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men upon it. His majesty was, in fact, indifferent 

 whether they found for him or no. • And there I left 

 them,' says Strafford, ' to chant together, as they call it, 

 over their evidence.' The counties of Roscommon, 

 Sligo, and Mayo instantly found a title for the king." 



This extract is from a very eloquent article on 

 Lord Strafford in the British Critic, No. LXVI. 

 p. 485. W. Fbaseb. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Aldress (Vol. v., p. 582.). — Your correspondent 

 CowGiLL gives an instance of the use of this obso- 

 lete word in an epitaph in St. Stephen's, Norwich, 

 and asks where else it may be met with. I have 

 just found it in a manuscript diary, under date 

 1561, and also as used in the same city : 

 " A Speech made after Mr. Mayor Mingay's Dinner. 



" Master Mayor of Norwich ; an it please your 

 worship you have feasted us like a kinge. God bless 

 the Queen's grace. We have fed plentifully, and now 

 whilom I can speak plain English, I heartily thank 

 you Master Mayor, and so do we all. Answer, boys, 

 answer ! Your beere is pleasant and potent, and soon 

 catches us by the caput and stops our manners, and so 

 Huzza for the Queen's Majesty's Grace, and all her 

 bonny brow'd dames of honour ! Huzza for Master 

 Mayor and our good dame Mayoress, the Alderman 

 and his faire Aldress ; there they are, God save them 

 and all this jolly company. To all our friends round 

 country who have a penny in their purse, and an 

 English heart in their bodies, to keep out Spanish Dons 

 and Papists with their faggots to burn our whiskers. 

 Shove it about. Twirl your cup-cases, handle your 

 jugs, and huzza for Master Mayor and his good 

 dame ! " 



How long is it since the ladies of our civic dig- 

 nitaries relinquished the distinction here given to 

 one of their order ? "What was the cup-case ? 



Charles Keed. 

 Paternoster Row. 



Huggins and Muggins (Vol. viii., p. 341.).— 

 In the edition of Mallet's Northern Antiquities, 

 edited by J. A. Blackwell, Esq., and published by 

 Bohn {Antiquarian Library, 1847), the following 

 conjectural etymology of the words Huggins and 

 Muggins is given by the editor in a note on the 

 word Muninn, in the glossary to the Prose Edda : 



" We cannot refrain for once from noticing the cu- 

 rious coincidence between the names of Odin's ravens, 

 Hugni and Munin — Mind and Memory — and those 

 of two personages who figure so often in our comic 

 literature as Messrs. Huggins and Muggins. Huggins, 

 like Hvgh, appears to have the same root as Hugin, 

 VIZ. hugr, mind, spirit ; and as Mr. Muggins is as in- 

 variably associated with Mr. Huggins, as one of Odin's 

 ravens was with the other (as mind is with memory), 

 the name may originally have been written Munnins, 

 and nn changed into gg for the sake of euphony. 

 Should this conjecture, for it is nothing else, be well 

 founded, one of the most poetical ideas in the whole 



range of mythology would, in this plodding, practical, 

 spinning-jenny age of ours, have thus undergone a 

 most singular metamorphosis." 



Jno. N. Radcliffb. 

 Dewsbury. 



Camera Lucida (Vol. viii., p. 271.). — With ray 

 camera lucida I received a printed sheet of in- 

 structions, from which the following extract is 

 made, in answer to Caret : 



" Those who cannot sketch comfortably, without 

 perfect distinctness of both the pencil and object, must 

 observe, that the stem should be drawnout to the mark 

 D, for all distant objects, and to the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 

 &c. for objects that are at the distances of only 2, 3, 

 4, or 5 feet respectively, the stem being duly inclined 

 according to a mark placed at the bottom ; but, after 

 a little practice, such exactness is wholly unnecessary. 

 The farther the prism is removed from the paper, that 

 is, tiie longer the stem is drawn out, the larger the ob- 

 jects will be represented in the drawing, and accord- 

 ingly the less extensive the view. 



" The nearer the prism is to the paper, the smaller 

 will be the objects, and the more extensive the view 

 comprised on the same piece of paper. 



" If the drawing be two feet from the prism, and the 

 paper only one foot, the copy will be half the size of 

 the original. If the drawing be at one foot, and the 

 paper three feet distant, the copy will be three times 

 as large as the original : and so for all other distances." 



T. B. Johnston. 

 Edinburgh. 



" When Orpheus went down" (Vol. viii., pp. 196' 

 281.). — This seems to be rightly attributed to 

 Dr. Lisle. See Dodsley's Collection of Poems, 

 vol. vi. p. 166. (1758), where it is stated to have 

 been imitated from the Spanish, and set to music 

 by Dr. Hayes. It is not quite correctly given in 

 " N. & Q." J. Kelwat. 



The Arms of De Sissone (Vol. viii., p. 243.). — 

 I beg to refer J'. L. S. to Histoire Oenealogique et 

 Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, ^c, 

 tom. viii. p. 537., Paris, 1733 ; and also to Livre 

 dOr de la Noblesse, p. 429., Paris, 1847. 



C1.ERICTJS (D). 



Oaths of Pregnant Women (Vol. v., p. 393.). — 

 Women of the humbler classes in the British 

 Islands appear to have an objection, when preg- 

 nant, to take an oath. I have not observed any 

 attempt to explain or account for this prejudice. 

 The same objection exists among the Burmese. 

 Indeed, pregnant women there are, by long-ob- 

 served custom, absolved from taking an oath, and 

 affirm to their depositions, " remembering their 

 pregnant condition." The reason of this is as 

 follows. The system of Budhism, as it prevails in 

 the Indo-Chinese countries, consists essentially in 

 the negation of a Divine Providence. The oath of 

 Budhists is an imprecation of evil on the swearer, 



