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Cambridge, who died 1820, connected with the Yorkshire family of which Sir F. Milner, Bart., M.P., is at present the head ? If so, what was the relationship? I notice that the arms of the dean under his engraved portrait and the arms of Sir Frederick are both charged with three snaffle bits.

J. T. Beckenham.

SERJEANTSON FAMILY OF HANLITII, YORKS. Can any of your readers give me in- formation with regard to the earlier history of this family, who have been settled at Hanlith, in the parish of Kirkby-Malham, Yorks, since 1357 ? They were tenants of the manor in 1375, and paid the Poll Tax in 1379. At the beginning of the sixteenth century they were tenants of the Abbot of Bolton, who was lord of one of the two manors into which the parish was divided.

R. M. SERJEANTSON.

St. Sepulchre's, Northampton.

"FREE TRADE "= SMUGGLING. When was this term first employed as a euphemism for smuggling 1

[The earliest instance in the 'N.E.D.' is 1824, from Scott's ' Redgauntlet,' ch. xiii. j

" MASS MEETING." When does this term appear 1 Daniel O'Connell's campaigns were famous for their " aggregate meetings."

MEDICULUS.

[Mass-meeting is in Annandale's 'Imperial Dic- tionary,' 1882, but without any illustrative quota- tion. The ' Encyclopaedic Dictionary,' 1896, says : '* Mass-meetings were first talked of in the political campaign of 1840, when Harrison was elected Pre- sident of the United States. The expression has since become naturalized in England."]

'GOODY TWO SHOES.'

(10 th S. ii. 167.) A PHOTOGRAPHIC facsimile of the third or 1766 edition of 'Goody Two-Shoes' which can scarcely be called a fairy tale, though there are some ghost stories in it was issued in 1882 by Messrs. Griffith & Farran, under the editorship of Mr. Charles Welsh. Mr. Welsh'* introduction gives all the information which it was possible to collect regarding the little book, and brings forward some evidence t show that it might possibly have been written by Oliver Goldsmith. A more likely candi date for the honour of authorship appears t< have been Mr. Giles Jones, the grandfathe of the late Mr. Winter Jones, of the British Museum, who is stated in Nichols's Literary

necdptes ' to have written this book, as well s * Giles Gingerbread, 3 'Tommy Trip,' and ther popular little works that were issued iy John Newbery.

It has not, I think, been noticed that Joody Two -Shoes was a cant term for a ather bad-tempered, but notable housewife hundred years before Newbery issued his ittle book. Charles Cotton, in his burlesque )oem ' A Voyage to Ireland,' wrote :

now into th' Pottage each deep his Spoon claps, A.S in truth one might safely for burning one's chaps A^hen streight, with the look and the tone of a Scold, Distress May'ress complain'd that the Pottage was

cold,

A.nd all long of your fiddle-faddle, quoth she ; Why, what then, Goody two-shoes, what if it be? lold you, if you can, your tittle-tattle, quoth he. Cotton's ' Poems,' ed. 1689, p. 184 ; ed. Tutin, 1903, p. 127.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

See 'A Bookseller of the Last Century,' by Charles Welsh, pp. 95-7 (London, 1885), and
 * Goody Two Shoes : a Facsimile Reproduc-

ion of the Edition of 1766, with an Intro- duction by Charles Welsh, giving some Account of the Book, and some Speculations as to its Authorship" (London, 1881). Mr. Welsh is of opinion that Goldsmith was the author, but says that " Mr. J. M. W. Gibbs n his new edition of Goldsmith ('Bonn's Standard Library ') attributes the preface only to him, and is disposed to believe that book is by another hand, probably that of Newbery himself." WM. H. PEET.

Many of Goldsmith's effusions, hastily penned in those moments of exigency with which he was so familiar, were published anonymously, and never claimed. Some of them had, in Washington Irving's time, but recently been traced to his pen, while of many the true authorship will probably never be discovered. See ' Oliver Goldsmith,' by Washington Irving, 1850.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

For two very long articles on * Goody Two Shoes and the Nursery Literature of the Last Century ' (eighteenth), see 4 th S. viii. 510 ; ix. 15. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

There is a lack of authentic information as to whether the true author of 'Goody Two Shoes' is Goldsmith or Newbery. Sir Leslie Stephen says, "Some of Newbery's children's books, especially the 'History of Goody Two Shoes,' have been attributed to him [Goldsmith]." It does not necessitate a very imaginative mind to accept it as Goldsmith's work ; and when, as John For- ster, in his ' Life of Goldsmith,' says, " it is