Sept. 18. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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George Chalmers's library, partiii. lot 100. (sold 

 by Evans), the work alluded to in the above re- 

 ference is described — 



" Chalmers's History of the Revolt of the American 

 Colonies Suppressed. This work was intended to have 

 formed two volumes. Mr. Chalmers destroyed the 

 copies before publication, and not more than a dozen 

 copies were preserved." 



I have noted in my catalogue (upon what au- 

 thority I do not remember) that the date should 

 be 1782, Mr. Fletcher, of 191. Piccadilly, has 

 since sold a copy of the book, of which no doubt 

 particulars could be had of Messrs. Puttick and 

 Simpson, his successors, if the Querist cares to 

 pursue his inquiry further. J. H. P. 



''Blue Bells of Scotland'' (Vol. vi., p. 124.). — 

 If Dr. E. F. RiMnAui^T will read a note in Wood's 

 edition of the Songs of Scotland, 1848, vol. 11. 

 p. 107., he will there find that Charles Kirkpatrick 

 Sharpe seems to prove that this song is much 

 older than the date he assigns it. If the late Mr. 

 Sharpe is correct, the air could not have been 

 composed by Mrs, Jordan ; the words sung by that 

 lady were written by IVIrs. Grant of Laggan. 



T. B. J. 



" / hide my time " (Vol. vi., p. 1 49.) is the 

 motto of the Earl of Loudon (Ayrshire) : the 

 family name is Campbell, and there are records of 

 its existence as far back as the time of King Wil- 

 liam I. I cannot ascertain the origin of the motto. 



T. B. J. 



Biting the Thumb (Vol. vi., p. 149.). — There Is 

 a note on this subject at the end of the first act of 

 Romeo and Juliet, in Knight's Pictorial Shakspeare ; 

 and M. C. Roper will find this Italian mode of 

 insult more fully investigated by Douce. T. B. J. 



The Word Nugget (Vol, vi., p. 171.).— E. N. W. 

 asks whence comes the word " nugget." The 

 word " nuqud " signifies " ready money " in Per- 

 sian, w, s. 



Dr. Thomas Watson (Vol. vl., p, 130.). — See a 

 tract, entitled A Summary View of the Articles 

 exhibited against the late Lord Bishop of St. 

 David's, and the Process made thereon, pp. 61. : 

 London, 1701. Its contents had better be con- 

 fined to the reader. E. D. 



Umbrella (Vol. iv., p. 75.). — In Poesis Redi- 

 viva, by John Collop, M.D., 1656, is this line, 

 p. 45.,— 



" Each sown umlrella Is, and his own sun." 



E. D. 



Women Whipped in 1764 (Vol. vi., p. 174.). — 

 This degrading punishment was continued in 

 England until early in the present century 5 and 



doubtless there are readers of " N. & Q." who 

 have witnessed its infliction. I remember, when 

 young, that the servants went to see such a spec- 

 tacle, and related all Its disgusting particulars 

 after their return. It was abolished by act of 

 parliament, 1 Geo. IV. cap. 57., 15th July, 1820. 

 This act is usually called " General Thornton's 

 Act." E. D. 



Cambridge Prize Poems (Vol. vi., p. 219.). — 

 P. C. S. S. is sorry that B(eoticus, whose critique 

 on the atrocious false quantity In the Cambridge 

 Prize Poem (XPT2EA *OPMirE) for 1820 is per- 

 fectly correct, did not also do the writer the jus- 

 tice to state, that he had, however tardily, " re- 

 pented him of his error ;" and that seventeen years 

 later, among the errata at the end of Cambridge 

 Greek and Latin Prize Poems for 1814 to 1837, 

 there appeared this emendation (not a very happy 

 one, it must be admitted): p. 175. v. 5., "for 

 expergefacto, read somno evocatce." P. C. S. S. 



Brasses in Dublin (Vol. vi., p. 167.). — The two 

 brasses Mr. Simpson inquires after are, no doubt, 

 those in St. Patrick's Cathedral. They commemo- 

 rate Dean Sutton (ob. 1528) and Dean Fyche 

 (ob. 1537). Engravings of them are given in 

 Mason's History of the Cathedral. A. A. D. 



Mrs. Duff (Vol. \l, p. 207.). — Your corre- 

 spondent A. A. D. has killed a very worthy Thane 

 without any warrant for the deadly act. The 

 Earl of Fife still lives to deplore, and most sin- 

 cerely to deplore, the loss of his amiable wife — a 

 daughter of John Manners, Esq., and Lady Louisa 

 Manners (afterwards the Countess of Dysart), who 

 was cut olF in the prime of life and beauty by the 

 bite of a rabid animal, as correctly stated. A* 



Athenjeum Club. 



Rhymes upon Places (Vol. vi., p. 156. &c.). — Do 

 you think the following lines worth adding to your 

 collection of rhymes upon places ? They are 

 extracted from Mark Noble's Memoirs of the Pro- 

 tectoral House of Cromwell, vol. I. p. 19. : — 

 " Crowland as courteous, as courteous as may bee, 

 Thorney the bane of many a good tree, 

 Ramsey the rich, and Peterburgh the proud, 

 Sawtry by the way that poor abbay, Gave more alms 

 than all they." 



Tee Bee. 



Remarkable Trees (Vol. vi., pp. 18. 159. 254.). 



— On the Duke of Athol's property near Dunkeld, 

 there was, and may be still, a tree which had in Its 

 course split the rock above, and grown through it. 



E,. J. AliLEN. 



Muffs worn by Gentlem£n (Vol. v., p. 560.). 



— I well remember when a child having seen 

 Francis, the second Earl of Guildford, who 



