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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 180., 



ever, intimated that he died excommunicated. In 

 Paulson's History of Holderness is a notice of 

 Bishop Watson, and of his relatives the Medleys, 

 who are connected with my family by marriage ; 

 but the statement that the bishop " died in the 

 Tower" is incorrect (vol. i. Part II. p. 283. ; 

 vol. ii. Part I. p. 47. ; Part II. p. 542., 4to., 

 1840-1). F. E. R. 



Milnrow Parsonage. 



He died in retirement at Wilburgham, or Wil- 

 braham, in the county of Cambridge, June 3, 1717, 

 aetat. eighty. — See Gough's Camden, vol. ii. p. 140., 

 and Gentlemaiis Magazine, vols. lix. and Ix. 



Bishop Gobat was born in 1799, at Cremine, in 

 the parish of Grandval, in Switzerland. His name 

 is not to be found in the list of graduates of either 

 Oxford or Cambridge. His degree of D. D. was 

 probably bestowed on him by the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury. Ttko. 



Dublin. 



'Etymology of Fuss (Vol. vii., p. 180.).— 

 " Fuss, n. s., a low, cant word, Dr. .Johnson says. 

 It is, however, a regularly-descended northern word : 

 Sax. FUJ-, prompt, eager; Su. Goth, and Cimbr. fus, 

 the same ; hence the Sax. pyfan, to hasten, and the 

 Su. Goth, fysa, the same," — Todd's Johnson. 



Richardson gives the same etymology, referring to 

 Somner. Webster says, " allied, perhaps, to Gr. 

 tpuffoM, to blow or puff'." Zeus. 



A reference to the word in Todd's Johnson's 

 Dictionary will show, and I think satisfactorily, 

 that its origin is fus (Anglo-Saxon), prompt or 

 eager ; hence fysan, to hasten. The quotation 

 given is from Swift. C. I. R. 



Palindromical Lines (Vol. vii., p. 178.). — The 

 sotadic inscription, 



"NIYON ANOMHMA MH MONAN OYIN," 



is stated {Gentleman^ s Magazine, vol. xl. p. 617.) 

 to be on a font at Sandbach in Cheshire, and (Gen- 

 tleman's Magazine, vol. Ixiii. p. 441.) to be on the 

 font at Dulwich in Surrey, and also on the font at 

 Harlow in Essex. Zeus. 



Nugget (Vol. yi., pp. 171. 281. ; Vol. vii,, pp.143. 

 272.). — FuBvus is persuaded that the word nugget 

 is of home growth, and has sprung from a root 

 existing under various forms throughout the dia- 

 lects at present in use. The radical appears to be 

 snag, knag, or nag {Knoge, Cordylus, cf. Knuckle), 

 a protuberance, knot, lump; being a term chiefly 

 applied to knots in trees, rough pieces of wood, 

 &c., and in its derivatives strongly expressive of 

 (so to speak) misshapen lumpiness. 



Every one resident in the midland counties must 

 be acquainted with the word nog, applied to the 

 wooden ball used in the game of " sbinney," the 



corresponding term of which, nacket, holds in parts 

 of Scotland, where also a short, corpulent person 

 is called a niiget. 



So, in Essex, nig signifies a piece ; a snag is a 

 well-known word across the Atlantic ; nogs are 

 ninepins in the north of England ; a noggin of 

 bread is equivalent to a hunch in the midland 

 counties ; and in the neighbourhood of the Parret 

 and Exe the word becomes nug, bearing (beside* 

 its usual acceptation) the meaning of knot, lump. 



This supposed derivation is by no means 

 weakened by the fiict, that miners and others have 

 gone to the " diggins" from parts at no great dis- 

 tance from the last-mentioned district; and we 

 may therefore, although the radical is pretty- 

 generally diffused over the kingdom, attribute its 

 better known application to them. 



It is no objection that the word, in many of its 

 forms, is used of rough pieces of tvood, as instances 

 sliow that it merely refers to a rudis indigestaque 

 moles characteristic of any article in question. 



FuRVUS. 

 St. James's. 



Hihernis ipsis Hiherniores (Vol. vii., p. 260.). — 

 This, which is no doubt the proper form, will be 

 found in Southey's Naval History of England^ 

 vol.iv. p. 104,, applied to "those of old English 

 race who, having adopted the manners of the land^ 

 had become more Irish than the Irishry." The 

 expression originally was applied to these persons 

 in some proclamation or act of parliament, which 

 I think is quoted in the History of England \n 

 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopcedia : but that work has 

 so bad an index as to make it very difficult to find 

 any passage one may want. Probably Southey 

 would mention the source whence he had it, in his 

 collections for his Naval History in his Common- 

 place Book. E. G. R. 



The Passame Sares (?nel. Passamezzo) Galliard 

 (VoLvi., pp. 311.446.; Vol. vii,, p. 216.). — Will 

 you allow me to correct a mistake into which both 

 the correspondents who have kindly answered my 

 questions respecting this galliard seem to have 

 fallen, perhaps misled by an ambiguity in my ex- 

 pression ? 



My inquiry was not intended to refer to galliards 

 in general, the tunes of which, I am well aware, 

 must have been very various, but to this one gal- 

 liard In particular; and was made with the view of 

 ascertaining whether the air is ever played at the 

 present day during the representation of the Second 

 Part of King Henry IV. C. Fohbes. 



Temple. 



Swedish Words current in England (Vol. vii., 

 p. 231.). — I beg to inform your correspondent that 

 the following words, which occur in his list, are 

 pure Anglo-Saxon, bearing almost the same mean^ 



