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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. JUNE 29, 1907.

is only Deistic, and not Christian." Would M. A. R- apply this "reasoning" (if one may call it so) to the Knights of the Garter ?

V.H.I.L.I.C.I.V.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS^WANTED (10 S. vii. 208, 435). Cromwell in his memorable reply seems to remember Bacon's description of an ambitious man, who is " like a seeled dove, that mounts and mounts because he cannot see about him." John Ford in one of his plays has copied Bacon's thought very closely ; but I do not quite remember the lines of the dramatist. Young, in the sixth night (11. 324-5) of his 'Night-Thoughts,' evidently remembers Bacon, though his thought is somewhat different :

Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars, From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.

E. YARDLEY.

Instead of 29 Oct., 1900, ante, p. 312, the date should be 29 Oct., 1899. S. M.

The source of the first of the two quota- tions inquired for by J. L. W., ante, p. 448, is Thackeray's lecture on ' Charity and Humour.' The passage occurs in one of the last paragraphs of the lecture.

J. S. HENDERSON.

AVIGNON SOCIETY OF ILLTJMINATI (10 S- vii. 386). I am sorry that two mistakes crept into my note. The two issues of The Edinburgh Review should be for January and July, 1906 ; and The New-Church Review is published in Boston, not Phila- delphia. CHARLES HIGHAM.

ENGINEERS' PORTRAITS (10 S. vii. 347). Sir William Cubitt, b. 1756, d. 1861. See vol. vii. pi. 52 of ' South Kensington Museum : National Historical Portraits,' Lond., n.d.

Peter Mark Roget, b. 1779, d. 1869. See vol. ii. pi. 18 of ' Athenaeum Club : Portraits of Members,' Lond., 1836 ; also vol. iv. pi. 11 of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew's 1 Medical Portrait Gallery,' Lond. [1838-40].

John Taylor, b. 1779, d. 1863. See vol. ii. pi. 20 of ' Athenaeum Club : Portraits of Members. '

^ Charles B. Vignoles, b. 1793, d. 1875.

See Illustrated London News, 1875, vol. Ixvii. P- 581. LOUISE MERRILL.

Boston, Mass.

PAWNSHOP (10 S. ii. 267, 354). The following work, issued first in 1678, is a likely spot in which to find an early refer- ence. It was reprinted in the ' Harleian Miscellany,' vol. iv., 1808-13, ed. by T. Park : ' Four for a Penny ; or, Poor Robin's Character of a Pawn Broker, Tally Man,

Bum Bailey, and his Merciless Setting-Cur or Follower,' 1678, 4to.

It seems odd that the word " pawnshop " should extend back no further than 1849. Its near relative "pawnbroker " was in use nearly two centuries earlier, as shown above. " Pawnbroker " is also to be found in a scurrilous pamphlet attributed to Defoe, dated 1711, which bears this title :

"London Clubs, particularly Tallymen's, Pawn- brokers, Poets, Tobacconists With a Sermon

preached before a Gang of Highwaymen. [London, H. Hills] 1711." 8vo, pp. viii.

This is probably an early use of the term " tobacconist."

In the Midlands the term " bum bailey " is still used in describing a bailiff or legal official. WM. JAGGARD.

" WAR " : ITS OLD PRONUNCIATION (10 S. v. 228, 310 ; vi. 138, 176, 270, 356). A year ago we were discussing the old pronunciation of " war," rimed by Pope frequently with " star," &c., sometimes with " abhor." Has it been noticed that our present pro- nunciation of the word is apparently changing ? It is now frequently rimed by our poets with words like " store." So scholarly a writer as Dr. Gilbert Murray rimes it with "' yore " in his new translation of the ' Medea ' (p. 48) ; Mr. Owen Seaman and others use similar rimes. In Punch of 17 April (p. 272) an unsigned sonnet of somewhat irregular form rimes the following four words : " yore," " more," " war," " sore." Shall we call these perfect or imperfect rimes ? To my ear, three are perfect, one decidedly imperfect ; but what do your readers say ? T. S. OMOND.

The following early instance of a rime possibly indicating the modern pronuncia- tion of the word ward is taken from a ' Collection of Sermons, including Woe to Drunkards,' by Samuel Ward, of Ipswich, 1636:

Watch, Ward, and keepe thy Garments tight,

For I come Thiefe-like at Midnight,

All-seeing, never slumbring Lord ;

Be thou my Watch, He be thy Ward. I owe the quotation to the " Chaucer's Head " Book Circular for April issued by Mr. William Downing, 5, Temple Row, Birmingham. It may, of course, only prove that Samuel Ward was a bad rimer, or that he pronounced lord as Titus Gates is stated to have done, viz. " laard " (see ' Peveril of the Peak,' chap. xli.).

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany. [We cannot devote further space to this subject.]