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 io s. XIL JULY 3, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

The signature to the former is omitted, but that to the latter is " John Paul."

In the same year (1830) there was pub- lished at New York the ' Life and Corres- pondence of John Paul Jones, including his Narrative of the Campaign of the Liman. From original Letters and Manuscripts in the Possession of Miss Janette Taylor.' In his preface the editor (Robert Sands) says :

"Miss Janette Taylor, a niece of Admiral Jones, arrived in this country some months ago, having in her possession original copies of all the documents which were before the Editor of the biography above commented upon \i.e. the Edinburgh
 * Memoirs''], with others which were not."

At pp. 20-22 of the New York work are printed the two letters mentioned above. Are they the two letters of which MB. ATTON says that he has himself seen the signatures ? At p. 31 we read :

At the time when Paul settled (or more T, supposed he meant to settle) in Virginia,

it would seem that he assumed the additional name of Jones. Previous to this date, his letters are signed John Paul."

This statement, coming from Jones's niece, and the remarks of the Edinburgh and New York editors, indicate that there were once in existence many letters signed " John Paul." Where such letters are now to be found, I regret that I cannot say.

ALBEBT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

CABLYLE AND FBEEMASONBY : RICHABD CABLILE (10 S. xi. 370, 437), If the price of Carlile's ' Freemasonry ' has gone down to one shilling, as stated by MB. HEBON- ALLEN, it has had another fall, as for some forty years the price on the bookstalls has been half-a-crown.

According to ' The English Catalogue,' it was issued in 1836, with the notorious name of Dugdale as publisher, at five shillings. The copy in The National Library is of the year 1860 ; they have not the original edition, which is probably very rare. It was first published in The Repub- lican in 1825.

The ' D.N.B.' has a biography of Carlile, signed with the well-known initials G. J. H., and nobody else was so well qualified to write it. Nevertheless the full name of the father, who published a collection of mathe- matical questions, should have been given. I find from De Morgan's ' Arithmetical Books,' 1847, p. 79, that it was Richard.

Holyoake's article is instructive, though it suffers from compression. He was wise enough to put the bibliography into other hands, so we shall be glad to hear from the

learned source from which it emanates (a contributor to ' N. & Q.') how it is that th& ' Freemasonry ' is not included. It is curious Holyoake should omit all mention of this book, which is the only one of Carlile's that has survived. RALPH THOMAS.

" GOVEBNOB OF THE ENGLISH NATION "

(10 S. xi. 428). According to 'Members of Parliament : Part I. Parliaments of England, 1213-1702' (Blue book), the members for Shoreham in the Parliament summoned for 20 Jan., 1557/8, were Anthonius Hussey,. armiger, and Ricardus Baker, armiger.. These names are taken " from the Crown Office List in the absence of Original Re- turns." ROBEBT PlEBPOINT. [See ante, p. 4.]

"ALL THE WOBLD AND HIS WIFE " (10 S-

xi. 490). Anstey, in the ' New Bath Guide,* 1766, says (p. 130, 4th ed., 1767) : You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too ; And I '11 give you my Head if you find such a Host,. For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast ; How he welcomes at once all the World and his

Wife, And how civil to Folk he ne'er saw in his Life !

Swift uses the phrase, with a host of other colloquialisms, in his * Polite Conversation,' the third dialogue, and doubtless it was in popular use long before his satirical pen noted it. G. L. APPEBSON.

The phrase was already common by the- time Swift wrote his * Polite Conversation.' He was engaged on this work in 1731, though it was not printed till some years later (Sir Henry Craik's ' Life,' chap. xvii. p. 474, ed.. 1882). EDWABD BENSLY.

Aberystwyth.

A variant of this saying is " All the world and Little Billing." Little Billing is a parish in Northamptonshire with (in 1841) a population of only a hundred and one, ojiqM. Great Billing had four hundred. " All the world and Little Billing " therefore means, like " All the world and his wife," every one, and do not forget Little Billing, small part of the world though it be.

There is a similar phrase, but with a somewhat dissimilar meaning, " All the world and Bingham," which is accounted for by a notice-board once posted on an ancient hostelry at Newark, bearing the words, " Passengers and parcels conveyed to all parts of the world, and Bingham." (See The Antiquary, Jan., 1892, p. 45 ; and 3 S. iii. 233.) J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. [MR. TOM JONES also thanked for reply.]