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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 96., Oct. 31. '57. 



selling lottery-tickets, presumed to have been 

 received by him and some of his colleagues as 

 ministerial wages to influence their decisions in 

 the trials about Wilkes and Junius. 



What truth there is in this tale I have not yet 

 investigated ; for, pursuing my inquiries chrono- 

 logically, and my new volumes terminating with 

 the Restoration in 1660, Sir Richard Aston's life 

 is yet a century distant. 



This must be my excuse for giving Magdalen- 

 sis OxoN. so scanty an answer to his inquiry, and 

 my reason for requesting him to supply me with 

 any farther facts within his knowledge. 



Edward Foss. 



Street-End House, near Canterbury. 



Sandlins and Sandeels (2°'^ S. iv. 249.) — It 

 may be worth while to add to your correspondent 

 K.'s communication on this subject that " sand- 

 lins " and " sandeels " are essentially different in 

 the nomenclature and understanding of this part 

 of the country. The sandlin is a sole-like fish, but 

 in shape rounder and more like a plaice. It is 

 caught at sea during this season of the year, and 

 is occasionally found as large as a good-sized sole. 

 Sandeels are, with us, seldom more than four or 

 five inches in length. They vary in thickness 

 from the size of a straw to that of a man's finger. 

 The amusement of catching them on wet sands is 

 well described in the extract from a newspaper 

 given by your correspondent. Neither of them 

 has any similarity to whitebait. M. G. 



Cromer. 



Elizabeth Vauce (i''^ S. W. 329.)— The lady 

 represented in the picture described by your cor- 

 respondent A. B. C. was probably Elizabeth, second 

 daughter of William, third Lord Vaux of Harrow- 

 den, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John 

 Beaumont of Grace-Dieu in Leicestershire. Eliza- 

 beth, the daughter, is described by Dugdale as " a 

 nun at Roan in Normandy." Your correspondent 

 will find farther particulars of her pedigree and 

 connexions in the place whence I have derived 

 this information, viz. in Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 

 305. D. E. F. 



" Rotten Row;' Hyde Park (1" S. i. 441 ; il. 

 233. ; v. 40. 160.) — The following etymologies of 

 this name have been suggested in the pages of 

 "N. &Q." (1.) "Routine Row," from proces- 

 sions of the church passing in that direction. (2.) 

 From its passing by buildings that were old, or 

 "rotten." (3.) From the Latin word "Rota." 

 (4.) From the woollen stuff called rateen. (5.) 

 From rotteran, " to muster " — rother, rots. I am 

 not able to refer to the Handbooks of Messrs. 

 Cunningham and Timbs ; and Weale's Handbook 

 does not suggest any derivation for the word. I 

 had imagined that Rotten Row was so termed 

 simply because its gravel is always kept rotten or 



loose, so that horses are able to gallop over it 

 without the least danger of falling. However, in 

 some extracts from Souvenirs of Travel, by 

 Madame Octavia Walton le Vert, in The Critic 

 for October 15, the American lady supplies us 

 with the following definition of the word : 



"Rotten Row (from the French 'Route du Roi') is 

 reserved for those on horseback. The Queen's carriage is 

 alone permitted in this exclusive place." 



COTHBERT BeDE. 



Purchase (2"'i S. iv. 125.) — In the late case of 

 Philpot V. St. George's Hospital, the Lord Chan- 

 cellor said, 



" We had an ingenious, and I dare say a correct, defi- 

 nition of the word ' purchase ' given to us. It was said 

 that ' purchase ' may mean anything that a person may 

 be able, ' pourchasser,' to gain or pursue." — Law Times, 

 Sept. 26, 1857, p. 16. 



And in Boyer's French Dictionary I see pour- 

 chasser, to seek after, pursue, and pourchas, pur- 

 chase, given as obsolete words. This may help to 

 answer your correspondent's Query. 



C. S. Greaves. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO rUKCHASE. 



Lord Hbbvev's Memoirs op Georue the Second. Edited by Croker. 

 8vo. 1848. Volume the Second. 



Swift's Letters. 8vo. 1741. 



Wycberlet's Posthumous Works. 1729. V©1. II. containing the Let- 

 ters. 



Mrs. Manlby's Last Will and Testament. 8vo. 1724. 



**• Letters, statint; particulars and lowest price, carriwje free, to 1)0 

 sent to Messrs. Bell & Daldy, Pubi&hers of "NOTES AND 

 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



Particulars of Price, &c., of the following Books to be sent direct to 

 the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and ad - 

 dresses are given for that purpose : 



Centlivre's Works (Portrait). 3 Vols. 

 Taylor's Transmission or Ancient Books. 

 Ford's Works. By Gilford. 2 Vols. 



Wanted by C. J. Sheet, 10. King William Street, Strand. 



Hymns to the Supreme Being, in Imitation op the Eastern Sonos. 

 By Edward King. London. , Printed by Beusley for J. White. 1 808. 



Wanted by Mr. Sruce,6. Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square. 



Old Books. — Wehave been requested bij several of our Headers to repub- 

 lish, with such additions and corrections as we may receive, the List of 

 London and Country Booksellers who deal in Second Hand old Books. 

 The utility of such a list to all collectors and students is obvious. We 

 therefore readily adopt the suggestion ; and that we may do so effec- 

 tually, invite all sitch booksellers to furnish us with their precise ad- 

 dresses, and to specify whether or not they issue Catalogues. We shall 

 also feel indebted to any of our Readers in remote parts of the country 

 who will send us lists of such as sell old books, resident in their immediate 

 neighbourhood. 



fiatitti ta €antg^an\i(nti. 



We are this week compelled to omit not onli/ our usual Notes on Books, 

 but many papers of great interest which are m type. 



"History op thk Civil Wars." In our last number, v. 33\ ., we sug- 

 gested that tills work might possibly have formed a port ion of the MSS. 

 left by Sir Franjis Ottley, but we have since discovered that it is a re- 

 print of De Foe's Memoirs of a Cavalier {Co/. Andrew Ifewport), 1722, 

 witli a new title page. 



