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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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a hoose a stall, the word is uniformly pronounced 

 amongst us, somewhat broadly indeed, but with- 

 out the smallest indication of any design on the 

 part of the speaker, as far as I have heard, to de- 

 prive the terminal letters of the fullest sound of 

 which they are susceptible. 



Stall is the Icel. stallr ; Dan. staid; A.-S. steel, 

 steal, stal; Finn, talli, which with Germ, stelle, 

 locus, statio ; Sansc. stofa ; also Icel. s?(5?Z,- Germ. 

 stuJil; Dan. stol; M. G. stols, sella ; and Eng. stool, 

 may all be referred to Icel. a std, stare, erigi. 



But stow and stew I would connect with Icel. 

 stia, difficult or troublesome work ; Germ, stau- 

 chen, to toss, jolt, shake ; stauche, a tossing, jog- 

 ging ; Dan. stoi, noise, racket, confusion ; st'ode, to 

 push, offend, hurt : Dan. stode paa grund is to run 

 aground, to bring to a stand-still ; and at stode 

 umkidd is to throw down, to turn topsy-turvy. 



Stew, dust, is the Germ, staub, and Dan. stiiv ; 

 Germ, stauben is to dust, to raise dust, to drive out 

 or away, and stdubig is dusty. 



Stoor or stour may, without doubt, be imme- 

 diately referred to Icel. styrr, turba, bellum, con- 

 tentio ; with which compare Pers. stiz, pugna, 

 dissidise ; A.-S. styrian, movere, excitare, turbare, 

 and styrung, tumultus, seditio ; M. G. staurran, 

 movere ; Germ, storen, turbare, praepedire, in- 

 quietare, interpellare ; stdimng, perturbatio, impe- 

 dimentum, and storrig, morosus : Dan. forstyrre, 

 turbare, vastare ; and Eng. stir. 



It is almost needless to observe that by the Ice- 

 landic I mean the Donsk tiinga, Norraena, or Old 

 Norse language, to which, as the parent of the 

 various forms of speech prevalent amongst the 

 wide-spread Gothic race, the etymology of the 

 Anglo-Saxon portions of our own may, in most 

 cases, be ultimately referred. Wm. Matthews. 



In Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 

 to staul or stall is explained, " to fill to a loathing, 

 to surfeit ; " and the participle stand is interpreted 

 "cloyed, saturated, overloaded, fatigued. Pro- 

 perly stalled, surfeited." In Sternberg's North- 

 amptonshire Glossary, " to stall " is " to founder, 

 or become fixed, as a waggon in a boggy road." 



Wilbraham's Cheshire Glossary has the follow- 

 ing article, in which the etymology of the word is 

 mistaken: " To staw, to stay. A cart stopped in 

 a slough, so as not to be able to proceed, is said 

 to be stawed." In the Craven Glossary, staud or 

 slawd is explained by cloyed: it is added, that 

 " when a horse refuses to draw, we say, t' yaud's 

 staud" In Hunter's Hallamshire Glossary, stalled 

 is " surfeited, cloyed, disgusted:" and Mr. Hun- 

 ter quotes, in illustration of the word, the verses 

 of Shakspeare : 



" A barren-spirited fellow ; one that feeds 

 On abject arts and imitations, 

 Which out of use and stalled bj' other men 

 Begin his fashion." 



Julius Ccesar, Act IV. Sc. 1. 



But the word here is staled, not stidled ; and its 

 meaning is, " regarded as stale or common." L. 



NOTES ON REGIMENTS. 



(2"^ S. ii. iii. passim.) 



The following account of the battle of Bunker 

 Hill, the first severe struggle of the American 

 Revolution, in which the 35th Royal Sussex suf- 

 fered so severely, is taken from a pamphlet pub- 

 lished at Exeter in 1782, entitled The Case of 

 Edwai'd Drewe, late Major of the Thirty-Fifth 

 Regiment of Foot, and was written by Lieutenant 

 Simcoe, who as an officer in later years became 

 well known in the service. The date is June, 

 1775: 



" On the 17th of this month the first act of civil com- 

 motion commenced. The ship I was in was at sea, but at 

 a distance we heard the sound of cannon, and at midnight 

 saw two distinct columns of fire ascending. In this horrid 

 state, well knowing we were the last of the fleet, ignorant 

 whether Boston or some hostile town was in flames, 

 were we kept for two days. When we anchored we saw 

 Charlestown burnt to ashes, and found our army had been 

 engaged ; that our troops were victorious, but that the 

 victory was ruinous to our best soldiers, and particular!}' 

 so to our ofiicers, ninety-two of whom were killed and 

 wounded. The loss fell heavy on the flank companies of 

 our regiment. Drewe commanded the light infantry ; 

 exerting himself, at the head of that fine company, he re- 

 ceived three shots through him, one in the shoulder, 

 one in the beard of the thigh, the other through his 

 foot. He also received two contusions, and his shoulder 

 was dislocated. Massey is shot through the thigh, but 

 says it is as well to be merry as sad. Poor Bard was the 

 third officer of the company ; he was ;killed, speaking to 

 Drewe. His dying words were, 'I wish success to the 

 35th ; only say I behaved as became a soldier.' The ser- 

 geants and corporals of this heroic company were wounded, 

 when the eldest soldier led the remaining five in pursuit of 

 the routed rebels. The grenadiers equalled their brethren, 

 and, I fear, were as unfortunate. The brave and noble 

 spirited Captain Lyon is dangerously wounded, and to 

 aggravate the misfortune, his wife, now with child, a 

 most amiable woman, is attending on him. Both his 

 lieutenants were wounded. The loss we have sustained 

 in the most warm and desperate action America ever 

 knew, draws tears from every eye interested for brave 

 and unfortunate spirits. Had I time to enumerate to you 

 the many instances which the soldiers of our companies, 

 alone, afforded the most generous exertions of love, fidelity, 

 and veneration for their officers, and of the glowing, yet 

 temperate resolutions of these officers, your tears would 

 be those of triumph, and you would confess that in war 

 alone human nature is capable of the most godlike exer- 

 tions. I think you will believe me abstracted from 

 friendship, when I say that I never heard of more courage 

 and coolness than Drewe displayed on that day ; and his 

 spirits are even now superior to any thing you can con- 

 ceive. 



" State of the Light Company of the 35th. 



" Boston Gamp, June 30, 1775. 



" In the field June 17, 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 1 volun- 

 teer, 2 Serjeants, 1 corporal, 1 drummer, 30 privates — 

 total 38. 



"Killed — Lieutenant Bard, John Baxter, Alexander 



