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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the work was put to press, and which may be attributed 

 to my infancy in Literature. It has never yet been re- 

 presented on any stage, and I feel confident that Harris- 

 burg will do me the honor of welcoming my maiden pro- 

 duction to her boards, with no other commendation from 

 me than the mere relation of a fact by way of anecdote 

 and coincidence ; that their humble candidate for public 

 favor Jlrst compiled, set the type, pressed and stitched the 

 work, and he is now about to play the Hero of the piece 

 at its first representation. Will you but smile upon my 

 exertions, after you have perused my little offering, you 

 may prompt me to attempt again at some future period. 



" I onh' regret that my claim for public favor is not 

 greater. I need not add, that the piece shall be got up 

 in a style that must warrant it acceptable. 



" Due notice will be given when it shall be bro't for- 

 ward, which will be but for one night only, 



« Your Obt. Servt., 



" G. K. LiLLlBRIDGE." 



" Jacob Seiler, Esq. 



Money enclosed in Seal of Legal Documents 

 (2"'^ S. ii. 129.) — In Miss Edgeworth's admirable 

 tale of Patronage, at the 42nd chapter, an interest- 

 ing account is given of a sixpence being placed 

 under the seal affixed to an old deed, on which 

 incident is made to depend one of the chief points 

 of the story. N. L. T. 



Port Jackson (2"'* S. ii. 77.) — The epitaph on 

 Sir George Jackson's monument in Bishops Stort- 

 ford Church, Herts, states that " Captain Cook, of 

 whom he was a zealous friend and early patron, 

 named after him Point Jackson in New Zealand, 

 and Port Jackson in New South Wales." Sir 

 George died Dec. 15, 1822, aged ninety-seven 

 years. This testimony ought to be decisive on 

 the subject. J. E. J. 



Caiman's ''Iron Chest" (2"* S. ii. 70.) —I also 

 possess a copy of this play ; but it has this ad- 

 vantage over the one mentioned by Juveena, that 

 besides the celebrated preface, it also contains the 

 no less celebrated postscript, commencing " Inveni 

 Portum," and written a few months afterwards, 

 when the play had been produced at the Hay- 

 market, and the principal character had been 

 undertaken by Mr. Elliston. The year of pub- 

 lication is the same (1796) ; but the edition is that 

 of Messrs. Cadell and Davies, the printer being 

 Mr. Woodfall. Sir Walter Scott, in his Life of 

 Kemble, says : " The preface was so effiictually 

 cancelled, that the price of a copy in which it 

 remains astounds the novice when it occurs in the 

 sale-room." I question, however, whether Sir 

 Walter was not quite as much misinformed as 

 Mr. Jones (Biograph. Dramatical, who says that 

 305. or even 40.?. have been paid for a copy of it. 

 Mine is at the disposal of any of your correspond- 

 ents for half the latter amount. N. L. T. 



English Words terminating in " -iV (2"^ S. ii. 

 47. 119.) — In addition to those words, for which 

 I have to thank your correspondent T. J. E., five 



more have been suggested to me by a friend : 

 anvil, daffodil, fossil, pastil, axidi weevil. My object, 

 however, was not so much to prove " the small 

 number" of English words of this termination, as 

 to remark on the erroneous modern pronunciation 

 of two words so terminating. The additional 

 words, which have been suggested to me, assist in 

 confirming my argument. With the exception of 

 weevil, which is generally pronounced weevle, all 

 the others are formed from words bearing the 

 same termination in the languages from which 

 they are severally derived ; and they are therefore 

 properly sounded as if they ended in -ill ; but the 

 Teutonic Saxon origin and sound of devil, evil, 

 and weevil, seem to prove the propriety of the 

 established against the new pronunciation. If more 

 English words can be discovered with this termin- 

 ation, which is by no means improbable, I feel no 

 doubt of their giving additional force to my de- 

 fence of the old way of speaking and reading. 



E. C. H. 



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

 (2°'* S. ii. 129.) —The fragment given by M. C. 

 is inaccurate in representing St. Monica's doubt 

 to have taken place in Rome, and that St. Au- 

 gustin went to Milan to consult St. Ambrose, for 

 all the parties were at Milan at the time. To save 

 M. C. further trouble, I will transcribe St. Au- 

 gustin's account of the matter, which occurs in his 

 " Epistle XXXVI. to Casulanus : " 



" Indicabo tibi quid mihi de hoc requirenti responderit 

 venerandus Ambrosius, a quo baptizatus sum, Mediola- 

 nensis episcopus. Nam cum in eadem civitate mater mea 

 mecum esset, et nobis adhuc catechumenis parum ista 

 curantibus, ilia solicitudinem gereret utrum secundum 

 morem nostras civitatis (^Tagaste) sibi esset Sabbato je- 

 junandum, an ecclesias Mediolanensis more prandendam, 

 ut hac earn cunctatione liberarem, interrogavi hoc supra - 

 dictum hominem Dei. At ille, . . . ' Quando hie 

 sum, non jejuno Sabbato; quando Romse sum, jejuno 

 Sabbato : et ad quamcumque ecclesiam veneritis,' inquit, 

 'ejus morem servate, si pati scandalum non vultis aut 

 facere.' " 



Hence came the proverb, " Cum Romas fuerit, 

 Romano vivito more." F. C. H. 



Did the Greek Surgeons extract Teeth ? (1'' S. 

 X. 256.) — The above question has received some 

 elucidation in the columns of " N. & Q." Having 

 recently been consulted by a Russian gentleman, 

 the conversation turned upon that splendid work 

 on Crimean Antiquities, published by order of the 

 Emperor of Russia, as alluded to in your columns 

 by Dr. Lotsky. My informant tells me that on one 

 of the ornaments found in the ancient buildings of 

 the Crimea, is represented a surgeon drawing a 

 tooth from the mouth of one of the barbarian 

 royalties. This, I think, establishes the fact that 

 there were then peripatetic, either Egyptian or 

 Greek, dentists, who resorted to those distant 

 countries for the purpose of practising their art. 



