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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 184. 



tion. It also appears in the Prolegomena to the 

 Life of James, that two royal warrants issued at 

 St. Germains by the abdicated monarch and his 

 son the Pretender in 1701 and 1707, are counter- 

 signed Caryll as Secretary of State. Is there any 

 doubt that this is the same person ; and if not, is 

 there any account of when and on what terms he 

 returned to England ? where he must have been 

 again domiciled in 1711, and some years after, 

 during which period he corresponded with Pope. 

 His family was settled near East Grinstead, in 

 Sussex. C. 



Early Reaping-machines. — Have the former 

 Numbers of " N. & Q." contained an account of 

 the invention of a reaping-machine in the last 

 century, similar in design and construction to the 

 one lately invented in America? A friend of 

 mine has in his possession a work, entitled The 

 Complete Farmer, or a General Dictionary of 

 Husbandry ; containing the various methods of 

 improving the land, &c., together with a great 

 variety of new discoveries and improvements, the 

 4th edition, by a society of gentlemen. There is 

 no date on the title-page; but, from internal evi- 

 dence, I am led to think that the work was not 

 published before 1780. If it be thought desirable, 

 I shall be happy to send an extract from the work, 

 giving an account of the machine ; or, if drawings 

 be admitted into the pages of " N. & Q.," the work 

 might he sent to the Editor. H. D. W. 



" Diary of a Self- Observer" — 



" Augustine's Confessions may be in some degree 

 compared with the Private Diary of a Self-Observer 

 (^Geheimes Tagebuch von einem Beobachter seiner selbst) 

 which has in our own days been read with so great eager- 

 ness and sympathy. Not as if the celebrated author of 

 the latter work did not in many ways deserve a pre- 

 ference above the African bishop," &c. — Schrbckh's 

 Kirchengeschichte, xv. 376. : Leipzig, 1790. 



What is the book here meant, and by whom 

 was it written ? J. C. R. 



[This Diary is by the celebrated John Caspar La- 

 vater, author of Essays on Physiognomy, In ] 769 he 

 commenced it under the title of Secret Journal of a 

 Self- Observer. In the following year it fell into the 

 hands of a stranger, and from him it was transmitted 

 to Zollikofer, with such alterations, however, as to 

 conceal the real author. Zollikofer, thinking that it 

 contained much useful matter, had it printed ; and, 

 among others, sent a copy of it to his friend Lavater, 

 who was beyond measure astonished at the sight. 

 However, as it was now before the world in a some- 

 what disfigured state, Lavater edited it with the ne- 

 cessary alterations, and with an additional volume: 

 Leipsic, 1771 and 1773. In 1795, the German original 

 was translated into English by the Rev. Peter Will, of 



the Reformed German Chapel in the Savoy, in two 

 vols. 8vo. Prefixed to the second volume is a letter 

 from Lavater to the editor, with the editor's reply. 

 See Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, s. v., and. 

 Heisch's Memoirs of John Caspar Lavater, pp. 58-60. [J 



Jockey. — Mr. Borrow, in his Introduction to 

 l^he Gypsies of Spain, says : 



" The English gypsies are constant attendants at the, 

 race-course. What jockey is not? Perhaps jockey- 

 ism originated with them, and even racing, at least in 

 England. Jockeyism properly implies the management 

 of a whip ; and the word jockey is neither more nor less 

 than the term, slightly modified, by which they desig- 

 nate the formidable whip which they usually carry, at 

 present in general use amongst horse-traffickers under 

 the title of jockey-whips." 



Can any of your correspondents give the deri- 

 vation o( jockey ? Q. Q.. 



[Most etymologists derive it from Jockey, a diminu- 

 tive of the Scotch term Jock, or Jack, John ; primarily, 

 a boy that rides horses.] 



Boyle Lectures. — In that valuable and well- 

 executed work, now publishing by Darling of 

 Great Queen Street, called the Cyclopedia Biblio- 

 graphica, a list of the preachers of the Boyle Lec- 

 ture is given. The list is very nearly complete, 

 the preachers during the following years only 

 being marked "Unknown: "—1729, 1733-5, 174(?, 

 1753-5, 1764-5. With these few omissions, the 

 names of preachers from 1692 to 1807 are given 

 without exception. Will some of your correspon- 

 dents kindly supply the hiatus above referred to ? 

 Possibly the lectures for those years were not 

 printed, as was the case very frequently (see 

 columns 405. 406- Cyc. Bibl.y — so there may be 

 some slight difficulty in identifying the preachers. 

 W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



[The same omissions occur in the Oxford Catalogue, 

 1837, so that it is a probable conjecture they were 

 never printed.] 



THE DISCOVERT AND HECOVERr OF MSS- 



(Vol. iii., pp. 161.261.340.; Vol. iv., p. 282. f 

 Vol. vii., p. 354.) 



I am glad to see that a subject to which I have 

 at various times attempted to turn public attention,, 

 has at least been responded to by one voice. 

 When the " N. & Q." was first established, I felt 

 that there was now at least one place where it was 

 possible to print historical documents of various 

 kinds, and no one can deny that at various times 

 very interesting and important papers have been- 

 made publicly available, which might otherwises- 

 have escaped notice. I may instance a very in- 

 teresting account of the inquest on Chatterton, 

 which I have myself, in a sketch of that ill-fated. 



