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 s. v. JAN. is, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

second reference (9 June, 1860) is a note by H. N., dated from New York :

" Pightlel, or pikle, is a word very nearly obsolete, and so rarely in use that I am at a loss as to its etymology. Piglitel signifies an enclosure surround- ing a dwelling-house, and is sometimes synonymous with lawn."

Any instance of this use from an actual docu- ment would be very useful.

KOBERT J. WHIT WELL. Oxford.

WOTTONIAN.E.' (See 10 th S. ii. 326 ) I should be grateful for help in anno- tating the two passages below in Sir Henry Wotton's letters :

1. " He might peradventure take cold at hisback : which is a dangerous thing in a Court, as Ruy- gomez de silva was wont to say, that great Artisan of Humours." Fourth ed., p. 437.

2. "I hear that one hatlnoffered to the Prince of Orange an Invention of discoursing at a great distance by Lights : Is it true?" Wotton to John Dynely at the Hague, 12 August, 1628, ibid., p. 558.

In letters not in the 4 Reliquiae ' Wotton mentions :

3. A painter, Jacques de Gein.

4. A musician, servant to Prince Charles, and by birth an Italian from Padua.

5. A phrase from 'Don Quixote,' a woman " who doth herself border upon forty years."

6. Can any genealogist tell me whether there was any blood relationship between Sir Henry Wotton and (a) Francis Bacon, (6) Sir Anthony Shirley, (c) Sir Dudley Carleton ? Wotton's maternal grand mother was a Gains- ford ; he speaks of a relationship between Carleton and himself through theGainsfords.

L. P. S.

CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS. Can any one give me the exact reference for the following quotations 1

1. '/JTTt'o-reie Karexoicra (Heliodorus).

2. ubi rudentes stridunt, et anchorte rumpun- tur, et malus gemit (Seneca).

3. Tarn otii debet constare ratio quam negotii (Seneca).

4. Premant torcular qui vendemiarunt.

5. Aliquid sapidum in fungo.

6. Est bene non potuit dicere, dixit, erit.

H. W.

"QlJAM NIHIL AD GENIUM, PAPINIANE,

TUUM ! "The motto is taken from the * Illus- trations to Drayton's Polyolbion,' attributed to Selden. It is used by him as a quotation. What is its original source ? W. T.

[The motto was also placed on the title-page of the 1800 edition of the 'Lyrical Ballads,' and a query on the subject from PROF. KNIGHT appeared 10 th S. iv. 351. See, however, Mr. Hutchinson's note in The Athemvum for 24 December, 1898, and his "Centenary Edition" of the 'Lyrical Ballads'

(Duckworth). Coleridge presumably found the quotation in Selden's 'Illustrations' to Drayton's 'Polyolbion.' It is probably Selden's own, as he generally gives references for quotations from Latin and Greek authors.]

SHEFFIELD PLATE. I should be glad to know in what works I can find most details of the history of Sheffield plate and its manu- facture. P. M.

" BBL." Will any of your readers give me the explanation of "bbl.," the abbreviation for " barrel " ? WILL. D. HOWE.

Butler College, Indianapolis.

[Such contraction does not seem easily compre- hensible or defensible.]

MRS. BLACKAIRE. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writing from Ratisbon under date of 30 Aug., 1716, speaking of the inability of the higher classes to determine the proper social gradation, says :

"The foundation of these everlasting disputes turns entirely upon the rank, place, and title of Excellency, which they all pretend to, and, what is very hard, will give it to nobody. For my part, I could not forbear advising them (for the publick good) tq give the title of Excellency to everybody, which would include the receiving it from every- body ; but the very mention of such a dishonour- able peace was received with as much indignation as Mrs. Blackaire did the motion of a reference."

Will some one please explain the allusion to Mrs. Blackaire? D. M.

Philadelphia.

[There is obviously a misprint. The allusion is to Widow Blackacre, in Wycherlev's 'Plain Dealer,' Act III. sc. i.]

THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUTH- AMPTON. In the biography of this Lord Chancellor (d. 1550) in the 'D.N.B,' Ixiii., there is an error about his daughter Anne, which has not, I think, yet been pointed out. It is stated at p. 152 that she " was intended by her father to be the third wife of Sir John Wallop (q v.). Wallop, however, died before the marriage took place, and Anne seems to. have died unmarried."

Whether or not she died unmarried, it is clear that her father, the earl, did not intend her to be third wife to Sir John Wallop ('D.N.B.,'Kx. 152), who died in July, 1551, because

1. Sir John Wallop's second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Clement Harleston, was certainly alive when the earl made his will and died, and she is said to have survived her husband. See * Collins's Peerage ' (Brydges), iv. 302.

2. In the earl's will, dated 21 July, 1550, his daughter Anne's intended husband is styled "Mr. Wallop"; and " Sir John Wallop,