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furniture, as it now is with us. It had, no doubt, 

 some real work to do before it became what we 

 are pleased to term ornamental. C. D. Lamont. 

 Greenock. 



Passage in Job. — The Rev. Moses Margo- 

 uouth will much oblige the writer, and some of 

 his friends, by giving in " N. & Q." a literal trans- 

 lation of Job xix. 26. The authorised version is : 



" And though after my skin worms destroy this 

 body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." 



The marginal reference gives : 

 " After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, 

 yet out of my flesh shall I see God." 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



Provincial Glossaries. — In an article in the 

 79th volume of the Edinburgh Review, on the 

 provincialisms of the European languages, the 

 writer says : 



" There are some very copious early English voca- 

 bularies lying in manuscript in the Cathedral libraries 

 of Durham, Winchester, and Canterbury ; in the 

 British Museum, King's College, and other deposi- 

 tories, deserving collection." 



Will any of your learned readers inform me of 

 the dates of the MSS. referred to, and by whom 

 the collections were made ? I would recommend 

 them to the notice of the Camden Society. 



Fra. Mewbtjrn. 



Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster. — What 

 crest did this family bear, and when did the family 

 become extinct ? J. B. 



A marvellous Combat of Birds. — In the Phoenix 

 Britannicus, by J. Morgan, London, 4to., p. 250.*, 

 there is an account of — 



" The wonderful battle of stares (or starlings), 

 fought at Cork on Saturday 12th, and Monday 14th, 

 October, 1621." 



And this narration relates, that on the Sunday, 

 October 13, the intervening day, the starlings 

 absented themselves to fight at Woolwich, in 

 Kent!! 



Without vouching for the fact, or calling in 

 question the prowess of this " Irish Brigade," I 

 leave it to be confirmed or refuted by any reader 

 of the " N. & Q." — comme bon lui semblera. 2. 



P. S. — I would, apropos to the above subject, 

 thank any reader of your miscellany to point out 

 to me a work by a M. Hanhart (I believe is the 

 name), which I think is upon Les Maurs des 

 Fourmis indigenes, in which are given some par- 



[* At p. 252. of the same article is an account of 

 the battle of the gnats, noticed by Mr. E. W. Jacob. — 



Ed.] 



ticulars of regular conflicts between ants. I am 

 not aware of the exact title of the book, but I 

 have seen an account of it in some Edinburgh 

 periodical, if I am not mistaken. 



Battle of the Gnats. — In reading Stow's Chro- 

 nicles of England, I lit upon the following passage 

 recorded in the reign of King Richard II., p. 509. : 



" A fighting among gnats at the King's Maner of 

 Shine, where they were so thicke gathered, that the 

 ayre was darkned with them : they fought and made 

 a great battaile. Two partes of them being slayne, 

 fel downe to the grounde ; the thirde parte hauing got 

 the victorie, flew away, no man knew whither. The 

 number of the deade was such that might be swepte 

 uppe with besomes, and bushels filled weyth them." 



This is a curious incident, and I have never 

 heard of anything of the sort taking place in 

 modern times. Would some of your readers who 

 study natural history be good enough to give me 

 another instance? I am at present inclined to 

 think that the account is one of the many myths 

 which Stow doubtless believed. 



Eustace W. Jacob. 



Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, Co. York. — Wanted, 

 the arms and crest of the Sandfords of Thorpe 

 Salvine. Also any particulars of the family, from 

 the commencement of their residence at High 

 Ashes, in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, co. 

 Lancashire, until the termination of that resi- 

 dence. Were they of the same family with Sand- 

 ford, Baron Mount Sandford ? J. B. 



" Outlines of the History of Theology," 8vo., 

 London, 1844, said to be privately printed. Any 

 information as to the author, &c. will oblige 



John Martin. 



Woburn Abbey. 



" Mawkin." — Is this word, which signifies here 

 " a scarecrow," merely a Norfolk pronunciation of 

 mocking? i. e. an imitation of a man — composed 

 of coat, hat, &c. hung upon a cross bar of wood ? 



J. L. S. 



" Plain Dealer." — Can any one of your readers 

 inform me where I can see a copy of Aaron Hill's 

 Plain Dealer, as originally published, and before 

 it was collected and printed in two volumes? D. 



Hymn attributed to Handel. — Can any of your 

 readers give information concerning a hymn which 

 commences thus : 



" We'll proclaim the wond'rous story 

 Of the mercies we receive, 

 From the day-spring's dawn in glory, 

 To the fading hour of eve." 



It has been attributed to Handel. On what 

 authority ? W. P. Storeb. 



Olney, Bucks. 



