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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"i S. IX. May 5. 'GO. 



tombstone since we have been in possession of 

 the rock, I do not think it likely it will be ever 

 disturbed by any of them for that purpose ; but if 

 it should so happen at a future period that the in- 

 scription becomes illegible, and that some future 

 heir of the family should seek for the resting- 

 place of his ancestors, he may be enabled to find 

 it by a reference to your volume of " N. & Q." of 

 the present year, which will no doubt be found in 

 the library at Gibraltar. So far your interesting 

 publication will serve as a record for future gene- 

 rations. 



Mr. Bbight and the British Lion (2 nd S. 

 ix. 179.)— The expression or saying ascribed to 

 Mr. Bright reminds one of the sarcastic language 

 of the old Jacobite Song, " Willie the Wag" : — 



" The tod rules o'er the liou, 



The midden's aboon the moon; 

 And Scotland maun cower and cringe 



To a fause and a foreign loon. 

 walyfu' fa' the piper 



That sells his wind sae dear, 

 And walyfu' fa' the time 

 Whan Willie the wag came here." 



G.N. 

 Essay on Taste : Faux (2 nd S. viii. 470.)— I 

 do not know who Faux was : the lines are trans- 

 lated from Valerius Flaccus : — 



" Me ut se mediae, per scuta virosque, carinas 

 Intulit; ardenti iEsonides retinacula ferro 

 Abscidit : haud aliter saltus, vastataque, pernix 

 Venator, cum lustra fugit, dominoque timentem 

 Urget equum, teneras complexus pectore tigres, 

 Quos astu rapuit pavido, dum sasvarelictis 

 Mater in adverso catulis venatur Amano." 



Argonaut, 1. i. v. 488. 

 This, I think, is the worst translation I ever 

 read, but it seems taken from the original, not 

 altered from another translator. Some know- 

 ledge of Latin is necessary to mistake astu for 

 hasta. I shall be glad to know how the passage 

 stands in Nicolas Whyte's version, which I have 

 not been able to find in the British Museum. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Pte Wype (2 nd S. ix. 65. 133.) — These birds 

 are called in Scotland pease-weeps, or " jaughitts," 

 "jchaughetts," or " jeuchit." There was, and pos- 

 sibly still is, a very primitive hostelrie on the top 

 of the " Gleniffer Braes " in Renfrewshire, called 

 the Pease-weep, showing that the bird was a con- 

 stant frequenter of that high region. And I can 

 assure your correspondent ?, that the pease-weeps 

 do not always prefer wet or fenny ground, as I 

 have gathered scores of their eggs on the 'Iriest 

 and best cultivated land in the kingdom. In 

 Scotland they collect in large flocks at the end of 

 autumn and migrate. I have noted their rendez- 

 vous. Their eggs are said to be particularly 

 meretricious. S. Wmson. 



Glasgow. 



Peter Huguetan, Lord of Vrijhoeven (1" S. 

 x. 307. 394. ; 2 nd S. i. 140.) — 



" The executors of Pieter Huguetan's will were — Ber- 

 nard Joost Verstege, Burgomaster of Zutphen ; Cornelis 

 Clant, Bailiff (Baljuw), Judge (Schont), and Secretary 

 of the Lordship (Heerlijliheid) Vrijhoeven, and John 

 Newman Cousmaker, of Warinford, Merchant. 



"Ten of the existing schools for children of the Dutch 

 Reformed persuasion at Leydeu are still enjoying the be- 

 nefits of the testator's munificence, by drawing the re- 

 venue from the 100/. left to each of them in particular." 

 (See Montanus in the Navorscher, v. p. 287.) 



"Amongst the legacies bequeathed by Pieter Hugue- 

 tan of Vrijhoeven, I find one recorded of 500/., which he 

 had disposed of in favour of the Academy at Leyden. 

 This legacy, however, was the cause of a dispute between 

 the curators of the said Academy and the members of the 

 Academical Senate, each of which corporate bodies 

 deemed itself entitled to taking the pounds in. By ami- 

 cable arrangement half of the bequest was assigned to 

 the Senate, by whom this money was applied in behalf of 

 the lately erected Fund for the Widows and Children of 

 Leyden Professors, whilst, later, the curators resigned 

 their portion to the same purpose." See Professor Siegen- 

 heek, Geschiedenis der Leidsche Hoogeschool, vol. i. p. 415., 

 in the note, where this author calls Huguetan " a lettered 

 Englishman." (V. D. N. in the Navorscher, vi. p. 22.) 



L. J. (Navorscher, vi. p. 80.) remembers the 

 following doggrel, as having been current in his 

 youth : — 



" Wie stelen wil, wie stelen kan, 

 Die stele zoo als Huguetan." 

 (Whoever wants to steal, if steal he can, 

 Should steal as well as Peter Huguetan.) 



My informant prudently doubts the inference 

 to be drawn from a literal interpretation of the 

 above, which I hope is not more true than its 

 morals are good. 



"Vrijhoeven is a Lordship in South Holland, and now 

 (1855) belongs to Jonkheer D. van Lockhorst of Rotter- 

 dam." (W. M. Z., /. /. pp. 287, 288.) 



J. H. van Lennef. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Clerical M.P.'s (2 ud S. ix. 124. 232.)— Besides 

 the late Mr. Henry Drummond, three other names 

 of dissenting ministers may be mentioned who have 

 had seats in Parliament : — Thomas Read Kemp, 

 formerly M.P. for Lewes, minister of a congrega- 

 tion at Brighton ; William Johnson Fox, now 

 M.P. for Oldbam, minister of South Place Chapel, 

 Finsbury ; and Edward Miall, late M.P. for Roch- 

 dale, and formerly an Independent minister. 



J. R. W. 



The Termination "th" (2 nd S. ix. 244.) — 

 Home Tooke having established in the minds of 

 many etymologists that this terminal of the noun 

 is taken from the third person singular of the 

 verb, it is desirable that its derivation should be 

 traced. To begin with German, we have bath 

 bad, death tod, heath heide, sheath scheide, oath 

 eid, path pfad, swath schivade, seeth sei'len, smith 

 schmid, both beyde, cloth hleide, booth bude, earth 

 erde, hearth heerd, north noi-d, mouth round, south 



