ini S. VI. 147., Oct. 23. '.58.] 



NOTES AND QUERrES. 



333 



ciently Amen. The place from which the gospel 

 was sung was alwaj's elevated, and called some- 

 times the jube, sometimes pvlpitim, analogium, 

 ambon, or simply gradus. The gospel was for- 

 merly sung on the south side, where the men 

 stood. See Amalarius, De Off., lib. iii. c. 2., as 

 referred to by Sir. Maskell in his Ancient Liturgy 

 of the Church of England, p. 46. note ; where he 

 also observes that an old Ordo Romanus takes it 

 for granted that on entering a church one would 

 have the men on the right hand, or south side, and 

 the women on the north. F. C. H. 



JEST BOOKS. 



(2"" S. vi. 206. 272.) 



Subjoined is a list of Jest Books in my posses- 

 sion, not included in R. S. Q.'s list. They are all ! 

 in prose, and fall within the proper denomination 

 of Jest Books : — 



Amusements, Serious and Comical, or a New Collection 

 of Bon Mots, Keen Jests, Ingenious Thoughts, Pleasant 

 Tales and Comical Adventures, 8vo., Lond., 1719. 



British Jester, or Wit's Companion, by Marcus Merry, 

 Esq., 18mo., Lond., 1797. 



The Budget of Mirth, frontisp., 12mo., Dublin, 1804. 



The Button Makers' Jests, by George King of St. 

 James's, Button Maker, 12mo., Lond., n. d. 



The Cabinet of Mirth or Comic Medley, 12mo., Lond., 

 n. d. 



The Care Killer or Bets3' Dawson's Drolleries, frontisp., 

 12mo., Lond., n. d. 



The Care Killer, or a Happy Knack of Spending an 

 Evening without Companj-, by Jonathan Jolly, Esq., 

 Fellow of the Eoyal Society of Attic Wits, 12rao. Lond., 

 1807. 



Colman's Jests, frontisp., 12mo., Lond., n. d. 



The Comical Jester, or Laughable Companion, frontisp., 

 12mo., Lond., 1808. 



The Convivial Jester, or Bane of Melancholy, frontisp., 

 12mo., Lond., 1800. 



The Court of Momus, being a Choice Collection of Ori- 

 ginal Jests, frontisp., 12mo., Lond., n. d. 



Cut and Come again, or Humorous Bar Anecdotes, a 

 Specimen of Irish Originalitv and Curren-t Wit, 12mo., 

 Dublin, 1812 and 1818. 



Tlie Droll Miscellany, or Book of Fun, by Ferdinando 

 Fnnnv, Esq., M. M., and Professor of Drollery, 12mo., 

 Dublin, 1760. 



England's Genius, or Wit Triumphant, 8vo. Lond.. 

 1734. 



Fragmenta Aulica, or Court and State Jests in Noble 

 Drollery, by T. S. Gent., frontisp., 12mo., Lond., 1662. 



Tlie Fun Box broken Open, or Joke upon Joke, 12mo., 

 Lond. and York, n. d. 



The Funny Jester, by Sir Toby Tickleside, Alderman 

 and Citizen of Coraus'S Court, 8vo., Gainsborough, 1791. 



Garrick's Jests, frontisp., r2mo., Lond., n. d. 



The Infant Rosciu.s, or New Museum of Wit, 12mo., 

 Lond., 1805. 



Irish Bulls selected by that Tight Lad Teddy Och 

 Flannigen, portrait, 12mo., Lond., n. d. 



Irish Humourist, or Essential Spirit of Laughter, Part 

 1., 12nio., Belfu.st, n. d. 



Joe Miller's Pickwick Je.st Book, 12mo., Otlc}', n. d. 



Jokes of the Cambridge Coffee Hou.ses in the 17th 



Centurv, by James Orchard Halliwell, 12mo., Cambridge, 

 1842. ■ 



The Jolly Sailor's Jester, or British Tar's Companion, 

 frontisp., 8vo., South wark, 1795. '• 



The Laird of Logan, 12mo., Glasgow, 1841. 



Laugh and be Pat, or an Antidote against Melancholy, 

 7th edition, 12mo., Edinburgh, 1764 



Laugh and be Fat, or the Wit's Companion, 12mo., 

 Dublin, 1822. 



Laugh and Grow Fat, or the Comical Budget of Wit, 

 12mo., Falkirk, 1827 [a different work from that in R. S. 

 Q:slist.'\ 



Literary Pills to dispel Melancholy, or Momns's Cabi- 

 net of Mirth, 18mo., Lond., 1811. 



Magazine of Wit, 12mo., Dublin, 1808. 



The New British Universal Jester, or the Wit's Com- 

 panion, frontisp., 8vo., Lond., 1788. 



The New Joe Miller, or Jester's Companion, 12mo., 

 York, n. d. 



The Nut Cracker, and every Nut a Sound Kernel, by 

 Timothy Tickle, Esq., Chief Joker to the God of Laugh- 

 ter, 12mo., Lond., 1804. 



OUa Podrida from the Hull Advertizer, 12mo., Hull, 

 n. d. 



The Pickwick Treasury of Wit, or Joe Miller's Jest 

 Book, 12mo., Lond , 1845. 



Pills to Purge Melancholy', by J. Grin, Esq., portrait, 

 12mo., Dublin, n. d. 



The Pleasing Jester, or Blerry Companion, 12mo., 

 Lond., 1776. 



Polly Peachum's Jests, 8vo., Lond., 1728. 



Quick's Whim, or the Merry Medley, 12mo., Lond. 

 1791. 



The Rational Humourist, frontisp., 8vo., Beverley, 1815. 



Sprightly Jester, or Coffee House Companion, 18mo., 

 Lond., n. d. 



Tegg's Prime Jest Book, Bang up to the Mark, 12mo., 

 Lond., n. d. 



Tim Grin's Jests, or the New London Joker, 3rd edition, 

 frontisp., 8vo., Lond. 1788. 



Town and Country Jester, 12mo., Lond., n. d. 



Universal Jester, by Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq., frontisp. 

 12mo., Lond., n, d. 



Wit's Library, frontisp., 12mo., Derbj', n. d. 



Yankee Notions, or American Joe Miller, 12mo., Glas- 

 gow, 1842. 



Yorick's Budget, or Repository of Wit, frontisp., 12mo., 

 Newcastle-on-Tj'ne, 1810. 



I may mention that of a few of the foregoing I 

 have duplicate copies, which I shall be pleased to 

 exchange for others with any collector who may 

 also have any duplicates. Sumom. 



PHYSICIANS FEES. 



(2"=' S. v. 495.) 



In the old days of the Egyptians, when a man was 

 sick, his relatives used to inquire among neighbours 

 and persons passing near the house, if they knew 

 of any remedy for the complaint under which the 

 patient laboured. An " acknowledgment " for 

 valuable counsel rendered was, I believe, i}iQ origin 

 of the fee ; touching which X. Y. makes a query 

 which you have not answered. The sovereigns of 

 heathen times paid their pli3'sicians by the year, 

 from 2000/. to 4000/. sterling. This did not pre- 



