July 9. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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but I have always thought it likely that it became 

 much more extensively employed, after Abigail 

 Hill, Lady Masham, became the favourite of that 

 queen. She was, I believe, a poor cousin of Sarah 

 Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, and early in 

 life was employed by her in the humble capacity 

 of lady's maid. After she had supplanted the 

 haughty duchess, it is not unlikely that the Whigs 

 would take a malicious pleasure in keeping alive 

 the recollection of the early fortunes of the Tory 

 favourite, and that they would be unwilling to 

 lose the opportunity of speaking of a lady's maid 

 as anything else but an " Abigail." Swift, how- 

 ever, in his use of the word, could have no such 

 design, as he was on the best of terms with the 

 Mashams, of whose party he was the very life and 

 soul. H. T. Riley. 



JBurialin unconsecrated Ground (YoLvi., p. 448.). 

 — Susanna, the wife of Philip Carteret Webb, Esq., 

 of Busbridge, in Surrey, died at Bath in March, 

 1756, and was, at her own desire, buried with 

 two of her children in a cave in the grounds at 

 Busbridge ; it being excavated by a company of 

 soldiers then quartered at Guildford. Their re- 

 mains were afterwards disinterred, and buried in 

 Godalming Church. H. T. Rilet. 



" Coh" and " Conners" (Vol. vil., pp. 234. 321.). 

 — These names are not synonymous, nor are they 

 Irish words. It is the pier at Lyme Regis, and 

 not the harbour, which bears the name of the Cob. 

 In the " Y Gododin" of Aneurin, a British poem 

 supposed to have been written in the sixth century, 

 the now obsolete word chynnwr occurs in the 

 seventy-sixth stanza. In a recent translation of this 

 poem, by the.Rev. John Williams Ab Ithel, M.A., 

 this word is rendered, apparently for the sake of the 

 metre, "shore of the sea." The explanation given 

 in a foot-note is, " Harbour cynwr from cyn dwfr." 

 On the shore of the estuary of the Dee, between 

 Chester and Flint, on the AVelsh side of the river, 

 there is a place called " Connah's Quay." It is 

 probable that the ancient orthography of the name 

 was Conner. 



Coh, I think, is also a British word, — cop, a 

 mound. All the ancient earth-works which bear 

 this name, of which I have knowledge, are of a 

 circular form, except a long embankment called 

 The Cop, which has been raised on the race-course 

 at Chester, to protect it from the land-floods and 

 spring-tides of the river Dee. N. W. S. (2.) 



Coleridge's Unpublished MSS. (Vol. iv., p. 4n . ; 

 Vol. vi., p. 533.). — Theophylact, at the first re- 

 ference, inquired whether we are " ever likely to 

 receive from any member of Coleridge's family, or 

 from his friend Mr. J. H. Green, the fragments, 

 if not the entire work, of his Logosophia." Agree- 

 ing with your correspondent, that "we can ill 

 aflford to lose a work the conception of which en- 



grossed much of his thoughts," I repeated the 

 Query in another form, at the second reference. 

 (supra), grounding it upon an assurance of Sara 

 Coleridge, in her introduction to the Biographia 

 Literaria, that the fragment on Ideas would here- 

 after appear, as a sequel to the Aids to Beflection. 

 Whether this fragment be identical with the Logo- 

 Sophia, or, as I suspect, a distinct essay, certain it 

 is that nothing of the kind has ever been published.. 



From an interesting conversation I had with 

 Dr. Green in a railway carriage, on our return' 

 from the Commemoration at Oxford, I learned 

 that he has in his possession, (1.) A complete sec- 

 tion of a work on The Philosophy of Nature, 

 which he took down from the mouth of Coleridge, 

 filling a large volume ; (2.) A complete treatise 

 on Logic ; and (3.) If I did not mistake, a frag- 

 ment on Ideas. The reason Dr. Green assigns for 

 their not having been published, is, that they con- 

 tain nothing but what has already seen the light 

 in the Aids to Reflection, The Theory of Life, and 

 the Treatise on Method. This appears to me a 

 very inadequate reason for withholding them from 

 the press. That the works would pay, there can 

 be no doubt. Besides the editing of these MSS., 

 who is so well qualified as Dr. Green to give us a 

 good biography of Coleridge ? 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



Selling a Wife (Vol. vii., p. 602.).— A case of 

 selling a wife' actually and bond fide happened in 

 the provincial town in which I reside, about 

 eighteen years ago. A man publicly sold his wife 

 at the market cross for 15Z. : the buyer carried her 

 away with him some seven miles off, and she lived 

 with him till his death. The seller and the buyer 

 are both now dead, but the woman is alive, and is 

 married to a third (or a second) husband. The 

 legality of the transaction has, I believe, .some 

 chance of being tried, as she now claims some 

 property belonging to her first husband (the seller), 

 her right to which is questioned in consequence of 

 her supposed alienation by sale ; and I am informed 

 that a lawyer has been applied to in the case. Of 

 course there can be little doubt as to the result. 



Sc. 



Life (Vol. vii., pp. 429. 608.).— Compare with 

 the lines quoted by your correspondents those of 

 Moore, entitled " My Birthday," the four follow- 

 ing especially : 



" Vain was the man, and false as vain, 



Who said *, ' Were he ordain'd to run 

 His long career of life again, 



He would do all that he had done,' " 



Many a man would gladly live his life over 

 again, were he allowed to bring to bear on his 



* Fontenelle. 



