Dec. 22. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



501 



^^ Nychars" or ^^Nickar" (Vol. xii., p. 10.). — 

 There are certain pools south and east of Arundel, 

 in Sussex, in the parishes of Leominster and Ang- 

 inering, that are called by the people thereabout, 

 '■^nuckar holes." They are very deep, and con- 

 sidered bottomless; because such strong springs 

 rise in them, that they never require to be, or at 

 east never have been, emptied and cleaned out. A 

 mystery evidently attaches to them amongst the 

 common people, who seem to have a vague notion 

 of their connexion with another bottomless pit, 

 and with the agency supposed to prevail there. 



Clergymen wearing Canonicals in Public 

 (Vol. xii., pp. 202. 291.). — I remember, as a boy, 

 seeing the Rev. Dr. Hillcoat, of Queen Square 

 Chapel, Bath, wearing his robes through the 

 streets on Sundays. The Rev. Dr. Routh, I have 

 heard, never by day laid aside his academicals. A 

 friend remembers a visit to Dr. Joseph Warton in 

 his parsonage ; that eminent Wykehamist was in 

 the full pomp of gown and cassock, and his wig 

 stood close by on its friendly block, ready for use. 

 A late Rector of Wheathill, as I learn from one of 

 your readers, remembered, seventy-eight years 

 since, the Rector of Whitechurch, Salop, walking 

 about the town in his canonicals. On Sundays I 

 have myself seen clergymen in their robes In the 

 streets of London ; and in the country It has not 

 been an uncommon practice to wear them upon 

 that day on tiie way to church. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Cutis Family (Vol. xii., p. 353.). — Permit me 

 to correct a mistake made by your correspondent 

 F. FiTZ Henry. The sermon preached by 

 Francis Atterbury (then only Chaplain In Or- 

 dinary to His Majesty), 1698, was on the death of 

 the second wife of Lord Cutts, Elizabeth, only 

 daughter of Sir Henry Pickering, second baronet 

 of Whaddon, co. Cambridge, by his first wife, 

 Philadelphia, daughter of Sir George Downing, 

 Bart. Lady Cutts died In 1697, aged eighteen, 

 without issue. The first Avife of Lord Cutts was a 

 sister of Sir George Treby ; the third a daughter of 



Clarke, widow of Will Morley, eldest son of 



Colonel Herbert Morley, of Glynde. 



There is another sermon preached on the same 

 occasion by John Provost, A.M., 1697. I fancy, 

 too, that F. FiTz Henry is also mistaken in other 

 instances. Sir John Cutts, created a baronet 

 1660, died unmarried in 1670 (and was only a 

 distant relative of Lord Cutts) ; he was son of Sir 

 John Cutts, Knt., by his second wife Anne, 

 daughter of Sir John Weld. Lord Cutts was the 

 son of John Cutts, of Woodhall In Essex. 



This may be very uninteresting to the general 



reader of " N. & Q.," but I imagine it is desirable 



that whatever is stated therein should be accurate. 



Jas. Pickering, Jon. 



No. 321.] 



Bwning of Sir I. NewtoiUs Papers (Vol. xi., 

 p. 161.). — Sir Isaac's equanimity on this occasion 

 has been a frequent subject of praise ; but if some 

 of his biographers may be trusted. Diamond's 

 frolics had the effect of unsettling his master's 

 intellects for a while — a result which shows that 

 his gentle reproof to the dog, did not express his 

 real feelings. Xiv. 



Equestrian Lord Mayors (Vol. xii., pp. 363. 

 459.). — If D. S. had read my note with any at- 

 tention, it would have saved him the trouble of 

 coming forward as the Lord Mayor's champion. 

 My note referred to the cessation of " the custom 

 for the Lord Mayor to ride on horseback in the 

 procession on Lord Mayor's Day ;" and I did not, 

 therefore, as D. S. alleges, do the civic potentates 

 " the great injustice" of asserting, that since the 

 days of Queen Anne, they have, from lack of 

 equestrian ability, been unable to display them- 

 selves daily to their civic subjects (as D. S. states 

 Lord Mayor Hunter to have done), " gracefully 

 disporting on a white horse;" or even the loss 

 noble " Jerusalem pony." But, I can readily 

 imagine that, if such daily displays of equestri- 

 anism were made a part and parcel of the Lord 

 Mayor's duties, they would prove a fund of enter- 

 tainment to his civic subjects, and would grate- 

 fully prolong the mirth that is at present confined 

 (usually) to the first day of the Lord INIayor's 

 reign. Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 



Moustache loorn by the Clergy (Vol. xii., 

 p. 315.). — There is a portrait of Archbishop 

 Leighton, with a moustache, in Pearson's edition 

 of his Works. J. Y. (2) 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Monday last was an eventful da\^ in the history of pub- 

 lishing, when the long-looked-for Vohimes III. and IV. 

 of Macaiilay's History of England from the Accession of 

 James //., were circulated throughout the length and 

 breadth of the land. By this time they will have re- 

 ceived judgment from hundreds of non-professional critics ; 

 and Ave venture to assert that such judgment will be that 

 they are in every respect equal, in many respects superior, 

 to their predecessors. That, like them, they exhibit 

 evident traces of the personal opinions of the writer, is no 

 more than is to be expected, for they are the work of flesh 

 and blood ; but with those marked characteristics of Mr. 

 Macaulay's thoughts and feelings, they exhibit also fresh 

 evidence of his unwearied search after the truth, and V^ 

 striking proofs that practice can add a yet higher polish 

 even to his brilliant style. William III. is in these vo- 

 lumes again the object of the author's hero-worship; 

 Mary has some portion of his admiration, but few others 

 share it with the royal pair. The public men of the day are, 

 with the exception of Somers and Halifax, the subject of 

 his severest comments; and we are free to admit in most 

 cases deservedly, for thej' never seem to have dreamed of 

 the existence of such a thing as political morality, still 



