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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2» d S. IX. Feb. 18. '60. 



tandis que des trompettes et des cors-de-chasse fassoient 

 un tintaraarre digne d'une pareille scene." — Pieces inti- 

 ressantes et peu connues, pour servir a VHistoire. Brux- 

 elles, 1781, i. 168. 



The work above cited is in four volumes. Pages 

 108. to 236. of the first are occupied by a collec- 

 tion of anecdotes, " tirees du Manuscrit originel 

 d'un Homme de Lettres tres-instruit." Nearly all 

 are of the time of Louis XIV. and the Regent. 

 That of the " Poisson d' Avril " occurs between 

 two of Dubois. Probably there are different ver- 

 sions of the same story, as the square-book with 

 wood-cuts, and the mention of " Howlglass," indi- 

 cate an earlier time than that of the Regent. 



Fitzhopkins. 



Garrick Club. 



Calcuith (2 nd S. viii. 205.) — Calcuith, Cel- 

 ehyth, Cercehede, Chelched, and Chalkhythe were 

 names of Chelsea. Sir Thomas More, who re- 

 sided there, writes Chelcith. The word means 

 chalk-harbour, as Lambeth = Loamhithe means 

 clay-harbour, and Rotherhythe red-harbour, all 

 in the port of London. 



The objection that Chelsea was not " in the 

 kingdom of Mercia" is met by the fact that in 

 752 Kent was subject to Mercia. Ofia defeated 

 the Kentish men in 77G at Ottford. {Penny Cyc. 

 art. Kent, p. 193.) T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



The Load of Mischief (2" d S. ix. 90.) —The 

 curious in such matters need not go so far as 

 Norwich to look for the sign of the " Man laden 

 with Mischief:" it may be seen any day depicted 

 over the door of a publichouse on the south side 

 of Oxford Street, near Tottenham Court Road. 



J. O. 



This sign used to swing some twelve or fifteen 

 years ago in all the glory that brilliant colour and 

 varnish could give it before a pothouse about a 

 mile from Cambridge on the Madingley Road, to 

 the best of my recollection. The neighbourhood 

 of Cambridge was in those days very rich in the 

 sign department. J. Eastwood. 



"Round about our Coal Fire" (2 nd S. ix. 54.) 

 — It appears that the earliest edition of this pam- 

 phlet with a date is the fourth, 1784 (see 2"' 1 S. 

 viii. 481.). Mr. Rates describes the third, which 

 is without date. I have a copy of an edition 

 which I must assume to be the first, because the 

 title gives no indication of its being of any later 

 issue. It has a bastard title " Round about our C oal- 

 Fire ; or, Christinas Entertainments" on the verso 

 of which is the prologue, nearly as given by Dr. 

 Rimbault. Then follows the full title, identical 

 with that given by Mr. Bates, omitting only the 

 words "The Third Edition," with woodcut of a 

 Christmas feast, occupying nearly half the page. 

 Next comes the Dedication to Mr. Lunn, two 

 leaves, and signed only " Yours, &c." B., six ; C. 



and D, eights ; E, four, including a leaf of adver- 

 tisements. The last numbered page is 48, but the 

 Epilogue carries the work two pages farther. 

 It would appear, therefore, that my copy and Mr. 

 Bates's, though of different editions, are alike in 

 contents. Dr. Rimbault's copy, containing "great 

 additions," has two chapters more than mine. The 

 absence of the " Prologue " from Mr. Bates's 

 copy may arise from its wanting the half-title. 



R. S. Q. 



"Lord Bacon's Skull" (2 nd S. viii. 354.) — 

 Having occasion some time ago to take a stroll 

 to St. Michael's church in this town, in order to 

 show it to a friend, while he was looking at the 

 monument of Lord Bacon I engaged myself in 

 conversation with the organist of the church, 

 whose father has been for many years sexton of 

 the parish. Remembering the story quoted from 

 Fuller in " N. & Q." I mentioned it to him, and 

 he informed me in turn that on the occasion of the 

 interment of the last Lord Verulam, whose family 

 vault is situated immediately below the monu- 

 ment of Lord Bacon, the opportunity was taken 

 to make a search for any trace of the great philo- 

 sopher's remains. I understood my informant to 

 say that a partition wall was pulled down, and the 

 search extended into the part of the vault im- 

 mediately under the monument, but no such re- 

 mains were found ; nor, in fact, could they find 

 anything to show that Lord Bacon's ashes, coffin, 

 or anything belonging to him were at that time 

 deposited in St. Michael's church. Can it be pos- 

 sible that Fuller's story was true, and can it far- 

 ther be possible that not only Bacon's skull, but 

 that his, whole remains, have been removed sur- 

 reptitiously from the place in which they were 

 once laid ? 



What proof is there that they were ever placed 

 in St. Michael's church at all beyond the mere 

 fact of Lord Bacon's own desire, which cannot be 

 called a proof of its being complied with ? At 

 the end of his History of Life and Death, Bacon 

 mentions that " Tithon " was turned into a grass- 

 hopper, who knows but that the philosopher him- 

 self has undergone some such change, and taken 

 the opportunity to hop out of his tomb ? 



C. le Poer Kennedy. 



St. Albans. 



Judge's Black Cap (2 nd S. viii. 130. 193. 238. 

 406.) — " In the island of Jersey, when sentence 

 of death is passed, the bailiff or his lieutenant and 

 the jurats, all of whom were before uncovered, put 

 on their hats, and the criminal kneels to receive his 

 doom. This is a very solemn and impressive 

 scene." (Vide Hist, of Jersey, 8vo. 1816.) 



Cl. Hopper. 



The Revolt of the Bees (2 nd S. ix. 56.) — 

 This little work, first published about 1820, and a 

 fourth edition in " The Phoenix Library " (Gil- 



