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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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exposing tbe designs and disloyalty of the Jaco- 

 bites, and a French invasion which had misgiven. 



Seeincr in these works so many names of old 

 Scotch commoners' families, and which have no 

 place of fame in the books of peerage or baron- 

 etage, it. has occurred to me that, by means of 

 " N & Q-," short notices of such families might 

 be put on record, so as to form the groundwork 

 for a book of old Scotch gentry, limiting the 

 notices to families in possession of their estates 

 prior to the Union, and not excluding families 

 which have since fallen out of sight, provided 

 they had previously been of old standing. Many 

 of these families, though not ennobled or titled, 

 were patriotic, and actively engaged in the poli- 

 tical and religious contests of their country ; and 

 a record of them might easily be preserved, were 

 their representatives to furnish short notices of 

 them such as I have indicated, including their 

 residences, arms, &c. &c. Many of them during 

 the last 150 years have gone out of sight; some 

 have been ennobled or made baronets by succes- 

 sion or through royal favour, such as Bailie of 

 Mellerston, now Earl of Haddington. Still many 

 remain with their old distinctive land titles, such 

 as Dundas of Dundas ; Campbell of Monzie ; 

 Crawford of Ardmillan ; Blair of Blair ; Forbes 

 of Culloden, and a host of other such. No doubt 

 vast numbers of them have disappeared by the 

 alienation of their estates since the Union. 



In the Scotch Acts published by Sir Thomas 

 Murray of Glendook, Clerk of Register, from the 

 commencement of the reign of James I. of Scot- 

 land, 1424 to 1681, there will be found a List of 

 Commissioners of Supply in all the Scotch coun- 

 ties in 1G67, containing the names of many of the 

 landed gentlemen, peers, baronets, and com- 

 moners at that time. 



Will any one inform me in what work I will 

 best find the Scotcli Acts of Parliament prior to 

 1424, and where those between 1681 and the 

 Union ? Scotos. 



" ULLORXA." 



This strange word occurs in the following pas- 

 sage of Timon of Athens, Act III. Sc. 4. : — 



" . . . . Go bid all my friends, 

 Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius, Utlorxa, all. 

 I'll once more feast the rascals." 



As Steevens sagaciously observes, neither Rome 

 nor Athens knew the word ; and as we may safely 

 say the same of England, the chances are that it is 

 the coinage of the printer. Our business, then, is 

 to try to find out the current coin which it has 

 superseded, and not, like the 2nd Folio and Mr. 

 Dyce, Alexander-like, cut the Gordian knot, by 

 ejecting it from the text. 



I think I have lately made it very probable 

 that on one occasion " Th' ambitious" had, under 



the printer's manipulation, become " Thank Eng- 

 land's;" and surely then, in the hands of the 

 same operator, " all o' them," " all of 'em," or "all 

 on 'em" — might have been converted into Ullorxa: 

 even the ductus literarum, on which Mr. Dyce lays 

 such stress, applying to one half of the word. 

 Read then : 



" . . . . Go bid all my friends, 

 Lucius, Lucullus, and Senipronius, all of 'em, all. — 

 I'll once more feast the rascals." 



Does not this repetition of all give great addi- 

 tional strength to the passage, and harmonise well 

 with Timon's mood ? 



There is another place in our wonderful poet 

 where the Gordian knot is, at least by Mr. Collier, 

 cut in a similar manner. In the Induction to 

 The Taming of the Shrew, Sly says : 



" No, not a denier. Go by S. Jeronimy," — 



where some say S. stands for saint, and others for 

 says ; while, as I said, Mr. Collier, sticking to his 

 famous Folio, manfully exterminates it. 



Now I, who am somewhat se?-us studiorum in 

 these matters, cannot, of course vie with the 

 " learned Thebans" who for years and years have 

 devoted their days and nights to the study of 

 Shakspeare and his contemporaries ; yet, to my 

 simple apprehension, it has always appeared that 

 S. stood quite naturally for Signior ; more espe- 

 cially as the allusion is to the Spanish Tragedy; 

 and that Sly's whole speech was as follows : — 



" No, not a deuier. Go by Signior Jeronimy. 

 Humph ! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee." 



The " humph" I have added from King Lear, 

 where the line is given in full. It seems wanted 

 to express the drunken grunt of the tinker, and 

 by pronouncing warm as a drawling dissyllable, 

 we have a complete verse : for, as I may show on 

 some future occasion, the whole of this play, like 

 Hamlet, All's Well, and so many others, is in 

 verse. Thos. Keightley. 



fldinnr &att&. 



Dr. Samukl Parr. — David Love, in an un- 

 published letter to George Chalmers, dated Feb. 

 26, 1788, gives the following account of Dr. Parr's 

 eccentricity : — 



" Your anecdote of Dr. Parr's examination and 

 preaching is curious and laughable. Some years 

 ago he was a curate and master of the Free School 

 at Colchester. From Colchester he went to Nor- 

 wich, where he was also master of the Free School. 

 He has now a living, or livings, in the diocese of 

 Bath, to which he was presented by one of his 

 Norwich pupils. I am told he is an everlasting 

 talker, and smokes tobacco morning, noon, and 

 night. Once at a visitation dinner in Colchester, 

 he had the impudence to call for his pipe ; but 

 Dr. Hamilton, the archdeacon, told him there 



