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SATURDAY, January 22. 1853. 



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CONTENTS. 

 NoTKs : — Page 



Blacliguard, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent - - 77 



Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. I., 



by T. Sternberg - - - - - - 79 



Notes and Queries on Bacon's Essays, No. 11., by P. J. F. 



Gantillon, B.A. 80 



Folk Loke : — Irisli Superstitious Customs— Charm for 



Warts— The Devil — "Winter Thunder," &c. - 81 



Malta the Burial-place of Hannibal - - - 81 



Minor Notes: — Waterloo — " Tuch" — The Dodo — 

 Francis I. - 82 



Queries : — 



Dr.* Anthony Marshall 83 



I.indis, Meaning of - - - - - - 83 



Minor Queries : — Smock Marriage in New York — The 

 broken .\stragalus-Peiiardo and Laissa — St. -idulph 

 — St. Botiilph — Tennyson — "Ma Ninette," &c. — 

 Astronomical Query — Chaplains to Noblemen — 

 " More " Queries — Heraldic Query — " By Prudence 

 guided," &c. — Lawyers* Bags — Master Family — 

 Passage in Wordsworth— Govett Family — Sir Kenelm 

 Digby — Riddles — Straw Kail— Wages in the West in 

 1642 — Literary Frauds of Modern Times - - 84 



Minor Queries with Answers : — *' Very like a 

 Whale " — Wednesday a Litany Pay — " Thy Spirit, 

 Independence," &c. — " Hob and nob," Meaning of - 86 



Replies: — 



Wellesley Pedigree, by John D'.\lton - - - 87 



Consecrated Rings for Epilepsy - - - - 88 



Turner's View of Lambeth Palace, by J. Walter, &c. - 89 

 Etymological Traces of the social I'osition of our An. 



cestors, by C. Forbes, &c. . - - - 90 



Goldsmiths' Year-marks, by W. Chaffers, Jun., and 



H. T. EUacombe 90 



Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662, by W. Spar- 

 row Simpson, B.A. . - - - - 91 

 Photographic Notes and Queries: —Originator of the 

 Collodion Process — Mr. Weld Taylor's Process — 

 Dr. Diamond's Services to Photography — Simplifi- 

 cation of the Wax-paper Process - - - 92 

 The Burial Service said by Heart, by Mackenzie Wal. 

 cott, M.A., &c. - . . - - - 94 



Replies to Minor Queries: —Mary Queen of Scots' 

 Gold Cross — Jennings Family — Adamson's " Eng- 

 land's Defence"— Chief Justice Thomas Wood— Aldi- 

 borontiphoscophornio — Statue of St. Peter at Rome — 

 Old Silver Ornament — " Plurima, pauca, nihil" — 

 " Pork-pisee " and " Wheale " — Did the Carians use 

 Heraldic Devices V — Herbert Family— Children cry- 

 ing at Baptism, &c. - - . . -95 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements • - . . 



- 97 



- 98 



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- 99 



Vol. VII. — No. 169. 



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BLACKGUARD, 



In some of the earlier numbers of "N. & Q,," 

 there occur disquisitions as to the origin of the term 

 blackguard, and the time at which it came into use 

 in England in its present sense. But the commu- 

 nications of your correspondents have not been 

 satisfactory upon either point — they have not 

 shown the period at which the word came to be 

 accepted in its present sense ; and their quotations 

 all apply to its use in a much more simple mean- 

 ing, and one totally different from that which we 

 now attach to it. 



One class of these quotations (Vol. ii., pp. 171. 

 285.), such as the passages from Butler and 

 Fuller, refer obviously to a popular superstition, 

 during an age when the belief in witchcraft and 

 hobgoblins was universal ; and when such crea- 

 tures of fancy were assigned as Black Guards to 

 his Satanic majesty. " Who can conceive," says 

 Fuller in the paragraph extracted, " but that 

 such a Prince-principal of Darkness must be pro- 

 portionally attended by a Black Guard of mon- 

 strous opinions ?" (Church History, b. ix. c. xvi.) 

 And in the verses of Butler referred to, Hudi- 

 bras, when deceived by Ralpho counterfeiting a 

 ghost in the dark, — 



" Believed it was some drolling sprite 

 That staid upon the guard at night ;" 



and thereupon in his trepidation discourses with 

 the Squire as follows : 



" Thought he, How does the Devil know 

 What 'twas that I design'd to do ? 

 His office of intelligence. 

 His oracles, are ceas'd long since; 

 And he knows nothing of the Saints, 

 But what some treach'rons spy acquaints. 

 This is some petty -fogging _/?e«e?. 

 Some under door-keeper's friend's friend, 

 That undertakes to understand, 

 And juggles at the second liand : 

 And now would pass for spirit Po, 

 And all men's dark concerns foreknow. 

 I think I need not fear him for't ; 

 These rallying devils do not hurt. 



