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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. AUG. 29,

I do not think it possible to trace the authorship of " Jowk, and let the jow gae by." It is a Scottish proverb ; the mean- ing is Duck to avoid a blow or push. A free translation would be " Bend to the storm," or, as Jamieson in his ' Scottish Dictionary ' puts it, " Yield to any present evil by making the best of it." Ramsay in his ' Scottish Proverbs ' gives the proverb thus : " Jouk, and let the jaw gae o'er " ; and in Ross's ' Helenore ' we have the couplet :

Sae we had better jook, until the jaw Gang o'er our heads, than stand afor't and fa'. JOHN ADDISON.

Primrose House, Wood Green, Wednesbury.

[Ms,. J. T. CURRY and MR. C. LAWRENCE FORD
 * also thanked for replies.]

'SOBRIQUETS AND NICKNAMES ' (10 S. vii. 366, 430; viii. 37, 114, 290). Although MR. ALFRED BOWDITCH gives at the last reference a most interesting list from the ' Catalogue of Satirical Prints and Drawings in the British Museum,' it must be remem- ibered that all these were not in common use. Many of them were merely the titles of particular caricatures. I append a fresh series, which should not be omitted from a new edition of Mr. Frey's volume :

Single Speech Hamilton. William Gerard Hamilton.

The Tiger. Edward, Baron Thurlow.

Starvation Dundas. Henry, 1st Viscount Mel- ville.

Blue Hanger. William, 3rd Baron Coleraine.

Hellgate. Richard, 7th Earl of Barrymore.

Cripplegate. Henry, 8th Earl of Barrymore.

Newgate. Rev. Augustus Barry.

Nosey. Admiral Sir Thomas Pye.

Tom of Ten Thousand. Admiral Thomas Smith.

Conversation Cooke. William Cooke, the bar- rister.

Bumper John. John Forbes of Culloden.

Capability Brown. Launcelot Brown.

Black Will and Oronooko. William, 3rd Vis- count Chetwynd.

Athenian Stuart. James Stuart.

Lord Torpedo. George, Marquis of Cholmondeley.

Pea-green Hayne. Hayne.

Billingsgate. Lady Caroline Barry.

Maid of Bath. Elizabeth Linley, afterwards Mrs. .Brinsley Sheridan.

Beauty of Buttermere. Mary Robinson.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

ROSES AS BADGES :- WHERE BORNE (10 S. x. 87). The actual flower, if it was worn -at all by York and Lancaster partisans, must, of course, have been so employed as a device in summer time only, and it would appear to be very doubtful whether it was .general even then, considering the delicacy of the flower after being plucked, apart from, occasionally, its comparative scarceness.

The question is twofold : upon what part of the person was the badge worn ? and what was the material of which it was made ? That it was not worn on the crested helm of knighthood and nobility, unless excep- tionally, is almost certain ; neither was it worn on the armour-covering surcoat, which was adorned with the family arms, this surcoat being peculiar to those who wore body armour. I do not know how far your more learned correspondents will agree, but one is of opinion that the badge was worked in some textile material on the neck or the breast of the common soldier. In Fairholt's ' Dictionary of Terms in Art ' there is an illustration of a mediaeval badge of bronze, the shield being beautifully enamelled ; and it is described in a note as being " one of the kind anciently worn by retainers in royal and noble families " (vide 'Badges').

The type of the embroidered rose may perhaps be sought in the English gold coin, the rose or rose-noble, struck in 1344, under Edward III., and so called because it had a rose, the badge later of the rival houses.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

HABVEY'S BIBTHPLACE (10 S. x. 9, 117). Messrs. Seager & Co. of Folkestone, as re- corded in The Folkestone Herald of 30 May last, have received the following letter from the Master of Caius College :

The Lodge, Gonville and Caius College,

Cambridge, 21 May, 1908.

DEAR SIRS, Dr. Moore, in the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' states that William Harvey left property to this College. But there is no foundation for this statement. I fear we have no information which would help in the identification of the house in which Harvey was born. I am, dear Sirs, yours faithfully,

E. S. ROBERTS, Master. Messrs. Seager & Co.

DB. CLIPPINGDALE kindly sent me direct the information that Aubrey was the authority that the house and property at Folkestone were left to Caius College ; the extract ante, p. 117, says "vide his will." I hope some correspondent may kindly refer to Harvey's will, which has, I under- stand, been published.

RICHD. JOHN FYNMOBE. Wye.

JOHN OF GAUNT' s ABMS (10 S. x. 9, 116). MB. BAYLEY'S very full reply is interesting and valuable, but it does not answer one of the points in my note, which happened not to be printed. That point is, Was John of Gaunt 's treatment of these arms of pretension usual, or not ?