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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 96. 



tlie boundaries of the different parislies are marked 

 by eartlien mounds, from three to six feet high, 

 ■which are known in the neighbourhood as dools ; 

 the word being probably derived from the same 

 root. I have been told, however, that it sliould 

 be spelled duals, and that the derivation of it was 

 from the Latin duo, as marking two parishes ; but 

 I am sure that it is always pronounced by the 

 country-people as a monosyllable, and therefore 

 the chances are in favour of the former derivation 

 being the right one. 



\A propos to Suffolk, another of your corre- 

 spondents (Vol. iv., p. 55.) lately mentioned the 

 fashion the people there have of leaving out the 

 ve in the middle of filenames of places. In this I 

 can bear him witness also ; but 1 do not think it is 

 confined to those letters only : e. g. Eriswell, pro- 

 nounced Asel; Wymondham (in Norfolk) Wynd- 

 ham, &c. Among those names of places in which 

 the ve is left out, your correspondent has omitted 

 Elveden (commonly, though erroneously, Elvedon), 

 which is always called and often spelled Elden. 



A.N. 



" The Worm in the Bud,'' ^-c. (Vol. iv., p. 86.).— 

 This quotation is from Cowper's lines appended to 

 the Bill of Mortality for the parish of All Saints, 

 Northampton, for 1787 : 



" Read, ye that run, the awful truth 

 With whicli I charge my page ; 

 A worm is in the bud of youth, 

 And at the root of age." 

 I know not with whom the idea originated. The 

 imagery is frequently used by Shakspeare, but 

 with him never indicates disease or death. 



I can call to mind no similar expression in the 

 classics. H. E. H. 



Moore's Almanack (Vol. iv., p. 74.). — Your 

 correspondent Francis is in error as to the MSS. 

 and correspondence of Henry Andrews being in 

 the possession of his son, Mr. Wm. Henry Andrews. 

 Mr. W. H. Andrews some time ago sold to me 

 the whole of his father's MSS. correspondence, 

 astronomical and astrological calculations, with a 

 mass of very curious letters from persons desirous 

 of having their " nativities cast." I have also 

 some copies of Andrews' portrait, one of which 

 shall be much at your service. 



Moore's Almanack was known by that name 

 long before Andrews had any connection with it, 

 but" he was for upwards of forty years its compiler 

 for the Company of Stationers, whose liberal (?) 

 treatment of Andrews may be collected li-om the 

 following postscript to a "letter addressed to me 

 by his son : — 



" My father's calculations, &c., for Moore's Alma- 

 nack, continued during a period of forty-three years ; 

 and although through his great talent and m.inage- 

 ment he increased the sale of tliat work from 100,003 to 

 500,000, yet, strange to say, all he received for his ser- 



vices was 25/. per ann. ! ! Yet I never heard him mur- 

 mur even once ahout it ; such was his delight in pur- 

 suing his favourite studies, that his anxiety ahout 

 remuneration was out of the question. Sir Richard 

 Phillips, who at times visited him at Royston, once 

 met him in London, and endeavoured to persuade 

 him to go with him to Stationers' Hall, and he would 

 get him 100/. ; but he declined going, saying that he 

 was satisfied." 



Andrews was also computer to the Board of 

 Longitude, and Maskelyne's Letters evidence the 

 value and correctness of his calculations. 



The only materials left by Andrews for a me- 

 moir of his life I believe I possess, and some day I 

 may find leisure to put them into order for pub- 

 lication. KoBT. Cole. 



Scurvy Ale. — The Query (Vol. iv., p. 68.) 

 " What was scurvy ale ? " may perhaps be answered 

 by an extract from a little work. The Polar Seas 

 and liegions, published by Oliver and Boyd, 

 Edinburgh. In the account of BafEn's voyage, 

 in which he discovered the bay called after him 

 Baffin's Bay, we are told that — 



" Finding the health of his crew rather declining, he 

 sailed across to Greenland, where an abundance of 

 scurvy r/rass boiled in beer quickly restored them ; and 

 the Lord then sent them a speedy and good passage 

 homeward." 



Johnson explains scurvy-grass as spoonwort. 



W. Eraser. 



Siege of Londonderry (Vol. iv., p. 87.). — Will 

 you have the goodness to inform your corre- 

 spondent that 1 have a pamphlet, printed soon 

 after the famous siege was over, giving a particu- 

 lar account of it, though it altogether omits men- 

 tioning the name of an ancestor of mine who dis- 

 tinguished himself in the relief of that place. I 

 shall be happy to afford E. A. any information or 

 assistance he may require. B. G. 



Salting the Bodies of the Dead (Vol. iv., p. 6.), 

 about which Mr. M'Cabe asks, is a very old cus- 

 tom in England. Matt. Paris, in his description 

 of Abbot William's funeral at St. Alban's, a.d. 1235, 

 tells us how — 



" Corpus apertum est, &c. Et quicquid in corpore 

 repertum est, in quadam cuna repositum est, sale con- 

 spersum. Et in eoemiterio, est humatum. Corpus 

 autcm interius, aceto lotum et imhutum et multo sale 

 respersum et resutum. Et hoc sic fuctum est circum- 

 specte et prudenter, ne corpus per triduum et amplius 

 reservandum, tetrum aliquem odorem olfacientibus 

 gcneraret et corpus tumulandum, contrectantibus ali- 

 quod offendiculum praesentaret." — Vitce S. Albani 

 Abbatum, p. 87. ed. Wats, Paris, 1644. 



Da. Rock. 



Buckland, July 24. 1851. 



In the 8Gth and two following sections of the 

 Second Book of Herodotus is the description of 

 the ancient Egyptian methods of preserving the 



