Mar. 26. 1853.] 



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has generally been assumed more from its eupho- 

 nistic character than from any family connexion. 



E. L. B. 

 Ruthin. 



The Whetstone (Vol. vii., p. 208.). — In your 

 No. 174. of "N. & Q.," E. G. R. alludes to the 

 Game of the Whetstone. The following quotation, 

 as bearing on that subject, may not be uninterest- 

 ing to your readers : 



" In the fourth year of this king's (Edward VI,) 

 reign, in the month of September, one Grig, a poul- 

 terer of Surrey (taken among the people for a prophet, 

 in curing of divers diseases by words and prayers, and 

 saying he would take no money), was, hy command of 

 the Earl of Warwick, and others of the Council, set on 

 a scaffold in the town of Croidon, in Surrey, with a 

 paper on his breast, wherein was written his deceitful 

 and hypocritical dealings : and after that, on the eighth 

 of September, set on a pillory in Southwark, being 

 then Our Lady Fair there kept ; and the Mayor of 

 London, with his brethren the aldermen, riding through 

 the fair, the said Grig asked them and all the citizens 

 forgiveness. 



"' Of the like counterfeit physicians,' saith Stow, ' I 

 have noted, iu the summary of my Chronicles (anno 

 1382), to be set on horseback, his face to the horse-tail, 

 the same tail in his hand as a bridle, a collar of jordans 

 about his neck, a whetstone on his breast ; and so led 

 through the city of London, with ringing of basons, 

 and banished.' 



" Whereunto I had added (with the forementioned 

 author) as followeth : — Such deceivers, no doubt, are 

 many who, being never trained up in reading or prac- 

 tice of physicke and chirurgery, do boast to doe great 

 cures, especially upon women ; as to make them straight 

 that before were crooked, corbed, or cramped in any 

 part of their bodies, &c. But the contrary is true; for 

 some have received gold, when they have better de- 

 served the whetstone." — Goodall's Royal College of 

 Physicians: London, 1684, p. 306. 



J. s. s. 



Bath. 



Surname of Allen (Vol. vii., p. 205.). — Perhaps 

 A. S. A. may find the following words in Celtic of 

 use to him in his researches as to the origin of the 

 name of Allan: — Adlann, pronounced alldnn, means 

 a spearman or lancer ; aluin, a white hind or fawn 

 (Query, Do any of the name bear a hind as a 

 crest ?) ; allin, a rocky islet ; alain, fair, bright, 

 fair-haired, &c. Feas. Ckossi^et." 



Belatucadrus (Vol. vii., p. 205.).— Papers con- 

 cerning the god Belatucadrus are to be found in 

 the Archceologia, vol. i. p. 310., vol. ili. p. 101., 

 vol. X. p. 118. I take these references from 

 Mr. Akerman's useful ArchEeologlcal Index. 



C. W. G. 



Pot-guns (Vol vi., p. 612.; Vol. vii., p. 190.).— 

 In the parish of Halvergate, a train of seven- 

 teen pot-guns is kept at the blacksmith's shop. 



Mr. Woodward is correct in stating that they are 

 "short cylinders set perpendicularly in a frame, 

 flat-candlestickwise;" but each pot-gun at Hal- 

 vergate is set in a separate block of wood, and not 

 several in a frame together. By touching the 

 touchholes of each pot-gun successively with a bar 

 of red-hot iron, and with the aid of two double- 

 barrel guns, a royal salute is fired at every wed- 

 ding or festive occasion in Halvergate. E. G. R. 



Graves Family (Vol. vii., p. 130.) Your cor- 

 respondent James Graves will find a tolerable 

 pedigree of the Graves family, commencing in the 

 time of Edward IV., in the first volume of Dr. 

 Nash's Worcestershire ; and, in the notes thereto, 

 many interesting particulars of various learned 

 members of the family. Independent of the three 

 portraits mentioned by your correspondent, of 

 which I possess fine proof impressions, I have also 

 one in mezzotinto of Morgan Graves, Esq., of 

 Mickleton, county of Gloucester, and Lord of the 

 Manor of Poden, iii the co. of Worcester. 



J. B. Whitborne. 



Portrait Painters (Vol. vii., p. 180.). — The 

 name of the Derby artist was Wright, not White. 

 I have seen several portraits by him of great ex- 

 cellence. The time of his death I do not recollect, 

 but I think the greater part of his works were 

 executed in the latter part of the last century. 

 Have not some of them been exhibited In Pall 

 Mall ? I have not the means at hand of ascei'tain- 

 ing the fact, but I think he painted the " Black- 

 smith's Forge," which was so admirably mezzo- 

 tinted by Earlom. E. H. 



Plum Pudding (Vol. vi., p. 604.). — Southey, in 

 his Omniana, vol. i. p. 7., quotes the following re- 

 ceipt for English plum pudding, as given by the 

 Chevalier d'Arvieux, who in 1658 made a voyage 

 in an English forty-gun ship : 



" Leur pudding etait detestable. C'est un compose 

 de biscuit pile, ou de farine, de lard, de raisins de 

 Corinthe, de sel, et de poivre, dont on fait unc pate, 

 qu'on enveloppe dans une serviette, et que Ton fait 

 cuire dans le pot avec du bouillon de la viande; on la' 

 tire de la serviette, et on la met dans un plat, et on 

 rappe dessus du vieux fromage, qui lui donne une 

 odeur insupportable. Sans ce fromage la chose en 

 elle-meme n'est pas absolument mauvaise." 



Cheese is now eaten with apple puddings and 

 pies ; but is there any nook in England where they 

 still grate it over plum pudding ? I have heard 

 the joke of forgetting the pudding-cloth, told 

 against Lord Macartney during his embassy in 

 China. Your correspondent will find plum por- 

 ridge and plum puddings mentioned together at 

 page 122. vol. ii. of Knight's Old England. 



Thos. Lawrence. 



A shby-de-la- Zouch. 



