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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Lis thus bringing in the Vandykes a prapos de 

 hottes makes me a little curious about their au- 

 thenticity. C. 



Title wanted — Choirochorographia (Vol. viii., 

 p. 151.). — The full title of the book inquired 

 after is as follows : 



" Xoipox<»poypa(pta : sive, Hoglandije Descriptio 



Plattdite PorctUi Porcorum pigra Propago (^K\eg. Poet.): 

 Londini, Anno Domini 1709. Pretium 2'," 8vo. 



The printer, as appears from the advertisement 

 at the end of the volume, was Henry Hills. The 

 middle of the title-page is occupied by a coarsely 

 executed woodcut, representing a boar with a 

 barbed instrument in his snout, and a similar in- 

 strument on a larger scale under the head, sur- 

 mounted with some rude characters, which I read 



" TUBX TRVYE BEVIS O HAMTVN," 



The dedication is headed, " Augusto admodum & 



undiquaq; Spectabili Heroi Domini H S 



Maredydius Caduganus Pymlymmonensis, S.P.D." 

 The entire work appears to be written in ridicule 

 of Hampshire, and to be intended as a retaliation 

 for a work written by Edward Iloldsworth, of 

 Magd. Coll. Oxford, entitled Mnscipida, sive Ka/x- 

 epo-ixvo-fiax'a, published by the same printer in 

 the same year, and translated by Dr. Hoadly in 

 the fifth volume of Dodsley's Miscellany, p. 277., 

 edit. 1782. 



Query, AVho was the author ? and had Holds- 

 worth any farther connexion with Hampshire 

 than that of having been educated at Winchester 

 School ? J. F. M. 



Second Growth of Grass (Vol. viii., p. 102.). — 

 R. W. F. of Bath inquires for other names than 

 " fog," &c. In Sussex we have " rowens," or 

 "rewens" (the latter, I believe, a corruption), 

 used for the second growth of grass. 



Halliwell, in his Dictionai^y of Archaic and Pro- 

 vincial Words, has '•'•Rowens, after-grass," as a Suf- 

 folk word. Bailey gives the word, with a some- 

 what different signification; but he has "Rowen 

 hay, latter hay," as a country word. 



William Figg. 



Xicwes. 



In Norfolk this is called "aftermath eddish," 

 and " rowans " or " rawins." 



The first term is evidently from the A.-S. mceth, 

 a mowing or math : Bosworth's Dictionary. Ed- 

 dish is likewise from the A.-S. edisc, signifying 

 the second growth; it is used by Tusser, Oc- 

 tober's Husbandry, stanza 4. : 



" Where wheat upon eddish ye mind to bestow. 

 Let that be the first of the wheat ye do sow." 



Bawings also occurs in Tusser, and in the Prom- 

 ptorium Parvulorum, 7-aivynhey is mentioned. In 

 Bailey's Dictionary it is spelt rowen and ronghings : 



this last form gives the etymology, for roire, as 

 may be seen in Halliwell, is an old form for rough. 



E.G.R. 



I have always heard it called in Northumberland, 

 fog ; in Norfolk, after-math ; in Oxfordshire, I am 

 told, it is latter-math. This term is pure A. -Saxon, 

 mceth, the mowing ; the former word fog, and 

 eddish also, are to be found in dictionaries, but 

 their derivation is not satisfactoiy. C. I. R. 



Snail eating (yo\.\n\., p. 34.). — The beautiful 

 specimens of the large white snails were brought 

 from Italy by Single-speech Hamilton, a gentleman 

 of verta and exquisite taste, and placed in the 

 grounds at Paynes Hill, and some fine statues 

 likewise. On the change of property, the snails 

 were dispersed about the country ; and many of 

 them were picked up by my grandfather, who 

 lived at the Grove under Boxhill, near Dorking. 

 They were found in the hedges about West Hum- 

 ble, and in the grounds of the Grove. I had this 

 account from my mother ; and had once some of 

 the shells, which I had found when staying in 

 Surrey. Julia II. Bockett. 



Southcote Lodge. 



The snails asked after by Mr. H. T. Rilet are to 

 be met with near Dorking. When in that neigh- 

 bourhood one day in May last, I found two in the 

 hedgerow on the London road (west side) between 

 Dorking and Box Hill. They are much larger 

 than the common snail, the shells of a light brown, 

 and the flesh only slightly tinged with green. I 

 identified them by a description and drawing given 

 in an excellent book for children, the Parent's 

 Cabinet, which also states that they are to be found 

 about Box Hill. G. Rogers Long. 



The large white snail {Helix pomatia) is found 

 in abundance about Box flill in Surrey, It is 

 also plentiful near Stonesfield in Oxfordshire, 

 where have, at different periods, been discovered 

 considerable remains of Roman villas ; and it has 

 been suggested that this snail was introduced by 

 the former inhabitants of those villas. 



W. C. Trevelyan. 



Wallington. 



Sotades (Vol. vii., p. 417.). — Sotades is the sup- 

 posed inventor of Palindromic verses (see Mr. 

 Sands' Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, p. 5., 1831. 

 His enigma on "Madam" was written by Miss 

 Ritson of Lowestoft). S. Z. Z. S. 



The Letter " h " in " humble " (Vol. viii., p. 54.). 

 — The question has been raised by one of your 

 correspondents (and I have not observed any 

 reply thereto), as to whether it is a peculiarity of 

 Londoners to pronounce the h in humble. If, as a 

 Londoner by birth and residence, I might be 

 allowed to answer the Query, I should say that 



