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(at the least) but the iust character that is due to him. 

 And though I have not the presumption to add any- 

 thing to what Mr. Harvey takes uppon to speake to, yet 

 I may say, that greater nierritt was not in any man then 

 in his brother, nor was any man more obleidged to him 

 then was myselfe ; insomuch that if there were any occa • 

 tion for me to serue his memory, I would readily hazard 

 my life for itt. By this you may see how much I am 

 concerned in anything that relates to my dead fFreind." 



W. D. Macrat. 



New College. 



*^ Nagging" (Vol. x., p. 29.). — This should be 

 spelt knagging. To knag, v. a. to tease, to worry 

 with frequent recurrence to trifling points of dis- 

 pute, to annoy, to tear. See Dictionary of the 

 English Language, from the best authorities, from 

 Johnson to Webster, London, 8vo., 1835, Tuckey 

 and Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. No 

 authorities, however, are quoted for the use of the 

 word in this work. F. S. T. 



Halliwell, in his very useful Archaic Dictionary, 

 defines the verb yjag-thus : "to nick, chip, or slit." 



C.H.(1) 



FrancMyn Household Book : Jumballs (Vol. ix., 

 pp. 422. 575.). — J. K., after quoting the entry of 

 "Nov. 10, 1646. For haulfe a pound of cakes and 

 jumballs, 10^/.," asks " What are jumballs ? " 



Jumballs are jumbles, a kind of sweet cake very 

 common in this country, and which we doubtless 

 derived, with their name, from the mother country. 

 If the making of them is one of " the lost arts " of 

 England, I will cheerfully transmit an approved 

 recipe for their preparation. They contain no 

 ginger. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



" Quid fades," SfC. (Vol. viii., p. 539.). —I do not 

 recollect that Balliolensis has received any reply 

 to his Query, requesting some account of the lines 

 beginning as above. Let me therefore refer your 

 correspondent to p. 140. of No. VI. of the pub- 

 lished Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, where he will find the fol- 

 lowing reference to Englegrave's Sacred Emblems, 

 made by the (then) President, Joseph Brooks 

 Yates, Esq., in a note to his interesting paper on 

 " Books of Emblems : " 



" Perhaps it would be difficult to find a more curious 

 string of inveterate puns or play upon words than the 

 following. It is met with in a volume of Sacred Emblems, 

 published at Cologne, A. d. 1655, by Henry Engelgrave, a 

 learned Jesuit. 



* Quid fades, facies veneris 'cum veneris ante? 

 Ne sedeas, sed eas, — ne per eas pereas.' " 



J. Sansom. 

 Oxford. 



Ought and Aught (Vol. ix., p. 419.). — T. "re- 

 grets to observe that ought is gradually supplanting 

 avght in our language, where the meaning intended 



to be conveyed 'is'anything." May I inform your 

 correspondent that in Howell's Dictionary, Lon- 

 don, 1660, aught is not to be found as an English 

 word, but ought is thus given : 



" Ought, or anything." 



" Qualche cosa, o niente ; Algo, o' nada." 



Again, your correspondent says he is " aware 

 that use has substituted nought for naught in the 

 sense of not anything; the latter now expressing 

 only what is bad; and convenience may justify that 

 change, nought being not otherwise used." 



If T. will refer to Howell he will find, 



"Nought ; nothing." 

 "Naught; bad." 



From this it would appear that nearly two hun- 

 dred years ago nought was understood in England 

 " in the sense of not anything," and that naught 

 expressed at that time only what was " bad," as it 

 expresses now. W. W. 



Malta. 



Good Times for Equity Suitors (Vol. ix., p. 420.) . 

 — On the occasion referred to by Bishop Good- 

 man somebody wrote the following : 



" When More some time had Chancellor been, 

 No more suits did remain : 

 The like will never more be seen 

 Till More be there again." 



I quote from memory. H. G. 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



" Widdecombe folks are picking their geese" 

 (Vol. ii., p. 512.). — A Devonshire saying during 

 a snow-storm. I think that your correspondent 

 is mistaken in his opinion, that " Widdecombe, in 

 the Dartmoors, is meant." It seems to me that 

 the sky only is meant, which is also called in 

 Devonshire " widdicote." I remember a nursery 

 riddle : 



" Widdicote, woddicote, over-cote hang, 

 Nothing so broad, and nothing so lang. 

 As widdicote, woddicote, over-cote hang." 



What's that ? Ans. The sky. Hbnbt T. Kilet. 



Pharetram de Tutesbit (Vol. iv., p. 316.). — This 

 is probably an error for Tutesbir, or Tutesbirie, 

 the old name for Tewkesbury. Query, Was this 

 town ever famous for its manufacture of leather ? 

 I think I have read of leather gloves being made 

 there.* Henry T. Rilet. 



" Tace," Latin for a Candle (Vol. ii., p. 45.). — 

 I think that the passage from Swift's Polite Con- 

 versation explains the meaning of this phrase : 



[* Tewkesbury was more famous for its must^trd balls, 

 which, being very pungent, occasioned the proverb ap- 

 plied to a sharp fellow, " He looks as if he lived on 

 Tewkesbury mustard ; " and Shakspeare, speaking of one 

 with a sad, severe countenance, uses the simile, "As thick 

 as Tewkesbury mustard."] , 



