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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JUKE i, 1907.

marble Burmese god." The following is a rough description. The figure is in a squatting position ; height about 19 in., weight about 3 stone. The face, highly polished, is oval, nose long and flattish, mouth rather large with thick lips. On the head is a conical cap, consisting of triple ornamental bands and a plain pointed top. The left hand lies on the chest, and holds what appears to be a staff, the point of which rests on the left shoulder. On the wrists and ankles are armlets and anklets. The lower extremities are clumsily formed, and the feet are flat. There is a sash or loin-cloth. The figure is decorated with incised lines in various places.

Can any one give me information about this " god," such as his name, country, attributes, the period to which he belongs, &c. ? Is he a rare specimen ?

S. A. D'AncY. Clones, Ireland.

' SOBRIQUETS AND NICKNAMES.' (10 S. vii. 366.)

I HAVE not seen Mr. A. R. Frey's book on this interesting subject, so I may be sending you what has already been garnered. If, however, these strange nicknames have not a place in his book, it would be well to give room to them, as they might then find their way into a new edition of a work which I do not doubt is both useful and entertaining.

I am tear 'em = Right Hon. John Arthur Roebuck, M.P. Illustrated Times, 18 Sept.,

Scorchvillein=Henry de Loundres, Arch- bishop of Dublin (ob. 1228). ' D.N.B.,' s.n.

Devil of Dewsbury= Richard Oldroyd, hanged at York in 1664 for the Farnley Wood plot. ' Depositions from York Castle ' (Surtees Soc.), 216n.

Red Cock.

" The above old man was called Red Cock for many years before his death, for having one Sunday slept m church, and dreaming that he was cock- fighting, he bawled out 'A shilling upon the red cock ! ' and behold the family are called Red Cock

38 f James Lac kington,' 1850,

Black Tom = Lord Fairfax, general of the army of the Long Parliament. Ward, English Reformation,' 1716, p. 347

5lS^^S^Lv N ^? Af id.-Effigies in Aldworth Church. Hearne, ' Collec.,' vol. v.

Jack Boots = Henry Compton, Bishop of London 1675-1713. Abbey, 'The English Church and its Bishops,' vol. i. p. 107.

Os porci = Pope Sergius I. Southey, ' Commonplace Book,' vol. iii. p. 398.

Docthur Trobullf eld = James Turberville, Bishop of Exeter 1555-9. Bridgett and Knox, ' Story of Cath. Hierarchy,' 96n., quoting Machyn's ' Diary.'

The Dandy Bishop = Hon. George Pelham, Bishop of Lincoln, 1820-27. Whether this nickname ever found its way into print is uncertain. Probably it did in the local newspapers and election literature. The tradition thereof has lived on to the present day.

Godwin Porthund = the hangman of Shrewsbury. Reference is lost.

John Price, otherwise Miss Marjoram ; Bob Plunder ; Bricklayer Tom ; Robin Cursemother. Outlawed smugglers, Hawk- hurst, Hampshire, early eighteenth cent. Southey, ' Commonplace Book,' vol. iv. p. 590.

Sir Saunder Smell-smock. A nickname given to some one by John Bale, Bishop of Ossory (Parker Soc.), Index, s.n.

Sir John Smell-smoke. A nickname given by James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham, to some one (Parker Soc.), Index, s.n.

Cat.

" St. Leo had sent bishops to Constantinople to ask the Emperor that he would bring to punish- ment Timotheus, the Cat, who, being schismatical, excommunicated, and Eutychean, had nevertheless got possession of the see of Alexandria." T. W. Allies, ' The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations,' p. 64.

Strata Smith = William Smith, the geologist (Athenceum, 6 Aug., 1892, p. 181).

Kick o' the Guts, Wry Neck, Lord Lick- penny, Brandy Billy, Hob o' the Loanin', John o' the Loanin', Pistol-foot, Shiney- boots, Jamaica John, Gold-foot, Jinny the Drummer, Mall the Priest, Bubbly Jock, Clocky Bill, Jenny lang Hannah, Jamaica Tommy, Gentleman John, Weather-neck, Lang Ends, Mary o' the Kiln, Jack the Dilly- driver, Me-an'-my Father. Hexham nick- names. ' The Denham Tracts ' (Folk-lore Soc.), vol. i. p. 344.

Ma-the-bucket. A Galway Water-carrier. Fitz Patrick, ' Life of Father Tom Burke,' vol. i. p. 20. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

I have not seen Mr. Frey's volume, but it would seem from MB. BLEACKLEY'S list of names apparently omitted by Mr. Frey that neither is aware of the ' Index of Nicknames, Pseudonyms,' &c., of real