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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[224 8, No 24., June 14,56. 
'  Tantarra. —'The abbey gateway at Kenilworth, 
in Ireland’s time, appears to have gone by the 
name of Tantarra. Whence its derivation, and 
why attached to this particular gateway ? 
J. B. Wuirzorne. 
Theocritus and Virgil. —In what modern work, 
besides Leigh Hunt’s Jar, §e., can I find a full 
discussion of the relative merits of Theocritus and 
Virgil as pastoral poets ? P. J. F. Ganritton. 
Biographical Queries. — Any particulars re- 
specting the undermentioned will be very accep- 
table. Especially as regards their university and 
college, degrees, and any books they may have 
written : 
Joseph Trapp, D.D., born at Cherington, co. 
Gloucester. Professor of Poetry, Oxford; and 
formerly minister of Christ Church, London, 
Dr, Bisse, Bishop of St. David's; afterwards 
translated to Hereford. 
Thos. Gore, of Alderston, Wilts, and of Mag- 
dalen College, Oxford; celebrated for his know- 
ledge of heraldry : he published, I believe, several 
works. 
Also any information respecting the following 
vicars of Tetbury : 
1279. Gregory de Karwent. 
Enbwete Kiet jai the sixteenth 
Richard Hathway century 
Edmund Barton 
Henry Walmsley. 
William Edwards. 
Daniel Norris. 
John Bliss. 
William Scammel. 
Ralph Willet. 
Miles Eastrel. 
John Turner. 
1742. John Wicht. 
1777. Thomas Croome Wicker, D.D. 
1786. John Richardes. 
1792. Richard Davies. 
1583. 
1614. 
1660. 
1681. 
1712. 
1725. 
1726. 
1739. 
Atrrep T. Ler. 
Tetbury, Gloucestershire. 
“ Little things on little wings.” —.Can any of the 
readers of ‘‘ N. & Q.” tell me where these lines, — 
“ Little things on little wings, 
Bear little souls to heaven,” 4 
are originally found? I know that in Alice Grey 
they are quoted from the Heir of Redclyffe. Did 
they first appear there ? BLN. 
Comic Song on the Income Tax.—In what 
dramatic performance was the income tax made a 
subject for a joke? At present every one seems 
to consider it a very serious matter. I only re- 
collect one fragment of the song; the first of 
which consisted in supposing that the tax was to 
be paid ix kind, The doctor, among others, was 
to pay thus. He was to contribute drugs; but 
who would take them? Then came the lines : 
“T tell you who we'll give them to;—’twill save us all 
our clinkum, — 
To the man that comes round for the tax upon income.” 
KE. H. D. D. 
“ Hot Trodd.” —Tn a truce agreed to by the 
Kings of England and Scotland in 1424, liberty 
was granted to the subjects of either kingdom to 
pursue a malefactor within the marches of the 
other; this pursuit of the malefactor was called 
the “ Hot Trodd.” 
The etymology and origin of the use of these 
words ave desired ; and is the hot in “ hot haste,” 
“hot chase,” with high in “high way,” &c., re- 
ferable to the root of hot in “ Hot Trodd.” 
Berwick. Joun Huspanp. 
William Spencer. — These lines are said to 
have been addressed by the late William Spencer 
to Lady Anne Hamilton. Was it so, or did the 
lines ever before appear in print ? 
“Too late I staid! forgive the crime! 
Unheeded flew the hours; 
How noiseless falls the foot of Time, 
That only treads on flowers! 
“ What eye with clear account remarks 
The ebbings of his glass; 
When all its sands are diamond sparks, 
That dazzle as they pass? 
“Oh! who to sober measurement 
Time’s happy swiftness brings, 
When Birds of Paradise haye lent 
‘Their plumage for his wings?” 5 
“ Hobson's Choice.” — 
“That such a person as old Hobson existed, and that 
he was a letter out of horses for hire, is beyond all 
question. But what I want to know is this, can any rea- 
sonable proof be produced of the truth of that story, 
which, as is generally believed, has given rise to the pro- 
verb of ‘ Hobson’s Choice,’ and which ascribes to him 
the practice of compelling each of his customers to take 
either the horse that stood in the stall next to the stable- 
door, or none at all—‘ That or none?’ JI am induced to 
ask this question, because I find that Mr. Bellenden Ker, 
in his curious work on The Archeology of our Popular 
Phrases, states ‘plump and plain’ that the story is no- 
thing else but a ‘Cambridge hoax,’ and that the proverb 
is the same, both in sound and sense, as the Low Saxon 
popular phrase of ‘Op soens schie ho eysche,’ meaning, 
‘When he had a kiss, he soon made higher demands 
upon me,’ implying encroaching pretensions. 
_ “ Henry Kensincron.” 
As the matter refers principally to Cambridge, 
the above letter will be inserted in one of the 
local papers, but I should like it to appear in 
“N. & Q.” also. E. T. K. 
Cambridge. 
Black Letter. —If your correspondent LX, 
will have the goodness to state in your columns 
what kind of pen he uses for writing black letter, 
he will much oblige A. L. B. 
