2"« S. N" 30., July 26. '66.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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History of Leicestershire, so mucli of Domesday 

 Book as related to the liistory of that county ; an 

 arduous task, which ho performed ably and 

 promptly. His translations ut' Lycophron and Ni- 

 cander into English verse were never published, 

 but he left behind him a mass of ineditcd manu- 

 scripts, evidences of the unwearied and recondite 

 studies of his long life. Some specimens of his 

 polished verse are to be found in Dodsley's col- 

 lection, and to a few of his articles in the Gentle- 

 man s Magazine the signature of "K,. DufF" is 

 placed. This rare old scholar was tutor, for a 

 short time, to the late well-known sportsman 

 Hugo Meynell, of Hoar Cross ; but his private 

 fortune was ample, and it seems that tuition did 

 not suit his taste, for when John, eighth Earl of 

 Rothes, requested him to become "tutor and 

 manager " of his eldest son, he declined the pro- 

 posal, though it was accompanied by the promise 

 of future preferment. By a letter addressed to 

 Mr. Giflbrd from George, sixth Marquis of Tweed- 

 dale (dated Newhall, Dec. 26, 1772), it appears 

 that he had also refused to undertake the same 

 duties, attended by the same prospective advan- 

 tages, in the family of that nobleman's elder 

 brother. The Rev. Richard Giffbrd married in 

 1763 Elizabeth Woodhouse, cousin and devisee of 

 the Rev. Thomas Alleyne, INI. A., Rector of Lough- 

 borough, CO. Leicester. The subject of this notice 

 died in 1807, aged eighty-two, leaving an only 

 child, Euphemia, who died unmarried, Dec. 6, 

 1853, in her eighty-ninth year. Mr. Giflbrd bore 

 the arms of the Giffords of Yestcr, and his crest 

 was a goat's head. 

 A Relative or " One GirroKD, A Clergyman." 



Lines quoted by Sir Robert Peel (2"^ S. ii. 48.) 

 They are Di*yden's of Shaftesbury in Absolom and 

 Achitophel. C, 



" When waves run high, 

 A daring pilot in extremity." 



The right version is, — 



" A daring pilot in extremity, 

 Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high." 

 Absolom and Achitophel, 160. 



X.H. 



Tale loantcd (2">^ S. i. 11.) — I beg to refer a. j8. 

 to a tale entitled "The Table d'llote," in the 

 Neio Montldy Magazine (vol. Ixxi. p. 495.), of 

 which the following is a summary of the chief in- 

 cidents : — An English tourist, at Interlacken, 

 finds himself placed at the dinner-table vis-a-vis 

 to a beautiful woman, whose features seem not 

 altogether unfamiliar to him. His memory and 

 conversational powers stimulated by his host's 

 champagne, he finds himself, by the time the ladies 



have withdrawn, in a position to impart to an 

 Italian signor by his side his conviction that their 

 beautiful convive was the identical person whom 

 he had chanced to see exposed in the pillory, and 

 branded as a thief, a year or two ago at Brussells. 

 The Italian, who has become excited during the 

 progress of the story, quits the dinner-table, and 

 the communicative Englishman takes a digestive 

 stroll. In the evening he is summoned by the 

 waiter into the Italian's room ; where he learns, 

 to his horror, that tlie person whom he has made 

 the confidant of his reminiscences is the husband 

 of their heroine ! A recantation is demanded, 

 and a duel across the table proposed as an alter- 

 native : the Italian proceeding, as a minor pre- 

 liminary, to falsify the Englishman's statement by 

 causing his wife, who is an agonised spectator of 

 the interview, to bare her shoulders. She accom- 

 plishes the pi'ocess, and the fatal scar is seen. A 

 yell, that bursts from the husband's lips, " pro- 

 claims at once his conviction and his agony." 

 Voices are now heard at the door ; and the Italian, 

 finding that there is no time to lose, pi'oceeds to 

 business : his first pistol wounds his wife, the 

 second puts a stop to his own career. The En- 

 glishman shouts in desperation to those outside to 

 force the door, and the curtain falls on the tableau. 



This outline of the story may either save or 

 stimulate reference to the volume which I have 

 indicated. William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



Striking in tkc King's Court (2'"' S. ii. 49.) — 

 The first Duke of Devonshire, when Lord Caven- 

 dish, having struck Colonel Culpepper within the 

 verge of the court, was acrimoniously prosecuted 

 for the offence ; and was glad to escape the am- 

 putation by a fine of 30,000^., which was, I think, 

 remitted at the Revolution which soon after fol- 

 lowed. C. 



Laton Billiards (2'"' S. ii. 10.) — Troco, or 

 Trocho, which F. C. B. brings forward as another 

 name for the above, is most likely a word adopted 

 from the Greek by the inventor or restorer of 

 the game. Tpox^s (vide Donnegan's Lex.) means 

 " any thing of a circular or globular form, a ball 

 or globe." Instances of a similar application of 

 the ancient languages to modern inventions will 

 be familiar to most of your readers, e. q. Rhypo- 

 phagoii, Kamptidicon, Antigropelos ; and in my 

 time, at Cambridge, a certain slate billiard table 

 was designated on the owner's sign-board as 

 "patent petrosian" (from Trerpos, "a stone," no 

 doubt). J. Eastwood. 



Eckington. 



Credence Table (2"^ S. i. 154.)— I saw it stated 

 in one of our quarterly periodicals in 1852, that 

 "credence table" was derived from an obsolete 

 German verb, Krcdcnzcn, to taste, owing to the 



