June 24. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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abripiantur, ut de se ipso fassus est ille, qui in suis 

 a»dibus hoc distichon inscripsit, ut refert Jo. Bonif., 

 lib. de furt., § contrectatio, num. 134. in fin. : 



' Congeries lapidum variis constructa rapinis, 

 Aut uret, aut ruet, aut raptor alter habebit.' 



Et juxta illud : 



' De rebus male acquisitis, non gaudebit tertius hares.' 



Lazar (de monitorio), sect. 4. 9. 4., num. 16., imo 

 nee secundus, ut ingenue et perbelle fatetur in suo 

 poemate, nostro idiomate Jerusalem celeste acquistata, 

 cant. x. num. 88. Pater Frater Augustinus Gallu- 

 tius de Mandulcho, ita canendo : 



' D'un' acquisto sacrilego e immondo, 

 Gode di rado il successor secondo, 

 Pero che il primo e mal' accorto herede 

 Senza discretion li da di piedi.' " 



BlBLIOTHECAE. ChETHAM. 



Mawkin (Vol. ix., pp. 303. 385.). — Is not maw- 

 kin merely a corruption for mannikin ? I strongly 

 suspect it to be so, though Forby, in his Vocabulary 

 of East Anglia, gives the word maukin as if 

 peculiar to Norfolk and Suffolk, and derives it, 

 like L., from Mal, for Moll or Mary. F. C. H. 



This word, in the Scottish dialect spelt maukin, 

 means a hare. It occurs in the following verse of 

 Burns in Tarn Samson's Elegy : 



" Rejoice, ye birring paitricks a' ; 

 Ye cootie moorcocks, crousely craw ; 

 Ye maukins, cock your fud fu' braw, 



Withouten dread ; 

 Your mortal fae is now awa', 



Tam Samson's dead ! " 



Kennedy M'Nab. 



" Putting a spoke in his wheel " (Vol. viii., 

 pp. 269. 351. 576.). — There is no doubt that 

 " putting a spoke in his wheel " is " offering an 

 obstruction." But I have always understood the 

 " spoke " to be, not a radius of the wheel, but a 

 bar put between the spokes at right angles, so as 

 to prevent the turning of the wheel ; a rude mode 

 of " locking," which I have often seen practised. 

 The correctness of the metaphor is thus evident. 



Wm. Hazel. 



Dog Latin (Vol. viii., p. 523.). — The return of 

 a sheriff to a writ which he had not been able to 

 serve, owing to the defendant's secreting himself 

 in a swamp, will be new to English readers. It 

 was " Non come-at-ibus in swampo." 



Since the adoption of the Federal Constitution, 

 the motto of the United States has been " E plu- 

 ribus unum." A country sign-painter in Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, painted " E pluribur uni- 

 bus," instead of it on a sign. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Swedish Words current in England (Vol. vii., 

 pp. 231.366.) — Very many Swedish words are 



current in the north of England, e. gr. barn or 

 beam (Scottice lairn), Sw. barn; bleit or Mate, 

 bashful, Sw. Hod ; to cleam, to fasten, to spread 

 thickly over, Sw. klemma ; cod, pillow, Sw. kudde ; 

 to gly, to squint, Sw. glo ; to lope, to leap, Sw. 

 I'dpa; to late (Cumberland), to seek, Sw. leta; 

 sackless, without crime, Sw. sakl'ds ; sark, shirt, 

 Sw. sark ; to thole (Derbyshire), to endure, Sw. 

 tola ; to wait, to totter, to overthrow, Sw. walta ; 

 to warp, to lay eggs, Sw. warpa ; wogh (Lanca- 

 shire), wall, Sw. wagg, &c. It is a fact very little 

 known, that the Swedish language bears the closest 

 resemblance of all modern languages to the En- 

 glish as regards grammatical structure, not even 

 the Danish excepted. Suecas. 



Mob (Vol. viii., p. 524.). — I have always un- 

 derstood that this word was derived from the 

 Latin expression mobile vulgus, which is, I believe, 

 in Virgil. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



" Days of my Youth " (Vol. viii., p. 467.). — In 

 answer to the inquiry made a few months since, 

 whether Judge St. George Tucker, of Virginia, 

 was the author of the lines beginning — 

 " Days of my youth." 



the undersigned states that he was a friend and 

 relative of Judge Tucker, and knows him to have 

 been the author. They had a great run at the 

 time, and found their way not only into the news- 

 papers, but even into the almanacs of the day. 



G.T. 



Philadelphia. 



Encore (Vol. viii., pp. 387. 524.). — A writer in 

 an English magazine, a few years ago, proposed 

 that the Latin word repetitus should be used in- 

 stead of encore. Among other advantages he sug- 

 gested that the people in the gallery of a theatre 

 would pronounce it repeat-it-us, and thus make 

 English of it. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge (Vol. ix., 

 p. 493.). — Your correspondent will find his ques- 

 tion answered by referring to the History of the 

 Royal Family, 8vo., Lond., 1741, pp. 119. 156. 

 For an account of this book, which is founded 

 upon the well-known Sandford's Genealogical His- 

 tory, see Clarke's Bibliotheca Legum, edit. 1819, 

 p. 174. T. E. T. 



Islington. 



Right of redeeming Property (Vol. viii., p. 516.). 

 — This right formerly existed in Normandy, and, 

 I believe, in other parts of France. In the baili- 

 wick of Guernsey, the laws of which are based on 

 the ancient custom of Normandy, the right is still 

 exercised, although it has been abolished for some 

 years in the neighbouring island of Jersey. 



