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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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that from the fusion of these two epithets, thus 

 generally used in conjunction, we have arrived at 

 the composite good-fellow, as appended to Robin ? 

 Thus, Robin Good-fellow, quad Robin gai et 

 fallot, — &BeUenden Ker-ism, however, on which I 

 by no means insist. However this may be, the 

 word fallot presently became used in a substan- 

 tive sense : Rabelais thus employs it, playing upon 

 it in its twofold signification of bouffon and 

 lanteme : — 



" Disant : Panurge, ho, monsieur le quitte, prendz Milord 

 Debitis h Calais, car il est goiid fallot, et noublie debi- 

 toribus, ce sont lanternes. Ainsy auras et fallot et lan- 

 ternes." — Pantagruel, Liv. iii. chap, xlvii. 



Here the connexion between gai fallot andi good 

 fellow is evident. Rabelais elsewhere uses the 

 same epithet : 



" Je le cro}', en pareille induction que le gentil falot 

 Galen, diet la teste estre faicte pour les yeulx." — lb., 

 lib. iii. ch. vii. 



Upon which passage Le Duchat remarks : 



" Rabelais appelle gentil falot Galien, dans le sens qu'on 

 disait autrefois d'un homme agr^able qu'il ^tait gai et 

 falot. Galien d'ailleurs, est I'ua des grauds phares de la 

 medicine, et c'est lui qui a dit plaisamment qui la tete 

 ^tait pose'e h I'endroit le plus ^lev^ du corps humain, 

 comme un falot est fich^ sur un baton. C'est la raison 

 pourquoi Rabelais le qualifie de la sorte." 



The earlier use of the word by ourselves appears 

 more reconcileable with the derivation which I 

 have suggested, than that of the etymologists 

 above mentioned. Thus, in the old translation of 

 the Bible (edit. 1549), from which Richardson's 

 Dictionary Supplement enables me to quote, we 

 find: 



" And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a luckie 

 felowe, and continued in the house of his master the 

 Egyptian." — Genesis, xxxix. 



" Of Moises, the felow that brought us out of the land 

 of Egypt, we know not what is become." — Exod. xxxii. 



I would say, in conclusion, that the foregoing 

 remarks are purely conjectural; and as such are 

 submitted to the opinion of better etymologists. 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



SHAPTESBUET HOUSE, UTTLE CHELSEA. 



Among other interesting relics of the past that 

 have been within the last few years removed to 

 make room for the necessities of these times, in 

 this locality, one of the highest in association was 

 Shaftesbury House. It is believed to have been 

 built by Sir James Smith, in 1635. In 1699 the 

 learned and noble author of the Characteristics 

 purchased the estate, where he generally resided 

 •while Parliament sat ; here Xocke wrote part of 

 his Essay, and Addison some of his papers for the 

 Spectator. The earl quitted it in 1710 or 1711, 



for Italy, having sold it to Narcissus Luttrell, 

 whose name has recently, through the use of his 

 Diary by our great historian, become familiar to 

 the public. 



Faulkner, in his History of Chelsea, makes no 

 mention of Luttrell's residence here ; it is not 

 often he makes such an omission, and it is strange 

 he should not have been acquainted with the fact, 

 for in the extracts he prints from the Registers of 

 the parish are the following entries : 



Burials, 1727. "Narcissus, son of Narcissus Luttrell, 

 Esq." 

 1732. « Narcissus Luttrell, esq., July 6th." 

 1740. " Francis Luttrell, September 3rd." 



Luttrell's collection descended with Shaftesbury 

 House to Mr. Serjeant Wynne, on whose death 

 they came to his eldest son Edward Wynne, au- 

 thor of several legal tracts, who dying a bachelor 

 in 1785, the Rev. Luttrell Wynne, his brother, 

 became possessor, and two years after the house 

 was purchased by the parish of St. George, Han- 

 over Square, for their workhouse. Last summer 

 the authorities ordered its destruction, and Its site 

 is now covered by a larger building for their poor. 



Those who want a fuller history of this mansion 

 must refer to Faulkner's History of Chelsea, vol. i. 

 page 141, or to a much better description, from 

 the pen of Mr. Crofton Croker, in Fraser's Maga- 

 zine, February, 1845. He has illustrated his de- 

 scription with some capital sketches, now valuable 

 to the local collector, for I do not think others 

 exist. He doubts Locke's visiting here, however, 

 and I should like to have that point cleared up. 

 Perhaps as a note to Faulkner's History, and in 

 regard to Luttrell, this communication may be in- 

 serted. Ere, however, I conclude, let me insert 

 the following curious notice I copied from a 

 pocket-book of the time : 



" This is to give notice that on Wednesday next will 

 begin the sale of al sorts of household Goods and linen 

 belonging unto — Gibbons, at his house at Little Chelsey, 

 next doore to the Ld. Shaftesbury's, he giving over house- 

 keeping." 



H. G. Davis. 



Kjiightsbridge. 



Popular Amusements in 1683. — The subjoined 

 extract from a newspaper of the period may be 

 amusing, as showing what the amusements at 

 Newmarket were at that date, and how they were 

 intended to gratify all classes, from the king to 

 the clown : 



" New- Market, March lb. — This day was a Race be- 

 tween a horse of Mr. Browne's, called Have-at-all, and the 

 Sussex-Pad. Thej' rode 9 stone each, for 3001. a Horse, 

 and continued very equal a great while, till (at the turn- 

 ing of the L:inds) Have-at-all had the ill fortune to break 

 one of his hind Legs short in two ; which being thought 



