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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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have in vain searched Humboldt and writers from 

 wliom I thought it likely to gain the information, 

 and therefore apply to you. T. R. K. 



Jews in Great Britain and Ireland. — Is there 

 any means of obtaining information as to the 

 number and distribution of the Jews in Great 

 Britain and Ireland according to the last census? 



H.J. 



Sheffield. 



Mynchys. — In the volume published by the 

 Camden Society of Letters relating to the Suppres- 

 sion of Monasteries, edited by Mr. Wright, in 

 letter 111., from Dr. London, concerning Godstow, 

 is the following passage : • 



"Many of the iinTichys (?) be also agyd, and as I 

 perceyve few of the others have any fryncles, wherfor I 

 besek your Lordeschipp to be gudd Lord unto them." 



In regard to the word with letter of interroga- 

 tion, it is to be found in Cole's English Dictionary, 

 published 1724: "Minchius(O.MonachaB),nuns;" 

 the O. showing it to be an old word. C. de D. 



Zouche. — John Lowth, archdeacon of Notting- 

 ham, writing in 1579, respecting Mr.GeorgeZouche, 

 of Codnor, remarks that, " as he was named, so was 

 he a zouche, a swheete welfavored gentylman in 

 dede." Where shall I find any confirmation of 

 the sense here apparently given ? I have some- 

 where found the word explained : " Zouch, the 

 stock of a tree," which agrees with the explana- 

 tion in Florio's Italian Dictionary of ^* Zdcco, a 

 log, a block, a stocke, a stump." In the same 

 book I find " Zucca, any kind of gourd or pom- 

 pion," and, " Zugo, a gull or ninny ; also a dar- 

 ling, a wanton, a minion." The last seems most 

 like the sense conceived by Lowth, unless he was 

 thinking of the sweetness of some word relative to 

 sugar, which occurs in Florio, as " Zucchcro, any 

 kind of sugar." (Queen Anna's New Wofld of 

 Words, 1611.) J. G. Nichols. 



Knightshridge Registers. — Mr. Cunningham, in 

 his Handbook of London, states there are regis- 

 ters belonging to Trinity Chapel, Knightshridge, 

 still existing. Mr. Sims, in his Manual, says there 

 are not any. Which is correct ? Some few years 

 ago I fruitlessly inquired after them. I wish 

 particularly to know if any exist, other than the 

 allegations in the Bishop's Register ? My inquiry 

 especially relates to baptisms and burials. If 

 there are any, where are they ? At any of the 

 parish churches, or at the Abbey (Lysons quotes 

 deeds relating to the chapel at the Abbey), or at 

 Somerset House ? Charles Gosden. 



19. Hanover Street, Islington. 



Edmund Curll and his great Relation. — In 

 Curll's History of the Stage, 8vo., 1741, compiled, 

 I suppose, from the memoranda of Betterton, 

 whose name is on the title-page, but who cer- 



tainly was not its author, mention is made of the 

 " fatality which happens to the shedders of blood," 

 and, among other instances given of this, is the 

 following : — 



« The last instance I shall produce is in the case of 

 the late Lord Chief Justice Pine of Ireland, who, when he 

 was a student of Lincoln's Inn, in these walks killed the 

 eldest son of one of the j^«es( gentlemen in England. I beg 

 to be excused naming him because he was iny near re- 

 lation," &c., &c. 



Surely this is " Vox et preeterea nihil." Curll's 

 origin, as may be learned from your own columns, 

 was as obscure as he himself was infamous. 



I should add, that my extract is from the con- 

 cluding part of the work entitled "Memoirs of 

 Mrs. Anne Oldfield," p. 52. 



Any explanation of the allusion would particu- 

 larly oblige H. S. G. 



Serjeant- Surgeon to Her Majesty. — A few days 

 since the London Gazette announced the appoint- 

 ment of Benjamin Travers, Esq., to the office of 

 Serjeant-^UTgQon, vice Rob. Keate, Esq., deceased. 

 Can you or any of your readers inform me of the 

 meaning of the term Serjeant in this case, and in 

 what its duties differ from surgeon in ordinai^y or 

 extraordinary, and what is the antiquity of the 

 office ? F. S. 



Lambache (2"'^ S. iv. 322.) — In the extract 

 from Pap with a Hatchet is the following ; — " For 

 this tenne yeres have I lookt to lambache him : " 

 and again in the quotation from Harvey's Four 

 Letters, " whereof he was none of the meanest 

 that bravely threatened to conjure up one which 

 should massacre Martin's wit, or should be lam- 

 bached himself with ten years' provision." What 

 is the meaning of lambache in these sentences ? 

 and would the interpretation, if known, help to 

 elucidate Shakspeare's expression, "I would 

 land damn him ? " Ihquiheb. 



[To Lambach, or Lambeake, is to beat soundly, to basti- 

 nade ; as in the following examples : 



"While the men are faine to beare off with eares, head, 

 and shoulders. Happy may they call that dale whereon 

 they are not lamheaked before night." — Discov. of New 

 World, p. 115. 

 " First, with this hand wound thus about here haire, 

 And with this dagger lastilie lambackt, 

 I would, y-faith." 



Death of Rob. Earl of Hunt, sign. K. 1. 

 " To Land-damn," used by Shakspeare, has occasioned 

 some controversy. Nares prefers Dr. Johnson's interpre- 

 tation : " I will damn or condemn him to quit the land."] 



John Keats. — Dr. Herrig of Brunswick, in his 

 Handbuch der National-Literatur, states that Keats, 

 when young, translated the JEneid of Virgil. Is 

 this true ? and, if so, what is known about the 

 translation ? and does it exist ? Dr. Herrig does 



