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annales, et & cure des almes nient entendantz.” 
The former received six marks, the latter five 
marks by the year; but their stipends, by 2 Hen. 
V. st. 2. c.ii., were raised respectively to eight 
and seven marks. MacKenzie Waucorr, M.A. 
“ Little things on little wings” (2° §. i# 472.) — 
The verses about which your correspondent 
B. N. T. inquires are taken from Poems by the 
Rev. F. W. Faber, then Fellow of the University 
Coll., Oxon : 
“ Written in a Little Lady’s Little Albwn. 
I. 
“ Hearts good and true 
Have wishes few, 
In narrow circles bounded; 
And hope that lives 
On what God gives 
Is Christian hope well founded. 
Il. 
« Small things are best: 
Grief and unrest 
To rank and wealth are given; 
But little things 
On little wings 
Bear little'souls to Heaven.” 
KE. J. H. 
“ By Hook or by Crook” (1* S. i. ii. passim.)— 
The origin of this saying has been discussed in your 
pages. Permit me to furnish you with an extract 
from a MS., which seems to settle the question. 
This MS. is in Marsh’s Library (Dublin), en- 
dorsed “ Annales Hibernia.” It was written by 
Dudley Loftus, born in 1618, son of Sir Adam 
Loftus, and great-grandson of Dr. Adam Loftus, 
Archbishop of Armagh, &c., Lord Chancellor of 
Ireland. He was a learned and oriental scholar : 
“1172. King Henry the 24 landed in Ireland this 
year on St Luke’s eve, at a place in the bay of Waterford, 
beyond the fort of Duncannon on Munsier syde, at a 
place called ye Crook, over agt the tower of y® Hook; 
whence arose the ‘proverb to gayne a thing by Hook or 
by Crook; it being safe to gayne land in one of those 
places, when the winde drives from the other,” &c. 
I have examined the MS. Cxrericus (D.) 
Surnames (27° §. i. 213. 396.). Rand. — The 
bogey space generally covered with sedges and 
rushes, between the embankments and stream of 
the rivers in East Norfolk is called the rand, 
rawnd, or rond. Rand in Anglo-Saxon, Danish, 
Dutch, and German, means a margin, exactly the 
sense in which it is here used. A foundling ex- 
posed on a rand might bear the name of the place 
where he was discovered. E. G. R. 
Swang (2°°S, i. 471.) — This word seems to 
be the Norfolk ‘ wong,” or “wang” sibilated. 
Spelman says of it, “Campus potius opinor semi- 
nalis quam pascuus.” I know five or six fields so 
named in Norfolk; they are all meadow, with a 
small rill of water rising in them. Bailey (Dic.) 
gives both “ wang” and “ wong,” —a field. Bos- 
worth (A.-S. Dic.) gives “ wang, wong —a plain, 
field, wong, land, the world.” The Danish vang 
— meadow, green field (whence Ullensvang, &c., 
Norway), suits our use of the word better. 
K. G. R. 
“* Samcast” (2° 8. i. 471.) —Though not find- 
ing this whole word in any glossary within my 
reach, I would venture to suggest its derivation 
from or connexion with the Anglo-Sax. seam, 
which means “a measure of 8 bushels,” or as 
much as a horse can carry. So that samcast may 
mean as much land as 8 bushels of grain would 
sow, a quantity which those acquainted with 
farming details will be able to estimate. 
J. Eastwoop. 
Eckington. 
Guano (2"°§. 1.374. 482.)—Delpino (Spanish 
Dic., 1763) mentions that the Indians of Peru so 
call the dung of sea fowl which they fetch for 
manure from certain islands near the coast. 
E. G. BR. 
The fertilising qualities of guano were evidently 
known in England prior to 1770, for in an account 
of the northern counties of that date the following 
occurs : 
“Fowlney (i.e. Fowl’s Island), so called from the 
amazing numbers of wild fowl resorting thither, the dung 
of which, collected and spread on the meadows nearest to 
it on the main land makes them so rich that they com- 
monly let at from 50s. to 32. per acre.” 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Geddes (2"° 8. i. 413.) — The “ nonsense,” if 
such it be, is not German but Greek, and is the 
conclusionyof Plato’s Parmenides : 
“"Ouyodv Kat GuAARBSnY ct ciTomer, Ev ct pH EoTLV, ovdEer 
Ear, op0as av elromev; TavTamact pev OV» Eipyadw rotvuv 
TovTS TE Kal OTL, Ws EoLKEDV, Ev eit EoTL ELTE MH EOTLV, AUTO TE 
KajTadAa Kal Tpds avTa Kal Tpos GAANAG TavTA TaVTwWS EoTL TE 
AB €grt, kat patverai Te kai ov pavérar, "AAnOéoTaTa,” 
On this Gruppe says : 
“Wir haben hier den héchsten Triumph platonischer 
Tronie seine schneidendste Kritik, und seine ausgelas- 
senste Laune—diesmal auch von Schleiermacher ver- 
kannt, der den Dialog fiir unvollendet hielt, weil er ihn 
fiir ernst nahm und auf eine férmliche Auflésung wartete, 
wogegen Hegel was Hohn iiber die Irrleheren Anderer ist, 
fiir den tiefsten Kern der Platonischen Philosophie selbst 
ausprach.”— Gegenwart und Zukunft der Philosophie in 
Deutschland, p. 205. Berlin, 1835. 
An Essay on the Composition and Manner of 
Writing of the Ancients, particularly Plato, by the 
late James Geddes, Esq., Advocate, Glasgow, 
1748, is the only work on Plato by an author 
named Geddes which I know. The Advice seems 
to point to a contemporary, who I trust will be 
discovered, as the state of metaphysical science in 
England in 1781 is matter of curiosity. That it 
was low at Oxford is shown by the surprise and 
excitement produced by the small metaphysics of 
