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 10 s. XL JAX. 16, 1909.J XOTES AND QUERIES.

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CUTHBEBT SHIELDS (10 S. xi. 10). A bio- graphical sketch of Cuthbert Shields appears in The Wadham College Gazette for Michael- mas Term, 1908. Reference is made in it to an obituary notice in The Times of 22 September, and to an account of his life by Mr. Plummer in The Oxford Magazine, presumably in one of the issues of that journal during October. H. W. H.

For an obituary note written in memory of Cuthbert Shields, who died on 20 Sept., 1908, at Oxford, see one of the numbers of The Oxford Magazine for November. X.

[Mr. Frpwde kindly informs us that the notice appeared in The Oxford Magazine for 15 October, pp. 8-9.]

" MAMAMOUCHI " (10 S. x. 328). The term used by Ben Jonson in ' Volpone,' II. i., is Mamaluchi, which is simply the Italian form of " Mamelukes," the Arabic deriva- tion of which is given in the ' N.E.D.' as from mamaluka, to possess, hence " slaves." "Mamamouchi," though a burlesque appel- lation invented by Moliere as a title for M. Jourdain, is considered by Littre as taken from the Arabic ma menou schi, which signifies " good for nothing." In French it has since become synonymous for one who assumes an air of pretentiousness or pompo- sity. 1ST. W. HTT,T.. New York.

KING CHARLES THE MABTYR (10 S. x. 227). The dialogue " Quoth William Perm to Martyr Charles " first appeared in the New York Evening Post. I cannot give the date, as unfortunately I did not preserve it. I have, however, the original cutting in a scrapbook. It was prefaced by the following :

" Some silly people, with the Bishop's sanction too, have put a memorial window to ' King Charles the Martyr ' in a church in Philadelphia. Near by William Penn's statue surmounts the dome of the City Hall."

That Dr. Garnett was not the author of the epigram is evident from the fact that a few days later the following letter appeared in the before-mentioned newspaper :

Solvonter Risu Tabula. To the Editor of The Evening Pot.

SIB, Your Philadelphia correspondent Mr. Curtis calls attention to two blunders in my squib of last week relative to the honors lately paid to the memory of King Charles I.

What was done at the Church of the Evangelists, he says, could not possibly have been a canonization of King Charles, that event having occurred ' more than two hundred years ago,' while, moreover, the picture dedicated was not a glass window at all, but an oil painting. Well, as to the first point, my reply is that even if St. Charles I. was canonized

more than two hundred years ago, he was, by the same token (to wit, a royal proclamation), un- canonized or decanonized in the year 1859 ; so that, to speak accurately, what the Philadelphians did was to recanonize him surely a singular step for American Churchmen, however Anglomaniacaf.

To the other point I reply by acknowledging the blunder, and submitting a revised version of my epigram, which has the double advantage of being historically more accurate and of exhibiting the whole matter from a different point of view.

THE AUTHOR OF THE EPIGRAM.

A Second Martyrdom. Quoth William Penn to Martyr Charles :

" Thee scarce can feel at home Down there upon a canvas back

While I enjoy the dome. Let me step down and out, I pray,

And thee be patron saint ; A Friend ought not to stand in bronze

And leave a king in paint." Quoth Martyr Charles to William Penn :

" Nay, broadbrim, no such curse ; White-hall was surely bad enough,

Your City Hall were worse." I regret I can throw no light upon the authorship. GEORGE MERBYWEATHEB. 15, Jackson Road, Chicago.

GUEBNSEY LILY (10 S. x. 368, 412, 456). In Pitman's 'Words and Places' it is stated that

"the flower is a native of Japan, where it was discovered by Ksempfer, the Dutch botanist and traveller. The ship which contained the specimens of the new plant was wrecked on the coast ol Jersey, and some of the bulbs having been washed ashore, they germinated and spread in the sandy soil. Thence they were sent over to England in the middle of the seventeenth century, by M. Hatton, a botanist, and son of the Governor of Guernsey.

One of your correspondents gives the Hatton governorship as 1670-9. A bio- graphical dictionary states that Ksempfer, a German, spent two years in Japan, lb9^-4. If the above is all of it correct, Hatton must have been living in Guernsey after the retire- ment of his father from Jersey. Possibly a life of Ksempfer or his ' History of Japan and Siam,' published in English in 1727, may supply MB. KUMAGTJSU MINAKATA with particulars of the ship and her wreck. DOUGLAS OWEN.

ARMY AND MILITIA LISTS (10 S. x 489).-- There is a long series of these Lists, but not I think, quite complete, in the British Museum (Newspaper Room). I do not know how far back they go. Faihn g* he ^^ lists, or until he can get a set MB. WILLIAM will find what claim to be, " complete hst* of the Army and Navy," &c., in The Gentleman's Register; or, Rider's British Merlin,' which appeared annually.