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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. 11. JULY 23, MM.

note that Mr. Robert Bruce Armstrong, who has made a special study of the harp, will shortly issue his work entitled 'Musical Instruments : the Irish and the Highland Harps,' which will deal with the Lamont harp and others of minor note. The pub- lisher is David Douglas, Edinburgh; the size, large 4to, viii-185 ; price, 60s. net.

ROBERT MURDOCH LAWRANCE. 71, Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen.

PASTE (10 th S. i. 447, 477, 510 ; ii. 19).

In "The Cook's Oracle the whole being

the Result of Actual Experiments instituted

in the Kitchen of a Physician again

revised by the Author of * The Art of Invi- gorating Life by Food,' &c. Sixth edition. London, Printed for A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co., Cheapside, 1823," p. 320, No. 434, is the following :

" Anchovy Paste, or le Beurre d'Anchois. Pound them in a mortar, then rub it through a fine sieve ; pot it ; cover with clarified butter, and keep it in a cool place.

" N.B. If you have Essence of Anchovy, you may make Anchovy Paste Extempore, by rubbing the Essence with as much flower as will make a paste. Mem. This is merely mentioned as the means of making it immediately, it will not keep."

Then follow suggestions for making the paste stiffer and hotter by the addition of mustard, pickled walnut, spice, or curry powder, &c.

"It is an excellent garnish for Fish, put in pats round the edge of the dish, or will make Anchovy Toast, or Devil a Biscuit, &c., in high style."

The word " them" in the first line of the receipt means anchovies. The preceding receipt treats of making quintessence of anchovy out of Gorgona anchovies.

A note attached to this receipt says :

"The Economist may take the thick remains that won't pass through the sieve and pound it with some flower, and make Anchovy Paste, or Powder. See (Nos. 434 and 435)."

The index gives u Anchovy Butter." "An- chovy Paste."

Anchovy paste is mentioned in 'The Housekeeper's Guide,' by Esther Copley (London, 1834), p. 372, No. 749. It appears to be what will not pass through the sieve in making essence of anchovies. I may mention that, according to Burnet's Dictionnaire de Cuisine' (Paris, 1836), irre d anchois is made of anchovies and butter, not anchovies only. .*? \ T e Compleat Housewife: or Accom- plished Gentlewoman's Companion,' by E

, third edition, London, printed for J. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1729

p. 170, are receipts "To make a Paste of Green Pippins," and "To make white Quince Paste." Red Quince Paste may be made according to the latter receipt, " only colour the Quince with Cochineal." These receipts appear to produce dry sweetmeats, com- pounded of fruit and sugar.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Directions to make anchovy paste are given in ' The Cook's Oracle,' fourth edition, by the author of ' The Art of Invigorating Life by Food,' 1822 (printed for A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh). J. ASTLEY.

PHILLIPPS MSS. : BEATRICE BARLOW (10 th S. ii. 28). These manuscripts were purchased eleven years ago by the Corporation of Cardiff, and are preserved in the Central Free Library of that borough. I have been through the Barlow papers referred to by CYMRO. They are certainly of very great interest. The first Barlow of Slebech was a nephew of the first Protestant Bishop of St. David's, of the same surname, but, unlike his uncle, was a fervent Catholic. An article on the papers in question, by the present writer, may be found in the Tablet of 20 June, 1896, containing many extracts.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Monmouth.

"WAS YOU?" AND "You WAS" (10 th S. i. 509). See Byron, 'Don Juan,' Canto IV. Ixxxviii. :

You was not last year at the fair of Lugo. On which Mr. E. H. Coleridge has the fol- lowing note in the latest edition :

"The 'N. Eng. Diet.' cites Bunyan, Walpole, Fielding, Miss Austen, and Dickens as authorities for the plural 'was.' See Art. 'be.' Here, as else- where, Byron wrote as he spoke."

J. R. F. G.

This question opens up one for discussion. In many instances in my book just published I have after great consideration discarded the popular were for ivas. Surely when ivas refers to the past it is more correct, in some instances at all events. I think "you was supported," as quoted, is right.

A deaf witness was being examined in court. Counsel asked him, "Were you there?" He did not hear, so the judge repeated the question ; again he did not hear. Then the usher goes up to him and bawls in his ear, " His lordship says, ' Was you there ? ' " The witness, turning to the judge, impressively replied, "Yes, my lord, I were."

RALPH THOMAS.

["You was " occurs in the second line of Cowper's letter quoted ante, p. 2, col. 2, by PROF. MAYOR.]