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 10 s. XL MAY i, im] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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to hear one utter " Liao-lai, Liao-lai," that Is to say " Liao comes, Liao conies." See the fifth century.
 * Wei-chi-kiu-chu,' written in or before the

Ma Hu (fl. fourth cent. A.D.) This bar- barian chief was notorious for his wickedness, even his name sufficing for centuries to stop the cries of children (Lo Shi, ' Tai-ping- kwang-ki,' tenth cent., quo ted in the Japanese work ' Kuge Jikko Shu,' under date 10 Feb., 1369).

Lord Talbot. Thomas Rundall's 'Me- morials of the Empire of Japan,' Hakluyt Society, 1850, in a chapter devoted to Capt. Saris's arrival at Firando and his entertain- ment, 1613, relates that the Japanese then had a song called ' The English Black Ship,'

"shewing how the English doe take the Spanish ships, which they (singing) doe act likewise in gesture with their Cattans [Kafana < i=SMvords] by their sides, with which song and acting they terrific and skare their children, as the French sometimes did theire with the name of the Lord Talbot. " Pp. 53-4.

On account of the Chinese throughout the Ming period (1368-1627) suffering exces- sively from Japanese pirates, the name of the latter people was used by the former in abusing one another or to quiet children ( ' Ku-kin-tu-shu-tseih-ching,' 1723, sec. viii. lib. xxxviii. fol. 24a). This statement natu- rally brings to mind the natives about Quito in the sixteenth century, who were so indig- nant concerning the rapacious Spanish in- truders whom they called Viracocchie, or " Froth of the Sea," that

" when little children can scarcely say a word, their fathers, shewing one of us to them, will say : 4 There goes a Viracocchie.' " Benzoni, ' History of the New World,' Hakluyt Society, 1857, p. 253.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

ANNE STEELE, THE HYMN- WRITER (10 S. xi. 249). The reply is in the negative, Sir Richard having been of Irish origin. There was some correspondence about the lady in the Ninth Series of ' N. & Q.' ; but I cannot lay hand on it. H. P. L.

" GAUNOX " (10 S. xi. 250). This may be a misreading for " gawger "=gaugeor, or examiner of ale. The middle letters are said to be uncertain, and a final r, with its bottom tail to the left, often looks like x.

R. S. B.

FECAMP ABBEY (10 S. xi. 308). The charters of the Abbey of Fecamp are pre- served in the Archives of the Seine Infe- rieure, and the cartulary in the Public Library of Rouen (Y. 51). They have been calendared by Mr. J. Horace Round in his

' Calendar of Documents preserved in France, illustrative of the History of Great Britain and Ireland,' published by H.M. Stationery Office. T. C.

" BEFORE ONE CAN SAY JACK ROBINSON " (10 S. xi. 109, 232, 317). A very simple test proves that Lady Dorothy Nevill's explana- tion is one of the innumerable fictions in- vented after the fact. The phrase is quoted as a stock one by Miss Burney in 1778, in ' Evelina.' Sheridan was first returned for Parliament in 1780, so that his speech could not have " originated " the saying.

FORREST MORGAN.

Hartford, Conn.

ST. MICHAEL LE QUERN (10 S. xi. 265). I am glad to be corrected. I certainly understood that Mr. Riley identified St. Michael le Quern with St. Michael, Cornhill ; and I thought that, as he wrote a book entitled ' Memorials of London,' he would be likely to know. It shows how easily one may be caught.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

BRIEFS FOR GREEK CHRISTIANS (10 S. xi. 289). The following extract from the Register of St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury, records the burial of the unfortunate Arch- bishop of Dyrrachium : " On 1 July, 1663, was buried Chariton Syllabaris, Archbishop of Dyrrachium." A. R. MALDEN.

The Close, Salisbury.

Abundance of information about the Greek Christians inquired after may be obtained by turning to the references given at 8 S. ii. 89, 173. W. C. B-

DICKENS'S "AUTOMATON DANCERS" (10 S. xi. 289). These were attached to the "little piping organ" with which Dickens connects them in the context, and were worked by its mechanism. Sometimes they appeared behind a glass screen, sometimes on the opening of " folding doors."

W. C. B.

JENNY WILKINS (10 S. xi. 268). MR. J. G. HEAD is probably thinking of the scene in chap. vi. of ' Tom Jones,' in which Jenny Jones is arraigned before Mrs. Deborah Wilkins for her supposed lapse from virtue : at least, the picture as described fits that scene very well, and the names are near enough. W. R'OBERTS CROW.

JAMES CORBRIDGE (10 S. xi. 208). A man of this name took his B.A. degree from Ch. Ch. in 1752. It looks as if he gave up his scholarship at Trinity to go to Ch. Ch.

A. R. MALDEN.