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own house to that of her "dear boy George," 

 her son-in-law, or of the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer having in a fit of enthusiasm re- 

 solved on forthwith trying a repeal of the income- 

 tax, "Hech, Sirs, wha wad a thocht it put asneck 

 i' the kettle crook after that," is oftentimes given 

 utterance to. I can vouch for the saying being 

 one in common use. Cnn any of the correspondents 

 of the ubiquitous " N. & Q." inform me why a 

 phrase so quaint should have been adopted, and 

 why the " kettle crook " should be thus selected 

 of all things in the world as a suitable record for 

 remarkable events. In times of change and im- 

 provement, such as the present, when indeed all 

 things threaten to become new, modern altera- 

 tions in architecture may very possibly leave the 

 " kettle crook " of our fathers amongst the things 

 that were. In the event of this proving the case, 

 and for the benefit of those persons not conversant 

 with matters such as the fireplaces of our cook- 

 houses and kitchens, I may mention that the 

 "kettle crook " is a piece of solid iron with a hook 

 at its end, fixed by the upper end to an iron bar 

 placed across the chimney-vent, and that sus^ 

 pended by are the bows (in northern dialect, bools) 

 on which are hung in their turn the metal pot, 

 saucepan, or whatever other utensil may be used 

 for the cooking of the food. K. 



Arbroath. 



Edward Basset, Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, B.A. 1698, M.A. 1704, rector of Horse- 

 heath 1709, LL.D. Com. Reg. 1728, rector of 

 Balsham, 1732; was living in 1733. Any subse- 

 quent notice of him is requested. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Stockdales the Publishers. — Perhaps some 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." can solve the Queries 

 propounded in the following extracts from an in- 

 teresting article on the early literary history of 

 Shelley, entitled " Shelley in Pall Mall," which 

 appears in Macmillaus Magazine for the present 

 month : — 



" So extensive is the miscellaneous bibliographical and 

 literary lore lying tafely hidden away in unsuspected 

 quarters, that a line of inquiry in Notes and Queries 

 would almost certainly elicit some one able to tell us all 

 about the ancient publishing-house of the Stockdales — 

 father and son — to inform us when they commenced 

 business and where, and what were the principal books 

 they published, and in what yean, and how these specu- 

 lations respectively turned out? — and so trace the Pall 

 Mall chameleon through all its changes, from original 

 whiteness to the undeniable sable of the publication we 

 are about to notice." 



The publication referred to is a periodical is- 

 sued in 1827, under the title of Stockdales Budget 

 — a sort of Appendix to the more celebrated 

 Memoirs of Harriet Wilson, published by Stock- 

 dab- some years previously. 



Let me add that Stockdale the elder was the 

 publisher of Ayscough's useful Index to Shak- 



speare, which is described as " printed for John 

 Stockdale, opposite Burlington House, Picca- 

 dilly, 1790;" and that the younger Stockdale, 

 at the time of the publication of Harriet Wilson, 

 resided in the " Opera Colonnade." Did he not 

 figure in the celebrated privilege case between 

 the House of Commons and the Court of King's 

 Bench ? S. T. P. 



Public Disputation. — One of the early re- 

 formers visiting a certain city, and taking with 

 him for distribution copies of a recently published 

 version of the Scriptures, was invited on his ar- 

 rival to hold a public disputation with a Roman 

 Catholic Doctor of high renown. The Doctor, in 

 the course of the discussion, cited a text of Scrip- 

 ture. "That is not correctly translated," said 

 the reformer. " Nay," replied the Doctor, " it 

 is the translation which stands in the version that 

 you yourself have brought here and distributed." 

 This, on examination, proved to be the fact ; and, 

 in consequence, the whole assembly voted by ac- 

 clamation that the reformer was beaten, and the 

 learned Doctor received the prize of victory, a 

 golden rose. 



Who was the reformer in question ? and where 

 is the above anecdote related ? Vedette. 



Mr. William Upton. — If one is mystified upon 

 literary subjects, and one asks a friend to solve 

 one's doubts, if he feel also perplexed, one gene- 

 rally receives for answer, " Write to Notes Sf 

 Queries." I therefore beg to obtain some informa- 

 tion of the above gentleman. He was author 

 of Poems on Several Occasions, published in his 

 name, 1788, 8vo. ; and also " A Collection of 

 Songs sung at Vauxball," 8vo., about the same 

 date ; and he was one of the gens de plume of that 

 period, in the highest request, as a writer of songs 

 for places of public entertainment. I observe 

 by the Illustrated Book of English Songs from 

 the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, a very 

 neat and pleasing selection, at p. 106., third edi- 

 tion, " The Lass of Richmond Hill" is ascribed to 

 Mr. William Upton ; and also I observe by the 

 Public Advertiser of Monday, 3rd August, 1789, 

 that it was then produced at Vauxball, and was a 

 great favourite with the public ; Incledon being 

 the singer, whose incomparable voice might al- 

 most render any song popular. And with regard 

 to its being identified with any one particular 

 damsel of that locality, I suspect we shall find that 

 point a perfectly gratuitous supposition. 2. 2. 



Annotated Copy of Minsheu's Dictionary. 

 — In Harding and Lepard's Catalogue of Hare 

 and Valuable Books, 1829, No. 2903, occurs a 

 copy of Minsheu's IJictionary of Nine Languages, 

 folio, Lond. 1625, to which is appended the fol- 

 lowing note : — 



"This copy is enriched with copious manuscript addi- 

 tions by Bishop Wren, with a view to a new edition of 



