2nd s. N» 48., Nov. 29, '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



439 



Celtic Element in the English Language (2°'^ S. 

 ii. 308.) — Perhaps the following works may as- 

 sist Mr. Eden Warwick : 



"The Way to Things by Words, and to Words by 

 Things ; being a Sketch of an Attempt at the Retrieval 

 of the Antient Celtic, by John Cleland. 8vo. 1766." 



" Specimen of an Ktimological Vocabulary, or Essay, 

 by means of the Anahtic Method, to retrieve the Antient 

 Celtic, by John Cleland. 8vo. 1768." 



" Mona Antiqua Restaurata, an Archaeological Dis- 

 course on the Antiquities, natural and historical, of the 

 Isle of Anglesey, the ancient Seat of the British Druids ; 

 to which is added, a Comparative Table of Primitive 

 Words, &c. &c., by H. Eowland. Second Edition en- 

 larged by Dr. Owen. 4to. 1766." 



" Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions, and Lan- 

 guage of the Ancient Britons; with some introductory 

 Sketches on Primitive Society, by E. Davies. Royal 8vo. 

 1804." 



" Memoirs of the Celts (containing Specimens of Celtic 

 Dialects, and a Bibliotheca Celtica), by Joseph Ritson. 

 8vo. 1827." 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



John Knox's Prophecy (2"'^ S. i. 270.) — His 

 prayer or prophecy here mentioned was not ful- 

 filled. Henry IV. of France was succeeded by 

 his son Louis XHI. ; and that monarch by his son 

 Louis XIV. Henry T. Rilet. 



Almshouses recently founded (2"^ S. ii. 189.300.) 

 — At Lamesley, in the county of Durham, by 

 IMaria Susannah Lady Ravenswortb, mother of 

 the present peer. E. H. A. 



Gascoigne Almshouses for four old men and 

 four old women, Aberford, Yorkshire. Founded 

 1842. C. P. E. 



Baces on Foot hy Naked Men (2"'^ S. ii. 329.) — 

 A Query made in " N. & Q." is worth answering, 

 even although its use does not appear to the an- 

 swerer. 



In August, 1855, on the second day of Ayr 

 Races, there were two foot matches run by men 

 naked all but a narrow slip of cloth round their 

 loins. In the first race six ran for a prize of 50Z., 

 the distance ten miles, eight times round the race- 

 course. In the second race the prize was 10^., 

 and the distance half a mile. The appearance of 

 the men did not appear to excite either surprise or 

 dislike among those present ; but strong disappro- 

 bation was expressed by the journals not of the 

 immediate neighbourhood. The races were not 

 repeated at the meeting of this year. A. M. 



Greenock. 



Continuation of Don Juan (2"^* S. ii. 229.)— Five 

 Cantos of a poem, with the above title, were pub- 

 lished by Paget & Co., Bury Street, St. James's. 

 No date nor author's name is attached ; but the 

 date I should guess to be about 1842, and the 

 author Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds. 



P. J. F. Gantilloh. 



''Receipt'' or "■Recipe'' (1" S. viii. 583.) — 

 W. E. asks whether receipt for recipe is to be ad- 

 mitted into the English language. 



I think it will be difficult to oust it from the 

 place which it has occupied for upwards of two 

 centuries ; especially when, unless I am mistaken, 

 recipe is of comparatively modern introduction. 



Shakspeare writes in All's Well that Ends Well., 

 ActIL Sc. 1.: 



" . . . . Oa's bed of death 



Many receipts he gave me. . ." 



And again in First Part of Henry IV., Act II. 

 Sc. 1. : 



" We steal as in a castle, cocksure : we have the receipt 

 of fern seed, we walk invisible." 



Nor was the use of the word confined to Shak- 

 speare's time. In Hudibras, canto iii. line 11., we 

 have, — 



"Some with a med'cine, and receipt. 

 Are drawn to nibble at the bait." 



And in Pope's Essay on Criticism, pt. i. line 114. : 



" Some drily plain, without invention's aid, 

 Write dull receipts how poems may be made." 



Doubtless recipe was, some time or other, the 

 usual commencement of a physician's prescription, 

 and was the more correct term for the physician 

 to use; but surely the patient might correctly 

 enough call it a receptum. 



Perhaps W. E. can produce an early instance of 

 the use of the word recipe. Erica. 



Warwick. 



The last Gibbet erected in England (2"'* S. ii. 

 216. 296.) — The last gibbet erected in England 

 was for George Cook, aged twenty-two, the mur- 

 derer of Mr. Paas, at Leicester ; the body was 

 put on a gibbet thirty-three feet high, on Satur- 

 day, August 11, 1832, in Saffron Lane, near the 

 Aylestone toll-gate, but was shortly afterwards 

 taken down by an order from the Under-Secre- 

 tary of State. Edward Brookshaw. 

 Pimlico. 



" Wong" (2"^ S. i. 47. ; ii. 79. 237.) — Thoroton 

 (Notts, Thoresby edition, ii. 230., under " Ma- 

 perley ") mentions certain closes under the name 

 of ivong, i. e. Basfordioong and Cornerwong. Also, 

 at p. 20. of vol. iii., Thoroton tells us that Raph 

 de Crumwell, 27 E. I., " held a wong (culturam) 

 containing fifteen acres in Birton by the service 

 of one penny per annum." J. Sansom. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



It is no small relief to the reviewer, when called upon 

 to notice four goodly octavo volumes, containing between 

 three and four thousand pages, to find on the title the an- 

 nouncement that it is " the Tenth Edition, revised, cor- 



