2°'' S. NO 36., Sept. 6. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



187 



Slavery in England. — The followmg curious 

 advertisements having been given me by a friend, 

 I thought them worth adding to the stores of " N. 

 & Q. : " 



" A Black Boy, of about 15 years of age, named John 

 White, ran away from Colonel Kirke the 15th instant ; he 

 has a silver collar about his neck, upon which is the Co- 

 lonel's Coat of Arms and Cipher ; he has upon his throat 

 a great scar, bare in habit. Whosoever brings the afore- 

 said boy to Colonel Kirke's House near the Privy Garden, 

 will be well rewarded." — London Gazette, March, 1C85. 



"To be sold a Negro Boj' about 14 years old, war- 

 ranted free from any distemper, and has had those fatal to 

 that colour; has been used two years to all kinds of 

 Household work, and to wait at Table ; his price is 25/., 

 and would not be sold but the person he belongs to is 

 leaving off business. Apply to the Bar of the George 

 Coffee House in Chancery Lane, over against the Gate." 

 — London Advertiser, 1756. 



" Matthew Dyer, working Goldsmith, at the Crown in 

 Duck Lane, Orchard Street, Westminster, Apprentice and 

 successor to Mr. John Redman, Corkscrew-Maker, de- 

 ceased, continues the business of his late Master, in 

 making all sorts of gold and silver corkscrews. Tobacco 

 Stoppers, Silver Padlocks for Blacks or Dogs, Collars, 

 silver clasp-knives, &c. Where Merchants and Shop- 

 keepers may be supply'd with any quantity on the least 

 notice, and the lowest prices. An apartment of the above 

 work kept by him." — Ibid. 



By the decision of the Court of King's Bench in 

 1772, the sale of a negro in this country was ren- 

 dered illegal; and every black, male or female, 

 was free from the moment of landing on British 

 ground, Edward F. Rimbault. 



Curious Anagram. — Johannes Franciscus Ra- 

 mos, in his Treatise De Poena Parricidii, dissects 

 the style and titles of his patron in the following 

 straiiffe fashion : 



" aaaaaaaa . as . eeeeeeeee . unnni . oooooo 

 uuuuuuuuu. 



" b . ccc . dd . f . g . h . 1111 . mm . 



nnniinn . pp . rrrrr . sssssssssss . ttttttt." 



Happily he furnishes the key, otherwise this 

 human sphinx might certainly have died in the 

 assurance that no ingenuity would bring to light 

 his secret : 



" Alphonsus Perecius et Viverus Comes Fontis Sal- 

 danise et Consiliarius Status atque Gubernator Me- 

 diolani." 



W. G. L. 



Westboume Grove. 



Dinner-hour. — We learn from Harrison's De- 

 scription of England, prefixed to Hollingshed, 

 that eleven o'clock was the usual time for dinner 

 during the reign of Elizabeth : — 



" With us the nobilitie, gentrie, and students, doo or- 

 dinarilie go to dinner at eleven before noon, and to sup- 

 per at five, or between five and six at afterncone." — Vol. i. 

 p. 171., edit. 1587. 



The alteration in manners at this time is rather 

 singularly evinced from a passage immediately 



following the above quotation, where we find that 

 merchants and husbandmen dined and supped at 

 a later hour than the nobility. Abhba. 



Dogs and Churches. — Tn your P* S. much has 

 been said about the dog-whipper, which office, 

 judging from the rare visitations of the canine 

 species to our churches in the present day, 

 would lead to the inference that the post was a 

 sinecure. Not so, however ; for I find that the 

 eccentric Robert Poole, in twelve heads of advice 

 to Minors, shows the prevalence of the nuisance 

 in 1734 by giving the prominence of the 3rd to 

 the following : 



" Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, and 

 carefully attend the worship of God ! but bring no Dogs 

 with you to church ; those Christians surely don't con- 

 sider where they are going when they bring Dogs with 

 them to the Assembly of Divine Worship ; disturbing the 

 Congregation by their Noise and Clamour. Be thou 

 careful, / say, of this Scandalous Thing, which all ought 

 to be advised against as indecent." — A Choice Drop of 

 Seraphic Love, 1734. 



J. O; 



[The Exeter Gazette a few weeks since announced that 

 " Mr. Jonathan Pickard, in the employ of the Rev. Chan- 

 cellor Martin, has been appointed dog-whipper of Exeter 

 Cathedral, in the room of Mr. Charles Reynolds, de- 

 ceased."] 



Turner's Accuracy and Propriety in his Archi- 

 tectural Backgrounds. — As this is a point often 

 disputed, most unjustly, and as a tribute as old as 

 1834 to the beauty of this great painter's colour, 

 and as the testimony of an antiquary to the ac- 

 curacy of the architecture introduced into his 

 works is pleasant, and may be interesting to those 

 who have read with delight the eloquent pages of 

 Ruskin, I transcribe the opening sentences of an 

 article on " Historical Propriety in Painting," by 

 T. M., at p. 13. of Bray ley's Graphic Illustrator, 

 London, 1834: 



" The greatest master of colour amongst the painters of 

 the present day is at the same time the most remarkable' 

 for propriety in his architectural background : these fre- 

 quently exhibit designs that may be studied with advantage 

 by the architect ; and in expressing my admiration of 

 Turner, I wish to avoid the appearance of advocating that 

 servile imitation which an antiquary is supposed to re- 

 quire." 



The king of English colourists here gets his 

 due, and nothing more ; he did not often get that 

 twenty-two years ago. It is different now. 



C. D. L. 



" Standing in another^s Shoes." — In an article 

 on " Legal Usages amongst the ancient North- 

 men," by C. S. A., at p. 36. of Brayley's Graphic 

 Illustrator, Lond. 1834, is the following : 



"The right of adoption obtained: one form of it con- 

 sisted in making the adopted put on the shoes of the adopter. 

 It has been asked whether our phrase of ' standing in his 

 shoes' may not owe its origin to this custom." 



There is no doubt a good reason for the phrase 



