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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vm. AUG. 23, 1913.

AUTHORS WANTED (US. vii. 208, 273 viii. 37). For

Fulvum dat Bartolus aurum and

Sed genus et species cogitur ire pedes, compare

Genus and Species long since barefoote went, Vpon their ten-toes in wilde wanderment : Whiles father Bartell* on his footcloth rode, Vpon high pauement gayly siluer-strowd.

Joseph Hall, ' Virgidemiae,' lib. ii sat. iii. 19-22.

EDWARD BENSLY.

(11 S. viii. 107.)

The quotation is from Cowper's ' Task, book vi. ('The Winter Walk at Noon') 11. 88-95. The last sentence quoted by your correspondent appears to be a paraphrase The exact quotation is as follows :

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.

The same idea is expressed, in different language, in ' Paradise Lost,' book vii., in Selden's ' Table Talk,' in Young's ' Satires ' (vi.), and in Young's ' Night Thoughts ' (v.).

J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

STREET-NAMES (US. viii. 90). In addi- tion to the works named, your correspondent might refer to ' Historical Notices of Don- caster, Second Series,' by Charles William Hatfield, 1868, an extremely interesting quarto, of which pp. 258-303 are devoted to ' Our Streets,' and pp. 304-532 to ' Street Nomenc lature. '

A series of articles on Barnsley streets has commenced in The Alumnus, the magazine of the Barnsley Grammar School, two num- bers of which have been published.

E. G. B.

DOWNDERRY (US. vii. 168 ; viii. 32, 117). May I ask your correspondent at the last reference to give some further particulars ? I have turned up Taylor's ' Words and Places ' in our public library, and thoroughly examined p. 468 (the reference given), without being able to find the remotest connexion of any part of the page with the w^ord " Derry." Nor can I trace anything through the index or the chapter-headings. Unless a mistake has been made in the page given, I can only suppose the quotation is


 * Thus in 1st ed. ; in 2nd ed. Bartoll.

from another edition. That I have been able to consult is dated 1864.

Would MR. WELFORD kindly mention the date of his edition, and also the chapter- heading where the words Derry and Kildare occur? W. S. B. H.

CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY (11 S. viii. 90). J. W. will find very full bibliographies of the subject at the end of vol. iv. of ' The Cambridge Modern History.'

W. ROBERTS CROW.

Gardiner's ' History of the Common- wealth and Protectorate, 1649-60,' 3 vols. ; Green's ' History of the English People,' 3rd vol. ; and Whitelocke's ' Memorials ' and ' Journal ' are the best books to consult about this period of history.

A. GWYTHER.

"To PULL ONE'S LEG" (11 S. vii. 508; viii. 58). This is a Scotticism, meaning to trick, deceive, make a fool of. I do not find it among Bay's ' Scottish Proverbs ' (ed. 1813), and conclude that it is modern. See ' Beside the Bonny Brier Bush,' ' A Wise Woman,' ii. : " 'Jamie's been drawing yir leg [befooling you],' says I." In Ameri- an slang, " leg-pullers " are swindlers or card -sharpers ; but the word is not in Mat-sell's ' Vocabulum ; or. The Rogue's Lexicon,' which, as I have previously pointed out, is precisely contemporary with the first edition of the ' Slang Dictionary.'

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

SICILIAN HERALDRY (11 S. viii. 90). [ have a book, illustrated with coats of arms, entitled

' Teatro Genologico delle Famiglie Nobile Titolate ?eudatarie ed Antiche Nobili del Fidelessimo Regno Ii Sicilia, del Don Filadelfo Mugnos, Palermo, I.DCXLVII." ;

>ut, being away from home, I cannot say f the particular families mentioned are in his book. J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.

SOLICITORS' ROLL BEFORE 1827 (11 S. viii. 89). There is in the record department >f the Law Society, Chancery Lane, a roll ompiled by Mr. W. U. S. G. Richards, n 17 vols., entitled a ' Roll of Attorneys-at- Law and Solicitors from circa A.D. 1200. * ^erhaps this might be useful to your corre- pondent. C. D.

[MR. COLLINGWOOD LEE also thanked for reply. J

THE OLD ENGLISH Bow (US. viii. 90). See throughout ' Archery,' by C. J. Longman nd Col. H. Walrond (" Badminton Li- rary "). There is a Bibliography of the ubject (pp. 472-503). W. H. PEET.