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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 194. 



Old Ship. — It may be of interest to some of 

 your readers to learn that the ship which conveyed 

 Greneral Wolfe on his expedition to Quebec is 

 still afloat under the name of the " William and 

 Ann." 



She was built in 1739 for a bomb-ketch, and 

 was in dock in the Thames a few days since, 

 sound and likely to endure for many years yet : 

 she is mostly now engaged in the Honduras and 

 African timber trades, which is in itself a proof 

 of her great strength. A. O. H. 



Blackheath. 



The Letter " h" in '■'■humhle." — I was always 

 taught in my childhood to sink the h in this word, 

 and was confirmed in this habit by the usage of 

 all the well-educated people that I met in those 

 days, as also by the authority of every pronoun- 

 cing dictionary in the English language : and to 

 this day hear many people quite as well educated, 

 and of as high station in all but literary society, 

 as Mr. Dickens, use the same pronunciation ; but 

 this eminent writer has thought fit of late to pro- 

 scribe this practice as far as in him lies, by making 

 it the Shibboleth of two of the meanest and vilest 

 characters in his works. I should like to know 

 whether the aspiration of this letter is due to 

 Mr. D.'s London birth and residence, or whether 

 it has become of late the general usage of good 

 society. If the latter, it is clear that a new edi- 

 tion of Walker is required for the benefit of such as 

 have no wish to be confounded with the "Ileeps." 



Your late Numbers have given some curious in- 

 stances of Cockney and other rhymes. I am sorry 

 to see that the offensive r not only appears to be 

 gaining ground in poetry, but also in the mouths 

 of many whose station and education might have 

 been supposed to preserve them from this vul- 

 garism. If the masters of our great schools took 

 as much pains with their pupils' pronunciation of 

 English, as with that of Latin and Greek, we 

 should hear less of this, J. S. Warden. 



" The Angels Whisper." — The admirers of that 

 popular song will be surprised to find that there 

 prevails in India a tradition very similar to the 

 one on which that song is founded. 



The other day our Hindoo nurse was watching 

 our baby asleep, and noticing that it frequently 

 smiled, said, " God is talking to it ! " The tra- 

 dition, as elicited from this woman, seems to be 

 here, that when a child smiles in its sleep, God is 

 saying something pleasing to it ; but when it cries. 

 He is talking to it of sorrow. J. C. B. 



Punjab. 



Pronunciation of Cohe (Vol. vii., p. 586.). — 

 Probably the under-mentioned particulars may 

 tend to elucidate the Query discussed in your 

 paper touching the pronunciation of Chief Jus- 

 tice Coke's surname in his Lordship's time. 



In numerous original family "Coke documents "^ 

 in my possession, amongst which are a most 

 spirited and highly interesting letter written by 

 the celebrated Lady Elizabeth Hatton *, Sir 

 Edward Coke's widow, quite in character with 

 her ladyship, shortly after her husband's death \ 

 and likewise several letters written by his chil- 

 dren and grandchildren ; Sir Edward's surname 

 is invariably spelt Coke, whilst in other his family 

 documents f and public precepts I possess, the 

 latter of which came under the eye of Lord* 

 Keepers Coventry and Littleton, Sir Edward's 

 name is, in nine cases out of ten in five hundred 

 instances, spelt Cooke and Cook ; thus, I submit,, 

 raising an almost irresistible presumption that,, 

 however the Chief Justice's surname was written, 

 it was pronounced Cook and not Coke. 



T. W. Jones. 



Nantwich. 



The Advice supposed to have heen given to 

 Julius III. — The Consilium, sometimes and inad- 

 vertently called a Council, addressed to Julius III., 

 Pope of Rome, by certain prelates, has just been 

 once more quoted, for the fiftieth time, perhaps,, 

 within the present generation, as a genuine docu- 

 ment, and as proceeding from adherents of the 

 Church of Rome. This re-quotation appears in 

 an otherwise useful little volume of the Religious 

 Tract Society, entitled The Bible in many Tongues, 

 p. 96. ; and it may tend to check the use made of 

 the supposed Advice or Council to state, what a 

 perusal either of the original in Brown's Fasciculus 

 jRerum Expetend. et Fugiend., or of a translation in 

 Gibson's Preservative (vol. i. pp. 183. 191., ed» 

 1848), will soon make evident, that the document 

 in question is a piece of banter, and must be at- 

 tributed to the pen of P. P. Vergerio, in whose 

 Works it is in fact included, in the single volume 

 published Tubing. 1563, fol. 94—104. 



So frequently has this supposed Advice been 

 cited as a serious affair, that the pages of "N. & Q."^ 

 may be well employed in endeavouring to stop the 

 somewhat perverse use of a friendly weapon. 



Novus. 



€iutvitg, 



BISHOP GABDINER " DE VERA OBEMENTIA." 



It is probable that others of your readers be- 

 sides myself have had good reason to complain 

 that Dr. Maitland has cruelly raised the price of 

 this little book to a bibliomaniacal height, by his 

 inimitable description of its curious contents and 

 history. {Essays on Subjects connected with the 

 Reformation, xvii. xviii. xix.) 



* Her surname is so written. 



•j- Some of them of so early a date as the year 1600, 

 when Sir Edward was Attorney- General to Queen 

 Elizabeth, 



