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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. i. JAN. 15, 1910.

Bishop Compton was the youngest son of the gallant Henry Compton, second Earl of Northampton, who fell at the battle of Hopton Heath, near Stafford, in 1642.

Macaulay has left a stirring description of the opening of St. Paul's after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697. He relates how Comp- ton ascended the throne, rich with the sculpture of Gibbons, and thence exhorted a numerous and splendid assembly (' His- tory of England,' chap. xxii.).

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

[This note was in type at the time of our old con- tributor's death. See ante, p. 40.]

$ turns.

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.

" TALLY-HO." The early history of this word appears to be still to seek. The quota- tions found by readers for the ' New English Dictionary ' are all late, viz., as the repre- sentation of the view hulloa, 1772 ; as a sb., " one of his talli-os," 1787 ; attribu- tively, ' ' the tally-ho or Nimrodian style in literature," 1857 ; as name of a coach and four, "here is seen the tally-ho so gay," 1825, " coming home by the Safety Tally-ho, "- 1831. As a verb, "A fox was tally-ho 'd breaking covert,' 2 1812. The shout must have been in earlier unwritten use, and may occur in literature, but it is not easy to say where ; dictionaries, of course, ignore it ; it is unrecognized by Bailey, Johnson, Todd, 1818, and even by Webster, 1828. Will sympathetic readers try to think of likely places for its occurrence, and send us the results of searches or suggestions ? The corresponding French view - hulloa ta'iaut occurs in Moliere, ' Les Facheux,' 1661, where it is used in deer-hunting, " taiiaut, voila d'abord le cerf donne aux chiens " ; and as a sb., " au milieu de tons les ta'iaux," in Madame de Sevigne, c. 1700. The French is often assumed to be the source of the English, and may have been, since, so far as evidence at present goes, it is known more than a century earlier ; but it has no etymology in French, and the origin is unknown ; prima facie one would say it looks like an adoption of the English tally-ho, if only the latter could be found as early.

J. A. H. M.

Oxford.

[The discussion of tally-ho at 8 S. xii. 65, 118, 192, 291, may interest SIB JAMES MURRAY.]

HORNBOOK TEMP. ELIZABETH. Readers of ' N. & Q.' familiar with the hornbooks and grammars of the Elizabethan period will oblige me by -explaining the following :

" I was fine yeare learning to crish Crosse from great A, and fiue yeare longer comming to F. There I stuck e some three yeare before I could come to q, and so in processe of time I came to e perce e, and comperce, and tittle, then I got to a e i o u, after to our Father, and in the sixteenth yeare of my age, and the fifteenth of my going to schoole, I am in good time gotten to a Nowne, by the same token there my hose went downe : then I got to a Verbe, there I began first to haue a beard : the I came to Iste, itfa.istud, there my M. whipt me till he fetcht the blood, and sofoorth."- ' A pleasant conceited Comedie Wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good Wife from a bad/ London, 1602 (British Museum C. 34 C. 53).

The edition of 1608 has :

"There I stuck some three yeare before I could come to Q, and so in processe of time I came to e per se e, and con per se, and tittle."

I have consulted ' N.E.D.'

A. E. H. SWAEN. Groningen.

SCOTCHMEN IN FRANCE. Can any readers, of ' N. & Q.' give me historical details on this important subject ? Scotch noblemen have played a prominent military part in France since the fifteenth century ; many of them settled definitely in France, especially in the ' ' Orleanais." Has any book been pub- lished on the subject either in England or France ? I have a few notes on the follow- ing families : Rutherford, Hepburn, Fullar- ton, Stemple, Daldart (?) ; and should be glad to complete them and add new ones. CHARLES NOUGUIER. Chateau de La Vallee, Chateau-Renard, Loiretv

' THE HISTORY OF BULLANABEE.' Can any of your readers give me the name of the author of ' The History of Bullanabee and Clinkataboo, Two Recently Discovered Islands in the Pacific ' ? It was printed for Longman & Co. in 1828, 12mo.

ALEX. H. TURNBULL.

Wellington, N.Z.

" EARTH GOETH UPO^T EARTH." Can any readers of ' N. & Q.' tell me of cases in which this or similar lines are used in epitaphs or mural inscriptions ? There is, of course, the famous Melrose Abbey inscription men- tioned by Scott :

The earth goeth on the earth,

Glist'ring like gold, &c. ;

and several instances have been already cited in ' N. & Q.' (1 S. vii. 577 ; viii. 575 ; 3 S. i. 389). Two of these, in St. James's, Clerkenwell, and St. Martin's, Ludgate the