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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. Vlll. Dec. 3. »69. 



Frogs in Ireland. — Time was when there were 

 no frojis in Ireland. The old song tells us of St. 

 Patrick that " He gave the frogs and toads a twist, 

 and banished them for ever." Now, however, 

 great varieties of them abound there. It is stated 

 that about a century since a Fellow of T. C, I 

 believe Provost Baldwin, brought frog-spawn 

 from England to Dublin, to test the popular 

 belief that frogs could not live there. I have 

 somewhere seen an account of the rate at which 

 the offspring of this spawn spread through the 

 land, showing the distance from Dublin at which, 

 in their migrations, they arrived in successive 

 years. I should be glad to see this account, and 

 indeed all particulars, placed on record in "N. & 

 Q." If the original spawn wns of one descriptioD 

 of frog, how are we to account for the present 

 varieties ? Might not the same experiment be 

 now tried with the toad ? J. P. 



Dominica. 



The Tobacco Controversy of 1858. — Might it 

 not prove of use hereafter were your columns to 

 contain a complete list of the publications, whe- 

 ther pamphlets or the articles and letters in 

 periodicals, which were elicited by the Tobacco 

 Controversy of 1858? Personally such a record 

 would prove of service, as I have a bundle ready 

 for the binder, of which I should be glad to learn 

 the deficiencies. Can any correspondent supply 

 a complete list ? Radser. 



Wiclifs Translation. — What is the edition of 

 AViclif used by Dean Trench in his Select GloS' 

 sai'tj ? I put the question because, on turning to 

 verify the various quotations there made, in Bag- 

 ster's English Hexapla, I meet with several varia- 

 tions; and, what is of more importance, these 

 differences are found in the very phrases for 

 which Wiclif is adduced as authority. Thus : — 



Col. iv. 10. (Trench) " Aristark, myne evene cayiijf 

 greetith j'ou wel." 



(Bagster, a.d. 1380), " Arestarke prisoner with me 

 gretith 30U wel." 



Ram. vi. 4. (Trench, p. 36.), " Sothli we ben togidere 

 biried with him bi Christendom in to death." 



(Bagster), " for we ben to gidre biried with hym by 

 baptym in to death." 



St. Mark XV. 43. (Trench, p. 98.), " Hardily he entride 

 in to Pilat." 



(Bag.ster), "and booldli he entrid to pilat." 



St. Mark, xiv. 44. (Trench, p. 175.), " whom evere I 

 schal kisse, he it is : holde ye him, and lede ye warli, or 

 queyntly." 



In Bagster these two last words, for the sake of 

 which the quotation is introduced, do not appear 

 at all. 



I would venture to suggest to Dr. Trench, to 

 whom I feel myself under a great debt of grati- 

 tude for exciting my interest on these subjects 

 some years ago, that he would save those few 

 readers who, like myself, make it a habit to verify 



references whenever it is practicable, from some 

 disappointment, if he would, in future editions of 

 his Select Glossary, specify the edition of Wiclif 

 to which his references are made. There are very 

 few writers of the pi-esent day who cause such 

 readers so little disappointment by inaccuracy in 

 reference as Dr. Trench. Ache. 



John Lightfoot, D.D., Master of St. Catharine's 

 Coll., Cambridge. — On this portrait, by White, is 

 engraved the following coat of arms : " Barry of 

 six or and gules, on a bend argent three tortoises 

 of the second." There is no coat for " Lightfoot" 

 in Burke's General Armory with bend aigent, or 

 tortoises. Did the Doctor receive a grant of these 

 arms ? Or has the engraver made a mistake? I 

 should be glad to know if there is any pedigree 

 or account of the Lightfoots of Staffordshire ex- 

 tant ? and if any family of that name were resi- 

 dent in the county of Hertford or Bedford prior 

 to the settlement of Dr. Lightfoot at Great Mun- 

 den, Herts, in 1643? 



I am acquainted with the slight account of the 

 Doctor's family in the Preface to his Works by 

 Sfrype. 



I should be much obliged for any information 

 or references to MSS. or printed works respect- 

 ing any of the name, prior to the seventeenth 

 century. W. J. Lightfoot. 



Sandhurst, Kent. 



Coke's 4th Institute. — Is there any work which 

 trciits of the subjects contained in the 4th Insti- 

 tute, or remarks upon Lord Coke's work, besides 

 Prynne's animadversions thereon ? J. R. 



Samuel Woodruffe. — A gentleman of the name 

 of Samuel Woodruffe lived at Gainsborough dur- 

 ing a considerable part of the first half of the last 

 century. He was an accomplished mathemati- 

 cian, and otherwise a learned man. I have reason 

 to believe that he was an occasional contributor 

 to the Gentleman s Magazine, and some of the 

 other periodicals that started into existence in 

 imitation of the above-named serial. He was nlso, 

 it is said, a correspondent of many of the learned 

 men of his day. I shall be much obliged to any 

 one who may be able to point out to me any com- 

 munication of his to the periodical literature of 

 his time ; and still more so for information as to 

 any of his letters, if such be now in existence. 

 He had, family tradition says, a large and well- 

 selected library ; some five-and-twenty volumes 

 that once belonged to it, &re now in my possession. 

 His books may be identified by his exceedingly 

 beautiful signature, usually inscribed on the first 

 board or the first fly-leaf of the volume. In some 

 cases the name is surrounded by a seroll-wor i: 

 frame of elaborate penmanship, showing a high 

 degree of excellence in that then fashionable art. 



Edward Peacock. 



Bolfesford Manor, Brigg. 



