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tion, leave no doubt but herein were deposited the bodies 
of the defeated and slain Danes, thrown together in a 
confused mass: the bones, but more particularly the 
teeth, were in a very perfect state.” — Hutchins’s Hist. 
of Dorset, vol. iii. p. 196., 2nd edition, 1813, by Richard 
Gough. 
The extent of the excavation above described 
is still plainly indicated by inequalities on the 
surface of the barrow at its western end. As 
previously stated, the part we opened was near the 
eastern extremity, the only portion that appeared 
to be in its original state. I can assure your cor- 
respondent that digging into such a mass of loose 
stones and earth is no joke; and our zeal for the 
investigation of “long barrows” is not sufficient 
to render a repetition of the experiment very 
probable. QuIpAM. 
Election of Proctors in the Diocese of Oxford 
(2™" S. i. 193.) —I can certify Mr. Fraser that, 
at the last election of proctors for the diocese of 
Oxford, I was summoned, appeared, and voted, as 
a perpetual curate; and I imagine there was no 
mistake in my being included in the citation. 
J. SANSOM. 
Buslingthorpe. 
“ Mister,” “ mistre,” or “need” (2°78. i. pp. 165, 
166.) — The following corroborations of Mar. 
ARROwWSMITH’s remarks on this word are taken 
from a letter, written in 1630, by the then Sir 
David Lindsay, created, three years afterwards, 
Lord Balcarres, to his eldest son, when a student 
at St. Andrew’s : 
“ Alexander, let me remember you of what your mother 
and I spake to you before your going there (St. An- 
drew’s), for the long vacance and jolliness that ye have 
seen this lang time by gane makes me think that ye will 
have mister to be halden in mind of your awin weal. . . 
: for youth is the tempest of life, wherein we are 
in most peril, and has maist mister of God, the great 
Pilot of the world, to save us.” — Lives of the Lindsays, 
vol. i, p. 213. 
eure 
The sense of mister here, as need, is clear; as, in- 
deed, it is in your correspondent’s examples. By 
what association of ideas his remarks on the 
word miss have suggested to me a use of the word 
care, common to the writers of Anne’s time, and 
in the following age, I must leave to metaphy- 
sicians to explain, but suggested it they have. 
Pope writes in one of his letters, “ I shouldn’t care 
to have an old post pulled up which I had recol- 
lected since a boy,” meaning that he should care, 
should feel the loss of it, or miss it. This use of 
the word with a negative sorely puzzled me when 
a boy, and is not clear to me now. I should be 
thankful to have it construed. H. D. 
History of Newspapers (2 S. i. 153.) — I beg 
to refer your correspondent A. A., and others in- 
terested in this subject, to Timperley’s Encyclo- 
pedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote, for 
a great deal of information respecting newspapers. 
I mention this work because it is not quoted 
amongst the authorities at the end of the article 
‘“‘ Newspapers ” in the Penny Cyclopedia, to which 
A. A. has doubtless referred, W. HW. 
Somerset House. 
Mabel (2°° §. i. p.. 114.) — Camden, in his Re- 
mains (p.124., 1674), says : 
“Some will have it to be a contraction of the Italians 
from Mabella, that is, my fair daughter or maid. But 
whereas it is written in deeds Amabilia and Mabilia, 1 
think it cometh from Amabilis, that is, loveable or lovely.” 
Wee wT. 
Somerset House. 
Recipe for Cool Tankard (1* §. xii, 450.) — 
“ Take two glasses of wine, one of port and one of 
sherry, two table-spoonsful of moist sugar, a quarter of a- 
nutmeg, and a sprinkle of ginger; fill up with a pint of 
mild ale over a piece of well-baked (but not urnt) toast. 
Any wine will answer the purpose, but if of two kinds the 
better. It should stand a quarter of an hour before it is 
drunk, that the flavour of the sop may be duly imparted 
to it.” 
The above recipe is taken from a little book 
called Spring Tide, published by Bentley, which 
contains many interesting pieces of folk lore, and 
curious provincialisms. 
If strong ale be used in the composition of the 
tankard, the wine may be omitted altogether, in 
which case, however, a little warm water should 
first be poured upon the sugar and spices. Q. C. 
Ode on the Burial of Sir John Moore (2° S. 
i. 158-9.) —If any doubts remain as to the author- 
ship of the lines “On the Burial of Sir John 
Moore,” I have it in my power to satisfy them 
satisfactorily ; for I know for certainty that the 
Rev. Charles Wolfe, when chaplain to the old 
county jail, in the city of Durham, acknowledged 
the authorship by inserting them in the Durham 
Advertiser, with his signature attached. 
I take this opportunity of stating, that Mr. 
Crighton, the eminent solicitor, of Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne, and my brother, Mr. J. H. Dixon, 
were the chief perpetrators of the transcendent 
hoax attributing the authorship of the above to 
Veterinary Doctor Marshall, although I am un- 
able to assign to each his particular share in it. 
I will only add, that my brother wrote a second 
parody, little, if at all, inferior to that of Bar- 
ham. R. W. Drxon. 
Seaton Carew, co. Durham. 
Abp. Narcissus Marsh (2°) S. i. 192.) — The 
whole of Abp. Narcissus Marsh’s Diary is pub- 
lished in vol. xxviii. (July and Aug. 1845) of the 
British Magazine, with notes by the Rev. Dr. 
Todd.” na ‘AMeus. 
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