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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 291. 



Part of Hiwhgate being in Hornsey pai'ish, what 

 connexion has Hornsey with "sweai'ing on the 

 Horns?" Hone notices it, but does not explain 

 it. O. S. (1) 



[Hone evidently left his reader to accept or reject the 

 conjectural origin of Hornsey from this ludicrous custom. 

 " If anything," says Lysons, " is to be gathered relating 

 to the etymology of Hornsey, it must be sought for in its 

 more ancient appellation, tiar-inge, the meadow of hares, 

 is not very wide of its original orthography. From the 

 thirteenth to the sixteenth century, public records call it 

 Haringee, Haringhee, or Haringey. About Queen Eliza- 

 beth's time, it was usuallj'- called Harnsey, or, as some 

 will have it, says Norden, Hornsey." The most inte- 

 resting account of the burlesque oath will be found in an 

 unfinished Peramhulation of Islington, by Thomas Edlyne 

 Tomlins, ivho states that " the Horns at Homchurch, the 

 Horns at Kennington, the Horn Fair at Charlton, and 

 the Horns at Highgate, all evidently have reference to 

 an ancient passage-toll levied upon horned cattle, and 

 gathered by some park-keeper or manor-bailiff, who 

 showed his authority by a staff surmounted with a sign 

 not to be misunderstood."] 



^'■Philip drunk and Philip sober ^ — What is the 

 origin of this phrase, and where is it first used? 



AvLTSBUS. 



Paisley. 



[The reference is to Philip of Macedon, who, when 

 under the effects of wine, unjustly condemned a woman, 

 who appealed from his judgment. "To whom, then, do 

 you appeal.'" said the enraged king. "From Philip," 

 she replied, " drunk and slumbering, to Philip sober and 

 wakeful."] 



PendrelVs Tomb in St. Giles's in the Fields. — On 

 looking over an old scrap-book, I met the follow- 

 ing note and lines : 



" Richard Pendrell was buried in the churchyard of 

 St. Giles, London ; where a plain tombstone is erected to 

 his memory, with the following inscription : 



" ' Here lies the body of Richard Pendrell, preserver 

 and conductor of His Sacred Majesty Charles H. of Great 

 Britain, after his escape from Worcester fight, in the year 

 1651, who died Feb. 8, 1671. 



' Hold, passenger ! here's shrouded in this hearse 

 Unparallel'd Pendrell, thro' the universe ! 

 Like when the Eastern Star from Heaven gave light 

 To three lost kings : so he, in such dark night, 

 To Britain's monarch, toss'd by adverse war, 

 On earth appeared, a second eastern star, 

 A pole, a stern, in her rebellious main — 

 A pilot to her Royal Sovereign : 

 Now to triumph in Heaven's eternal sphere, 

 He's hence advanced for his just steerage here ; 

 Whilst Albion's Chronicles, with matchless fame, 

 Embalm the story of great PendrelL's name." 



Will any of the correspondents to " N. & Q." 

 inform me if this tombstone is yet to be seen, and 

 if the inscription is correct ? Any information on 

 the subject will oblige A Constant Reabek. 



[We have corrected this epitaph according to the ver- 

 sion given in a New View of London, 1708, vol. i. p. 268., 

 which slightly varies from the one in Parton's Account 

 of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in the Fields, 



p. 224. The tomb of Pendrell now seen is modern ; the 

 late raising of the churchyard having so far buried the 

 original one as to render the erection of a new monument 

 to preserve the memory of this singular character neces- 

 sary. The black marble slab of the old tomb, at present, 

 forms the base of the new one.] 



" ANNOTATED EDITION OF THE ENGLISH POETS." 



In consequence of mv copy of " N. & Q." having 

 been consigned to the hands of the binder while I 

 was absent from London in the winter, I have only 

 this momemt seen Mr. W. J. Bernhard Smith'^s 

 courteous correction of a mistake in the placing of 

 a note in the poems of Oldham (" N. & Q.," Vol. x., 

 p. 459.). That gentleman's observations are per- 

 fectly just. The note does not apply to the passage 

 referred to, nor was it intended to have any such 

 application. The error arose solely from the dis- 

 placement of the note ; but it is certainly not the 

 less important on that account. The variety of 

 minute points upon which attention is unavoidably 

 divided in the supervision of a text so faulty as 

 that of Oldham, can alone explain how it was the 

 mistake escaped detection in the proof-sheets ; but 

 it was early corrected, as I discovered and rectified 

 it while the volume was passing through the press. 

 I am not the less obliged, however, to Mb. Smith 

 for having pointed it out, and for the commendation 

 he is good enough to bestow upon the labours in 



Robert Bell. 



MARINE vivarium, HOW TO STOCK ONE. 



(Vol. xi., p. 365.) 

 A CocKNET Naturalist must purchase Mr. 

 Gosse's Aquarium, and then take a run to Rams- 

 gate or Hastings, where he may procure, among 

 the rocks and froni the sea, the creatures he speaks 

 of. As the Aquarium contains pictures of them, 

 he will be at no loss to find a " sea anemone," or 

 recognise a " chiton ! " On returning home he 

 must convey his creatures into a large jar, with a 

 liberal allowance of fresh sea-water; and after- 

 wards, when he wants more, he must send to the 

 "little boy at the Nore," as Hood has it, for a 

 fresh supply ! We mean that he must take care 

 to get it sufiiciently genuine in character. Mr. 

 Gosse's book contains the fullest and minutest in- 

 structions; but if the Cockney Naturalist be 

 unwilling to begin his career by purchasing the 

 glass case now used for vivariums, be it known 

 that he can conduct ihe same experiment on a 

 small scale in a glass jar. Our information is from 

 a very eminent naturalist, who tried the process a 

 great many years ago, before the word vivarium 

 had been thought of. Of course it all turns upon 



