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 io" s. v. JUNE 16, 1906.) NOTES AND QUERIES.

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good ash-plant = sapling, with which to give t% a good eshinV Others gave their sons and apprentices "a good beltin'," and this was done with the buckle-end of the waistbelt which most men then wore. As a lad, I do not remember hearing the word "caning" used. At my first school, where punish ments were ready and rough, the master's method was to throw a stout short ruler at the offender and order the lad to bring it to him, when he would proceed to admonish by rapping on the skull or knuckles, often on both a method which some lads resented to the extent of coming to blows with the master. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

BURIAL IN WOOLLEN. (See ante, p. 399.) Perhaps I may be allowed to refer your reviewer to 9 th S. x. 159, where he will find an illustration somewhat akin to the custom which he records. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

" JOUR DE BOUHOURDIS." (See ante, p. 376.)

- Roquefort's ' Glossaire de la Langue

Romane' gives the following explanation :

" Bouhordeis : course de lance, jodte, tournoi,

combat simule ; en has. lab. bohordicum. Le jour

du bouhordis=le premier dimanche de careme."

L. L. K.

MASH AM FAMILY. (See 10 th S. iv. 206, 317 ; v. 390.) Some twenty years ago I saw the tombs of the Mashams in the churchyard of High Laver, near Chipping Ongar. The slabs, raised on brickwork, bore inscriptions, but these were quite obliterated, or filled with lichen. One tomb was pointed out beneath which Abigail Hill, Lady Masham was buried. Otes, the ancient seat of the Mashams, is within sight of the churchyard. The monu- ment of John Locke, who died at Otes in 1704, is on the south wall of the church, and bears a long Latin inscription and the arms of his family, three hawks with padlocks in their beaks. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA. In the Sixth Report of the Proceedings of the British Association meeting held at Bristol in 1836 it is stated briefly that "Dr. Lardner explained his views of the most advantageous modes of forming a steam communi- cation with the East Indies and North America" ;

and the reader is referred in a foot-note to The Edinburgh JZeview, 1837, on this subject. The article in vol. Ixv. of this review, how- ever, appears to be merely a comment on the views expressed by Dr. Lardner at the meeting on the question of "the practica-

bility of a steam voyage across the Atlantic." The writer joins issue with the doctor, as, in his opinion, even if a steamer could be built that would carry sufficient coal to last out the voyage across the Atlantic, the feat could not be accomplished in one trip, because the flues would get so choked with soot, &c., and the inside of the boiler so much coated with incrustration of salt, that it would be found necessary to put out the fires in mid-ocean and allow the boiler to cool, so as to enable men to enter the flues to clean them.

The name of the sage who wrote this is not disclosed; but even while the learned gentle- men were discussing the various points involved in the problem, a company of merchants were building, at Bristol, a steamer of 1,200 tons burden to navigate directly between that port and New York. This was the S.S. Great Western, which sailed on 8 April, 1838, and made her first passage across the Atlantic in 13j days. A few hours before her another steamer, the Sirius, had arrived there from the Cove of Cork (now Queenstqwn).

The successful trips of the Savannah in 1819 and of the Royal William in 1833 were evidently forgotten or ignored. With reference to these cf. * The Atlantic Ferry,' by Arthur J. Maginnis (London, 1892), who does not mention the learned discussion at the British Association meeting.

L. L. K.

[Many references to early steam navigation are supplied, in the General Index to the Ninth Series.]

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f any of your correspondents can tell me where I may find some information about this story. I have a copy in the hand- writing of my mother, who gave it to me some seventy, or, it may be, more years ago ; but where she got it I have never been able to discover. I have some vague impression of having seen the story mentioned fifty or more years ago in print, but have long since lost all trace of it. Is there not some men- tion of it in one of Bishop Thirl wall's letters ? FRED. NORGATB.
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