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1784, the time when it was written. The Facetiæ Cantabrigiensis does not contain the whole of Hopkinson's paper, which occupies twelve or fifteen pages in his works. Thus much is due to the memory of an American patriot. Francis Hopkinson was a member of the American Congress in 1776, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and an active politician in his day. He was the author of The Battle of the Kegs, a satirical poem, composed whilst the English army occupied Philadelphia, which was very popular at the time, and is yet popular among Americans of the present generation. T. WESTCOтт.

Philadelphia.

Junius, Letter LVI., and the Continuation of Tom Jones (Vol. iii., p. 188.; Vol. vi., p. 341.). - The continuation of Tom Jones is entitled The History of Tom Jones, the Foundling, in his married State : Utile dulci: Lond., printed for J. Robinson, 1750, 12mo. p. 323. Its author is not known, nor is the point material, as it is a very poor production. Black George is not introduced in it, nor does it throw any additional light upon the allusion in Junius. I must confess, however, that I do not see any difficulty in the passage. Blifil and Black George, by different means, though not acting in concert, used their best endeavours, from interested motives, to ruin Tom Jones. The "union of Blifil and Black George" merely seems to express the concurrence of two different actors-one a hypocritical and sanctimonious cheat, and the other a bolder ruffian- to work injury to the public. The personal allusion in the two names is obvious enough. JAS. CROSSLEY.

The Word Brow, or Brough, in Essex (Vol. vi., p. 411.). This is called clam in Devonshire, being a rough tree thrown across a river or brook for a foot-bridge. I find clamber (in Johnson), to climb up, pronounced, in Devonshire, to climm. W.C.

Harlow.

Phonetic Spelling (Vol. vi., p. 357.). -In 1730 there was published at Amsterdam, in seven vols. 12mo., a work entitled Abrégé chronologique de Histoire d'Angleterre. Throughout this book the author, who calls himself M. J. G. D. C., has deviated in a remarkable manner from the customary orthography of the French. He justifies himself thus:

"In the neglect with which this part of the French language is now every day treated, I should be sufficiently shielded from criticism if I only cited in my favour the authority of Ménage, Richelet, Furetière, Amelot de la Houssaie, and others of the like weight. I have wished to avoid disorder, and restrict myself to exact uniformity. By this means my aim has been to reduce the system of orthography to fixed but general rules, to remove the crowd of inconvenient and

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repulsive exceptions, and to proscribe the ridiculous intermingling of antiquated spelling, which is now foreign to the pronunciation introduced by modern usage. In one word, I have not hesitated to refer the letters to their natural functions, as assigned to them by the first elements of language. It is noticeable at the same time, that this operation presents us at once with the true pronunciation and facility of writing," &c.

The author developes his plan, and enters into its details in the remaining pages of his preface; but I am unwilling to extend this Note, my reason for writing which is to add another to your authorities quoted on the subject of phonetic spelling-a system which appears to me opposed to all that is venerable in antiquity, dear in association, and sacred in philology. B. H. COWPER.

Earlier attempts than that of Howell (1650) were made to reform our orthoepy. The first who applied himself to effect this change was Sir Thomas Smith; and, according to Strype, in his life of this most learned personage, pp. 27, 28., the new alphabet framed by him was compiled in 1542. A second similar attempt was made by Sir John Cheke, in 1557. A third scheme, with a like object in view, was offered in 1621, by Dr. Alexander Gill, the famous master of St. Paul's School, in his rare and curious Logonomia Anglica, quâ Gentis sermo facilius addiscitur. In addition to these we have many other works advocating the use of phonetic spelling, which preceded that of Howell; e. g. the Orthographie, &c. of John Hart, Chester Herald, 1569; Bullokar's Booke for the Amendment of Orthographie, &c., 1580; Mulcaster's Right Writing of our English Tongue, 1582; Peter Bale's Order of Orthographie, in his Writing Schoolemaster, 1590; and Charles Butler's English Grammar, 1633. Then, there is the well-known scheme of Bishop Wilkins; that of George Dalgarno, in his Ars Signorum, &c., 1661; and the proposals set forth in the Friendly Advice to the Correctour of the English Press, &c., 1682. COWGILL.

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Simile of the Soul and Magnetic Needle (Vol. vi., pp. 127. 207. 368.). - A much older author than Leighton, or others mentioned recently in the "N. & Q.," made use of the comparison of the magnet, namely, Raimond Lull, of Majorca, who died in 1315. These are his words, as given by Neander, in his "Memorials of Christian Life," Works, vol. vii. p. 429., Bohn's edition :

"As the needle turns by nature to the north, when it is touched by the magnet, so it behoves that thy servant should turn to praise his Lord God, and to serve Him, since out of love to him He willed to endure sore griefs and heavy sufferings in this world."

M. L.

Sea Water (Vol. vi., p. 290.). - In answer to the Query concerning the use of sea water, either Humboldt, Prichard, or Mrs. Somerville mention

its use without injury by the inhabitants of Easter Island. I "made a note of it" when reading, but I cannot find it in my common-place book. M. L.

Aiton or Eaton Family (Vol. vi., p. 435.). - I do not make this communication as in reply to SCRUTATOR's inquiry, but it justifies leaving in your pages monumental notes that, in an obscure Irish churchyard, might moulder away unknown. They were copied off by myself in the churchyard of Connor, co. Antrim, when I was making my collections for the then projected history of that interesting district:

"Exanlatis hujus ærumnosæ vitæ laboribus, migravit hinc ROBERTUS AITON, Artium Magister, decimo Maii salut. part. 1666, ætatis suæ 80, cujus exuviæ requiescunt in pace sub hoc cippo in spem beatæ resurrectionis. Itemque duorum nepotulorum.

Albion esse dedit, Mores formavit amœnos
Gallia, dum nunc tegit ossa solum."

"Here lyeth the Bodys of the Revrd. Mr. ANDREW AITON, Prebend of Connor, who departed this life the 7th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1794, and the 71st of his age; - and ELIZABETH AITON, wife to the said ANDREW, who departed this life Xbr. ye. 1713, in ye 80 year of her age. Also, ROBERT AITON, Esq., son to the aforesaid ANDREW; and ELIAS AITON, who departed this life the 4th of August, 1742, in the 76th year of his age."

I have many particulars of this line in my manuscripts, but cannot at present think that these individuals connect with the object of SCRUTATOR'S search. JOHN D'ALTON.

4. Summer Hill, Dublin.

Steeple Aston is in the gift of Brazen Nose College. John Eaton was admitted M.A. July 8, 1701. John Eaton was admitted M.A. Oct. 12, 1730. Both were of Brazen Nose. For name, parentage, &c. of their fathers, consult the Oxford Matriculation Registers. ARTHUR PAGET.

Spiritual Persons employed in Lay Offices (Vol. vi., p. 376.). - W. says, in reference to Dutens, that he "was probably the last spiritual person employed in a lay office." W. seems not to be aware that one of the successors of Dutens in the rectory of Elsdon, Archdeacon Singleton, attended the late Duke of Northumberland during the time of his holding the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and in the capacity of his Grace's private secretary had the privilege of franking.

E. H. A.

George Chalmers' " Revolt of the Colonies" (Vol. vi., pp. 200.281.). - An edition of the work to which BONSALL refers was published by James Monroe and Company, of Boston (Mass.), in the year 1845. The title runs thus: An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colo

nies; being a Comprehensive View of its Origin. Derived from the State Papers contained in the Public Offices of Great Britain. By George Chalmers.

It is in two octavo volumes, of 414 and 376 pages; and the following extract from the preface will show why your correspondent's copy, as well as that in the British Museum, wants the title-page:

"It was printed, under the author's inspection, as far as the end of the reign of George I., but no part has ever been published. To the printed copy which has been used for the impression now given to the public a title-page is prefixed in the handwriting of the author, with the addition, Suppressed in 1782.' It is one of the very few copies which he reserved for private distribution among his friends.

"The reason for its suppression can only be conjectured. The interference of the ministry, however, is presumed to have furnished the chief motive. Just at this time the treaty of peace was signed at Paris, ceding independence to the revolted colonies, as they were called; and the popular clamor against the treaty was already so strong that there could be no desire to have it increased by a work of this character. Indeed, no political ends could now be answered by its publication; and as Mr. Chalmers held an office under the government, and looked for promotion, it is probable that he thought it more politic to sacrifice the pride and fame of authorship, than to run the hazard of offending the ministers.

"The books and papers which belonged to Mr. Chalmers were retained in possession of his nephew till they were recently sold in London; and among them was a manuscript continuation of this work, in the handwriting of the author, completely revised and prepared for the press. It is now printed as it was left by him, beginning with the reign of George II., and constituting about three quarters of the second volume." WILLIAM DUANE.

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Les Héros de la Ligue (Vol. vi., p. 418.). - I transcribe the following brief notice of this curious work from tom. ii. p. 553. of Brunet's Manuel du Libraire, Paris, 1842 :

"Ce volume, publié en Hollande, se compose de 24 fig. gravées en manière noire, dans lesquelles on a travesti d'une manière grotesque différents personnages qualifiés du royaume, qui jouèrent les premiers rôles dans l'affaire de la révocation. Il n'y a d'autre texte qu'un sonnet qui occupe le dernier f.

" Les exempl. dont le frontispice est sans date renferment des épreuves fatiguées. On sait que ces caricatures ont été reproduites dans les Mémoires de M. de Maurepas, publiés par Soulavie, en 1792,"

There is a copy of the work in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, in all respects answering

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Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains (Vol. vi., pp. 490. 598.). - I have just lighted upon the narrative, previously overlooked, of the particulars attending, not the second exhumation of Arthur's remains, but the translation of the shrine, in which they were deposited by order of Henry II.; and, as it seems to meet the Query of H. G. T., I venture to append a notice of it to my former incomplete reply on the subject. The narrative in question is contained in the chapter of the Assertio İncomparabilis Arturii, Auctore Joanne Lelando, Antiquario, entitled "Translatio Reliquiarum Arturii, ex Archivis Glessoburgensis," p. 55. I would invite attention to the observations of Thierry (Norman Conquest, book xi.) concerning the discovery of these precious relics. COWGILL.

Church Stile (Vol. vi., p. 339.). - At Exminster, near Exeter, there is a path through the churchyard, and an old stone church stile; the house and lands adjoining are called Church Stile, belonging to Phil. Lardner, Esq.

Harlow.

W. C.

Sich House (Vol. vi., pp. 363, 364.). - There is a place called Sykehouse, a township and chapelry in the parish of Fishlake, about three miles north by west from Thorne, in Yorkshire, portion of the ancient level of Hatfield Chase, a country abounding in watercourses. The word syke occurs in an old "perambulation" of the parish of Hatfield (Hunter, S. Y., i. p. 185.), "and so along the same unto Wrangle-syke, and by the same syke unto the river Don," &c. The names of Blacksyke, Foulsyke or Fulsyke, Wilsic or Wilsick, also occur in the same locality. C. J.

The Verbs "to lay" and "to lie" (Vol. vi., p. 388.). Your correspondent A. H., who adverts to the not unfrequent use, by some modern authors, of the verb lay, as if it were synonymous with the verb lie, may not be displeased with the information that this absurd practice was, at one time, visited with condign punishment. The following is an extract from an article on Blomfield's Prometheus Vinetus, in the Edinburgh Review (vol. xvii. No. 33. p. 225. November, 1810):

"We recollect to have seen, many years ago, a work of a very popular author, the reputation of which was greatly diminished by a malicious reviewer, who discovered that the writer had frequently fallen into the colloquial error of using the active verb to lay, instead of the neuter verb to lye" [sic]. May I append a Query to this communication? Who were the popular ular author and the " malicious reviewer" above referred to ? P. N.

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Whipping Posts (Vol. vi., p. 388.). - At Doncaster there was formerly one of these posts of correction. Amongst the orders of the Corporation, under date of May 5, 1713, is one "that a whipping-post be set up at the stocks at Butcher Cross, for punishing vagrants and sturdy beggars." There are numerous charges in the old townaccounts, before that time, for whipping vagrants, rogues, and others, male and female.

C. J.

The Termination "-ster" (Vol. vi., P. 409.). Your correspondent CHARLES THIRIOLD, in his interesting Note respecting the termination -ster, says of webbestere, that it occurs in Piers Plowman. It is a small contribution, but it may be acceptable - this, that in the old registers of the freemen of Norwich wabster occurs customarily for weaver; and we have in Norfolk thackster for thatcher, where (by the way) one would say it could scarcely be a feminine termination. B. B. WOODWARD.

St. John's Wood.

Eiebreis (Vol. vi., p. 316.). - Did not Sandys mean hereby eyebristles? an uncommon but not inappropriate term for eyelashes. Breis is merely another form of birse, and is apparently the very word wanted in the couplet from an ancient canzonetta, quoted by Scott in a letter to the Duke of Buccleugh:

"The sutor ga'e the sow a kiss :

Grumph! quo' the sow, it's a' for my birss" (breis). Sandys was a North Country man, and a clue may often be found to the meaning of obsolete expressions used by our older writers, by recollecting to which part of England they belonged.

Penzance.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

J. J. A. B.

Mr. C. Roach Smith announces a continuation of his Collectanea Antiqua. The work was discontinued from the heavy pecuniary loss which its publication entailed on the editor, who has now been urged to resume it, and proposes to do so upon receiving the names of a sufficient number of subscribers - to whom the work will be restricted. Mr. Smith proposes to complete a volume yearly by about four deliveries; the subscription (24s. per annum) to be paid in advance, or on the delivery of the first Part. The subjects announced in the Prospectus as being in preparation are of such interest to archæologists, that we feel sure Mr. Smith will readily secure the co-operation of a sufficient number to justify him in proceeding with his labour of love.

Of the numerous privately printed books in various departments of literature, which have issued from the press during the last two hundred years, none are so rarely met with as those devoted to genealogical sub

jects. Works of that description, being generally compiled and printed for the gratification of family connexions, are handed down from generation to generation with more than ordinary care; consequently fewer chances occur of their leaving their original repositories, than may be expected with regard to works of a more ephemeral interest, as poems, tales, and travels. Moule's Bibliotheca Heraldica, and Martin's Bibliographical Catalogue of Books privately printed in England, contain notices of many curious privately printed Genealogies, but by no means a complete list. To supply this deficiency, Mr. Charles Bridger, F. S. A., has issued proposals for publishing by subscription A Catalogue of Privately Printed Books on Genealogy and Kindred Subjects, to form a handsome volume in imperial 8vo.

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