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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 160. 



are arranpred in volumes, and so preserved in the 

 Record Tower of Dublin Castle. That which 

 jr. F. F. inquires about will be found in Vol. M. 

 p. 338. Two centuries before the days of the 

 *' Swan of Avon," we have had our own Shaks- 

 peare floating on the Bay of You^^hal, Thomas 

 Shakesper having been in 1376 appointed by King 

 Edward supervisor of the shipping of that town, 

 and subsequently a receiver of the customs within 

 its harbour. Let English genealogists look to 

 this ! John D'Alton. 



Dublin. 



Bhyrms on Places (Vol. vi., p. 350.). — In your 

 many rhymes on places I do not remember seeing 

 those on Preston, " Proud Preston," as our town is 

 often called; a name it no doubt derived from its 

 being the residence of genteel families in days of 

 yore, before the introduction of the cotton trade, 

 having been, as Dr. Whitaker, historian of Whal- 

 ley, says, "the resort of well-born but ill-portioned 

 and ill-endowed old maids and widows." The 

 paschal lamb couchant, with the letters " P. P." 

 (Pi-inceps Pacis, Prince of Peace), forms the shield 

 of the town's armorial bearings. The old lines, 

 induced perhaps by these initials, are, 



" Proud Preston, 

 Poor people, 

 High church, 



And low steeple." 



The name in the first line yet adheres to us; 

 the prefix in the second is no longer applicable ; 

 nor is the last line now true, for in 1815 the tower 

 of the church, which was then only about the 

 . height of the nave, was pulled down, and a new 

 one of proportionate size erected. Prestoniensis. 



, " They who buy a house in Hertfordshire, 

 Pay three years' purchase for the air." 



England Described, p. 159. : Atkinson, 

 Lond. 1788. 

 " Cornwall squab-pie, and Devon whitepot brings. 

 And Leicester beans and bacon, fit for kings." 



Dr. King's Art of Cookery. Hudibrax, vol. i. 

 p. 37. note, edit, of 1744. 



R. C. "VVabde. 

 Kidderminster. 



The following are current in Lindsey : 



" Well is the man 

 'Twixt Trent and Witham." 



" Northap rise and Grayinghara fall, 

 Kirton yet shall be greater than all." 



" Luddington poor people. 

 Built a brick church to a stone steeple." 



Edward Peacock, Jun. 



Aber and Inver (Vol. vi., p. 290.). — The recent 

 comnnmication of R. J. A. to the " N. & Q." having 

 ■so satisfactorily pointed out the etymology of these 



designations, it but remains for an Irishman to 

 say that the prefix of Aber is to be found, though 

 very rarely, in this country. I find it twice in the 

 county Tyrone, as at ^6er-corne and Aber- 

 charagh ; and thrice in Donegal, in ^ier-mullan 

 or ^fter-millan, u4&er-rocterment and ^Z»er-ned- 

 cupple. Inver is of yet more frequent occurrence 

 here ; we have our Bay of Inver, or, as it is some- 

 times spelt, Emier, on the coast of Donegal. The 

 mouth of the Boyne, at the east side of Ireland, 

 was for centuries prior to the Scottish Plantation, 

 called J/iver-Colpa (for the derivation of which 

 name see Hist, of Drogheda, vol. ii. p. 2.). In 

 very " auld lang syne," a religious house Avas es- 

 tablished at Inver-Da.gsm ; others at 7?2t"er-daoile 

 and at /wyer-naile, will he found mentioned in 

 Archdall's Monast. Hib. ; and at Inver, near the 

 Bay of Larne, in the county Antrim, was another 

 church, whose annals, picturesque bearings, and 

 cemetery crowded with the memorials of Scottish 

 settlers hereabout, I have noted some years since 

 in aid of a history of that county, which I vainly 

 hoped would be encouraged to the press. 



John D'Alton. 

 Dublin. 



Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger 

 (Vol. vi., pp. 153. 229.).— Can I assist H. B. C. in 

 his inquiries by referring him to the following 

 quotation taken from Wade's British History, 

 published in London in 1839, p. 714. : 



"July 22nd, 1814. — Admiral William B— y found 

 guilty of forging letters to defraud the revenue. He 

 was sentenced to death, which was commuted for 

 banishment." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Print of the Head of Christ (Vol. vi., p. 414.). — 

 The engraving is by Claude Mellan, a Frencli 

 artist, born at Abbeville in 1601. He adopted 

 the mode of working by single lines, the shades 

 being expressed by the same lines being made 

 stronger. The inscription is intelligible by the 

 word linea being understood : 



" Formatur Unicus Una (linea) non alter." 



The print has been copied more than once. 

 There are specimens of this plate in the collection 

 of Mellan's works in the British Museum. 



H. W. D. 



Cross-legged Effigies (Vol. iv., p. 382.). — At 

 Tilton-on-the-Hill, in this county, is " Imago ho- 

 minis cum crure super crurem, hac inscriptione, 



Siel^an tsz JBicilJM fit'^t tcj . jjrat'e^ jiur lut." 



Nichols thus notices it : 



" Under the fourth arch (from the west), which se- 

 parates the nave from the south aisle, lies a man in 

 freestone in complete armour, cross-legged, and at his 

 feet a lion, a large shield upon his left arm, on which 



