250 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'» S. VIII. Sept. 24. '59. 



vviVfMf and the Latin anima, spiritus, all from a 

 verb signifying to breathe, and hence denoting, as 

 the Greek and Latin words, breath, and frequently 

 life, which depends upon breathing ? 



Hence in that passage in the New Testament, 

 "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole 

 world and lose his own soul {^^vxn) ? " no myste- 

 rious spiritual essence is intended, but merely the 

 physical life. 



Also I wish to ask, Has not the word in the 

 Hebrew Bible translated soul (" man became a 

 living soul,'' " the soul that sinneth it shall die," 

 &c.) a similar derivation, and hence signifies 

 breath, life, a living person ? F. B. B. 



Sofs Hole. — " It would not have cost me 

 above A^d. to have spent my evening at 'Sot's 

 Hole." — Connoisseur, 68. 



The Green Lamps. — " The same act, which at 

 the Green Lamps or Pimlico appears low, may 

 be extremely polite at the Haymarket or at Rane- 

 lagh." — Connoisseur, 66. 



Jenny's Whim. — " The royal diversion of duck- 

 bunting, with a decanter of Dorchester [ale] for 

 sixpence, at Jenny's Whim."* (^Connoisseur, 68.) 

 Mentioned also by Horace Walpole. 



Where were these once celebrated localities ? 

 And, apropos de Mere, is ale served in decanters 

 anywhere now ? I once saw it so done in Lon- 

 don. DUBIDS. 



''■The History of Ireland," 1784.— Who was the 

 author of an Svo. volume entitled The History of 

 Ireland, which forms vol. xlii. of The Modern Part 

 of an Universal History, London, 1784? Abhba. 



American Dramatists. — Can any of your Ame- 

 rican readers give me any biographical particulars 

 regarding the following American dramatic au- 

 thors ? 1. James Forrester Foote (of New 

 York ?), author of The Little Thief, or the Night- 

 Walker. 2. Wm. G. Hyer, author of Rosa, a 

 melodrama, printed 1822. 3. Robert W. Ewing, 

 author of The Highland Seer and other plays. 

 4. Samuel B. Judah, author of A Tale of Lexing- 

 ton (acted in New York) and other plays. There 

 is a volume by a Mr. Keece, published in Ame- 

 rica, which I think contains some account of the 

 dramatic authors of America. A. Z. 



Anonymous Plays. — Who is the author of the 

 following plays, printed or published at Notting- 

 ham : 1. The Eve of St. Hippolito, a Play. Pub- 

 lished by G. Stretton, Nottingham. Svo. 1821 ? 2. 

 Philo, a Drama, 1836 ? 3. Vanity's Victim, a 

 Comedy. Published by Rawson & Richards, 

 Nottingham ?■ Z, 



[* Jenny's Whim was a tavern at the end of the 

 wooden bridge Over what was formerlj' a cut or reservoir 

 of the Chelsea Waterworks, between Chelsea and Piin- 

 lico. Cunningham's London.'^ 



Poole Family. — I shall be very thankful for any 

 information respecting James Poole, who pur- 

 chased the manor of Bilmore in the parisli of 

 Old Radnor, in 1781, of Harford Jones, and sold 

 it again to John Morris, in 1789 ; also reliable 

 data to supply the numerous gaps in the pedigree 

 of Poole of Poole, county of Chester (see Burke's 

 Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England), 

 especially in regard to the descendants of Reginald 

 Poole, who married Cecily, daughter of Rev. 

 Matthew Wood, vicar of Webbenbury, so stated 

 in Burke ; but I cannot find any such parish in 

 Ecton's Liber Valorum, 1763. The nearest ap- 

 proach is Welbury, in the county and diocese of 

 York, a rectory in the patronage of the duchy of 

 Lancaster. Similar information is sought re- 

 specting the descendants of Benjamin Poole, of 

 London, who died about 1656 ? A. M. 



Choyce, Joice, Jocunda. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents tell whether Choyce or Joice was the 

 pet name for ladies who, in the 16th century, were 

 named Jocunda ? * A. 



Heraldic. — Information would oblige respect- 

 ing the name the following coat of arms appertain 

 to, the tinctures of which I am unable to give, 



viz. " two bars, over all, on a bend , 



three boars' heads erased ," These arms are 



impaled by Goulston on the dexter, and are cut 

 on a tombstone in the chancel of the parish church 

 of Kingston-on-Thames to the memory of Eliza- 

 beth, the wife of Morris Goulston, Esq., who ob. 

 12th April, 1720, set. thirty-five years. Any par- 

 ticulars relative to this gentleman and his descen- 

 dants would prove acceptable. He was the only 

 son of Sir William Goulston, Knt., second son of 

 Richard Goulston, lord of the manor of Widdyal, 

 CO. Herts. It is evident he was twice married, as 

 a daughter, Frediscrida, by his said wife Eliza- 

 beth, was baptized at Marlow, co. Bucks, 25th 

 "^ct. 1701 ; and the Kingston registers contain an 

 entry of the baptism of Joseph, the son of Morris 

 Goulston and Mary his wife, 24th June, 1723, as 

 also the burial of a son William in July, 1724. 



C. s. 



Nicholas Owen. — This individual was one of 

 the servants of Henry Garnet the Jesuit, and was 

 apprehended at Hendlip House on the 23rd of 

 January, 1606, a few hours before the discovery 

 of his master. We find him a prisoner in the 

 Tower on the 26th of Feb., when he underwent 

 an examination, in which he positively denied all 

 knowledge of his master or of Oldcorne. On the 

 1st of March he was again examined; this time, 

 under torture, being hung up to a beam by his 

 thumbs, and having made a partial confession, he 



[* Jocosa, not Jocunda, is the Latin for the baptismal 

 appellation of Joyce. Joj-ce ig allied with joyous, full of 



joy-] 



