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pin), in 1850, has not been correctly attributed to 

 Robert Owen. It was written by John Minter 

 Morgan, of whom it is said, in a short Memoir 

 in the Genfs Mag. for April, 1855, p. 430., "His 

 projects were akin to those of Mr. Owen of 

 Lanark, with this important difference, that they 

 were professedly based upon Christianity." Mr. 

 Morgan was the author of several other works on 

 social subjects, published anonymously, one of 

 which is entitled Hampden in the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury ; or Colloquies on the Errors and Improve- 

 ment of Society, Lond. 1834, 8vo. 2 vols. He died 

 in Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London, Dec. 26, 

 1854. 'AKtevs. 



Dublin. 



Pye-Wype (2 nd S. ix. 65.) — Your correspon- 

 dent J. Sansom asks what is the meaning of Pye- 

 Wype, and why a field, a Rasin, is called Pye- 

 Wype Close ? On reference to Bewick's Birds, 

 vol. i. edit. 1804, p. 324., stands Pee-wit, Lap- 

 wing, Bastard Plover, or Te Wit (Yr'mgeWa. Vanel- 

 lus, Lin. (Le Vanneau, Buff.) Before the inclosure 

 of commons and the improved drainage of com- 

 mons these birds were very numerous, and at 

 the proper season afforded a rich harvest to the 

 naked-legged urchins of parishes where they con- 

 gregated, who gathered their eggs. They seemed to 

 assemble in flocks or families, and not interfere 

 with each other's fen or marsh. They are not ex- 

 clusively seen on fen or damp land, for I have ob- 

 served- them hovering over land considerably 

 elevated, and always near the same spot; but I 

 never knew them to deposit their eggs otherwise 

 than in a low wet situation. In East Norfolk the 

 lower classes oftener call them Pye Wypes or Pee- 

 wits, than Lapwings or Plovers. 



The above will sufficiently account for certain 

 inclosures being called Pye Wype Closes, as we 

 hear of Horse Close, Bull Close, Mill Close, &c. ; 

 and an instance I know of where a field near a 

 manor-house or hall is named Hoggarty Close, 

 evidently, in my opinion, meaning Hall-pate-way 

 Close, it being close to a road leading to the hall. 



? 



In Leicestershire this word Pye-Wype is the 

 common name for the Plover or Pee- Wit. 



Louisa Julia Norman. 

 3. King's Terrace, Southsey. 



The Lapwing (Tringa vanellus, Linnaeus) visits 

 Lincolnshire in large flocks, and is known there as 

 the Grey Plover, and more generally called the 

 Pewith or Pye- Wype. Skelton (vol. i. p. 64.) says 

 " With Puwyt, the Lapwing." 



In the Percy Household Booh, 15J2, the Plover 

 is called tin: Wypes, ami in Sweden the same bird 

 ■ called the Wypa at the present time. In the 

 United Stales the Lapwing is called the Pewit, 

 from iis cry; in Lincolnshire, the Chuse-it or 

 J'cn it, also from its cry. 



Pye-Wype is evidently derived from the old 

 name of the bird Wypes or Wypa ; the prefix pye 

 being no doubt a corruption of Skelton's pu. In 

 Lincolnshire, places where these birds congregate 

 and deposit their eggs*, are frequently called Pye- 

 Wype Hill, &c. Pishey Thompson. 



Eikon Basilike : Picture or Charles I. (2 nd 

 S. ix. 27.) — I have a fine copy of this book so 

 solemn to be read — " London printed by 7?. 

 Norton for Richard Boyston, Bookseller to His 

 most Sacred Majesty, mdclxxxi.," 8vo. pp. 256., 

 with fourteen preliminary pages including dedica- 

 tion to Charles II. — " Majesty in Misery or an Im- 

 ploration to the King of Kings," 1648,- &c. The 

 frontispiece is a picture of Charles I. well engraved 

 (R. White, sadp.), on comparing which with the 

 description given by B. II. C. cf the picture in 

 the church of " St. Botolph, Bishopsgate," I find it 

 to agree in its particulars, with the exception of 

 there being wanting the motto in Greek, Heb. xi. 

 38., and also the following mottoes in reference to 

 the ship (in the background to the left), " Immotu 

 Triumphans," "Ncscit Naufragium Virtus," " Crescit 

 sub pondereVirlus ;" but in addition, at the bottom, 

 of the plate, " Alij diutius Imperium tenuerunt 

 nemo tarn fortiter reliquit, Tacit. Histor. Lib. 2. 

 C. 47. p. 417." At p. 221. is a portrait of Charles 

 II., also very prettily engraved, with the inscrip- 

 tion "Bona agere et mala pati Regium est" (p. 

 1.). The bookseller, Royston, in consideration "of 

 the great Losses and Troubles he hath sustained 

 for his Faithfulness to Our Royal Father of blessed 

 Memory, and Ourself in the Printing and Pub- 

 lishing of many Messages and Papers of our said 

 Blessed Father, and more especially in the most 

 excellent Meditations and Soliloquies by the name 

 of EiKtai/ BacrtKiKri," &.c, appears to have held an ex- 

 clusive patent for the kingdom and the universities 

 from Charles II. for the printing and selling of 

 this book. Whether the edition be of any special 

 rarity and value I cannot say. G. N. 



Electric Telegraph (2 nd S. ix. 26. 73.) — 

 An inquirer wishes information respecting the 

 earliest attempts in this country to transmit sig- 

 nals by electricity. A complete working tele- 

 graph is described in a pamphlet entitled, De- 

 scriptions cf an Electrical Telegraph, and of some 

 other Electrical Apparatus, by Francis Ronalds, 

 1823. E. R. 



Lord Bolingbroke's House at Battersea 

 (2 nd S. ix. 37.)— The walls of Pope's room, other- 

 wise the "ceclar" or "round" room, may still be 

 seen from the road. They, however, now support 

 a new roof, and can only be distinguished from 

 the rest of the building by their circular form. 



ClIELSEGA. 



* Known in London as the Plover egg, and said to bo 

 particularly nutritious. 



* 



