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His history is worth more attention, "for warning 

 and example," than has yet been bestowed on it. 



G. D. 



Dr. Griffiths and the^ Monthly Review"— T\i&t 

 the proprietor of the Monthly Review (Dr. Grif- 

 fiths, I believe) should ever inadvertently have 

 permitted his pages to have been sullied with a 

 review of that infamous work, The Woman of 

 Pleasure, must have been to him a source of poig- 

 nant regret. Although it has been said of the 

 work that not one word taken abstractedly could 

 give offence to the chastest ear, yet taken col- 

 lectively it is a work of the most atrocious cha- 

 racter, and it would be a happy thing if it could 

 be doomed to perdition and oblivion. It is with 

 regret I refer (for the critique desired) to vol. ii. 

 of the Monthly Review, March, 1750, p. 431-2. 



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An Oxford Squib (2""^ S. il. 101.) — I have 

 little doubt that this clever effusion is by Nicholas 

 Amhurst, author of the Terrce Filius, in 1721. 

 The two persons most severely ridiculed in it are 

 Dr. Deiaune, President of St. John's, and Dr. 

 Hole, Master of Exeter ; and it is upon these two 

 dons that Amhurst is more severe in his Terra 

 Filius than upon any of the other objects of his 

 hatred : giving to the former the nickname of 

 Father William, and to the latter that of Dr. 

 Dryhones, and ridiculing him for his parsimony. 



Dr. Gardiner of All Souls, Dr. Dobson of Tri- 

 nity, and Mr. Whistler, the bedell (legatus acade- 

 micus) are also named in the Terrce Filius. Dr. 

 Holland is the only one that is not named ; but it 

 is not improbable that he figures as Dr. Crassus. 

 Could any of your readers identify some of the 

 other names in the Terras Filius f 



Henry T. Rilet. 



Mrs. Gwynn (2"'^ S. ii. 330.) — There can be 

 no- doubt that the Mrs. Gwyn mentioned in the 

 anonymous old Diary was the wife of William 

 Gvyyn, one of the auditors of the Exchequer, 

 living at Windsor, and whose daughter, Ann 

 Gwyn, married liichard Aldworth of Stanlake, 

 Berks, some time M.P. for Reading, and the pa- 

 ternal ancestor of the Lords Braybrooke. There 

 is a long Latin inscription on a monument, still 

 extant in the parish church of Buscombe, erected 

 to the memory of his parents, by their younger son 

 Dr. Charles Aldworth, Camden Professor at Ox- 

 ford, printed in Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, 

 vol. iii. pp. 147, 148, William Aldworth, who 

 carried the money to Stanlake, was Mr. B. Aid- 

 worth's brother, connected also with the Ex- 

 chequer, and described as of Windsor. B. 



Gelsthrop, Arms 0/(2""^ S. ii. 211.) — Is T. B- 

 sure he is correct as to there having been a family 

 or individual of this name, entitled to arms, at 

 Fishlake, Yorkshire. I have made inquiry of 



the present vicar of that place, who is a good an- 

 tiquary and genealogist, and he states that he 

 does not meet witii any mention of the name in 

 the parish register, nor are there any monumental 

 inscriptions relating to it. C. J. 



Cidme Family of Devonshire (2"'' S. ii. 330.) — 

 The Culme family, which has at various periods 

 spelt its name Columb, Culme, and CuUum, of 

 Molland Sarazen, or Champeaux, in the county 

 of Devon, professes to trace back to Sir William 

 Culme, who lived in the time of Edward I. From 

 this, the parent stem, which became extiftct in 

 the direct male line in 1658, the CuUums of Haw- 

 sted, in the county of Suffolk, are stated to be 

 descended, though the fact is questioned by a 

 learned author of that family, Sir John CuUum, 

 in his History of Hawsted. The arms, which are 

 identical in both families, are as follows : " Azure, 

 a chevron ermine, between 3 pelicans with wings 

 expanded, or." Crest : " a lion sejant proper, 

 supporting a Corinthian column." 



At the commencement of the last century, there 

 lived in this city (of which he was also a native), 

 the Rev. Benjamin Culm, Vicar of St. Olave's, 

 Chester. He bore similar arms to the Devon- 

 shire family. T. Hughbs. 



Chester. 



Names of Places in Dublin (2"* S. ii. 315.) — I 

 know that there are many Irish readers of " N. 

 & Q. ;" and I believe that there are very ^q^j, if 

 any, among them, who would not feel interested 

 in any light which P. B. might be able to throw 

 on the origin of the names of localities in Dublin, 

 or its neighbourhood. I hope, therefore, that he 

 will have the kindness to impart whatever infor- 

 mation he may possess regarding the " Pigeon 

 House," &c. 'AAttui'. 



Dublin. 



Check, or Cheque (2°'^ S. ii. 191.)— A corre- 

 spondent, T. H., inquires which of the above ways 

 of spelling is the correct one : Cheque, it is 

 answered, very truly, I think, is now almost ob- 

 solete. T. H. is then referred to the Dictionaries 

 of Doctors Richardson and Ogilvie, and is told 

 that " in the latter work the etymologies of En- 

 glish words are deduced from a comparison of 

 words of corresponding elements in the principal 

 languages of Europe and Amei-ica " (sic).* 



I am afraid T. H. may take it for granted that 

 it is to Dr. Ogilvie he would, on reference to the 

 word check, feel himself indebted for this sort of 

 deduction. He would be greatly mistaken ; there 

 is not one word in that gentleman's Dictionary 

 which is not " conveyed " as Antient Pistol, or 

 " lifted," as Dr. Ogilvie's countrymen would say, 



[* On turning to the passage, we find America is a 

 provoking misprint for Ada. — Ed. ] 



