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 ii s. v. JOE 22, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" En preiiant conge du pere [i.e., Rinaldi], il me clemanda oil j'irais en quittant Milan.

A Marseille, puis a Paris, et puis a Londres, oil j'ai envie de passer un an." Casanova at Milan, February; 1763 ; r. Gamier, vi. 13.

"... .Je partirai en t'adorant, et si la fortune rn'est favorable en Angleterre, tu me reverras ici I'.uinee prochaine." Casanova at St. Angelo, March, 1763 ; v. Gamier, vi. 138.

"....Je vais en Angleterre pour tacher de retirer ma fille [i.e., Sophie Cornelys] des mains dc sa mere [i.e., Madam Cornelys]." Casanova at Avignon, May, 1763 ; Gamier, vi. 258.

"....Le vieux Rinaldi, qui n'etait pas pro- phete, me pronostiqua un bonheur prodigieux en Angleterre." Casanova at Avignon, May. 1763 ; Gamier, vi. 264.

"....le petit d'Aranda [i.e., young Cornelys], que je devais remettre k Londres entre les mains de sa mere. . ..

" II me tardait d'autant plus de remettre le petit ingrat & sa mere, que cejle-ci ne cessait de m'ecrire des lettres impertinentes, et que je visais a lui retirer ma fille, alors agee de dix ans, et qui, a ce que me marquait sa mdre, etait devenue un prodige dp beaiite, de graces, et de talent." Casanova "at Lyons, May, 1763 ; Garnier, vi. 267.

"....je me mis a parler de" 1'Angleterre, ou j'allais dans 1'intention de'faire fortune, moyen- nant un projet que j'avais coneu e.t dont I'execu- tion ne dependait que du ministre lord d'Egre- mont. M. de Morosini me dit qu'il me donnerait une lettre pour lui...." Casanova at Lyons, May, 1763 ; Garnier, vi. 298.

" Je trouvai chez Mme. d'Urfe une lettre de Therese [Cornelys], qui m'ecrivait qu'elle etait determinee a. venir a Paris pour y reprendre son fils, si je ne le lui ramenais pas, ajoutant qu'elle cxigeait une response definitive. " Casanova at Paris, June, 1763 ; Garnier, vi. 327.

England had an irresistible attraction for the Italian adventurer of both sexes in the eighteenth century., and it is reason- able to suppose that Casanova, having heard of the stupendous success of Madame Cornelys. whose intellect and business capacity he must have rated far lower than his own, believed that a great fortune awaited him in London. Xo doubt, he expected his old friend Therese to supply him with valuable introductions, and by taking back her son he had a good pretext for paying her a visit.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

JACOBITE

VERSES : HOER."

" TURXIP-

about the ballad called ' The Turnip Hoer, 1 viz., to Thomas Hearne's ' Remarks and Collections ' under date 31 Jan., 1718, vol. vi. p. 134 (Oxford Historical Society) :

' : The- Author is said to be one M r. Wharton, H young Master of Arts of Magd. Coll. It is a Satyr upon K. George, who when he first came to England, talk'd of turning St. James' Park into Turnip Ground & to iniploy Turnip Hoers."

Very likely Hearne's book is the source from which the compilers of various dic- tionaries have drawn their information, or whence the first drew his ; e.g., Wheeler's ' Dictionary of Xoted Xames of Fiction,' Frey's ' Sobriquets and Xicknames,' and Latham's ' Dictionary of Xames, Nick- names, and Surnames.' To the songs given at 10 S. ii. 349, the last of which is to. be found in Hogg's 'Jacobite Relics of Scot- land,' 1819, 91, may be added :

And down wi' Geordie, kirn-milk Geordie ;

He maun hame but stocking or shoe, To nump his neeps. his sybows, and leeks,

And a wee bit bacon to help the broo. This is part of the fourth stanza of the song called ' Kirn-Milk Geordie,' see Hogg's. ' Jacobite Relics,' 97. The third Une means " to nibble his turnips, his onions, and leeks."

The " wee bit of bacon to help the broth " is an allusion to Madame Kilmansegge, Countess of Platen, created Countess of Darlington (see ibid., pp. 269, 278).

ASTARTE'S original note elicited an inter- esting reply concerning allusions to Hanover as a " turnip garden " and Hanoverian civilians and soldiers 'as "turnips." The writer refers to the punishment of Matthew Fern for " associating the reigning monarch (George II.) with turnips." When Fern committed his crime -'and was punished, George I. was the reigning monarch, not George II.

'The Story of the London Parks, by

! Jacob Larwood -(i.e., L. R. Sadler), circa

1872, p. 390, of the one-volume edition, gives

the legend about George I. and St. James's

i Park, and says : " hence the nickname of

the ' Turnip-fcow ' bestowed upon him by the

Jacobites and Tories." There can be little

doubt that " boor " is an error for " hoer."

ROBERT PiERporvr.

SINCE I wrote my reply on ' Matthew Fern, Jacobite ' (ante, p. 257), I have found that j a good deal appeared in ' X. & Q.' in 1904 aboxit allusions to George I. and turnips ' (10 S. ii. 288, 349, 417). AsiARTE-put the query about Matthew Fern to no effect, j giving, however, at p. 288 a reference.

THE OBSERVATORY ox THE FIELD OF WATERLOO. Dr. Fitchett, in the June number of The Cornhill Magazine, describes his surprise at finding that there stood what he calls "Napoleon's scaffold" on the field where Waterloo was 'fought. This really was an observatory, built some weeks before