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white and shining, and is called gersa. (" lis font 

 des racines oVAron de Veaue et de lexive," &c, torn. v. 

 p. 98.) Hughes Fraser Halle, LL.D. 



South Lambeth. 



Forensic Jocularities. — The epigram on "Four 

 Lawyers," given in Vol. ix., p. 103. of "N. & Q.," 

 has recalled to my recollection one intended to 

 characterise four worthies of the past generation, 

 which I heard some thirty years since, and which 

 I send for preservation among other flies in your 

 amber. It is supposed to record the history of a 

 case : 



" Mr. Leech 

 Made a speech, 

 Neat, concise, and strong ; 

 Mr. Hart, 

 On the other part, 

 Was wordy, dull, and wrong. 

 Mr. Parker 

 Made it darker ; 

 'Twas dark enough without. 

 Mr. Cooke, 

 Cited his book ; 

 And the Chancellor said — I doubt." 



— a picture of Chancery practice in the days 

 " when George III. was king," which some future 

 Macaulay of the twenty-first or twenty-second 

 century, when seeking to reproduce in his vivid 

 pages the form and pressure of the time, may cite 

 from U N. & Q." without risk of leading his readers 

 to any very inaccurate conclusions. T. A. T. 



Florence. 



Ridley's University. — The author of The 

 Bible in many Tongues (a little work on the 

 history of the Bible and its translations, lately 

 published by the Religious Tract Society, and 

 calculated to be useful), informs us that Ridley 

 " tells us incidentally," in his farewell letter, that 

 he learned nearly the whole of St. Paul's Epistles 

 " in the course of his solitary walks at Oxford." 

 What Ridley tells us directly in his "Farewell" 

 to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, is as follows : 



" In my orchard (the walls, butts, and trees, if 

 they could speak, would bear me witness) I learned 

 without book almost all Paul's Epistles ; yea, and I 

 ween all the canonical epistles, save only the Apoca- 

 lypse." 



Abhba. 



Marvellous, if true. — 



" This same Due de Lauragnois had a wife to whom 

 he was tenderly attached. She died of consumption. 

 Her remains were not interred ; but were, by some 

 chemical process, reduced to a sort of small stone, 

 which was set in a ring which the Duke always wore 

 on his finger. After this, who will say that the 



eighteenth century was not a romantic age?" — Memoirs 

 of the Empress Josephine, vol. ii. p. 162. : London, 1829. 



E. H. A. 



Progress of the War. — One is reminded at the 

 present time of the satirical verses with reference 

 to the slow progress of business in the National 

 Assembly at the first French Revolution, which 

 were as follows : 



" Une heure, deux heures, trois heures, quatre heures, 

 Cinq heures, six heures, sept heures, midi ; 

 Allons-nous diner, mes amis ! 

 Allons-nous," &c. 



" Une heure, deux heures, trois heures, quatre heures, 

 Cinq heures, six heures, sept heures, minuit ; 

 Allons-nous coucher, e'est mon avis ! 

 Allons-nous coucher," &c. 



Which may be thus imitated in our language : 



" One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four, 

 Five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock, eight, 

 Nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, noon ; 

 Let's go to dinner, 'tis none too soon ! 

 Let's go to dinner," &c. 



" One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four, 

 Five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock, eight, 

 Nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven, midnight ; 

 Let's go to bed, 'tis all very right ! 

 Let's go to bed," &c. 



F. C. H. 



Hatherleigh Moor, Devonshire. — I copy the 

 following from an old Devonshire newspaper, and 

 should be obliged if any of your correspondents 

 can authenticate the circumstances commemo- 

 rated : 



" When John O'Gaunt laid the foundation stone 



Of the church he built by the river ; 

 Then Hatherleigh was poor as Hatherleigh Moor, 



And so it had been for ever and ever. 

 When John O'Gaunt saw the people were poor, 



He taught them this chaunt by the river ; 

 The people are poor as Hatherleigh Moor, 



And so they have been for ever and ever. 

 When John O'Gaunt he made his last will, 



Which he penn'd by the side of the river, 

 Then Hatherleigh Moor he gave to the poor, 



And so it shall be for ever and ever." 



The above lines are stated to have been found 

 " written in an ancient hand." Balliolensis. 



Cromwellian Gloves. — The Cambridge ChrO' 

 nicle of May 6, says that there is in the possession 

 of Mr. Chas. Martin, of Fordham, a pair of gloves, 

 reputed to have been worn by Oliver Cromwell. 

 They are made of strong beaver, richly fringed 

 with heavy drab silk fringe, and reach half way 

 between the wrist and the elbow. They were for 

 a long time in the possession of a family at Hun- 

 tingdon. There is an inscription on the inside, 

 bearing the name of Cromwell ; but the date is 

 nearly obliterated. P. J. F. Gantillon. 



