question first appeared in the Dundee Courier, and was issued privately to friends, along with thirty-two other pieces, in 1828. A copy of this small collection, and of the same author's tale of Archie Allan (1827), is in the Abbotsford Library (v. Catalogue). A. J. LOBSTER SOLDIER (5th S. v. 286.)-In German the word Krebs (a lobster) is also used for a cuirass; in Luther's Bible it occurs several times. May not the original idea of a cuirass have been taken from a lobster's shell? B. Y. H. NARVAL ZUFFER YAB KHAN (5th S. v. 429.)Does ORIENTALIST refer to the Nawab Zuffur Yaub Khan, the son of Sumroo? If so, his father was a German adventurer, named Johann Reiner, a native of Mindelzell, in Bavaria, born in the year 1726. He was of a very bad disposition, and several times incurred the censure of both secular and ecclesiastical authorities for crime and blas phemy. In the year 1755 he sold his rights of domicile to his youngest brother and left the country. He then joined the French military service, and went to India about the year 1763. There, at first, he entered the British army, and, after changing this service for that of one and another of the native chiefs, eventually took service under Nuzil Khan, a native prince, who conferred upon him several large estates as a reward for services rendered; and between the years 1765 and 1770 he received a grant of another very extensive estate, all of which, as well as a considerable amount of wealth which he had amassed, were in his possession at the time' of his death in 1778. He died intestate, leaving a widow, afterwards known as the Begum Sumroo, and an only son by a former marriage, whose name was Louis Reiner, or, as he was known in India, Zuffur Yaub Khan. The name Sumroo is an Indian corruption of the cognomen of "Sombre," a name given him by the French on account of his appearance and disposition. G. PERRATT. WORCESTERSHIRE EXPRESSION (5th S. v. 485.)— Is not Bearcroft simply equal to barley-field? C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Bexhill. ROLLER SKATES (5th S. v. 509.)-Joseph Merlin, an ingenious mechanician, was born at St. Peter's, in the city of Huys, between Namur and Liége, Sept. 17, 1735. After residing six years in Paris he came to England, on the recommendation of the Royal Academy of Sciences, in the suite of the Spanish ambassador, Count de Fuentes. He arrived here May 24, 1760, and resided for some time with the count in Soho Square. In 1768 he exhibited many curious inventions at Cox's Museum, in Spring Gardens, of which exhibition he seems to have been the director for several years. The following extract, which shows him to have been the inventor of the roller skates, is from Busby's Concert Room Anecdotes, ii. 137 :— 66 During the latter part of the eighteenth century, this ingenious mechanic and musical instrument maker gratified the curious and tasteful by the public exhibition of his organ, pianoforte, and other inventions, at his mind was adequate to the embracing the whole compass museum in Princes Street, Hanover Square. Merlin's of mechanical science and execution; at least in the articles connected with elegant and domestic amusement. One of his ingenious novelties was a pair of skates, contrived to run on wheels. Supplied with a pair of these and a violin, he mixed in the motley group of the celeSoho Square; when, not having provided the means of brated Mrs. Cornellys's masquerades at Carlisle House, retarding his velocity or commanding its direction, he impelled himself against a mirror, of more than five hundred pounds value, dashed it to atoms, broke his instrument to pieces, and wounded himself most severely." EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. CORRUPTED WORDS (5th S. v. 445.)-In reference to the subject on which MR. PALMER calls attention, I read the following in the Rev. des Deux Mondes of February 15: "A Ziethen, dans l'Uckermark [Prussia], où une colonie française, éloignée des villes, a mieux gardé ses souvenirs, il reste au milieu de l'allemand du pays bon nombre de mots français, mais défigurés. Les enfans disent aux parens mon pir [pere], ma mir [more]: un lit s'appelle une kutsche: c'est le mot couche prononcé à l'allemande; groscille est devenu gruselchen. Les noms de famille ont subi de pareilles altérations: Urbain s'est changé en Irrbenk, Dupont en Dippo, Vilain en Villing.” HENRI GAUSSERON. Ayr Academy. WHO WAS MRS. STEPHENS? (5th S. v. 511.)— She was the proposer of a remedy for stone, for the disclosure of which Parliament awarded her, in 1739, five thousand pounds. In 1738, David Hartley, the physician and metaphysician, published Ten Cases of Persons who have taken Mrs. Stephens's Medicines for the Stone, one of them being that of "the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells." Of his own case he says: "It is now more than a year that I have had the usual symptoms of the stone in the bladder, with some suspicions of that in the kidneys. This made me listen to the accounts of Mrs. Stephens's medicines, and upon inquiring particularly into some cases, I was encouraged to try them. I have since been more particular in my inquiries, and here offer ten cases to the public, with an abstract of some experiments taken from a journal which I kept of them. The first nine cases are signed by the gentlemen themselves, the last rests upon the authority of the person therein named...... My design in printing these cases and experiments is to engage the public to purchase the discovery of the medicines from Mrs. Stephens. She offers this at five thousand pounds, and is ready to submit the effects of the medicines which she discovers to any examination which gentlemen of worth and skill shall propose." He subsequently published De Lithontriptico, a Joanna Stephens, nuper invento, Dissertatio Epis tolaris Auctore Davide Hartley, A.M. et R.S.S., to which he added Conjecturæ quædam de Sensu, Motu, et Idearum Generatione. Editio secunda, Bathonic, 1746. As he lived till August, 1757, we may suppose that the benefit he derived from the medicine was permanent. Besides— "The concurring testimony of all the best authorities of the time gives us assurance of the signal benefit that was often derived from the use of Stephens's......remedy, which consisted especially of a mixture of calcined eggshells and Castile soap.”—British and Foreign Medical Review, vol. xii. p. 391. D. D. [See "N. & Q.," 1st S. xii. 366; 4th S. ix. 84] A FOLK-LORE SOCIETY (5th S. v. 124, 294, 457; vi. 12.)-MR. RATCLIFFE has mistaken (p. 457) the name of the newspaper in this district which makes" antiquarian notes," &c., a principal feature in its weekly issue." It is the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, and not the paper he mentions, that MR. RATCLIFFE must have had in his mind. The "Notes and Queries" of the Weekly Chronicle were commenced about three years ago. ERNEST WELLS. Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Glasgow Weekly Herald has a correspondents' column, wherein not infrequently bits of folklore crop up among the "Questions, Answers, and Memoranda." I thoroughly agree with your correspondents that a Folk-Lore Society is now become almost a necessity, and hope sincerely that the project may not be allowed to fall to the ground, but that we may very soon have an energetic and useful Society. A great field lies still open for cultivation; and I have little doubt but that when the scheme is thoroughly ventilated, there will be no lack of the needful members to support and carry out its aims. The proposal of ST. SWITHIN is an opportune one, and with able men to guide the Society we need not fear any WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. failure. "GONE TO JERICHO" (2nd S. ii. 330, 395; 5th S. v. 415, 474.)-In the parish of Stapleford, Leicestershire, is a farmhouse called Jericho Lodge; and a portion of land near is marked on the Ordnance map as Jericho pastures. A stream passing through the pastures divides Leicestershire from Rutlandshire. I am unable to give the origin of the name in this instance. To wish a person in Jericho is not an uncommon form of objurgation in Leicestershire. THOMAS NORTH. WHIPPING DOGS OUT OF CHURCH (5th S. iv. 309, 514; v. 37, 136, 419.)-In Baslow Church, an ancient chapel of Bakewell, Derbyshire, there is still preserved the implement of a dog-whipper. There are also persons yet alive, or only recently deceased, who can recollect its use. The thong of the whip is about three feet long, and is fastened to a short ash stick, round the handle of which is a band of twisted leather. I do not think that wonderful instrument in the church of ClynnogFawr, North Wales, for dragging dogs out of church has ever been noticed in "N. & Q." It is a long pair of iron "lazy-tongs," with short spikes fixed at the ends. J. CHARLES COX. It appears from the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of Worksop, from which a few items are copied in White's Worksop, the Dukery, and Sherwood Forest, 1875, that in 1597 the sum of 9d. was "paid to old Verde for whipping of dogs," whole year" the sum of 12d. was paid in 1616. and for whipping dogges out of ye church one Nottingham. J. POTTER BRISCOE. I have a copy of the Book of Common Prayer, "Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge," 4to., 1637, and the Absolution in the Morning Prayer is to be pronounced by the "Minister." In the Communion Service the rubric before the General Confession runs as follows: "Then shall this general confession be made in the name of all those that are minded to receive the Holy Communion, either by one of them, or else by one of the ministers, or by the priest himself, all kneeling," &c. Do the words "either by one of them" occur in any other edition? This edition of 1637 is, I believe, scarce, not being in the Lea Wilson collection. Randolph Gardens, W. A. BATEMAN. subject have been turned to account by Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks in her story entitled "The Pride of the Corbyns," published in the Belgravia Annual for the current year. J. MANUEL. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. SOUTHEY AT HOME (5th S. v. 505.)—May I TOMB AT BARBADOES (3rd S. xii. 9, 58, 97, 257.) venture to correct an error which MR. MAYER-The singular circumstances connected with this has printed respecting Mrs. Druitt, who he thinks was a Miss Fricker? Mrs. Druitt was a Miss Lovell, sister to Robert Lovell. Southey, Coleridge, and Robert Lovell married three Miss Frickers, sisters; I believe there were two other sisters (Fricker), but I know nothing as to what became of them. I do not think it is certainly known that Robert Lovell's son Robert was murdered, either by mistake or otherwise. He went on a pedestrian tour, disappeared, and could not be traced beyond a certain point. E. R. W. GARRICK FAMILY (5th S. v. 528.)—In the Annual Register for 1780, among the marriages, is this announcement :-(October) "Captain Garrick to Miss Leigh, daughter of Sir (E)gerton Leigh, Bart." In Burke's Peerage and Baronetage she is stated to have been married secondly to Grazebrooke, Esq." I do not find this second marriage mentioned in the pedigree given in Fitzgerald's Life of Garrick, 1868, but Burke is quite correct. Mrs. (Captain) Garrick's second husband was Benjamin Grazebrook, Esq., of Stroud, co. Gloucester. He died s.p. April 2, 1837, and she, at an advanced age, March 7, 1847. Captain Nathan Garrick was the grandfather of the gentleman just deceased, and son of George Garrick, a younger brother of the great actor. H. S. G. SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE (5th S. v. 509.)-S. T. P. has curtailed of its fair proportion the facetious epigram of Cailly, which Ménage, after having derived the word haquenée* from equus, very candidly records in his second edition :-- "Haquenée vient d'equus sans doute, Il a bien changé sur la route." Ménage, tom. ii. Paris, 1750. Of Ménage's etymologies, Christine, Queen of Sweden, used to observe : DERIVATION OF 16.)-Will MR. JERRAM be good enough to inform me how the derivation of cousin from consanguineus "violates more than one common rule of Romance etymology"? Z. "COUSIN" (5th S. v. 405; vi. "HUMBUG" (5th S. v. 83, 332, 416; vi. 16.)— This word is still in use in Wiltshire, and is applied more especially to the coarser kinds of sweetmeats. Fernbank, Leatherhead. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. S. H. The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development. By William Stubbs, M.A.. Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford. Vol. II. (Clarendon Press.) Ir is natural to suppose that the treatment of English constitutional history "in its origin and development must take considerable time to work out. Mr. Stubbs makes some demands upon our patience, but he gives us good measure, even to running over, in the matter of each instalment. His second volume contains but four chapters, and of these two only can in strictness be termed historical, the other two being analyses of The System of Estates and the Constitution under Edward I.," and Both are important subjects, especially when touched by of " Royal Prerogative and Parliamentary Authority." a master hand. But the student of the present generation, to say nothing of the future, has plenty of work still before him ere he can hope to have gained a complete grasp of Mr. Stubbs's views on the constitutional history of England. It is impossible altogether to avoid some comparison of the styles of two leaders like Mr. Freeman and Mr. Stubbs in dealing with the works of either historian. Their excellences and their defects seem alike to mark them off from writers who do not belong to their school. That which is really great in this school-its painstaking research, its elaborately minute accuracy, its wide inductions, its really compre hensive survey of comparative history and politics-will, we dont not, outlive its mannerisms, from which Mr. Stubbs, though less marked than Mr. Freeman, is not free. It is, we believe, quite possible rightly to appreciate St. Louis of France without calling him St. Lewis," just as it is possible to value highly the character of Alfred the Great while refraining from the practically unknown orthography "Elfred." We can only regret that necessary limitations of space must prevent us from judgment as a comparative historian. To our thinking, quoting passages illustrating the breadth of Mr. Stubbs's this is one of his most valuable qualities, but one to which as yet he has not given full scope. The student will do well to gather into his note-book all the fragments of this aspect of the Regius Professor of Modern History which he will find scattered through the present volume. We should have been glad if Mr. Stubbs had expressed some opinion concerning the curious resem blances which seem to crop up in the provisions of the "Mad Parliament" to the Venetian Constitution, at once so complicated and so thoroughly oligarchic, and which make but a meteoric appearance in our history. We need hardly say that Mr. Stubbs brings out in relief the part played by the Church of England in fighting the battle of national and constitutional liberty, and that his view of St. Edmund, of Pontigny fame, is not identical with that of some modern pilgrims. We can only add, that we believe Mr. Stubbs would confer a great boon on the historical student if he were to give to the world a comparative history of the principal constitutions of medieval Europe, such as his past and present works show him to be so capable of giving. An Archaic Dictionary, Biographical, Historical, and Mythological, from the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Etruscan Monuments and Papyri. By W. R. Cooper, Secretary to the Society of Biblical Archæology. (Bagster & Sons.) Is this work, which now represents the satisfying of a want for which remedy seemed hopeless, we have, as the Introduction states, "the first register of six thousand once famous and till now forgotten names, whose history lies in their epitaph-fuimus." The Archaic Dictionary begins with "A, Water,' a mystical pool near the celestial Nile," and "A, An Egyptian measure. It was equal to twenty-six centilitres." Again, "AA" is defined as "one of the demons who accuse the soul of the deceased in the Hall of the two Truths." Under the last letter, Z, we find "Zak-Dina-Isha," meaning "has not an equal" (like Nonsuch or Non-pareil), "the name of the great palace of Sennacherib, on the river Tigris." Zarathustra, the Zoroaster of the Greeks, is interpreted "Splendour of Gold." Those who read of a deity called "Zarvan-akar-ana," will learn here that the words signify "Time without limits," or eternal. These few samples are as single grains from a marvellous measure piled to overflowing. THE monthly magazines, among able contributions for general readers, contain much that has special attractions. Those who love to study old authors will be gratified by an article on Donne in Temple Bar. The "Faust Legend" in Macmillan is also an article likely to be acceptable to readers of "N. & Q." Those to whom Horace is a friend, and who have always been friends to Horace, are confidently directed to "Horace's Art of Conduct" in the July Cornhill. RE "WORTHIES OF LEEDS, &c."-The Rev. R. V. Taylor, B.A., of Edlington Rectory, near Rotherham, and author of the Churches of Leeds, &c., who is prepar ing for the press a second volume of the Worthies of Leeds, &c., would be glad if any of our readers could supply him with any sources of information respecting1. Mr. Robert Braham, a poet, born at Leedes, and author of the History of the Wars of the Trojans, translated from the Italian of Guy Callumna, fol., Lond., 1555. &c. 2. Augustine Ryther, a native of Leedes, and a noted engraver of copper-plates in London, author of a Discourse concerning the Spanish Fleet invading England in 1588; various maps by Saxton, 1590, &c. 3. Thomas Atkinson, a native of Leedes, who was Master of the Mint at Edinburgh about 1620, who was author of a History of Metals in Scotland, MSS. in the late Dr. Sibbald's library, &c. SHELLEY'S FAMILY.-As any information relating to our famous poet Shelley and his family must be interesting to many of your readers "at home and abroad," I may here observe that Ianthe, the daughter of the poet, died a few days since, after a short illness. She was a lady of very retiring habits and of unostentatious piety, and never happier than when engaged in works of kindness and charity towards her poorer neighbours, who will long lament her death. She married, early in life, Mr. Jeffries Esdaile, of Cothelestone, Somerset, a charming locality on the spur of the far-famed "Quantocks," the beauties of which have been sung, and not unfrequently, by Wordsworth and Coleridge. I have been informed, on reliable authority, that this lamented lady was in possession of a small volume of manuscript poetry of her father, some of which may favourably be compared with the never-to-be-forgotten lines on the "Skylark" and the "Sensitive Plant," and I wish I could hold out the hope to your readers that their publication may be anticipated. ARTHUR KINGLAKE. Some day, a friend shall, whispering low, H. A. B. writes:-"Can you give me any information as to the value-the literary value-of Anecdotes relatives quelques Personnes et à plusieurs Evènemens Remarquables de la Revolution. Par J. B. Harmand (de la Meuse). Paris, 1820?" A CORRESPONDENT asks for any information respecting the origin and history of the Household Troops trooping the colours annually on the anniversary of the Queen's birthday. G. T. FULLAM (Hull) asks where he can purchase, or get on loan for a few days. Kerigan's Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, published about 1825. QUOTATION WANTED (5th S. v. 420.)— is "How much Hath Phoebus woo'd in vain to spoil her cheek, from Childe Harold, cant. i. stanza Iviii. Which glows yet smoother from his amorous clutch!" Notices to Correspondents. C-. Ox all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. M. T.-Le Houx's first edition of Basselin's Vaux-deVire appeared just three hundred years ago, 1576. Le Houx died in 1616, the year also of Shakspeare's death. Of the first edition no copy is known to exist. Some good specimens of the drinking songs of Basselin or Le Houx may be found in Mr. Walter Besant's Studies of Early French Poetry. MR. LEADER (Sheffield) gives the same date as our correspondent did, 5th S. v. 523, for Wentworth's marriage, and adds that Mr. Hunter verified it from the parish register at Londsborough. YOUR Correspondent (5th S. v. 528) will find in The Penny Post for May, 1876 (Parker & Co.), the ballad "The King and the Tinker." W. T. HYATT. E. COBHAM BREWER.-As to the gender of the singing nightingale, see "N. & Q," 4th S. xi. 238, 326, 348, 375, 455, 535. H. C. DENT should consult "N. & Q.," passim, at the British Museum, for particulars as to Sir Thomas More. J. R. B.-The Michaelmas verses were by Macaulay himself; a mere joke. DOUBLE X.-We have previously stated that "Bid me discourse" is in Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis. F. J. N. The sculptor died recently; the other gentleman is still living. HOOKER (5th S. vi. 8.)-Fourth line, third word, read Cato. N. BRADLEY.-Anticipated, 5th S. v. 456. Y. B. should apply to a bookseller. R. J. M.-Fried potatoes. THE MEMORIALS of the FAMILY of SCOTT of SCOTSHALL, in KENT. By JAMES R. SCOTT, F.S. Antiquaries. The Work is copiously illustrated with Ancient Memorials, Brasses. 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