2nd S. N« 107., Jan. 16. '68.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Satan and the Bope of Sand (2"<* S. v. 14.) — 

 In a note to a passage in Stanza 13., Canto ii. 

 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, J. P. will find 

 some information. Vbyan Rheged. 



Ireland Forgeries : Vortigern (2^^ S. ii. 492.) 

 — Again to resume this subject : in The Clubs of 

 London (2 vols. Colburn, 1828), vol. ii. p. 107., will 

 be found an interesting conversation the author 

 held with Kemble upon his conduct in the cele- 

 brated " Vortigern." Although convinced that it 

 was a forgery, Kemble insists that he acted fairly 

 by the piece, to give it a chance with the public ; 

 and denies that he did anything to make it ludi- 

 crous. He says, " Mrs. Siddons positively refused 

 to enter, as she expressed herself, into so abomi- 

 nable a conspiracy against the memory of Shak- 

 spere." Varlov ap Habrt. 



" Thumb-grog'' (2"'^ S. iv. 147. 500.)— On board 

 men-of-war the grog is served out to each mess in 

 large tin vessels, which contain the proper quan- 

 tity for the mess. A man is appointed daily to 

 serve out his messmates' grog. He has a large tin 

 vessel, into which he shoves his thumb, so that 

 when all the grog has been served out there will 

 remain as much as the thumb displaces. This is 

 his perquisite. The quantity of grog which re- 

 mains of course depends on the number of men in 

 the mess and the size of the thumb. Sailors call 

 this " plush " (plus ?) ; whether they also call it 

 " thumb-grog " I do not know. 



Thomas HoiiT White. 



Rights of Impropriators (2°* S. v. 13.)— The 

 question is a purely legal one, but it is one of those 

 straws which show how the wind blows. Let 

 impropriators look to their rights. It is nf>t long 

 since a vicar was coolly asking " N. & Q." for 

 leave to bury in the chancel. "When the lay rector 

 is locked out at " the priest's door," and has the 

 chancel pews taken from him, he will soon be 

 struggling to rid himself of the repairs, and the 

 parishioners in these anti-church-rate days are 

 not likely to take them on themselves. If vicars 

 establish a right to the chancel, they may find 

 they have made a bad bargain for themselves. 



P.P. 



Bibliographical Query (2°* S. iv. 512.) — Some 

 Observations on the Present State of Ireland^ Sj-c. 

 Dublin, 1731. [By Sir Richard Cox.] 'Axjew. 



Dublin. 



Wooden Bells (2'"^ S. iv. p. 491.). Perhaps 

 some Nottingham correspondent will describe the 

 wooden bells which used to hang on the steeple 

 of Lenton church. P. P. 



Frose Paste (2"'i S. v. 7.)- — • May not the 

 " frose paast " of Lady Jane Gray, mentioned in 

 p. 7. of " N. & Q." as taken oiF at the same time 

 as her " neckercher," have been her ruff round 



the neck, the French name for which is " fraise " 

 or " fraize " ? Klof. 



Punch Ladles (2°^ S. iv. 270.) — May not the 

 insertion of a coin at the bottom have originated 

 among the Cavaliers during the Commonwealth, 

 when the " blessed memory " was drunk, or with 

 the Jacobites who thus drank to " Chailie over 

 the Water." T. W. Wabfor. 



Brigliton. 



IWtgcenaueouiS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



It has long been known to those who have taken the 

 trouble to examine the text of The Aldine Poets that, in 

 many of the works included in that beautiful Series, there 

 is a marked deficiency of editorial superintendence, — 'the 

 gentlemen whose names figure on the title-pages being 

 for the most part responsible only for the biographical 

 notices which precede the poems. Our excellent pub- 

 lishers, having become the proprietors of this Series, have 

 determined to remove this great defect ; and accordingly 

 in the new issue every endeavour will be made to render 

 the books as accurate as they are handsome — as accepta- 

 ble to the lover of well-edited, as to the admirer of well- 

 printed iTooks. The names of Mr. Bolton Corney, Mr. 

 Cunningham, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Payne Collier, &c., who 

 figure in the list of intending Editors, give assurance 

 that this result will be accomplished. One of the first- 

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 The Poetical Works of William Collins, edited by Mr. Moy 

 Thomas, every page of which bears evidence of a con- 

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 of one determined to spare no pains in his search after 

 truth. The work is most creditable to Mr. Thomas ; and 

 if the whole Series is edited in the same way, there can 

 be no doubt Tlie Aldine Poets will be as great favourites 

 for their critical accuracy as for their typographical 

 beauty. 



We have a small batch of philological tracts which we 

 must introduce to our readers. The first, which has been 

 long on our table, is Shall and Will, or Two Chapters on 

 Auxiliary Verbs, by Sir Edmund Head; in which this 

 able writer discourses in his wonted and instructive man- 

 ner on these "puzzling auxiliaries." Roots and Rami' 

 f cations, or Extracts from various Books explanatory of 

 the Derivation or Meaning of divers Words, by A. J. 

 Knapp, will delight all who resemble the late Lord Hol- 

 land in his fondness for investigating " unde derivatur." 

 The book will not be the less liked that the profits are to 

 be devoted to the finding of School accommodation in a 

 district where it is much wanted. The third is The Ety- 

 mology of Local Names, loith a Short Introduction to the 

 Relationship of Languages, Part L Teutonic Names, by 

 R. Morris ; which will be very acceptable to Local Anti- 

 quaries. And, lastly, a pamphlet by Dean Trench, which 

 is of great importance in itself, and of great interest with 

 reference to the plan of the Philological Society, to which we 

 some time since called the attention of our readers. It is 

 entitled On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, 

 being the Substance of Two Papers read before the Philo- 

 logical Society, by K. C. Trench, D.D., Dean of West- 

 minster, 



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