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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. x. NOV. -2s,

.;9<>f.?e=bury. Tin- faulcon seizing his kcene

talents in the tlesh of a sillie doue. D 4. Talent = talon. Sec last citation. Youtlily= youthful. With trembling tongue re- penteth youthly rage. B '.'>.

1597. ' WITS COMMONWEALTH ' (X. Ling : is this

a pseudonym ?). Goldfinch. Hee that makes not his Mistresse a

Goldfinch, may perhaps in time find her a

Wagtaile. Fo. 17.

1609. ' Two MAIDS OP MORE-OLACKE ' (Robert

Armin).

Brecik, v. (' N.E.D.' 1014-7). Twil break you sir. And crack your credits faire condition. F 2. Out (' N.E.I)/ 1731). What doe you call it when

the ball sir hits the stoole ? Why out [O

that I] should loose my dice, before my hand

be out. D 2 and F -1. .Planet-struck (' N.E.D.' 1614). It affrights him,

yeelds him plannet strooke. C. If hy (as expletive). See Out.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 8, Mornington Crescent, X.W.

THE COST OF WAR. Mr. Lloyd George, in introducing his War Budget on Tuesday, the 17th inst., gave some statistics as to the war expenditure of Great Britain. The largest amount spent by the nation on war in a single year, before the present war, was 71,000,000^* The French wars at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth cost, in the aggregate, 8 3 1, 000, OOOZ. , spread over twenty years. The Crimean War cost 67,500,OOOZ., spread over three financial years. The Boer War cost 211,000,0002., spread over four financial years. The Chancellor stated that the first full year of the present war will cost at least 450,000, OOOZ.

At the time when Pitt introduced the income tax in 1798, the total income of the country was, Mr. Lloyd George estimates, 250,000,000?. a year/ He estimates the income at the present time at 2,3}0,000,OOOZ. a year. A. X. Q.

THE FLOODING OF XIEUPORT. The follow- ing cutting from The Times of 13 Nov. seems worthy a place in 'X. & Q.' It would be interesting to know who was the ready- witted and learned person who communi- cated the document in question to the Belgian authorities.

" On my way back from Xieuport I met a resident, who showed me an interesting document, the discovery of which, it is stated, was of the greatest value to the Belgians in coping with the German advance from Ostend.

" The document related to a lawsuit in 1795 between a peasant farmer and a landowner, the -former claiming damages arising from the flooding

of his ground during the defence of Nieuport ir 1793 i. From this document, I understand, the Belgians gained the information which enable them to flood the Nieuport district from the proj point, and to repeat their tactics during the carl stages of the advance on Antwerp."

PEREC; RINUS.

SIR JOHN GILBERT'S ILLUSTRATIONS. ante, p. 357, nnd references there given. ) I the course of the many interesting notes tht have appeared on Sir John Gilbert's wor no mention has been made of the work he die for " The Library Shakspeare," publishe by William Mackenzie (n.d.). The pa plates by him to the comedies ' The Tem- pest,' ' The Two Gentlemen,' ' The Mer Wives,' and ' Twelfth Xight ' are exceedinglj fine, only the first having " J. Gilbert full, the rest being merely initialed. are all good, but the first is the best, I thinl In the text are many smaller wood engraving most beautiful in design and execution. These are all in vol. i. Whether he contimie the illustrations through the whole of the eight divisions of the work I am not able to say. THOS. BATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

VANISHING CITY LANDMARKS : RECTORY HOUSE OF ST. MICHAEL, CORNHILL. (I 11 S. vii. 247 ; viii. 446 ; x. 26, 407.) With rapidity which characterizes like operatior in the City, the rebuilding of the old Rector House at the back of St. Michael, Cornhil is now nearly completed. It is of brick with stone facings, of handsoi design more suited, one would venture think, to some broad thoroughfare than dominate this quiet nook so close to tl City's bustle. It will be a relief when the builder's corrugated-iron shed is removed, and the little churchyard resumes its wonte appearance. A melancholy feature now is the row of tombstones propj against the wall. May they soon be placed ! CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

THE REGENT'S FLEET IN THE SERPEI The review of the Lilliputian X.-ivy, 1 Aug., 1814, occasioned many skits. Sor are mentioned by Mr. Ashton (' Hyde Part p. 70), who attributes their authorship " C. F. Lawler, the then pseudo-Pe Pindar."

The best known of these is " Lilliputk Xavy ! ! The R t's Fleet ; or, John Bi at the Serpentine : a Poem, by Peter Pindar, Esq. London, Fairburn." This post 8vc pamphlet gives 118 four-line stanzas, anc