July 23. 1853.'] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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passage : " They bought herrings during the sea- 

 son, and then departed, as those fishermen which 

 Mil fish at Wardhouse do use to do at present." 



"VV^here was ^^'^ardhouse, aad wbat was the 

 custom there ? _ C. J. P. 



Great Yarmouth. 



*' Adrian turn'd the hulV — In an old MS. in 



my possession, the following verse occurs : — 



" Of whate'er else your head be full, 

 llemember Adrian tiirn'd the bull ; 

 'Tis time that you should turn the chase. 

 Kick out the knave and take the place." 



Would any of the correspondents of " N. & Q." 

 be so good as to explain to me the reference in 

 the second line of the verse ? G. M. 



Canjs "Palaologia Ch?-onica" — I have an old 

 book entitled : 



" Palajologia Chronica; a Chronological Account of 

 Ancient Time. Performed by Robert Cary, D.LL., 

 Devon. London : printed by J. Darby, for Ricliard 

 Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church 

 Yard, 1677." 



tind shall be glad to be informed whether the 

 author was any relation of Dr. Valentine Carey, 

 who was consecrated bishop of Exeter in 1620, 

 iind died in 1626. (See Walton's Life of Dr. 

 Donne.') Chris. Egberts. 



Bradford, Yorkshire. 



*rhe Soidhicarh Puddivg Wonder. — I have been 

 very much pleased with the perusal of a collection 

 of MS. letters, written by the celebrated anti- 

 quary William Stukeley to Maurice Johnson, Esq., 

 the founder of the Gentlemen's Society at Spald- 

 ing. These lettei's have not been published; the j 

 MSS. exist in the library of the Spalding Society. \ 

 They contain much interesting matter, and fur- j 

 jiish many traits of the manners, character, and ; 

 modes of thinking and acting of their respected j 

 author. 



Can any of your i-eaders explain the meaning of I 

 the following passage, which is found in a letter | 

 dated 19th June, 1718 : " The Southu-ai-k Pudding 

 wonder is over ? " 



In the same letter the Dr. alludes to a con- 

 tested election for the office of Chamberlain of 

 the City of London, which took place in 1718 : 



" The city is all in an uproar about the election of 

 a chamberlain, like a country corporation for burgesses, 

 where roast pig and beef and wine are dealt about 

 freely at taverns, and advertisements about it more 

 voluminous than the late celebrated Bangorean Notifi- 

 cation, though not in a calm and undisturbed way." 



PisHEY Thompson. 

 Stoke Newingfon. 



Roman Catholics confined in Fens of Ely. — ISIr. 

 Dickens, in Household Words, No. 169. p. 382., in 



the continuation of a " Child's History of Eng- 

 land," says, when alluding to the threatened inva- 

 sion of England by the Spanish Armada : 



" Some of the Queen's advisers were for seizing the 

 principal English Catholics, and putting them to 

 death ; but the queen — who, to her honour, used to 

 say that she would never believe any ill of her subjects, 

 wliich a parent would not believe of her own children 

 — neglected the advice, and only confined a kw of 

 those who were the most suspected among them, in 

 the fens of Lincolnshire." 



Mr. Dickens had, of course, as he supposed, 

 good authority for making this statement ; but, 

 in reply to a private communication, he states it 

 should have been Fens of Fly. I am, perhaps, 

 convicting myself of gross ignorance by seeking for 

 information respecting it ; nevertheless, I venture 

 to ask the readers of " N. & Q." for a reference to 

 the authentic history, where a corroboration of Mr. 

 Dickens' statement is to be found ? 



PiSHET Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



White Bell Heather transplanted. — Is it gene- 

 rally known that white bell heather becomes pink 

 on being transplanted from its native hills into a 

 garden ? Two plants were shown to me a few 

 days ago, by a country neighbour, flowering pink, 

 which were transplanted, the one three, and the 

 other two, years ago ; the former had white bells 

 for two years, the latter for one year only. What 

 I wish to know is, AVhether these are exceptional 

 cases or not ? VV. C. 



Argyleshlre. 



GreerHs ^'■Secret Plot" — Can you inform me 

 where the scene of the following drama is laid, 

 and the names of the di-amatis personoe ? The 

 Secret Plot; a tragedy by Kupert Green, 12mo., 

 1777. Tlie author of this play, which was pub- 

 lished when he was only in his ninth year, was 

 the son of Mr. Valentine Gi'een, who wrote a 

 history of Worcester. A. Z. 



" The fidl Moon brings fine Weather." — When 

 did this saying originate, and have we any proof 

 of its correctness ? The late Duke of Wellington 

 is reported to have said, that, as regarded the 

 weather, it was " nonsense to have any faith in the 

 moon." (Vide Larpent's Private Journal, vol. ii. 

 p. 283.) AV. W. 



Malta. 



Nash the Artist — li\ the year 1802, Mr. F. 

 Nash made a water-colour drawing of the Town 

 Hall, churches, &c., in the High Street of the 

 ancient borough of Dorchester ; a line engraving 

 (now rather scarce) was shortly afterwards pub- 

 lished therefrom by Mr. J. Frampton, then a 

 bookseller in the town. Can any reader of the 



