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80 also in sicknesses, which indeed was his master-piece. 

 In resolving questions about marriage he had good suc- 

 cess ; in other questions very moderate." Gamaliel 



Ratsey was a notorious highwayman, who always robbed 

 in a mask, made as hideous as possible, in order to strike 

 terror. In allusion to which he is called by Gab. Hervey, 

 " Gamaliel Hobgoblin." On the books of the Stationers' 

 Company (May, 1605) is entered a work called The Lyfe 

 and Death of Gamaliel Ratsey, a famous Theefe of Eng- 

 laiid, executed at Bedford. There are also several " Bal- 

 lats " on the subject entered about the same time. In 

 Earl Spencer's library at Althorpe is a tract, supposed 

 unique, entitled Batseis Ghost, or the Second Part of his 

 Mudde Prankes and Robberies, printed by V. S., and are 

 to be sold by John Hodgets in Paules Churchyard, 4to. 

 The date is cut off, but it was probably published be- 

 tween 1600 and 1606. In Rymer's Fcedera, vol. xvi. 



p. 66., there is a pardon from James I. to Simon Read, for 

 practising the black art : " Simon Read, of St. George's, 

 Southwark, professor of physic, \^o was indicted for the 

 invocation of wicked spirits, in order to find out the name 

 of the person who had stole 37Z. 10s. from Tobias Matthews 

 of St. Mary Steynings in London." This was in 1608. 

 This Simon Read and one Roger Jenkins stood suit with 

 the College of Physicians in 1602, for practising without 



a licence, in which they were both cast. At Eltliam 



was a puppet-show of great celebrity in Jonson's time. 

 It is called, in Peacham's verses to Coryat, " that divine 

 motion at Eltham ; " so that it was probably some piece 

 of Scripture history. Jouson introduces it again, in his 

 Epigrams, — 



" See vou yon motion ? not the old fa-ding, 

 Nor "Captain Pod, nor yet the Eltham thing."] 



i)iek or Deck. — Wanted the derivation of this 

 word, signifying to depart. Inus. 



["To deck," taken in the same sense here given, to 

 depart, may be viewed in connexion with the Scottish 

 daiker, to go slowly, to saunter. " To daiker up the gate," 

 to go slowly up a street. (Jamieson, on Dacker.) Deck 

 appears to be a provincial modification of tack, which 

 once signified a way, course, or direction, and which, 

 according to Halliwell, is used in Sussex for a path, a 

 causeway. Jack, sack, tack, &c., are sometimes pro- 

 nounced in the provinces jeck, seek, teck. From teck to 

 deck the transition would be easy. The tack of a ship, 

 though tacking now implies a change from one course to 

 another, once signified simply a ship's course or way. 

 With tack, a path, compare the German steig, which 

 means the same. Steig, and the German steigen, v., 

 which generally signifies to ascend, but in its primary 

 sense, to go, stand alike connected with the S. stigati, 

 which has also both meanings. The whole family bears 

 a strong likeness to the Gr. (rreCxeiv. Deck, to depart, 

 sometimes becomes transitive, and then signifies to send 

 away, to discard. Holloway, General Dictionary of Pro- 

 vincialisms,'} 



Ranger of Hampton Court. — 



" The Princess Amelia appointed ranger of Hampton 

 Court, and took the sacrament accordingly at St. Martin's 

 Church."— Gent's Mag., Feb. 1, 1749. 



Does this mean " took the customary oaths," or 

 attended divine service and partook of one of the 

 sacraments of our church ? J. B. S. 



[The celebrated statute of Charles II., enacted March, 

 1673, called the Test Act, compelled all officers, civil and 

 military, to take the oaths against transubstantiation, 

 &c., and to receive the sacrament according to the rites 



of the Church of England. The statute 9 Geo. IV. c. 17., 

 May 9, 1828, is entitled " An Act for repealing so much 

 of several Acts as impose the necessity of receiving the 

 Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a qualification for cer- 

 tain Offices and Employments."] 



Coya Shawsware, — A tomb to a JPersian mer- 

 chant of this name is mentioned by Antbony 

 Munday as standing in Petty France, at the west 

 end of the lower churchyard of St. Botolph's, 

 Bishopsgate without the Walls. He was buried 

 Aug. 10, 1626. There is an inscription in Persian 

 characters on the tomb. Is the tomb still in ex- 

 istence, and can any of your readers favour me 

 with a translation of the inscription ? The tomb 

 is engraved in Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. li. 

 1079. Libya. 



[The following translation of the inscription is given in 

 A New View of London, 1708, 'p. 169. : " This grave is 

 made for Hodges Shaughsware, the chiefest servant to 

 the King of Persia for twenty j'ears, who came from the 

 King of Persia, and died in his service." New Broad 

 Street now occupies the site of Petty France.] 



Mrs. Rachael Pengelly. — I shall feel obliged by 

 any information as to this lady's family. Richard 

 Cromwell in his will calls her " my good friend," 

 and leaves her "10?. for mourning, and the little 

 picture [whose picture ?] which he usually wore 

 with the gold chain." 



The will of her son Sir Thomas Pengelly, Lord 

 Chief Baron of the Exchequer, does not mention 

 this lady. Wab. 



[It has been conjectured by Mark Noble (^House of 

 Cromwell, i. 175.) that Sir Thomas Pengelly was a natural 

 son of Richard Cromwell; "and Richard's gallantry," 

 adds Noble, " makes it the more probable." In a pam- 

 phlet published by E. Curll in 1733, entitled Some Private 

 Passages of the Life of Sir Thomas Pengelly, written 

 by a Lady, 8vo., occurs the following particulars of Sir 

 Thomas's parentage, at p. 24. : " According to the regis- 

 ter, he was born in Morefields, May 16, 1675, and baptized 

 by the name of Thomas, the son of Thomas Pengelly. 

 Mr. Richard Cromwell living then in the neighbourhood 

 had a great esteem for his father; the circumstance of 

 his affairs obliging him to keep private, he spent most of 

 his time at their house, which gave him an opportunity 

 to observe and admire the earlj' virtues and surprising 

 genius of the son ; he conceived for him a tender love and 

 disinterested friendship, which continued between them 

 till Mr. Cromwell's death, which happened on Aug. 9j 

 1711, at his Lordship's seat, then Serjeant Pengelly, at 

 Cheshunt."] 



COST OR NEDESCOST. 

 (2"« S. v. 271.) 

 I cannot agree with the derivation given of this 

 word by the Rev. Thomas Boys, and suspect that 

 his ingenuity has in this instance overpowered 

 his judgment. The lines in Chaucer are — 

 " The night was short, and faste by the day, 

 That nedescost he most himselven hide." 



Cant, Tales, 1478, 



