Mat 24. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



409 



(S. Thorn. Canhiar., ed. Giles, vol. i. p. 65.), having 

 cros.sed from France, landed at Partus Canum. It 

 has been conjectured that this means Hythe, which 

 is dose to Saltwood Castle, where the knights were 

 received by Ranulph de Broc (Etiglish Review., 

 December, 1846, p. 410.). Is the conjecture right? 

 I believe Hasted does not notice the name. 



J. C. R. 



Arms of Sir John Davies. — Can any of your 

 correspondents inforui me what were the arms, 

 crest, and motto (if any), borne by Sir John 

 Davies, the eminent lawyer and pf)et ? In a col- 

 lection which I have made of the armorial bear- 

 ings of the families of Davies, Davis, and Davys, 

 amounting to more than fifty distinct coats, there 

 occur the arms of three Sir John Davies or Davys, 

 but there is nothing to distinguish which of them 

 was the Sir John. Llaw GrrrES. 



William Penn. — AVill Mr. Hepworth Dixon, 

 or some of your correspondents, be so good as to 

 send a reply to this Query? 



VVliat was the name, and whose da\ighter was 

 the lady to whom William Penn (the son of 

 William Penn and Miss Springett) was married ? 



A. N. C. 



Who were the Writers in the North Briton ? — 

 The Athenaum of Saturday, May 17, contains a 

 very interesting article on the recently ]5ublished 

 Correspondence of Horace Wulpole with Mason, in 

 which certain very palpable hits are made as to 

 the identity of Mason and Junius. In t!ie course 

 of the article the following Query occurs : 



" In the second Part of the folio edition of the 

 North Briti in piililiblieJ liy Binglcy, in the Driush Mu- 

 seusn, are iiisertsid two folio pages of manuscript thus 

 headed : — 



' The Extraordinary 



NORTH BRirON. 



By W. M.' 



This manuscript is prof.;sse(lly a c>py from a piibli- 

 Ciition issued June 3rd, 17f>S, by Staples Ste;ire, 9;i. 

 Fleet Street, price tlirei-pence. It is a letter addressed 

 to Lord Mansfield, and an appeal in favour ot" Wjlkes, 

 on whom, the writer says, judgment is this day to he 

 pronounced. It is wriueu somewliat in the style of 

 Junius. The satite is so refined that the reader does 

 not at first suspect that it is satire, — as in .Junius's 

 Lttlers, wherein the satirical compliments to the Kinj; 

 have heen mistaken for praise, and quoted in proof of 

 inconsistency. 



" Who was this • \V. M.'? Who were the writers 

 in the North Brilon? — not only ' The Extraordinary ' 

 North llrltoii. published by Steare, but the genuine 

 North Bri/on, published by Bingley. These questions 

 may perhaps he very simjjle, and easily answered by 

 persons better informed than ourselves." 



As the inrpiii-ies of your correspondent W. M. S. 

 (Vol. iii., p. 241.) as to the Wilkes MSS. and the 

 writers of the North Briton have not yet been 



replied to, and this subject is one of great im- 

 portance, will you allow me to recall attention to 

 them ? F. S. A, 



"Many a Word." — Your corres])ondent's obser- ■ 

 vations are perfectly correct : we daily use (piota- 

 tions we know not where to find. Perhaps some 

 of your friends may be able to reply whence 

 " Many a word, at random spoke, 

 Will rend a heart that's well-nigh broke." 



S. P. 

 [The lines will be found in Walter Scott's Lord of 

 the Mes, Canto V. St. 16. 



" O ! many a shaft, at random sent, 

 Finds mark the archer little meant ! 

 And many a word, at random spoken, 

 May soothe or wound a heart's that broken!"'] 



Roman Catholic Church (Vol. iii., p. 168.). — 

 Many thanks for your reference to the Almanack 

 du Clerge de France ; but as I have failed to obtain 

 the requisite information through my booksellers, 

 might I beg the additional favour of knowing what 

 is the cost of the book, and where it can he pro- 

 cured ? E. H. A. 



[The Almnnach to which our correspondent refers is 

 or was published by Gaume freres a Paris, and sold i 

 also by Grnnd, rue du Petit- Bourbon, 6, in the same j 

 city. Its price, judging from the size of the book, is 

 about a couple of francs.] 



Tick (Vol. iii., p. 357.). — Mr. De la Pryme's 



suggestion as to the origin of the exjjression 

 "going tick" is ingenious ; nevertheless I take it to 

 be clear that "tick" is merely an abbieviation of 

 ticket. (See Nares's Glossary, and Halliweirs 

 Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, under 

 ''Ticket.") In aildition to the passages cited by 

 them from Decker, Cotgrave, Stephens, and Shir- 

 ley, I may refer to the Act 16 Car. II. c. 7. s. 3., 

 which relates to gambling and betting " upon 

 ticket or credit." C. H. Coo-pee. 



Cambridge, May 3. 1851. 



[In the Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 421., we read: — 

 " Of tickle credit ne had bin the mischiefe." 

 " Tickle credit," says Pegge, " means easy credit, al- 

 luding to the credulity of Theseus." — Anonymiana, 

 cent. ii. 44. Mr. Jon Bee, in his Sportt^man's Slany 

 Dictionary, gives ihe i'ollowiiig definition : — 



" Tick, credit in small quantities ; usually scored up 

 with chalk (called ink ironically), which being done 

 wiih a sound resembling 'tick, tick, tick,' gives the 

 appellation ' going to tick,' ^ tick it up,' 'my tick is out,' 

 ' no more tick ! ' "] 



Hyllcs' Arithmetic. — Having seen it mentioneil 

 in the pul)lic papers that a copy of the first edition 

 of Cocker's Arithmetic (considered nnitjue) was 

 lately sold at an exceedingly high price by Messr.s. 

 Puttick and Simpson, 1 am induced to send you a 



