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of vermin now known. Perhaps some of your 

 correspondents may be able to identify them : 

 such as gleud, 7-iiigteal, greas'head, baggar. My 

 own impression as to the latter name was, that it 

 was only another way of spelling badger ; but as, 

 in the volume to which 1 refer, the word bowson 

 occurs, which the historian Dr. Whitaker pro- 

 nounces to be identical with that species of ver- 

 min, my surmise can scarcely be correct. 



J. B. (Manchester). 



161. Fire unknown. — Leibnitz (^Sur I'Enten- 

 dement huinain, liv. i. § 4.) speaks of certain 

 islanders to whom fire was unknown. Is there 

 any authentic account of savages destitute of this 

 essential knowledge ? C. W. G. 



162. Matthew Paris s Histaria Minor. — During 

 the last few years I have made occasional, but 

 unsuccessful, inquiries after the Histaria Minor 

 of Matthew Paris. It Is quoted at some length 

 by Archbishop Parker {Antiquit. Eccles. Brit., ed. 

 Ilanov. 1605, p. 158.). It is also referred to, 

 apparently upon Parker's authority, by several 

 divines of the succeeding age ; by one or more of 

 whom (as well as by Watt) the J\IS. is spoken of 

 as deposited in the Royal Library at St. James's. 

 The words produced by Parker do not occur in 

 Matthew Paris's Major History ; though the 

 editor of the second edition of the larger work 

 would appear to have consulted the Hist. Minor, 

 either in the Biblioth. Reg., or the Cottonian 

 Library, or else in the Library of Corpus Coll., 

 Cambridge. Can any one gratify my curiosity by 

 saying whether this JMS. is known to exist, and 

 (if so) where ? J. Sassom. 



163. Mother Bnnche's Fairy Tales. — "Who wrote 

 3Iother Bundle's Fairy Tales ? Dalstonia. 



164. Monumental Symbolism. — In the south aisle 

 of Tylehurst church, Berks, is a beautiful monu- 

 ment to the memory of Sir Peter Vanlore, Knight, 

 and his lady, in recumbent positions, at whoso feet 

 is the statue of their eldest son in armour kneeling. 

 In the front of the tomb are the figures of ten of 

 their children in processional form — first, two 



' daughters singly ; the rest two and two, four of 

 ' which have skulls in their right hands, and a book 

 ] in their left, probably to denote their being de- 

 ceased at tlie time the monument was erected. 

 At the feet of one of the youngest children is re- 

 presented a very small figure of a child lying in a 

 ebroud, the date 1627. 



Query, ^Vhat do the books symbolise ? 



Julia 11. Bockett. 

 Southcote Lodge. 



165. Meaning of " Stickle" and ''Dray." — In 

 Wm. Browne's Pastoral, "The Scjuirrel Hunt," 

 we read of — 



" Patient anglers, standing all the day 



Near to some shallow stickle, or deep bay." 



lUpItfrf. 



The word stickle appears to me to be used here 

 for a pool. Is it ever so used now, or has that 

 meaning become obsolete? I do not find it in 

 Richardson's Dictionary. 



In the Lake District, in the Langdales, is Har- 

 rison's Stickle or Stickle Tarn, which I think con- 

 firms my view of the meaning. 



" Whilst he from tree to tree, from spray to spray, 

 Gets to the wood, and hides him in his draij." 



Cowper uses the word dray with reference to 

 the same animal : 



" Chined like a squirrel to his dray." 



" A Fable," Southey's Edit. viii. 312. 



What is the correct meaning of this word? 

 Richardson, from Barrett, says, " a dray or sledde, 

 which goeth without wheels." And adds, " also 

 applied to a carriage with low, heavy wheels, 

 dragged heavily along, as a brewer's dray." 



He then quotes the passage from Cowper, con- 

 taining the above line. F. B. Relton. 



166. Son of the Morning. — 



" Son of the morning, rise! approach you here! 

 Come — but molest not yon defenceless urn : 

 Look on this spot — a nation's sepulchre! 

 Abode of gods, whose shrines no longer burn. 

 Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : 

 'Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — and other creeds 

 Will rise with other years, till man shall learn 

 Vainly his incense soars, his victim bleeds; 



Poor cliild of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built 

 on reeds." 



How many read t'ue above beautiful stanza from 

 Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza 3., without asking 

 themselves who the " Son of the morning" is. 

 Perhaps some of your literary correspondents and 

 admirers of Byron may be able to tell us. I en- 

 close my own solution for your information. 



An old Bengal Civilian. 



167. Gild Book.— The Gild-Book of the " Holy 

 Trinity Brotherhood" of St. Botolph's without 

 Aldersgate, London, once belonged to Mr. W. 

 Hone, by whom it is quoted in his Ancient Mys- 

 teries, p. 79. If any of the readers of " Notes 

 and Queries " would be so kind as to let me 

 know where this MS. is to be found, I should be 

 very thankful. D. Rock. 



Buckland, Farlngdon. 



POPE AND FLATMAN. 



(Vol.iv., p. 132.) 



In the edition of Pope's Works published by 

 Knapton, Lintot, and otiiers, 1753, 9 vols., I find 



