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eighty years of age, to dispose of his extensive property 
in different lots.” 
“Robert Smith, of Southfield, Sir John’s eldest son, 
was born 24th April, 1631, and married, in 1652, Miss 
Elizabeth Hope, by whom he had three sons and many 
daughters.” 
In the book is a fine view of the old house, 
“Cramond Regis, as in 1791.” The name clearly 
indicates the place to have been once the property 
of the crown. In 1610, part of the lands came 
by purchase into the possession of Robert Smith, 
the father of Sir John. Ge Ss 
Edinburgh. 
Dictionaries of the English Language (2° S. 
i. 212.) —I do not quite understand J. R. J.’s 
object, nor indeed what is meant by “ bringing 
about a desideratum ;” but if he wishes only for 
a list of English dictionaries, I think he will find 
all that are worth notice in Watt, and it would 
be, at least for the seventeenth century, but a 
short account. The first works I find are Bul- 
lokar’s Booke. There were two Bullokars, William, 
who published a work on English Orthography, 
in 1580, and John, who published in 1616, The 
English Expositor of Hard Words. These books 
I have never seen, but I find in the printed Mu- 
seum Catalogue William’s work attributed to John. 
I presume they may be different editions of the 
same work. Then come Minshew, 1623; Cockeram, 
1632; Blount’s Glossographia, 1656: Phillips's, 
1657 ; Skinner, 1671; Coles, 1677. These with 
Ray’s Collections of Proverbs, &§c. (which cannot 
be called a dictionary), are all that I remember 
prior to 1700. I will add as a curiosity in biblio- 
graphy, that the printed catalogue of the Museum 
has not Johnson's Dictionary. C. 
Legal Jeu d' Esprit: “ Look ye, d’'ye see” (2"° 8. 
i. 171.) — Pray rescue the memory of Lord Mans- 
field from the reproach of his having habitually 
used in conversation the vulgarism, ‘Look ye, 
d’ye see,” attributed to him by R. L. P. It was 
not Lord Mansfield, but Mr. Justice Powis, “a 
foolish old judge,” as Lord Campbell calls him, in 
whom this peculiarity of diction was quizzed by 
Mr. Yorke, afterwards Lord Hardwicke, in lines 
similar to those your correspondent quotes, but 
which are more correctly as follows : 
“He that holdeth his lands in fee 
Need neither to quake nor to quiver 
Ihumbly conceive; for look, do you see, 
They are his and his heirs for ever.” 
The lines were imposed upon the judge as part 
of a translation of Coke upon Littleton into verse, 
on which Yorke represented himself engaged. 
The anecdote is given at some length in Camp- 
bell’s Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 2nd series, 
vol. v. p, 12, aan. 
Hull. 
Draughts and Backgammon (2"4 §. i. 214.) — 
It is a mistake to say that draughts and back- 
gammon are the same game. ‘They are not only 
completely different, but they are not played on the 
same tables, though for convenience sake and to 
save space and expense, the chequer of the draught- 
board is sometimes placed on the back of the 
backgammon-tables ; but the games are as dif- 
ferent as chess and backgammon. 
Cambridge Seu @ Esprit (1* 8. xii. passim.) — 
“ On the Masters of Clare Hall and Caius (or Keys) College. 
“Says Gooch * to old Wilcox, ‘come take t’other bout,’ 
‘Tis late,’ says the Master, ‘I’ll not be lock’d out.’ 
‘Mere stuff,’ cries {the Bishop, ‘stay as long as you 
please ; 
What signify Gates? arn’t I Master of Keys? ’” 
Nichols’s Collection of Poems, vol. vii. p. 226. 
EK. H. A. 
Inscription, Sc. at Stukeley, Huntingdonshire 
(22S. 1. 193.) — There is no doubt as to the in- 
scription quoted by Mr. Hackwoop being placed 
over the remains of the Rev. Mr. Waterhouse. 
The unfortunate clergyman had some poor rela- 
tions in Derbyshire, who, after his murder, came 
to the county of Huntingdon to attend to his 
funeral and administer to his estate. ‘They erected 
the tombstone with the strange inscription, thus 
completing the murder of the old man. The case 
of Mr. Waterhouse excited much interest at the 
time. I was then residing in the neighbourhood, 
and forwarded notices of the deceased to my late 
friend Mr. Mudford of the London Courier. 
Waterhouse was a parson of the Tulliber class. 
He was the only one I ever knew drive his own 
pigs and sheep to market. He hated the clerical 
costume, usually wearing a long blue coat. To 
evade the window-tax he had blocked up nearly 
all the windows in the parsonage, and a young 
rogue in the village used to get into the darkened 
rooms, when the parson was out in the fields, and 
steal whatever he could carry away. One day ‘he 
was detected and dragged from his lurking-place 
by Mr. Waterhouse. The latter would promise 
no mercy, and the thief in desperation drew a 
sword (which he had stolen from an alehouse and 
kept concealed inside his trousers), and pushing 
down the old man into a mash-tub in the passage 
ran him through the throat. At his trial a bill- 
hook, the supposed instrument of death, was pro- 
duced ; it was stained with blood, and exhibited 
what were considered grey hairs! The audience 
shuddered, but Baron Alderson was by no means 
satisfied with the circumstantial evidence, and 
postponed the execution for a month. In the in- 
terval the young murderer confessed all, and told 
where the sword would be found. Mr. Water- 
house was a bachelor, and had up to his seventieth 
* Sir Thomas, Bishop of Ely. 
