universal was this that I believe very few persons except those who received letters from him knew his Christian name. On one occasion the squire stood godfather for a daughter of one of his tenants; but when he offered to do so, he arranged that he should select the name to be given in baptism. When the godparents were standing around the font, and the officiating minister asked the name of the child, Mr. Dalton handed to him a slip of paper on which was written the name Knathia. Is it possible the person buried in Belton Churchyard was this little baby? She may have been a daughter of hers, or some one who was called after her. I do not know when Mr. Dalton died, but I think about the year 1820. I am nearly sure that he was dead in 1824, for I have good reason for thinking that my grandfather, Thomas Peacock, was at his friend's funeral, and he himself died in the EDWARD PEACOCK. summer of that year. Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey. THE LATIN LITANY (8th S. xi. 142).-Can DR. SPARROW SIMPSON say whether the Latin sermons preached before Convocation have been published, especially the discourse delivered by the Hon, and Rev. Samuel Waldegrave in 1839 ? EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. INSCRIPTION (8th S. xi. 88, 175).—Mr. WalFORD'S attempted solution will scarcely pass. If it were permissible to alter words, any inscription could be made to mean anything we like. It is very certain that the solution and meaning are not those so confidently assumed by this correspondent. PATRICK MAXWELL. Bath. quite in opposition to "It'll go damp always if he ails anything." the In Denmark the caul of a foal has also occult properties. If a woman creep under one when it is extended on four sticks she will escape pains of child-birth, but this exemption is bought at the expense of her children's happiness, for ber sons will be were-wolves, and her daughters nighthags. Cf. A Danish Parsonage,' p. 155. Since writing the above note I have learnt the following from M. H., a well-educated woman of about thirty, who says she does not believe in any superstition : - "I was born with a caul over my face, like a veil; but it was lost, and could not be found again. They thought that very likely the doctor took it to sell. Cauls are say no ship will ever sink which has one on board. When sold, or used to be, especially to sea-captains. People I mentioned to an old woman at home that I had been born with one, but that it was not kept, she told me I should always be unlucky for want of it-not that I believe in such things myself, though I have had a good many illnesses, so it is no wonder I am delicate. They say, too, I shall be a wanderer; but I don't know that I have declared she should always make her son take his caul gone about more than other people. The old woman about with him, to be safe, even if he was only going out visiting. It could be kept in the leaves of a book. She did say something about cauls withering up, but I forget what it was, because I was laughing at her." It is curious that " between the leaves of a book" was spoken of as a secure place for preserving the caul; one would imagine it would be safer worn M. G. W. P. as an amulet. Perhaps the book ought to be a religious one. THE USE OF HOLY WATER IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH (8th S. xi. 85, 158).-St. Alban's, Holborn, may be the first Anglican church to introduce THE CAUL, SILLY-HOW, OR SILLY-HOOD (8th S. the ceremonial use of holy water in the public xi. 144).-Cauls are still advertised for sale. In service; but I remember that in 1872, just a the Bazaar, Friday, 15 March, 1895, there ap-quarter of a century since, at the parish church of peared the following announcement: "Medical.Child's caul for sale, price 5l. or offers.-Address Wilson, 1, Cromwell Terrace, Boulevard, Hull." A week later, Friday, 22 March, another caul was "Child's caul for advertised in the same paper: sale, price 11. or offers. Derbys.-7384R." The figures followed by the letter R are the number of the advertiser at the publishing office of the Bazaar. The Lincolnshire superstitions I have collected on this subject differ on one point from those of J. T. F. According to my informants, when a baby is born with a caul, the caul should always be carefully preserved. It ensures luck to the person who has possession of it as well as to the child. No one who carries a caul with him can die by drowning. Moreover, a caul will show the state of health of its original owner, for while he is well it exhibits no change from its ordinary condition, but let him fall ill, and then it shrivels and shrinks together, "wizenin' awaay to o'must nowt," an assertion Ardeley, in Hertfordshire, holy water was pro- in his church; and when a petition was got up to Convocation to sanction the use of a shortened form at these services, he wrote, in reply to a request that he would sign it, that he would willingly do so, as he had himself adopted such a plan for many years, and most of his clerical neighbours had so shortened their daily services that they had W. R. TATE. come to have none at all. Walpole Vicarage, Halesworth. CHINESE FOLK-LORE (8th S. xi. 165).-With reference to the note by MR. J. PLATT, Jun., on this subject, I send the following extract from Thirty Years Ago; or, Reminiscences of the Early Days of Coffee-Planting in Ceylon,' by H. D. Millie (Colombo, 1878): "A very good way of finding the time is to examine the eye of a cat. I became aware of this one day by chance. The natives are quick at telling the time of day,' by what means I do not know, unless by habit and a sort of natural instinct. Any way, it used to be a common practice in a matter-of-course way to ask your servant what o'clock it was, and one generally got a pretty correct answer. When the sun was going down he would measure his shadow, in fact make himself a sort of temporary sun-dial. One cloudy day, on putting the usual question, 'What o'clock is it?' there was no reply, but immediately such a rushing and tumbling all over the house commenced, with shouts of Catch the cat; master wants to know what's the clock.' On demanding an explanation of this extraordinary proceeding, the cat was brought, and the true time of day at once declared. It was then brought to my notice that in the morning the pupil of the cat's eye was quite round, gradually decreasing, until at noon it was a small streak, just like a hair, after which it again enlarged towards evening." how he served the Schoolmaster, his Wife, the vi. 17, 111; x. 304, 415, 475; xi. 312; 3rd S. i. Το 422; xi. 17, 113, 175).-A full account of this "FEER AND FLET" (8th S. x. 76, 166, 339, phrase is to be found in the New English Dictionary' (s.v. "Flet"). that "fire and flet" is an expression very freIt is there stated quently occurring in wills of the sixteenth century, with the meaning "fire and house-room." A quotation is given from a will, dated 1539, Mr. Millie was writing, I may say, of a period and kechin." "My wife to have fyre and fleete in my haule fifty years ago. I am not aware whether the prac-is very common in law phrases in Old English, in Flet in the sense of "house, home," tice to which he alludes still survives in Ceylon. DONALD FERguson. Old Frisian, and in Icelandic. Ducange (s. v. "Flet") cites a passage from 'Leges Burgorum Scotic.,' cap. 25, § 2:— 5, Bedford Place, Croydon. "LAZY LAWRENCE" (8th S. xi. 189).-Miss Edgeworth wrote a story entitled 'Lazy Lawrence,' which can still be purchased, with 'Simple Susan and several others, of Messrs. Warne; but I do not know if this is what is required, for there is no reference to "of Lubberland ” in it. WM. H. PEET. This individual was the hero of an Aldermary Churchyard chap-book, of which a description was given by Mr. Halliwell in his 'Catalogue of Chapbooks, Garlands, and Popular Histories,' 1849, p. 25. It was one of the most popular books of its class, and was many times reprinted during the last century. W. F. PRIDEAUX, See Kentish Sayings,' 6th S. v. 266, 474; vi. 78, 117, 299; and Lazy Lawrence,' 7th S. xi. 4, 115, 212, 415, at which last reference MR. BIRKBECK TERRY refers to an old chap-book in his possession, entitled "The History of Lawrence Lazy, containing his Birth and Slothful Breeding "Salvo hoc quod uxor ejusdem defuncti desponsata, tota vita sua, quandiu erit vidua, interiorem partem domus capitalis, quæ dicitur Flet, tenebit." Wonders,' which was acted at Castle Ashby, 2 January, 1846, see 'N. & Q.,' 7th S. xi. 105. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. "INVULTATION" (8th S. xi. 107).-For a dictionary see Hofman's 'Lex. Univ., s. v. "Invultatio," with reference to "Vultus." Ducange (abridgment by Maigne d'Arnis), has: "Invultare.-Vultum effingere; donner une forme (Mart. Vict.). De iis dicetur qui ad artes magicas causa alicui docendi (cor. nocendi) confugiunt; envoûter (A. 1371)." Also: "Vultivoli.-Incantatorum species, sorte d'enchanteurs, envoûteurs. L'espèce d'enchantement mis en pratique par cette classe de prétendus magiciens, consistait à figurer en cire molle celui qu'on voulait enchanter, et à enfoncer des épingles dans l'image obtenue." The complete edition will, of course, contain many more particulars, specially Hofman states :"Sic Joannam Reginam, Philippi Pulchri Galliæ Regis uxorem, a Guichardo, episcopo Trecensi, invultatam esse, et hac invultatione periisse, testes quosdam asseverasse, refert Car. du Fresne, Glossar.'" John of Salisbury, 'De Nugis Curialium,' 1. i. c. xii., in a chapter concerning various forms of enchantment, notices the vultivoli. From the frequent notice in classical writers, I presume that there will be some reference to this form of magic in Smith's Classical Dictionary.' ED. MARSHALL. ་ Devovet absentes, simulacraque cerea fingit, Et miserum tenues in jecur urget acus. Cf. also vultuarius and vultuare. Lenormant, in 'Chaldean Magic,' gives the following formula, from an Accadian incantation " 'He who forges images, he who bewitches, the malevolent aspect, the evil eye, the malevolent mouth, the malevolent tongue, the malevolent lip, the finest sorcery, Spirit of the heavens, conjure it! Spirit of the earth, conjure it!"-Ch, i. p. 5. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. 'MALLY LEE' (8th S. x. 336).—This query, which does not appear to have been answered, is recalled to my mind by the occurrence of a stanza from the song referred to in an article on Mr. Henley's new edition of Burns, in the Saturday Review for 6 March, where it is stated that the date of the song is "about 1746." The stanza quoted runs thus :— It would be interesting to know who is the author of a song that has thus haunted two famous poets. Perhaps Mr. Henley gives his name. Will some one kindly say? C. C. B. LANDGUARD FORT, SUFFOLK (8th S. x. 515; xi. 35, 96).-In the list of governors of the above fort is Capt. Nathaniel Darell, in 1667. This officer was Lieutenant-governor of Guernsey from 1661 to 1664. His father, also a Nathaniel Darell, had held the same office some forty years earlier, and in 1624 married Anne de Beauvoir, of this island. G. E. LEE. Guernsey. MAJOR J. H. LESLIE will find some historical information about Landguard Fort in the Suffolk Directory.' In the edition for 1855 it is stated that the first fort was built "about the beginning of the reign of Charles I.," and had four bastions, called the King's, Queen's, Warwick's, and Holland's, each mounting fifteen large guns. Murray's Eastern Counties,' 1892 (not a trustworthy book) says the fort was built "in the reign of James I.," whereas the present fort was constructed in 1718. JAMES HOOPER, Norwich. The registrar of the diocese writes: : "Bishop Samuel Harsnett was Bishop of Norwich from 1614 to 1628. I have searched carefully through the Register of his Acts, and find no mention whatever made by him of a chapel in Landguard Fort." Can any one throw light on the above differences? It is beyond all doubt that there was a chapel in the fort. Information of any description is asked for about any of the following, who were, in the years stated against their names, governors of this fort :1711. Gwyn Vaughan. 1718. Capt. Bacon Maurice. 1769. Lieut.-General Robert Armiger, colonel of the 40th Regiment. 1771. Lieut.-General Sir John Clavering, K.B., colonel of the 52nd Foot. 1776. Lieut.-General Sir A. Mackay, colonel of the 21st Foot. "SCOT" AS A HORSE'S NAME (8th S. xi. 46).In November last I asked in the Notes and Queries' column of the Norfolk Chronicle if the name Scot for horses was still in use in Norfolk, as in the time of Chaucer's Reeve. I annex the reply, which appeared in the Norfolk Chronicle of December 5 last, which may interest PROF. SKEAT. "Mr. James Hooper, in his quotations from the Canterbury Tales' and the annotated edition of Bell's *Chaucer,' has done good service in directing attention to a fact that had almost been lost sight of. The name 'Scot' is undoubtedly still in common use for farm horses in Norfolk and Suffolk. I will not go so far as to say that there is scarcely a farm in the counties named in which one of the horses is not called Scot,' but there are a great many farms where 'Scots' may be found. At several of the agricultural sales last Michaelmas the name appeared in the catalogues. Writing from memory, I believe that 'Scot' was disposed of at Mr. Rinder's sale at Bowthorpe; and as recently as 21 November, among the cart horses and colte sold at Messrs. Spelman's Norwich horse sale, a bay mare named 'Scot was among the lots offered. Mr. Hooper has not asked why the name has been so popular with Norfolk people for so long a time; bad he done so I should not have been able to answer that question.-FARMER." Norwich. JAMES HOOPER. At p. 638 of the Century for February, 1889 (vol. xxxvii. No. 4), considerable prominence is given to the name "Scott" (sic), as that of a mule taking part in the performance of a negro musical pastoral: "Loos' Mule. Hong-g-g-kee! Honggg-kee!-honk!-erhonk!-erhonkerhonk!" He is first admonished to "Git up Scott!" and finally, having apparently lashed out at his driver on being turned "loos," imprecated, in large caps., with: "Whoa Scott !!! Mule, ef dem heels had er hit me, I'd er bust yo' wide opun wid er rock! Dern er fool, anyhow!" THOMAS J. JEAKES, LETTER FROM ELIZABETH, LADY HARVEY, TO HER FATHER (8th S. xi. 106). Although MR. CHAS. WISE'S communication as above might have had a better heading, suggestive of the subject of this interesting epistle, he has done good service in making the latter public, throwing as it does some light on the unhappy relations which existed between Thomas, second Earl of Stamford, and his first wife-a subject hitherto involved in much confusion and doubt, both as to the persons and the circumstances, and upon which, not very long since, I had some correspondence with my friend G. E. C. in connexion with his Complete Peerage,' now happily closely approaching completion. It has long been a vexed question whether these matrimonial differences were with the first or the second wife, and consequently as to the author of the fire at the earl's Leicestershire seat. This confusion was in a great measure due as well to the absence as to the incorrectness of certain dates, and the other inaccuracies in the statements of those who have attempted to deal with the subject. Nichols, as quoted by your correspondent from the History of Leicestershire,' has, by reason of the date he assigns to the incident, attributed the origin of the Bradgate House conflagration to the second wife, although from the context he evidently (and rightly) intended otherwise. The Rev. J. Curtis, in his Topographical History' of the same county (1831), as well as Throsby, whom he quotes, gives an almost entirely different version of the matter, as follows :— "[Bradgate House] was built in the early part of the sixteenth century by Thomas, Lord Grey, second Marquis of Dorset, and was occupied by his descendants as their chief seat until the beginning of the last century, when, according to a tradition in the neighbourhood, it was set on fire by the wife of the Earl of Suffolk at the instigation of her sister. The story is thus told by Throsby: Some time after the Earl had married, he brought his lady to his seat at Bradgate; her sister wrote to her desiring to know how she liked her habitation and the country she was in. The Countess of Suffolk wrote for answer," that the house was tolerable; that the country was a forest, and the inhabitants all brutes." The sister in consequence, by letter, desired her " to set fire to the house and run away by the light of it." The second Earl of Stamford married, first, in 1674, or more probably in the spring of 1675, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Daniel Harvey, of Combe-Nevill, in Kingston, co. Surrey, Knt., Ambassador to Turkey (who died there August, 1672, at. 41), by his wife Elizabeth, only daughter of Edward, second Lord Montagu of Boughton, in Weekley, co. Northampton. She was born probably c. September, 1656, and appears to have been a remarkably handsome woman. There are portraits of her, engraved respectively by Stamford's Countess led the van She who nere wants white or red* He married, secondly, c. March, 1690/1, Mary, second daughter and coheir of Joseph Maynard, of Gunnersbury, co. Middlesex, Esq., who survived him, and died at her house in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, same county, 10 Nov., 1722, aged fifty-one, and was buried with her said husband (who died 31 Jan., 1719/20, aged sixty-seven), at Bradgate with M.I. She left no issue surviving, but is stated by Nichols to have had a son, born (23 Dec.), 1696, who died in infancy. Lady Elizabeth Harvey, the author of the letter as above, survived her husband about thirty years, and was buried in the vault of Sir Ralph Winwood at St. Bartholomew's-the-Less, London, 16 July, 1702. I may add that the important words so provokingly wanting in the transcript of this letter, through a defect in the original, appear to be "anxious" and "cancelled." The word "pay" therein is possibly a misreading of "Gray." with Dr. Brewer's, quoted from the 'Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' as to point to the original source of Dr. Brewer's statement. My copy of Moore's F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. Poems' is published by W. P. Nimmo, but is not dated. In that remarkable Oriental poem or romance Tom Moore's 'Lalla Rookh,' published in 1817, I find :Come, if the love thou hast for me Is pure and fresh as mine for thee,Fresh as the fountain under ground, When first 'tis by the lapwing found. To this verse the following note is appended: "The hudhud, or lapwing, is supposed to have the power EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. of discovering water under ground" (edition 1841, vii. 53). 71, Brecknock Road, I think the hudhud is generally identified with the hoopoe. Freytag gives it as lepupa. In the 'Arabic Legends of King Solomon' both he and the Queen of Sheba are represented as each having a hudhud for water-discovering purposes, and the birds play a considerable part in the story. J. M. HEALD. MIRACLE PLAY (8th S. x. 276, 364, 422).—See also Karl Hase's book on the subjet, a translation Q. V. of which was published by Trübner some fifteen years ago. GEORGE MORLAND, SENIOR (8th S. xi. 8, 74, 147).-This question grows complicated. I had carefully compared photographs of the pictures of the two laundry girls exhibited in 1867 with the pictures now in the National Gallery, and could detect no difference. Two correspondents, however, state that they are still in the possession of Lord Mansfield. So there must be replicas of both pictures in addition to the pictures about which the correspondence originated. The ingenious suggestion that the pictures should be THE LAPWING as a Water-DiSCOVERER (8th S. described as the Miss Gunnings when sent to the xi. 48). The "legend" about which your corre-exhibition of 1867, and thus secure admission, spondent makes inquiry was known to Thomas Moore, for in The Light of the Haram,' which forms a part of Lalla Rookb,' towards the end, is the following stanza from Nourmahal's song to Selim : W. I. R. V. Come, if the love thou hast for me *Alluding to her complexion. † If, as seems likely, this refers to her being frequently A staunch royalist, who held some situation in the which might otherwise have been denied them, was somewhat belated if they were thus described when purchased by Lord Mansfield. KILLIGREW. JOHN ANDRÉ (8th S. xi. 8,56, 192).—John André, son of Anthony André and Marie Louise Girardot, was of a most respectable family from Nismes, never known-and herein much distinguished from the Girardots, who rejoiced in territorial aliases innumerable-by any other than their nom de famille. His great-grandfather, a merchant and banker of Nismes, Jean André (1651-1739), was married the year before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He himself was born before the centennial anniverary of this ancestor's birth had come round, not in 1751, but on 2 May, 1750, and was baptized at the French Church of St. Martin |