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word, it would be plausible to regard it as a corruption of the French marquoir, which occurs in the sense of "a sort of ruler used by tailors " (Hatzfeld and Darmesteter, ' Dic- tionnaire General '), and which in its etymo- logical sense might conceivably have been applied to the drawing instrument. The earliest example I have of the word is from a mathematical instrument maker's cata- logue of 1834 ; any older instances would be acceptable. HENEY BRADLEY.

Clarendon Press, Oxford.

DE KELESEYE OR KELSEY FAMILY. I wish for any mention of the family of De Keleseye or Kelsey, who had two stained-glass windows erected to their memory in St. Mary Magda- lene, Milk Street. The windows were after- wards placed in St. Laurence, Jewry.

S. GORDON.

OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY. I should be obliged if any of your readers could supply me with the name of any modern commentary on the Old Testament written from a purely secular point of view, and dealing with the various historical, ethnological, and critical questions in the light of modern discoveries.

A. B.

WlLLOCK OF BpRDLEY, NEAR SETTLE, YORKS.

Any information respecting this old York- shire family and its present representatives will be gratefully received. W. E. KING. Donhead Lodge, Salisbury.

HUMOROUS STORIES.!. Where can I find the humorous story entitled ' For One Night Only'? This story deals with an Irishman whose duty it was one evening at a ball to take charge of and look after the hats of a number of gentlemen. Some of the hats given him were opera ones, the rest were ordinary silk hats. After a while, being pushed for room, he decides to " squash " the top silk hats (which he thinks their owners omitted to do).

2. I am also in search of a humorous story entitled * The Cornish Jury.' B. J. PRIOR.

JOHN PLEYDELL, SPITALFIELDS SILKWEAVER, B. 1765. Can any one inform me to which branch of the said family he belonged, as I find no mention of his name in pedigrees 1

W. MORTIMER.

PLINY: FLINT CHIPPINGS IN BARROWS. Bateman, in his * Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire,' p. 32, says: "Fosbrooke, on the authority of Pliny and Gough, tells us that the northern nations deemed them [flint chippings] efficacious in confining the dead to their habitations." I should be much

obliged if some reader would quote the- passage in Pliny, as I cannot find it.

S. O. ADDY.

[The passage you seek seems to be in the seven- teenth chapter of the thirty -sixth book. Se& Holland's translation of ' Plihie's Naturall His- torie,' vol. ii. p. 587, ed. 1601.]

" HOLUS-BOLUS." The Times, in an article on ' The Troubles of a Labour Cabinet,' has- the following sentence : " However, it is not likely that in the House's present temper it will carry the clauses holus-bolus." What is- the derivation of the italicized word 1

C. McL. CAREY.

[A mock-Latinization of whole bolus, or of an- assumed Greek 6'Aos /ftoAo?, "whole lump "=alL in a lump, all at once (' N.E.D.'). See also * Eng_ Dial. Diet.']

EPISCOPAL RING. Particulars are sought of a thirteenth-century episcopal ring found in 1866 in a field at Sibbertoft, in North- amptonshire. Where is it now 1

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

MUMMIES FOR COLOURS. The following appeared in the Daily Mail of 30 July :

" We are badly in want of one [a mummy] at a suitable price, but find considerable difficulty in- obtaining it. It may appear strange to you, but we require our mummy for making colour.'

Can any contributor throw light on, _ or give references to any works connected with, the subject 1 S.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I wish to identify the following. I think the- first two are from Victor Hugo :

1. Genius is a promontory jutting out into the- infinite.

2. Nothing is so stifling as Cor " more stifling: than") perpetual (or "complete") symmetry.

3. To build a bridge of gold (or silver) for a flying: enemy.

In a note on Macaulay's 'Warren Hastings ' a recent editor says, " This phrase is said to- have been first used by Philip of Macedon in his war with the Athenians." I have been unable to find any reference for this state- ment in the classics within my reach. Could some reader of '1ST. & Q.' give the origin of the phrase, or an early reference to it?' I am aware of references in Rabelais, 'Don Quixote,' Massinger, Frontinus, andj Guicciardini : but none of these is what I want. H. K. ST. J. S.

AMERICAN YARN. Can any reader inform me of the title and source of a humorous- recitation, probably American, in which a narrator of "tall stories" tells how he met,