2 ai S. IX. Feb. 4. 'GO.] 



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5,000?., if I remember rightly — one day quietly 

 intimated to his master his desire to leave his ser- 

 vice for a time, in order (for so I think the story 

 ran) to gratify a life-long wish of living like a 

 "entleman for at least one or two years, and 

 who, at the expiration of that period, having run 

 through the whole of the money in the interval, 

 actually again presented himself at the Priory, 

 desiring to be reinstated in his old place ; which 

 (he being a valuable servant) was accordingly 

 done ; and in that humble capacity, occasionally 

 waiting upon the narrator of the anecdote, he 

 afterwards contentedly remained, it is said, for 

 many years. Pi. W. 



Athenneuin, Pall Mall. 



[The circumstance will be found narrated in The Percy 

 Anecdotes, in the volume entitled " Eccentricity," p. 25.] 



Monkey. — Is this word to be derived from 

 the Dutch or Flemish mauneke, a little man, a 

 man in miniature ? J. H. vax Lennep. 



[The derivation suggested by our correspondent is 

 supported, not only by French and German, but by some 

 analogies of our own language. Ikey is Utile Isaac, Sukey 

 is little Sue; so monkey, little man. The same law of 

 etymology which applies to monkey may be extended to 

 donkey. Here don is dun (allusive to colour) ; whence 

 donkey (affectionately), little dun. The ass bears in se- 

 veral languages a name referring to his colour, dun or 

 russet. Heb. chamor (red) ; Sp. and Port, burro, from Gr. 

 7rvpp6s (red). From this derivation of donkey a learned 

 lady of our acquaintance always pronounced the word 

 dunkey (so as to rhyme with monkey). Monkej', however, 

 may be deri% r ed from mono, f. mono, the common name in 

 Sp. for a monkey, — or from the Port. macaco.] 



Samuel Bates. — Can any of your readers 

 oblige me by the information where I may gain 

 any particulars of the life of Samuel Bayes, vicar 

 of Grendon in Northamptonshire. In 1662 he 

 was living privately at Manchester, and there 

 died. In what year, and where buried ? 



C. J. D. Ingledew. 

 Northallerton. 



[The Rev. Samuel Bayes was a native of Yorkshire, 

 and received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 He held for some years the living of Grendon in North- 

 amptonshire, which he lost at the Restoration ; and lie 

 seems afterwards to have had another living in Derby- 

 shire, hut was obliged to quit that also upon the passing 

 of the Bartholomew Act in 1662. Upon his being silenced 

 he retired to Manchester, "where he died many years 

 since," says Baxter. Vide < 'alamy's Account, p. 4'J6., and 

 Continuation, p. 643.] 



Crinoline : Plon-Plox, etc. — Would it not 

 be well to save the time and ti'oublc of future 

 philologists by recording the origin of such mo- 

 dem words as the above ? Somebody must know 

 the exact origin of "crinoline" — a word appar- 

 ently very modern, and will perhaps inform those 

 less enlightened. "Plon-Plon" is a nickname 

 BOW very commonly used for a Prince of the 

 Bonaparte family, but not one in a hundred knows 

 its origin or meaning. As several correspondents 



explained " Bomba," perhaps some one will ex- 

 plain this. Este. 

 [ Crinoline is properly a stuff made of crin, or horse- 

 hair, " e'toffe de crin." The crin was mixed with black 

 thread. — Plon-plon is said to have been originally craint 

 plomb, and gradually changed to plan plon for the sake of 

 euphony. It was originally applied to the Prince in 

 question during the Crimean war, for reasons sufficiently 

 obvious.] 



Neck Verse, etc. — In the Penitent Pilgrim, 

 1641, attributed to R. Brathwaite, chap. 18., it 

 is thus referred to : " Should I with the poor 

 condemned prisoner demand my book." Bailey, 

 Diet., vol. ii., describes the process thus : " The 

 prisoner is set to read a verse or two in a Latin 

 book [Bible] in a Gothick black character, com- 

 monly called a neck verse." Can any one point 

 out what verse is commonly called a neck verse f 

 It is drolly alluded to in Gay's What-vVye call 

 it ? a farce where a man about to be shot reads 

 part of the title to the Pilgrim's Progress as his 

 neck verse. In the same interesting little volume 

 by Brathwaite, chap, will,, the author, among 

 other enjoyments, mentions " odoriferous soots to 

 cheer thy smell " Can this mean sweets ? The 

 word is strangely used by Chaucer and Spencer. 



In an hour glass, what term is used for the 

 small opening that allows the sand to escape from 

 the upper to the lower department, called by 

 Brathwaite the " C'revit of thine hour-glass ? " 



George Offok. 



[The verse read by a malefactor, to entitle him to 

 benefit of clergy, was generally the first verse of the 51st 

 Psalm, " Miserere mei, Deus." See the examples in 

 Nares's Glossary, under " Neck-verse, and "Miserere." 

 Soote is sweet ; used by Chaucer as sote : e. g. — 



" They dancen deftely, and singen soote, 

 In their merriment." 

 Spenser's Hobbinolt's Dittie, Sheph. Kalend., Apr. 111. 



We are not aware of any particular technical name 



for the aperture in the centre of the hour-glass, but it 

 would most probably be styled the neck.] 



Herald quoted by Leland. — In Shilton's 

 Battle of Stoke Field is quoted in extenso an ac- 

 count of the march of the army of Henry VII. 

 from Coventry to Nottingham, " from a journal 

 kept by a herald attached to the forces," and 

 " Leland" is given as the authority for it. I pre- 

 sume that Lcland's Collectanea must be the work 

 referred to, which I have not at present an op- 

 portunity of consulting. Is it known who was the 

 herald by whom these curious particulars were 

 recorded ? William Kelly. 



Leicester. 



[We have not been able to get a sight of Shilton's 

 Battle of Stoke Field; but the account of the progress of 

 Ilenrv VII. from Coventry to Nottingham is printed by 

 Leland {Collectanea, iv. 212—214., ed. 1770) from the 

 Cotton. MS. Julius, B. xir. pp. 20—27. From the intro- 

 iIih tury paragraph (omitted by Leland), we learn that 

 the King was accompanied by " John Rosse, Esq., and 



