Nov. 13. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



469 



permitted to say that his proposition does not at 

 all satisfy me. C. 



TUMBLE-DOWN DICK. 



(Vol.vi., p. 391.) 



^Vhen old London Bridge was standing, there 

 was, very near to the southern extremity, and on 

 the western side of the street, a tavern displaying 

 this sign. Perhaps an inquiry into the history of 

 that house may give L. B. some information. I 

 never heard that it had any reference to the Re- 

 storation. The sign merely represented a man 

 falling intoxicated from his chair. It is to be ob- 

 served that the lines quoted from Butler, though 

 by no means respectful to Richard Cromwell, , do 

 not connect the epithet "Tumble-down" with his 

 name. F. S. Q. 



Your correspondent L. B. asks if any other 

 signs called " Tumble-down Dick " are known. 

 I am fiimiliar with one in Norfolk, at Woodton, on 

 the high road between Norwich and Bungay, 

 about live miles from the latter place, and I have 

 heard it spoken of as a memorial of the overthrow 

 of Richard Cromwell. A few years ago the sign 

 was repainted ; but with the old design, a very red- 

 waistcoated John Bull, bottle and glass in hand, 

 toppling off his chair, in a fashion indicative of as 

 gross a violation of the law of gravitation, as the 

 act was intended to express respecting the rules of 

 sobriety. In this region, where Puritanism and 

 Nonconformity were deeply rooted, the antagonist 

 spirit was correspondingly strong. The celebra- 

 tion of the 29th of May, in a very High Church 

 manner, has not been discontinued above a single 

 generation ; and the children still observe it, by 

 " bumping," with right rustic good-will, their 

 companions who are unadorned with oak-leaves, 

 with the same gusto and ignorance that the 5th of 

 November was kept withal, till the recent move- 

 ment of Pius IX. revived the ancient spirit. I 

 once saw the children attending an Independent 

 Sunday School, keeping the day in this fashion ; 

 and on inquiring, discovered that they had the 

 custom from their elders, but ivhat they were cele- 

 brating they did not at all know ; nor did a boy 

 from the Church School, who was joining in the 

 sport. This illustrates the existence of the temper 

 which would setup a " Tumble-down Dick" over 

 a tippling house, and would retain the sign thus 

 *' thro' age after age revolving." 



B. B. WOODWABD. 



inquiring for " an explanation of the word Dari' 

 dianus" as well as in seeking for " any note of the 

 erection of a church, which would certainly seem 

 to date from the first century." The inscription 

 observed by A. B. R. in the Church of Bavenno 

 says nothing about that or any other church ; it 

 merely informs us that Trophimus Daridianus, a 

 slave of the Emperor Claudius's, dedicated the 

 inscription to Memoria and Tarpeia. 



As to Daridianus, I suspect it to be a mason's 

 blunder for Dardanianus, a name which is regu- 

 larly formed from Dardanius, though I am not 

 aware that it is to be found in books. 



In the latter part of the inscription a proper 

 name seems to have been obliterated by time after 

 Memories, and perhaps, if this Note comes to the 

 knowledge of A. B. R., he may tell us something 

 of the state of preservation in which he found the 

 inscription : but, whether it be perfect or not, he 

 may rest assured (unless he can produce further 

 evidence) that Trophimus had no more to do with 

 founding the church at Bavenno than M. Ulpius 

 Cerdo, Lucretius Lucretianus, and others, who 

 set up ancient inscriptions now preserved in the 

 British Museum, had to do with erecting that 

 great national building. L. 



P.S. — I subjoin two inscriptions, which I copied 

 some years ago at the British Museum ; the first 

 on account of its form ; the second, to show that 

 blunders are not uncommon in ancient inscrip- 

 tions : 



" MEMORIA 



CL . TI . F . OLYMPIADIS jj^V 



EPITHYMETVS . LIB . 



PATPONAE . PIENTISSIMAE." ^ 



« LVCRETIA 



QVEVIXl T 



ANN . XII . M • vm 



PATEB . B . M . F." 



DAEIDIANDS. — INSCRIPTION AT BAVENNO. 



(Vol. vi., p. 359.) 

 I am afraid your correspondent A. B. R. is 

 putting himself and others to useless trouble in 



DUTEBENCES BETWEEN COPIES OF THE rOLIO 

 EDITIONS or SHAKSPEARE. 



(Vol. vi., p. 142.) 

 The variations noticed by Mr. Collier between 

 his copy of the folio edition of 1632 and other 

 copies of the same edition (proving that correc- 

 tions were made of the text whilst the edition was 

 actually in the press), reminds me of a similar in- 

 stance, pointed out to me by Mr. Henry Foss in 

 his copy of the edition of 1623. The passage 

 occurs m Twelfth Night, Act V. Sc- 1., in which 

 the Duke says, — 



« O thou dissembling cub ! what wilt thou be, 

 When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case ? " 

 This is the reading of many (how many?) copies 

 of the first folio edition, and has been received 

 without suspicion by every modern editor, includ- 

 ing Mr. Knight and Mr. Collier himself, who 



