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of an old English (?) ditty in which occurs this line : "Hurrah for the bonnets of blue'"? The writer heard a Yorkshireman (born at Beverley, York, circa 1819) sing a few words only, in America, during March last.

E. BEAUCHAMP. [We recall, but cannot trace.]

RUSKIN AT NEUCHATEL. Can any of your readers inform me where Ruskin gives an account of his receiving his first revelation of the beauty of nature, in his early youth, when walking on the shores of the lake of Neuchatel ? P. A. F. STEPHENSON.

Neuchatel.

LECHE AND EVELYN FAMILIES. I should be glad to know whether Sir John Evelyn, of Godstone, Surrey, left a daughter Jane, and if so, whether she was the wife of Sir William Leche, of Squerries in Kent. Hester Leche, daughter of Sir William, was heiress of manors of Shipley and Duffield, co. Derby. Were these manors ever possessed by the Evelyn or Leche families ? P. C. D. M.

BOOK-BORROWING. In my copy of Mathew Green's poem ' The Spleen,' 1796, a previous owner probably the purchaser of the book about that date has fixed inside the cover his name, "William Long," on a label, and below this on another label the following :

Read and return,

Nor other's goods disperse ;

Be you the wiser,

And the book no worse.

Is this original or quotation 1

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

GOVERNOR STEPHENSON OF BENGAL. I should be glad of any information concerning Edward Stephenson, Governor of Bengal in the first half of the eighteenth century. S.

REV. RICHARD WINTER. Can any one in- form me to what church the Rev. Richard Winter, New Court, Carey Street, London, was attached in 1775?

A. J. C. GUIMARAENS.

^XD." I have a small book, in the tiniest manuscript, of the date 1682-4, giving an account of the various crops reaped each year in a district in the neighbourhood of Cambridge (Royston, Triplow, &c., being mentioned). There is nothing to show who was the writer ; but it has been kept with great care and detail,' naming quantities of each crop reaped, how disposed of, names of various fields sown, and the persons to whom the crops were sold. In the course of the account many old words occur, but I have found most of them in Halli well's ' Archaic

and Provincial Words' or the 'English Dialect Dictionary.' I have, however, come across the following sentence referring to- barley :

" Note. That the 7th, 9th, 12th, and this 13th dressings, making in all 24 quarters one bushell and 3 pecks, came all out of the first mow on the right hand in the new barne, and the Hand was full of Rye besides."

I can find no mention of "iland" or "island" in the above sense in any dictionary. What is its signification 1 A. H. ARKLE,

BRADLAUGH MEDAL. A medal in bronze bears upon the obverse a good likeness of Bradlaugh, and the words "Charles Brad- laugh." The reverse has the rim inscription : "To his honor he was elected M.P. for Northampton, 1880-1881." On the field is an urn, bearing the words " Education, Equity, Humanity." On the top is laid a beam, with the scales hanging to midway on each side of the urn. The medal is very roughly executed, and appears to have been run in a sand- mould, and the edge has been trimmed with a file. When and where would this be made I Is it a copy of a better executed medal 1 ?

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

ALMS LIGHT. Robert Rolfe, of Sandwich, in his will dated 1469, leaves a small bequest "to the light of the Elemosinar," in the church of St. Clement, Sandwich. Two other wills of same date have a similar bequest. Joan Kenet, another parishioner, whose will (1477) is in English, gives "to the Almeslight there." What is the meaning in a parish- church ? ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

" ACHING VOID." How far can this phrase be traced back 1 In Pope's ' Eloisa ' we read :

No craving void left aching in the soul.

Cowper's hymn-line is familiar :

But they have left an aching void. And Charles Wesley writes :

My soul is all an aching void. Coleridge, I believe, made a sort of pun about "void Aikin" and an "aching void."

I suppose no good writer of our day would allow himself to use this hackneyed expres- sion otherwise than humorously.

C. LAWRENCE FORD.

[Yet it fully indicates the sense of absence of a beloved object which we have heard familiarly called "empty pitchers."]

"DOBBIN," CHILDREN'S GAME. At the pretty village of Eccleston, Cheshire, in 1852, (and probably earlier and later), this game