2 od S. IX. Mar. 10. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



189 



versities a singular word has been invented to 

 imply ' pompous.' It is ' bumptious ;' a word that 

 sounds 'expressive enough, but of which it would 

 be very difficult to trace the derivation." Now, 

 if "bumptious" be indeed a piece of University 

 slanc — and it is certainly a word that fine hears 

 more frequently at College than elsewhere — and 

 if it be anything more than a corruption of 

 " pompous," may it not have been invented to 

 express the peculiar "cockiness" (to use a sy- 

 nonymous slang word) of the members of a Col- 

 lege whose boat has just " bumped" the one a-head 

 of her in the annual boat-races ? This suggestion 

 may seem absurd ; but I offer it in all good faith. 



Ache. 

 Is not gumptious a mere vulgarisation of the 

 Latin word compos ? I have frequently heard it 

 pronounced by illiterate people, gumpos. 



Carlisle. 



For some suggestions on the etymology of this 

 word, nnd of its synonym, "Rummelgumption," it 

 may be worth while to refer to Jamieson's Scottish 

 Dictionary. Pi. S. Q- 



Patroclus (2 nd S. viii. 129.) —The author, I 

 think, meant the Patrocles of Aristophanes, not 

 the Patroclus of Homer. The former might have 

 " daily sought llyssus' flowery brim," which was 

 quite out of the wav of the hitter: — 



" 'Ek ITaTpoK\eovs ep\OjLiae 

 *0? ovk cAovout' e£ orovwep eysVeTO." 



Philus, v. 84. 

 It is, however, noticeable that Achilles in his 

 prayer to Zeus on behalf of Patroclus expressly 

 mentions the dirty Selli of Dodona: — 



" ZeO, ava, AaiSoivale, nekatryiKe ttj\69i vaiwv 

 AuSujrT}; fj-e&eoiv 5vo"X€i/xe'poi/ aju^t 6e ZeAAol 

 Zoi t'aibvs' vtto(/)7Jtcu ariTrrorroSes, ^a/Aateurai." 



//. xvi 233. 



II. B. C. 



U. IT. Club. 



Holding up the Hand (2 nd S. ix. 72.) — At 

 the arraignment of the regicides, Thomas Harri- 

 son at first refused to hold up his hand till the 

 Lord Chief Baron, Judge Foster, and other judges 

 told him his duty in that particular, after which 

 he said I conceive it is but a formality, nnd there- 

 fore I'll do it. Ithuriel. 



Les Mysteres, &c. (2 nd S. ix. 144.)— Though 

 I cannot answer fully the queries of Fitzhopkins, 

 the following information may be acceptable to 

 him. The book about which he inquires, which I 

 have not seen, is ascribed to Bebescourt by Bar- 

 bier, No. 12,256, on the authority of a note in the 

 copy belonging to Moet, the French translator of 

 Bwedenborg's works. Querard, too, enters it 

 under Bebescourt, but gives no account of the 

 author, and I regret to say that 1 cannot supply 

 the deficiency. 



There teems to be no reason to question the 



fact that the work was printed in London. Wil- 

 liam Baker, a well-known printer, succeeded to 

 the business of Mr. Kippax, in Cullum street, and 

 immediately went into partnership with John 

 William Galabin. They subsequently removed 

 to Ingram Court, Fenchurch Street. The initial 

 " G" in both of the printers' names, of course, 

 means " Guillaume." Baker died in 1785, and an 

 account of him will be found in Nichols' Literary 

 Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 715. Galabin survived 

 till 1824, and a notice of him is inserted in the 

 Gentleman s Magazine for that year, Part ii., p. 

 283. Peter Elmsly was a highly respectable 

 bookseller in the Strand. He was the confidential 

 friend of Gibbon, and. was connected with most of 

 the leading literary men of his day. He died 3d 

 May, 1802. Some particulars of his life are given 

 in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, vi. 441. 



Samuel Halkett. 

 Advocates' Library. 



Calcuith (2 Dd S. viii. 205.)— The objection 

 that Chelsea is not in the Kingdom of Mercia is 

 still better met by the fact that the King of 

 Mercia granted a charter to the Monastery of 

 Thorney, now Westminster, (which is about three 

 miles from Chelsea), on the very year that the 

 synod was held. 



Though Chelsea is, as Mr. Bucktox shows 

 clearly, derived from chalk-hythe, I do not think 

 that it ever bore that exact name, the nearest ap- 

 proaches to it being in 1291, when it was called 

 chele-hethe, and in the manorial records for 

 Edward I. Chelchuthe. Even as late as 1692 it is 

 called Chelchey, a very slight transition from the 

 Chelchethe of four centuries before. 



From the total absence of chalk for miles 

 round, the chalk-harbour must have been only for 

 the reception of chalk. Chelsega. 



Nightingale and Thorn (1 st S. iv. 175. &c.) 



— In 1st S. xi. 293., an allusion is quoted from 



Britannia's Pastorals, by William Browne. The 



reference, not there given, is book ii. (1616) song 



iv., v. 253-257. Add, ibid, book i. (1613) song 



iii. v. 149. 



" Sad Philomela gan on the hawthorn sing. 

 ****** 



Each beast, each bird, and each day-toiling wight 



Received the comfort of the silent night ; 



Free from the gripes of sorrow every one, 



Except poor Philomel and Doridon : 



She on a thorn sings sweet, though sighing strains, 



He on a couch more soft, more sad complains." 



Ache. 



Hymn Book (2 nd S. ix. 102.) — The hymn- 

 book in the possession of C. D. II. is a collection 

 by John Edwards, many years minister of the 

 Gospel at Leeds, in Yorkshire, and is the first 

 edition. Preface and contents, pp. 24. ; hymns, 

 192 pp. Leeds, 1756. 



The same book (word for word) was also pub- 



