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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 208. 



its author to Secretary Dorchester in 1629, then 

 engaged in forwarding the projected voyage of 

 " North-West " Foxe ; it is remarkable, however, 

 that no extended account of this voyage, so im- 

 portant in its objects, has ever been published. I 

 am desirous of knowing if this journal is in ex- 

 istence, and where ? Also, Lord Dorchester's 

 letter to Button in February, 1629 ; of any farther 

 information on the subject of the voyage, or of 

 Sir Thomas Button. 



What I possess already are, 1-. " Motiues in- 

 ducing a Proiect for the Discouerie of the North 

 Pole terrestriall ; the streights of Anian, into the 

 South Sea, and Coasts thereof," anno 1610. 

 2. Prince Henry's Instructions for the Voyage, 

 together with King James's Letters of Credence, 

 1612. 3. A Letter from Sir Thomas Button to 

 Secretary Dorchester, dated Cardiff, 16th Feb., 

 1629 (from the State Paper Office). 4. Sir 

 Dudley Digges' little tract on the N.-W. Passage, 

 written to promote the voyage, and of which there 

 were two distinct impressions in 1611 and 1612. 

 5. Extracts from the Carleton Correspondence, 

 and from the Hakluyt Society's volume on Voy- 

 ages to the North- West. 



I shall be glad also to learn the date, and any 

 other facts connected with the death of John 

 Davis, the discoverer of the Straits bearing his 

 name. John Pethekam. 



94. High Holborn. 



Minat aSmetits. 



The Words " Cash " and " Mob.'" — In^ Moore's 

 Diary I find the following remark. Can any of 

 your numerous readers throw any light on the 

 subject ? 



" Lord Holland doubted whether the word ' Cash ' 

 was a legitimate English word, though, as Irving re- 

 marked, it is as old as Ben Jonson, there being a 

 character called Cash in one of his comedies. Lord 

 Holland said Mr. Fox was of opinion that the word 

 ' Mob ' was not genuine English." — Moore's Diary, 

 vol. iii. p. 247. 



CiERICUS RUSTICUS. 



'[History of Jesus Christ." ~G. L. S. will feel 

 obliged by any correspondent of " N. & Q." stat- 

 ing who is the author of the following work ? — 



" The History of the Incarnation, Life, Doctrine, 

 and Miracles, the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension 

 of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, In 

 Seven Books ; illustrated with Notes, and interspersed 

 with Dissertations, theological, historical, geographical, 

 and critical. 



" To which are added the Lives, Actions, and Suf- 

 ferings of the Twelve Apostles ; also of Saint Paul, 

 Saint Mark, Saint Luke, and Saint Barnabas, To- 

 gether with a Chronological Table from the beginning 

 of the reign of Herod the Great to the end of the 



Apostolic Age. By a Divine of the Church of 

 England. 



" London : printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe, in 

 Paternoster Row, 1737." 



This work is in one folio volume, and all I can 

 ascertain of its authorship is that it was not writ- 

 ten by Bishop Gibson, of " Preservative " fame. 



Quantity of the Latin Termination -aims. — Proper 

 names having the termination -amis are always 

 long in Latin and short in Greek : thus, the Clau- 

 dianus, Lucianus, &c. of the Latins are KKavSiavos 

 and AovKicivos in Greek. What is to be said of the 

 word XpiffTLayoe ? Is it long or short, admitting It 

 to be long in the Latin tongue ? 



While on the subject of quantities, let me ask, 

 where is the authority for that of the name of the 

 queen of the Ethiopians, Candace, to be found? 

 We always pronounce it long, but all books of 

 authority mark it as short. Anti-Barbaeus. 



Webb and Walker Families. — Perhaps you or 

 some of your numerous readers could inform me 

 if the Christian names of Daniel and Roger were 

 used 160 or 180 years ago by any of the numerous 

 families of Webb or Webbe, resident in Wilts or 

 elsewhere ; and if so, in what family of that name ? 

 And is there any pedigree of them extant ? and 

 where is it to be found ? 



Was the Rev. Geo. Walker, the defender of 

 Derry, connected with the Webbs ? and if so, how, 

 and with what family ? 



Is there any Webb mentioned in history at the 

 siege of Derry ? and if so, to what family of that 

 name did he belong ? Gulielmus. 



Cawdreys " Treasure of Similes." — I stumbled 

 lately at a book-stall on a very curious old book 

 entitled A Treasurie or Store-house of Similes 

 both pleasant., delightfull, and p7-ofitable. The 

 title-page is gone ; but in an old hand on the cover 

 it is stated to have been written by a certain 

 "Cawdrey," and to have been printed in 1609, 

 where I cannot discover. Can any of your cor- 

 respondents oblige me with some information con- 

 cerning him ? The book is marked " scarce." 



J. H. S. 



Point of Etiquette. — Will some of your numerous 

 correspondents kindly inform me as to the rule 

 in such a case as the following : when an elder 

 brother has lost both his daughters in his old age, 

 does the eldest daughter of the younger brother 

 take the style of Miss Smith, Jones, Brown, or 

 Robinson, as the case may be ? F. D., M,R. C.S. 



Napoleon's Spelling. — Macaulay, in his History 

 of England, chap, vii., quotes, in a foot-note, 

 a passage from a letter of William III., written 

 in French to his ambassador at Paris, and then 

 makes this remark, " The spelling is bad, but not 

 worse than Napoleon's." 



