Jan. 14. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman (Vol. vii., 

 p. 211.). — I regret having omitted " when found, 

 to make a note of," the number of Chambers' 

 Edinburgh Journal in which I met with the anec- 

 dote referred to about Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 

 which is given at considerable length ; and having 

 lent my set of " Chambers " to a friend at a dis- 

 tance, I cannot at present furnish the reference 

 required ; but L. will find it in one of the volumes 

 between 1838 and 1842 inclusive. I do not re- 

 collect that the periodical writer gave his authority 

 for the tale, but while it may very possibly be 

 true as regards the wife of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 

 it is evident that his daughter, a wealthy heiress, 

 could never have been in such a position ; and it 

 is not recorded that Lord Clarendon had any other 

 wife. J. S. Warden. 



Oaths (Vol. viii., p. 605.). — Archbishop Whit- 

 gift, in a sermon before Queen Elizabeth, thus 

 addresses her : 



" As all your predecessors were at this coronation, so 

 you also were sworn before all the nobility and bishops 

 then present, and in the presence of God, and in His 

 stead to him that anointed you, ' to maintain the 

 church lands and the rights belonging to it;' and this 

 testified openly at the Holy Altar, by laying your hands 

 on the Bible then lying upon it. (See Walton's Lives, 

 Zouch's ed., p. 243.)" 



I quote from the editor's introduction to Spel- 

 man's History of Sacrilege, p. 75., no doubt cor- 

 rectly cited. H. P. 



Double Christian Names (Vol. vii. passim). — 

 The earliest, instances of these among British sub- 

 jects that I have met with, are in the families of 

 James, seventh Earl, and Charles, eighth Earl, of 

 Derby, both of whom married foreigners ; the 

 second son of the former by Charlotte de la Tre- 

 mouille, born 24th February, 1635, and named 

 Henry Frederick after his grand-uncle, the stadt- 

 holder, is perhaps the earliest instance to be found. 



J. S. Warden. 



Chip in Porridge (Vol. i., p. 382. ; Vol. viii., 

 p. 208.). — The subjoined extract from a news- 

 paper report (Nov. 1806) of a speech of Mr. 

 Byng's, at the Middlesex election, clearly in- 

 dicates the meaning of the phrase : 



" It has been said, that I have played the game of 

 Mr. Mellish. , I have, however, done nothing towards 

 bis success. J have rendered him neither service nor 

 disservice." [" No, nor to anybody else," said a person 

 on the hustings; "you are a mere chip in porridge."] 



W. R. D. S. 



Clarence Dukedom (Vol. viii., p. 565.). — W. T. 

 M. will find a very interesting paper on this sub- 

 ject, by Dr. Donaldson, in the Journal of the Bury 

 Archaeological Society. Q, 



Prospectuses (Vol. viii., p. 562.). — I have seen 

 a very curious volume of prospectuses of works 

 contemplated and proposed, but which have never 

 appeared, and wherein may be found much in- 

 teresting matter on all departments of litera- 

 ture. A collection of this description would not 

 only be useful, but should be preserved. A list 

 of contemplated publications during the last half 

 century, collected from such sources, would not 

 be misplaced in " N. & Q.," if an occasional 

 column could be devoted to the subject. G-. 



"J put a spoke in his wheel " (Vol. viii., pp. 464. 

 522. 576.). — This phrase must have had its origin 

 in the days in which the vehicles used in this 

 country had wheels of solid wood without spokes. 

 Wheels so constructed I have seen in the west of 

 England, in Ireland, and in France. A recent 

 traveller in Moldo-Wallachia relates that the 

 people of the country go from place to place 

 mounted on horses, buffaloes, or oxen ; but among 

 the Boyards it is " fashionable " to make use of 

 a vehicle which holds a position in the scale of 

 conveyances a little above a wheelbarrow and a 

 little below a dung-cart. It is poised on four 

 wheels of solid wood of two feet diameter, which 

 are more or less rounded by means of an axe. A 

 vehicle used in the cultivation of the land on the 

 slopes of the skirts of Dartmoor in Devonshire, 

 has three wheels of solid wood; it resembles a 

 huge wheelbarrow, with two wheels behind, and 

 one in front of it, and has two long handles like 

 the handles of a plough, projecting behind for the 

 purpose of guiding it. It is known as " the old 

 three-wheeled But." As the horse is attached to 

 the vehicle by chains only, and he has no power 

 to hold it back when going down hill, the driver 

 is provided with a piece of wood, " a spoke," which 

 is of the shape of the wooden pin used for rolling 

 paste, for the purpose of " dragging " the front 

 wheel of the vehicle. This he effects by thrusting 

 the spoke into one of the three round holes made 

 in the solid wheel for that purpose. The operation 

 of " putting a spoke in a wheel by way of impe- 

 diment" may be seen in daily use on the three- 

 wheeled carts used by railway navvies, and on the 

 tram waggons with four wheels used in collieries 

 to convey coals from the pit's mouth. N. W. S. 



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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Every lover of Goldsmith — and who ever read one 

 pnge of his delightful writings without admiring the 

 author, and loving the man — 



" . . . . for shortness call Noll, 



Who wrote like an angel, but talk'd like poor Poll?" — 



must be grateful to Mr. Murray for commencing his 

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