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back ; another still exists at Mailing Street Lewes ; the name is said to be well known in the parish of Warnham ; a grocer in the Cliff e, Lewes, bore the name recently ; and it is found at Seaford. A clerical corre- spondent from Portslade informed me there was a butcher of that name in Liphook, Hants, in 1885.

Charles Lamb's farce ' Mr. H ,' pro- duced at Drury Lane Theatre 10 Dec., 1808, with Elliston and Harriet Mellon (after- wards Mrs. Coutts) in the principal parts turns on the hero being afflicted with what Mark Antony Lower calls this " uncom- fortable surname." Commenting on the failure of the farce, Mr. E. V. Lucas in his Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb ' remarks :

" Lamb should have chosen a better, by which 1 mean a worse, name than Hos;snesh. As a matter of fact a great number of persons had become quite accustomed to the asperities of Hogsflesh, not only from the famous cricketer of that name, one of the pioneers of the game, but also from the innkeeper of Worthing."

In 1796 Worthing had but two inns, both on the beach, immediately opposite one another, one being known as the " New " Inn, and the other as the " Sea " house. One of these inns was kept by a Mr. Hogs- flesh, and the other by Mr. Bacon, which occasioned the lines :

Worthing is a pretty place,

And if I 'm not mistaken, If you can't get any butchers' meat,

There 's Hogsflesh and Bacon.

Lower's ' English Surnames,' p. 144.

JOHN HEBB.

I am transcribing the register of a small parish in Sussex, and in the year 1550 I find Marie Hodgesflesh was christened. This spelling of the name occurs frequently in the register, and does not become Hoggesflesh until 1598. O. S. T.

The Misses Hogsflesh kept a seminary for young ladies at Townley House, Chatham Street, Ramsgate, where the Duchess of Kent resided with our future Queen Victoria for a time in 1823. This surname was changed to Hoflesh or something very similar, and may be identical with that mentioned in MB. JOHN HEBB'S quotation (ante, p. 334). Kent, as well as Sussex, would thus seem to furnish examples of this curious name.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

I knew this name some twenty years "ago at Ipswich, euphemistically pronounced Ho'flesh. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

This surname is found in the eighteenth- century registers of the parish of St. John Zachary, London.

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND PROTECTORATE (10 S. viii. 310). The late DR. MARSHALL, of the College of Heralds, some years ago asked through ' N. & Q.' for information as to all schools in England and for published books on them, with a view to the formation of a list, &c., of them. If his MS. on this subject is in existence, J. B. W. might obtain some particulars from it. C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

In addition to the editorial foot-note to this query may be added ' Endowed Gram- mar Schools in England,' by N. Carlisle, 2 vols., 8vo, 1818.

The Charity Commissioners' Reports, 1819 onwards, will also yield some information.

E. A. FRY.

"PECCAVI:" "I HAVE SINDH " (10 S. viii. 345). I cannot understand how the claim to the authorship of the couplet quoted by MR. A. L. MAYHEW, could have been contended for by both Punch and Thomas Hood, since Hood died in 1845, while Lord Dalhousie did not become Governor-General of India till 1847, and did not annex Oude till 1855. Perhaps Tom Hood the younger may be meant, though I hardly think the couplet is in the style of either father or son, the latter of whom (born 1835) was very young at the time. I am, however, glad to see that the writer, whoever he was, knew the correct pronunciation of Oude, which is properly spelt Awadh. Most people fifty years ago would have rimed it to prude instead of proud. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

" SHAM ABRAHAM " (10 S. vii. 469 ; viii. 293). The song ' Abraham Newland,' quoted by MR. PIERPOINT, has been ascribed to Thomas Dibdin as well as to Upton ; and it appeared in ' The Whim of the Day,' a collection of songs for 1800. The air to which this song was written is the ' Rogue's March,' at that time very popular on account of Thomas Dibdin having included it in his opera ' The British Raft,' produced at Astley's in 1797, setting it to his song

The Tight Little Island.' Dibdin sold the song to the publishing firm of Longman &

! o. for fifteen guineas. Its success was unexampled, and the publishers afterwards admitted to have made 900Z. by it. The air was popular for long after the invasion