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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 164. 



with sentiments and views on the political topics of 

 the day. Hamilton wished apparently to purchase 

 his celebrity, and we know that Burke had a hard 

 time, washing his employer's dirty linen. I sus- 

 pect Hamilton got all the glory of the "poor 

 scholar's " thunder. 



Is not a writer in Eliza CooFs Journal wrong 

 in mentioning, among the simpler Saxon words 

 used for household and familiar things, the word 

 home? I have an idea it came from Mount 

 Aventine. I think I have read in the piebald 

 Anglo-Norman of an old law book, the words 

 maison homme, maison heest, and maison home, 

 maison beast, meaning the man-house and the 

 beast-house, the dwelling and the stable. I 

 suppose the common term was dropped in time, 

 and the home remained to express the -place of re- 

 sidence. If I am right, man is home, and home is 

 man. W. Dow£. 



Chelsea, Mass. 



Tipperary, Lines on. — "WTio was the author of 

 the lines commencing — 



" Tliere was a bard in sad quandary 

 To find the rhyme for Tipperary ; 

 He hunted through the dictionary, 

 But found no rhyme for Tipperary ; 

 He rummaged the vocabulary, 

 But still no rhyme for Tipperary; ' 

 He applied unto his mother Mary 

 To know the rhyme for Tipperary ; 

 But she, good woman, knew her dairy. 

 But not the rhyme for Tipperary." 



and ending — ■ 



" At last this bard, in sad quandary, 

 Resolved to leave out Tipperary." 



Where can the whole of these verses be found ? 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia."] 



Margaret and Pearl. — Can any one inform me 

 the uncle derivatur of Margaret: the name in 

 several tongues is similar ? Also, what is the 

 etymon of our English word pearl ? Ifigfowl. 



Magnetic Force. ■ — I should be glad to be in- 

 formed whether there is any diiference in the in- 

 tensity of the magnetic force at the magnetic 

 poles and at the equator, and, if any, what is the 

 ratio of increase or decrease ? Adsum. 



Passage in " TJie Boldon Buke." — By The Boldon 

 Buke, " in Wermouthe et Tunstall " the smith has 

 twelve acres for the iron-work of the ploughs, et 

 carbonem quern invenit. Mr. Greenwell, in the 

 recently published edition of The Buhe for the 

 Surtees Society, renders the last clause, and the 

 " coal which he wins." Here is a difficulty : the 

 coal in Wearmouth and Tunstall lies at a great 

 depth ; some portion of it may have been worked 



by neighbouring colliery owners, but I believe no 

 pit has yet been sunk in this parish ; in fact, it is 

 only by the use of the machinery of the present 

 day that it could be reached. 



Will any of your readers give an opinion on 

 this point ? Hugh. 



Bishop Wearmouth. 



Lady Catherine Grey. — Her marriage with 

 William Earl of Hertford is stated to have taken 

 place in the latter end of the year 1560, "between 

 AUhallowtide and Christmas," in the Earl's house 

 in Cannon Row; and the clergyman is said to have 

 been a Puritan divine, " one of those lately re- 

 turned from Germany." Is his name known, and 

 the exact day of the month when the marriage 

 took place ? A. S. A. 



Punjaub. 



Mrs. Machey's Poems. — I have a volume which, 

 I presume, is scarce, as I never saw another copy, 

 and I am sure is curious for its wonderful niai- 

 series, T'he Scraps of Nature ; a Poem, by Mrs. 

 Mary Mackey, printed for the Authoress : London, 

 1810. It contains 380 pages of such stuff as a 

 nursemaid would extemporise to a child. If 

 shorter, I should have supposed it a burlesque : 

 but, bad as it is, it seems to have been written in 

 earnest. At pp. 216. and 234. are allusions to a 

 portrait which seems to have been intended to 

 accompany the poem ; but there is none to my 

 copy. Can any one tell me whether Mrs. Mary 

 Mackey was a real person, or whether anything is 

 known to account for her appearing in print ? I 

 add two short specimens, if you have room for 

 them. 



" Compliment to the Engraver. 

 " On the left side under the eye 

 There see the falling tear of Nature, 

 Which adds a double lustre 

 To the ideas of the engraver : " ' 



The tear of Nature still will fall, 

 But God will set the virtuous right, 

 And honest Nature sport the ball." — P. 324.. 



" The Produce of Nature is the Diction of Heaven.. 

 " Yes, God gave the diction. 

 And taught the hand of Nature to scribble. 

 Yes, she is the fountain 

 From which Nature flows ; 

 But the stream shall run clear. 

 Nor will Nature run low : 

 No, her works shall run high. 

 As the gift of her God, 

 But one volume die with her 

 When she lays a sod. 

 She's the pupil of Nature, 

 And the works of her God."— P. 339. 



G.a 



Yardley. 



Miniature Ring of Charles L — At p. 15-2. of 

 Hulbert's History of Salop is an account of a ring. 



