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 ID s. x. AUG. 15, loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1008.

CONTENTS. No. 242.

NOTES : Spenser Allusions Toothache, 121 London Statues and Memorials, 122 Victoria Statue, Lancaster Gloucestershire Poll-Books, 124 Gascoigne and Euripides Robert Johnson's ' World ' " Hovelling" David Pole : David Powell, 125 Loten's Museum Shacklewell Lane- King's ' Classical Quotations 'England's Wooden Walls : Navarino Flagship, 126 Bream's Buildings: the Name, 127.

.QUERIES : Seventeenth-Century Quotations, 127 Warren Hastings's Son Stanley's Mission to Paris, 1761 Throat- cutting at Public Executions Dr. Isaac Basire's Portrait French Anonymous Biographies Widkirk : ' The Wake- field Mysteries,' 128 Friday Street St. Margaret's Hos- pital or Green Coat School Authors of Quotations Wanted 'Intellect and Valour of Great Britain' St. Ken elm's at Ware Reynolds on an Equestrian Statue, 129 Dean Cookes 'Epulum Parasiticum ' Accession and Corona- tion Coins Zoffany Siege of Danzig H. Hopper, Modeller, 130.

KEPLIES : The National Flag, 130 Vowel-shortening Salarino, Salanio, and Salerio French Words in Scotch, 132 Romans at York' ' Sabariticke "Medal of Charles I. Holy Grail Snail-eating and Gipsies Defoe : the Devil's Chapel Prior and his Chloe, 134 "Angel" of an Inn Tiger Folk-lore and Pope St. Andrew's Cross- Rushlights Dickens on "Half- Baptized, "135 Brass as a Surname Johnson's 'Tropical Climates 'Crows "crying Against the rain," 136 "Buccado" Budgee, a Kind of Ape "Sinews of War "Counting bringing Ill-Luck Henry Ellison, 137 The Bonassus Old Tunes Wine used at Holy Communion T. L. Peacock: "Skylight" and "Twilight "Swimming Bath, 138.

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SPENSER ALLUSIONS.

THAT learned lover of the noble Spenser, Dr. Gollancz, hopes that some day, as the Chaucer and Shakspere allusions have been collected and edited, a like service may be done for Spenser. In editing the ' Shake- ispeare Allusion Book ' (to appear two
 * months hence) for Chatto & Windus's

" Shakespeare Library " I have come across -a number of fairly early references to the .gentle exile of Kilcoman, and for the benefit of that future Spenserian labourer beg a little space to record them.

1. * Archseologicae Attice,' by Francis Rous, 1637, p. 86.

2. ' Valentinian,' by the Earl of Rochester, 1696, p. 128.

3. * Caroloiades,' by Hon. Ed. Howard, 1689, sig. A 4.

4. The British Princes,' by Hon. Ed. Howard, 1669, A 5 b, A 6.

5. Epigrams,' by R. Heath, 1650, p. 48.

6. ' Maggots,' by Sam. Wesley, 1685, pp. 30, 32.

7. ' Poems collected by N. Tate ' (1685), ' Pastoral,' by Mr. Adams, 1683, p. 45. See also p. 91.

8. ' Chorus Poetarum,' 1674.

9. Jane Barker's Poems,' 1688, poem by " Phi- laster."

10. Another in the same volume, pt. ii., by J. Whitehall, p. 39.

11. ' The Humours and Conversations of the Town.' 1693, pp. 81, 82, 83, 84.

12. 'Poems on Aftairs of State,' 1703, vol. ii. pp. 235, 274. (Dates of poems earlier than 1703).

13. De Re Poetica,' by Sir Thos. Pope Blount, 1694, PI x 52, 114, 136, 137, 213-16.

14. 'Run and a Great Cast,' by Thos. Freeman, 1614, epig. 64.

15. * Letters and Verses to William and Lady Cavendish, Duke and Duchess of Newcastle,' 1678, p. 160.

16. ' Arraignement of the Whole Creature,' &c., by R.Henderson, 1631, p. 186.

17. ' Virgidimiarum,' by Joseph Hall, 1599 (Grosart's edition), p. 11. See Grosart's Intro- duction.

18. * De Arte Graphica,' by Dryden, 1695, p. 108.

19. ' Poems,' by Matthew Prior, 1709, p. 272.

The future collector will also find a goodly number of Spenser allusions in the ' Chaucer Allusions,' now nearing completion, edited by Miss Spurgeon for the Chaucer Society, and in the ' Shakespeare Allusion Book.' Perhaps some other ' N. & Q.' men, like MB. G. THORN - DBUBY, whose Shakspere references have been of great help to me, will record the Spenser allusions they happen to notice. JOHN MUNBO.

TOOTHACHE.

(See5S. xi. 88,515.)

SKILLED operators, using fine instruments and anaesthetics, have done much to diminish this ill that flesh is heir to. But in the days before dentists, toothache was terrible, as is evident from what has been said of it. Apostles are reputed to have suffered much : St. Peter's toothache was cured by Christ (5 S. viii. 144 ; 10 S. ii. 259) ; and according to some commentators it was St. Paul's thorn in the flesh (Woodhead, Allestree, and Walker, * Paraph. St. Paul,' 1675, p. 163).

On one of the Early English capitals in Wells Cathedral is a huge carving of the contorted face of a man, probably a bishop, who with one hand is pulling away his cheek from his gums, as if making way for the insertion of the forceps. It is locally known as " the man with the toothache."

The appeal to St. Apollonia, the patron saint of the teeth, is noticed by Stillingfleet (' Idolatry in the Church of Rome,' ed. 2, 1672, p. 131) ; and Mr. Ford reports that in his time prayer was still made to her in Spain (' Gatherings from Spain,' 1846, p. 259). Much about her is in ' N. & Q.' (2 S. i. 213, 323, 340 ; 3 S. vi. 178 ; 5 S. viii. 144, 292 ; 6 S. i. 126). Pascal is said to have worked a cure for himself by mathematics ( ? authority). Certainly human