2nd s. N" 42., Oct. 18. '56.] 



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cultivation for the purpose may be of more recent 

 date, at which time a foreign name may have su- 



Eerseded its vernacular one. In Swedish and 

 )anish it is still called humle. Kilian has Hom- 

 mel. vet. fland. i hoppe, lupus salictarius. Hoppe, 

 he derives " ab Tioppen quod saliat, sive ascendat 

 arbores," but whence humulus and lupulus ? 



I am inclined to tliink that the plant in earlier 

 times bore a different English name, from the fiict 

 that in South Burllngham, Norfolk, is a field 

 called " Humbletoft Six Acres." Also a hundred 

 in Norfolk, is called " Humbleyard," and is said 

 to take its name from a wood in the parish of 

 Swardestone, where the hundred court was for- 

 merly held, called Humbleyard Wood. These 

 names in Danish would mean hop-toft and hop- 

 garden respectively. It is not a little singular 

 that about twenty years ago an unsuccessful at- 

 tempt to reintroduce into Norfolk the cultivation 

 of hops was made in Humbleyard hundred. 



E. G. R. 



I think L. B. L. is wrong when he concludes 



that " hope tymbre " refers to hop poles. More 



probably it refers to the underwood which had 



attained sufficient size for making hoops. 



G. W. J. 



Peter Newby (2°^ S. ii. 289.) — Mr. Newby, 

 about whom R. J. inquires, long resided at 

 Preston (Lancashire), where he for a short time 

 carried on, without success, the business of a 

 printer. He was a native of Kendal, was edu- 

 cated at Douay for the Roman Catholic priest- 

 hood, but was never ordained. He was next 

 steward on board an African trader, but on his 

 return to England he was for some time a school- 

 master, then a printer. He was an eccentric 

 character. He died at Preston in December, 

 1827, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. 

 The following epitaph, which he wrote for him- 

 self, humorously tells of his chequered career. 



*' Here lies Peter Newby, a stranger to fame, 

 Obscure was his life, less known was his name. 

 A sailor, a farmer, a poet, a teacher, — 

 His friends would gladly have made him a preacher ; 

 Foreseeing the burden, he fled from the snare, 

 Convinced of himself 'twas enough to take care. 

 He thro' the rough ocean of life steer'd his course, 

 In hopes to be better, but mostly was worse. 

 But his troubles are o'er, he's laid in the dust, 

 And at the last day, may he rise with the just ! " 



Wm. Dobson. 

 Praston. 



Rings End,pahUn (2"'i S. il. 149.) —The ex- 

 planation of this apparent bull, ring's end, is very 

 simple. _ Previous to the formation of that portion 

 of Dublin which is now called " Sir John Roger- 

 son's Quay," there were great piles of wood driven 

 into the sand, and to each of these piles were at- 

 tached large iron rings, for the convenience of the 

 shipping moored there. The outermost of those 



piles having a ring was called ring's end, that is, 

 the end, or last of the rings ; and hence the name 

 given to the place at the end of Sir John Roger- 

 son's Quay. Sir John Rogerson, the maker of 

 the quay, was at one time Lord Mayor of Dublin, 

 and my information as to the derivation of the 

 name Ritig's End was received from old Jemmy 

 Walsh, a Dublin pilot, who remembered seeing 

 the ships moored, and their ropes run through the 

 rings of the wooden piles on the river. 



I am in a position to give information as to the 

 origin of the names of other places in Dublin, as, 

 for instance, the "Ouzel Galley," the "Pigeon 

 House," &c., should any readers of " N. & Q." take 

 an interest in our local antiquities. P. B. 



Dawson Street, Dublin. 



" To cry mapsticks " (2°^ S. il. 269.) — Map is 

 synonymous with mop. In Tempest's Cryes of 

 the City of London, Draion after the Life, fob, 

 1711, is depicted a damsel with a bundle of com- 

 mon domestic mops, sticks and all, on her head, 

 with her cry in English, French, and Italian : 



" Maids, buy a mapp ! 

 Achetez de mes mappes ! 

 Mappi per lauar' terrazzi ! " 



" Neverout's " meaning, I think, is, better cry 

 mopsticks than incur the fate of Mumchance, at 

 the commencement of the quotation. 



E. S. Taylok. 



Dodsleys " Collection of Poems" (2""^ S. i. 151. 

 237.; ii. 274.)— I possess the edition of 1758; 

 with it I purchased an additional volume entitled : 



" A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry 

 that have appeared for several Years, with Variety of 

 Originals, by the late Moses Mendez, Esq., and other 

 Contributors to Dodsley's Collection. To which this is 

 intended as a Supplement. London : printed for 

 Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange, 



MDCCLXVU." 



The title-page has a very pretty vignette, de- 

 signed by H. Gravelot, and engraved by Isaac 

 Taylor. It represents Apollo, very gracefully 

 drawn, playing his lute by a stone, on which is 

 sculptured a medallion portrait, of whom I know 

 not. In the distance are two sages, evidently ad- 

 miring Apollo's strains. 



The volume contains Collins' Oriental Eclogues, 

 Ode to Fear and the Passions ; Goldsmith's Ed- 

 win and Angelina ; and upwards of eighty pieces 

 by Lloyd, Mallet, Whitehead, Garrick, Bonnel 

 Thornton, Glover, Woty, Johnson, Akenside, 

 Moore, Langhorne, Mason, Cunningham, and 

 many others. 



My copy contains, in the fly-leaves, two MS. 

 poems ; written in the neatest of law-hands of 

 about that date. One is called " Tlie Quaker's 

 Meeting," by Mr. John Ellis ; the other is "Epistle 

 from M. Mendez, Esq., to Mr. J. Ellis." It con- 

 tains eightj stanzas in praise of the well-known 



