tender, joyous" (Hall, 'Anglo-Saxon Dict.,' 1894, p. 290). And J. M. Kemble has told us of its affinity to an old German Zeiz and to an old Norse Teitr, adjectives denoting hilaris, jucundus, eximius ('Names of the Anglo-Saxons,' 1846, p. 15). May it not be that the modern surname is, after all, a survival of the indigenous word by which Englishmen of the seventh century acclaimed their jocund queen? R. OLIVER HESLOP. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The surnames Tait, Tate, and the uncommon Titt, are from the Icel. Teitr brisk, quick. See Prof. Peile's 'Primer of Philology,' wherein he comments on the well-known lines of Gawain Douglas, "On lyssowris and leasowes," &c., and notes, s.v. Tayt,' that a late Archbishop of Canterbury owes his to a Scandinavian, possibly pirate, ancestor. Titt and sket are very common in the Early English metrical romances as= quick, quickly. Sket is, of course, now represented by the name of a well-known contributor to these pages. H. P. L. name AMERICAN CIVIL WAR VERSES (10th S. iv. 229, 296).-An American correspondent of mine sent me some years ago some verses issued during the war between North and South. I forward you a transcript of one of them. It was probably printed at Baltimore, and mine may well be the only copy in this country: "The War-Christian's Thanksgiving. Respectfully dedicated to the War-Clergy of the United States, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. "Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.-Jeremiah xlviii. 10. Oh God of Battles! once again, Unto Thine altars go With brothers' blood, by brothers shed, From pest-house and from dungeon foul, In every groan that yields a soul, Each shriek a heart that rends- That from the songs of idle joy We know that wisdom, truth, and right That Thou hast clothed us with Thy wrath We know that plains and cities waste Let not our weakness fall below And while the press hath wine to bleed, Teach us to hate-as Jesus taught Teach us to turn, with reeking hands, And hail the blessed curses there We'll kneel again-and pray!" A note in manuscript says that the above is by S. T. Wallis. Its savageness is terrible, but not worse than some of the ditties issued during our own Civil War when the Royalist cause was becoming desperate, and it is not nearly so atrocious as some things issued during the Terror in France. If you find a place for Mr. Wallis's effusion I will send you another copy of verses issued about the same time, but inspired by far different. feelings. K. P. D. E. The verses asked for by J. E. H. were written by Mrs. Ethelinda Eliot Beers, then resident in a small town of New York, and first appeared in Harper's Weekly on 30 November, 1861, under the title of The Picket Guard.' The first line, All quiet along the Potomac to-night, enclosed in quotation marks, was, in substance, a frequent heading of the war news of the day. I do not know whether any instance of a sentry on duty being shot had happened, or whether such an occurrence existed only as a possibility in the mind of the writer; but certainly any incident of a sentry found shot with these verses, of his composition, in his pocket, is an imaginary accretion. M. C. L. New York. "BELAPPIT" (10th S. iv. 305).-This is one more melancholy example of what happens when an editor fails to consult the New English Dictionary.' We there find: "Belap, What I have never been able to understand is this. My experience is that when an editor has to explain a Latin or Greek word, he consults some good authority, and gives the right explanation, being in fear of the critics. But (as I can prove up to the hilt) many an editor who has to explain an English word (ie., a word for which he has no regard, as it belongs to a barbarous and "unclassical" language) has no sense of responsibility, and has no fear of the critics, because many of them care no more about the matter than he does himself. Why should our noble language, to use Mr. Quiller - Couch's expression, be thus "down trodden"? WALTER W. SKEAT. autumne." The following item of diet may account for some of our ancestors being termed “ 'sly." The ancestor went, not for a rabbit to make something to roll baby-bunting in, but for a fox, for "the brain often given to Children preventeth the falling sickness." There are many wondrous uses for parts of the anatomy of the animal, and his brain must have been worth having when the sixteenth-century fox could reason that he would cure what he could not endure. When troubled with fleas they gently sink down in the water, having a little Hay, or some other thing on their backs for them to crepe to." We would all go a-hunting to-day if we could believe that "Coming into a Henroost, they will shake their tails, to affright them, and when off their perches they cach them." HERBERT SOUTHAM. "CHRIST'S HOSPITAL" (10th S. iv. 247, 310). -A reference to the Letters Patent, 26 June, 7 Edw. VI., will show that John Howes was perfectly accurate in describing this instituFARRANT'S ANTHEM "LORD, FOR THY tion as Chryste his Hospitall." It is exTENDER MERCY'S SAKE (10th S. iv. 265).-pressly stated that "the hospitalls aforesaid, Lydney's Prayers' were reprinted by the Parker Society in their edition of Bull's 'Christian Prayers and Holy Meditations' (p. 174), but the words appear to have been partially altered to suit the melody. They also are given in the second edition of Clifford's Divine Services and Anthems,' 1664. See 1st S. ix., xi. ; 3rd S. ii., iii. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 66 71, Brecknock Road. "PEARLS CANNOT EQUAL THE WHITENESS OF HIS TEETH (10th S. iv. 307).-There is a Persian version of the legend, in a book called Makhzan al Asrar (Storehouse of Mysteries'), by Nizami, written about the year 1178 or 1179. Pearls cannot equal the whiteness of his teeth" appears as "Durr ba supedi na chu dandan e ost." An English translation of this Persian form of the story was printed in Moncure D. Conway's 'Sacred Anthology,' 1874. Can any one trace where Nizami got it? JAS. PLATT, Jun. FOXES AS FOOD FOR MEN (10th S. iv. 286). -Robert Lovel, in his History of Animals and Minerals,' 1661, in giving the food of foxes mentions that they feed on hens, geese, conies, hares, mice, and grapes. The mixture of these, combined with the probability of the grapes being sour and not agreeing, allows him to quote from Galenus, "The flesh is dry, somewhat like that of a Hare," and also from Rhases, "It is hot, viscous, hard of concoction, and of bad juyce, and is best in when they shall be so founded, erected, and established, shall be called, named, and stiled, the hospitalls of Edward the VIth king of England, of Christ, Bridewell, and of St. Thomas the Apostle." The hospital of Christ was, of course, Christ's Hospital. And a little further on in the same Letters Patent mention is expressly made of "the mannor, or house, called Bridewell - place, or any other the houses called Christ's Hospitall, and St. Thomas's Hospitall in Southwarke." Further reference may be made to Trollope's History of Christ's Hospital,' 1834. Leigh Hunt was possibly misled by a fancied analogy between the name of the hospital and that of the neighbouring church, which is ordinarily called Christ Church, Newgate. W. F. PRIDEAUX. JOHN DANISTER, WYKEHAMIST (10th S. iv. 289).-I have searched in vain for any person of these names both in the original register of scholars at Winchester College and in the manuscript catalogue, which the same college possesses, of the fellows of New College, Oxford, 1386-1785. This useful catalogue, compiled with notes from the New College records, was, I believe, the work of Charles Pilkington, Canon of Chichester, who died in 1870. There was a William Banester, of Steeple Ashton, Wilts, not mentioned in Foster's 'Al. Oxon.,' who migrated from Winchester to New College in 1508; but this date seems to be too early to justify the suggestion that he is the man about whom I MR. WAINEWRIGHT desires information. refer to him, however, because the Danisters and Banisters of the sixteenth century have been sometimes confused; whether by their contemporaries or only by modern transcribers I am not prepared to say. This has been the case with John Danaster, of Lincoln's Inn and Cobham, Surrey, a baron of the Exchequer (1538-40), whose will, dated 27 Feb., 1539/40, was proved on 27 April, 1540, by his widow Anne (P.C.C. 5 Alenger). In Letters and Papers, temp. Henry VIII., where further information about him is to be found, he is occasionally styled "Banester"; and he is similarly styled in Harl. Soc. Pub lication,' xliii. 179, where the marriage of his daughter and heiress Anne with Owen Bray of Cobham is recorded. See also Foss, Lives of the Judges.' It may, therefore, possibly be worth MR. WAINEWRIGHT's while to search for his man among Banisters as well as Danisters. may "Mr. Waldegrave.-John James. Became 6th Earl of [sic] Waldegrave, after his brother was drowned; d. 1835." These two were in 1793 in the "First Form." Another Mr. Waldegrave, the Hon. Edward In the Eton Ante-Chapel is a white marble slab 60 by 37 in., with this inscription :— GEORGE Fifth Earl of WALDEGRAVE Born 13th June 1784 Died 29th June 1794 Eton College Chronicle, No. 1088, THE PIGMIES AND THE CRANES (10th S. iv. 266). MR. H. T. BARKER would probably get what he requires by applying to an Italian photographer-say Alinari, of Florence, or Anderson, of Rome. E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. On the other hand, as "Danister have been an alias, I venture to make the following suggestion. Of known Wykehamists John Fen or Fenne ('D.N.B.,' xviii. 313) had a career which bears a considerable See The resemblance to that assigned by Nicholas p. 649. Sander to his "John Danister." He went to Winchester in 1547, and thence to New College, where he was Sander's contemporary, in 1550 (Boase, 'University Register,' Oxford Hist. Soc., i. 319). He studied civil law at Oxford (Athenæ Oxon.,' Bliss, ii. 111), and his classical attainments sufficed to secure him the post of master of Bury St. Edmund's grammar school in Mary's reign. Upon Elizabeth's accession he lost this post, and had to betake himself to the Low Countries (ibid.). "Theologiæ operam dedit in academia LovanMR. BARKER might do worse than write to ensi......Claruit Lovanii A. MDLXVIII." (Tanner, my old friend F. Marion Crawford, the wellBibliotheca Brit.-Hib.,' 277). Upon the estab-known novelist. His address is: Villa Crawlishment of the convent of St. Monica at ford, Sant' Agnello di Sorrento, Italy. That Louvain in 1609, he acted as confessor there is quite near to Pompeii. HARRY HEMS. until his death on 27 Dec., 1615 (Archæologia, xxxvi. 74-77). Did John Fen ever pass as "John Danister"? Danista (Savelors) has the same meaning as Fenerator. See Forcellini's 'Lexicon,' i. 569 (edition of 1858-60). H. C. ETON SCHOOL LISTS (10th S. iv. 187, 314).In Stapylton's 'Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850, second edition, London, 1864, p. 19, are the following: "Lord Waldegrave. - 5th Earl. Drowned in bathing* above the Brocas, in 1794. There is a monument to him in the Chapel at Eton." According to Toone's 'Chronological Historian' on 2 July. No one is more likely to procure this subject, printed, engraved, or photographed, than G. Sommer & Figlio, photographers, Naples. MATTHEW H. PEACOCK. Wakefield. DETECTIVES IN FICTION (10th S. iv. 307).There is certainly an earlier instance of methods of detection than that in 'Zadig,' which is itself a copy. A precisely similar triumph of observation is recorded in an Arabian tale in Scott's 'Arabian Nights.' I cannot at present say whether this is in the main body of the work or in the notes to it. There appears to be also a like Indian story. The Eastern tale had been copied into European literature before Voltaire, who has therefore taken it second hand. Although I am sure about these facts, so long a time has passed since I ascertained them that I cannot give further particulars. E. YARDLEY. ROBINSON CRUSOE, 1619 (10th S. iv. 287).— The Mr. Cruso mentioned may possibly have been the father of the Rev. Timothy Cruso (1656-97). The latter was a fellow-student of Defoe at Newington Green Academy, "who immortalized his surname in the 'Adventures published in 1719." The Rev. Timothy Cruso died 26 Nov., 1697, and was buried in Stepney Churchyard on 30 Nov., the entry in the register being "Timothy Cruso of Mileend, Clerk." In 1893 I made a search for the "spacious marble tomb," with its Latin inscription given by Maitland, but failed to discover it. I have in my possession a small engraved portrait of Timothy Cruso, the source of which I should much like to trace. It was drawn by T. Foster and engraved by Hopwood "from an original picture." and published 1 August, 1808, by Maxwell & Wilson, Skinner Street, London. See 2nd S. x. 169, s.v. 'Theophilus Gay, M.P., William Gay, M.D.' JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. HENRY HUDSON'S DESCENDANTS (10th S. iv. 288). According to the 'D.N.B.,' one son of Henry Hudson, John, perished with him. In April, 1614, Hudson's widow applied to the E.I. Company for some employment for another boy, "she being left very poor." They placed him for nautical instruction in the Samaritan, and gave 5l. towards his outfit. Reference is made to a work by General Meredith Read, entitled Historical Inquiry concerning Henry Hudson, his Connection with the Muscovy Company and Discovery of Delaware Bay.' R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate. CHARLES CHURCHILL: T. UNDERWOOD (10th S. iv. 308).-In The Life of Churchill.' prefixed to the edition of his works published by W. Tooke in 1804, I find what follows: 66 'Churchill's body was brought from Boulogne for interment at Dover, where it was deposited in the old church-yard formerly belonging to the collegiate church of St. Martin, with a stone over him on which was inscribed his age, the time of his death, and this line from one of his works Life to the last enjoy'd, here Churchill lies. A tablet sacred to his memory has since been placed in the church by Mr. Underwood, the author of several poetical pieces."-Vol. i. pp. xliii-iv. as stated by "T. Underwood, ye Impartialist,” about whom I can learn nothing more than what is said by Tooke. Perhaps the inscription mentioned by L. L. K. will be the epitaph composed on himself by the poet, of which one line has already been given :Let one poor sprig of bay around my head Bloom whilst I live, and point me out when dead; Let it (may Heav'n, indulgent, grant that pray'r) Be planted on my grave, nor wither there; And when, on travel bound, some rhiming guest Roams through the church-yard, while his dinner's drest, Let it hold up this comment to his eyes, Life to the last enjoy'd-Here Churchill lies; Whilst (O, what joy that pleasing flatt'ry gives!) Reading my Works, he cries-Here Churchill lives. 'The Candidate,' 145-54. CEREMONY AT RIPON (10th S. iv. 249).-The ceremony of "Au'd Wilfra" still goes on at Ripon. It is a rude pageant, in which a man dressed up something like a bishop, in mitre, &c., rides round the city on an ass, on the eve, I think, of "Wilfrid Sunday," the name still given to the Feast of the Nativity of St. Wilfrid, which was kept only in the parish of Ripon, and on the Sunday next after St. Peter ad Vincula, or Lammas Day. "Ripon Wilfrid Fair" takes place at the same time. The other two feasts of St. Wilfrid are the Translation, 24 April, and the Depositio, 12 October. J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster. The Yorkshire Weekly Post for 12 August contained the following "The annual feast of St. Wilfrid began at Ripon last Saturday with a procession. A representation of the patron saint, clad in proper episcopal garb, wearing a mitre and bearing a crozier, was mounted on a milk-white steed, which was led by a monk. The quaint procession, which was headed by the City Band, commemorates the return of St. Wilfrid from exile some twelve centuries ago, since which period the event has been commemorated at an annual feast. Last year there was a danger of the custom lapsing, but in order to preserve its historic continuity, the control of 'St. Wilfrid' was taken over by the Corporation and is now a civic function. Yesterday the Mayor and Corporation, in their robes of office, attended Divine service at the Cathedral." A. H. ARKLE. Mr. J. S. Fletcher, in his' Picturesque Yorkshire,' 1900, speaks of this ceremony as still observed, though not perhaps in such a marked fashion. It would be interesting to know whether distinct from throwing it. "Cop it here" Give us a another old custom, certainly still followed was the invitation, and I think at the beginning of last century, is observed cop" would be cried by boy A who wanted On Mid- boy B to send him an easy catch. But it was to-day, or, if not, when it ceased. "chucking" summer Eve every Ripon housekeeper who the act of pitching, tossing, or DOUGLAS OWEN. had in the preceding twelvemonth changed which was the "cop." his residence spread a table before his door in the street, with bread, cheese, and ale, for those who pleased to regale themselves; after which, if the master was in a position to do so, the company were invited to supper, 66 with mirth and the evening was concluded and good humour." J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. 6, Elgin Court, W. If the custom of " processing" St. Wilfrid has ever been neglected at Ripon, it was at any rate duly observed there this year, as may be seen by The Yorkshire Herald of ST. SWITHIN. 7 August. DUCHESS OF CANNIZARO (10th S. iv. 265, 316). I remember hearing the late Charles Villiers (of anti-Corn-Law fame) say that the Duke of Cannizaro was Portuguese Minister SHERBORNE. in London. The lines in which the Duke of Cannizaro is immortalized in 'The Ingoldsby Legends' occur near the end of 'The Merchant of Venice,' and begin : Antonio, whose piety caused, as we've seen, Him to spit upon every old Jew's gaberdine. JOHN HEBB. COOP," TO TRAP (10th S. iv. 165, 296): Surely it is better to consult The English Dialect Dictionary' than Bailey. Coop, to catch in traps, is duly given there. Coup, to exchange, is quite a different word. So is Coupe, a piece cut off. So is cop, to catch. I cannot see the point of mixing these all up in a hodge-podge. And surely the connexion of coop with coopertura is infelicitous. The latter is not English, but late Latin; and is not spelt with oo, but with o-ö! 66 And yet again, it deserves to be known that when Bailey quotes a word as being in Chaucer," he is only copying from Speght, whose edition contains heaps of poemscertainly more than twenty-of which Chaucer was wholly innocent. As for coupe-gorge, it occurs in 1. 7422 of The Romaunt of the Rose,' .e., in that part of the (English) Romaunt' with which Chaucer had nothing to do. WALTER W. SKEAT. When I was a boy in Essex, now many years ago, the word cop was, amongst boys, in constant use. It had a special signification. It meant to pitch or toss an object-a ball, or some object for inspection-as being This word seems to be used in the sense of "throw," or what used to be called "shying" in The Horkey,' a ballad by Robert Bloomfield-a mine of Suffolk provincialisms. Judy Twichet observes: I could have copt them at their head; Which look so clean upon the ledge, Which never turn a sharp knife's edge; But fashion rules us all. I suppose the trenchers were made of wood, or metal perhaps. The name is preserved in the square collegiate cap, or trencher. meat was eaten on wooden trenchers at Winchester College. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. NUTTING (10th S. iv. 265).-A "deaf" nut is one which has lost its essential character, or rather which has never had it. So "deaf" eggs, ears of corn, any barren fruit. NE.D.' Also "deaf ears," for the auricles J. T. F. of the heart (dial.). Winterton, Doncaster. SANDERSON DANCE (10th S. iv. 308). The remarks of the dancer and the replies of the musician in the dance described as 'John Sanderson; or, the Cushion Dance,' are fully set forth at 1st S. ii. 517, and further information is given in iii. 125, 286. An early mention of the dance will be found in Heywood's play A Woman kill'd with Kindness,' 1600, where Nicholas says: "I have ere deserved a cushion; call for the cushion dance." Archdeacon Nares, in his Glossary of the Works of English Authors,' says: "The musical notes are preserved in 'The English Dancing Master,' 1686, where it is called 'Joan Sanderson; or, the Cushion Dance,. an old round dance."" EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. A New English Dictionary. Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray.-Pennage - Pfennig (Vol. VII.). (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) WITH the present instalment, consisting of a double section of the letter P, for which the editor-in-chief is responsible, the first half of vol. VII., O-P, is completed.' It is almost needless to state that the ordinary rate of superiority over existing dictionaries is maintained, and that while the number of words recorded is 50 per cent. |