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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the Princess of Wales, in Tavistock Street, Covent Gar- 

 den. Makes and Sells all Sorts of Riding Habits, Josephs, 

 Great-Coats, Horsemen's-Couts, Russia Coats, Hussar 

 Coats, Bedgowns, Night Gowns, and Robe de Shambers, 

 Widows Weeds, Sultains, Sultans, and Cantouches, after 

 the neatest manner. Likewise Parliament, Judges, and 

 Councellors Robes, Italian Robes, Cossockoons, Capuchins, 

 Newmarket Cloaks, Long Cioaks, Short Do., Quilted 

 Coats, Hoop Petticoats, Under Coats. All Sorts of Fringes 

 and Laces as Cheap as from the Makers. Bonuetts, Halts, 

 Short Hoods and Caps of all Sorts. Plain Sattins, Sas- 

 netts and Persians. All Sorts of Childbed Linning, Cra- 

 dles, Baskets, and Robes. Also Stuffs, Camblets, Cali- 

 mancoes, and Worsted Damasks, Norwich Crapes and 

 Bumbasins, Scarlet Cloaths, Duffels and Frizes, Dimitys, 

 New Market Hunting Caps, &c. Likewise all Sorts of 

 Masquerade Dresses." 



There, good and fair reader, there is Mrs. 

 Glasse, who evidently attended as much to the 

 outward man, as to make his " bosom's lord sit 

 lightly on his throne." But our copy of this pre- 

 cious volume (beautifully bound, and never soiled 

 by cook-maid's greasy thumb,) has an additional 

 charm. It has the autograph of the great au- 

 thoress herself ! " H. Glasse." We confess we 

 kissed it. O ! that " Elia" had been alive ! AVould 

 he not have treasured this volume ? The contents 

 of the book we must study practically ; but one 

 receipt, good Mr. Editor, when we have tried it, 

 we will send to you and the Right Honourable the 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer : it is (p. 153.) 

 "How to make a Westminster Fool." There are 

 several other admirable receipts, such as " Pigeons 

 in Pimlico" (p. 89.), "To Dress Flat-fish" (p. 

 178.), and "French Flummery" (p. 189.); but 

 they seem to be too well known without the aid 

 of dear Mrs. Glasse. F. S. A. 



A YORKSHIRE WORTHY. 



On recently visiting the fine church of All 

 Saints at Spofibrth (where the Percy family had 

 a princely seat in ages prior to the acquisition 

 of Alnwick), I found in the picturesque church- 

 yard the following epitaph in memory of John 

 Metcalf, a memorable character of whose life 

 the following particulars are given in Har- 

 grove's History of Knareshoroiigh, published in 

 1809, when he was still living, and in the ninety- 

 third year of his age. As far as I know, the epi- 

 taph is not in print ; and I will transcribe it after 

 the biographical particulars, for they are inter- 

 esting, and seem worthy of preservation in the 

 columns of " N. & Q." : — 



" John Melcalf was born at Knaresborough in 1717. 

 He lo.st his sight when only four years old. Having 

 learned to play on the violin, he was accustomed in his 

 early years of manhood to attend as a musician at the 

 Queen's Hotel in Harrogate. He was the first person 

 who set up a wheel-carriage for conveying company to 

 and from the places of public resort in tliat neighbo|jr- 

 liood. In 1740, he engaged to serve as a musician in 

 Col. Thornton's volunteers, and was taken prisoner at 



Falkirk. On his release, ho returned to Knaresborough, 

 and began to travel as a common carrier between that 

 town and York ; and he often served as a guide in intri- 

 cate roads over the forest, during the night, or when the 

 paths were covered with snow ; and, still more extraor- 

 dinary, he would follow the chase either on foot or on 

 horseback, with the greatest avidity. The employment 

 he has followed for more than forty years past (adds my 

 authority) is one of the last to which we could suppose a 

 blind man would ever turn his attention ; it is that of 

 projecting and contracting for the making of highroads, 

 building bridges, houses, &c. W^ith no other assistance 

 than a long staff, he would ascend a precipitous hill or 

 explore a valley, and investigate the form, extent, and 

 situation of each. The plans which he designs, and the 

 estimates he makes, are done by a method peculiar to 

 himself." 



The monument states that he died 26th April, 

 1810, in the ninety-third year of his age, and the 

 following is the inscription : — 



" Here lies John Metcalf; one whose infant sight 

 Felt the dark pressure of an endless night : 

 Yet such the fervour of his dauntless mind — 

 His limbs full strung, his spirit unconfined — 

 That long ere yet life's bolder years began, 

 His sightless efforts mark'd the aspiring man. 

 Nor mark'd in vain : high deeds his manhood dar'd ; 

 And commerce, travel, both his ardour shar'd. 

 'Twas his a guide's unerring aid to lend ; 

 O'er trackless wastes to bid new roads extend ; 

 And when Rebellion rear'd her giant size, 

 'Twas his to burn with patriot enterprise ; 

 For parting wife and babes one pang to feel, 

 Then, welcome danger for his country's weal. 

 Reader ! like him, exert thy utmost talent given : 

 Reader, like him, adore the bounteous hand of Heaven !" 



Wm. Sidney Gibson. 

 Tynemouth. 



by and by. 



On reperusing my oft- thumbed Martin Chuz- 

 zlewit, I was amused to observe the varied mu- 

 tations this useful and well-understood little 

 adverb has been made to undergo in the space 

 of comparatively few pages. Of course we don't 

 stop to make the accomplished author amen- 

 able : the capricious compositor having evidently 

 been tempted in an arbitrary mood to brave the 

 cynic who delights to charge it on author, artist, 

 or actor, that he is ever " repeating himself," as if 

 he or they could constantly be laying aside iden- 

 tity, and, protean-like, continually being somebody 

 else. The synonymous transmutations alluded to 

 are as follow : b)/e and bye, by and by, by and 

 bye, bye-and-bye, and by-and-by. Now that I am 

 on this "repeating himself" theme, I recollect 

 there is an instance of it in dear old Izaak Wal- 

 ton's Angler. In chap. iv. he says : "And just so 

 does Sussex boast of several fish ; as, namely, a 

 Shelsey cockle, a Chichester lobster, an Arundel 

 mullet, and an Anerley trout ;" and in chap. viii. 

 the author borrows from himself the selfsame 

 words, doubtless forgetting to expunge one of the 

 paragraphs, which probably would have been the 



