Nov. 3. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Southey. On one occasion, I told him that I had 

 heard a servant, in the house where I lodfjed, 

 speaking of a child who was cryinfj, say, " The 

 baby's a-twining;" and I asked him whether 

 "twining" was a Westmoreland word, expressive 

 of the cry of an infant. He laughed, and replied : 

 " The girl was only speaking more correct English 

 than you and I do. What she said was, ' The 

 baby's at whining:* and whenever you use the 

 particle a before a participle, you are uncon- 

 sciously corrupting the word af, in the sense of 

 occupied in, or something of that sort." Stylites. 



P.S. You will see that I adopt the mode of 

 reference to your pages suggested by M. (xii. 

 122.) * 



Door Inscriptions (Vol. xii., p. 302.). — Dr. 

 Stukeley set up over his door at Kentish Town : 



" Me dulcis saturet quies ; 

 Obscuro positus loco 

 Leni perfruar otic 

 Chj'ndonax Druida." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



« The Lord of Burleigh " (Vol. xii., p. 280.). — 

 I am glad Cuthbert Bede has ventured to im- 

 pugn the accuracy of Hazlitt in Lis mjthical nar- 

 rative of The Lord of Burleigh. In one or two 

 particulars I propose, on the authority of a great- 

 aunt of mine, who intimately knew Mr. and Mrs. 

 Jones, both before and after their marriage, to 

 correct some errors into which either Hazlitt or 

 your correspondent has fallen. 



When the earl passed under the name of Jones 

 he was only plain Mr. Cecil ; his uncle was alive, 

 and residing at Burleigh House. It was for debt 

 (not with the view of picking up a virtuous wife) 

 that he assumed his incognito. He lodged at 

 Farmer Hoggins' homestead, which was not at 

 Hodnet, but on Bolas Common, about one mile 

 from Meeson, and about three miles from New- 

 port. He was not above making himself gene- 

 rally useful. On one occasion, at Mr. Hoggins' 

 request, Mr. Jones shouldered an enormous pig, 

 and carried it to Aquelote Hall (Sir Thomas 

 Bowey's), as a present for the old squire. 



After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Jones lived in a 

 house at Bolas, built by him expres. Some years 

 afterwards the earl discovered his nephew's re- 

 treat, paid off his debts, and invited Mr. and Mrs. 

 Cecil to live with him at Burleigh House, which 

 invitation was gratefully accepted. It is quite 

 true that during those years Mrs. Cecil did not 

 know of her husband's rank or real name. How- 

 ever, I believe the "fading" business is all a 

 piyth. C. Mansfield iNGLEBr. 



Birmingham. 



[* One so obviously good, that we shall ourselves adopt 

 it in our new Volume. — Ed. " N. & Q."] 

 No. 314.1 



The Folios of Shahspeare (Vol. xii., p. 265 ). — 

 Dr. Johnson was in error, in saying that from 

 1623 to 1664 the world had only two editions of 

 the plays of Shakspeare. Mr. Halliwell (Shahs' 

 peariana, p. 43.) falls into the same error, when 

 he gives the following short notice of the third 

 folio : 



« 3 fol. London, Printed for P. C, 1G64. 



Contains seven additional plays." 



The fact is, that a considerable portion of the 

 third folio had appeared before 1664, and this 

 portion, dated 1663, did not contain the seven 

 additional plays. C. Manseield Inglebv. 



Birmingham. 



Roman Britain (Vol. xi., p. 443.). — Has V. A. 

 X., during his researches, found any account, and 

 seen any drawings, of Roman antiquities supposed 

 to have existed at Gorleston in Suffolk ? C. J. P. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We have so many books waiting for notice, that we 

 must dismiss them with very few words. 



The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. A new edition. 

 In Six Volumes. Vol. II. The Second Volume of this 

 beautifully got up edition of Bj-ron contains his "Ode to 

 Napoleon," " Hebrew Melodies," " Prophecy of Dante," 

 " Vision of Judgment," " Age of Bronze," and man}' other 

 smaller poems; besides the "Domestic Pieces" (1816)> 

 and the "Occasional Pieces" (1807-1824). 



Hullam's Constitutional History of England. Eighth 

 edition. Vols. II. and III. We have here the comple- 

 tion of this admirable history of our constitution, in a 

 form which must render yet more widely known this 

 masterpiece of our philosophical historian. 



A Memoir of the Life and Death of Sir John King, 

 Knt., written by his Father in 1677 ; and now first printed 

 with Illustrative Notes. A handsomely printed, and care- 

 fully edited, little volume. The original MS. of which 

 was recently found behind an engraved portrait of Sir 

 John King, in St. Helier. 



Koctes Ambrosianw, by Professor Wilson. Vol. II. If 

 we wanted any justification for the regret we expressed 

 in our notice of the first volume of the Nodes, that the 

 work had not appeared under the editorship of the Pro- 

 fessor himself, " whose natural kindliness of heart would 

 have led him to temper, with many a kind note, the 

 severity of many a hard criticism " — we might point out 

 the note at p. 364., where, on a passage in Avhich Macau- 

 lay is bitterly abused for criticisms on Southey, we are 

 told that the last public act of Professor Wilson's life, 

 " performed too at a time when his feeble health made 

 such an act a sore tax upon his strength — was to record 

 his vote in favour of the eloquent historian in 1852, when 

 he was returned to Parliament as Member for the city of 

 Edinburgh." Who can doubt, that if Wilson had edited 

 this reprint, he would have avowed his altered estimate 

 of the man whom he had so fiercely denounced? 



Pictures from Cuba, by William Hurlbut. This graphic 

 picture of this " Cockaigne " of tropical Spanish America, 

 which forms the new Part of Longman's Traveller's Li' 

 hrary, is just now as well timed as it is interesting. 



