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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 235. 



is the duty of all licensed to kill according to law 

 strenuously to protest against both by argument 

 and practice : 



" That's the best physick which doth cure our ills 

 Without the charge of pothecaries pills." 



E. W. J. 



Crawley. 



Cassie. — Me. M. A. Lower (a correspondent 

 of " N. & Q"), in his Essays on English Surnames 

 (see vol. ii. p. 63.), quotes from a brochure on 

 Scottish family names. He seems, from a foot- 

 note, to be in difficulty about the word cassie. 

 May I suggest to him that it is a corruption of 

 " causeway ?" 



The "causeway" is, in Scotch towns, an usual 

 name for a particular street ; and of a man's sur- 

 name, his place of residence is a most common 

 source of derivation. W. T. M. 



The Duke of Wellington. — Lord de Grey, in 

 his Characteristics of the Duke of Wellington, 

 pp. 171, 172., gives the following extract from the 

 despatches published by Colonel Gurwood, and 

 refers to vol. viii. p. 292. : 



" It would undoubtedly be better if language of this 

 description were never used, and if officers placed as 

 you were could correct errors and neglect in language, 

 which should not hurt the feelings of the person ad- 

 dressed, and without vehemence." 



Compare this passage with the following advice 

 which Don Quixote gives to Sancho Panza before 

 he sets off to take possession of his government : 



" Al che has de castigar con obras, no trates mal 

 con palahras, pues le basta al desdichado la pena del 

 suplicio sin la anadidura de las malas razones." — 

 Part ii. ch. xlii. 



See translation of Don Quixote by Jarvis, vol. iv. 

 b. nr. ch. x. p. 76.* 



The very depreciatory terms in which the Em- 

 peror Napoleon used to speak of the Duke of 

 Wellington as a general is well known. The fol- 

 lowing extract from Forsyth's Napoleon at St. 

 Helena and Sir Hudson Lowe, appears to me 

 worthy of beincr brought under the notice of the 

 readers of "N.&Q.:" 



" After the governor had left the bouse (upon the 

 death of Napoleon he had gone to the house of the 

 deceased with Major Gorrequer to make an inventory 

 of and seal up his papers), Count Montholon called 

 back Major Gorrequer to ask him a question, and he 

 mentioned that he had been searching for a paper dic- 

 tated to him by Napoleon a long time previously, and 



* Jarvis translates the passage in Don Quixote, — 

 " Him you are to punish with deeds, do no evil ; in- 

 treat with words, for the pain of the punishment is 

 enough for the wretch to bear, without the addition of 

 ill-language." 



which he was sorry he could not find, as it was an 

 eulogium on the Duke of Wellington, in which Napoleon 

 had spoken in the highest terms of praise of the 

 military conduct of the Duke." — See vol. hi. p. 299. 



J. W. Farrer. 



Romford Jury. — The following entry appears* 

 on the court register of the Romford Petty 

 Sessions (in Havering Liberty) for the year 

 1750, relating to the trial of two men charged 

 with an assault on Andrew Palmer. As a curious 

 illustration of the manner in which justice was 

 administered in country parts in " the good old 

 times," I think it may be interesting to the readers 

 of'N. & Q." 



" The jury could not for several hours agree on 

 their verdict, seven being inclinable to find the de- 

 fendants guilty, and the others not guilty. It was 

 therefore proposed by the foreman to put twelve shil- 

 lings in a hat, and hustle most heads or tails, whether 

 guilty or not guilty. The defendants, therefore, were 

 acquitted, the chance happening in favour of not 

 guilty." 



E. J. Sage. 



Edward Law {Lord Ellenborough), Chief 

 Justice. — J. M.'s quotation of the song in the 

 Supplement to the Court of Sessions Garland 

 (Vol. ix., p. 221.), reminds me of the lines on 

 Mr. Law's being made Chief Justice : 



" What signifies now, quirk, quihble, or flaw, 

 Since Law is made Justice, seek justice from Law." 



W. COLLYNS.. 



Drewsteigntou. 



Chamisso. — Chamisso, in his poem of " The- 

 Three Sisters," who, crushed with misery, con- 

 tended that each had the hardest lot, has this fine- 

 passage by the last speaker : 



" In one brief sentence all my bitter cause 

 Of sorrow dwells — thou arbiter ! oh, pause 



Ere yet thy final judgment thou assign, 

 And learn my better right — too clearly proved. 

 Four words comprise it — I was never loved t 

 The palm of grief thou wilt allow is mine." 



"He knew humanity — there can be no grief like- 

 that grief. Death had bereaved one sister of her 

 lover — the second mourned over her fallen idol's 

 shame — the third exultingly says, — 



' Have they not lived and loved? '" 



The above is written in a beautiful Italian 

 female hand on the fly-leaf of the Basia, 1775. 



E.D. 



Dates of Maps. — It is very much to be wished 

 that map-makers would always affix to their maps- 

 the date of their execution ; the want of this in, 

 the maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge has often been an annoyance to me, 

 for it frequently happens that, one or both of two 

 maps including the same district are without date, 



