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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. IX. April 7. '60. 



tery of a tanner, &c.' This is different from any 

 modern acceptation of the word." J. Y. 



English Mercantile History : the Levant- 

 — There are many interesting facts relating to 

 English intercourse with the Levant which have 

 to be collected before the history of the indi- 

 viduals and events can be written, and for which 

 the pages of " N. & Q." afford a convenient place 

 of assemblage, as they have already proved valu- 

 able garners for various branches of history. 



In the Visitation of Yorkshire, by Dugdale, pub- 

 lished by the Surtees Society, is to be found — 



" Marmaduke VVy vill, 1665, ' merchant in Scio,' second 

 son of Sir Marmaduke Wjvill." 



It is worthy of note that in those pedigrees 

 cadets were found entered as " merchants." 



Scio was two centuries ago, as now, a great 

 centre of the trading Greeks. It is from this 

 island that the great Greek firms of London, the 

 Rallis, &c, have of late years spread. 



In Arundell's Seven Churches are to be found 

 materials for a list of chaplains of Smyrna and 

 other factories, obtained from the Smyrna re- 

 cords. 



The Rev. Jno. Greaves, who went to the East 

 in 1638 to purchase MSS. for Archbishop Laud, 

 affords in his Miscellaneous Works (London, 1737) 

 a few names. In 1638, Sir Wm. Paston was at 

 Cairo ; in that year Mr. Greaves sent instruments 

 to Bagdad, Smyrna, and Alexandria for observing 

 an eclipse of the moon in December. In 1649 

 Mr. Pecket, jun., an English merchant at Con- 

 stantinople known to Mr. Greaves in 1638, died 

 in that city. The English ambassador's secre- 

 tary at Constantinople in 1638 was Dominico, a 

 Greek. Santo Sagherri appears to have been 

 centred at Cairo. 



Pietro della Valle, 1614, speaks of English 

 passengers to Constantinople in the ship from 

 Venice, and of the establishment of the English 

 embassy there. Hyde Clarke. 



Smyrna. 



Longevity. — 



" Midhurst, a town in Sussex, containing only 140 

 houses and cottages, has at present 78 inhabitants, male 

 and female, whose ages are above 70. Of this number, 

 32 are 80 and upwards, and 5 arc between 90 and 100. 

 What is also remarkable is, that of all the 78 persons 

 there are only 4 who do not follow their ordinary busi- 

 ness or occupations." — Dublin Chronicle, 2nd Dec. 1788. 



Ablba. 



The Feminine Affix " Ess." — 



" Our English affix ess, is, I believe, confined either to 

 words derived from the Latin, as actress, directress, &c, 

 or from the French, as mistress, duchess, and the like." — 

 Coleridge, Satyrane's Letters, ii. 



This is a mistake : e. g. semstress (and semster) 

 from seam, which is from the A.-S. 



Waiteress is not so clear a case, though it is 

 nearer to German than French. By-the-bye De 



Quincey {Autobiographic Sketches, 1854, vol. ii. 

 p. 188.) has this remarkable note on the word 

 waiter : — 



" Social changes in London, by introducing females 

 very extensively into the office (once monopolized by 

 men) of attending the visitors at the tables of eating- 

 houses, have introduced a corresponding new word, viz. 

 waitress ! " 



The fact is, it is no novelty at all. See Wic- 

 lif's Bible, Jeremiah, ix. 17. ' Clammild. 



Athenaeum Club. 



Lord Hailes. — Lord Hailes was punctilious 

 as to propriety of expression, especially injudicial 

 proceedings ; and hence, in a jeu (V esprit of James 

 Boswell's, well known in its day, called the 

 " Court of Session Garland," in which the Judges 

 then on the Bench are satirised, it is said : 



" ' To judge in this case,' says Hailes, ' I dont pretend. 

 For justice I see wants the e at the end.' " 



I have been lately shown a copy of a note of 

 his Lordship's in a cause which depended before 

 him. It is in the following terms, and seems to 

 indicate that the joke of Boswell was not much 

 misapplied : — 



" The Lord Ordinary, observing that in the writing 

 entitled, 'Answers for Messrs. Pringle & Hamilton,' and 

 in the writing entitled, 'Answers for the Creditors of 

 Nathaniel Agnew,' an innovation is attempted to be in- 

 troduced into the Scottish Alphabet by the use of the 

 letter 'z' instead of 's,' appoints the said writings to be 

 withdrawn, and to be copied over and replaced in com- 

 mon orthography; in respect that this innovation if 

 yielded to, ma}' in the course of a few years produce a 

 total change in the form of letters, and render the writing 

 of one age unintelligible to another." 



G. 



Edinburgh. 



Rev. D. H. TJrqtjhart. — Wanted some parti- 

 culars of this gentleman, who is the translator of 

 Anacreon. Is he the author of other poetical 

 works published or in MS. ? R. Lnglis. 



Daniel Coxe. — Can you favour me with any 

 information respecting Daniel Coxe, author of A 

 Description of the English Province of Carolana, 

 London, 1741. The author speaks of his father 

 being " the present proprietor of the province," 

 but does not say how it came into his possession. 

 Is it known how long it was held by the family, 

 and where, in England, they were originally set- 

 tled ? C. J. Robinson. 



Latin Versions of the Book of Common 

 Prayer. — Where can I find any tolerably com- 

 plete account of the various Latin versions of the 

 English Prayer Book ? B. H. C. 



Heraldic Query. — Can any one of your 

 heraldic correspondents in England or on the Con- 

 tinent inform me what was the crest of the Seig- 



