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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



439 



Virgin (which had been passed by Pope Gregory 

 without due reverence) and that Pontiff. In the 

 course of the dialogue Gregory is made to say : — 



" Supra altare tuum, missam celebravit odoram, 

 Presblter Andreas, animam liberavit et ecce, 

 Impatiens semi coacta jacet prope limina clausa, 

 Gurgitis : ilia viara petit a me." 



In which the words animam liberavit of course im- 

 ply, as rendered by the author, " II a obtenu du 

 Ciel la delivrance d'une ame du Purgatoire." X. 

 West Derby. 



Michael Honeyioood (2'"» S. viii. 349.)— Mb. 

 Hart is perhaps not acquainted with Duport's 

 verses {Horce Subseciva, p. 272.), in which he cele- 

 brates the large library of Dr. H., Dean of Lin- 

 coln. 



It is to be hoped that Mb. Habt*8 example may 

 induce others to beat the covers of our cathedral 

 and parochial libraries. No one can say how 

 many men of worth and learning have been en- 

 tirely forgotten, owing to the neglect of their be- 

 nefactions by less literary successors. 



J. E. B. Mayob. 



St. John's College. Cambridge. 



Hammer Cloth (2"^ S. viii. 381. 407.)— The sub- 

 joined extract from a paper on " Norfolk Words," 

 by Anne Gurney of North Repps Cottage, near 

 Cromer, in the Philological Society's Transactioiis, 

 1855 (p. 32.), offers a very different explanation 

 to any that has yet been furnished : — 



" The hammer cloth means the skin-cloth, and it was 

 usually of bear skin. The Icel. hamr is skin, or covering 

 connected with the term to 'hapup,' and also with hamus 

 (the encircling hook), and ham, home. The yellow ham- 

 mer thus means yellow skin. But it may be from the 

 likeness to hammer marks on a copper teakettle." 



W. J. Pinks. 



General Thackwell (2""* S. viii. 310.)— Your 

 correspondent. Esquire, has inquired whether he 

 is right in supposing that the Lieut.-General Sir 

 Joseph Thackwell, G.C.B., Colonel of the 16th 

 Lancers, &c., who died in Ireland the other day, 

 was the Lieut.-Colonel Thackwell who com- 

 manded the 15th Hussars in 1825, and whom the 

 great poet, Sir Walter Scott, humorously called 

 " Colonel Thwackwell." His surmise is correct. 

 Perhaps Sir Walter was aware that Colonel 

 ThwachwelVs motto was " Frappe fort," a very 

 appropriate one. This gallant officer was present 

 at Corunna, and many other battles in the Pe- 

 ninsular War, and lost his left arm, amputated 

 close to the shoulder, at the glorious battle of 

 W^aterloo. 



After being engaged in the suppression of many 

 riots, the Nottingham riots of 1831, &c., he be- 

 came a local Major-General in India in 1838, and 

 commanded a division in the Affghan, Gwalior, and 

 two Sikh campaigns under Lords Ellenborough, 

 Hardinge, and Gough, On his return to England 



he was appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry in 

 1854, which office he held till he became a Lieute- 

 nant-General. He was fourth son of John Thack- 

 well, Esq., of Rye Court, Worcestershire, Lord of 

 the Manors of Berrow and Birtsmorton in that 

 county, a direct descendant of the Rev. Thomas 

 Thackwell who was vicar of Waterperry, Oxford- 

 shire, in 1607. Sir Joseph's death took place very 

 soon after that of his last surviving brother, the 

 Rev. Stephen Thackwell, rector of Birtsmorton, 

 Worcestershire. His breast was covered with 

 medals and orders. WAVEBiiEr. 



Col. Thackwell was the same officer who died 

 the other day ; the late Lieut.- General Sir Joseph 

 Thackwell, G.C.B., having entered the 15th Light 

 Dragoons (Hussars) in 1800. 



Who his father was may be seen by a reference 

 to Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. 



S. D. S. 



YorkshireWorthies (2°^ S. viii. 207.)— It may not 

 be uninteresting to Mb. Gutch to learn that a 

 prospectus has recently been issued by Dr. Ingle- 

 dew, F.G.H.S., &c., announcing as in preparation 

 for the press. The Worthies of Yorkshire, from 

 the earliest period to the present time. E. E. 



Extraordinary Birth (2"^ S. viii. 299.) — F. 

 C. H. says the wife of a man in humble life near 

 Bromsgrove had four children at one birth, and 

 that they all lived. 



I would refer the readers of " N. & Q." to a 

 similar circumstance mentioned in the History of 

 the Ruined Church Cambridge (by J. Hatt, Peas 

 Hill, Cambridge) : — 



" On 5th November, 1766, four children of Henry Coe, 

 a shoemaker, two male and two female, at one birth, 

 were baptized." 



The register-book states that the procession to 

 the church was attended by a great concourse of 

 people, as there were sixteen sponsors, besides the 

 father, nurses, and others. The mother doing 

 well. The names of the children were William 

 and Henry, Elizabeth and Sarah. R. R. F. 



" Andrew,''* an Afternoon's Luncheon : *' Gaff- 

 man " (2»'i S. viii. 328.) — In Halliwell's Diction- 

 ary will be found several words which throw light 

 upon " Andrew " in the above sense. " Anders- 

 meat, an afternoon's luncheon." " Jamieson says 

 that orntren in Scotland is the repast taken be- 

 tween dinner and supper. Cotgrave several times 

 mentions aunders-meat as anafternoon's refresh- 

 ment." " Undermele, the afternoon. Chaucer. 

 Later writers use the term for an afternoon meal." 



All these words, " Andrew " included, appear 

 to be connected with the old English " Andyrs, 

 other," with which cf. the German " ander, the 

 other," and " der andere, the second ; " as if the 

 "Andrew," "undermele," "orntren," or "aunders- 

 meat," were another or a second meal. " Aunder " 



