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2. “Alfred’s Appeal; containing his Address to the 
Court of King’s Bench on the subject of the Marriage of 
Mary Anne Fitzherbert, and her Intrigue with Count 
Bellois. London, 1789.” No publisher’s name. 
The name of the writer, “ Philip Withers, 
the last page, viz. p. 88. 
3. “Alfred’s Apology. Second Part. Containing a 
Letter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; with 
a Summary of the Trial of the Editor 9f the Nemesis, on 
the Prosecution of Mrs. Fitzherbert for a Libel; with 
Remarks by Alfred. ‘Deum appello et provoco ad Popu- 
lum,’ Livy, viii. 33. London: Entered at Stationers’ 
Hall, and sold at No. 9. Queen Street, near Grosyenor 
Square. 1789.” 
M.N. §. 
The Cobbe of Lyme (2°°8. i. 153.) — Campbell 
in his Political Survey of Great Britain, vol. i. 
p. 351., says: 
“ Lyme harbour is such an one as is not to be found in 
this, or perhaps any other kingdom, and seems to have 
been of the inhabitants’ own contrivance. It was origin- 
ally constructed, though at what time we know-not, by 
weighing up vast rocks out of the sea with empty casks, 
which being placed in regular order to a considerable 
breadth, and carried out a great way, some say more than 
three hundred yards, the interstices being filled up with 
earth, the heaviest carriages safely pass, and large build- 
ings, amongst others a handsome custom-house upon 
pillars, with a corn-market under it, and warehouses 
have been erected thereon. This singular work, which 
answers the intention of a pier, is called the Cobbe, and 
for the keeping it in constant repair, which is done at 
the expence of the town, and proves sometimes very 
pereals there are annually chosen two cobbe-war- 
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References : —Leland’s Itinerary, vol. iii. p. 43. ; 
Andrew Borde’s Perigrinations in the Catalogue of 
Havens ; Uarrison’s Description of Britain, c, x11. 
p- 58.; Stukeley’s Idinerarium Curiosum, p. 152.3 
Coker’s Survey of Dorsetshire, p. 11.; Willis’s 
Notitia Parliamentaria, yol. ii. p. 429.; Keble’s 
Statutes, p. 913.; Brome’s Travels over England, 
Scotland, and Wales, p. 259.; Cutler’s Coasting 
Pilot, p. 12. R. W. Hackwoop. 
The cobbe of Lyme was from the first called 
likewise the conners. There was a cobbe at Swan- 
age, in Dorsetshire, and nowhere else. The deri- 
yation of these words is not quite satisfactorily 
explained. When built in Edward L’s reign there 
was much Cornish or Celtic in the west. See 
Roberts's History of Lyme Regis, Dorset. In the 
Tower Records this marine work is styled “ Le 
Pier Key,” or “ Le Cobb.” G.R. L. 
Stothard’s Mother (2™ §. i. 133.) —In “N. 
& Q.” of Feb. 16., I find you ask a question 
respecting my father’s family, signed Prior 
Ropert. 
Thomas Stothard, R.A., was the son of Mary, 
the daughter of Elizabeth Reynolds, a niece of 
D’Anvers Hodges, of Broadwell, Gloucestershire, 
and of the Middle Temple, to whose descendants, 
male and female, D’Anvers Hodges, by his will 
dated 1720 or 1721, left his large estates, in de- 
mise of which without issue also, to Henry 
Doughty, his cousin; who, marrying one of Mr. 
Hodges’s nieces, subsequently had issue, who 
enjoyed the estate. The Misses Doughty of 
Doughty-Street, the grand-daughters of this 
Henry Doughty, were Stothard’s third cousins. 
Stothard’s uncle Reynolds would, had he lived, 
have enjoyed the estates, but, dying before he was 
of age, Thomas Doughty succeeded him, and took 
the name of Hodges. John Reynolds, having 
married the niece of D’Anvers Hodges, became 
his executor. Roser T, Storwarp. 
Shakspeare: ‘ When we have shuffled off 
this mortal coil” (2™4 S. i. 151.) — Mr. C. M. 
Increry speaks of Sir D. Brewster's use of 
“mortal coil” for the body of a creature, as the 
“common interpretation” of this phrase. I be- 
lieve, on the contrary, that Sir D B. was the first 
person who so understood the phrase, and he 
ought to be the last. The word “coil” occurs at 
least nine times in Shakspeare, and in every case 
it manifestly means turmoil, tumult. The same 
is the case with all other writers of English. We 
have indeed another word, the ‘‘ coil” of a rope; 
but this also does not mean “covering,” which 
seems to be the sense intended by Sir D.B. And 
if coil had meant covering, would it have been 
proper to speak of the “mortal coil” of other 
creatures than man? Certainly though animals 
are mortal, “ mortal life,” “ mortal state,” and the 
like, mean the life, the state, &c, of man only, and 
not of any other creature, 
Passages in Gower (24 §, i. 174.) — The pas- 
sage in Gower — 
“ She leveth nought all that she hereth, 
And thus full oft herself she skiereth, 
And is all ware of ‘had J wist.’” 
it seems to me, may be explained thus : 
“ She is on her guard against being deceived, so that 
she may haye no occasion to say when it is too late, 
‘Had I wist,’ — had I but known it.’” 
That this expression, “ had I wist,” was proverbial 
at the time, is evident from its occurring again in 
a similar way in the fourth book of the Con/fessio 
Amantis ; 
“ For many a vice, as saith the clerke, 
There hongen upon slouthes lappe, 
Of such as make a man mishappe, 
To pleigne and tell of ‘had I wist,’” 
where the meaning clearly is, that the eyils at- 
tending on sloth are of such akind as to occasion 
men mishap, and then they complain and say, 
“ Had I but known it.” 
Canele is from the French canedle, cinnamon. 
Mone. —Is this word possibly connected with 
monyal, which in Piers Plouhman means “a 
nun,” and with the French moine? Is there 
