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NOTES AND QUERIES. pi s. x. OCT. 10, m.

"FRAP" (11 S. x. 187, 237). In his ' Archaic Dictionary ' Halliwell gives three definitions of /rap. First, he says, as a Northern word, it means " to brag or boast." Secondly, the Lancashire significa- tion is " to fall into a passion." The lexico- grapher adds : " Also, a violent gust of rage. Frape, Langtoft, p. 320, tumult, disturbance ? " The third definition is " To strike or beat (Fr. ). See Nares and ' Richard Cceur de Lion ' 2513, 4516." The connexion with frapper is obvious.

THOMAS BAYNE.

"THE HERO OF NEW ORLEANS" (11 S. x. 248, 273). This title was applied to Ben- jamin Franklin Butler (1818-93), General in the U.S. Army. He took possession of New Orleans for the Federal forces 1 May 1862. He published his autobiography in 1 892. The Confederates called him " Beast Butler."

THOS. WHITE. Junior Reform Club, Liverpool.

LATIN JINGLES (11 S. x. 250). I should imagine that HYLLARA will have great difficulty in discovering the authors or the first appearance of these rimes. There is a large collection of them in ' Lateinische Sprichworte und Sinnspriiche des Mittel- alters,' collected by Jakob Werner, 1912 ; it is No. 3 of the " Sammlung Mittellatein- ischer Texte," edited at Heidelberg by Alfons Hilka. S. G.

" I AM THE ONLY RUNNING FOOTMAN "

(11 S. x. 229). See the account of running footmen, with a woodcut of the Charles Street signboard, in ' The Book of Days,' edited by B. Chambers (1864), vol. i. pp. 98- 100, under the date 12 Jan. In the course of this article ' N. & Q.' (2 S. i. 9, 121) is referred to. A. R. BAYLEY.

The last running footman in England was in the service of William Douglas, the fourth Duke of Queensberry, who died, unmarried, a millionaire, in 1810 ; but in Saxony there were running footmen even so late as 1845.

Waiters at table were then called " serving men." T. SHEPHERD.

When running footmen were constantly employed in that capacity by noblemen and the " great " generally, those functionaries lent their names to the signs of public - houses, especially in those streets adjacent to the large West-End mansions where they were employed. The sign of the house in Charles Street, Mayfair, is simply " The Running Horse," and the legend attached

to the sign, which MR. LANDFEAR LUCAS quotes, merely accentuates the fact that that house is now the only one in London bear- | ing that particular sign.

F. A. RUSSELL. [MB. HOWARD S. PEARSOX thanked for reply.J

FOREIGN TAVERN SIGNS (11 S. x. 229, 275). The enclosed cutting from The \Vittes. \ <Jen Chronich of 25 Sept. gives another instance of change of name, and shows that the licensing justices have control over the names of licensed premises :

i"' The King of Prussia.'

" At the Willesden Police Court, yesterday, Mr. Hansen, solicitor, applied for sanction, on behal of the licensee of ' The King of Prussia,' a house in the Willesden licensing division, to change the name to ' The Crown.' The Chairman : For what reason ? Mr. Hansen : For obvious reasons; The licensee is afraid that with such a name as The King of Prussia ' he will get all the trade, which will be very unfair to the other houses. (Laughter.) The Chairman: I think there can | be no objection to the change, and we sanction it."

A MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATE.

THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS (11 S. x. 230 J 277). This organization was first formed in 1760, to repel the French attack on Carriekfergus under Thurot, and reached its acme at the Dungannon Convention of 1782, which led to the establishment of Grattan's Parliament. See ' The History of the Volun- teers of 1782,' by Thomas MacNevin, 12mo, Dublin, 1845, a work frequently reprinted. EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'

The Scots Peerage, founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, con- j taining an Historical and Genealogical Account ' of the Nobility of that Kingdom. Edited by Sir I James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Vol. IX. Index. (Edinburgh, David Douglas, i II. 5s.)

EXACTLY ten years after the appearance of its j first volume, ' The Scots Peerage ' completes itself with an elaborate volume of Addenda and Corrigenda and an Index, bringing the entire work to a total of 5,821 pages and 76 illustrations. Based as it is on Douglas (1764), as edited by Wood (1813), the work has really been " in progress," as the British Museum Catalogue would say, for 150 years ; and even yet it is not the definitive product one could wish for : " Nobody is more aware of the many shortcomings of this work than the editor himself." That is Sir James Balfour Paul's own confession, and the sincerity of it may be gauged by the fact that the 4,89! pages forming the text of the first eight volumes are criticized, as it were, by no fewer than 170 pages~of Addenda and Corrigenda in Vol. IX.