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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. U) 



Lines on the Succession of the Kings of England 

 (Vol. in., p. 168.; Vol. vi., p. 83.). — As the fol- 

 lowing genealogical mnemonics are comprised in 

 less than half the space occupied by those of your 

 correspondent E. C, perhaps you may think them 

 ■worthy of preservation. I transcribe thera from 

 memory, and cannot refer to the source whence I 

 obtained them : — 

 George the Fourth, the son of Third, the grandson of 



the Second, 

 The son of First — Ann's cousin he, as history has 



reckoned ; 

 Ann Mary Second's sister, ei^ther James the Second's 



daughter, 

 Brother he of Second Charles, son of First Charles the 



martyr : 

 He James First's son, the cousin of Elizabeth the Queen, 

 First Clary's sister, sister she of Edward Sixth is seen ; 

 "Who son of Henry Eighth was, he Henry Seventh's son, 

 Cousin of Richard Third, from whom he crown and 



kingdom won ; 

 He uncle dread of Edward Fifth, the son of Edward 



Four, 

 The cause of shame and sorrow both to the repentant 



Shore ; 

 The cousin he of Henry Sixth, the son of Henry Five, 

 Fourth Henry's son of Richard Second cousin, born to 



strive : 

 He grandson was of Edward Third, of Edward Second 



son. 

 First Edward's son, Third Henry's son, who was the 



son of John, 

 John brother was of Richard First, the son of Henry 



Two, 

 He Stephen's cousin, cousin he of Henry First, he who 

 Of William Rufas brother was, the son of him we call 

 First Wdllam, or the Conqueror, who did this realm 



enthrall. 



WiLiJAM Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



Aghindle or Aghendole (Vol. vi., p. 9.). — The 

 etymology of this word is from the Anglo-Saxon, 

 and signifies the half-dole or divisional part, the 

 measure being, as F. R. R. states, the fourth part 

 of a peck. Spenser, in his Faery Queene, uses the 

 word " Hafendeale " in the sense of a partition; 

 and in Halliwell's Archceological Dictionary " hal- 

 fendele " is given as the half, or half part. In 

 Somerset a halfendeal garment is one composed of 

 two different materials. In a marriage indenture 

 dated 14th September, 1454, printed in Corrie's 

 History of Lancashire, vol. ii. p. 645., it is cove- 

 nanted by parties living in Rochdale parish, that, 



" After ye decesse of saide Xtofer Kyrschagh, ye 

 salde Eleanor shall keepe reversion of halfundell of all 

 the londes y' ever were ye saide Xtofer's, accordynge 

 to dedes in taile beforetyme thereof made." 



J.D. 



Sinking Fund (Vol. vi., p. 101.). — Both the 

 statements of Mr. JM'CuUocli and Sir A. Alison are 

 facts. The practicability of what has been ascer- 



tained to be impracticable — the continuance of the 

 Sinking Fund — is assumed by Sir A. Alison, who is 

 so far wrong. The extinguishment of the National 

 Debt by that fund would have required the tax- 

 ation to have been increased about double ; that 

 is, raising it in round numbers from fifty to nearly 

 one hundred millions sterling per annum for the 

 twenty-seven years. It is, however, well known that 

 from 1813 to 1815, so far fromraising money for a 

 Sinking Fund, the excessive expenses of the war 

 were with difficulty defrayed by the Government ; 

 and in 1822 it was found necessary even to reduce 

 the current expenses of the year by extending the 

 charge of naval and military pensions over a long 

 terra of years, — an arrangement partially forced 

 on the Bank of England, other capitalists declining 

 the terms. The reduction of the National Debt 

 has proceeded, on the average of thirty-seven years, 

 at the rate of about three millions annually ; the 

 principle being to apply surplus revenue only in 

 reduction of debt, instead of borrowing to create a 

 Sinking Fund. Comparing the national case to 

 that of an individual,— suppose he, being in debt, 

 reduces that debt by paying off lOOOZ. per annum, 

 being clear savings out of his income, he in tliat 

 case pursues the course now followed by the 

 Govei-nment. On the principle of the Sinking 

 Fund, however, he would go on box-rowing of A., 

 on the one hand, and buy up the debt from B., to 

 whom A. had transferred it, till the amount bought 

 up equalled the amount of debt incurred. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Bristol Road, Birmingham. 



Punch and Judy (Vol. v., p. 610. ; Vol.vi., p. 43.). 



— N. B. does not adduce any authority for his 

 tracing up Judy to Judas. I cannot adduce any 

 authority for tracing it up to Judaii. Have we 

 both adopted a mere oral tradition ? Surely there 

 must be many of the readers of " N. & Q." who 

 can furnish us with a reference, if one exists ? 



BCEOTICUS. 

 Edgmond, Salop. 



Rhymes on Places (Vol. v., p. 293., and passim.). 



— These rhymes may be, perhaps, worth adding 

 to those which have been already collected by 

 your contributors ; one is on the river Dove and 

 its fertilising properties : 



" In spring Dove's flood. 

 Is worth a king's good." 



Another is : 



" Derbyshire born, and Derbyshire bred 

 Strong in the arms, and weak in the head." 

 It may be useful lo note that in Derbyshire, 

 which is always called by the natives of the county 

 ])Grbyshire, except in the town of Derby itself, 

 Dove is pronounced, not to rhyme to " love," as 

 Wordsworth has it, but " Dwve." 



The following rhyme stands at the head of the 



