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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 242. 



Marquis of Granhy (Vol. ix., pp. 127. 360.). — 

 In a critique which appeared in the Quarterly 

 Review for January or April, 1838, on Dickens's 

 earlier works, it is stated that Sumpter, a dis- 

 charged soldier of the royal regiment of Horse 

 Guards, opened a public-house at Hounslow, 

 having as its sign "The Marquis of Granby," 

 which was the first occasion of the marquis's name 

 appearing on the sign-board of a public-house. 

 This note appeared in reference to the public- 

 house kept at Dorking by Mrs. Weller, the 

 " second wentur " of Tony Weller, father of the 

 immortal Samivel, of that ilk. 



John, Marquis of Granby, was colonel of the 

 royal regiment of Horse Guards from May 13, 

 1758, to his decease, which occurred Oct. 19, 

 1770, and was justly considered the soldier's 

 friend. (See Captain Packe's History of the Royal 

 Regiment of Horse Guards, p. 95.) Mr. Dickens, 

 in his description of the sign-board at Dorking, 

 has arrayed the marquis in the uniform, not of the 

 regiment, but of a general officer : he states, — 



" On the opposite side of the road was a sign-board 

 representing the head and shoulders of a gentleman 

 with an apoplectic countenance, in a red coat, with deep 

 blue facings, and a touch of the same over his three- 

 cornered hat for a sky. Over that, again, were a pair 

 of flags, and beneath the last button of his coat were a 

 couple of cannon ; and the whole formed an expressive 

 and undoubted likeness of the Marquis of Granby of 

 glorious memory." 



Witty, I admit, but that " touch of the same " 

 (blue facings ?) for a sky is ambiguous. Brevis 

 esse labor o, obscurus fio. 



The uniform of the royal regiment of Horse 

 Guards, from 1758 to 1770, consisted of a dark 

 blue coatee, with red facings, red breeches, jacked 

 boots, and three-cornered hats bound with gold 

 lace. G. L. S. 



Convocation and the Society for the Propagation 

 of the Gospel (Vol. viii., p. 100.). —The Arch- 

 deacon of Stafford, in his last visitation charge, at 

 Stafford, May 23, 1854, said of Convocation : 



" He was not aware that the two venerable societies, 

 The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 

 Foreign Parts, and The Society for Promoting Chris- 

 tian Knowledge, owed their existence to it." 



Atterbury, writing to Bishop Trelawny, March 

 15, 1700-1, says : 



" We appointed another committee, for considering 

 the methods of Propagating the Christian Religion in 

 Foreign Parts, who sat the first time this afternoon in 

 the Chapter House of St. Paul's." — Atterbury's Cor- 

 respondence, vol. i. p. 88. 



Though the venerable Society for the Propa- 

 gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts does not 

 owe, strictly speaking, its existence to Convocation, 

 yet it certainly is indebted to it, both for the 



general outline of its operations, and also for its 

 name. Wm. Fraser, B.C.L. 



Cassie (Vol. ix., p. 396.). — With regard to 

 W. T. M. about cassie, he will find an approxima- 

 tion to that word as used for causeway, in the old 

 editions of Ludlow's Memoirs, and others, where 

 causeway is always spelt causey. A. (1) 



" Three cats sat," 8fc. (Vol. ix., p. 173.). — I am 

 delighted to say that a long course of laborious 

 research among the antiquities of nursery dom have 

 enabled me to supply Julia R. Bockett (I dare 

 not venture on any prefix to the name, for fear of 

 doing grievous wrong in my ignorance of the 

 lady's civil status) with the missing canto of the 

 poem her ancient friend is so desirous of com- 

 pleting. It will be seen to convey a charming 

 lesson of amiable sociality — admirably adapted 

 d'ailleurs to the pages of a work which seeks to 

 encourage " intercommunications." It runs thus : 



" Said one little cat, 



To the other little cat, 

 If you don't speak, I must ; 



I must. 

 If you don't speak, I must." 



Julia R. Bockett will doubtless feel with me, 

 that though the antithesis requires that the " I" 

 should be strongly emphasised in the first case, 

 the sentiment expressed imperatively demands an 

 intense force to be given to the "must" in the 

 second repetition. T. A. T. 



Florence. 



P. S. — By-the-bye, talking of cats, there is a 

 story current, that a certain archbishop, who sits 

 neither at Canterbury nor York, having once, in 

 unbending mood, demanded of one of his clergy if 

 he could decline "cat," corrected the reverend 

 catechumen, when, having arrived at the vocative 

 case, he gave it, " Vocative, O cat ! " and declared 

 such declension to be wrong, and that the vocative 

 of " cat" was " puss." Of course, it will be hence- 

 forth considered so in the diocese presided over 

 by the prelate in question, as the gender of 

 "carrosse" was changed throughout la belle France, 

 by a blunder of the grand monarque. But surely 

 the archbishop was as palpably wrong as the king 

 was. At least, if he was not, we have only the 

 alternative of considering Shakspeare to have 

 blundered. For, have we not Stefano's address to 

 poor Caliban : 



" Open your mouth ; here is that which will give 

 language to you, cat." 



And again, does not Lysander, somewhat ungal- 

 lantly, thus apostrophise Hermia : 



" Hang off, thou cat, thou burr 1" 

 Moreover, will not the pages of our nursery litera- 

 ture furnish on the other hand abundance of in- 



