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until three or four years after the battle of Dur- 

 ham. W. H. W. T. 

 Somerset House. 



Thurlehed and Long Oyster (2"<* S. v. 189.) — 



1. It appears from your correspondent's state- 

 ment that Thurlehed is used as an equivalent to 

 Thorlepol. Some account of the ThurlepoU, Horle- 

 pole, Whorpoul, Wharpoole, or Whirle-pool, will be 

 found in " N. & Q." (2"'> S. iv. 154.). It evidently 

 v?as a whale, though Gesner and Dr. Caius under- 

 stood different species. 



2. ^^Long-oyster, the sea cray-fish" (Halllwell). 

 This is an amusing instance of the modification 

 experienced by some foreign words, on their adop- 



' tion into our language. The sea cray-fish, or 

 lobster, is in Portuguese Lagosta, in French Lan- 

 gouste, in Spanish Langosta. Hence, Long-oyster. 

 It is stated that the Langouste attains the length 

 of a foot and a half, and when in condition 

 weighs from 12 to 14 pounds! (Bescherelle.) 

 Supposing such a specimen to have been provided, 

 " one long-oyster" was na contemptible dish to set 

 before the Judges in Assize. Thomas Boys. 



White Family (2""^ S. v. 111.) — Peter Whyte 

 was living at his vicarage at St. Neots in 1615, 

 when he made his will, which is now at Hunting- 

 don. He names Alice, his wife ; Peter, Robert, 

 and Writington, his sons. He was buried at Eaton 

 Socon. The parochial registers of Eaton Socon 

 do not sustain Mr. Gorham's statement that Peter 

 Whyte occurs as curate in 1566, and having re- 

 signed the vicarage in 1583, exercised his ministry 

 there without interruption till 1600. The regis- 

 ters were transcribed in 1599 from earlier re- 

 cords ; and at the foot of each page the accuracy 

 of the copy is testified by the churchwardens of 

 that year, and by Mr. Whyte, who wrote his name 

 so often that on one page, "Peter Peter" occurs 

 for " Peter Whyte." Josbph Kix. 



St. Neots. 



''The Boiled Pig" (V* S. vi. 101. 329.) — I 

 have now to inform Jack that I hav» met with a 

 printed copy of this poem, or at any rate a poem 

 on the same subject. The title of the book is — 



" The Pig, and the Mastiff. Two Tales. De te Fabula 

 narratur. London : printed by J. Stephens for J. Bro- 

 therton, at the Bible in Cornhill, 1727." 



The first tale, " The Pig," commences : — 



" Some Husbands on a Winter's Day 

 Were met to laugh their Spleen away." 



Is this the poem Jack inquired after ? 



Geo. E. Frere. 

 Royden Hall, Diss. 



Ancient Tiles (2"* S. v. 190.) — In a pamphlet 

 by Joseph Mayer, Esq., of Liverpool, entitled 

 History of the Art of Pottery in Liverpool, is a 

 full account of the invention of printing the tiles, 



mentioned by your correspondent Uneda. The 

 documents there quoted give the date 1756, as 

 the time when John Sadler and his partner Guy 

 Greene were practising advantageously the art 

 of printing tiles. I refer your correspondent to 

 this very interesting little pamphlet, as it contains 

 more information on the art of pottery making in 

 Liverpool than any other work hitherto published. 



E. S. W. 



Nautical Arms (2"'^ S. v. 130.) — Tiie arms de- 

 scribed by C. J. are thosg of the Masters and 

 Mariners, called also the Trinity House, one of the 

 incorporated companies of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

 In Walker & Richardson's work on the subject, 

 the arms are given as follows : — 



" Argent, an anchor pendant azure, the ring and tim- 

 ber or, cross-piece thereof or ; on a chief of the second, 

 a boatswain's whistle and chain of the third, the chain 

 supporting the anchor. Note, the timber or cross-piece 

 of the anchor is also upon the chief. Crest. — The hull of 

 a ship, having only a main-mast, round-top and bow- 

 sprit, all or. Motto, ' Deus dabit vela.' " 



The Trinity House isp incorporated by royal 

 charter, and uses these arms with the crest on a 

 helmet, and mermaids as supporters ; that on the 

 dexter hand having a quadrant in her right hand, 

 and that on the sinister an anchor in her left. 

 "Deus dabit vela," in a scroll; and the motto, 

 " Omnia fortuna committo." Monkchesteb. 



" Rum" (2"^ S. V. 192.) —There is a derivation 

 of this word, as applied to second-rate articles, 

 which has always struck me as the most probable 

 one. Nichols, in his Illustrations * (I cannot give 

 the reference, but the Index is perfection), men- 

 tions a practice which prevailed in the last cen- 

 tury among the booksellers. They traded with 

 the West Indies, furnishing books to the planters, 

 and receiving payment in consignments of rum. 

 Of course they put by things which did not sell in 

 England for their West Indian customers : and it 

 is stated that the books thus put by were called 

 in the trade Rum Books. Such a cant adjective 

 would be very likely to gain an extended meaning. 



A. De Morgan. 



Song of the Douglas (2°'i S. v. 169.)— With 

 thanks to Mr. Hugh Owen for his reference, I 

 shall be glad to know who wrote this song, and 

 under what circumstances it was written. The 

 song is not in Holland's Howlatt; all that therein 

 is of it is the "O Douglas, O Douglas, tender and 

 true!" H. Gipps. 



Revolvers, — Seeing recently in " N. & Q." (2'"' 

 S. V. 107.) some inquiries regarding the invention 

 of the revolver-principle applied to fire-arms, I 

 furnish you with the following extract, which may 

 not be familiar to all your readers. It is from an 



[* In Literary Anecdotes, v. 471,, T. F., the writer of 

 the note, is the Kev. George Ashby. — Ed.] 



