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The conclusion that this was the " Spring Garden " 

 alluded to in the advertisement quoted from the 

 Postboy, is strengthened by the fact of an ad- 

 joining house being marked in the map as " Cap- 

 tain Bendall's," the reference in the advertisement 

 being also to " Captain Bendal, Mile End." I 

 remember an old house close by the spot herein 

 indicated being called " Spring Garden Cottage." 

 It may be standing to this day. 



Alexander Andrews. 



Seals of Officers icho perished in Affghanistan 

 (2"'" S. viii. 289.) — In common, I have no doubt, 

 with many of your readers, I was much interested 

 in this paragraph in " N. & Q.," and trust that 

 we shall hear that Mb. Batley has had the satis- 

 faction of returning to their friends these relics, 

 which they must greatly prize. 



I wish now to relate an incident of the Crimean 

 war, which I believe has never appeared in print. 

 Lieut. Sparke, son of the Rev. J. H. Sparke, 

 Canon of Ely, perished in the disastrous cavalry 

 charge at Balaklava. Some months afterwards, 

 his signet ring, with the family crest and motto — 

 "Scintilla fit ignis" — was restored to his family 

 by some generous Russian, who had purchased it 

 from the person who had despoiled the dead of it. 

 I believe it was returned through the British am- 

 bassador at Stockholm or Copenhagen — the na- 

 tions being still at war. 



Such amenities were all too rare during that 

 contest. I wish I could record the name of the 

 person who did this act of thoughtful and Chris- 

 tian courtesy. E. G. R. 



Mrs. Myddelton (2°^ S. viii. 377.}— Mr. Stein- 

 man is informed that there is a good portrait of 

 Mrs. Myddelton in the possession of Colonel 

 Myddletoa Biddulph, Chark Castle, Denbigh- 

 shire. Nix. 



Besides tlie pictures at Hampton Court and Al- 

 thorpe House, co.Northampton, there are or were 

 portraits of this lady in the gallery at Windsor 

 Castle, and a whole-length by Lely in Kingston 

 House, Dorset. There was also a miniature of her 

 by Petitot at Strawberry Hill, Cl. Hopper. 



What sort of Animal was the Bugle ? (2"'* S. 

 viii. 400.) — In Hampshire, some years ago, a bull 

 was always called a bugle, and I believe the term 

 is still in use. In old French we meet with the 

 word bugle, meaning a wild ox. The word is also 

 met with in the Bible, translation of 1578 : — 



" The hart, and the roebucke, and the bugle, and the 

 wild goat." — Deuteronomy, xiv. 6. 



In the modern translation the v^orA fallow-deer 

 is substituted. I am not a Hebrew scholar, and 

 cannot therefore decide on the correctness of the 

 translation, but assuming the translation of 1578 

 to be a good one, I think that " wild ox " would 

 be a more correct rendering than " fallow-deer." 



For the etymology of the word we must go to 

 the French, where we find beugler, to bellow. 

 The word buffle, Fr, beuffle, Germ, buffel, meaning 

 a buffalo, is I think cognate to bugle. J. A. Pn. 



Bugle was an old French t-erm for horned 

 cattle. " S'est dit autrefois pour Bceuf." — Bes- 

 cherelle. This writer derives bugle from the 

 Celtic " bu, bceuf; " but it seems to be more im- 

 mediately connected with the L. buculus. Cf. the 

 old Fr. words " buglement," — a lowing or bel- 

 lowing, and " bugler," to low, or bellow. These 

 are now " beuglement, Cri du taureau, du bceuf, et 

 de la vache," and " beugler (Lat. barb, buculare)," 

 which " ne se dit proprement que du cri du tau- 

 reau, du bceuf, et de la vache." 



So various are the animals of the ox kind, to 

 which the terms bugle, boogie have been applied 

 in England, that it is to be feared some difficulty 

 will be found in identifying the class peculiar to 

 the I. of Wight by its name alone. " A literary 

 friend in England remarks that this [Bugil, Bu- 

 gill] is ' a bull's horn. Bugle and Bull,' he adds, 

 ' are inflections of the same word ; and in Hamp- 

 shire, at Newport, Fareham, and other towns, the 

 Bugle Inn exhibits the sign of a terrific Bull.' 

 Phillips, indeed, defines Bugle, ' a sort of wild 

 ox ' ; and Huloet, ' Buffe, bugle, or wilde oxe.' " 

 Jamieson, Supplement, on Bugil. Thomas Boys. 



The Contraction "?." (2°'^ S. viii. 374.) — Mr. 

 John Gough Nichols appears to desire examples 

 of i. for i. e. In his Guide into the Tongues, Min- 

 sheu gives such examples in every column. Thus, 

 he writes, — 



" Afflictive, i. full of affliction." 



" A BARLEY bronne gentleman, i. a gent, (although rich) 

 yet lives with barley bread." 



" A Circuit .... Gr. TrepwSoj, a mpi, i. circum, et 

 ofios, i. via." 



And so we might go on to his last examples 

 under Zone, " a Gr, Zw^i, i. cingulum." 



James Rawson. 



''The Royal Slave" (2"" S. viii. 207.317.) — 

 The first edition of this play, "Oxford, printed by 

 William Turner for Thomas Robinson, 1639," 

 4to., is now before me. It has a " Prologue " and 

 an " Epilogue " " to the King and Queene ; " a 

 " Prologue " and an " Epilogue " " to the Univer- 

 sity ;" and a " Prologue " and an "Epilogue" "to 

 their Majesties at Hampton-Court." It does not 

 contain the names of the performers. A second 

 edition was printed at London in 1640, also in 

 4to., and a third in the collected edition of Cart- 

 wright's Comedies, Tragi- Comedies, with other 

 Poems, small 8vo. 1651. No names of performers 

 are given in either of the latter editions. 



Edward F. Rimbadlt. 



Villeins (2"^ S. viii. 360.) — By a charter of 

 William I., if any servants or villeins lived with- 

 out claim of their lords for a year and a day, in 



