Sept. 29. 1855.] 



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tries. Perhaps some of your readers can furnish 

 me with information. J. Whitakeb. 



PaU Mall. 



Husband and Wife eating off the same Plate. 

 — An Italian writer says of the age of Fre- 

 derick II., — 



" In those times the manners of the Italians were rude ; 

 a man and his wife ate off the same plate," &c. — 

 Hallam's Middle Ages, new edit., vol. iii. p. 342. 



Was not this custom known in Great Britain in 

 more recent times, and even in high life ? Wal- 

 pole, writing to Sir Horace Mann in 1752, says : 



" Duke Hamilton is the abstract of Scotch pride ; he 

 and the duchess, at their own house, walk in to dinner 

 before their company, sit together at the upper end of 

 their own table, eat off the same plate, and drink to nobody 

 beneath the rank of earl," &c. — Letters, 3rd edit., vol. iii. 

 p. 18. 



It is difficult to determine the degree of credit to 

 be given to Walpole's anecdotes. This, however, 

 is related as if at least he thought it, and meant 

 it to be taken as true. 



If so, the custom in question betokened con- 

 jugal affection, and not rudeness of manners. 



The same practice seems to be referred to in 

 the nursery rhymes (too familiar to be quoted 

 here), which recount the agreement in disagree- 

 ment of Jack Sprat and his wife. F. 



Gallows used on the Borders. — Can any anti- 

 quary inform me what was the construction of the 

 gallows in use on the Scottish borders for hang- 

 ing marauders, about the time of Mary? I have 

 sought in vain for information on the point. The 

 only hint is in Strutt's Horda, where he engraves 

 the ancient gallows. How long did that form 

 continue ? and was it in use in Scotland ? 



W. M. W. 



Greek Lexicon. — Which is the best Greek 

 Lexicon, either in Greek and English or Greek 

 and German ? Is a new one or a new edition ex- 

 pected ? W. W. H. 



Poetry hy an Artist. — Who is the author of 

 Poetry., Miscellaneous and Dramatic, by an Artist, 

 printed at Edinburgh, 8vo., 1797 ? R. J. 



Glasgow. 



Peter Fowke. — Can any of your readers inform 

 me whether or not Peter Fowke, Gent., who lived 

 in Lctadon 1700—1730, left any heirs, and who 

 are his present representatives ? Thomas Fowke. 



Walworth. 



Sauty, or Sawty Bannocks, much resembling pan- 

 cakes, but generally made of oatmeal, are largely 

 consumed in Scotland on Shrove-Tuesday, or 

 Fastern's-e'en. Query the etymology of the word 

 which gives its name to the bannock. B. B. 



No. 309.} 



'■^ Salcuthat :" Af'ahian Work on Magic Rings. — 

 In the Archeeologia, vol. xxi. p, 124., it is stated 

 at the foot of the page, that the Arabians have a 

 book called Salcidhat, expressly on the subject of 

 magic rings. 



Has this book ever been translated into any 

 other language ? or can the substance of it be 

 found in any other work ? Edmdnd Wabeeton. 



Walton Hall. 



Miner nineties isifb ^n^toerS. 



Authorship of Work on the Sacrament. — Can 

 any of the readers of " N. & Q." name the title 

 and author of a book on the Sacrament of the 

 Lord's Supper, containing the following proposi- 

 tions : 



1. That the bread and wine are the body and 

 blood of Christ in efficacy ; 



2. That it is a commemorative sacrifice ; 



3. That it is a covenanting rite, &c. ; 



and three other propositions of a kindred na- 

 ture ? I have a copy of the work, minus the 

 title-page. 



A note at the end shows that the author pub- 

 lished a sermon in 1735, entitled The Measure of 

 Christian Beneficence, &c., preached by him in the 

 Abbey Church, Bath. 



Any one who can answer the above, will have 

 my best thanks. J. D. 



Ormskirk. 



[This work is entitled " A True Account of the Nature, 

 End, and Efficacy of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ; 

 of the Great Duty of Frequenting, and of the Necessity 

 and Right Method of Preparing for the worthy Partici- 

 pation of it. In which is contained An Answer to a Book 

 entitled 'A Plain Account of this Sacrament' With a 

 Preface, shewing the Agreement of this * Plain Account' 

 with the Notions of the Socinians, and its Disagreement 

 with the Doctrine of the Church of England. By Thomas 

 Bowj'er, Vicar of Martock, Somersetshire. London, printed 

 for C. Eivington, at the Bible and Grown in St. Paul's 

 Churchyard, 1736."] 



Author of '■^ More the Merrier." — Who was 

 the author of The More the Merrier, by H. P., 

 1608 : a volume of epigrams quoted in Warton'a 

 History of English Poetry, ed. 1824, vol. iv. 

 p. 124. n. ? E. M. 



[Lowndes attributes Tlie More the Merrier to Henry 

 Parrot; but Warton (edit. 1840, vol. iii. p. 457.) has the 

 following query, " Is H. P. for Henry Peacham ? as one 

 of the epigrams (No. 51.) appears, with some little dif- 

 ference onlj', in Peacham's Minerva, fol. 61., edit. 4to." 

 Brj'dges {Censura Literaria, vol. iii. p. 337.) and Dr. Bliss 

 (^Microcosmography, p. 277.) both attribute it, however, to 

 Henry Parrot. 1 



Jougs : Kirk Session Records. — In the Appen- 

 dix to Glen's History of Dumbarton, among various 

 curious records, are the following : 



" 1620, Julie 9. — The quhilk day Agnes Garnir, bein 

 fund guiltie of sclandering her husband foolishlie, withoutt 



