any 

 kind which Is good in some parts, and biul in 

 others, or only good here and there. At the 

 Maidstone Assizes many years ago, a witness was 

 asked what sort of hop season there had been ? to 

 which lie replied, " Only platty." The Judge 

 asked, " What Is platty ? "— " Oh ! platty's platty, 

 ray Lord." This lucid explanation is now fre- 

 quently used In Kent, when any question Is an- 

 swered in a similar indefinite way. J. S. B. 



College Pots (2°* S. x. 346.)— I do not think 

 that Mb. Nichols is quite right in his description 

 of the college pot. They have two ears, it is 

 true, but these ears are not spouts, but handles. 

 We have many dating from about 1660 to the 

 present time at S. John's, Oxford. They are al- 

 most spherical at the bottom, rather decreasing 

 towards the top, without any spouts, but with two 

 thick solid rings soldered on for handles. These, 

 I imagine, are the ears mentioned in the Stationers' 

 Company's entry. J. C. J. 



For Youngth is a Bubble, etc. (2"'' S. x. 367.) 

 — To my mind it is Ecprjixepos who has missed 

 Spenser's meaning here, and not Warton and Dr. 

 Todd. I cannot see that the passage is in any 

 way elucidated by the interpretation of stoope- 

 gallaunt (or, as he would read, stoup -gallant), 

 proposed by E(f>Tj/x6puy ; on the contrary, it seems 



to me obscured. Stoope-gallaunt evidently cor- 

 responds to troupe-galant, the old French term 

 for cholera-morbus ; and I have no doubt, al- 

 though I can cite no authority, but that it was 

 also used of cholera or some equally fell disease. 

 Now troupe-galant of course means despatch-gal- 

 lant (i. e., which despatches even stout and lusty 

 men), for a disease is still frequently said in 

 French to trousser (despatch, carry off) a person ; 

 and the same meaning might, I think, be ex- 

 tracted from stoope-gallaunt, if we only take stoopc 

 in its sense of " to pounce down upon " like a 

 falcon, or take it actively = lower, bring low. In 

 the passage under consideration, however, stoope- 

 gallaunt appears to be used a little more figura- 

 tively, and to mean, " which puts an end to gal- 

 lants" by putting an end to their gallantries, and 

 so Warton would be right. F. C. 



Stoope- GALLANT Age (2"** S. X. £67.) — In 

 Spenser's description of the )e:;k!e3S conduct of 

 Youth, 



"Whoso waj' is wilderness, whose j-nne peiiaunce, 

 And stoope-gallaunt Age the host of greevaunce," 



E<pr)i^fpos has evidently detected a slip of Warton 

 in changing the " host " of the inn into a guest, 

 but he helps us no further in understanding the 

 words "ofgreevance." Are they not merely equiva- 

 lent to the epithet grievous ? The wilderness Is the 

 path of youth, penance is his inn, 'and age his 

 grievous host. But as to the epithet applied to 

 Age, E(^Tj;uepyj is certainly wrong in reading 

 " 5fow/;-galIant," in the sense of a boon companion. 

 A gallant was the term then In vogue for a beau 

 or man of fashion ; as with the well-known paint- 

 ing of "Death and the Gallant" in Salisbury 

 cathedral. Age is the victor who makes the gal- 

 lant to stoop, and own his superiority. Tlie same 

 phrase was applied to the Sweating Sickness when 

 In 1551 it visited the court, and laid many a ruffler 

 low. In the register of Loughborough in Leices- 

 tershire this disease is called " the New acquaintance, 

 alias Stoop Knave and know thy Master^ In the 

 register of Uffculme, co. Devon, it occurs as " the 

 bote sickness, or stoop-gallant." And in the auto- 

 biography of Thomas Hancock it is named " stope- 

 gallant, for it spai'ed none, for there were danc- 

 ing In the court at 9 o'clock that were dead or 

 eleven o'clock." (Narratives of the Reformation.) 

 John Gough Nichols. 

 The Viscountess Fitzwilliam (2"^ S. x. 386.) 

 — Catharine, daughter of Sir Matthew ])ecker, 

 Bart., of Richmond, Surrey, married, 3rd May, 

 1744, Richard, sixth Viscount Fitzwilliam, of 

 Meryon, in the peerage of Ireland, and died, 18th 

 March, 1748, having had four sons. Lord Fitz- 

 william died 25th May, 1776, and " was interred 

 in Donnybrook-Chapel, near Dublin." (Arch- 

 dall's Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. iv. p. 321.) 

 Amongst the parish books of Donnybrook, as I 



