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 486 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. DEC. w. iocs. 4. Commander Francis Harris, died July 9, 1883, aged 87. First-class Volunteer on the Temeraire. 5. Admiral Robert Fatten, died Aug. 30, 1883, •aged 92. Midshipman on the Bellerophon. 6. Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rose Sar- torius, G.C.B., died April 13, 1885, aged 94. Mid- shipman on the Tonnant. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, N. KYNASTON G ASK ELL. 52, Prince's Square, W., Oct. 16. I may add that Col. Fynmore's father, James Fymnore, captain Royal Marines, was also on board the Africa and present with his son at the battle of Trafalgar. His brother Thomas, colonel Royal Marines, married a daughter of Thomas Atkinson, master of Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, whose brother, Commander Horatio Nelson Atkin- son, was one of Lord Nelson's godsons. R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate. POPULAR LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — The two lists following may properly supplement that at 8tn S. vii. 25 :— In 1526 Henry Cornelius Agrippa writes in defence of his own ' Declamatio de Matri- inonio' that there are those "inter aulicos magistros " who write and translate indecent books; •offeruntur dominabus, & leguntur a vide etiam ;> puellis Novella? Bocatii, Facetite Pogii, adulteria Km v.iii cum Lucretia, bella & amores Tristanni [Tristrami], & Lancelot!, & similia."—'Opera,' ii. $33, Epistolaruni lib. iv. ep. 3. In 1594 John King, Bishop of London, preaching at York, complains that instead of the Psalms of David " now we haue Arcadia, k the Faery Queene, and Orlando- Furioso, with such like frivolous stories : all are studentes, both men and women in this idle learning."—' JLectvres vpon lonas,' 1597, p. 355. The ' Arcadia' and the ' Faerie Queene' were both published in 1590. W. C. B. HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST. — At 10th S. ii. 425 I called attention to the fact that the London County Council had resolved to place a tablet on 23, Suffolk Street, S.W., to commemorate the residence there of Richard Cobden. I am now pleased to record that a tablet of blue encaustic ware, bearing the date of Cobden's death (2 April, 1865), was affixed to that house on Tuesday, 15 August. T/ie London Argus for 19 August contained a short account of Cobden's last illness. In the same number of The London Argus appeared an intimation that on Monday, the 14th, a memorial tablet was placed on No. 34, Gloucester Square, Hyde Park, where Robert Stephenson had resided. This tablet is also of encaustic ware, but of terra-cotta colour. We are reminded that it was in 1847 that the occupancy of this house by the great engineer commenced, and that it only terminated with his life, for he died here in 1859, at the age of fifty-six. Again must we thank T/ie LowiLon Aryus for calling attention to these matters, and recording that three famous London men — Leigh Hunt, Sydney Smith, and Thackeray — have been brought into the L.C.C.'s scheme of distinguishing houses once occu- pied by men of genius. Leigh Hunt's house thus indicated by the familiar tablet of the Council is 10, Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea ; Sydney Smith's, 14, Doughty Street, Mecklen- burgh Square; and Thackeray's, 16, Young Street, Kensington. Perhaps it may be con- sidered that the last-named house is of the greatest interest and importance, for there, it is stated, he produced the most celebrated of his works—' Vanity Fair,' ' Esmond,' and ' Pendennis.' It may be allowable to mention that it was in this house that the memorable party was given to Charlotte Bronte — the party which was such a dismal fiasco that the host surreptitiously left, full of mortifica- tion, and went off to his club. On the com- pletion of ' Esmond,' in 1852, Thackeray left London on his first lecturing tour in America, and, it appears, never settled down again in this house. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Westminster. - [Note is made ante., p. 326, that a tablet has been placed by the L.C.C. on 56, Great Queen Street, Boswell's London residence.] "PUGGLE."— A very useful Essex word is to " puggle." To get a rat or rabbit out of a hole by inserting a stick and working it about was to " puggle.'' " He 's gone into his hole, but us is a-goin' to puggle 'im out." A capital word, " puggle. DOUGLAS [In the'E.D.D.' puggle = to stir with a stick, &c., is spoken of as known in Essex and Hertford- shire.] CURIOUS CULTURE. — The following dis- tressful figure is due to a writer in Tkt Graphic of Saturday, 11 November (p. 611) : "It sounded well, but the seed of suspicion was planted in my mind's eye, and I forced it on with surmise." ST. SWITHIN. ALMANAC, c. 1744. — In going through a bundle of old deeds I have found inside one of them, of the year 1747, a portion of an old almanac for, very probably, 1744. The part remaining of the month of November is as follows : —
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