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No. 179.] 



Saturday, April 2. 1853. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Jack, by John Jackson . - - 



Mytlie versus Myth, by Thomas Keightley 

 Witchcraft in 1638 . - . - 



St. Augustin and Baxter.by E. Smirke - 



Page 



- 325 

 . 326 



- 326 



- 327 



Folk Lore : — Subterranean Bells — Welsh Legend of 

 the Redbreast - - - - - - 328 



Johnsonlana ------- 328 



Minor Notes : — White Roses — Fifeshire Pronunciation 

 —Original Letter— Erroneous Forms of Speech - 329 



Queries : — 



Eustache de Saint Pierre, by Henry H. Breen - -329 



Passage in Coleridge ----- 330 



Minor Queries: — Cann Family — Landholders in 

 Lonsdale South of the Sands — Rotation of the Earth 



— Nelson and W^ellington — Are White Cats deaf? — 

 Arms in Dugdale's " Warwickshire," &c — Tomb- 

 stone in Churchyard — Argot and Slang — Priests' 

 Surplices — John, Brother German to David II — 

 Scott, Nelson's Secretary — The Axe which beheaded 

 Anne Boleyii — Roger Outlawe — " Berte au Grand 

 Pied " — Lying by the Walls — Constables of France— 



St. John's Church, Shoreditch - - - - 330 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Sir John Thompson 



— Ring, the Marriage — Amusive — Belfry Towers 

 separate from the Body of the Church — An Easter- 

 day Sun ------- 332 



Replies : — 



Hamilton Queries, by Lord Braybrooke, &c. - - 333 



The Wood of the Cross 334 



Edmund Chaloner, by T. Hughes - - - 334 



" Anywhen " and " Seldom-when : " unobserved In- 

 stances of Shakspeare's^Use of the latter, by S. W. 

 Singer - - - - - - - 335 



Chichester : Lavant, by W. L. Nichols - . - 335 

 Scarfs worn by Clergymen, by Rev. John Jebb, &c. - 337 

 Inscriptions in Books, by Russell Gole, George S. Mas- 

 ter, &c. 337 



Photographic Notes and Queries: — Head- rests — 

 Sir W. Newton's Explanations of his Process — Talc 

 for Collodion Pictures - - - - - 338 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Portrait of the Duke 

 of Gloucester— Key to Dibdin's " Bibliomania " — High 

 Spirits a Presage of E vil — Hogarth's Works — Town 

 Plough — Shoreditch Cross and the painted Window in 

 Shoreditch Church— Race for Canterbury — Lady High 

 Sheriff — Burial of an unclaimed Corpse — Surname of 

 Allan — The' Patronymic Mac — Cibber's "Lives of 

 the Poets" — Parallel Passages, No. 2. : Stars and 

 Flowers — Schomberg's Epitaph — Pilgrimages to the 

 Holy Land — Album — Gesmas and Desmas — " Quod 

 fuit esse " — Straw Bail — Pearl — Sermons by Parlia- 

 mentary Chaplains, &c. ----- 338 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c, ----- 345 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - . - . 346 



Notices to Correspondents - - - -346 



Advertisements ----.. 346 



V0L.VII. — No. 179. 



JACK. 



I wish to note, and to suggest to students in 

 ethnology, the Query, how it comes to pass that 

 John Bull has a peculiar propensity to call things 

 by his own name, his familiar appellative of Jack ? 



Of all the long list of abbreviations and familiar 

 names with which times past and present have 

 supplied us, that which honest Falstaff found most 

 pleasing to his ears, " Jack with my familiars ! " is 

 the household word with which ours are most 

 conversant. Were not Jack the Giant-killer, Jack 

 and the Bean-stalk, and Little Jack, the intimates 

 of our earliest days ? when we were lulled to sleep 

 by ditties that told of Jack Sprat and his accom- 

 modating wife (an instance of the harmony in 

 which those of opposite tastes may live in the 

 bonds of wedlock) ; of Jack, the bachelor who 

 lived harmoniously with his fiddle, and had a soul 

 above the advice of his utilitarian friend ; of Jack 

 who, like Caliban, was to have a new master ; of 

 Jack * the brother of Gill ; and of that Jack who 

 was only remarkable for having a brother, whose 

 name, as a younger son, is not thought worthy of 

 mention. And were not our waking hours solaced 

 by songs, celebrating the good Jack f , little Jack 

 Horner, and holding up to obloquy the bad Jack, 

 naughty Jacky Green, and his treachery to the 

 innocent cat ? Who does not remember the time 

 when he played at y«cA-straws, fished for jack- 

 sharps, and delighted in a skip-^ac^, or jack-a- 

 juraper, when yac^-in-a-box came back from the 

 fair (where we had listened not unmoved to the 

 temptations of that eloquent vagabond cheap- JacA) 

 and popped up his nose before we could say Jack 



* Jack and Gill were measures. " Wherefore," 

 says Grumio, " be the Jacks fair within and the Gills 

 fair without," meaning the leathern jacks clean within, 

 and the metal gills polished without. 



f His character has suffered by antiquarian research, 

 which tells us that the song was made on a Colonel 

 Horner, intrusted by the last Abbot of Wells with a 

 pie, containing the title-deeds of the abbey, which he 

 was to deliver to Henry VIII., and that he abstracted 

 one for his own purposes, whereupon the abbot was 

 hanged. 



