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 ii. SEPT. 17, 1901.) NOTES AND QUERIES.

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it. Is the book a rare one or of any special value? JOHNSON BAILY.

[Marliani's work, of which this is the second edition, is uncommon and curious. The first edition was issued "Romae per Antonium Bladum de Asula, in tudibus D. Joan. Bapt. de Maximis anno domini M.DXXXIIII. ultimo mensis may" (.si'c). The Lyons edition of Gryphius, which you possess, has a Latin preface, " Franciscus Rabelrcus Medicus. D. Joann. Bellaio Parisiensi episcopo." In this, dated " Lugduni pridie Cal. Septembr. 1534," the writer ac- knowledges his obligations to Jean du Bellay, under whose patronage he has visited Italy and seen the marvels of Rome. Further information, not easily obtained, may perhaps be found in the elaborate nineteenth-century editions of Rabelais. Marliani was a Milanese antiquary of patrician birth, and a fairly voluminous writer. He died in 1560.]

'THE OXFORD SAUSAGE.' It is believed that Thomas Warton, the author of the of ' The Oxford Sausage ; or, Select Poetical Pieces written by the Most Celebrated Wits of the University of Oxford,' Oxford, 1821 ; also, that many of the poems contained in it are by him. Only one poem is, however, attributed to him, viz., 'A Panegyric on Oxford Ale.' 'The Progress of Discontent' is also by him, although not so attributed. I shall be glad of any information as to which of the various other poems in the above collection are by him or by his brother the Rev. Joseph Warton.
 * History of English Poetry,' was the editor

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE. Waltham Abbey, Essex.

I imagine that there must be copies in existence of 'The Oxford Sausage' having the authors' names appended in MS. to the anonymous contributions, some of which are rather free. My cooy, pp. 224, second edition, contains also the ' Oxford Newsman's Verses ' from 1752 to 1774, and though there is no date on the title-page, yet facing it is a portrait of Mrs. Dorothy Spreadbury, Inventress of the Oxford Sausage. The woodcuts in it are remarkably coarse and common, though called " Cuts Engraved in a New Taste and designed by the Best Masters," and the price is given as "Two Shillings sewed."

All the pieces are not by Oxford men, as the ' Ode to an Eagle confined in a College Court' is certainly by Kit Smart, a member of Pembroke College, Cambridge. It seems to indicate Queen's College, Oxford.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

obliged if any reader could tell me who was the author of this tale, which was published in three volumes in 1831. It was printed by
 * GLEN MOUBRAY.' I should be much

Ballantyne & Co., Paul's Work, Canongate, Edinburgh, for Simpkin & Marshall, London, and Henry Constable, Edinburgh.

E. S. H. Castle Semple, Renfrewshire.

" RAVISON" : "SCRIVELLOES." In the Times of 21 July, under the heading ' Home

Markets,' I read, "Rape oil ravison spot,

and August, 17s. 6d." What is "ravison"? I do not find the word in the * X.E.D.'

Under " Ivory," in the Times, I find men- tion more than once of " scrivelloes "e.g. y " scrivelloes, 40s. to 60s. higher." What are "scrivelloes"? W. F. ROSE.

[Annandale's ' Imperial Diet.' defines a scrivello as an elephant's tusk under 201 b. weight.]

"CONSCIENCE MONEY." A very common- place quotation of 1885 is furnished in 'H.E.D.' as the only illustration for this phrase ; but as long before as 1860 a query had appeared in *N. & Q.' (2 nd S. x. 511) giving a statement of 1789, and asking if that was the first record of the payment of "conscience money." As the only reply (ib., xi. 60) was to state the amount of such acknowledged by the Exchequer in the financial year 1859-60 thus showing official sanction for the phrase I venture to repeat the query. POLITICIAN.

GREENWICH FAIR. Wanted a reference to the ballad in which the following lines occur: 'Twas at Greenwich Fair, I shall never forget, When my messmates and I were all merry, At the ' Ship ' pretty Polly of Deptford I met, Whose cheeks were as red as a cherry.

AYEAHR.

RECTORS OF BUCKLAND, HERTS. The cele- brated Thomas Becon was rector here in 1560 ; he was afterwards appointed to Christ Church, Newgate Street, and in 1563 became rector of S. Dionis Backehurch. Did he hold either or both of these places in conjunction with Buckland?

In 1576, nine years after the death of the above Thomas Becon, another Thomas Bea- con or Becon held the living. Any informa- tion as to the latter will be of value.

Esdras Bland was rector of Buckland in 1636 and till his death in 1667. I shall be glad to learn in what year he was appointed.

Was Esdras Bland, vicar of Latton, Essex, in 1586, identical with Esdras Bland, rector of Hunsdon, Herts, in the same year, and also with Esdras Bland, rector of Buckland ? If so, he would be of the extraordinary age of 104 at his death, assuming him to have been twenty-three when ordained.

H. P. POLLARD.

Bengeo, Hertford.