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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 26. 
The undersigned believes that the only survivor 
of the scholars at Christ’s Hospital mentioned by 
‘‘ Nemo,” is the Rev. Charles Valentine Le Grice, 
now residing at Trerieffe, near Penzance. 
J. M.G. 
Worcester, March 22. 1850. 
[We are happy to say that one other, at least, of the 
Christ Hospital worthies enumerated by “ Nemo ” still 
survives — Mr. Leigh Hunt, whose kindly criticism 
and real poetic feeling have enriched our literature 
with so many volumes of pleasant reading, and won 
for him the esteem of a large circle of admirers. ] 
Tickhill, God help me! (No. 16. p. 247.).— “ H. 
C. Sr. Crorx” informs us that a similar expression 
is in use in Lincolnshire. Near to the town of 
“merry Lincoln” is a large heath celebrated for 
its cherries. Ifa person meets one of the cherry- 
growers on his way to market, and asks him 
where he comes from, the answer will be, if the 
season is favourable, “ From Lincoln Heath, where 
should ’un?” but if, on the contrary, there is a 
scarcity of cherries, the reply will be, “From 
Lincoln Heath, God help ’un.” 
“Diss” informs us, too, that this saying is not 
confined to Tickhill, Melverly, or Pershore, but is 
also current at Letton, on the banks of the Wye, 
between Hereford and Hay. And “H.C. P.” says 
the same story is told of the inhabitants of Tadley, 
in the north of Hampshire, on the borders of 
Berkshire. 
Robert Long (No. 24. p. 382.).— Rear-Admiral 
Robert Long died 4th July, 1771, having been 
superannuated on the half-pay of rear-admiral some 
time before his death. His seniority in the navy 
was dated from 21st March, 1726, and he was 
posted in the Shoreham. He never was Sir Robert. 
An account of the charity he founded may be seen 
in the Commissioners’ Reports on Charities, vol. me 
iv. vi. : 
Transposition of Letters (No. 19. p. 298.).—In- 
stances of shortened names of places. Bensing- 
ton, Oxfordshire, now called Benson; Stadhamp- 
ton, Oxfordshire, now called Stadham: and in 
Suffolk the following changes have taken place; 
Thelnetham is called Feltam; Hoxney, Oxen. A 
C.L.R. 
The Complaynt of Scotland.—I believe there 
has not been discovered recently any fact relative 
to the authorship of above-mentioned poem, and 
that the author is, 
“Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, 
Lord Lyon King-at- Arms,” 
W. B. 
Note Books (No. 3. p. 48., and No. 7. p. 104.). — 
I beg to state my own mode, than which I know 
of none better. I have several books, viz., for 
History, Topography, Personal and Family His- 
tory, Ecclesiastical Affairs, Heraldry, Adversaria. 
At the end of each volume is an alphabet, with 
six columns, one for each vowel; in one or other 
of which the word is entered according to the 
vowel which first appears in it, with a reference to 
the page. Thus, bray would come under B. a; 
church under C.u; and so forth. 8.8.8. 
MISCELLANIES. 
MSS. of Casaubon.— There is a short state- 
ment respecting certain MSS., now existing, of 
the great critic Casaubon, in a recent volume of 
the Parker Society — Whitaker’s Disputation on 
Holy Scripture, edited and translated by Professor 
Fitzgerald, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dublin, 
which I conceive is one of those facts which might 
be of service at some future time to scholars, from 
having been recorded in your columns : — 
Whitaker having observed — 
“ One Herman, a most impudent papist, affirms that 
the scriptures are of no more avail than A®sop’s fables, 
apart from the testimony of the church.” — (Parker 
Soe. transl., p. 276. ) 
Professor Fitzgerald appends the following 
“ note :”"— 
“ Casaubon, Exercit. Baron. I. xxxili. had, but 
doubtfully, attributed this to Pighius: but in a MS. 
note preserved in Primate Marsh’s library, at St. 
Sepulchre’s, Dublin, he corrects himself thus: * Non 
est hic, sed quidam Hermannus, ait Wittakerus in 
Prefat. Controvers. 1. Quest. 3. p. 314.’ If a new 
edition of these Exercitations be ever printed, let not 
these MSS. of that great man, which, with many other 
valuable records, we owe to the diligence of Stillingfleet 
and the munificence of Marsh, be forgotten.” 
Bath. ae 
ON A VERY TALL BARRISTER NAMED ‘*‘ LONG.” 
Longi longorum longissime, Longe, virorum, 
Dic mihi, te queso, num Breve quicquid habes ? 
W. (1) 
“NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR.” 
On a very bad book: from the Latin of Melanethon. 
A thousand blots would never cure this stuff ; 
One might, I own, if it were large enough. 
Rorvs. 
Close Translation.— The following is a remark- 
able instance; for it is impossible to say which is 
the original and which the translation, they are so 
nearly equivalent :— 
“ Boys and girls, come out to play ; 
The moon doth shine as bright as day: 
Come with a whoop, come with a call, 
Come with a good will, or come not at all.” 
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