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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. OCT. 5, 1907.

LOBD MAYOR OF LONDON. (See ante, p. 123.) It is quite true that Maitland says that the title of " Lord " was conferred on the Mayor of London by the charter of maces, 28 Edward III., 10 June, 1354 ; but Mait- land's statement is pure unadulterated rubbish. There is not a shadow of a shade of evidence in the City records (or anywhere else, to my knowledge, and I am fairly well acquainted with most sources of information on matters pertaining to civic dignities) that the chief magistrate of London was styled " Lord Mayor " earlier than (at the very earliest) the closing year of the fifteenth century, and I should hesitate to regard it as an established designation until about 1520 or 1530, and it might even be put later. I think it may be safely asserted that the title was never formally and officially con- ferred at all : like Topsy, it " growed."

ALFRED B. BEAVEN, M.A.

THE " CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL." This familiar alliteration dates from about 1400, in a slightly different sense ; for the ' Laud Troy Book,' of that date (E.E.T.S. 164/ 5538), has

He smot In-two bothe chanel and choppe ; i.e., the throat and the jaw. This appears to be the earliest occurrence of " chop " in the singular. We now know it as a " Bath chap." H. P. L.

MASTER OF THE HORSE. The following extract from The Manchester Guardian of 24 August (London Letter) seems worthy of more permanent record than the columns of a daily newspaper :

" Here is a little incident worth its place in the history of our own times. Lord Granard, who is a captain of the Scots Guards, was on guard on Tues- day night. Although his new appointment had not then been announced, he was already Master of the Horse. And I believe it has never before happened that the Master of the Horse has been captain of the King's Guard. Nowadays that office and that post are touched with the pure formality that has set in upon Court surroundings. But one can think that there have been times in our history when a revolution might have been made or marred by a curious little accident like that. It is announced in to-night's Gazette that Lord Granard has been seconded for service without pay.' "

F. H. C.

THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT. This addition to the Decalogue is generally given as " Thou shalt not be found out," though Mrs. Lynn Linton, in her novel ' Past on Carew,' renders it as "Do not tell tales out of school." I have been reading a charm- ing little collection of Low German pro- verbs (collected in Friesland, Oldenburg,

Hanover, Holstein, Mecklenburg, &c.) pub- lished in Reclaim's "Universal-Bibliothek," No. 493, under the title ' De Plattdiidsche Spriickworder-Schatz.' I was amused to find in this brochure the " elfte Gebot " given as " Laat Di nich verbliiffen ! " This- corresponds, I presume, pretty well with " Thou shalt not be found out."

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

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.

" MORELLIANISM." " This would cure all the morellianisme and libertinisme in the Brethren of the New-England Churches " (W. Hubbard, ' Happiness of a People,' 1676, p. 63). What was this heresy, and who was the heresiarch ?

HENRY BRADLEY. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

LYCH GATES. Can any readers of 'N. & Q. r kindly give me information as to where I can find any lists of, or references to, old lych gates, or any work treating of them ?

Perhaps those who know of old lych gates in their neighbourhood would kindly send me picture postcards of them, if available, so that I may obtain further information, concerning them if desired.

ARTHUR VICARS, Ulster. Office of Arms, Dublin Castle. [Much information on lych gates will be found at 4 S. i. 390, 423, 445, 497, 618 ; 5 S. xii. 268, 294, 397, 417 ; 6 S. i. 125 ; 7 S. xii. 148.]

HUME'S PAPERS. As I am writing a biography of a German traveller and novelist who was in London several times between 1823 and 1832, and who knew Joseph Hume, the well-known Radical politician, it would be of great interest for me to know where- are the private papers, diaries, letters, &c., of Hume (d. 1855) ; if some descendants of his family are still living ; and where I could obtain further particulars.

(Prof.) A. RAVIZE. 65, Patshull Road, Kentish Town, N.

" TWO-TOOTH " : " TWO-TEETH." On an advertisement posted in Cornwall of a sale of farm stock to take place at Trehane Barton,. Davidstow, on 19 September, there is men- tion of " two-teeth " breeding ewes, " two- teeth " wethers, and " two-teeth " rams. In former times such notices used to con-