Feb. 5. 1853.] 



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this rate, the whole lordship was anciently esti- 

 mated at 20,000 acres of arable land, and compre- 

 hends 120 square miles in whole. 



KiRKWALLENSIS. 



Alliterative Pasquinade. — The following allite- 

 rative pasquinade on Convocation, which I have 

 «ut from one of the newspapers, is, I think, suffi- 

 ciently clever to deserve preservation in the pages 

 of "N. & Q. :" 



" The Earl of Shaftesbury has given notice that he 

 will call the attention of the House to the subject of 

 Convocation after the recess. The exact terms of his 

 lordship's motion have not as yet been announced ; but 

 it is understood that it will be in the form of an ab- 

 stract resolution, somewhat to the following effect : — 



'"That this House, considering the consanguinity 

 and concordant consociation of Gog and Magog to be 

 ■concludent to, and confirmatory of, a consimiiar con- 

 natural conjunction and concatenation between Con- 

 vocation and Confession with its concomitant contami- 

 nations, and conceiving the congregating, confabulating, 

 and consulting of Convocation to be conducive to con- 

 troversy and contention, and consequent conflicts, 

 confusion and convulsion, concurs in the conviction 

 that to convene, and to continue Convocation, is a 

 contumacious contravention of the Constitution, and a 

 contrivance for constraint of conscience, and that the 

 contemptible conspiracy, concocted for concerting the 

 constituting and conserving of the continuous concor- 

 poral consession and conciliar conference of Convoca- 

 tion, is to be contumeliously conculcated by the con- 

 ^sentient and condign condemnation of this House.' " 



Agkippa. 



The Names " Bonaparte " and " Napoleon." — 

 Among the many fabulous tales that have been 

 published respecting the origin of the name of 

 Bonaparte, there is one which, from its ingenious- 

 ness and romantic character, seems deserving of 

 notice. 



It is said that the " Man in the Iron Mask " was 

 jio other than the twin (and elder) brother of 

 Louis XIV.; that his keeper's name was Bonpart; 

 that that keeper liad a daughter, with whom the 

 Man in the Mask fell in love, and to whom he was 

 privately married ; that their children received 

 their mother's name, and were secretly conveyed 

 to Corsica, where the name was converted into 

 Bonaparte or Buonaparte ; and that one of those 

 children was tlie ancestor of Napoleon Bonaparte, 

 who was thus entitled to be recognised not only as 

 of French origin, but as the direct descendant of 

 the rightful heir to the throne of France. 



The Bonapartes are said to have adopted the 

 npme of Napoleon from Napoleon des XJrsins, a 

 distinguished character in Italian story, with one 

 of whose descendants they became connected by 

 marriage ; and the first of the family to whom it 

 was given was a brother of Joseph Bonaparte, the 

 grandfather of Napoleon I. Many are the jeux de 

 mats that have been made on this name ; but the 



following, which I have just met with in Litterature 

 Franqaise Contemporaine, vol. ii. p. 266., is per- 

 haps the most remarkable. 



The word Napoleon, being written in Greek 

 characters, will form seven difTerent words, by 

 dropping the first letter of each in succession, 

 namely, 'HavoKeuv, hiroKeoov, VoXeaiv, 0\f(ev, Atwv, 

 Ewv, nv. These words make a complete sentence, 

 and are thus translated into French : " Napoleon, 

 etant le lion des peoples, allait detruisant les cites." 



Henry H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



A Parish Kettle. — In the accounts of the church- 

 wardens of Chudleigh in Devonshire, during a 

 period extending from 1565 to 1651, occasional 

 mention is made of " the church chyttel," " parish 

 chettle," " parish chetell or furnace," " parish 

 crock ;" and charges are made for malt and hops 

 for brewing ale ; and the money received for ale 

 sold is accounted for. There may also have been 

 provided, for the use of the parish, a vessel of 

 smaller dimensions than the crock, for in the year 

 1581 there is an entry of Is. 2d. received "for 

 the lone of the parish panne." As cyder must 

 have been at that time, as it is now, the common 

 drink of the working-classes, the parish " crock " 

 must have been provided for the use of the occu- 

 piers of the land. I suppose that the term crock, 

 for a pot made of brass or copper, had its origin 

 in times when our cooking-vessels were made of 

 crockery ware. 



I have never seen, in the ancient accounts of 

 churchwardens, any mention made of a " town 

 plough," which Gastros notices (Vol. vi., p. 462.). 



S. S. S. (2.) 



Pepys's Diary ; Battle of St. Gothard. — Lord 

 Braybrooke, in a note on 9th August, 1664, on 

 which day Pepys mentions a great b.attle fought in 

 Hungary, observes, "This was the battle of St. 

 Gothard, fought 1st August, so that the news 

 reached England in eight days." This would 

 scarcely be possible even in these days of railways. 

 The difference of styles must have been over- 

 looked, which would make the intelligence arrive 

 in eighteen days, instead of eight. J. S. Warden. 



First Folio Shakspeare. — It would be extremely 

 desirable that every one who possesses, or knows 

 of a copy of the first folio, would send to " N. 

 & Q." a note of the existence of such copy ; Its 

 present owner's name ; date of acquisition ; last 

 owner's name ; the price paid ; its present condi- 

 tion ; and any other circumstances peculiar to the 

 copy. When the editor should receive an adequate 

 number of replies to this suggestion, he might pub>- 

 lish a list in some methodised form, and subsequent 

 lists as occasion might require. I have examined 

 the libraries of several great country-houses, and 

 have never found a first folio ; not even at Wilton, 



