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in allusion to the custom of baiting the animal; 
so schreava might be from schr@f, a hollow, in al- 
lusion to the hole in the ash tree; and on that 
supposition I considered “shrew,” as applied to a 
woman, to be a different word, perhaps from the 
(German schreyen, to clamour. I have, however, 
found mentioned in Bailey’s Dictionary a Teu- 
tonic word, which may reconcile both senses of 
“ shrew,” —I mean beschreyen, to bewitch. Ishall 
be obliged to any of your subscribers who will en- 
lighten me upon the subject. WW), da. 
A Chip in Porridge.— What is the origin and 
exact force of this phrase? Sir Charles Napier, 
in his recent general order, informs the Bengal 
army that 
«“ The reviews which the Commander-in-Chief makes 
of the troops are not to be taken as so many ‘chips in 
porridge,’” 
I heard a witness, a short time since, say, on 
entering the witness-box — 
« My Lord, I am hke a ‘chip in porridge’; I can 
say nothing either for or against the plaintiff.” 
OAD: 
Temple Stanyan.—Who was Temple Stanyan, 
concerning whom I find in an old note-book the 
following quaint entry ? 
« Written on a window at College, by Mr. Temple 
Stanyan, the author of a History of Greece : — 
“Temple Stanyan, his window. 
God give him grace thereout to look ! 
And, when the folk walk to and fro’, 
To study man instead of book !” 
A. G. 
Tandem.— You are aware that we have a prac- 
tical pun now naturalised in our language, in the 
word “tandem.” Are any of your correspondents 
acquainted with another instance ? =. 
“ As lazy as Ludlum's dog, as laid him down to 
bark.’ —This comparison is so general and fami- 
liar in South Yorkshire (Sheffield especially) as to 
be frequently quoted by the first half, the other 
being mentally supplied by the hearer. ‘There 
must, of course, be some legend of Ludlum and 
his dog, or they must have been a pair of well- 
known characters, to give piquancy to the phrase. 
Will any of your readers who are familiar with the 
district favour me with an explanation? D.V.S. 
Anecdote of a Peal of Beils.—There is a story, 
that a person had long been absent from the land 
of his nativity, where, in early life, he had assisted 
in setting up a singularly fine peal of bells. On 
his return home, after a lapse of many years, he 
had to be rowed over some water, when it hap- 
pened that the bells struck out in peal; the sound 
of which so affected him, that he fell back in the 
boat and died! Can any of your readers give a 
reference where the account is to be met with ? 
H. T. E. 
Sir Robert Long.—“ Rosu.” inquires the date 
of the death of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Long, 
who founded, in 1760, a Free School at Burnt- 
Yates, in the Parish of Ripley, co. Yorks., and is 
said to have died in Wigmore Street, London, it 
is supposed some years after that period. 
Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury.—It is 
stated in Mr, Martyn’s Life of the First Lord 
Shaftesbury, that Dr. Whichcot was one of Shaftes- 
bury’s most constant companions, and preached 
most of his sermons before him; and that the third 
Earl of Shaftesbury, the author of the Character- 
istics, is said to have published a volume of Which- 
cot’s sermons from a manuscript copy of the first 
Lord Shaftesbury’s wife. Can any of your readers 
give any further information as to the intimacy 
between Whichcot and Shaftesbury, of which no 
mention is made in any memoir of Whichcot that 
I have seen? 
Lines attributed to Henry Viscount Palmerston.— 
Permit me to inquire whether there is any better 
authority than the common conjecture that the 
beautiful verses, commencing, — 
“ Whoe’er, like me, with trembling anguish brings 
His heart’s whole treasure to fair Bristol’s springs,” 
were written by Henry Viscount Palmerston, on 
the death of his lady at the Hot-wells, June 1 or 
2,1769. They first appeared p. 240. of the 47th 
vol. of the Gentleman's Magazine, 1777. 
They have also been attributed to Dr. Hawke- 
worth, but his wife survived him. Thereis a mural 
tablet under the west window of Romsey Church, 
containing some lines to the memory of Lady Pal- 
merston, but they are not the same. Perhaps some 
of your correspondents are competent to discover 
the truth. InpaGaTor. 
Gray's Alcaic Ode.—Can any of your readers 
say whether Gray’s celebrated Latin ode is actu- 
ally to be found entered at the Grande Chartreuse? 
A friend of mine informs me that he could not 
find it there on searching. C. B. 
Abbey of St. Wandrille.—Will ‘Gastros” 
kindly allow me to ask him a question? Does the 
Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Wandrille, which he 
mentions (No. 21. p.338.), include notices of any 
of the branches of that establishment which set- 
tled in England about the time of the Conquest ; 
and one of which, the subject of my query, formed 
a colony at Ecclesfield, near Sheftield ? 
I feel an interest in this little colony, because 
my early predecessors in this vicarage were elected 
from its monks. Moreover, some remains of their 
convent, now incorporated into what is called “ the 
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