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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 16. 
said, that he was elected at once from Westminster 
to Christchurch, where he took the degree of 
M. A. March 23. 1696, and that of B. D. Dec. 12. 
1706. He was soon distinguished by Dean Ald- 
rich as worthy of his patronage and encourage- 
ment. He was consequently appointed tutor and 
censor, and in course of time left college, on his 
promotion to a prebendal stall. in Winchester 
Cathedral by Sir Jonathan Trelawney, the then 
Bishop, with the rectory of Brightwell, near Wal- 
lingford ; at which latter place he chiefly resided 
till the time of his death, which happened by an 
accident, June 10. 1726. Sir Francis Bernard, 
Bart., who had himself been a student of Christ- 
church, published the 4to. volume of Latin Odes 
mentioned by “ R. H.,” Lond. 1753 ; for which he 
had issued Proposals, &c., so early as July, 1748. 
In addition to these Odes, four English poems by 
Alsop are said to be in Dodsley’s collection, one 
in Pearch’s, several in the early volumes of the 
Gentleman's Magazine, and some in The Student. 
Dr. Bentley calls him, rather familiarly, “ Tony 
Alsop, editor of the sopian Fables;” a work 
published by him at Oxford, in 1698, 8vo., in the 
preface to which he took part against Dr. Bentley 
in the dispute with Mr. Boyle. J. Te 
Trinity College, Oxford. 
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. 
Origin of the Word “Snob.” —I think that 
Snob is not an archaism, and that it cannot be 
found in any book printed fifty years ago. I am 
aware that in the north of England shoe-makers 
are still sometimes called Snobs; but the word is 
not in Brockett’s Glossary of North Country Words, 
which is against its being a genuine bit of north- 
ern dialect. 
I fancy that Snobs and Nobs, as used in vulgar 
parlance, are of classic derivation ; and, most pro- 
bably, originated at one of the Universities, where 
they still flourish. Ifa Nob be one who is nobilis, 
a Snob must be one who is s[ine] nob[ilitate]. Not 
that I mean to say that the s is literally a con- 
traction of sine; but that, as in the word slang, 
the s, which is there prefixed to language, at once 
destroys the better word, and degrades its mean- 
ing; and as, in Italian, an s prefixed to a primitive 
word has a privative effect — e. g. calzare, “to put 
on shoes and stockings ;” scalzare, “to put them 
off :” fornito, “furnished ;” sfornito, “ unfur- 
nished,” &e.; as also the dis, in Latin (from which, 
possibly, the aforesaid s is derived), has the like 
reversing power, as shown in continue and dis- 
continue —so nob, which is an abbreviation of 
nobilis, at once receives the most ignoble sig- 
nification on having an s put before it. 
The word Scamp, meaning literally a fugitive 
from the field, one gui ex campo exit, affords another 
example of the power of the initial s to reverse 
the signification of a word. 
All this, Mr. Editor, is only conjecture, in reply 
to “ AnpHa’s” query (No. 12. p. 185.) ; but per- 
haps you will receive it, if no better etymology 
of the word be offered. AG: 
Ecclesfield, Jan. 21. 1850. 
Derivation (?) of “ Snob” and “ Cad.” —T am 
informed by my son, who goeth to a Latin school, 
that Snob (which is a word he often useth) cometh 
of two Latin words; to wit, ‘sine obolo” — as 
who should say, “ one that hath not across to bless 
himself.” He saith, that the man behind the om- 
nibus is called “ Cad,” “anon cadendo.” Your 
humble servant, Tue Governor. 
Mr. Macaulay and Bishop Burnet.—The passage 
in which Mr. Macaulay calls Burnet “a rash and 
partial writer,” alluded to by your correspondent 
in No.3. p.40., occurs towards the end of his 
Essay on “Sir William Temple,” p. 456. of the 
new edition in one volume. TONIENSIS. 
Circulation of the Blood. —“ A. W.” (No. 13. 
p- 202.) is referred to Smith’s Dictionary of Bio- 
graphy, article Nemesius. J. EK. B. Mayor. 
Genealogy of European Sovereigns.—I send the 
full title of a Book which I would recommend to 
your correspondent “Q. X. Z.,” (No. 6. p. 92.):— 
GENEALOGIE ASCENDANTE, 
JUSQU’AU QUATRIEME DEGRE INCLUSIVEMENT, 
De tous les Rois et Princes de Maisons souve- 
raines de l'Europe actuellement vivans; réduite 
en cxty. Tables de xvi. Quartiers, composées 
selon Jes Principes du Blazon; avee une Table 
Générale. 
“La noblesse, Daugaux, n’est point une chimére, 
Quand sous 1’étroite loi d’une vertu sévére, 
Un homme, issu d’un sang fécond en demi-dieux, 
Suit, comme toi, la trace o0 marchaient ses ayeux.’” 
Boileau, §.v. 
A Bertin: 
Au Dépens de l’Auteur; se vend chez Etienne 
de Bourdeaux, Libraire; imprimé chez Frédéric 
Gillaume Birnstiel. 
MDCCLXVIII. 
I presume that it is of some rarity, never having 
met with any other copy than the one from which 
I transcribed this title. 
Some of your correspondents may, perhaps, be 
able ‘to give the name of the Author who, as far 
as | have had occasion to refer, seems to have done 
his work carefully. TW. 
Sir Stephen Fox.—I have seen it stated in 
some biographical dictionary, that Sir Stephen 
Fox was a younger brother of “ John Fox, Esq.,” 
who was a devoted Royalist at the time of the 
great Rebellion, and fought at the battle of Wor- 
