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of their Welsh neighbours), and was ultimately 

 ruined. Many of the old inhabitants of that part 

 of the Principality could, no doubt, give a better 

 and fuller account of them. 



The following lines (not very flattering to the 

 landlord, certainly), said to have been written by a 

 commercial traveller on an inside-window shutter 

 of " The Golden Lion," when Mr. Longfellow was 

 the proprietor, may not be out of place in " 28". 

 &Q.:" 



" Tom Longfellow's name is most justly his due, 

 Long his neck, long his bill, which is very long too ; 

 Long the time ere your horse to the stable is led, 

 Long before he's rubbed down, and much longer till 



fed; 

 Long indeed may you sit in a comfortless room, 

 Till from kitchen, long dirty, your dinner shall come ; 

 Long the often-told tale that your host will relate, 

 Long his face whilst complaining how long people eat ; 

 Long may Longfellow long ere he see me again, — 

 , Long 'twill be ere I long for Tom Longfellow's inn." 



C. H. (2) 



Yesterday I happened to be looking over an 

 old Bristol paper (Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal, 

 Saturday, June 11, 1791), and the name of Long- 

 fellow, which I had before only known as borne 

 by the poet, caught my eye. At the end of the 

 paper there is a notice in these words : 



" Advertisements are taken in for this paper by 

 agents in various places, and by Mr. Longfellow, 

 Brecon," &c. 



Henry Geo. Tomkins. 



Park Lodge, Weston-super-Mare. 



There is now living at Beaufort Iron Works, 

 Breconshire, a respectable tradesman, bearing the 

 name of Longfellow. He himself is a native of 

 the town of Brecon, as was his father also. But 

 his grandfather was a settler ; though from what 

 part of the country this last-named relative ori- 

 ginally came, he is unfortunately unable to say. 

 He has the impression, however, that it was from 

 Cornwall or Devonshire. Perhaps this information 

 will partly answer the question of Oxoniensis. 



E. W. I. 



It is by no means improbable that the name is 

 a corruption of Longvillers, found in Northamp- 

 tonshire as early as the reign of Edward I., and 

 derived, I imagine, from the town of Longueville 

 in Normandy. There is a Newton Longville in 

 this county. W. P. Stoker. 



Olney, Bucks. 



Canting Arms (Vol. ix., p. 146.). — The intro- 

 duction to the collection of arms alluded to was 

 not written by Sir George Naylor, but by the 

 Kev. James Dallaway, who had previously pub- 

 lished his Historical Enquiries, a work well known. 



G. 



Holy Loaf Money (Vol. ix., p. 150.). — At 

 some time before the date of present rubrics, it 

 was the custom for every house in the parish to 

 provide in rotation bread (and wine) for the Holy 

 Communion. By the first book of King Ed- 

 ward VI., this duty was devolved upon those who 

 had the cure of souls, with a provision " that the 

 parishioners of every parish should offer every 

 Sunday, at the time of the offertory, the jtist value 

 and price of the holy loaf ... to the use of the 

 pastors and curates " who had provided it ; " and 

 that in such order and course as they were wont 

 to find, and pay the said holy loaf." This is, I 

 think, the correct answer to the Query of T. J. W. 



J. H. B. 



" Could we with ink" Sfc. (Vol. viii., pp. 127. 

 180.). — The idea embodied in these lines was 

 well known in the seventeenth century. The 

 following " rhyme," extracted from a rare miscel- 

 lany entitled Wits Recreations, 12mo., 1640, has 

 reference to the subject. 



" Interrogativa Cantilena. 

 ■ If all the world were paper, 

 And all the sea were inke ; 

 If all the trees were bread and cheese, 

 How should we do for drinke ? 



" If all the world were sand'o, 



Oh then what should we lack'o ; 

 If as they say there were no clay, 

 How should we take tobacco ? 



" If all our vessels ran'a, 



If none but had a crack'a ; 

 If Spanish apes eat all the grapes, 

 How should we do for sack'a? 



" If fryers had no bald pates, 



Nor nuns had no dark cloysters ; 



If all the seas were beans and pease, 



How should we do for oysters ? 



" If there had been no projects, 



Nor none that did great wrongs ; 

 If fiddlers shall turne players all, 

 How should we doe for songs ? 



" If all things were eternall, 



And nothing their end bringing ; 



If this should be, then how should we 



Here make an end of singing ? " 



Edward F. Rimbatjlt. 



Mount Mill, and the Fortifications of London 

 (Vol. ix., p. 174.). — B. R. A. Y. will find that 

 the name is still applied to an obscure locality in 

 the parish of St. Luke, situated close to the west 

 end of Seward Street on the north side. The 

 parliamentary fortifications of London are de- 

 scribed in Maitland's Hist, and Mount Mill is 

 noticed in Cromwell's Clerkenwell, pp. 33. 396. 

 This writer supposes that the Mount (long since 

 levelled) originated in the interment of a great 

 number of persons during the plague of 1665 ; but 



