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NOTES AND QITERlES. 



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nified to bubble, and afterwards to boil. BuUio, 

 in the technical Mint sense, denoted melted or 

 boiled-down coin; the Italian buglione, and the 

 French bouillon, bore the more homely meaning 

 of broth. The French billon, to which Richardson 

 traces the word bvllion, seems to have some other 

 origin, as it signifies base or false coin. L. 



The Largest Parishes and Townships (2"^ S. v. 

 148. 265. 325.) — Add to preceding lists, in Cum- 

 berland, St. Bees, 70,000 acres ; Crosthwaite, 

 58,330 ; Greystoke, 48,960 : in Westmorland, 

 Kendal, 68,360; Barton, 35,000; Kirkby Lons- 

 dale, 35,569 : in Cheshire, Prestbury, 63,125 (pop. 

 59,265) : in Lancashire, Manchester, 33,553 (pop. 

 452,158) ; Rochdale, 58,620 (pop. 98,013) : in 

 West Yorkshire, Halifax, 76,740 (pop. 149,257) ; 

 Kirkby Malzeard, 57,040 ; Ripon, 55,786 ; Sed- 

 bergh, 52,882; Ecclesfield, 43,540; Bradford, 

 34,146 (pop. 149,543) : in North Yorkshire, 

 Aysgarth, 77,308 ; Grinton, 48,961 ; Helmsley, 

 44,382 ; Pickering, 81,785. 



Some of the northern townships are very large. 

 In West Yorkshire there are Dent, 23,200 acres ; 

 Sedbergh, 21,402; Horton, 18,970; Ingleton, 

 17,858 : in North Yorkshire, Bilsdale, 18,971 ; 

 Fylingdales, 18,458; Hawes, 16,872 : in Cumber- 

 land, Ennerdale, 16,998 ; Eskdale, 13,000 : in 

 Westmorland, Helbeck, 22,468. Hyde Cla&ke. 



" Gat-toothed'' (2*^^ S. v. 392.) — As an addition 

 to the excellent note of Mb. Boys, I would sug- 

 gest \\x&t gat-toothed does not mean that the votary 

 of the Paphian queen had any tooth actually re- 

 sembling, in shape that of the goat, any more than 

 when a very old man marries a young wife and 

 is said to have a coUs tooth, it is meaht to be 

 stated that he has any tooth resembling that of a 

 colt, or perhaps any tooth at all. There is also 

 the further illustration that, in the West of Eng- 

 land, an old man who runs after persons of the 

 other sex much younger than himself, is called in 

 derision " an old goat." F. A. Cabeingtom. 



The Ctddees (2°* S. v. 377.) — Perhaps your 

 correspondent T. will find, upon reference to Dr. 

 Jamieson's History of the Culdees, 4to. Edin. 1811, 

 and Maccallum's History of the Culdees, 12mo. 

 Edin. 1855, full information as to his Query, 

 " When and where is the last mention made of 

 these early religionists ? " T. G. S. 



T. Emlyn (2"^ S. v. 396.) — As the date, both 

 in the autograph and the imprint, is clearly 1757, 

 the volume cannot have belonged to the Emlyn. 

 Putting the Query in other form, can any one 

 give a brief account of the heretic's descendants 

 and near relatives ? S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



The Merino Flocks of Louis XVI. and George 

 III. (2'«> S. v. 310. 383.) — In reply to the corre- 



spondent who inquired whether the wool of the 

 Merino sheep has degenerated in England, I send 

 you the following extract from an article by Pro- 

 fessor Wilson in the 16th volume (1855) of the 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 

 land : — 



" There are but few Merino flocks in England ; those 

 now remaining are descendants of the Windsor flock. 

 Lord Somerville's, Lord Western's, Mr. Trimmer's and 

 others, and now exhibit a marked difference from the 

 original Merinos, wliicli were essentially a wooZ- producing 

 breed, whereas the English Merinos of the present day 

 are much improved in size, sj'mmetry, and in disposition 

 to fatten ; at the same time the fleece has been increased 

 in length of staple and in weight, without any great de- 

 terioration of its peculiar fineness." 



VespkbtiliO. 



Fabians Chronicle (2°'^ S. v. 314.) — If Mr. 

 Offoe will look at Strype's Ecclesiastical Memo- 

 rials (vol. iii. chap, x.), he will find that gallows 

 were set up in London, Feb. 12, 1554, for the 

 punishment of persons connected with Wyat's 

 insurrection. These doubtless stood till the fol- 

 lowing June. P. P. P. 



Pig's Marrow will drive you Mad (2"* S. v, 

 391.) — ^This idea prevails in Gloucestershire, and 

 when a little boy I was advised against this viand 

 by the nursery-maid. I cannot find any trace of 

 this notion in Wiltshire. I need hardly add, that 

 this is an unfounded prejudice, and that I have 

 been sceptical enough to disregard the nursery- 

 maid's advice ever since it was given. 



F. A. Cabbington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Monumental Inscriptions (2°^ S. v. 201. 249.) — 

 I know a churchyard in the diocese of Sarum, co. 

 Dorset, from which, as from a storehouse, the 

 jobbing masons helped themselves to slabs of 

 Beer-stone or Portland-stone as they required it. 

 I remember calling upon a gentleman to tell him 

 that an elevated tomb of the date of James I., on 

 which was recorded the death of several of his 

 ancestors, had been carried off during the past 

 week. There was an a^ed curate, but no resident 

 vicar. Some slabs of great historical interest 

 were made away with for common repairs of the 

 church. Many of these inscriptions have not been 

 recorded. G. R- L. 



" The Quality Papers" (2"^ S. v. SU.)—The 

 Quality Papers were written by Mr. Duke Willis. 

 He was a son of one of the Mr. Willises of St. 

 James's Street, and placed as an articled clerk 

 with some eminent solicitors in Lincoln's Inn. I 

 served my articles in the same office at the same 

 time. Duke Willis was always more fond of li- 

 terature than law, and I believe that he never 

 practised, but went to America shortly after the 

 publication of The Quality Papers, and died there. 



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