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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. x SEPT. 26,

THE 1618 EDITION OF STOW'S 'SURVEY.' There is a slight variation in the copies of this interesting edition that has not received the notice it deserves. In several copies two extra leaves, identified as " * " and " * 2," are inserted between pp. 20 and 21. Their matter describes the New Riv>r and the ceremony of admitting the water into the first basin at Clerkenwell, " Michelmas Day, 1613." As there is no break in the context, this inset would hardly be noticeable, but for the omission of pagina- tion and the direction " Let this halfe sheete be plac'd betweene Folio 20 and 21."

The occasion for these additional pages is remarkable. There is no apparent reason for the omission from the work, as originally prepared, of any description of the New River. It might be assumed that Munday had completed his revision and extension of Stow's ' Survey ' before 1613, but his text records many events occurring later ; for example, the consecration of the church- yard of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, 4 June, 1617, and the mayoralty of William Hally- day, 1617. It is evident, therefore, that the matter dealt with in the inset was an accidental omission.

In one copy of the book before me the inset is folded and loose ; in another there is a contemporary MS. note at the foot of p. 20, " Turne backe to ye page next follow- ing his Epistle to ye Ld. Bp. of London," but the inset is not there now. Recently I was shown a copy of the inset stitched in covers of contemporary heavy white paper. So there is sufficient support for the assump- tion that it was prepared subsequently to the publication of the book, and distributed to the subscribers and booksellers.

If the omission of this matter from his work was not an oversight by Munday, we may suppose that he intended preparing a work of some importance on the New River ; or this was the intention of one of his friends, and he avoided anticipating it until it was known the design would not be pursued further. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

" A SANDY PIG FOR AN ACORN." This

saying I have heard at times all my life, the meaning being that sandy-coloured pigs are the ones most partial to acorns. The fruit of the oak is said to make tough bacon. The saying is also applied to sandy or red- haired men and women, who are considered to have " likings " for the other sex. " Aye ! a sandy pig for a ackon ! " is the way many people use it. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries,. >n order that answers may be sent to them direct.

SCROPE COLQUITT. Several of the ances- tors of the family of Colquitt-Craven of Brockhampton Park, co. Glos., bore this name. Is it known how they came by it ': The eighteenth-century Colquitts were a race of Custom House officials at Poole r Leith, and Liverpool. The first Scrope Colquitt I have met with was bom in 1719,. the son of John Colquitt and Frances, davi. of Roger Smith of Frolesworth, co. Leic. He had a son of the same name (b. 1752),. who had a son Scrope Milner Colquitt, B.A., of B.N.C., Oxford (d. 1825, aged 23). The- latter had a cousin Lieut. -Col. John Scrope- Colquitt, who was wounded and died at Seville in 1812. The first John mentioned, above was a son of John and Frances Allen of Christleton, co. Chester. Information about the use of the name and arms of Milner would be interesting also.

A memorial to Scrope Milner Colquitt,. and a window, in Childwall Church, co. Lane., bear a fesse fretty (?) between three- cinquefoils, a mullet for difference (Colquitt^ impaling) three lozenges conjoined in fesse,. each charged with a besant (Milner).

R. S. B.

'WHARTON HALL: THE LEGEND OF THE: LADY'S REST.' Where may the original of this poem be found ? and is it known who wrote it ? I have a MS. copy of it, but do not think it can be a very correct one, it appearing somewhat slipshod. The Preface states :

" Wharton Hall in Westmorland was the seat of Philip, the celebrated Duke of Wharton ' the scorn and wonder of our days,' so cruelly dissected by Pope.

" He banished his beautiful young wife to this place in consequence of her disobeying his com- mands to keep their child, an only son to whom he was fondly attached, at the Hall. Great dis- turbance arising at this time in London, the duchess, with affectionate solicitude for her husband's safety, followed him to Town, where the young Marquis took the small-pox and died."

CURIOUS.

" THE HERO OF NEW ORLEANS." Can any tme say who is meant by this term ? I have come across this designation without any name attached to it. I am under the- impression that the person referred to was a British army officer. G.