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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. V. 118., APML 3. '58. 



Interment of Trophies of the Oarter. — The fol- 

 lowing passage occurs in Lady Suffolk's Letters, i. 

 311. note : 



" On Sunday, 29th Sept. 1728, his majesty assumed his 



royal state as "sovereign of the Garter The Dukes 



of Argyle and Kent performed the ceremony of interring 

 the late king's trophies." 



To what does this refer ? Vbbna. 



[This ceremony is better known as the Offering, insti- 

 tuted by King Henry V., an honour done to a defunct 

 knight by a solemn offering up of his acliievements at 

 the altar, namely, the banner of his arras, his sword, hel- 

 met, and crest, with its mantlings, all which had been 

 set up over his stall when he was installed. These obla- 

 tions are granted to the Dean and Canons of Windsor, 

 and deposited by them in the Chapter-House. For an 

 account of the ceremony, see Ashmole's History of the 

 Garter, pp. 629 — 635. ; and Sir H. Nicolas'a*^Js<. of the 

 Orders of Knighthood, ii. 422—426.] 



Fore-sloio. — What is the meaning and deri- 

 vation of this word ? and when did it drop out of 

 comnion use? It occurs in Hammond, in Jiis 

 Sermon on St. Matt. x. 15., " You must not fore- 

 slow the audience or procrastinate." 



Alfred T. Lee. 



[The meaning of this word is to retard. It is com- 

 pounded of /ore, i. e. forth, and the Anglo-Saxon sleacian, 

 sleacgian, tardere, remittere, relaxare, pigrescere (Tooke, 

 ii. 346.). Fore-slow was in common use from the times 

 of Chaucer to those of Dryden. It appears to have fallen 

 into desuetude during the seventeenth century. See also 

 Nares's Glossary. "^ 



Walton s ^'■Life of Donne" — In Izaak Walton's 

 Life of Donne, a letter is given in which Donne 

 expresses himself thus : — 



" It is now spring, and all the pleasures of it displease 

 me ; every other tree blossoms and I wither." 



This letter bears the date of Sept, 7. {Vide ed. 

 Zouch, York, 1817, vol. i. p. 69.) I have exa- 

 mined various editions of Walton's Lives, and in 

 all that I have seen the same discrepancy exists, 

 and seems to have escaped the notice of editors. 

 Can you or any of your readers reconcile it ? 



A. A. 



[This apparent anachronism may be thus reconciled. 

 Walton, as he states himself, made his extracts from 

 several of Donne's letters. Four of these letters in ex- 

 tenso, but without dates, were printed as an Appendix to 

 Walton's Life of Dr. Donne, the Second Impression cor- 

 rected and enlarged, 8vo. 1658. On the publication of 

 the four Lives in one volume in 1670, a portion of these 

 letters, with extracts from others, were by our worthy 

 Angler all rolled into one, and incorporated in the me- 

 moir, the date, Sept. 7, being then added to the last. 

 A few of the extracts may be identified in Donne's Letters, 

 edit. 1651, 4to., at pages 36. 50, 51. and 78.] 



t Dr. William Tumhull, — In a little work just 



published, entitled Hawick and its Old Memories 

 (Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co., Edinburgh), I find 

 mention made of a little volume called Border 

 Exploits, and of a Dr. William Turnbull, physi- 

 cian to the Eastern Dispensary, who is stated to 



have furnished the medical articles to the Dic- 

 tionary of Arts and Sciences, published in 1779 by 

 the Rev. Erasmus Middleton. Who was this gen- 

 tleman, and where is his biography to be found ? 



T. 



[Watt {Biblioth. Britan.) notices The Medical Works 

 of the late Dr. William Turnbull, with a Life of the 

 Author, by his Son, William Turnbull, A.M., Timo. 

 1805.] 



Dr. Henry Aldrich. — I am anxious to obtain 

 any information respecting Dr. H. Aldrich, Dean 

 of Christ Church. Sir J. Hawkins's Memoir is 

 exceedingly meagre, and this I believe to be the 

 only one extant. I should be very glad of refer- 

 ences to other works, or information of any kind. 



W. G. Rouse. 



[The notice of Dr. Aldrich in Kippis's Biographia 

 Britannica is useful, on account of its references to works 

 containing other particulars of the worthy author of the 

 celebrated catch, " Hark, the bonny Christ Church Bells." 

 Consult also Reliquice Heamiana, vol. i. passim; and At- 

 terbury's Letters, by Nichols. The epitaph on the good 

 Dean is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, liv. 506.] 



Game of'''' One and Thirty." — In Bishop Earle's 

 Microcosmography (edited by Bliss, p. 62.), men- 

 tion is made of the game of " One and Thirty/' 

 The editor acknowledges his inability to give any 

 explanation of it ; and so do I. Can any reader 

 of " N. & Q." throw light upon the subject ? 



Abhba. 



[Archdeacon Nares states that " this game was familiar 

 within my memory, but chiefly among children ; it was 

 very like the French game vingt-un, only a longer reckon- 

 ing"" ( GZossary, art. Thirty-one.) Others, however, 

 tell us that it resembled the modern rouge-et-noir. The 

 game was popular in Spain and Ireland.] 



3Sitp\iti. 



BACON S ESSAYS. 



(2"<i S. v. 238.) 



I candidly confess that I wrote the Notes on 

 Mr. Singer's edition of Bacon under a keen sense 

 of disappointment with a book which I had taken 

 up with every favourable prepossession, and I al- 

 lowed this reaction of feeling to tinge them more 

 than I ought. This feeling was increased by the 

 want of consideration Mr. Singer displays for 

 that zealous and accomplished disciple of Bacon, 

 — Mr. Montagu. Had I written, as I first in- 

 tended, an article for a Review, I should not have 

 appeared so onesided or such " a determined 

 fault-finder," but should have expatiated on the 

 merits of Mr. Singer's valuable preface, and 

 many useful notes, as well as the accuracy of his 

 text, as far as the Essays are concerned. Writing 

 for " N. & Q.," I became ungenerously terse. 



" The mystery " of my criticising Mr. S.'s book 

 instead of Abp. Wbateley's is explained by the 



