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[No. 69. 



conclusive that hooped petticoats were not in use 

 so early as the year 1651. The anecdote in con- 

 nection with the subject related in Wilson's Life 

 of De Foe, lias always appeared lo me very ques- 

 tionable, not only on that consideration, but be- 

 cause Charles was at the time a fine tall young 

 man of more than twenty-one years of age, and 

 at the only period that he could have been in the 

 neighbourhood referred to, he was on horseback 

 and attended by at least two persons, who were 

 also mounted. Neither can the circumstances 

 related be at all reconciled with the particulars 

 given by Clarendon and subsequent writers, who 

 have professed to correct the statements of that 

 historian by authority. J. D. S. 



Avtiquitas SwculiJuvenhis Miindi (Vol. ii., p. 21 8. ; 

 Vol. iii., p. 125). — Permit me again to express my 

 opinion, with due deference to the eminent autho- 

 rities cited in your pages, that the comprehensive 

 words of Lord Bacon, "Antiquitas sreculi juven- 

 tus mundi," were not borrowed from any author, 

 ancient or modern. But it would be a compli- 

 ment which that great genius would have been the 

 first to ridicule, were we to affirm that no anterior 

 writer had adopted analogous language in cxjiress- 

 ing the benefits of "the philosophy of time." On 

 the contrary, he would have called our attention to 

 the expressions of the Egyptian priest addressed 

 to Solon, (see a few pages beyond the one referred 

 to in his Advuncemeiii of Learning) : 



" Ye Grecians are ever cliildren, ye have no know- 

 lerige of antiquity nor antiquity of knowledge." 



The words of Bacon to me appear to be a conden- 

 sation of the well-known dialogue in Plato's Ti- 

 maus, above quoted, as will, I hope, appear in the 

 following paraphrase : 



" Apud vos propter inundationes ineunte modo 

 saeciilo nihil sclentiarum est augmentationis. Quoad 

 nos juventiis mundi ac terras ^-Egyptiacaf, qua nulla 

 hominnm exitia fuerunt, progreiliente tempore, anti- 

 quitas fit scertili, et antiquissiniarum rcrum apud nos 

 monumenta servantur." 



T. J. 



Lody Bingham (Vol. iii., p. 61.). — Lady Bing- 

 ham, whose daughter, afterwards Lady Crewe, was 

 unsuccessfully courted by Sir Symonds D'Ewes 

 (for which see his autobiography), was Sarah, the 

 daughter of John Ileigham, J'^sq., of Gilford's 

 ILill, in Urckham Brouk, Suffolk, of the same family 

 with Sir Clement Ileigham, Knt., of Barrow, 

 Sull'olk, Speaker of the House of Commons. She 

 was married by banns at St. Olave's, Hart Street, 

 Jan. 11, 1588, to Sir Richard Bingham, Knt., of 

 CO. Dorset. She married, secondly, Edward 

 Waldegrave, Esq., of Lawford, Essex, to whom she 

 was second wife, and by him had Jemima, after- 

 wards Lady Crewe. Edward Waldegrave, married 

 to his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholo- 

 mew Averell, of Southminster, Essex, had by 



her an only daughter, Anne, who married Drew, 

 afterwards Sir Drew Driiry, Bart., of Riddles- 

 worth, Norfolk. He, Edward Waldegrave, was 

 descended from a younger branch of the family 

 of Waldegrave, of Smallbridge, in the parish of 

 Bures, Suff'olk, from whence descends the present 

 Earl Waldegrave. 



Lady Bingham lies buried in the chancel of 

 Lawford church, where a stone in the floor states 

 her age to have been sixty-nine, and that she was 

 buried Sept. 9. 1634. There is also another stone 

 in the floor for Edward Waldegrave, Esq., who 

 married Dame Sarah Bingham, by whom he had 

 one daughter, Jemima, who was married to John 

 Stearne (a mistake evidently flu- Siene, the seat of 

 James Lord Crewe). Edward Waldegrave was 

 buried Feb. 13, 1621, aged about sixty-eight. 



The large uuinument in Lawfi)rd church is for 

 the liither of this Edward ^Valdegrave, who died 

 in 1584. D.A.Y. 



Proclamation of Langholme Fair (Vol. iii., p. 56.). 

 — IVIoNKBARNS wishes the meaning of the choice 

 expressions in this proclamation. They may be 

 explained as follows: — Hustrin, hustling, or riot- 

 ously inclined, being so consonanted to make it 

 alliterate with cuxtrin, spelt by Jamieson, custroun, 

 and signifying a pitiful fellow. Cliaucer has the 

 word tnistron in this sense. 



Land-loupcr, one who runs over the country, a 

 vagabond. 



Diikes-conper I take to be a petty dealer in 

 ducks or poultry, and to be used in a reproachful 

 sense, as we find "pedlar," "jockey," &c. 



Gavg-y-gate mvijiger, a fighting man, who goes 

 swaggering in the road (or gale) ; a roisterer who 

 takes the wall of every one. Swing is an old word 

 for a stroke or blow. 



Durdam is an old word meaning an uproar, 

 and akin to the Welsh dowrd Urdum may be a 

 corruption of ichoredom, biit is more probably 

 prefixed to the genuine word as a co-sounding 

 expletive. 



Brabhlement seems to be a derivative from the 

 Scotch verb " bra," to make a loud and disagree- 

 able noise (see Jamieson) ; and squabblement ex- 

 plains itself 



Lugs, ears ; tacked, nailed ; trone, an old word, 

 properly signifying the public weighing-machine, 

 and sometimes used for the pillory. 



A nail o" twal-a-pentiy is, of course, a nail of that 

 size and sort of which twelve are bought for a 

 penny. 



Until he doicn of his hobshanks, and up with his 

 mnchle dovhs, evidently means, until he goes down 

 on his knees and raises his hands. Hobshanks is, 

 I think, still in common use. Of doiibs I can give 

 no explanation. AV. T. M. 



Edinburgh, Jan. 29th. 



Burying in Church Walls (Vol. iii., p. 37.). — 



