in prose it means twilight. The word "humbug," is a strange little slip, more strangely endorsed by therefore, means twilight bug, twilight goblin. In England twilight was formerly regarded as malignant or unkindly.* It was the time when ghosts trooped forth. As regards the word "bug," the New Eng. Dict.' quotes Coverdale's version of Psalm xcii. 5: "Thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for eny bugges by night." It also refers to the expression "To swear by no bugs" as meaning to take a genuine oath, not a mere pretence. Peter Ounningham. "Since that," writes Walpole, "I went to see an old house [at Wingfield] built by Secretary Naunton." The description that follows of the house and the church is very interesting to any one who knows them, but Wingfield should of course be Letheringham Priory, near Wickham Market, Suffolk. The Priory still stands; but Cunningham's note asserts that "the house has long been level with the ground-the church destroyed by churchwarden renewals and alterations, and the Wingfield and Naunton monu One would like to see reports from other parts of the country about Hummer and Hummer Nick.ments shamefully scattered. When I visited Wingfield, in 1852, I discovered part of Secretary S. O. ADDY. FRANCIS HINDES GROOME. "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS.'-In a catalogue of Tabart's "Juvenile Library" (157, New Bond Street), appended to their Children's Book of Trades,' 1805, the following title occurs :— PORTRAIT OF ROBERT HARLEY, EARL OF OX-Naunton's monument in a farm-wall building." FORD.-On a recent visit to the British Museum, The history of Letheringham has yet to be written. at the top of a case near the Print Room, I saw a Ample collections were made by the late Capt. fine portrait in oils, half length, of a statesman Brooke, and are still in the library at Ufford. wearing a long flowing wig, and in the right hand holding a white wand of office. On inquiry from the curator of the Department he was unable to tell me whom it represented. The portrait much needed cleaning, and I am inclined to believe that it is engraved in Lodge's Portraits,' and depicts Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Baron Harley of Wigmore, the first peer of that line, who died in 1724, and to have been painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller. In a list of portraits prefixed to vol. vii. Cabinet Edition of Lodge's 'Portraits,' "No. 4" is said to be that of "Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, from the collection in the British Museum." If my surmise is correct, it is worthy of a better position than it at present occupies. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. ROUSSEAU AND 'HUDIBRAS.'-Unless a common original can be traced, Rousseau would seem to have borrowed from 'Hudibras.' In verses entitled On me verra par jalousie Les plaisirs que je n'aurai plus. He may have seen Towneley's French translation of' Hudibras,' published in 1758, but if so the borrowing must have been from the English text, also given by it, for Towneley's rendering of the famous couplet "Compound for sins" is very feeble : Paris. Ce qui leur plaft est légitime, J. G. ALGER. LETHERINGHAM PRIORY.-In the 'Letters of Horace Walpole' (ed. 1891), vol. ii. p. 463, there * "Maligna lux, uel dubia, tweonulleoht."-Wrightülcker, Vocab. 175, 39. and Adventures of Tom Brown on his First Going to Has this ever been pointed out as a strange pre- St. Petersburg. H. E. M. EVENING SERVICES IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.Services on Sunday evenings have been for many years at stated seasons held in the nave or choir of Westminster Abbey, and to many people it has seemed a very great mystery why this great "temple of reconciliation" should not be open all the year round. Dean Stanley, in his 'Memorials of Westminster Abbey,' told us that "much assuredly remains to be done to place it on a level with the increasing demands of the human mind and with the changing wants of the English people." Changes to meet these requirements have from time to time been made; increased light and a complete system of warming were introduced, and the usefulness of this "fortress of the Church of England" has become greater than it ever was before. The prayer used at the installation of a dean and canon, in which it is asked "that those things which he hath promised, and which his duty requires, he may faithfully perform, to the praise Queries. We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. EAGLES CAPTURED AT WATERLOO.-Wellington, in his despatch to Lord Bathurst, after the Battle of Waterloo, dated 19 June, 1815 (Gurwood's "I send with ‘Despatches,' vol. xii. p. 484), says: this Despatch Three Eagles, taken by the Troops in this action, which Major Percy will have the honor of laying at the feet of His Royal Highness." Two eagles captured at Waterloo (one by the Scots Greys, the other by the Royal Dragoons) are now in the chapel of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. Can any of your readers inform me what became of the third eagle; and by what regiment it was captured? The two eagles at Chelsea were transferred there, together with all the other eagles and standards in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, from that chapel in 1835 by order of the king, and it does not appear that more than two eagles captured at Waterloo were ever deposited in Whitehall chapel. The Annual Register' for 1816 (vol. lviii. p. 7) gives an account of the placing of the Waterloo eagles in the chapel at Whitehall on 18 January of that year, with the usual ceremony and form. The number deposited is not mentioned, but it is stated that the eagles were carried by two sergeants, and, as at previous ceremonies of the kind (see, for instance, Annual Register,' liv. 123, for 1812, giving an account of the ceremony of depositing the eagles and colours taken in Spain, which took place on 30 September, 1812) the number of sergeants detailed to bear the colours and eagles corresponded to the number deposited-each sergeant carrying one-it may be inferred that only two eagles were deposited at Whitehall on 18 January, 1816. It looks as if between the date of the arrival of the three eagles in England and January, 1816-a period of some six months-one had been sent elsewhere than to Whitehall chapel. C, R. THOMAS BOLAS.-In Egerton Castle's 'BookPlates,' p. 120, a book - plate is engraved as belonging to Thomas Bolas, 1740. The arms are the same as are borne by the Bowles family. Who ENQUIRER. was Thomas Bolas? NELSON.-Wanted Admiral Nelson's coat of E. E. THOYTS. arms 1796-7, before he was made a peer. MATAGON. — In Brother Foley's 'Records of the English Province S.J.' mention is made of a Walloon Jesuit priest named Francis Matthews (Mathieux ?), who was born at Liège, 1617, spent some years in England, and was a constant visitor of the Catholics imprisoned in the Tower, contriving secretly to celebrate Mass there every day. He died a victim of charity during the plague at Ypres in 1667. Father Mathieux is described in M. the above work as "of the Matagon family." What family was this? CUPPLESTOWN IN IRELAND. -For some time I have been striving to get at facts from printed sources with reference to the exact locality, size, and history of this village or hamlet, which I am told, with apparent truthful knowingness, owes its existence to three brother Scots, who settled it between 1680 and 1690. So far I have been unable to hit the right authority, printed or otherwise. The place is located on the banks of the Kellswater. Can some Irish antiquary help me out? Longwood, Mass., U.S. J. G. CUPPLES. EARL OF ANNANDALE.-The late G. A. Sala, in his Journeys in the County of Middlesex,' states that Mr. Alexander Copeland, who once lived at Sussex House, Fulham, let it "to a person who said he was the Earl of Annandale, who could not get any one else to agree to the proposition." Can any one throw light on this story? Mr. Copeland died in 1834, and his widow, Mrs. Lucy Copeland, continued to reside at the house till 1842. I know nothing of any soidisant Earl of Annandale having lived at the CHAS. JAS. FÈRET. house. I 49, Edith Road, West Kensington. LAURENCE LITCHFIELD, 1635, NEW ENGLAND.shall be glad to trace him in England.His descendants intermarried with Herseys, of HingA. C. H. ham, Mass., and used their name as a forename. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.-What is the "Church of Scotland," mentioned in the fifty-fifth section of the Canons of Canterbury? The Canons were promulgated in 1604. Was the Episcopal Church of Scotland then in existence ? Ком Омво. "FASESYING."-What is to be understood by the terms "came fasesying"? What connexion has it with the surname Fesy, Fesey, Phecy, Fezy, Feacy, Feacye, Feassaye, &c.? Any information about this family, its origin, &c., would be acceptable. The above names are taken from a list of Berkshire wills; but I have heard the name is found in the register of Brill and Long Crendon, Bucks. Is the name a common one? H. F. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.-This American poet, who is idolized by his countrymen not unlike Burns is by the Scotch, bears a patronymic which would seem to have escaped all record in the annals of English topology, a department of literature in which the English excel every other nationality, certainly to the shame of their neigh bours the Scots and the Irish. If the name be English, in what part of England does it abound? SHAWMUT. Massachusetts, U.S. THE GERMANIC DIET. One of the most farreaching diets ever held in the German empire was that of Mayence (1298), which claimed to strip the imperial crimson from the shoulders of the Emperor Adolf of Nassau, who had been crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle six years previouly, and to choose Albert of Hapsburg in his stead. The right of the diet to do this is greatly in doubt. I shall be glad to learn of any authorities bearing on the question of the franchises of the Germanic diet, and especially on the doings of that of Mayence. It will not be forgotten that Adolf fell at the battle of Gellheim, shortly after, by his foe's hand, and that the latter was again called to the crimson (if again it be), but was himself slain ten years later by his nephew, Duke John of Suabia, at Windisch, on the Reuss, and this very question raised by Rudolf von Wasta, charged with being THREAD GOWN. accessory. Vancouver's Island. RETORT.-In a life of Sir John Birkenhead ('Lives of the Poets,' by Mr. Cibber and other hands, 1753) I find the following: "It is said of Birkenhead, that when an unmannerly Member of Parliament, in opposing him, took occasion to say that he was surprised to hear an alehouse-keeper's son talk so confidently in the House, he coolly replied, I am an alehouse-keeper's son, I own it, and am not ashamed of it; but had the gentleman who upbraided me with my birth been thus descended, in all probability he would have been of the same profession himself'; a reply at once sensible and witty." Has not this "retort courteous" been ascribed to more than one distinguished person since? Bir kenhead died 1679. Twickenham. G. T. SHERBorn. BROWNING AS A PREACHER.-Dean Farrar, in his sermon at Marylebone Parish Church, might have said that those of the congregation who, on leaving the church, walked westwards would presently come to a chapel in which Robert Have Browning preached the sermon, one Sunday morning about twenty-five years ago. It is called the Paddington Congregational Church. any of Browning's occasional sermons been published? It is highly probable that shorthand reports exist. On this occasion, at least, the germon was announced beforehand by posters, and would hardly fail to attract some reporters, W. R. GOWERS. POPE'S EPITAPH ON MRS. ELIZABETH CORBET. Can any reader of N. & Q.' tell me something of Mrs. Elizabeth Corbet, on whose monument, in St. Margaret's, Westminster, there is an epitaph by Pope, beginning: Here rests a woman good without pretence? Did her husband belong to the Shropshire Corbets ? E. W. CAGOTS.-Mr. Wright, in a paper on the Cagots, in his 'Archaeological Essays,' mentions that suchlike communities existed elsewhere than in France and Spain. Can any reader confirm this; for I can find them only in connexion with these two countries ? He likewise mentions that they probably existed in England also, coming to this conclusion from the fact that in several churches doors, not unlike Cagots' doors, had been found built up. Is this the case? I should be greatly obliged by any one helping me here. JAS. FLEMING. CLAREL.-Sir Richard Fitz-William married Elizabeth Clarel (she died 22 July, 1504), and Sir John Fitz-William, of Sprotborough, married Margaret Clarel. Were these ladies sisters, and daughters of Thomas Clarel, or Clavel, of Aldwark, co. York, by Elizabeth, or Margaret, his wife, daughter of Sir John Scrope? Dundrum, co, Down. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. STATISTICS OF IMPOSTURE,-Does Swift, Jean Paul, or some other humourist mention this; or is it the title of a book? A. B. WESTCHESTER.-E. Bulkeley's 'Apology' (London, 1608) mentions a "Mr. Goodman, preacher of Westchester." Where is this; and what Mr. Goodman was preacher then? I can only find Westchester, U.Š.A. C. S. I PLACES IN STOKE ST. GREGORY.-From that find places with the following names are in the most valuable work Kelly's 'Somerset Directory said parish of Stoke: to wit, Mare Green, Huntham, High Huntham, Woodhill, Burroughbridge, Sedgemoor, Stathe Court, Stathe, Churley, Dykes, Sturt's Farm, Slough, Walker's Farm, Curry Load Farm, Parsonage Farm, Woodhouse Farm, Frog Lane, and Turkey. Such "gawky " names in romantic Somerset! If we give queer ones here, it is evidently by inheritance. But, leaving the "gawks" out, I beg to ask, Have any of these Octorara, Rowlandsville, Maryland. PROBLEMATICAL ANCESTOR OF HANNAH MORE. -Can any of your readers furnish a clue to a very possible link of consanguinity between the family of Hannah More and that of John Smith, the celebrated mezzotint engraver? The friendly relations between Hannah More and Garrick are well known, and there is extant an impression in wax of Sir Godfrey Kneller's portrait presented by Garrick to Patty (Martha), Hannah More's sister, with some verses in his autograph. On the assumption of an affinity between the families of Smith and More, a hint or request for such a memento from the quiet, unobtrusive Patty, who entertained the very strongest family affections, would seem very natural, rejoicing as she then was in the heyday of her sister's fame, as Kneller was not only closely associated with Smith in his art, but also a personal friend. This hypothesis is further accentuated by a drawing by Kneller-a sketch portrait—with the inscription in his autograph, "Drawn by the life Mr. Smith, Mrs. More's Father." The early recollections of Mr. Gladstone include a touching as well as picturesque memorial of the gifted authoress, the friend of Garrick, of Johnson, and the virtuous Duchess of Gloucester -as the good old Nestor has told us-the interest of which would not be diminished by a further retrospect into "the dark backward and abysm of Civil Beylies. RELIGIOUS DANCING. Don José Maria de Valdenebro, the learned sub-librarian of the University of Sevilla, assures Sta. Yglesia Patriarcal of this ancient Hispalis are me that the occasions when the seises dance in the the octaves of Corpus Christi, the Conception of the Blessed Virgin, and the last three days of the Carnaval, but not Christmas, as I said in my haste. He has lent me the volume entitled "Glorias Sevillanas: Noticia Histórica de la Devoción y Sevilla ha profesado á la Inmaculada Concepción Culto que la muy noble y muy leal Ciudad de de la Virgen María desde los tiempos de la Antigüedad hasta la presente época por el Presbítero Don Manuel Serrano y Ortega Ldo. en Derecho y Canónico. Sevilla, Imp. de E. Rasco, Bustos Tavera 1, 1893" (pp. 920 and iii). In this, Capítulo xvi.," pp. 724 to 736, treats of the singing and dancing of these specially endowed quiresters; and "Lám 25," facing p. 730, gives us a photograph of them in their special costume. This dress is that of a court page of the sixteenth century, consisting of a grey felt hat with plumes, which the boys wear during the dance; a jacket, called vaquero, of azul celeste (sky-blue) silk with yellow strips and with long sleeves, all tight-fitting; sashes or ribbons of the same stuff, called bandas, hanging from both shoulders, like those of the toga talaris worn by commensales in Oxford; ruffs; stoles of white silk passed over the left shoulder and under the other; white silk tight knickerbockers; white cotton stockings; white satin shoes with blue and white bows. I have seen them RITCHIE OF CRAIGTOWN.-In 1758 this family these last few evenings since the Vespers of the matriculated a coat, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Arg., on a 7th, when they made their appearance in the chief gules three lions' heads erased of the first; choir of the Sagrario, or Chapel of the Holy Sacra2 and 3, Az, a crescent or between three cross cross-ment, which is the place where the cathedral lets arg. The first and fourth quarters are, I presume, services take place during the repairs required by for Ritchie; but for whom are the second and the collapse of the vaulting nine years ago. On third quarters? I find no information on the that day they did not dance, but they have done point in Mr. J. Balfour Paul's valuable Ordinary so the last three evenings, beginning at 5 o'clock, of Scottish Arms,' which, unfortunately, does not after compline. They are ten in number, though give the name of each quartering in most of the said to have been six formerly, as their name sugquartered coats, thus detracting from the useful-gests. Placing themselves in two rows, on either ness of a work most interesting to students of heraldry. ARMIGER. time." 8, Edward Street, N.W. S. MCDONALD. side of the space just before the altar, they kneel at first, then sing bareheaded, standing still, and finally don their hats and begin the right-and-left swaying of their bodies and the movement of the feet, which is continuous. All the time they are accompanied by an orchestra standing in the corner between the archbishop's chair and the end of the altar. At times they rhythmically click their postizas. They sing all the time. There is no hopping or jumping, but the dance takes the form of a pacing-drill-like quadrille, in which they shift their positions. It lasts for ten minutes. The Bath. PATRICK MAXWELL. general effect is decidedly agreeable and cheerfully his brother, on the risk of thus exposing his person, is reverential. The movements remind one a little well known: 'Believe me, James,' he said, no one will of the strutty walking of the actors in a Souletin murder me to make you king.' pastoral in Basqueland. The archbishop, one of the best and most eloquent men in Spain, has attended the ceremony each evening, kneeling at "WAYZGOOSE" (8th S. x. 432, 483).-In PROF. his faldstool, while the venerable Infanta Maria SKEAT'S note on the word "" wayzgoose," read Luisa Fernando knelt or sat at hers on the opposite before the Philological Society on 9 June, 1891, side of the sanctuary, each behind a row of seises he connects wayz with M.E. wase, a wisp of straw, (in the singular seise). He terminates the ceremony, also a torch. This M. E. word is evidently idenwhich it is needless to say is very numerously tical with Middle Dutch wase, a bundle, torch; attended, by giving his benediction from the altar. Danish and Swedish vase, a bundle of straw. But But this is immediately preceded by the exposition in no English, nor German, nor Scandinavian of the Sacred Host, and followed by the announce- dialect can it be shown that the word wase means ment, made by the Dean, that His Grace grantsstubble." Hence the difficulty of accepting eighty days' indulgence to all those present. As he leaves the church, preceded by the metropolitical cross, nearly all the bells of the unrivalled Giralda tower clang forth a joyous peal, “like sweet bells jangled out of tune." It is a pity that a short book of the words and music, with a few historical notes, is not sold. The proceeds would be useful for the restoration of the squarest cathedral in Spain. Hto. San Joseph Giral Delpino, in A Dictionary, Spanish and English,' London, 1763, has, "Seises are six boys that are choice singers, belonging to the Cathedral of Toledo, and living apart from the rest, a council of six that governs a town, the sices on the dice." Here Toledo may be a slip of the pen, and the press too, for Sevilla; or did the usage exist at Toledo as well in 1763? Sevilla. PALAMEDES. "THEY WILL NEVER CUT OFF MY HEAD," &c. (8th S. x. 455.)-The particulars of the interview, as related by one who was present, are these: PROF. SEEAT's explanation of "wayz-goose" as meaning "stubble-goose." "Stubble" is a very different thing from a twist of straw. But in the same note PROF. SKEAT asks us to believe something much more incredible. He affirms that M.E. wase is identical with Du. wase and Sw. vase, and at the same time answers to an impossible O.E. type wraps-the pedigree being wase, warse, wrase, wrcess, wraps! I wonder if PROF. SKEAT really proposes an analogous derivation for the identical Sw. vase. If so, he would have to derive vase from reis, the strong stem of Old Norse vriða (rīða), to writhe, twist," a rather difficult task, as most Scandinavian scholars would allow. Oxford. A. L. MAYHEW. CUTTING OFF DAIRYMAIDS' HAIR (8th S. x. 495).-There appears no reason to think that this is more than a solitary instance, or that the "raiders" cut off the hair of dairymaids more than of other maids, or that they had any other reason for it more than sheer rudeness and insolence to the poor girls. It does not seem very likely that they sold the hair to a barber to make wigs of. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Longford, Coventry. "King Charles II., after taking two or three turns one morning in St. James's Park (as was his usual custom), attended only by the Duke of Leeds and my Lord Cromarty, walked up Constitution Hill, and from thence into Hyde Park. But just as he was crossing the road, the Duke of York's coach was nearly arrived there. The duke had been hunting that morning on Hounslow ANCIENT CYCLING (8th S. I. 373, 441).-In the Heath, and was returning in his coach, escorted by a party Sketch of 18 Nov., 1896, p. 142, there is an illusof the guards, who, as soon as they the saw king, sud-tration of a Draisienne to which are attached five denly halted, and consequently stopt the coach. The Duke, being acquainted with the occasion of the halt, immedi- cyclists. The illustration is entitled 'Going to the ately got out of his coach, and after saluting the king, Races, 1819.' CELER ET AUDAX. said he was greatly surprised to find his Majesty in such a place with such a small attendance, and that he thought his Majesty exposed himself to some danger. No kind of danger, James, for I am sure no man in England will take away my life to make you king.' This was the king's answer. The old Lord Cromarty often mentioned this anecdote to his friends."-King's 'Political and Biblical Anecdotes,' 1819, p. 63. ED. MARSHALL. The actual saying referred to occurs in 'Peveril of the Peak,' chap. xlv., near the end :— "In the daytime the king (Charles II.) was commonly seen in the public walks alone, or attended only by one or two persons; and his answer to the remonstrance of SPIDER FOLK-LORE (8th S. ix. 7, 195, 256, 437, 494).-Dr. Adam Clarke, in a note in his Bible commentary on 1 Samuel xxiv. 9, gives a somewhat different turn in the application of this legend. He says: "The rabbins have invented a most curious conceit to account for Saul's [sic] security." Then follows a quotation, but without a reference to the authority: "God foreseeing that Saul would come to this cave, caused a spider to weave her web over the mouth of it, which, when Saul perceived, he took for granted that no person had lately been there, and consequently he entered it without |