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 348 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* a. iv. OCT. as, was. Qnmti. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. MINERS' GREETING.—Perhaps you could kindly let me know if there is an English equivalent for the German miners' greeting "Gluckauf ! " German miners call it to each other, instead of " Good-day," when they descend the pits to work there. I am looking for its equivalent for a translation I am making, and should like to know if in coal- mining districts in England they use a similar expression. (Mrs.) GRACE VON WENTZEL. Charlottenburg, Berlin. f_We know of no verbal salutation special to miners. In several parts of Great Britain miners have a peculiar wave of the hand, almost like the "blowing of a kins," which they employ to their friends when meeting or passing.] HYDE MARRIAGES. — Judith, daughter of Sir Edmund Carey, Knt., of Sussex, is said to have married (circa 1690) Richard Hyde, second son of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, son of the great Chancellor. Their son Oliver Hyde, R.N., married Mary Alice Spring, daughter of Lord Howton. Can any reader of ' N. & Q." give me any information about either of these marriages? According to the ' D.N.B.,' Laurence Hyde had only one son, Henry, who reached manhood, and who became fourth and last Earl Clarendon. ROBERT B. DOUGLAS. 61, Rue des Martyrs, Paris. ARCHBISHOP KEMPE. —I should be very much obliged if you could help me to find a portrait of Archbishop Keinpe, the founder of this college. I am anxious to obtain a copy for the walls of our refectory, and if, with your kind assistance, I could discover the whereabouts of a portrait, I would take steps to have a copy made. It is possible that some of your readers or contributors may know where such a portrait is, or might be willing to suggest possible hunting- grounds. M. J. R. DUNSTAN. South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent. WORPLE WAY.—What is the meaning of the name of this footway at Richmond, Surrey? It bifurcates with the Upper Sheen Road at its Richmond end, runs almost parallel with that road for two or three hundred yards, and comes out into a new road at its Mortlake end, and probably it extended much further in former times. Can the word be connected with the A.-S. weorpen=to twist ? What is left of the Way would scarcely seem to support such a deri- vation, as it is tolerably straight. I am unacquainted with any old spellings, and do not find it mentioned in any of the books I have referred to. H. W. UNDEBDOWN. DALLAS.—Some fifteen or sixteen years ago a Miss Dallas died in Edinburgh, and there- after, amongst other books, a " family " Bible was accidentally disposed of. It is said to have contained some record of the family of William Dallas, of " Lloyd's Coffee-House." If the volume is still in existence I should be infinitely obliged if its present owner would favour me with particulars of its contents. DALLAS. Du BAETAS.—Can some reader of ' N. & Q.', tell me to whom the following refers ? Have1 I discovered a "mare's nest" in supposing it may refer to Shakespeare? In a passage occurring in the 'Second Week' of Du Bartas's poem, added evidently by the translatoi Sylvester, and written about 1598, we find :— 0 furnish me with an unvulgar style That I by this may wean our wanton He From Ovid's heirs and their unhallowed spell: Here charming senses, charming souls in Hell. Let this provoke our modern wits to sacre Their wondrous gifts to honour thee their Maker^1 After mentioning Daniel the poet, he goes on: And our new Naso, that so passionates The heroic spirit of love-sick potentates, May change their subject. Meres compares Shakespeare to Ovid. No I doubt more than one poet of the time was I imbued with the Ovidian spirit, and Marlowe and others practically translated parts of Ovid. The vilely obscene ' Choyse of Valen- tines,' by Nash, lately printed in the new edition of his works, would most decidedly come under Sylvester's censure which I have quoted. 1 am aware that such an obvious passage as the above must have been often noticed before ; but I do not happen to have seen any explanation of it. REGINALD HAISES. Royal Societies' Club. ST. NICHOLAS SHAMBLES.—At p. 254, ante, I quoted Stow's reference to this church, m which he states that " many fair houses are now built in a court with a well [misprinted "wall"], in the midst whereof the church stood." In The Gentleman's Magazine, 1835, part ii. pp. 584-5, Mr. A. J. Kempe wrote that "the churchyard of St.Nicholas Shambles is now occupied by Bull Head Court, New- gate Street, in which to this day remains the ancient well noticed by Stow." It is only seventy years since Kempe wrote; and J