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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«'<i S. VIII. July 30. '59. 



■when I hear our French neighbours making use 

 of expressions of precisely the same import. The 

 French schoolboy exclaims " Mon sabot dort," 

 and hence the common phrase " Dormir coram e 

 un sabot," the exact equivalent of what we say in 

 English. S. H. 



Edinburgh. 



Tliomus Jiixon (2"'' S. viii. 46.) — Thomas 

 Juxon of London was admitted pensioner of 

 Queen's College, Cambridge, 22 June, 1619, and 

 proceeded B.A. 1622-3. 



C. H. & Thompsos CoopfiR. 

 Cambridge. 



Meaning of " Cadewoldes" (2"^ S. viii. 49.) — 

 Perhaps you will accept of a conjecture, which is 

 offered with the hope that other correspondents 

 may be able to contribute something more defi- 

 nite. Mb. Rilet is inclined to think that by 

 " cadeu'oldes" a kind of prepared wool is meant ; 

 and there are some considerations which decidedly 

 favour this opinion. Caddis was a coarse article 

 in common use, — worsted ribbon used as trim- 

 ming for servants' dress, or woollen stuff (Halli- 

 well and Wright) ; and to caddis corresponds the 

 Fr. cadis, a kind of low-priced woollen serge 

 (" sorte de serge de laine d'un bas prix," Landais). 

 Again, wolder is an old East-country word, signi- 

 fying to roll up. May not "cadewoldes," then, 

 have been the woollen (serge or stuff) rolled up 

 into hales? Cadi-woldes, literally woollen hales, 

 i. e. bales of woollen stuff. Thomas Boys. 



Words adapted to Beats of the Drum (2"" S. 

 i. 94. ; ii. 39. : vi. 250. 336. 419.) — The Gene- 

 ral : — 



" Don't rou hear the general say, 

 Strike your tents, and march away." 



Coverer's Call : — 



" Coverers won't you turn out, turn out, 

 Coverers won't you turn out." 



The words, I think, generally used to the 

 "Rogue's March," will be found in English and 

 Scotch Song Book, published by Nathaniel Cooke, 

 1853. T. C. Anderson, 



H.M.'s 12th Regt. Bengal Army. 



Moldwarps (2°'' S. vii. 296.) — Your correspon- 

 dent, I suppose, is not aware that moldwarp, or, as 

 it is pronounced in Yorkshire, mowdiwarp, is a 

 provincial name for the mole. What is the ety- 

 mology of the word ? Is it that which warps or 

 throws up the mould ? H. W. 



John Evelyn (2°'^ S. viii. 46.) — John Evelyn 

 of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1618-19, 

 was, we presume. Sir John Evelyn, Knight, M.P. 

 for Blechingly, who died 1643. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



"Ze Style est Vhomme meme" (2"^ S. vi. 308. ; 

 vii. 502. ; viii. 37. 54.) — Having access to many 

 French works in the library of Sir. R. Taylor's 

 Institution, I consulted them for the purpose of 

 verifying the accuracy of the phrase quoted from 

 Buffon, and found that in all instances the form 

 of expression was the same. If any error has 

 crept into the text, the fact might be ascertained 

 by referring to the original " Discours," as printed 

 in the Memoires de VAcademie Franqaise ; in 

 which, I suppose, Buffon's "Discours" first ap- 

 peared. Into the arguments by which Mr. Stein- 

 METz ingeniously seeks to prove the accuracy of 

 his reading, I have no wish to enter. ^ 



The following are the titles of the works con- 

 sulted : — 



1. De Barante, Tableau de la Littcrature rran9aiser 

 7bme edit. Paris. 1847. 



2. Villemain, Cours de Litterature Fran9aise, tome ii. 

 Paris. 1846. 



3. Chapsal, Modeles de Litterature Francaise, 2de edit. 

 Paris. 1848. 



4. Feugere, Morceaux Choisis de Classiques Francjais k 

 rUsage des Classes Superieures, 7^me edit. Paris. 1858. 



5. Chrestomathie Franpaise, ou Choix des Morceaux 

 tires des meilleurs E'crivains Fran9ais, par A. Vinet. 

 3 vols. 8vo., 4feme edit. 8vo. Bale. 1850. 



What would your correspondent M. Phila.- 

 BBTB Chasles reply to this question, and to the 

 asserted "present degradation" of the French 

 language ? John Macbay. 



Oxford. 



Sir William D'Avenant (2'"i S. viii. 28.) — 

 D'Avenant was confined in Cowes Castle. This 

 appears from his own postscript to part of the 

 third book of Gondibert. About half of the third 

 book was written whilst he was a prisoner in Cowes 

 Castle. See Kippis's Biog. Britan. J. Y. 



Ten and Tenglars, what are they ? (2"'* S. viii. 

 52.) — The phrase " ten and tenglars," standing 

 as it does in the passage cited by your correspon- 

 dent A. A., is evidently connected with bell-me- 

 tal ; and I am quite disposed to concur with your 

 correspondent's conjecture, that by '' ten" we are 

 to understand tin ; especially as tin is^ tenn in the 

 Swedish language, and in the composition of bell- 

 metal tin was extensively used. 



If, then, in the phrase under consideration^ 

 " ten " is tin, what are we to understand by "ten 

 and tenglars ? " May it not be " tin and ting- 

 lers," or " tin and tinklers ? " But, if so, what is 

 the meaning of " tinglers " or " tinklers ? " 



Bell-metal, as we are well aware, is a mixtur& 

 of two or more metals. To effect a combination 

 of metals, it is customary to employ a flux ; and 

 the flux commonly used was borax. But borax 

 in its natural or crude state was called tincal. 

 May not the " ten and tenglars," then, or " tir> 

 and tinklers," have been tin and tincal; the "3 lb." 

 of tincal or borax having been used for fluxing. 



