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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



475 



— the former still living I believe ; and in tbe ad- 

 joining county (Dorset) the triad, Faith, Hope, 

 and Charity are not uncommon. Much of the 

 peculiarity of choice in selecting such names is 

 due, I conceive, to ,the veneration observable in 

 country districts for Scriptural names, and not to 

 the lingering remains of Puritanical customs, as is 

 sometimes supposed. Two at least of the names 

 of Job's three daughters may be occasionally seen. 

 I have a faint recollection of once meeting with 

 the third. (Job xlii. 14.) Henry W. S. Taylor. 

 Fortswood Park. 



David Wilkins (2 ud S. ix. 452.) was created 

 D.D. at Cambridge, on King George I.'s visit to 

 that University, Oct. 6, 1717. In a letter to 

 Bishop Nieolson, dated Lambeth, Oct. 15, 1717, 

 he says : — 



" I am but just returned from Cambridge, where I had 

 the good fortune to be created Doctor of Divinity by Dr. 

 Bentley. The good Bishop of Norwich had so much 

 kindness for me, as to put me in the King's list of his own 

 accord, by which 1 saved a great sum of money : only 

 my exercises I had composed in vain, and reckon so 

 much time lost." 



There is a good account of Dr. Wilkins in Mr. 

 Pigot's recently published History of Hadleigli, 

 54. 68. 205. seq. C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



" Do you know Dr. Wright of Norwich ? " 

 (2 od S. ix. 386.) — Having known the late Dr. 

 Wright of Norwich many years, I am enabled to 

 say, in answer to the Query of E., that the doctor 

 was very convivial, and also very apt to stop the 

 bottle. Indeed so much so, that the above phrase 

 was common in the circles which he frequented, 

 and he himself used to refer to its applicability to 

 himself with perfect good humour. F. C. H. 



Forty years ago a Freshman in like circum- 

 stances at Oxford was always asked, " Do you 

 know Jenkins? "to which he generally replied, 

 " What Jenkins ? " He was ngain asked, " Jen- 

 kins of Worcester," or any other college. "No; 

 what of him ? " — " Oh ! poor fellow, it was a 

 shocking thing, but you know they hanged him !" 

 — " Hanged him ? " — " Yes ! they strung him up 

 in the middle of a wine party." — "But what 

 for P "— " Why for stopping the bottle ! " 



J. P. 0. 



Quist (2 nd S. ix. 364.) —Is a Swedish word, 

 and means " branch." Mr. R. S. Chahnock will 

 find a very rich material about Swedish personal 

 names in E. M. Arndt's Schwedische Geschichten. 



F. A. Leo. 



Berlin. 



Southey's Birthplace (2 n,t S. viii. 363.) — 

 Mr. Pbtcb informs us tliat Southey was born at 

 No. 11. Wine Street, Bristol. From his great 

 local knowledge, he is most probably right. I 

 beg, however, to direct his attention to a different 



statement in Murray's Handbook for Wilts, Dorset, 

 and Somerset. At page 153. it is said that — 



" Southey was born next door to the White Lion Inn, 

 of which the landlord was the father of Sir Thomas 

 Lawrence, who was born there, 1709." ■ 



John AVilliams. 



Arno's Court. 



Pencil Writing (2" d S. ix. 403.) — S. B. will 

 find an article on " Black Lead" in Beckmann's 

 History of Inventions, vol. iv. p. 345. (third edi- 

 tion, 1817.) R. F. Sketchley. 



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