2°<» S. "V. 121., April 24. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



343 



Chinese It at the ninth or tenth part of a 

 league, and the entire length of the great wall 

 at 1500 English miles, we can really gather 

 nothing as to the precise length of the wall from 

 the application of the phrase " wan-lV to it. We 

 can only conclude that the structure must be 

 enormous in length, &c., and we do that safely. 



W. C. M. 



Bannisters Budget Q2^^ S. v. 315.) — A Con- 

 stant Reader will find the story to which he 

 refers, " Two Ways of telling the same Story," at 

 p. 190. of the second volume of John Adolphus's 

 Life of Bannister^ published by Bentley, 1839; 

 and which may most likely be had at Lacy's the 

 bookseller, in the Strand. E. Y. Lowne. 



Judas Iscariot (2°^ S. v. 294.) — Mr. Denham, 

 in Kitto's Cyclopadia (ii. 170.), has given a sum- 

 mary of the various views held upon Judas's mo- 

 tives for betraying his Lord ; and his authorities 

 are Whately, Whitby, Bull, Hales, Macknight, 

 Rosenmiiller, and Kuinoel. The opinions of 

 some of the Fathers are given by Whitby (on 

 Matt, xxvii. 3.). T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Miltoniana (2°'^ S. v. 250.) — All local tradition 

 at Stowmarket testifies that Milton visited Dr. 

 Young there. A room in the vicarage is still 

 called Milton's room ; and a mulberry-tree in the 

 vicarage garden is carefully preserved as having 

 been planted by the poet. An inscription on a 

 lady of the Talbot family in the parish church, 

 1638, has been thought to be Milton's compo- 

 sition. Full particulars may be found in Hol- 

 lingsworth's History of Stowmarket. P. P. P. 



Dean Dixie (2°'> S. v. 215.) — In the last edi- 

 tion of Sir Bernard Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 

 217., it is stated that Nicholas Coddington, second 

 son of Dixie Coddington of Holmpatrick, married 

 Miss Dixie, and had two sons, Dixie, born in 

 1665, and Henry, and a daughter Elizabeth. He 

 very properly called his eldest son after his own 

 father. Abhba. 



" Thomas Astle" (2"'^ S. v. 214.)— Thomas As- 

 tle, Esq., son-in-law of the late Rev. Philip Mo- 

 rant of Colchester, had issue nine children. The 

 eldest son, Thomas, had one son who died an in- 

 fant. Philip Astle, the second son, took the name 

 and arms of Hills, and his eldest son Robert Hills 

 of Colne Park, Essex, is the present representa- 

 tive of Thomas Astle. F. N. L. 



What is a Tye f (2"'^ S. v. 298.)— Notwithstand- 

 ing the learned lucubrations of E. G-. R., a " Tie's 

 a Tie for all that," and "Tye" or "Tie" is right 

 according to Ihre, " a strip of pasture," many of 

 which Mb. Holt White must know around his 

 mansion in Essex ; and several of them having a 



post in the centre, where a horse road crosses the 

 lacinia prati, to which horses are directed to be 

 tied up by parties coming from a distance, and 

 having to proceed further, riding so far and send- 

 ing their first steeds back. W. Collyns. 

 Haldon. 



" The Milk of human kindness " (2""^ S. v. 294.) 

 — If your correspondent J. B. S. ever propounded 

 his idea that the expression was comparatively 

 modern, nothing more likely than that the first 

 wag he met with should father it upon Charles 

 Lamb. If he had proceeded to make farther in- 

 quiries, the wag would probably have carried on 

 the hoax by quoting, as Lamb's, Lady Macbeth's 

 words — 



" . . . .1 fear thy nature ; 



It is too full of the milk of human kindness 



To catch the nearest way." 



N.B. In Johnson's Dictionary (at least the 

 quarto edition of 1820), voc. Milk, the passage 

 is erroneously given with a reference to King 

 Lear ; as it is also in Harrison's edition, 1786, 

 stated to be " literally reprinted from the original 

 edition," and the error is followed by Dr. Todd, in 

 1827. Meletes. 



Bird: s- Eye Views of Towns, ^c. (2°^ S. v. 11 9.)— 

 To the list of works given by Aliqdis, W. H. W. 

 T., and R. W., I beg to add the following (a copy of 

 which is in this library), surpassing in clearness of 

 design and style of execution the Magnum Thea- 

 trum Vrlium Belgicee of Bleav, and the Theatrum 

 ScoticB of Slezer, viz., Braunius (Georgius), Civi- 

 tates Orbis Terrarum, in ces incisce et excuses, et De- 

 scriptione Topographica,morali et politicaillustratce, 

 Colonice, 1572-1618, 6 torn, in 3 vol. fol. 



J. D. Haig, Librarian. 



King's Inns Library, Dublin. 



Early Lists of the Army (2°'^ S. v. 191.) —J. 

 H. begs to return thanks to Delta, and to Messrs. 

 F. R. Stewart and Maclean for their replies 

 (2°'^ S.v. 281.) to the above Query ; and to the last- 

 named gentleman for his courteous offer to sub- 

 mit to inspection the series of lists in his charge. 

 Will Delta kindly increase the obligation already 

 conferred, by informing J. H. whether the Anglia 

 Notitia of the Chamberlaynes contains the names 

 of captains and subalterns as well as of field-offi- 

 cers; also where that work may be seen?* Is 

 there a copy in the British Museum ? Also 

 Avhere the Army List (Younge's), 1739-40, and 

 subsequent lists he mentions may be found ? He 

 will observe that the lists in the War Office are 

 complete only from 1757. 



J. H. continues to beg information respecting 

 any other early lists of officers in the army, and 



[* Chamberlayne's Anglia Notitia, 1669 to 1755, with 

 a few omissions, are in the British Museum.] 



