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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. AUG. s, MOB.

this etymology, which so far has passed

unchallenged :

For theyjbene like foule wagmoires [quagmires]

overgrast,

That if thy galage [galosh] once sticketh fast, The more to wind it out thou doest swinck [strive], Thou mought ay deeper and deeper sinck.

N. W. HILL. New York.

NAVAL VOLUNTEERS IN 1795. The ad- dress issued by the Commissioners in 1795, calling on seamen to join the King's fleet, is hung up in the Municipal Buildings at Boston, Lincolnshire ; but as it is fast becoming illegible, I subjoin a copy, in order that this interesting document of the past may not be lost.

Jolly tars are our men.

British guineas, Complete cloathing, French prize money,

and

Promotion by merit.

Wanted for the Port of Boston in the County of Lincoln a number of spirited young men to serve their King and Country in His Majesty's Fleets.

During the War only.

Such brave fellows, whose hearts glow with ardour to protect this their happy country from invasion by the French or any other Foreign enemy and gain to themselves immortal honour, will be entitled to the following large bounties on entering into His Majesty's Sea Service, viz. :

If an able seaman, including the King's bounty, 31 L. 5s.

If an ordinary seaman, including ditto, 23L. 10s.

If an able-bodied landman, including ditto, 17L. 5s.

Over and above which the Corporation of Boston and the merchants and shipowners of that Port, as a further encouragement, will present the gallant volunteers with jackets, trousers, shirts, hat, and silk handkerchiefs fit for that noble character.

Brave and generous British Tar, Repair immediately to Henry Parker at the Golden Lion, High Street, Boston. By order.

John Waite,

Clerk to the Commissioners. April 6, 1795.

God Save the King.

I, lieutenant James Symons, of His Majesty's Royal Navy, regulating officer on the impress service at Boston, in pursuance of orders from the Admiralty Board, do hereby pledge myself not to impress, molest, or anywise disturb any person coming to this port for the purpose of entering as a Volunteer in the sea service, or in departing from hence in case such person cannot agree with the Commissioners for the bounty.

Witness my hand.

James Symons.

G. S. B.

" HAME-REIN." At the foot of a hill leading from Blackrock, near Brighton, to Rottingdean is a board with the inscrip- tion : " Please slacken hame-rein on going uphill." Hame, I learn from the dictionary, is " the curved piece of wood or metal by which the traces and body-harness of a horse are attached to the collar " ; but hame-rein is new to me, and I do not find it in the ' N.E.D.' JOHN HEBB.

FIRST DUBLIN PBINTEB. In The Weekly Irish Times of 27 June I notice a report of a paper read on the previous Monday, at a general meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, by Mr. E. R. M'C. Dix. I do not know if the subject of his discourse has been already discussed in the press :

" Humphrey Powell, the first Dublin printer.

came over to Dublin about 1550. He was aided

by a small grant from the Government of the time. Very little of his printing is now extant nothing but a folio edition of the Book of Common Prayer, two proclamations, and a little pamphlet entitled ' Brief Articles of Religion.' The type he used con- sisted almost entirely of black letters, with some italic types. Powell had been a member of the London Company of Stationers, and before he came to Ireland he printed in London. Nothing is known of his death or of .what became of him."

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

"CREMITT" MONEY. (See 8 S. ix. 348, 397 ; x. 264 ; 9 S. v. 254.) At the second of these references J. T. F. seems to expect that " cremitt " will receive some further elucidation. I think it does so in ' Some Early Civic Wills of York,' a paper read by Mr. R. Beilby Cooke before the Yorkshire Architectural Society, and printed in ' Asso- ciated Societies' Reports and Papers,' vol. xxviii. part 2, pp. 827-71.

In 1385 John de Gysburne bequeaths to the " Anacorite " of Bolton six and eight- pence :

" Item Anacorite de Hundegate & anac. de Lay- thorpbrig et anac. de Bissophyll quadrag. solid, p' equales porciones inter easdem dividend. Item lego les Cremetes hospital' Sci Lepnardi Ebor decem libras argent, inter eosdem equaliter dividend."

John de Gysburne' s widow in 1407 leaves 40s. " paup'ibz infirmaria hospital' Sci Leo- nardi."

Again, Robert de Howm (1396) devoted 100 marks to the brothers of St. Leonard's Hospital, on the condition of an annual celebration of his obit ; he left every sister of the said hospital 6s. 8d., and to each cremate thereof 20d. ; besides which he remembered every anchorite and recluse in the city of York. Among the legacies of