2»<> S. V. 121., April 24. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



333 



to Prof. Stanley, was inserted in The Quarterly 

 Review, shortly after Mr. Hare's death, not to 

 mention other notices in the magazines and news- 

 papers. A few extracts from La«dor, Niebuhr, 

 Welcker, &c., are collected in The Journal of 

 Classical and Sacred Philology, vol. ii. pp. 330 — 

 333. See also the preface to Arnold's History of 

 Rome, vol. iii., and the dedications to Thirlwall's 

 History of Greece, and to Bunsen's Hippolytus ; 

 Simpkinson's Life of George Wagner (Macmillan, 

 Carabr. 1858),- Brock's Life of Gen. Havelock 

 (Hare's school -friend), ed. 3. pp. 12—14. 69. 104. 

 Bernhard Gabler in his book entitled Die voll- 

 stdndige Litfirgie und die 39 Artikel der Kirche 

 von England (Altenburg, 1843, 8°. pp. 16. 21.), 

 gives an account of a visit which he paid to "the 

 greatest German scholar " in England. Lastly, 

 Prof. SchafF has employed an entire article of his 

 series " On Church Parties in England " (printed 

 in Schneider's Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Christliche 

 Wissenschaft und Christliches Leben, Berlin, 1857), 

 in a review of The Mission of the Comforter, and 

 its author's other works. J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



The " William and Ann^ — 



"Madeira, lUh Mar. The 'William and Ann' (barque), 

 Magub, of London, from Newport to this island, encoun- 

 tered a hurricane off the East end of this island 5th Mar., 

 had her foremast, quarter-boat, stanchions, and bulwarks 

 carried away, and becoming very leaky, was abandoned 

 on the 8th in a sinking state ; crew saved, by the ' Ca- 

 therine ' (schr.), Tyrer, which had been blown out of this 

 port, and was returning on the 10th with loss of a seaman 

 overboard." 



The above cutting from Lloyd's List of yester-f 

 day announces the loss of the old ship which con- 

 veyed General Wolfe to Quebec, and of which 

 several notices have appeared in former numbers 

 of " N. & Q." A. O. H. 



Blackheath, April 15. 1858. 



Parliamentary Representation. — It is stated in 

 Burke's History of the Commoners of Great Bri- 

 tain and Ireland, vol. ii. p. 107., that the family of 

 Rochfort, the elder branch of which was elevated 

 to the peerage in the now extinct earldom of Bel- 

 vedere, represented the county of Westmeath for 

 150 years ; and somewhat the same may be said 

 of the Archdalls, of Castle-Archdall, who have 

 represented for an equal space of time, and still 

 represent in the person of Captain Mervyn Arch- 

 dall (so far as one seat is concerned) the county 

 of Fermanagh. Is any pargillel case to be found 

 elsewhere ? 



It is perhaps worthy of note, that the last vote 

 of Colonel Mervyn Archdall in the Irish House of 

 Commons was against the Legislative Union, and 



the last vote of his son, the late General Mervyn 

 Archdall, in the Imperial Parliament was against 

 its repeal. Abhba. 



[The Knightleys, more or less, have represented North 

 Northamptonshire since the reign of Charles I. ; and the 

 Sibthorpes have represented Lincoln for nearly a century 

 and a half.] 



Mock Litanies in Children's Games. — Just as 

 the fervour of the Reformation in Scotland pro- 

 duced such literary and musical exhibitions as 

 Warburton's Godlie Songs to Ungodly Tunes, the 

 popular ritual of the Roman church seems to 

 have extended itself tq the games of the chil- 

 dren in which they counted each other out : at 

 least, in a MS. collection of these, which I have 

 made in Forfarshire, I can hardly account for the 

 grotesque phonetic resemblance of certain pas- 

 sages on any other principle ; and I dare say some 

 of your able correspondents can inform me whe- 

 ther this notion has ever struck any of them ? 

 Many of these "counts" are, like Warburton's 

 Godlie Ballads, unfit for ears polite. But I sub- 

 join you two for registration and for considera- 

 tion, whether this ultra-popular species of ridicule 

 may not, at and from the period referred to, have 

 played a part conspicuously illustrative of the 

 adage — " Give me the songs of a country to write, 

 and I care not who writes its history." The first 

 is maccaronic : — 



" Eenery annerj', sistpry, aannery. 



Drops of vinegar new begun. 



Eat that, mouse fat, 



Cum teetle, cum tattle, cum twenty-one." 



It is evident I have lost a number here, as there 

 are not twenty-one, but twenty only in the count. 

 The next, I fear, is still more out of reckoning, 

 although a far more superb specimen of the bur- 

 lesque language : — 



" Eenity,* finitj', ficcaty, feg. 

 El del deman egg, 

 Irky birky story rock. 

 An tan tush Jock, 

 Alia MacCracker, ten or eleven, 

 Peem pom, must be done, 

 Cum tootle, cum tattle, cum twenty-one." 



I think I discover in the structure of these 

 " counts," particularly in the view attaching to 

 them — and indeed I fear that the first may have 

 been intended for ridicule of the words of admi- 

 nistration of the Holy Eucharist — something 

 above the capacity of childhood. 



Sholto Macdufi!". 



Origin of the Word Trade. — The word "trade" 

 is derived by Johnson from the Italian tratta. Jt 

 ought to be derived from the French truite, which 

 was doubtless the immediate origin of the English 

 word ; though its significations in relation to com- 

 merce are more limited and special than that of 



* Commencing obviously, as before, with the unit or 

 « unity." 



