Jan. 8. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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three years of age, in 1447 ; he was slain in 1461, 

 and attainted of high treason in the parliament 

 held 1 Edw. IV. ; second, Henry Wentworth of 

 Codham, in the county of Essex ; third, Thomas 

 Wentworth Chaplain ; and fourth, Agnes, wife of 

 Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough (JHarl MSS., 

 1560. 1449—1484, and will of Margery, Lady de 

 Koos, proved in the Prerogative Court of Can- 

 terbury, 28th May, 1478). Sir Philip, about the 

 year 1447, as before stated, married the Lady 

 Mary Clifford (Harl. MSS., 154. and 1484.), sister 

 of Thomas Lord Clifford, who was slain at the 

 battle of St. Alban's in 1454, and aunt of the Lord 

 Clifford who stabbed the youthful Edmund Plan- 

 tagenet at the battle of Wakefield, and was himself 

 slain and attainted in parliament, 1st Edward IV. 

 1461. The issue of this marriage was Sir Henry 

 Wentworth of Nettlestead, in the county of 

 Suffolk, Knight, his son and heir (will of Margery, 

 Lady de Roos, proved as above), born circa 1448, 

 being thirty years of age at his grandmother's 

 death in 1478 (Esc, 18 Edward IV., No. 35.), 

 and died in 1500. His will was proved in the 

 Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 27th February, 

 1501. Sir Henry, son of Sir Philip, was restored 

 in blood by an act of parliament passed in the 

 4th of Edward IV. (Parliament Rolls, v. 548.), 

 and having married Anne, daughter of Sir John 

 Say, Knight (Rot. Pat., 1 Ric. II., p. 2., No. 86., 

 20th Febi'uary, 1484), left by her several children, 

 viz. Sir Richard Wentworth, Knight, son and 

 heii', Edward Wentworth, and four daughters, the 

 second of whom, Margery, was married to Sir 

 John Seymour of Wolf Hall, in the county of 

 Wilts, Knight (Harl. MSS., 1449—1484. 1560., 

 &c.), of which marriage, among other children, 

 were born Sir Edward Seymour, created Duke of 

 Somerset, and Jane, third wife of King Henry VIII., 

 mother of Edward VI. Wm. Haedy. 



UNCEETAIN ETYMOLOGIES — " LEADEB. 



(VoLvi., p. 588.) 



I must differ from your correspondent C, in 

 believing that the " N. & Q." have effected much 

 good service to etymology. Even the exposure of 

 error, and the showing up of crotchets, is of no 

 inconsiderable use. I beg to submit that C. him- 

 self (unless there are other Richmonds in the 

 field) has done good service in this way. See 

 Grummett, Slang Phrases, Martinet, Cockade, Ro- 

 mane, Covey, Bummaree, &c. 



I do not, indeed, give implicit faith to his Steyne, 

 and some more, fie, however, would be a rash 

 man who should write or help to write a Dic- 

 tionary of the English language (a desideratum 

 at present) without turning over the indices of 

 the " N. & Q." Even in the first volume, the 

 discussions on Pokership, Daysman, News, and a 



great many others, seem to me at least valuable 

 contributions to general knowledge on etymology. 



As to my remark (Vol. vi., p. 462.) about the 

 derivation of leader, C. has, perhaps excusably, for 

 the sake of the pun, done me injustice. I hazarded 

 it on the authority of one who has been in the 

 trade, and, as I believe, in the cuicunque perito. 

 I beg to inclose his own account. He says : 



" It is a fact, that when editorial articles are sent to 

 the printer, written directions are generally sent with 

 them denoting %vhat type is to be used : thus, brevier 

 leads, or bourgeois leads, signifying that the articles are 

 to be set in brevier or bourgeois type with lead strips 

 between the lines, to keep them further asunder. It 

 is also a fact, that such articles are denominated in the 

 printing-office ' leaded articles ' — hence, leaders." 



I submit if this does not justify my Note. I 

 grant, however, many of those articles are entitled 

 also to be called leaden, as C. will have it. 



I do not think, however, that in tracing recent 

 words, we should not give possible as well as cer- 

 tain origins. Many words, if not a double, have 

 at least several putative origins. 



Let me subscribe myself — seu male seu bene — 



NOTA. 



P. S. — I would like to suggest that this origin 

 of the term "leading article" is the most fa- 

 vourable to the modesty of any single writer for 

 the Press, who should hardly pretend to lead 

 public opinion. 



LINES ON TIPPEEAEY. 



(Vol. vi., p. 578.) 



These lines were said to have been addressed to 

 a Dr. Fitzgerald, on reading the following couplet 

 in his apostrophe to bis native village : — 



" And thou ! dear Village, loveliest of the clime, 

 Fain would I name thee, but I scant in rhyme." 



I subjoin a tolerably complete copy of this "rime 

 doggrele : " 



" A Bard there was in sad quandary. 

 To find a rhyme for Tipperary. 

 Long labour'd he through January, 

 Yet found no rhyme for Tipperary ; 

 Toil'd every day in February, 

 But toil'd in vain for Tipperary ; 

 Search'd Hebrew text and commentary, 

 But search'd in vain for Tipperary ; 

 Bored all his friends at Inverary, 

 To find a rhyme for Tipperary ; 

 Implored the aid of ' Paddy Gary,' 

 Yet still no rhyme for Tipperary ; 

 He next besought his mother Mary, 

 To tell him rhyme for Tipperary ; 

 But she, good woman, was no fairy. 

 Nor witch — though born in Tipperary ; — 

 Knew everything about her dairy. 

 But not the rhyme for Tipperary ; 



