Oct. 30. 1852.] 



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423 



Henry III., for building a chapel at Swallow- 

 field, on account of the danger he incurred in 

 attending his parish church (Shinfield), by reason 

 of the numerous robbers that infested the ways. 



Julia R. Bockett. 

 Southcote Lodge. 



Huguenots in Ireland (Vol. vi., p. 316.). — Cleri- 

 cus(D.) is referred to Whitelaw's Dublin, Smith's 

 History of Cork, Smith's History of Waterford, 

 and Burn's History of the Foreign Refugees (1846). 

 I have for some years been collecting particulars 

 of the refugees in Ireland, and shall be glad to 

 communicate with Clericus (D.). 



John S. Bukn. 



Copthall Court. 



On the Word " raised," as used by the Americans 

 (Vol. iv., p. 83.). — Me. James Cornish is mis- 

 taken in saying that " an American, in answer to 

 an inquiry as to the place of his birth, says, ' I was 

 raised in New York,' " &c. 



Some Americans use the word raised instead of 

 brought up ; none use it in the sense of born. The 

 very example given by Mr. Cornish from Frank- 

 lin's letter shows it is thus used. He says that 

 more children are raised, owing to every mother's 

 suckling her own children. Children are suckled 

 nowhere before they are born. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Wallers Handiariting (Vol. vi., pp. 292. 374.). 

 — I send you herewith a tracing of the initials of 

 Waller, as they appear in an exceedingly rare 

 book in my collection, viz. the editio princeps of 

 the Lusiad of Camoens, printed in 1572. 



As Waller was a court poet in 1662, when 

 Catharine of Braganza arrived in England, it is 

 not improbable that he might owe the possession 

 of this volume to the kindness of the queen. 



For the volume the late Mr. Heber gave 251., 

 and after his sale it became mine at a sum of 

 about half that amount. John Adamson. 



Newcastle on Tyne. 



Shahspeare Emendations (Vol. vi., p. 135.). — 

 Outrecuidance is a single word, and would make a 

 good climax to " insult and excite " [query, in- 

 sult, exult ?] : — 



" Who might be your mother, that you insult, 

 exult — a V outrecuidance — over the wretched ?" 



As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 5. 



C. Forbes. 

 Temple. 



The Salt Box, a College Examination (Vol. v., 

 pp.54, 137.). — This admirable jew d^ esprit was 

 written by Francis Hopkinson, Esq., one of the 

 signers of the Declaration of Independence from 

 New Jersey, afterwards Judge of the Court of 

 Admiralty. He was the author of the humorous 



piece on House-cleaning, sometimes ascribed tQ 

 Franklin. His works, in three octavo volumes, 

 were published forty or fifty years ago, and con- 

 tain " The Salt Box." Uneda, 

 Philadelphia. 



Connecticut Halfpenny (Vol. iv., p. 424.). — The 

 coin referred to by your correspondent J. N. C. is 

 a Connecticut cent or penny. The head on the 

 obverse is a fancy piece, bearing an olive crown, 

 and having the breast and shoulders clothed iu, 

 ancient armour. The inscription is, " Auctori : 

 Connect." — the colon after the first word showing 

 it to be a contraction probably for " Auctoritate," 

 by the authority of. No individual can be called 

 the founder of Connecticut. The motto on the 

 reverse is " Inde. et Lib.," meaning "Independence 

 and Liberty." The dates of the two now before 

 me are 1787. I do not believe that any were 

 issued so early as 1781. Uneda* 



Philadelphia. 



Chaddertoris Arms (Vol. vi., p. 273.). — There 

 seems to be some mistake in the account of Chad- 

 derton's arms given as above. The usual blazon- 

 ing is — Gules, a' cross potent crossed or, for Chad- 

 derton ; argent, a chevron gules between three 

 nuthooks sable (not 2;'s) for Nuthurst. (See Corry's 

 Lancashire, vol. ii. pp. 549, 550. 600. ; and Greg- 

 son's Fragments, p. 189.) If the inquirer have 

 access to the Chetham Society's publications, he 

 may see both coats, as quarterings of Chetham, 

 stamped on the back of each volume. P. P. 



Taliesin's Mabinogi (Vol. vi., p. 370.)' — Your 

 correspondent I. J. H. H. refers H. T. H. to the 

 story of Taliesin for some intimations about the 

 salmon fisheries of Wales. He speaks of it as if 

 it were authentic, and of the sixth century. A» 

 mistakes on these points must seriously impair the 

 worth of such a reference, I beg to say that it is as 

 well established as any fact can be, that the Ma- 

 binogi of Taliesin is a pure fiction ; and it is 

 ascribed to Thomas ab Einion, who flourished 

 about A.D. 1260. He was perhaps the author of 

 the finished story ; but we can discern traces of it 

 in the poems of the preceding hundred years, and 

 that is undoubtedly the greatest antiquity that can 

 be ascribed to the tale. Mr. Stephens has been 

 careful to indicate the real character of the story 

 in his excellent work on The Literature of the 

 Kymry, to which your correspondent refers. 



B. B. Woodward. 



St. John's Wood. 



Roman (or British') Road in Berkshire (Vol. vi., 

 pp.271. 328.). — If Mr. Hodges were to inspect 

 the continuation, near the White Horse, of the 

 road he mentions, he would, I think, agree with 

 me that it is a British, not a Roman road. It is 

 much wider than Roman ways usually are j its 



