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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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portraits in chalk ; and, lastly, Mr. Thurston Thompson's 

 copies of the Raphael drawings belonging to Her Majesty. 

 Had we but these, we should scarcely envy Her Majesty 

 the possession of the originals. 



fSie$liei ta ^tiior iSiuttiti. 



Epigram quoted by Lord Derby (Vol. x., 

 p. 524.). — Lord Derby, as reported, certainly 

 misquoted the epigram, but so does Jaydee in its 

 best point. The true and pungent reading is, — 



" Lord Chatham with his sword wwdrawn, 

 Is waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; 

 Sir Richard longing to be at them, 

 Is waiting for the Earl of Chatham." 



Unlike most epigrams, the point was in the first 

 line, the " sword undrawn." I well remember its 

 first appearance (in, I think, the Morning Chro- 

 nicle}, and we thought it was Jekyll's ; some one 

 afterwards added a couplet, not very neatly ex- 

 pressed, but quite as near the historical truth as 

 the rest : 



" What then, in mischief's name, can stop 'em.' 

 They both are waiting for Home Popham." 



c. 



Curious Ceremony at Queen's College, Oxford 

 (Vol. X., p. 306.) — The practice of scholars wait- 

 ing upon the Fellows' table was discontinued in 

 the year 1796. I am assured, by one who has 

 himself waited in this way, that the ceremony al- 

 luded to by Dr. Barrington was a joke, never a 

 practice. H. H. Wood. 



Queen's Coll. 



Anastatic Printing (Vol. x., pp. 288. 364.). — In 

 reply to your correspondent J. P., I beg to ob- 

 serve that he will obtain the information he re- 

 quires in a work published in 1849 by Boyne, 

 entitled On the various Applications of Anastatic 

 Printing and Papyrography, by P. H. De la 

 Motte. J. H. Gdtch. 



Paris Garden (Vol. x., p. 423.). — Mr. J. Ed- 

 monds will find the following mention of it xoade 

 in Mr. Cunningham's Handbook : 



"A manor or liberty on the Bankside in South wark, so 

 called from Robert de Paris, who had a house and garden 

 there in Richard II.'s time, who by proclamation or- 

 dained that the butchers of London should buy that 

 garden for the receipt of their garbage and entrails of 

 beasts, to the end the city might not be annoyed thereby. 

 — Blount's Glossographia, ed. 1681, p. 473. 



" This manor afterwards appertained to the monastery 

 of St Saviour's, Bermondsey, and at the dissolution to 

 Henry VIII. It was subsequently held by Thomas Cure, 

 founder of the alms-houses in Southwark which bear his 

 name ; and last of all by Rich. Taverner and William 

 Angell. 



"A circus existed in the manor of Paris Garden, erected 

 for bull and bear-baiting, as early as the 1 7 Henry VIII., 

 when the Earl of Northumberland is said (in the House- 

 hold Book of the family) to have gone to Paris Garden to 



behold the bear-baiting there. The best view of Paris 

 Garden Theatre forms the frontispiece to the second 

 volume of Collier's Annuls of the Stage." 



J. H. GUTCH. 



"Riding Bodkin" (Vol. x., p. 524.). — I pre- 

 sume N. L. T. had exhausted all the sources of 

 information usually attainable, such as Johnson's 

 Dictionary and its confreres, before he burthened 

 your paper with the Query above referred to. I 

 therefore give an explanation as given to me more 

 than once by a learned man and diligent antiquary, 

 the late Henry Thomas Payne, Archdeacon of 

 St. David's. '* Bodkin " is body kin (little body), 

 as manikin (little man), and was a little person to 

 whose company no objection could be made on 

 account of room occupied by the two persons ac- 

 commodated in the corners of the carriage. 



j Geokge E. Frehe. 



Yarmouth. 



Spanish Epigram (Vol. x., p. 445.). — May not 

 J. P. R. have mistaken the following Italian for a 

 Spanish epigram, in praise of small things some- 

 times enfolding in themselves the largest value ? 

 A huge lump of coal cries out : 



" Benchfe son' nevo, sono gigante." 



To this boast a tiny but sparkling speck of dia- 

 mond answers : 



" Benchb son' piccolo, sono brillante." 



Cephas. 



Abigail Hill (Vol. x., p. 206.). — The notorious 

 Mrs. (a Lady) Masham was daughter of Francis 

 Hill, a Turkey merchant, and sister of General 

 John Hill of Enfield Green. Her husband Samuel 

 Masham was in 1711 created Lord Masham, which; 

 title expired with his son Samuel, the second baron, 

 in 1776. 



Can any of your correspondents inform me 

 whether Sir Scipio Hill, baronet of Scotland, was 

 connected with this family, or which was his 

 parentage ? He was certainly an Englishman ; and. 

 in the notice of his death in 1729, he is called "a 

 gentleman whose character is very well known." 

 He was a colonel in the army, and served In Scot- 

 land, where he was concerned in the massacre of 

 Glencoe. From a litigation in 171 1 in the Scottish 

 courts, he seems to have been a gambler. R. R. 



A Russian and an English Regiment (Vol. xi., 

 p. 8.). — Coleridge's Friend has, ludicrously 

 enough, kicked down his own anecdote ; for be 

 says that the critic on national physiognomies that 

 he quotes was In truth so miserable a judge as to 

 mistake Coleridge's Friend for a Neapolitan. 

 I do not remember when a Russian and an English 

 regiment were likely to have been drawn up ia 

 the same square at Naples ; but if both regiments 

 had been English or both Russian, but that one 

 had been clean shaven, while the other wore beards 



