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JOHN HUDSON (LATE BURKITT & HUDSON). I should much like to know when John Hudson, printseller and publisher, 85, Cheap- side, was carrying on his business. I have found his label among the pasted paper on the back of the frame of a portrait of a general (?) officer. I should guess 1820 as about the date of the portrait, which Hud- son's date of business may help me to identify. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

SA, Bickenhall Mansions, W.

was the author of ' The Progress of the Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times ' ? The seventh edition was printed in 1801 by J. Bateson. for John Hatchard of Piccadilly. Though a little heavy, the parable is carried on with ingenuity. There are allusions to the elder Darwin, Fulton, and Godwin on p. 30 ; to the guillotine, p. 123 ; and to cosmopolitanism, pp. 159-60. The paper is water-marked " M. & E."
 * PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ' IMITATED. Who

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 35, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

OUNDLE. What is the origin of this place- name ? ROBERT NEALE.

" ENNOMIC." What does this word, which is not in the ' N.E.D.,' mean ? It occurs on p. 147 of George Meredith's ' Tragic Come- dians,' " Memorial Edition " :

" I would not have it on my conscience that the commission of any deed ennomic, however un- wonted," &c.

J. J. FREEMAN.

" CAEQEHOUIAS." In ' An Eighteenth Century Correspondence,' p. 60, Deane Swift, writing to Sanderson Miller, says :

" Neither is any fault so detestable as the fre- quency of Caeqehouias. Ands, Buts, Fors, Indeeds, &c., have cost me more pains," &c.

What are the meaning and derivation of this word ? J. J. FREEMAN.

" CARENT " : " PATRICKSMAS " : " LUKES- MAS." Can any reader give me the meaning of the old Scottish word " carent " ? It occurs several times in a diary of a Dum- bartonshire minister of the year 1705, and appears to refer to some ecclesiastical assessment or interest, as " carent due to the Mortification " ; "he came in to speak about his carent, but brought no money " ; " to give our obligement to transact his debts to the value of the price [of some land] against Whitsunday, bearing carent from Martinmas last." The word is not to be found in Jamieson's ' Dictionary.'

The terms " Patricksmas " and " Lukes- mas," presumably 17 March and 18 October, are also used in the diary. Were those recognized term-days in Scotland at that period ? I can find no mention of them else- where. ANGLO-SCOT.

[The 'N.E.D.' states that "Lukesmas" is now obsolete in Scotland, but was formerly a customary date (18 October) for payment of accounts. The latest example cited is from 1671, so that our corre- spondent brings the use of the word down to the next century.]

" INSTANT " OR " CURRENT." In ' N. & Q.* for 26 November last (p. 440) it is said that the late F. H. Collins died " on the 16th inst." Are we to understand that this use of the word " instant " is sanctioned by ' N. & Q.,' as I regret to see it is by some dictionaries ? To our fathers it would have sounded much like saying that a man had died to-morrow. T. S. O.

[The use in question is, we think, generally recog- nized.]

REV. J. SAMWELL : REV. J. PEACOCK. I am anxious to find out what particulars I can respecting the Rev. John Samwell and the Rev. John Peacock, who were suc- cessive ministers of Broadway Meeting, co. Somerset. All I know of Mr. Samwell is that he was in office in July, 1763, and that a small annuity was bequeathed to him and his successors in that year. I am told that he relinquished his ministry to study medicine, but that after a time he resumed his old position. Whether this was so or no, the first instalment under the legacy was apparently paid on 10 March, 1765, to Mr. Peacock, who seems to have been his successor.

Mr. Peacock preached a sermon which was published, and witnessed a wedding in Broadway Church in 1768. He was still in office in 1775, but vacated that position shortly after, as he was succeeded by the Rev. John Lewis in 1777. In 1766 he pub- lished a book entitled ' Hymns and Spiritual Songs,' designed to supersede Dr. Watts' s compositions.

If any one can throw light on the history of either Mr. Samwell or Mr. Peacock, I shall be very grateful.

JOHN W. STANDERWICK.

Broadway, Ilmirister.

ROEITES OF CALVERTON. Several of the Nottingham local histories comprise frag- mentary notices of a sect founded about 1780 at Calverton, Notts (the birthplace of the stocking-frame), by one John Roe, an illiterate inhabitant of that village. The