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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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expense attending the above-mentioned works, rednced 

 to slender circumstances, he has, for some years, been 

 exposed to misfortunes, above which the encouragement 

 due to his works would easily have raised him. But the 

 remembrance of his qualifications and the many hardships 

 under which he was publicly known to labour, will serve 

 to show succeeding generations. There was a time when 

 Italian singers, by English contributions, were favoured 

 with 5 or 6000/. per annum, and a gentleman who by more 

 than twenty years' study gave the world a book of incon- 

 ceivable labour and universal use, was suffered to fall a 

 victim to his attempts to serve mankind I " 



Anon. 



Henry Lord Power f2" d S. viii. 378. 518.) — 

 I am much obliged to Mr. C. Le Poer Ken- 

 nedy for his communication in reply to my 

 Query ; but I think it only right to inform him, 

 that Henry Lord Power, who was buried at St. 

 Matthew's, Ringsend, 6th May, 1742, is not to be 

 confounded with the Hon. Richard Power, one of 

 the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, 

 who committed suicide near Ringsend, 2nd Fe- 

 bruary, 1794. Mr. D' Alton's communication is 

 very satisfactory, and will be duly acknowledged 

 in Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown 

 and Doniujbrook, in (he Count)/ of Dublin. 



Aehba. 



This Day Eight Days (2" d S. viii. 531.) — 

 This expression is not confined to Ireland, for I 

 have heard it in the mouths of the common people 

 in Scotland. J. Macray. 



This peculiar mode of expression must doubt- 

 less come from the French aviourd'hui en huit. 



w. 



Refreshment for Clergymen. — " N. & Q." 

 (2 nd S. ix. 24.) contains an extract from the 

 parish books of Havering-atte-Bower, directing an 

 allowance to the clergyman of the parish of a pint 

 of sack during the winter season on a Sunday. 

 In the vestry book of the parish of Preston, under 

 date the 19th April, 1731, it is ordered that "two 

 bottles of wine be allowed any strange clergyman 

 that shall at anytime preach." A rather liberal 

 allowance, will no doubt be the exclamation. I 

 would ask, was the "bottle of wine" then the 

 quantity we now consider a " bottle." In the 

 churchwardens' accounts, a few years later, I find 

 frequent payments for "red port" at the rate of 

 6s. a gallon. Was the " retl port" of that day 

 the Portuguese wine we now axWportf 



Wm. Dobson. 



Preston. 



Lever (2 nd S. viii. 540.) — What in the world 

 can have induced Mr. J. H. P., quoted by your 

 correspondent E. A. B., to put into print that lever 

 meant a cormorant, I cannot possibly conceive. 

 The- arms of Liverpool are a bird with a sprig of 

 something hoi den in its bill, and I can assure him 

 it is the treed, and not the bird, which is the lever. 

 Motto : " Deus nobis bree otia fecit." If he calls 

 upon me to eat my words, though I decline doing 



that, I can assure him I have eaten the lever. 

 It is to be met with at the tables of the merchants 

 in Liverpool, and if Mr. J. H. P. has any friend 

 resident there, he no doubt would forward to him 

 a pot, for his particular gratification. 



. A Sea Gull. 



"Modern Slang," etc. (2 nd S. viii. 491.) — I 

 omitted to say in my mention of the slang word 

 Bags as applied to trousers, that it is probably of 

 University origin, and is borrowed from " the 

 variegated bags " of Euripides — rubs &v\d.icovs 

 robs TroiitiAous. (Cyclops, 182.) Cuthbert Bede. 



" The Load of Mischief " (2 nd S. viii. 496.) 

 — Unless very lately removed, the sign of "The 

 Man laden with Mischief" still exists in Norwich. 

 In addition to the drunken wife, the monkey and 

 the magpie as described by X. Y., the man is 

 bound to the woman by a chain securely fastened 

 by a padlock. This little addition to the items 

 mentioned by X. Y. will perhaps render unneces- 

 sary any farther explanation. However ungallant, 

 the moaning seems sufficiently clear. D. G. 



Bazels of Baize (2 nd S. ix. 25.) — Your cor- 

 respondent Mr. Pisiiey Thompson might have 

 saved himself mueh trouble and useless ety- 

 mological discussion, if he had looked into the 

 MS. from which Malcolm quoted, but which he 

 could not read. Stowe made his r just like 0,2, 

 and the mysterious " bazels of baize " are nothing 

 more nor less than " barrels of beer," as may be 

 verified by any one who will turn to Stowe's 

 original paper in MS. Harl. 376. fol. 4., where it is 

 plain enough " bat ells of beare." The name of 

 Turnar Malcolm has metamorphosed into the 

 strange one of" Briznau ;" and no doubt there are 

 plenty more such blunders. I must observe that 

 Malcolm does not give any reference to this MS., 

 but a little trouble would have found it. This 

 instance is only one more proof (among many) of 

 the inutility of relying on a printed text, without 

 being assured of its accuracy. • Zo. 



Samuel Daniel (2 nd S. viii. 204.)— Your 

 correspondent denies that Samuel Daniel was a 

 Somersetshire man born, on the strength of the 

 inscription on the tablet at Beckington, which, 

 however, gives no hint on the subject, either 

 one way or the other. As it is not that inscrip- 

 tion, to what authority does your correspondent 

 refer ? G. II. K. . 



Mince Pies (2 nd S. viii. 488.) — In farther il- 

 lustration of the religious idea connected with 

 the above Christmas dish, I quote The Connois- 

 seur for Thursday, December 26, 1754 : — 



" These good people would indeed look upon the ab- 

 sence of mince pies as the highest violation of Christmas; 

 and have remarked with concern the disregard that has 

 been shown of late years to that old English repast ; for 

 this excellent British Olio is as essential to Christmas 



