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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 188. 



a designation, which may possibly have undergone 

 «ome change in copying. ©. 



Humbug. — When was this word introduced into 

 the English language ? The earliest instance in 

 which I have met with it is in one of Churchill's 

 'Poems, published about the year 1750. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



'"■ FranUyn Household Book. — Can any reader 

 inform me in whose .keeping the Household 

 Book of Sir John Franklyn now is ? * Extracts 

 were published from it in the Archceologia, vol. xv. 



J. K. 



James Thomson's Will. — Did the author of the 

 Seasons make a will ? If so, where is the original 

 to be seen ? D. 



Lieamington. 



" Country Parson's Advice to his Parishioners." — 

 Could you inquire through your columns who the 

 author of a book entitled The Country Parson's 

 Advice to his Parishioners is ? It was printed for 

 Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship, in St. Paul's Church 

 Yard, 1680. 



I have a singular copy of this book, and know 

 at present of no other copy. The booksellers all 

 seem at a loss as to who the author was ; some say 

 Jeremy Taylor, others George Herbert ; but my 

 date does not allow the latter, — at least It makes it 

 very improbable, unless it was published after his 

 death. The book itself is like George Herbert's 

 style, very solid and homely : it is evidently by 

 some masterly hand. Should you be able to give 

 me information, or get it for me, I should be 

 obliged. I think of reprinting the book. 



Geo. Nugee. 

 Senior Curate of St. Paul's, Wilton Place. 



Shakspeare — Blachstone. — In Moore's Diary, 

 ■vol. iv. p. 130., he says, — 



" Mr. Duncan mentioned, that Blackstone has pre- 

 served the name of the judge to whom Shakspeare al- 

 ludes in the grave-digger's argument ? — 



' If the water comes to the man,' &c." 



Will one of your Shakspearian or legal corre- 

 spondents have the kindness to name the judge so 



[* Sir John Franklyn's Household Bonk was in the 

 possession of Sir John Chardin Musgrave, of Eden 

 Hall, CO. Cumberland, who died in 1806. Some 

 farther extracts, consisting of about thirty items, relat- 

 ing to archery (not given in the ArchcBohgi(i), will be 

 found in the British Museum, Add. MSS." 6316- f. 30. 

 Among other items is the following: " Oct. 20, 1642. 

 Item, for a pound of tobacco for the Lady Glover, 12s." 

 Sir John Franklyn, of Wilsden, co. Middlesex, was 

 M.P. for that county in the l)eginning of the reign of 

 Charles I., and during the Civil Wars. — Ed.] 



alluded to, and give a reference to the passage in 

 Blackstone in which he conveys this information ? 



Ignoramus. 



:l^tnor ^uttitS Suiti^ '^niiatti. 



Turkey Cocks. — Why are Turkey cocks so called, 

 seeing they were not imported from Turkey ? 



Cape. 



[This Query did not escape the notice of Dr. Samuel 

 Pegge. He says : " The cocks which J'anciro'.lus 

 (ii. tit. 1.) mentions as brought from America, were 

 Turkey cocks, as Salmuth there (p. 28.) rightly ob- 

 serves. The French accordingly call this bird Coq 

 d'l7ide, and from d'Jnde comes the diminutive Dindon, 

 the young Turkey ; as if one should say, ' the young 

 Indian fowl.' Fetching the Turkey from America 

 accords well with the common notion : 



' Turkeys, carps, hops, pikarel, and beer, 

 Came into England all in a year ; ' 



that is, in the reign of Henry YIII., after many 

 voyages had been made to North America, wliere this 

 bird abounds in an extraordinary manner. But Query 

 how this bird came to be called Turkey ? Johnson 

 latinizes it GaJlina Turcica, and defines it, ' a krge 

 domestic fowl brought from Turkey ; ' v/h:ch does 

 not agree with the above account from Pancirollus. 

 Brookes says (p. 144.), 'It was brought into Europe 

 either from India or Africa.' And if from tl:e latter, 

 it might be called Turkey, though but improperly." — 

 ^nonymiana, cent. x. 79.] 



Bishop St. John. — The following passage oc- 

 curs at vol. iv. p. 84. of the Second Series of 

 Ellis's Original Letters, Illustrative of English 

 History. It is taken from the letter numbered 

 326, dated London, Jan. 5, 1685-6, and addressed 

 " for John Ellis, Esq., Secretary of his Majesty's 

 Revenue in Ireland, Dublin :" 



" The Bishop of London's fame runs high in the 

 vogue of the people. The London pulpits ring strong 

 peals against Popery ; and I have lately heard there 

 never were such eminently able men to serve in those 

 cures. The Lord Almoner Ely is thought to stand 

 upon too narrow a base now in his Majesty's favour, 

 from a late violent sermon en the 5th of November. 

 I saw him yesterday at the King's Levy ; and very 

 little notice taken of him, which the more confirms 

 what I heard. Our old friend the new Bishop St. John, 

 gave a smart answer to a (very well put) question 



of his M with respect to him, that shows he is not 



altogether formed of court-clay ; but neither you nor 

 I shall withdraw either of our friendship for him on 

 such an account." 



All who know this period of our history, know 

 Compton and Turner; but who was Bishop St. 

 John ? J> J- J- 



[An error in the transcription. In the manuscript 

 it reads thus: " Bish? S' Jon"," and clearly refers to 

 Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Bart., consecrated bishop of 



