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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 45. 



immediate reply to his Query ns to tlie meaning of 

 Jiz-gig^heciiuse the word is in Johnson's Dictionary, 

 where he may also see the line from Sandys' Job, 

 in wliich it caught his attention. 



You may as well, therefore, tell him two things, 

 — lYiAt Jiz-gig means a fish-dart ; and that Querists 

 shovild abstain from soliciting your aid in all cases 

 where a common dictionary would give them the 

 information they want. . H. W. 



Guineas (A^ol. ii., p. 10.). — The coin named in 

 the document quoted by A. J. H. is the Guiennois, 

 a gold piece struck at Guieime by Edward III., 

 and also by his son the Black Prince. It is not 

 likely that the Guiennois was the original of the 

 name given to the new gold coin of Charles II., 

 because it could have had no claim to preference 

 beyond the Mouton, the Chaise, the Pavilion, or 

 any other old Anglo-Gallic coin. I think we may 

 rest contented with the statement of Leake (who 

 wrote not much more than half a century after the 

 event), and who says that the Guinea was so called 

 from the gold of which it was made having been 

 brought from Guinea by the African Company, 

 whose stamp of an elephant was ordered to be im- 

 pressed upon it. J. C. WiTTON. 



Numismatics. — My thanks are due to IMr. J. C. 

 WiTTON (Vol. ii., p. 42.) for his replies to my 

 Numismatic Queries, though I cannot coincide 

 with his opinion on Nos. 1. and 3. 



No ancient forger would have taken tlie pains 

 to cut a die to strike lead from ; and my speci- 

 men, from its sharpness, has clearly never been in 

 circulation : why may it not have been a proof 

 from the original die ? 



Of Xo. 2. I have since been shown several spe- 

 cimens, which had before, I sujjpose, escaped my 

 notice. 



On the coin of Macrinus, the letter below the 

 S. C. now clearly appeal's to be an e, but the one 

 above is not a A, but rather an L or inverted T. 

 It cannot stand for AvKaBas, as on the Egyptian 

 coinage, as Macrinus was slain by his soldiers the 

 year after his accession. 



The Etruscilla, even under a powerful mag- 

 nifier, betrays no trace of ever having been plated, 

 and has all the marks by which numismatists de- 

 termine the genuineness of a coin. The absence 

 of S. C, I must remind Mr. "\V., is not uncommon 

 on tJiii-d brass, though of course it always appears 

 on the first and second. 



I need go no farther than the one just mentioned 

 of Tiberius, which has no S. C, and I possess se- 

 veral others which are deficient in this particular, 

 a Severus Alexander, Elagabalus, &c. After Gal- 

 lienus it never appears. E. S. T. 



Querela Cantahrigiensis (Vol. ii., p. 168.). — Dr. 

 Peter Barwick, in the life of his brother. Dr. Jno. 

 Barwick (Eng. edit. Lond. 1724, 8vo.), after 



describing the treatment of the University by 

 Cromwell, adds (p. 32.) : " But Mr. Barwick, no 

 inconsiderable part of this tragedy, together with 

 others of the University, groaning under the same 

 yoke of tyranny, and each taking a particular ac- 

 count of the sufferings of his own college, gave a 

 distinct narrative of all these barbarities, and 

 under tlie title of Querela Cantahrigiensis, or the 

 University of Cambridge'' s Complaint, got it printed 

 by the care of Mr. Richard lioyston, a bookseller 

 oi Lo7idon, who did great service to his King and 

 country, by printing, and dispersing in the most 

 difficult times, books written in defence of the 

 royal cause." See also Biog. Brit., article " Bar- 

 wick." John I. Dredge. 



Ben Johnson (Vol. ii., p. 167.). — So the name 

 was spelt by most of his contemporaries. The 

 poem mentioned by N. A. B. is printed in the 

 Underwoods, Gilliird's edition, ix., 68.; but the MS. 

 may contain variations worthy of notice. I should 

 doubt its being autograph, not merely because 

 the poet spelt his name without the A, but because 

 the verses in question are only part of his Eu- 

 pheme. J. O. Halliweu.. 



Barclay s "Aigerds.'" — Since I sent you a Query 

 on this sul>ject, I have heard of one translation, 

 bv IMiss Clara Reeve, the authoress of The Old 

 English Baron and other works. She commenced 

 her literary career, I believe, by a translation of 

 this work, which she published in 1772, under the 

 title of 2he Phcenix. Jarltzberg. 



Hockey (Vol. i., p. 4o7.). — I have not observed 

 that this has been yet noticed: if such be the case, 

 permit me to refer to a letter of the poet Cowper, 

 dated otli Nov., 1785 (5th vol. Works, edit, by 

 Southey, p. 174.) in which, alluding to that day, he 

 says,— 



" The boys at Olney have likewise a very entertain- 

 ing sport, which commences annually upon this day; 

 they call it lioclici/, and it consists in dashing each other 

 with mud, and the windows also, so that I am forced 

 to rise now and then and to threaten them with a 

 horsewhip, to preserve our own." 



F. Pv. A. 



Praed's Poetical Works (Vol. ii., p. 190.).— 

 Your Cambridge correspondent, Mk. Cooper, will 

 be glad to know that Praed's poems are published 

 in a collected form ; Poetical IVorks of JVinth?-op 

 Mackworth Praed, now first collected by Bufus W. 

 Griswold : New York, 1 844. This collection con- 

 tains some thirty-six pieces. The longest poems, 

 '"Lillian" and "The Troubadour," each in two 

 cantos, display passages of great beauty and ex- 

 quisite musical flow. Among the charades, five in 

 number, " Sir Harry, he charged at Agincourt," is 

 not to be found. W. M. Kingsmill. 



