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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Noody's [qu. news is] cominp: to town. 



A halfpenny loaf to feed old Pope, 



And a penn'orth of cheese to choke him ; 



A pint of beer to drink his health, 



And a twopenny faggot to burn [qu. smoke] him ! 



Burn his body from his head, 



And then we'll say, ' Old Pope is dead.' 



Holla, boys, holla, make your voice rin^! 



Holla, boys, holla, God save the King! 



Hip, hip, hoor-r-r-ray ! " 



J. C.R. 



Mr. Denis Daly's Library. — I possess a copy 

 (with the prices and the purchasers' names) of tlie 

 Catalogue of the Library of the late Right Hon. 

 Denis Daly. The books were sold in Dublin in 

 the year 1792 ; and as book-collectors very rarely 

 make money by their purchases, the following 

 particulars, which are appended to my copy, may 

 not prove uninteresting at the present day, when 

 we hear of high prices for literary treasures. 



The gross amount received by the sale of Mr. 

 Daly's books was 3760^. 19s. l|t?. ; the original 

 cost to Mr. Daly was 2300Z. ; and the expenses of 

 the sale amounted to 264Z. 85. 1\d. Conse- 

 quently there was a clear profit of no less than 

 119GZ. IO5. Qd.\ I do not think that this could 

 easily be paralleled. Abuba. 



A Highlander's Drill by chalking his left Foot. — 



" 1 shall never forget," says Strang in his Glasgow and 

 its Clubs, " the fun which during my boyhood my com- 

 panions and myself had in witnessing the daily drilling 

 of the new-caught Highlanders, in the low Green, or the 

 "pity we felt for the cruel usage of the poor fellows by the 

 cane-wielding sergeants or corporals wRo were putting 

 them through their facings. No doubt some of them 

 were stupid enough, and what was worse, it was their 

 misfortune to comprehend but indifferentlj' the English 

 word of command, so much so that it was found abso- 

 lutely necessary to chalk their left feet, and instead of 

 crj'ing out when marching, left, right, the common call 

 was caukit foot foremost." 



This anecdote reminds me of the manner 

 which long since was adopted by the sergeants of 

 another race, when drilling their raw recruits : 

 it being done by tying straw to the right, and hay 

 to the left foot, and then giving the word of com- 

 mand by straw foot, — hay foot, as the movement 

 of their men might require. W. W. 



Malta. 



Men eminently Peaceful. — 



" Peace is my dear delight I not Fleury's more." 



Pope's Imitations of Horace. Satires, book 11. 

 sat. i. line 75. 



The Cardinal was accounted the most pacific 

 man of the 18th century, and the 19th century is 

 i glorified by the antibelligerent virtues of the phi- 

 lanthropic John Bright, M.P. Still both these 

 must yield the palm to a worthy native of Wales, 

 who, in the I7th century, gave himself up as a 

 martyr rather than lead a life of constant hosti- 

 lity with, it is true, a formidable enemy. The 



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following epitaph well describes the nature of the 

 conflict, with the result : — 



Inscription on the Monument of Robert Lewes (ivho died 

 December 5, 1649) in the Church at Richmond, Surrey. 



" Robert Lewes, 



De quo. 



Cum sexagesimum sextum aetatis attigisset annum, 



(sed nondum senectutem,) 



Mortem inter vitamque orta contentione, 



Studiosissimus hie pacis amator, 



Ne lis ageretur, 



Egit animam." 



.*. 



Skymmington. — Butler's Skymmington was a 

 genuine picture. The following occurs in Read's 

 Weekly Journal, April 16, 1737 : — 



" On Monday a certain person at Charing Cross, be- 

 tween seventy and eighty years of age, was married to a 

 girl in that neighbourhood of eighteen, which occasioned 

 a grand Iludibrastic Skymmington, composed of the 

 chair-men and others of that class, to the great disturb- 

 ance of the new married coufde, and their friends and 

 relations, who were all assembled together on so joyful! 

 an occasion. And they not being content with a Proces- 

 sion on foot, afterwards rode horseback ; but an unlucky 

 person putting a Nettle under the tail of the Horse 

 threw the Riders, and put an end to the Cavalcade, to 

 the great joy of the Bride and Bridegroom." . 



Z. G. 



" Midtum in parvo.'' — Soon after I came to 

 reside on my living in Nottinghamshire, I was 

 amused at hearing an old man use a word which 

 struck me as a capital instance of abbreviation. 

 Two boys had done some small damage in his 

 garden. On being accused of it by him, both 

 stoutly denied having done it. "Well," said the 

 old man, " I am sure that ' f on 'er' of you did it." 

 Is this abbreviation, for " the one or the other," 

 in use elsewhere ? I never heard it on any other 

 occasion. A Country Parson. 



A Hint to Coin Collectors : Pine Tree Shillings. 

 — It is stated in the July number of the Boston 

 (U. S.) Historical Magazine, p. 214., on the au- 

 thority of a writer in the New York News, that 

 coin collectors in Boston have been taken-in by 

 a false issue of the old Pine Tree Shilling : — 



" The new batch of Massachusetts coins which has re- 

 cently been issued, and has taken-in manj' of the Bos- 

 tonian collectors, contains the letters N. E. added to the 

 devices authorised by the second act of the General Court. 

 There were but few' coins struck of theN. E. issue, and 

 they only show these letters and the number of pence in 

 their valuation. The ingenious and highly honourable 

 manufacturer of this new coinage of pine tree shillings 

 recently caused the publication of a pretended treasure 

 trove at Chelsea, Massachusetts. This gave an excellent 

 pretext to bring out his wares. The bogus coins of the 

 N. E. stamp are much heavier than the real pieces, — the 

 subsequent ones of the double ring and pine tree stamp 

 are lighter, and bear the marks of the file and the lamp, — 

 others are quite fresh, as if just released from the die and 

 coining press." 



It is probable, now that the Americans have 



