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the book does not appear to be in the British Museum. I wish to trace a Thomas Farmer of Atherstone (1640-76), who I think was of this family. A. J. C. GUIMARAENS.

DANISH SURNAMES. Is it known from what sources the ancient Danes and Norse men obtained their names ? Did they adopt place-names? and were surnames known to them? G. H. W.

DUELLING. Can any one supply the name of the author of the following small book ?

" The British Code of Duel : a Reference to the Laws of Honour, and the Character of a Gentle man, &c. London, Knight & Lacey, 1824. 12mo."

It is entered in the British Museum Catalogue, but without author's name. Hal- kett and Laing do not mention it.

C. W. S.

EDMOND AND EDWARD. Were the above names used indifferently in mediseyal times for the same person ? I have seen it stated, but have no proof, that the names were so confused. FRANCESCA.

JOHN COPE, ENGRAVER, OF DUBLIN AND LONDON. Who was he? and what did he engrave? (Mrs.) HAUTENVILLE COPE.

13c, Hyde Park Mansions, W.

"GOD CALLED UP FROM DREAMS." I am

anxious to learn the author of the following, and where it is to be found :

"God called up from dreams a man in the vesti- bule of heaven, and said unto him, 'Come thou hither and see the glory of My house,' and to the angels that stood around the throne He said, ' Take from off him his robe of flesh.' "

I_believe it was quoted by Proctor in one of his works, in which he said, " It seems as if the dream of the German poet was right when he said, God called," &c. J. M.

"AND HAS IT COME TO THIS?" Can any of your readers say where in Mr. Watts- Dunton's works the following lines occur ? And has it come to this ? Long since, they sold Britannia, fettered, to their harlot, Gain ; Bartered her bound her in a golden chain Nay, trampled our great Queen in mire of gold.

KELSO.

" As SUCH." I find this expression con- stantly used in the letters of my grandfather, William Fowler (1795-1820), in the sense of " accordingly." For example : " I shall want plates of all descriptions colouring. As such, if J. and F. have time, they may colour any of Jihe engravings that are now printed " ; " Your letters have been received regularly as such I am thankful." I thought it

might be peculiar to W. F., until I found a letter introducing him to Benjamin West, from the Rev. William Peters, 8 January, 1807, worded thus :

" Your preeminent merit as an artist and worth as a man must make every ingenious son of science look up to you for countenance and protection. As such I have the pleasure to recommend to your notice Mr. Fowler."

I do not find this use of "as such " in the 'N.E.D.' Is it known in other writings of the period, or in literature ? J. T. F.

Winterton.

HERALDIC MOTTOES. What book contains the fullest and most authentic alphabetical list of mottoes ? I know nothing since C. N. Elvin's ' Handbook of Mottoes, 1 I860, of which, if no one else comes forward or has the author's rights, I am prepared to under- take a new edition ; of course with all possible assistance from 'N. & Q.' I am acquainted with the list in 'Burke's Peerage' and in Mr. J. A. Mair's ' Book of Proverbs.'

C. S.

SAILORS' CHANTIES. Is it possible to discover the origin of these sea choruses, and when they were first sung and invented ? I have Miss L. A. Smith's ' The Music of the Waters,' which does not afford the infor- mation I seek. I cannot trace " chantie " in any dictionary. S. J. A, F.

['Slang and its Analogues' says: "Obviously a diminutive of chant, a song." The earliest reference is to an article on ' Sailors' >?hanties and Sea-Songs,' Chambers' a Journal, 11 Dec., 1869, pp. 794-6.]

" GOD REST YOU MERRY." In a well-known carol the first line

God rest you merry,

is generally seen written with the comma after the word you. But is not " God rest you merry " an old English expression ? If so, the word "merry" should not be separated
 * rom the verb by a comma, as if it were

in adjective qualifying the noun. I should 36 glad of information on this point.

B. C. W. A.

" GOSPEL OF FATNESS." Who invented this phrase? MEDICULUS.

GOLDSMITH'S 'EDWIN AND ANGELINA.' I mve in my possession a book called 'The

Quiz, by a Society of Gentlemen. 1 It was

ipparently first published in periodical form n 1797. The fifteenth paper of this work is

entitled 'A Plagiarism of Dr. Goldsmith's.' The sum of this is that the author asserts hat Goldsmith's 'Edwin and Angelina' is an

almost literal translation of a French ballad