gad S. No 33., Aua. 16. »56.] 



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should be glad to know whether there are in 

 existence any other copies besides those specified 

 by Sib F. Madden, in an article on the subject 

 of these Chronicles, "N. & Q.," 2"'' S. i. 1. 



WlLlIAM HeNBY HaeT. 



Albert Terrace, New Cross. 



Agricultural Suicides. — 'iWas it an ordinary 

 event in the days of Elizabeth for farmers who 

 had hoarded corn, to hang themselves because the 

 season in which they had expected to realise their 

 profits was one of plentiful crops? One would 

 think so from the copious allusions to the practice 

 in works of fiction of the time : — ♦ . 



" Here's a farmer that hanged himself on the expecta- 

 tion of plenty." — Macbeth, Act II. So. 3. 



" And hang'd himself when corn grows cheap again." 

 Hall's Satires, Book iv. Satire 6. 



Again in Every Man out of his Humour (Act 

 III. Sc. 2.), Sordido hangs himself because the 

 prognostication of foul weather, on the strength of 

 which he had hoarded his grain, proved delusive. 



Any explanation of these allusions, by the ad- 

 duction of recorded facts, will be acceptable to 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



Old House at Poplar. — I am desirous of obtain- 

 ing some further particulars regarding an old 

 house and property in the parish of Poplar than 

 can be obtained from Stow ; the date of the house 

 is 1612, and the property is a ship-yard, generally 

 believed to be the oldest in England. I know it 

 to have been in existence before the house, and 

 am anxious, if possible, to discover its date and 

 subsequent history ; also when the dry docks were 

 built, &c. ? Perhaps Mb. W. H. Habt, or some 

 other of your correspondents, can afford me some 

 help, by doing which they will much oblige 



R. Sinister. 

 Blackwall. 



Secondary Punishments now in force. — Can any 

 of your readers courteously inform me whether 

 there exists any work of this year, or any trust- 

 worthy article of review, which gives a synopsis 

 of the various secondary punishments now (1856) 

 in force in England ? There have been so many 

 modifications lately, that a treatise one or two 

 years old is hardly reliable. Vindex. 



Money enclosed in Seal of legal Documents. — 

 On a deed of sale of a quit-rent at Alnwick, in 

 Northumberland, in the year 1655, is the follow- 

 ing execution, viz. : 



" Signed, sealled, and delivered with one single two- 

 pence lawfull money of England put into the seale in 

 the token of the possession, livery, and seizen of the out- 

 rent or white-rent of five shillings by yeare within 

 named, in presence of these witnesses," &c. 



On breaking the seal, I found in it a silver two- 



pence, with the rose on one side, and the thistle 

 on the other. 



Query, was the enclosing a piece of money in 

 the seal ever a common custom, or legally neces- 

 sary ? W. C. Tbbvelyan. 



Wallington. 



_ '^Punjab.'" — I have heard that this is a compo- 

 site word formed from Punj, five, and db, waters : 

 viz., the Indus, Jhelum (or Jeylum),Chenab, Ravee, 

 and Sutlej. I am not acquainted with Hindus- 

 tani, and shall feel obliged to any of your corre- 

 spondents who will translate the foregoing proper 

 names. Chenab seems to be a composite word, 

 like Punjab. G. L. S. 



" When you go to Rome, do as Rome does" — 

 Among the many derivations of proverbs regis- 

 tered in "N. & Q.," I have not seen the above 

 noticed ; and this to me is the more remarkable, 

 as it has been attributed to no less a personage 

 than St. Ambrose of Milan. Some time ago, in 

 turning over the leaves of a copy of Tracts for the 

 Times, a fragment of paper dropped out, — a cut- 

 ting from some book which 1 did not know, and 

 on it the following : 



" In the time of St. Augustin, this question respecting 

 Saturday being in its infancy, that great theologist was 

 in the habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sunday ; 

 but his mother, Monica, being puzzled with the different 

 practices then prevailing (for they had begun to fast at 

 Rome on Saturday), applied to her son for a solution of 

 the difficulty. He in return actually went to Milan on 

 purpose to consult St. Ambrose on the subject. Now, at 

 Milan, they did not fast on Saturday, and the answer of 

 the Milan saint to the Hippo saint was this : ' When I go 

 to Rome I fast on the Saturday as they do at Rome, but 

 when I am here I do not;' an advice that is current 

 amongst us to this day — 'When you go to Rome, do as 

 the people of Rome do.' " 



Not being "up" in the works of St. Augustine 

 or St. Ambrose, perhaps some of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." will favour me with stating where 

 such a passage can be foujid in either of the 

 Fathers referred to P M. C. 



William Dunlap. — I wish very much to ascer- 

 tain whether an American author, of the name of 

 William Dunlap, is still living ; or (if not living) 

 the date of his death. He is author (besides many 

 other works) of the Life of Charles Brockden 

 Brown. He was also a painter of some eminence. 

 The information I desire is likely to be found in a 

 work recently published, Duycink's Cyclopcsdia of 

 American Literature. B. J- 



*' The Sisters' Tragedy." — ! would be greatly 

 obliged if any of your readers could inform me 

 who wrote a play called The Sisters Tragedy, 

 printed by W. Nicol, Pall Mall, in 1834? The 

 scene of the play is laid in Granada ; and the 

 author appears to have been indebted to Tenny- 

 son's Ballad of the Sisters for the groundwork of 



