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Georf- Gascoigne. — As I see that the authors 

 of thp"^'^*"^ Cantab, are correspondents of yours, 

 ma/ I take the liberty of asking them through 

 70U where I can find the papers rehitive to the 

 (George Gascoigne who was "in trouble" in 1548, 

 mentioned in their excellent Life of the poet ? 



G. H. K. 



John Bull. — At what period was this national 



sobi'iquet given to, or assumed by, the people of 



England P— and what is the earliest authority for 



its use ? * J. E. T. 



:^tn0r ^wtxiti iuttlj ^niiatxi. 



Wesley s Hijmns. — I have an imperfect copy 

 of Wesley's Hymns with the mvisic annexed, of 

 which I should be glad to know the date, and 

 the number of the edition. The title-page is 

 missing. The preface consists of three paragraphs. 

 In the third Wesley says : — • 



"I have been endeavouring for more than twenty 

 years to procure such a book as this. But in vain : Mas- 

 ters of Music were above following any direction but their 

 own. And I was determined whoever compiled this 

 should follow my direction : not mending our Tunes, but 

 setting them down, neither better nor worse than they 

 were. At length I have prevailed." 



He recommends this book " preferably to all 

 others." Some of the hymns are not in the col- 

 lection now used by the people called Methodists. 



John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



[Mr. David Creamer, in his Methodist Hymnologtj {^evf 

 York, 12mo., 1848, p. 191.), informs us, that "Mr. John 

 W-es!e_v, in 1761, published a work entitled Select Hymns, 

 with Tunes Annexed ; designed chiefly for the Use of the 

 People called 3Iethodists." Then follows an extract from 

 the Preface, as quoted by our correspondent.] 



Passage in Grotius. — The following passage oc- 

 curs in Emerson's Representative Men, Shakespeare 

 or the Poet : — 



"Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the 

 Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses, of which it is com- 

 posed, were already in use in the time of Christ, in the 

 rabbinical forms. He picked out the grains of gold." 



I should be glad to be informed in what work 

 of Grotius this statement is to be found ? 



E. D.H. 



[We cannot find the passage in Grotius, but Dr. Light- 

 foot {Eruhhin, or Miscellanies, 1629, p. 57. ; Works, ed. 

 1684, i. 1003.) has a similar statement. He says, "The 

 whole Lord's Prayer might almost be picked out of the 

 works of the Jews, for they deny not tlie words, though 

 they contradict the force of it. The first words of it they 

 use frequently, as ' Our Father which art in heaven,' in 

 their Common Prayer Book, fol. 5. ; and ' Humble your 

 hearts before your Father which is in heaven,' in Rosh 

 hashana. But they have as much devotion toward the 

 Father while they deny the Son, as the heathens had 

 which could saj' ' ZeO irorep ^fieVepe KpovCSri' ' Our Father 



[* Qy. Is there an earlier instance of it than 1712, 

 when Arbuthnot published his well-known History of 

 JohnBullf] 



Jupiter,' and worshipped an unknown God, Acts xvii. 

 The}' pray almost in everj' other prayer, ' Thy kingdom 

 come,' and that Bimherafi bejamenu quickly, even in our 

 days; but it is for an earthly kingdom they thus look 

 and pray. They pray ' Lead us not into temptation,' foL 

 4., Liturg., while they 'tempt Him that led them in the 

 wilderness, as did their fathers.' Ps. xcv."] 



The Berdash, an Article of Dress. — The author 

 of The Guardian for March 23, 1712-13, says : — 

 " I have prepared a treatise against the cravat and 

 berdash, which I am told is not ill done." And 

 in the Prologue to the ballad opera of The Female 

 Parson, or Beau in the Sudds, by Charles Coffey, 

 1730, among the requisites of a beau, we read of 

 — " Cane, ruffles, sword-knot, berdash, hat and 

 feather, perfumes, fine essence, brought from Lord 

 knows whither." 



What is- the berdash f and how is it connected, 

 if at all, with the well-known term haberdasher ?• 

 Strutt, Planche, Fairholt, and other writers on 

 costume, do not notice the berdash. 



Edward F. Rimb^iilt. 



[" Berdash. A neck-cloth. The meaning of this term 

 is doubtful." (Halliwell.) May it not be berd-tachef 

 Tache, a loop, fastening, or band. Sometimes tache was 

 " the piece which covered the pocket." lb. Berd, old 

 Eng. and A.-S. for beard. There does seem to be some 

 connexion, as our correspondent suggests, between ber- 

 dash and haberdasher. " Berdash, in Antiquity, was a 

 name formerly used in England for a certain kind of 

 neck-dress ; and hence a person who made or sold such 

 neck-cloths was called a berdasher, from which is derived 

 our word haberdasher." (Chambers.) This same union of 

 the indefinite article with the noun, which from a ber- 

 dasher produces haberdasher, has been supposed to have 

 given us the much-disputed word alligator. Our sailors, 

 on landing upon the tropical coasts of America, the first 

 time they saw a crocodile exclaimed "That's a lagarto" 

 (a lizard). Hence alligator. On the contrarj', we some- 

 times get the article by separation, as in the phrase " to 

 run a muck." This was properly " to run amock," or " to 

 run amooa."'\ 



Cotgraoes French- English Dictionary. — What 

 is the history of the above work, the dates of its 

 different editions, and the names of the editors ? 

 and where can I find a memoir of Randle Cot- 

 grave, t^e original compiler ? 2. 2. 



[The first edition of Cotgrave's Dictionarie of the 

 French and English Tongues, was published in 1611, fol. 

 To the second edition is annexed " A most Copious Dic- 

 tionarie of the English set before the French, by S. L." 

 [R. Sherwood, Londoner], fol. 1632. To the third edition 

 are added " Tlie Animadversions and Supplements of 

 James Howell," j"ol. 1650, 1060, 1673. The next edition 

 is entitled A French and English Dictionary, composed 

 by Randle Cotgrave, with another in English and French 

 [by R. Sherwood]. Whereunto are added. Sundry 

 Animadversions, Supplements, a Grammar, and a Dia- 

 logue of Gallicisms, by James Howell. 2 Parts, Lond. 

 fol. 1773—72. We shall be glad to receive some bio- 

 graphical notices of Randle Cotgrave.] 



The Battiscombe Family . — What was the lineage 

 of " Christopher Battiscombe, a young Templar of 

 good family and fortune," (the Battiscombes are, 



