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NOTES AND QUEEIES. [io> s. IL JULY IG, MM.

Barnes, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Barnes, Montrose, Barnes, Edinburgh ; and ends with London (13 March to 6 August, 1712). From entries on some loose leaves preserved in the same volume it appears that the sequence of places represents the itinerary of an evangelizing tour carried out by Thomas Button. Who was he? I quote two speci- mens of (what I presume is) his composition : "May 16, 1711. Aberdeen. This was immediately before they went to the street of Aberdeen. We now do render thanks, Lord, to thee, Who us hast made thy Love and Pow'r to see, And Faithfulness ; thou dost thy word fulfill, And strengthens us for to perform thy will. We '1 therefore now our chearf ul voices raise

In new and heay'nly songs of Divine Praise.

"i, Lord, say.

We'l henceforth, Lord, believe what thou dost We will believe that thou 'It this Pow'r display,

vv e win oeneve mat tnou it this Jrow r display, And wilt fulfill what thou by us shalt speak this day."

" Friday, March 30, 1711. Pitfichie.

A PINDARICK ODE ON THE PASSION.

Amazement fills the Heav'ns ! The Sp'rits above Are struck with aw when they do pry Into this wondrous mystery.

They scarce believe that it is true, When they behold the God of Light and Love On an accursed tree to dy.

They can't trust their eyes with the view : The spectacle 's so strange and new That ev'n when their amazed eyes do it behold, They do forget that it was prophesy'd of old." And so on for other nine stanzas.

To a very few entries are appended notes, which may help in identification. Thus

" May 12, 1711. Aberdeen. The night before he went and spoke in the Church."

"October 29, 1711. Montrose. This was expla- natory of a sign then acted."

- " R ri i 14 > 1712 ' To M - K - At a meeting of the mspi/d."

"June 27, 1712. London. This was spoke to Mrs. Harris and attended with signs suitable to the words spoken."

."July 4, 1712. London. After a blessing to J. C. thro M. K. encouraging him to obey the command then given of going to S. Paul's."

From the uniform appearance of the MS. it would seem to have been a copy written continuously, not at the different dates which head the entries. But the copy must have been little later than the originals, the hand being that of the period. P. J. ANDERSON.

University Library, Aberdeen.

m SIR GILBERT ELLIOT'S DEATH. The follow- ing is an interesting puzzle in necrology. According to Musgrave's 'Obituary,' Sir Gilbert Elliot, third baronet of Minto, died 51eb., 1777, reference being made in support of this date to the 'Annual Register,' 226 ; London Mag., no.; and Scots Mag., 54. On

looking up these authorities, I find the ' Annual Register ' gives as the date of death between 14 and 25 Jan., 1777; the Gent. Mag., 1 Feb., 1777; and the Scots Mag., Jan., 1777. Again, Foster, in his 'Members of Parlia- ment,' gives the date as 11 Feb., 1777 ; in the 'Annals of^a Border Club' it appears aa 7 Jan. ; while in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' and 'The Border Elliots' the date is set down as 11 Jan. Which date is to be accepted ? GEORGE STRONACH.

"A SHOULDER OF MUTTON BROUGHT HOME

FROM FRANCE." Can any reader give me information about a song of which the above is the opening line? I quote (it may be wrongly) all I can remember, but there were other lines. About thirty - five years ago children used to sing it in chorus, marching round in a circle at the time : A shoulder of mutton brought home from France,

Li Li Li, Le La Li, They killed a man when he was dead,

Li Li, &c., And they went to St. Paul's to look for his head,

Li Li, &c., Within his head there was a spring,

Li Li, &c.. And forty big fishes were swimming therein,

Li Li Li, Le La Li.

Calcutta.

WlLMOT CORFIELD.

" TROPENWUT " : " TROPENKOLLER." I have in vain tried to find an English translation for these German expressions. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give the recognized or any translation that would be intelligible without commentary? N. W. THOMAS.

[The Grieb-Schroer tenth edition defines Tropen- koller as " tropical frenzy," which is much briefer than " frenzy produced by the heat of the tropics," the rendering in Muret-Sanders.]

HEWETT FAMILY. I should be much obliged if any of your readers could give me any information relative to the history of the above family, more particularly aboufc any branch which probably settled in North Leicestershire about the beginning of the sixteenth century. Has any book been pub- lished, privately or otherwise, dealing with this family 1 CHARLES E. HEWITT.

20, Cyril Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.

ADAM ZAD. What is Zad done into Eng- lish, and of what tongue is the word 1

J. P. STILWELL. Hilfield, Yateley.1

SKELETONS AT FUNERALS. Jesse, in his ' Memoirs of the Pretenders ' (p. 53), says that at the lying in state of James Stuart, the Old Pretender (ob. 1766), " the church was illumi-