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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 253. 



In Vol. i. p. 357., it 'should have been stated 

 that James Scholefield, M. A. (not D.D.) suc- 

 ceeded to his stall as Professor of Greek at Cam- 

 bridge. J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Story's " History of the Wars in Ireland." — 

 Being engaged in preparing a new edition (with 

 notes, &c.) of Story's History of the Wars of Ire- 

 land, I shall be much obliged for suggestions from 

 any of your able correspondents who may feel in- 

 clined to give them. Communications may be 

 addressed to me, under cover to Mr. Herbert, 

 Bookseller, 117. Grafton Street, Dublin. 



Abhba. 



^^ Tabard" " Talbot" — I have been always puz- 

 zled to know how the name of Chaucer's Tabard 

 in the Borough became corrupted into Talbot; a 

 dog being so very different from a tabard. I find, 

 however, in Fosbroke's British Monachism, that a 

 tabard was sometimes called camis (the origin pro- 

 bably of our word chemise), and sometimes canis : 

 so that the word which meant a thin coat might 

 possibly be taken, by mistake, to mean a dog. Do 

 you think it probable that this circumstance had 

 anything to do with the change of name of the 

 Tabard ? Henry T. Riley. 



Irish Newspapers. — The following particulars, 

 few and brief, may be deemed worthy of a corner 

 in "N. & Q.," and may, perhaps, elicit some in- 

 teresting information. In the year 1700 Pue's 

 Occurrences, the earliest Irish newspaper, ap- 

 peared ; and in 1728 Faulkner's Journal was 

 started by George Faulkner, who was " a man ce- 

 lebrated for the goodness of his heart, and the 

 weakness of his head." The oldest of the existing 

 Dublin newspapers, the Freeman's Journal, was 

 started by Charles Lucas, M. D. (one of the re- 

 presentatives of the city of Dublin, and author of 

 many political publications), in or about 1755 ; 

 and the oldest of the existing provincial news- 

 papers, the Limerick Chronicle, made its first ap- 

 pearance in 1768. Abhba. 



Lord Jocclyn. — The friends of the lamented 

 lord Jocelyn, and future biographers, may be 

 pleased to read the character of his work on 

 China as recorded by the learned and judicious 

 Biot. It is extracted from the Journal des Savants 

 for 1844 : 



" Pour ce qui concerne la dernifere guerre, nous avons 

 eu seulement roccasion delire avec interet un trfes-petit 

 volume, intitule Leaves from a soldier's book, notes d'vn 

 soldat, par lord Jocelyn, qui avait ete le secretaire mili ■ 

 taire de I'expe'dition, pendant les six premiers mois ; et 

 nous avons dii regretter que I'influeuce du climat ait 

 empeche trop tot cet aimable ^crivain de completer les 

 impressions qu'il a exprimees avec tant de naturel et des 

 sentiments si honorables." 



Bolton Coenet. 



BOSTON : BURDELYERS : WILKYNS : FEMBLE : RAY- 

 MENTS : TIPLERS, ETC. 



The following difficulties have presented them- 

 selves whilst collecting materials for my pro- 

 jected History of Boston and the Hundred of 

 Skirbeck. Will you allow me to submit them to 

 your numerous talented readers, and to solicit 

 their aid ? 



In an inventory of the goods belonging to the 

 Gild of St. Mary in Boston, at the time of the 

 dissolution, is enumerated an " altar cloth of red 

 silk powthered with flowres called Boston" 

 What is or was this flower called Boston ? I have 

 somewhere seen an account of the herb Boston^ 

 but by omitting Captain Cuttle's direction to 

 " make a mark," I am no better for having found 

 it. 



In the Corporation Records, under date 1608, 

 the " Burdelyers near the church wall," are men- 

 tioned. The word is used without any other con- 

 nexion than simply denoting a place, or building, 

 or portion of a building. 



In 1580 Lord Clinton borrowed " the welkyn of 

 brasse of this corporation." In 1657 " a great 

 brasse wilkyn belonging to this borough, being now 

 no longer useful to this borough, is directed to be 

 sold." In 1694, " 101. was paid to John Sherlocke 

 to buy a wilking with at Nottingham." This last 

 was ordered to be sold in 1757. I have exactly 

 copied the spelling of the word as it varied at the 

 different periods. What was this wilkyn ? 



In 1784 " 26Z. 5s. IQd. was paid for femble." 

 This, I think, was a kind of coarse flax or hemp, 

 which paupers and prisoners, in what was called 

 the Jersey School, were employed in spinning; 

 but I have no other authority than the connexion 

 in which I find the word for this supposition. 



Rayments. In 1546 " it was determined and 

 agreed that the rayments should not go in pro- 

 cession that year." What does this mean ? 



Tiplers. In 1568 persons licensed or appointed 

 to sell ale and beer by retail were called tiplers. 

 In 1575 "certain persons appointed to tiple ale 

 and beer." In 1577 five persons were appointed 

 " tipplers of Lincoln beer." No other tippler " or 

 seller of ale and beer shall sell or draw any beer 

 brewed out of the borough under severe for- 

 feitures." Was this word tipler used in this sense 

 in any other place ; and why was it so used here ? 

 I find that a family named Typpler resided in 

 Boston about the middle of the sixteenth century. 

 William Typpler and Thomas Typpler are men- 

 tioned in 1534. 



Will some one be kind enough to tell me uhen 

 the law which directed that nothing but articles 

 made of wool should be used as the habiliments of 

 the dead ceased to be in force. I find an ac- 

 count of affidavits made at funerals, that this law 



