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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. i. MAY 21, im.

then, either divide and found elsewhere a colony, as it were, or the Society as a whole might migrate to another building of greater capacity.

In 1347, or thereabouts, a number of them actually did move into, and joined, if they did not found, the legal colony in the Temple ; but, notwithstanding the relief thus afforded, their numbers continued to increase. Luckily Lord Furnival's house and gardens in Hoi- born before very long became available, and the Society removed thither in a body at some date before 1383, still retaining their "usuall and antient name "of Lincoln's Inn.

When this occurred the owners of the old premises would probably wish to get a similar class of tenants to replace them ; and it would be only natural that the original body would desire to keep up its associations with its old quarters, sending readers to the new tenants there, and admitting them as members on more easy terms than were granted to outsiders. This, in fact, happened, and the new Society assumed the name of the old armourer, and styled themselves Thavies Inn.

The old Society of Lincoln's Inn continued to flourish in their new location to such an extent that, in less than forty years, larger accommodation again became imperative. At that time the Bishop of Chichester's property became vacant, and they moved bodily once more from Lord Furnival's premises to Chan- cery Lane, just as they had before removed to Lord Furnival's house from Shoe Lane, still retaining the old title by which they had then been so long distinguished ; and they were succeeded in their Holborn quarters by a new subsidiary body, which then took the name of Furnival's Inn.

Thus the bishops' palace became the liospitium of Lincoln's Inn, i.e., of the Society of that name, and thus also may the connexion between that Society and the Inns of Chancery known as Furnival's Inn and Thavies Inn respectively be easily and reason- ably accounted for.

The above is but the barest outline of Mr. Baildon's suggestion. For the arguments by which it is supported, and the more detailed reasons on which he relies, recourse must be had to the work in which it first saw the light. The perusal cannot fail to be of much interest to those who take pleasure in such studies, and readers of 'N. & Q.' may be glad to have their attention called to the subject. ALAN STEWART.

7, New Square, Lincoln's Inn.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL PROVERBS IN THE

WAVERLEY NOVELS.

(See ante, p. 383.)

Tvanhoe.

I am like John-a-Duck's mare that will let no man mount her but John-a-Uuck. Chap. xxvu The Monastery.

An the whole pack of ye were slain, there were more lost at Flodden. Chap. x. (See 'The For- tunes of Nigel,' xv.)

Mac-Farlane's geese which liked their play better than their meat. xiii. (Also in ' The Abbot,' xix.)

I make my vow to sun and moon, I will not see a proper lad .so misleard [ill-taught, ill-bred] as to run the country with an old knave, like Simmie and his brother. xxiv. (See ' The Fortunes of Nigel,* xv.)

The Abbot.

The tongue of a tale-bearer breaketh bones as well as a jeddart - staff. Chap. iv. (See ' The Fortunes of Nigel,' xxxiii.)

And so she 'scapes Border doom [i.e. death]. xviii.

While Adam Woodcock, after he had compared his companion to the " Laird of Mac-Farlane's- geese who liked their play better than their meat." xix. (See 'The Monastery,' xiii.)

Kenilworth.

Do not scowl on them like the devil looking over Lincoln. Chap. i. (Also in ' The Fortunes of Nigel,' xxi.)

By Pol, Tre, and Pen,

You may know the Cornishmen. i.

Whose neck is beyond the compass of a Tyburn tippet. iii. (See "a St. Johnstone's tippet," ' Waverley,' xxxix., and ' Old Mortality,' vii.)

" The hope of bettering myself, to be sure," answered Lambourne, "as the old woman said when she leapt over the bridge at Kingston." iv. (This is in Sam Weller's manner.) vjiM>S"' 2 '

Make yourself scarce depart vanish or] we'll have you summoned before the Mayor of Halgaver, and that before Dudman and Ramhead meet. iv. ~

He was born at Hogsnorton, where, according to popular saying, the pigs play upon the organ. ix. (See also ' Woodstock,' iii.)

The Pirate.

Very, very Fifish [crazy, eccentric]. Chap, ix, (See 'Redgauntlet,' vii.)

Lambmas brother and sister. xxxii. (See verses and foot-note.)

Drunk as Davy's sow. xxxiv. ("David's sow " in 'Redgauntlet,' xiv.)

They [Mr. Yellowley's bees] died of ower muckle care, like Luckie Christie's chickens. xxxv.

The Fortunes of Nigel.

The Scot will not fight till he see his own blood. Chap. i.

He came to an Annandale end at the last. v. (This appears to mean that he was slain in fighting, not executed.)

It 's ill taking the breeks aff a wild Highlandman. v. (See ' Waverley,' xlviii.,and ' RobRoy.'xxvii.)

There was mair tint [lost] on Flodden-edge. xv. (See ' The Monastery,' x.)

As sib [related by blood] as Simmie and his brother. xv. (See ' The Monastery,' xxiv.)

You look on me as the devil looks over Lincoln. xxi. (See ' Kenilworth,' i.)