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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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set the example of candour and openness, I will 

 subscribe my real name. W. Hastings Kelke. 

 Drayton Beauchamp. 



Coke and Cowper (Vol. iv., p. 24.). — In reply 

 to one of your correspondents, who inquires as 

 to the correct pronunciation of the name of the 

 poet Coivper, I may mention, that some years ago, 

 being on a visit in the neighbourhood of AVeston 

 Underwood, I made particular inquiries on this 

 point in the village, and found that thei-e the poet 

 had always been known as Mr. Cooper. The name 

 of the noble family to which he was related will 

 be the best criterion. 



By the way, was there not sometime since a 

 proposal for erecting by subscription a worthy 

 monument to a poet whose memory every Chris- 

 tian must revere ? In whose hands was this pro- 

 ject, and with whom does its execution rest ? 



Thos. McCalmont. 



Highfield, near Southampton, July 22. 1851. 



In my humble opinion, Coke is the old English 

 form of writing cook, from A.-Sax. " cue." See 

 Chaucer's Cokes Tale, and Cock Lorrell's Bote, 

 where we read " Drouers, Cokes, and pulters ; " 

 and in this same poem occurs the line, " Carpen- 

 ters, eoupers, and ioyners." See also under 

 Cooper in Pegge's Anecdotes of the English Lan- 

 guage ; the names, as thus pronounced, are ren- 

 dered significant. 



Should it be asked how we ought to pronounce 

 the name of another poet, viz. Cowley, if Cowper 

 be called Cooper, I answer that they are from 

 different roots : that Cowley is from coiu, and ley, 

 signifying cow pasture, or place for cows ; and 

 that Cowper is only another form of Cooper : not 

 but that in the north they pronounce cow as coo, 

 and, therefore, they would call him Cooley. 



Thos. Lawrence. 



Ashby de la Zouch. 



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Dunmore Castle (Vol. iii., p. 495.). — James C. 

 will find the subject of Vitrified Forts treated at 

 considerable length in the fourth volume of the 

 Archmologia Scotica, by S. Ilibbert, Esq., M.D., 

 Sir George IMuckenzie, Bart., of Coul, and George 

 Anderson, Esc]., F.R.S., pp. IGO — 195. T. B. J. 



Edinburgh, July 18. 1851. 



Gooseberry Fool (Vol. iii., p. 496.). — The edi- 

 torial note is sufficiently satisfactory ; but what is 

 the etymology of gooseberry ? Clearly '■^ gorse 

 berry," the fruit of the prickly shrub or bush. 



James Cornish. 



Dryden and Oldham (Vol. iv., p. 3G.). — Whe- 

 ther Oldham or Dryden had the prior claim to 

 the thought, is a very interesting question, but 



very easily settled in favour of the much greater 

 poet of the two, for — 



" The dedication to the Earl of Orrery was ad- 

 dressed to him in the year 1664, when The Rival 

 Ladies, which was Dryden's second play, was first 

 printed." — Malone's Dryden, vol. i. part 2. p. 3. 



Whereas the poem of Oldham states itself to have 

 been written in July, 1678. C. B. 



Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott (Vol. iii., 

 p. 518.). — Tyro will find a notice of him in Sir 

 James Ware's Wi'iters of Ireland, p. 92., Harris's 

 edition. Faber-Ferrarius. 



Dublin. 



Perm Family (Vol. iii., pp. 264. 409.) .—In ISTo. 75. 

 of "iSToTES AND Queries" for April, 1851, inquiry 

 is made " to whom William Penn, the eldest son 

 of William Penn (the founder), was married, and 

 also to whom the children of said son were mar- 

 ried, as well as those of his daughter Letitia 

 (Mrs. Aubrey), if she had any ? " William Penn 

 (the son) married Mary Jones, by whom he had 

 three children, William, Springett (who died 

 without issue), and Gul. Maria. William had 

 two wives, Christiana Forbes, and Ann Vaux. 

 By Miss Forbes he had a daughter, married to 

 Peter Gaskell, Esq. ; and by Miss Vaux a son, 

 Springett, who died without issue. Mrs. Aubrey 

 (Letitia Penn) had no children. 



Edw, D. Ingraham. 



Philadelphia, July 4. 1851. 



Bumma7-ee (Vol. iv., p. 39.). — I have no doubt 

 that this word is derived, as so many of our market 

 terms are, from the French, bonne maree, fresh 

 fi.sh. 



" Maree signifie toute sorte de poisson de mer qui 

 n'est pas sal6 ; bonne maree, maree fratche, vendeur de 

 maree." — Diet, de I'Acad. Franc, voce. 



c. 



Miss or Mistress (Vol. iv., p. 6.). — The indis- 

 criminate use of " Miss" and "Mrs." to unmarried 

 ladies is often very perplexing. The " Mrs." was 

 not, as M. S. supposes, always accompanied by the 

 Christian name for unmarried ladies ; and the 

 custom lasted at least as late as the reign of 

 George II. Pope in his letters (about 1719) 

 mentions "Mrs. Lepel" and "Mrs. Bellenden," 

 maids of honour. The examples are innumerable, 

 but the latest instance I remember is the Duchess 

 of Queensbury addressing Patty Blount in 1756 as 

 "Mrs. Blount;" though, no doubt, Patty was, by 

 that time, entitled to what is called brevet rank. 



C. 



Booh Plates (Vol. iii., p. 495. ; Vol. iv., p. 46.). 

 — ]Mr. Parsons, I observe, confines his inquiry 

 to English book plates. On that point I cannot 

 at present offer him any information ; but I can 

 to a certain extent confirm his views with regard 

 to the use of them in foreign countries, having 



