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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Skinner says of " to stall" — " Vox agro Lincol- 

 niensi usitatissima pro exsaturare." He derives 

 it from stall, "metaphora a jumento in stabulo 

 saturo ducta." See also Richardson in stall. Dr. 

 Evans, in his Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and 

 P?-overbs (London, 1848), explains "to stall" as 

 " to founder, to come to a stand, in dirt or mud ;" 

 citing as an example, "The roads were at one 

 time so bad in the park that a waggon was welly 

 stalled." This last sense is a further link in the 

 chain of derivative meanings : a horse which is 

 fatigued may come to a stand-still, and thus " to 

 stall" may acquire the last-mentioned significa- 

 tion. We have thus the four following steps for 

 the word stalled : — 1. Fed to satiety. 2. Surfeited. 

 3. Fatigued. 4. Brought to a stand-still. L. 



Family of Lord Chancellor Wriothesley (2"*^ S. 

 iv. 97.).- Old Use of the Term ''Brother:" 

 What was a " Suckling ? " — The will of the Earl 

 of Southampton (once Lord Chancellor Wrio- 

 thesley), recently published in the Trevelyan 

 Papers, confirms Dugdale's statement that his 

 wife's name was Jane, whom he left his widow 

 and principal executor. It also mentions his 

 daughter Elizabeth, then married to Thomas, 

 Lord FitzWalter, afterwards Earl of Sussex. He 

 left, besides, four other daughters, 2. Mary, and 

 3. Katharine, for whose marriages he had " bought 

 heires apparante ; " 4. Anne, for whose marriage 

 he had made covenant with Mr. Wallop ; and 5. 

 Mabell, " for whome I have yet entryd with no 

 man into covenaunte." Besides these remarkable 

 allusions to the old-world arrangements in matri- 

 monial matters, this will affords an example of the 

 term brother as employed by the parents of a 

 married couple. The Earl of Sussex's son having 

 married the Earl of Southampton's daughter, 

 the two fathers were thenceforth " brothers : " — 

 " to my good lord and brother th' erle of Sussex 

 a cupp of like value of tenne poundes." The 

 Earl of Southampton left only one son, " Henry, 

 Lord Wriothesley," his successor. He names his 

 sister Breton, his sister Pound, and his sister 

 Laurence ; and Anne, his wife's sister. But there 

 is one passage in this will that requires an ex- 

 planation, and which I transcribe literatim : 



" Item, I gyve to my Poticarie, and to every of the 

 sucklinges, tenne poundes a-peece, besydes my former 

 ligacyes." 



The editor has affixed to the word "sucklinges" 

 as a note the remark sic. But what was a suck- 

 ling ? and has the designation been met with else- 

 where ? ^ J. G. N. 



Darkness at Mid-Day (2°'^ S. iii. 366.) — A 

 total darkness at about noon which lasted for 

 hours occurred many yeai's back, but within the 

 recollection of people now living, in the city of 

 Amsterdam, the capital of Holland. As I have 

 often been told by trustworthy people, it took 



place in the summer, on a fine bright day ; the air 

 was calm, and there were no indications of fog. 

 The people in the streets, frightened at such an 

 unusual occurrence, hastened indoors, but the 

 darkness came on so suddenly that many of them 

 lost their lives through walking into the different 

 channels by which the city is divided. I never 

 heard of a similar occurrence in any other place 

 in Holland, nor any explanation as to the alleged 

 cause of it. J. H. 



J. C. Frommann^s " Tractatus de Fascinatione " 

 (2"'^ S. iv. 8.) — Not knowing exactly what in- 

 formation your correspondent R. C. (^Cork) is 

 desirous of possessing as to this author and his 

 singiilarly curious and highly interesting work, I 

 beg leave to acquaint him that two copies have 

 appeared lately for sale ; one in a Catalogue of 

 Mr. Kerslake, of Bristol, in vellum, at 30s., and 

 the other in that of Mr. Stevenson, of Edinburgh, 

 in calf, at 12s. It is understood to be rather a 

 scarce work in the book market. T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Anne a Male Name (2°'' S. iii. 508.; iv. 12. 39. 

 59. 78.) — The following paragraph, which is 

 copied from the Bristol Miri-or of July 25, 1857, 

 and which shows the word Ann in use as a sur- 

 name, may perhaps be inserted as a rider to the 

 many replies which have appeared in the pages of 

 " N. & Q." with reference to this subject : 



" The Tockington band, which has existed for seventy 

 years, held its seventieth anniversary on Monday last, at 

 the house of Mr. Mark Ann, at Alveston, when the ac- 

 counts were duly audited and passed." 



John Pavin Phillips. 

 Haverfordwest. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Death has this week removed from the world of letters 

 one who occupied no unimportant position, both in that 

 and in the political world — The Eight Hon. John Wil- 

 son Croker, who died at St. Alban's Bank, Hampton, 

 on Monday last, in the 77th year of his age. This dis- 

 tinguished gentleman was one of the earliest, as well as 

 most frequent and valued contributors to "N. & Q." In 

 our 6th Number (Dec. 8th, 1849,) he first appears as a 

 Querist, under the signature C, which he continued to 

 employ; and in "N. & Q." of the 1st of the present 

 month, is an inquiry from iiim respecting Pope and Gaj'. 

 Mk. Croker was indeed busied upon his forthcoming 

 edition of Pope's Works up to the very time of his death. 

 On Monday last, we had the pleasure of receiving from 

 him a private note, asking for some information con- 

 nected with that subject — before that day had closed, 

 he had ceased from his labours and was at rest. Our 

 readers will, we are sure, readily enter into the feelings 

 under which we announce Mr. Croker's death : and as 

 readily believe with what sincerity we record our admira- 

 tion for the talents, our regret for the loss, and our gra- 

 titude for the kindnesses of John Wilson Croker. 



The readers of "N. & Q." who share the interest we 

 take in the new project of the Philological Society, 



