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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ S. V, 127., June 5. '68. 



the destruction of these insects in gardens, so 

 that when placed on a flower-bed, the attraction 

 would be greater than that of the plants, and by 

 eating it they would be destroyed ? or whether, 

 by application to the plants without injuring them, 

 such preparation might preserve them from the 

 nightly attacks of these little animals ? 



I have asked the question of various gardeners, 

 and of editors of publications devoted to horticul- 

 ture, but can get no satisfactory reply : they seem 

 to rely solely upon the old-fashioned plan of an 

 inverted flower-pot ; but this mode disposes of a 

 tithe only of the swarms which are now infesting 

 my verbenas and calceolarias, &c., which are some- 

 times at night quite black with earwigs, destroy- 

 ing in a tew hours a valuable plant. In my 

 difficulty I apply to "N. & Q.," hoping and be- 

 lieving some of its scientific readers may be able 

 to suggest a simple but " infallible remedy." 



Bristoliensis. 



Wild Garlic. — Mrs. Daly would feel greatly 

 obliged to the editor of " N. & Q." to ascertain 

 for her, through his journal, if it is possible to 

 destroy wild garlic by any chemical preparation, 

 or any method that would not be so expensive as 

 grubbing it up. Adjoining the house and plea- 

 sure grounds of Gatcombe is a rookery of great 

 extent, and with very handsome trees, but the 

 whole is so overrun with wild garlic that the smell 

 is quite sickening ; the difficulty consists in de- 

 stroying the garlic without injury or risk of in- 

 jury to the trees. But Mrs. Daly imagines that 

 something may be used to kill the garlic, but not 

 sufficiently powerful to injure the roots of the 

 trees. 

 Gatcombe Park, Isle of Wight. 



Wanton Family. — \y^hafc was the Christian 

 name of Valentine Wanton's eldest son, who was 

 killed at Marston Moor in 1644? Sir H. Ellis 

 (Letters, 1" Ser. iji. 299.), says it was probably 

 Valentine, but he was buried July 19, 1646, at 

 Great Staughton, where Colonel Wanton resided. 

 Valentine Wanton succeeded to the estates of Sir 

 George Wanton, who ob. s. p. m. in 1606. In 

 what degree was he related to Sir George ? 



Joseph Rix. 

 St. Neot's. 



Quotation Wanted. — 

 " Man loves but to possess — and if unblest, 

 His sickly fancy languishes, expires, 

 But woman clasps Chimera to her breast, 

 Small aliment her purer flame requires. 

 She, like the young Cameleon, lives on air, 



Content no grosser sustenance to gain : 



A glove, a ring, perchance a lock of hair, 



Is all she asks to recompense her pain." 



W. F. P. 



Copying Ferns. — What other process is there 

 for copying ferns, &c., besides the bichromate of 

 potass process ? Tom Fekn. 



Minat Hhuttie^ iuitfi ^ni^atrS. 

 " Potwallopers." — Query, derivation? FuiT. 



[In the Gent. Mag., June, 1852, p. 387., is a verj' in- 

 teresting article on this subject by Mr. John Gough 

 Nichols. The paper is well worth an attentive perusal, 

 though too long for insertion in "N. & Q." The learned 

 writer notices at least three distinct meanings of the verb 

 to wallop: first, to gallop; secondly, to drub; thirdly, to 

 boil. This last meaning has been generally received and 

 recognised in explanation of the familiar term potwal- 

 lopers. To boil is in Sa. wealan, and in Ger. wallen ; to boil 

 tip, Ger. avfwallen, old Du. opwallen. We here, it has 

 been supposed, transfer the particle from the beginning 

 of the word to the end, as we do in many other instances; 

 so that op-tvallen becomes wallen-op (to boil up) or wallop. 

 Mr. Nichols is disposed to question this derivation ; giving 

 it at the same time as his opinion that the original term 

 was not pot-walloper, but pot-waller or pot-wealer, which, 

 however, comes to the same thing. Yet on behalf of the 

 word potwalloper, it may be permitted to urge an inde- 

 pendent plea. Potwallopers were not only those recog- 

 nised constituents who had in some places acquired the 

 right of sutFrage by keeping house and boiling a pot, i. e. 

 maintaining themselves without charitable or parochial 

 aid. The term also included " every p6or wretch " who 

 belonged to the parish, and was " caused to boil a pot " in 

 order to qualify him as a voter ; and this was sometimes 

 done by erecting a thing like a chimney in a field or in 

 the street, where they kindled a fire, on which they boiled 

 a pot ! This, it is clear, was something very like manu- 

 facturing fictitious votes, and voting in a fictitious cha- 

 racter. Now, in old German law-Latin, walapaus (walapa, 

 walpoz, ewalaput) was a counterfeit; strictly speaking, 

 one who for fraudulent purposes assumed a disguise. "Wa- 

 lapaus est, qui sefurtim vestimentum alium induerit, aut 

 sibi caput latrocinandi animo, aut faciem transjiguravit." 

 The pot-walloper, then, may have been originally the pot- 

 walapa (pot-counterfeit) ; and pot-walapa may have gra- 

 dually passed into our \e.Tna.cn\diT pot-walloper (pot-boiler). 

 The derivation of walapa, walapaus, &c. has been supposed 

 by some to be wala (caput), and panken ( ? ), or pautzen 

 (ornare) ; by others, wala (extraneus), and paida (Goth, 

 tunica). Du Cange, edit. Henschel, on Walapaus. "The 

 Langobardi apply the term walapaitz (otherwise quala- 

 pauz, walapaoz) to any one who disguises his face and 

 dresses as a thief for the purpose of stealing, as robbers in 

 the present day put on masks and blacken their counte- 

 nance." Grimm, Deutsche Rechts Alterthiimer, p. 635. 

 note.] 



'^AnglicB Notitifs" and the Chamherlaynes. — The 

 above work, commenced by the Rev. Edward 

 Chamberlayne, D.D., about the year 1669, and 

 continued successively (under the title of Magnoe 

 Britannia: Notiti(B from the Union in 1707) by 

 his son John to 1755, is in great esteem as a book 

 of reference, and I should be obliged to any cor- 

 respondent of " N. & Q." to inform me if these 

 persons were of the ancient family of the Cham- 

 herlaynes of Maugresbury, in the parish of Stow 

 on the Wold, Gloucestershire. S. S. S. 



[The Chamberlayne family derive their descent from 

 the Counts, or at least Barons, of Tanquerville, in Nor- 

 mandy. John, Count of Tanquerville, being made 

 chamberlain to the King of England about five hundred 

 years ago, his descendants thence took the name of 

 fchamberlayne. They branched out into the several 

 houses of Sherborne-Castle in Oxfordshire, now extinct, 



