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 10 s. XL APRIL io, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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example of the nautical phrase " to lie at hull " is dated 1556. The above extract carries the verb back a few years.

ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

CHARLES LAMB'S CAPT. STARKEY (10 S. xi. 241). In 'A Choice Collection of Tyneside Songs ' there is at p. 358 another portrait of this eccentric character. Compared with that reproduced by Hone, this one represents him as considerably older and less erect ; the hair has been allowed to grow until it falls on the shoulders, and the broad- brimmed hat has given place to a sort of turban, or it may be a sealskin cap. The cravat, instead of the " modest tie," is tied in a loose and slovenly fashion, the whole presenting the Captain as a tottering old man. Beneath is the following extract from Sykes's ' Local Records ' :

" Died in All Saints Poor House, Newcastle, Benjamin Starkey, in his 65th year. This eccentric, well known by the name of ' Captain Starkey,' being a free burgess, was for some time an inmate of the Freemen's Hospital, in the Manor Chare, but previous to his death had been removed to the poor house. Mr. Starkey, who was uncommonly polite, had a peculiarly smooth method of obtaining the loan of a halfpenny, for which he was always ready to give his promissory note, which his creditors held as curiosities. His memoirs, written by himself, with a portrait and facsimile of his handwriting, were published in Newcastle in 1818."

E. G. B.

EPISCOPAL SCARF OR TIPPET (10 S. xi. 130). The Rev. Vernon Staley in 'The Ceremonial of the English Church' (1899), p. 178, says :

" The broad black scarf, worn by our bishops with the rochette, and by dignitaries and pre- bendaries in cathedrals, is not mentioned in any of the rubrics of any of the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer. Its adoption seems to have led to the promiscuous use of stoles, on all occasions, which obtains in so many modern Anglican churches, and which rests on no good authority."

A. R. BAYLEY.

The tippet should be worn by all clergy. "" It denotes the clerk in holy orders as distinct from a laic " (Cuthbert Atchley in Transactions of St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, iv. 327). See Percy Dearmer, ' Parson's Handbook,' 1907, pp. 148-55. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS.

Sibson Rectory, Atherstone.

In the days of the Duke of Bedford, who died in 1802, it was the custom for the " Curate " of Woburn (Woburn was the Duke's Peculiar, and had no Vicar), when

reading the Bidding Prayer, to turn to ^ the Duke's pew at the clause relating to " the nobility," and, with a profound bow, to add " more especially for the noble Duke to whom I am indebted for my scarf." The scarf was the badge of chaplaincy, and the Curate was domestic chaplain to the Duke.

G. W. E. R.

See Hook's ' Church Dictionary ' under the headings amice, band, hood, scarf, tippet. FRANK PENNY.

Presumably MR. SWYNNERTON alludes to the broad black strip, something like an elongated stole, worn to-day by Anglican dignitaries. They are said to be remnants of the long black cappa, reaching to the heels, which throughout the Church used to distinguish Black from White Canons, i.e., Canons Regular of St. Augustine from Premonstratensians.

In these kingdoms all clerks in cathedrals seem to have worn this black cappa. In Northern France, and at Lucca, and pro- bably elsewhere, it was worn by secular canons. In 1900 it was still worn by the canonesses of Saint-Pierre-de-Rheims and of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

[A long reply from MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL, tracing the tippet to the " liripipe " or " liripoop (see ' N.E.D.'), has been forwarded direct to MR. SWYNNERTON.]

BELL-HORSES (10 S. vi. 469 ; vii. 33, 110, 174, 258 ; ix. 517). At the last reference R. B. P. says that DR. BRUSHFIELD (10 S. vii. 112) had written that the lines "Bell- horses, bell-horses, what time of day," do not occur in HalliwelFs ' Nursery Rhymes,' adding that they will be found on p. 147 of the second edition of that work, 1843, What DR. BRUSHFIELD had written was that the jingle "does not appear in that form in Halliwell's 'Nursery Rhymes,' where the first line commences ' Good horses, bad horses.' "

In the third edition of Halliwell, 1844, p. 112 (No. 229), the jingle appears thus : Good horses, bad horses,

What is the tune of day}? Three o'clock, four o'clock,

Now fare you away.

This reading is also given at p. 232 (No. 393) of "Nursery Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles. The Camden Edition. Compiled by Mrs. Valentine," published, I think, some twenty years ago.

In each book a note is prefixed : following lines are sung by children when starting for a race." ROBERT PIERPOINT.