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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. i. APRIL 2, 190*.

"Go FOR"=ATTACK (10 th S. i. 225). An expressive if inelegant extension of this phrase is to "go for it bald-headed," i.e., to proceed in any course with energy, vehe- mence, haste, &c., as if one had no time to put one's hat on, or in spite of the drawback of the hirsute deficiencies of old age :

"M. Jean de Bonnefon is a brilliant journalist, who wields a mordant pen in several Parisian dailies, and whose great delight it is, as a Radical of the Paul Pert school, to pitch into the Papal Nunciature here whenever occasion offers. Of late especially he has been ' going for it bald-headed.'" M. A. P.. May 13(?), 1899.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

GUIDE TO MANOR KOLLS (10 th S. i. 169, 198). I thank the Editor for his courteous suggestion that I should try Miss Thoyts's ' How to Decipher Old Documents.' I regret to say that I have not found that work of much service in matters of real difficulty. Probably, however, my difficulties arise only from my own ignorance, and I shall be grateful if any readers will kindly extend the following for me the portions to me unintelligible being in italics :

" Vas. J. Davy quer de J. Boscawen [and others] m liij pi. tns. Et att h sunt" (temp. Henry VI.).

"No"" is a marginal note opposite entry of a relief (same date). T The Earl of Oxford does fealty "Et r j d.

Et iV sumi' p'est distring d'cu' comitem

ad fac domino homagium " (same date).

"Die. Joh'em Veer comit' ad faciend' D'no Homag' Et quia p'poitns non distr " (same date). What is the full formula?

" Dis. Dat'est Cur' inte'' q d Johannes Gerves [and others] inveneruut ...j hogsede vini," &c. (same date).

Over the name of a man presented to reeveship is " Jur' dj' " (Henry VII.).

These are samples. I regret my inability to get assistance in the book referred to.

YGREC.

Every series of ' X. & Q.,' except the first, contains notices on this subject. At 8 th S. i. 247, 380, are long and instructive articles on the matter. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

Some help is given and sources of more are indicated in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, x. 68 ; Archceologia, xlvii. 89-130.

W. C. B.

SOULAC ABBEY (10 th S. i. 209). The most important work on Soulac Abbey is ' Sainte Veronique, Apotre de 1'Aquitain'e, son Tom- beau et son Culte a Soulac, ou N. D. de la Fin des Terres,' by Abbe Mezaret (8vo, Toulouse, 1877). Other works on the subject are : ' Soulac et N. D. de la Fin des Terres,' par Dora. Gregoire Thomas (16mo, Bordeaux,

1882) ; and ' N. D. de la Fin des Terres de Soulac,' par Dom. Bernard Marechaux, Cure de Soulac (18mo, Bordeaux, 1893).

ROBERT B. DOUGLAS. 64, Rue des Martyrs, Paris.

DICKENS QUERIES (10 th S. i. 228). The ballad relating to a hackney-coachman, with the chorus of "Tamaroo,' is undoubtedly authentic, and was sung at Winchester School some seventy years ago. As far as I can remember, the first verse (I am sure of the first line thereof) ran as under :

Ben he was a coachman rare

[" Jarvey ! Jarvey ! " " Here am I, your honour."]

Crikey ! how he used to swear !

How he 'd swear and how he 'd drive

Number two hundred and sixty-five Tamaroo, tamaroo, tamaroo.

He is engaged by his Satanic Majesty to drive him home. So accordingly Jarvey he drove down Pall Mall Until he came to the gates of Hell, But he wouldn't go-first to the gulf of sin. So he turned and backed the Devil in, Tamaroo, tamaroo, tamaroo.

I have no idea where the ballad could be seen, or, indeed, if it ever was in print, and the above is about all that I can remember of it. G. E. C.

The word "Tamaroo" comes from an old song which used to be sung at Winchester when I was a boy. Each boy nad to write out a certain number of "College songs" and keep them in a book. These songs were sung just before "toy time" in "Chambers" for a fortnight in succession. I think that the song in question was called ' Jarvey.' The first stanza ran :

Ben was a hackney-coachman rare

"Jarvey ! Jarvey !" " Here I am, your honour ! "

Crackey ! how he used to swear Tamaroo !

How he 'd swear, and how he'd drive !

Number three hundred and sixty-five.

A description of these songs may be found in Tuck well's 'Winchester Fifty Years Ago' (Macmillan), p. 88. But I imagine that Mr. Wells, the bookseller to Winchester School, would be the most likely source of informa- tion respecting the songs and song-book.

One of the Winchester " notions "^ which was never explained was " biddy," which was the name of the earthenware bath which stood behind the door in College chambers. I believe it to be nothing else than the French word bidet. HERBERT A. STRONG.

University, Liverpool.

YEOMAN OF THE CROWN (10 th S. i. 208). The Mayor of Faversham no doubt derived his title of "Yeoman of the Crown" from the