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NOTES AND QUERIES. 283 
Daundelyon: Petit (1* S. i. 92.; v. 319. 404.) — 
One of the earliest Queries in “N. & Q.” still re- 
mains unanswered. It related the legend on the 
brass of John Daundelyon in Margate church, 1445. 
Lewis, in his History of the Isle of Tenet (edition 
1723, p- 107.), states that this ancient family, 
“ about the beginning of Edward 1V., determined 
in a daughter and heir, matched to Petit of 
Shalmesford, near Chartham.” In a thin folio 
yolume, ornamented on its covers with the arms 
of Petit, and entitled — 
“ Honori Sacellum; a Funeral Poem to the Memory of 
the honoured Clement Pettit, Esq., of the Isle of Thanet, 
in the County of Kent, by E. Settle; London, printed for 
the Author, 1717 ;” 
are the following lines and foot-note, at p. 7.: 
“ Pettit’s a race, whose generous fount begun, 
From Britain’s first great Normand’s rising sun ;* 
Even that proud conqueror, in his Thanet isle, 
Th’ unconquered Kent, saw their first Hymen smile. 
The long descent from such a native claim, 
Worthies enrolled in that long list of fame, 
Lodged in their mouldered monuments, so old, 
That they are scarce less dust than what they hold.” 
Elkanah Settle, the poet (called the City Lau- 
reate), seems to have made a strange mistake in 
the date of this marriage. What became of the 
large family of old Clement Petit ? EK. D. 
Ancient Origin of Phrases now in Common Use 
(2" §. i. 44.) — To the phrases mentioned by 
W. T. M. I will add the common one, “to wear 
the breeches.” This will be found in French as 
far back as 1450: 
“Tt sachez qu’il est avenu & aucuns que l’en leur fai- 
soit boire de mauves_ brouez affin de porter les braies ou 
pour autres choses pires.” — Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage, 
La Diziesme Joye. Edition Elzevirienne, Paris, 1853, 
p- 113, ‘ 
It is met with in English at about the same 
date in a carol, the burden of which is founded 
on it: 
“ Nova, Nova, sawe you ever such, 
The most mayster of the hows weryth no brych.” 
Songs and Carols of the Fifteenth Century, 
Percy Soc. Pub., vol. xxiii. p. 65. 
Also a little later : 
« All women be suche, 
Thoughe the man wear the breche,” &c. 
The Boke of Maid Emlyn, Percy Soc. 
Pub.,.vol. vi., p. 21. 
I believe the expression is not wholly disused 
in France. Is it used in any other nation than 
England and France ? 
Another expression, not uncommonly used in 
the provinces as descriptive of a person of some- 
* “ An ancestor of this family married an heiress in the 
reign of William the Conqueror, at Dentdelyon Castle, in 
the Isle of Thanet; where, tho’ the castle itself is long 
decayed, their autient seat continues still.” 
what simple demeanour, ‘‘ She looks as if butter 
would not melt in her mouth,” or an allusion to 
it, is found in French, circa 1475: 
“A cette parolle mist dame Mehault ses mains & ses 
costez et en grant couroux Juy respondy que, &c., et que, 
Dieu merci, aincoires fondoit le burre en sa bouche, com- 
bien qu’elle ne peust croquier noisettes, car elle n’avoit 
que un seul dent.” —Les Evangiles des Quenouilles —Vme 
Journée, Edition Elzevirienne, Paris, 1855, p. 72. 
Jill Wes oo 
Diss. 
Odd Titles of Books (1* §, xii. 403.) — Has 
your correspondent G. B. ever seen a copy of 
Hooks and Eyes, &c.? If so, will he oblige the 
readers of “ N. & Q.” with the author’s name, and 
some brief account of the book ? 
P. J. F. Gantivxon. 
Village Signs (2° S. i. 190.) — The following 
I remember reading many years ago on the sign 
of a little wayside inn, between Pateley Bridge and 
Ripon ; it seems equally odd and interesting as 
the one given by J. K.: 
“ The maltster doth crave 
His money to have, 
The exciseman says, ‘ Have it I must.’ 
By that you may see 
How the case stands with me, 
So I pray you, don’t ask me to trust.” 
H. E. Wiix1nson. 
Notting Hill Square. 
Ring-taw, &c. (1* S. xii. 344.) —I can add one 
or two words to J. K.’s list, without being able 
to give the unde derivatur of any which he men- 
tions : 
Fat. The same as J. K.’s * chuck.” 
Much. Lo be “mucked” is to have lost all 
one’s 
Mivvies — marbles. 
J. K.’s derivation of the word alley is no doubt 
somewhat correct, for stone marbles are called 
stoneys, and clay ones commoneys, though Dutch 
alleys are only stoneys enamelled or glazed dif- 
ferent colours. 
Dubs, twos ; trebs, threes, are evidently “ rough 
and ready” arrangements from the Latin, and 
obs, the English numeral contracted to har- 
monise with them. 
Stash. To “stash” the game is to stop it or 
break it up, though not only applied to marbles, 
but in all other cases where a request to desist is 
implied. Kt. W. Hacxwoop. 
White Paper injurious to the Sight (2"° S. i. 126. 
241.) —I1 think Mr. Babbage published some 
tables on tinted paper prior to 1833, about which 
year Sir John MecNeil’s Tables appeared ; and, if 
I mistake not, in the preface to that work, Mr. 
Babbage mentions experiments then recently made 
on the eflects of different tints. Guo, E. Fern. 
