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 10 th S. I. JAN. 2, 1904.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

EJECTED PRIESTS. On the accession of Queen Mary in 1553 many of the so-called 'reforming clergy " were ejected from their livings. Where can a list of them and par- ticulars ba found ? 1.

"DON'T SHOOT, HE is DOING HIS BEST." I should be glad if some one would inform me whether the following quotation comes from Mark Twain or Artemus Ward : "Don't shoot, lie is doing his best." Is the quotation correct? Was the notice put over a new organist in a church in the Western States, or did it apply to a pianist in a drinking saloon ? H. M. C.

BAGBHAW. Can any of your readers give me information respecting Samuel Bagshaw, who published at Sheffield, in 1847, a 'History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Kent,' in two volumes ? Did he produce any other works of a like character 1 ? I do not find his name in the 'D.N.B.,' nor in any local work with which I am acquainted.

CHARLES SMITH.

"FROM WHENCE." In Romantic Tales from

a review of my the Pan jab,' just

published by Constable, exception was taken

to my use, in one place, of the form "from

whence." It occurs on p. 438, in the story of

' Puran Bhagat,' " Let me return from whence

I have come." Now, of all Eastern stories,

' Puran Bhagat ' is the most Biblical in motive

and feeling, and I used the condemned form

deliberately, not inadvertently, because I ,- in-

had in my mind such passages of the Bible thonty had Timbs for saying this ? Is it not

an assumption based merely on the tact or the "Tun" in Cornhill having been built

"Gome; THE ROUND": "ROUNDHOUSE.'' Is it not probable that the phrase "going the round," or "rounds," is much older than it looks, and that it had its origin in the watch- man's rounds, that functionary sometimes announcing news over and above that which related to the weather? "To walk the round '' often occurs in the plays of Mas- singer and his contemporaries. In 'The Picture,' for instance, a tragi-comedy, acted in the "Black Fryars" in 1636, we find (Act II.) :-

Dreams and fantastic visions walk the round.

In ' King John ' (Act II. sc. ii.) the Bastard soliloquizes :

And France, whose armour conscience buckled on, Whom zeal and charity brought to the field As God's own soldier, rounded in the ear With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil, Commodity (i.e., interest).

Here "rounding in the ear" means to whisper. An old phrase similar to our modern " going the round " was " to go current" or to "go for current": "A great while it went for current that it was a pleasant region " (Purchas, ' Pilgrimage,' p. 18). Was not a roundhouse, by the way, so called from being a prison in which such lawbreakers were confined as were taken up by the constable or watchman on his rounds ? Timbs, however, says that the watchhouse was called a roundhouse " because it suc- ceeded the Tonel or Roundhouse ; the tonel having been an old butt or hogshead, or something in the shape of one." What au-

as "The land of Egypt, from ii'hence ye came out " (Deut. xi. 10), "From ivhence came they unto thee ? :> (Is. xxxix. 3) and many others. Shakespeare also uses this construction several times, as, for example : " Let him walk /row t'.'kence he came, lest he catch cold on 'S T feet " (' Comedy of Errors,' III. i. 37). With this array of precedents, may I ask

whether or not it is open to a modern writer,

somewhat in the fashion of a tun standing on its bottom ? And the roundhouses were generally either hexagonal or octagonal, I believe. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

MARRIAGE REGISTERS. Are there any

registers or records of the Fleet marriages,

especially of those performed bj

the day is far distant when the old pic- turesque irregularities and licences of our beautiful English tongue shall all be ground down to the dead monotonous level of Acadt'mie French, for instance. Perhaps some contributors will also kindly mention.

in

Guernsey, the Isle of Man, and Gretna Green from 1754 to 1857 ? THORNE GEORGE.

[For Gretna Green registers see General Indexes.]

INTERMENT IN GRAVES BELONGING TO OTHER FAMILIES. This practice is sometimes per-

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it possible, the earliest and the latest accepted i mitted, or even desired by friendly persons, work in which the locution jrom whence is to Can any instances of it in Queen Elizabeth's

be found.

I may add that from thence also occurs in the Bible : for instance, twice over in

time be given?

I.

2 Kings ii.

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

JOHN HALL, BISHOP OF BRISTOL. John Hall was Bishop of Bristol from 1691 to his