May 3. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



357 



Mind your P's and Q's (Vol. iii., p. 328.). — 

 This expression arose from the ancient custom of 

 hansrinof a slate behind the alehouse door, on 

 •which was written P. or Q. (i. e. Pint or Quart) 

 against the name of each customer, according to 

 the quantity which he had drunk, and wliich was 

 not expected to be paid for till the Saturday 

 evening, when the wages were settled. 



The expression so familiar to schoolboys of "g^o- 

 ing tick" may perhaps be traced to this, a tick or 

 mark being put for every glass of aic. 



C. De la Pryme. 



The Sempeda at Ci-oyland (Vol. iii., p. 328.). — 

 He was not there, however; and I am sorry to say, 

 I do not remeniber where he was personally, or 

 exactly where the account of him is to be found. 

 I have no doubt of its being in one or other of 

 the fourteen volumes of jMartene's Thcscmrus et 

 Amplisdma Collectio. I do not now possess those 

 books, and have not access to them ; but I think 

 your corre.siK)ndent will find what he wants with- 

 out much difficulty if (as I suspect) it is with some 

 other pieees in rhyme, and therefore likely to 

 catch the eye in turning over a volume chiefly in 

 prose. Perhaps the name "Francis" may be in 

 the index. If he does not, I shall be happy to 

 seek for information. S. 11. Maitlasii). 



Gloucester. 



Solid-hoofed Pigs (Vol. iii., p. 263.). — I saw a 

 pig of this kind a few years ago, in possession of 

 Sir William Ilonian, Bart., of Droinroe, near 

 Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford. 



I do not know whether he has any of that breed 

 at present; but have little doubt that a note, ad- 

 dressed to Sir AVilliam on the subject, would re- 

 ceive a courteous reply. H. C. 



Thuries, April 9. 18jl. 



Porci solide-pedes (Vol. iii., p. 2G3.). — A cor- 

 respondent of " Notes and Queries " inquires 

 about the breed of solid-hoofed pigs. Some years, 

 perhaps twenty years, ago there were several pigs 

 of that sort in the possession of Robert Ramsden, 

 Esq., of Coulton Hall, Notts, of which he was 

 good enough to give some to my father. I believe 

 they were considered of Chinese origin, but how 

 remotely I do not know. They were very easily 

 fattened, but always of small size ; and I think, 

 unless my memory much deceives me, on removing 

 the horny portion of the hoof, the rudiments of a 

 cloven hoof, like that of the ordinary swine, were 

 to be seen. E. G. Selwvn. 



Blackheath, April 17. 18^1. 



Sir Henry Slingshys Diary (Vol. iii., p. 323.). — 

 The council of "Tin-: Camuen Society" will no 

 doubt be pleased to find that your correspondents 

 are good enough to keep in view the weil'arc of 

 that Society, and to suggest works suitable for 

 their publication. 



If Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary had never been 

 published, it would indeed have been an excel- 

 lent book for the Camden Society; but be kind 

 enough to inform your correspondent P. B. that, 

 besides some quotations ])rinted in Seward's Anec- 

 dotes, and large extracts published at Edinburgh, 

 in an octavo volume, in 1806, the whole Diary, 

 with a great de.al of illustrative matter relating 

 to the Slingsby family, was published in one 

 volume, Svo., London, 1836, under the very com- 

 petent editorship of the llev. Daniel Parsons, of 

 Oriel College, Oxford. 



It appears from tlie prefice to that publication, 

 that the original MS. is not now known to be in 

 existence. IMr. Parsons printed from a copy of 

 the original, made by Sir Savlle Slingsby, in 

 1714-5, which then remained at Scriven. Ettie. ' 



Criston, Somerset (Vol. iii., p. 278.). — Perhaps 

 Phistox is the place inquired for. This is a vil- 

 lage near Keynshein, where a ilr. Vaughan Jen- 

 kins has some property. Criston, as a place in 

 Somerset, is unknov/n to J. 



Bath, April 18. 



Criston (Vol. iii., p. 278.). — There is a small 

 village in Somersetshire called Christen, about live 

 miles N. W. of Axbridge. C. I. IL 



Tradesmen s Sigiis (Vol. iii., p. 224.). — In the 

 delightful little volume on Chaucer, in Knight's 

 shilling series, entitled Pictures of English Life, 

 the author has the following on the Tabard, at 

 p. 19.: — 



" The sia:n and its supports irere removed in 1776, 

 when all such characteristic features of the streets of 

 London in the olden time, disappeared in obedience ta 

 a parliamentary edict for their destruction." 

 It would appear, however, by the subsequent 

 quotation from Brand's Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 3-59., 

 that the edict above referred to was not carried 

 into execution against all signs ; or that, if so, it 

 was soon repealed : — 



" Lord Thuilow, in his speech for postponing the 

 further reading of the Surgeons' Incorporation Bill, 

 July 17th, 1797, stated ' that hy a .statute still in force, 

 the barbers and surgeons were each to use a pole.' " 



R. W. E. 



Cor. Chr. Col!., Cambridge. 



Emendation of a Passage in Virgil (Vol. iii., 

 p. 237.). — The emendation of Scriblerus is cer- 

 tainly objectionable, and by no means satisfactory, 

 i\)V these reasons : — 1st. " Ac sunt in spatio" is 

 by no means elegant Latin, which "addiint sc in 

 spalia" is; lor the word "addunt"is constantly 

 used in the same way elsewhere. 



2nd. The word " spatium" is seldom used to 

 signify a chariot course. 



" Spatia," the plural, was the proper expres- 

 sion, an<l is only so deviated from in poetry in a 

 single instance. (Juv. Sat. vi. 582.) It is used in 



