Nov. 13. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



473 



Customs Duties (Vol, vl., p. 334.).— 

 "Dag (old word), a leather latchet; also, a hand-gun. 



Snap-haunce, a fire-lock, a gun that strikes fire with- 

 out a match. 



Jeat, a sort of black, light, and brittle stone, which 

 is otherwise call'd Black Amber. 



W/titster, one that whitens linen clothes. 



Tike (country word), a small bullock or heifer ; also 

 a kind of worm. 



Waddemole (old word), a coarse sort of stuff us'd for 

 covering the collars of cart-horses: it is now 

 call'd Woddemel, and in Oxfordshire Woddenel." — 

 Phillips. 

 " Bankers Browded, cushions embroidered. 



Foines (of /oine, F. a little weasel or ferret), a sort 

 of furr of that animal. 



Lusern (Lupus cervarius L. ), a sort of wolf called a 

 stag- wolf. 



Lusems, the fleeces of these animals." — Ballet/. 



K. J. Allen. 



Family Likenesses (Vol. v., passim). — In the 

 autobiography of Edward Lord Herbert of Cher- 

 bury, he states that his father " was black-haired 

 and black-bearded, as all my ancestors on his side 

 are said to have been." This passage recurred to 

 me afterwards on reading the late Earl of Carnar- 

 von's Portugal and Gallicia, in which he mentions 

 his narrow escape from being shot as a spy by one 

 of the contending parties in the Peninsula, who 

 could not be persuaded that his very dark hair and 

 complexion belonged to an Englishman. These 

 two noblemen were descended from two brothers, 

 ■who flourished in the reign of Edward IV. Is this 

 complexion generally characteristic of the Herberts 

 of the present day ? J. S. Warden. 



^^ Epistles Philosophical and Moral" (Vol. vi., 

 p. 343.). — It may perhaps interest your corre- 

 spondent L. Y. (in the Navorscher) to know that 

 William Kenrick, LL.D., the author of the above- 

 named work, was also the artist who furnished the 

 very clever designs which embellish it, as appears 

 by the following note in the volume now before 

 me, written at the end of the " Advertisement," 

 p. xxii. : " The Plates in this book, I am told, were 

 executed by the Author, Dr. Wm. Kenrick. — 

 p- Reed, 1777." My copy is dated a year later 

 than the one L. Y. quotes from, and the Epistles 

 are preceded by a poetical dedication " To the First 

 Minister of State for the time being." T. C. S. 



Furye Family (Vol. vi., pp. 175. 255. 327.).— 

 Unless there is some mistake as to the identity of 

 the parties, the Mrs. Furye, whose maiden name is 

 required, was one of the daughters of the liev. 

 Thomas Thorp, vicar of Berwick-upon-Tweed. 



E. H. A. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We are glad to learn, as we do from the Athenaum 

 of Saturday last, that the Treasury Minute on the 

 subject of the early State Papers is to be reconsidered, 

 and that it is not yet too late for those interested in 

 seeing those important historical documents in the 

 place where they may be most fitly deposited and most 

 easily consulted, namely, the British Museum, to bring 

 their convictions under the notice of the proper au- 

 thorities. If there are any who doubt that these 

 papers should be added to the matchless collection of 

 State Papers already under the charge of the keeper of 

 the MSS. there, let them refer to the very able article 

 upon the subject in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1851. 

 Let the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer glance over the few pages to which 

 we have referred, and we have no fear but that, con- 

 vinced by the arguments there adduced, and remem- 

 bering his father's experience at the State Paper Office, 

 when engaged in preparing his Commentaries on the 

 Reign of Charles the First, Mr. D'Israeli will join with 

 Lord Derby, who has so lately done justice to the his- 

 torical students of Ireland by ordering the printing of 

 The Brehon Laws, in doing justice to the historical 

 students of England, by ordering the earlier documents 

 now in the State Paper Office, to be deposited with 

 their counterparts in the British Museum. 



Signs of the approaching discussion at the Society of 

 Antiquaries are discernible. In last Saturday's Li- 

 terary Gazette is a long letter from Mr. Roach Smith, 

 in which that gentleman defends the proposal to return 

 to the new subscription of four guineas, on the ground 

 that the Treasurer has regarded the increase of the sub- 

 scription as the sole cause of the present unsatisfactory 

 condition of the Society. This, however, is not the 

 case, and we doubt whether there are any members of 

 the Society more anxious to see the various improve- 

 ments suggested by Mr. Smith carried into effect, than 

 the Treasurer and the Fellows who supported his pro- 

 posal to revert to the two guinea subscription. This 

 has been followed by a Letter addressed to the Fellows of 

 the Society of Antiquaries, on the Objections urged against 

 the Proposal of the President and Council to reduce the 

 Payments to the Society, by Mr. Bruce ; which we re- 

 commend to the attentive perusal of the Fellows.- 

 Passing over the first portion of the Treasurer's letter, 

 which treats of an alleged discourtesy to a distinguished 

 member of the Society, because we do not believe that 

 it ever existed, it will be found that the main objections 

 assume two decidedly opposite grounds. The Society 

 will be paralysed by the loss of half its income, and 

 consequent want of funds to do its work properly, is 

 the first of these. When reasons are shown for be- 

 lieving that the effect of reducing the four guineas to 

 two, will be the accession of a great number of new 

 members, the very opposite objection is urged, and the 

 cry is, the Society will be ruined by the influx of im- 

 proper persons. We do not accept either of these al- 

 ternatives, but we do believe that if any attempt is 

 made to put in practice the threatened blackballing of 

 every gentleman who is proposed for admission, the 



