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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL MAY is, 1907.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" POT-GALLERY." What can be the mean- ing of this word, which so frequently figures in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as the name of something constructed on the banks of the Thames, and apt to be an encroachment upon the river ? The Thames Commissioners, to whom I have applied, can throw no light on it. The following are examples of its use :

"No person shall lay any Timber at anyroad, wharf, or yard ; nor shall make or continue any wharf, building, or Potgallery, and prejudice the passage of the said river or the harbours thereof." 1598, Stow, ' Surv. Lond.' (1754), I. i. xi. 49/1.

"Any Wharf, Building, Potgallery, or other Pur-

presture, or Incroachment, into any Part of the

Soil of the said River." 1630, Binnell, 'Descr. Thames' (1758), 70.

"On the South -side of the River Buildings

and Encroachments A Pott Gallery upon the

West-Side of Still-stairs. A Pot -Gallery to the

West of Wheelers-yard On the North-side of

the River a Jetty on the West-side of Ander- son's and the East side of Fifield's Pot Gallery, by which it appears that those Wharfs and Buildings on each side of the said Pot Galleries are en- croached." 1691, T. Hale, 'An Account,' &c. (end of book).

I shall be glad of any information, or even rational suggestion as to the meaning.

J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

POT-HOOKS AND HANGERS. What is the difference between these, first as old kitchen adjuncts, and secondly as elements of hand- writing ? The former are now, I suppose, rare ; but they abound in old inventories, or rather " pot-hooks " do, " hangers " occurring chiefly since 1600 in dictionaries, or in figurative use. In dictionaries, more- over, they ^are usuaUy identified with t-hooks." Is there, or was there, any rence ? and, if so, what was the relation between the pot-hook and the hanger ? As applied to writing, " pot-hooks and hangers " mean the elements practised after the " stroke " (in Scotland kail-stroke], viz., the second element of the letter u, the first of n, and the combination of these in the last element of m or n, known to me in schoolboy days respectively as up-turns, down-turns, and double-turns or v's. But which of these is the pot-hook and which the hanger ? and why are they so called ? Most people that I have asked have a vague notion that the " hanger " is the double-

turn, with a hook at each end, which would leave " pot-hook " to the simple up-turn or down-turn with a single hook at one end,, like a fish-hook ; but how could this repre- sent any kitchen " pot-hook " ? This, from the inventories, seems to have been what is also called a " crook," hooked at both ends one hook to link it on to the sway or " crook-tree," or to one link of a chain hanging from it, and the other to bear the pot. The name *' hanger " might, indeed, be applied to the hanging chain or " tram- mels " on which the crook was hung ; but to such a " hanger " there would be no ana- logue in the writing elements. I fail, there- fore, to find explanations of " pot-hook " and " hanger " which suit (or rather suited) at once the kitchen fireplace and the ele- mentary school, and explain the trans- ference of the names from the one to the other. J. A. H. MURRAY.

[DR. MURRAY will find some information on the subject at 7 S. iv. 226, 318, 393.]

4 ^ENEAS BRITANNICUS,' BY JAMES KEN- NEDY. Information is desired regarding a work, not hitherto described, of which a fragment lies before me, including the title- page :

^Eneas Britannicus, [ sive serenissimi ac poten- tissimi | Caroli II | D. G. Britanniarum, | Francise, et Hibernise, etc. | monarches augustissimi, j gesta r bella, exilium, reditus, | connubia, etc. carmine Virgiliano | celebrata | per | lacobum Kennedum | Swtum Aberdonensem, | Anno Dom. 1663. Quarto, 6^ in. by 5|in,

The fragment has only eight surviving leaves, viz. [A] 4, B-C 2 , not paged : Al blank. A2r., title within border. A2v.- A3r., " Ad authorem virgilizantem," elegiacs signed " Jo. Forbesius, in Universitatis Aberdonensis Collegio Regio Humanioris literatures professor " ; followed by " Ad authorem epigramma," signed by "P. Camerarius." A3v.-A4v., " Ad invictissi- mum Carolum II. epigramma," signed " S. T. M. H. S. lacobus Kennedus " ; followed by " Ad lectorem," not signed. Blr., " Argumentum." Blv.-C2v., " ./Eneas. Britannicus," in hexameters, beginning : Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus avena Carmen, vos Druydes reduces cum Daphnide dicens Optimo : et egressus Sylvis, pia foedera Regum, Atque sacras cecini tedas ; mine horrida Martis Arma virumque cano, Brittanis primus ab oris, Gallica qui fato profugus Germanaque venit Littora

The catchword on C2v. is " Plurima."

The reference in the opening lines is to the same author's previous works (known to- bibliographers : there are copies in the Advocates' Library) :