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SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND TOBACCO (US. ii. 489 ; iii. 34). It was old ale and nutmeg not small beer that traditionally extinguished Raleigh's quiet smoke. The story as related in ' The British Apollo ' is quite clear on this point : " and generall indulg'd himself in Smoaking secretly, two pipes a Day ; at which time he order'd a Simple Fellow, who waited, to bring him up a Tankard of old Ale and Nutmeg, alway laying aside the Pipe, when he heard his servant coming."

The story is correctly epitomized in the late Mr. W. Niven's ' Selections from " The British Apollo," ' 1903, p. 92.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

The incident is given in the Rev. I. Taylor's Manufactures, and Commerce, 1825,' pp. 69-70 :
 * Scenes of British Wealth in Produce,

"It was from the North American Indians we took the fashion of tobacco smoking. Sir Walter Raleigh when Virginia was first discovered, brought some over. The first time he smoked it M'as in private. He had called his servant for a jug of water ; when the man brought it in, he saw smoke coming from his master's mouth, and naturally supposing he was on fire, he as naturally threw the jug of water over him, to put it out."

The illustration attached depicts the servant in the act. WM. JAGGARD.

" VAIL " : ITS USE BY SCOTT (US. iii. 86, 131). Messrs. A. & C. Black may probably care to know that the copy of the ' Talis- man ' to which I referred is dated 1879 and bears their own imprimatur. It has " veiled not their bonnets" in chap, xxiv., and " I will not veil my crest " in the ballad of ' The Bloody Vest,' chap. xxvi. Surely the publishers do not mean to imply that the reading in the latter case is that which the author intended. THOMAS BAYNE.

INSCRIPTIONS IN CHURCHES, &c. (11 S. ii. 389, 453, 492, 537 ; iii. 57, 97). I am glad to learn where the jocular comment on the tombstone inscription beginning "As I am now," &c., is to be found, for I have known it many years, only my version ran :

To this by no means I consent Unless I know which way you went.

H. A. ST. J. M.

PARISH FORMATION (US. iii. 88). Some- thing about the origin of parishes will be found in Fosbroke's ' Encyclopaedia of Antiquities,' 1843, s.v. ' Obsolete Ecclesiasti- cal Matters,' vol. ii. p. 799 ; in Cowel's ' Interpreter ' ; and in Walcott's ' Sacred

Archaeology. ' No doubt also Smith and Cheetham's 'Diet. Christ. Antiq.' would afford further information, and Blackstone's ' Commentaries,' but my copy has gone wrong in pagination.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

"STICK-IN-THE-MUD" (11 S. iii. 106). This expression is commonly in use at the present day in Somerset and other parts of the West of England, and is generally applied to a man who is slow in movement or in business. Its equivalent is " slow-coach," which is also frequently used. C. T.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK-LORE (11 S. iii. 7). With regard to the promised " Biblio- graphy of Folk-Lore by Thomas Satchell " to be issued by the Folk-Lore Society, one can but echo the query of MR. GERISH, " When will the project be realized ? " Something has evidently prevented the fulfilment of the thirty-years-old promise. Towards the end of last century, a series of papers on the 'Bibliography of Folk-Lore,' written by Sir G. L. Gomme, appeared in The Folk-lore Record. This looks as if the projected work, announced in 1879, had been abandoned by the publishers, Mr. Gomme's bibliography has never, I believe, been issued in book form. W. S. S.

GRATIOTJS OR GRACINES STREET = GRACE- CHURCH STREET (11 S. iii. 149). Accord- ing to Hobben's ' London Street Names ' the present name dates from the rebuilding of the church after the Great Fire. Stow says it was named Grass Church originally from the parish church of St. Benet from the herb market there kept. Since that time it has been called Grasse Street, Grastreet, and Gracious Street.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

It is quite likely that Grace church Street was called Gracious Street long before The Nine Worthies of London,' 1592. Its earliest known spelling will, no doubt, account for "Gracious." This was " Gras church " or " Graschurche." Richard le Coidewanere of Grascherche was, in the thirteenth year of Edward II., 1320, hauled over the coals for making shoes of unlawful material ('Cal. Letter - Book E' of the City of London). Again, in Letter -Book F, Ed. III., 1347, John de Burstalle is accused cf fraudulently enhancing the price of wheat in the corn-market at " Gras- chirche." Then again (Letter Book G, 46 Ed. III., 1372), blacksmiths are ordered to send their work into the open market of