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 510 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io<- s. iv. DEC. 23. ID* regarding the above than can be found in the Blakeway MS. ? Was any record kept of a master who comes down to us vaguely as "Black Hugh"? 1 have heard him spoken of also as " Black Evans." The history of the " Fortunate Boy " would be worth writing. What happened to him after he left school and squandered his sup- posed fortune? My information, after a diligent search, stops short at a recountal of his discovery over a bottle of wine. He claimed, it seems, that the wine had been grown on his Sicilian vineyards, but un- fortunately the cork flaunted the name of a well-known London wine merchant. An in- quisitive guest discovered the difference between hard fact and a charming story. PERCY ADDLESHAW. LONDON NEWSPAPERS.—Can any of your readers kindly say where a complete list of London newspapers of the eighteenth century, with name and period of existence of each, may be seen ? Is there any similar list of provincial newspapers for that time ? B. M. DR. COOKSON.—Where can information be obtained about Dr. Cookson, private tutor to William IV. and the Duke of Cambridge ? What was his relationship to Wordsworth ? SISTER. "THESE ARE THE BRITONS, A BARBAROUS RACE.''—Many years ago—before the passing of the Education Act—a text-book used at the establishment for young ladies I attended in London was ' Our Native England,' a small paper-bound book written, I believe, by Cook, after the model of ' The House that Jack Built.' The first page bore a rough woodcut of our forefathers, and the lines :— These are the Britons, a barbarous race, Chiefly employed in war or the chase, Who dwelt iu our native England. P. 2 ran :— These are the Romans, a people bold, Most famous of all the nations old, Who conquered the Britons, a barbarous race, &c. And so on to Victoria, Our sovereign fair and young, Whose plaudits flow from every tongue, Niece of William Fourth, the last king who reigned. And so back to the Britons, a barbarous race. I should very much like to procure a copy of the old book, whose rimes are still fresh in my mind, and taught me more of English history than the pretentious works of later years. ALICE S. MILLARD. St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. gfplits. PIG: SWINE: HOG. (10th S. iv. 407, 449.) AT the latter reference the clearest example of " pig" used in the modern sense before 1840 is that from Boswell. It was in August, L784, probably, that Miss Seward told John- son of the learned pig she had seen at Nottingham. The story is given in her own words in the first edition of Boswell, 1791. somebody had remarked that great torture must have been employed in training the animal. " ' Certainly, (said the Doctor;) but. ^turning to me,) how old is your pigf I x>ld him, three years old. ' Then, (said he,) the age being given, we have a clear example, such as DR. MURRAY requires. A still earlier example, only less decisive, occurs in Boswell's ' Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides,' under date 24 October, 1773. Johnson then said, " The Peers have but to oppose a candidate to ensure him success. It is said the only way to make a pig go forward, is to pull him back by the tail. These people must be treated like pigs." Leigh Hunt devoted an essay (in which of his works 1) to the graces and anxieties of pig driving," and it seems reasonable to suppose that, where driving is concerned, the adults and not mer,ely the juveniles are intended. In 1757, reviewing Jonas Hanway's 'Essay on Tea' (1756), Johnson wrote: "To raise the fright still higher, he quotes an account of a pig's tail scalded with tea, on which, how- ever, he does not much insist'' ('Works,'ed. Murphy, 1824, ii. 338). A reference to Han- way's essay, appended to his ' Journal of Eight Days' Journey, from Portsmouth to Kingston-upon-Thames,' might perhaps settle the status of this unfortunate pig. When Boswell wrote to his friend Erskine on 2 Dec., 1761, " I am just now returned from eating a most excellent pig with the most magnificent Donaldson" (•Correspon- dence,1 edited by Birkbeck Hill, 1879, p. 20), o* no doubt referred to sucking-pig. Charles Lamb's famous 'Dissertation upon Roast Pig' of course refers to the same dish. The first accident which led to the discovery of the dainty befell "a fine litter of new- farrowed pigs"; and the epicure expressly explains: " I speak not of your gro»« porkers—things between pig and pork- these hobbledehoys—but a young and tender suckling." Johnson's usual word for the animal »M undoubtedly "hog." Thus on 14 July, 1763, he said of an impudent fellow from Scotland
 * he pig has no cause to complain '" Thus,