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is a doctor, who is accompanied by an assistant named in the list "Jem Jacks," and spoken of by himself as " little Jim Jack."

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

In the glossary to * Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,' vol. ii. p. 412, is " Jenkin, diminutive of John." I do not know in which ballad the name occurs. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

ST. EXPEDITUS (10 th S. v. 107). Husenbeth, in his * Emblems of Saints,' records this martyr's day as 19 April, and says that in ancient ecclesiastical art he is represented crushing a crow under his feet.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

Cf. an article in the current number of the Analecta Bollandiana, (torn. xxv. fasc. i.), 'Saint Expedit et le Martyrologe Hierony- mien.' L. L. K.

"Pip" (10 th S. v. 107). I knew a house- wife who always did the cooking for her own household, and said that "pippy apples" made the best dumplings and pies. She meant those apples in which there were many pips, or "pippins." The apples with none, or only small pips, were not so good as eaters or cookers. I know that as children we liked best those apples which held large, well- made, deep-coloured pips. The pips we took between the thumb and finger ends, and "flerting" them away, said :

Pippins, pippins, Fly away ; Bring me 'n apple 'Nother day.

In this we never failed, for we said, "I will send more good apples."

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

It may be worth while referring DR MURRAY to Dekker's * Old Fortunatus (' Works,' Pearson, i. 152), where he will fine the "cry" of an "Irishe Coster-monger" " Buy any Apples, feene Apples of Tamasco feene Tamasco peepins : peeps feene," &c.

W. BANG.

Louvain.

G. J. HOLYOAKE: CHARTISTS AND SPECIA CONSTABLES (10 th S. v. 126). Surely ther must be many of us alive who were sworn i as specials in 1848 to quell the suppose Chartist riots, which did not take place an were never intended. I was one of th Lincoln's Inn lot, and am now over eight j one. On my eighty-second birthday, Sunda}

Feb., 1906, I sculled bow in the racing culling eight of my Furnivall Sculling Club or Girls and Men, from Hammersmith, gainst wind and tide, to Messum's at lichmond, and back, about fourteen miles. /Ve had girls at 6 and 2. After getting down o our clubhouse on the river bank, we had members and friends to tea, and then 125 o dances, songs, and recitations : a very mppy time we spent. F. J. FURNIVALL.

I was sworn in as a special con-

table in April, 1848, at the mature age of

wenty-three. I kept my baton for many

.ears, but it has long since disappeared.

lave often wondered what on earth I should

lave done with it, had we come to blows. I

used to picture myself encountering a tali

irishman with a long spear, ready to run me

hrough, and I did not relish the picture, but

t all ended in a fiasco. E. MARSTON.

In the various obituary notices of Holyoake- [ have not seen it recorded that at one time was accustomed to lecture under the name of Iconoclast. I well remember that in the- ate fifties he did so for a long while con-
 * inuously at a small hall situated near the

bottom of Rockingham Street (the Moor end) at Sheffield. I reminded him of this a few years ago, and he replied, in a cheery note, that probably he and I were almost the only ones left who remembered the meetings in question.

The special constables in London in 1848- were supplied with a rattle as well as with a staff. My father, who was one of those sworn in at that time, retained both tokens of office until his death in 1887.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY VOLUNTEERS (10 th S. v. 108) Allow me to refer to * Reginald Dalton,' by John Gibson Lockhart, published in 1823, a novel descriptive of Oxford life at the time alluded to by S. T. S. the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Lockhart graduated from Balliol College as First Class in Lit. Hum. in 1813. The passage is worth quotation :

" Amongst the first volunteer corps raised, when the French invasion was threatened, had been one consisting entirely of members of the University : and though the fugleman was a reverend Fellow* and almost all the officers Masters of Arts, perhaps- a finer volunteer regiment never mustered upon- English ground. That corps, however, I know not well for what reason, had been broken up about a year before Reginald came to Oxford. On its disso- lution, a great number of the young gentlemen who had figured in its ranks, full of that martial en- thusiasm which then burned all over the country %