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216 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. SEPT. u, 1912. had failed. The Domesday "God:" and William's father certainly were not one and the same person; nearly one hundred years divides them.

FREDERIC TURNER. Wessex, Frome, Somerset.

TRUSSEL FAMILY (11 S. v. 50, 137, 257, 333; vi. 32). In the late Robert Hudson's 'Memorials of a Warwickshire Parish,' being a history of Lapworth published in 1904, the name of Sir Edward Truscel appears in the parish deeds of the time of Edward I. The family continued to be connected with Nuthurst and Lapworth for more than three centuries. Although they had a house at Nuthurst, their principal seat in this neighbourhood was Billesley Hall near Alcester, just purchased by Mr. H. B. Tate, a grandson of the donor of the Tate Gallery. In 1349 Sir William Trussel executed a deed relating to land which still belongs to the trustees of Lapworth charities. In 1480 John Trussell made an exchange of land with the church-wardens of Lapworth. After the parish register was begun, in 1561, the Trussells furnished many entries, Lapworth being the burial-place for Nuthurst. The last of such entries is in 1621. When Edward II. was a prisoner in Kenilworth Castle the William Trussel above referred to went as spokesman at the head of a deputation to renounce allegiance, and inform the King of his deposition. Trussel 's speech is quoted on p. 46 of Mr. Hudson's book.

A. C. C.

Ullenhall.

"POT-BOILER" (11 S. vi. 128). This expression, first used by "painters (or artists)," as MR. RALPH THOMAS suggests, must be considerably older than 1864. I distinctly remember to have read many years ago that Robert Southey, borrowing the term, called the articles he wrote for The Quarterly Review his "pot-boilers." He died in 1843. JOHN T. CURRY.

REGENT'S CIRCUS (US. vi. 109, 174). There appears to be no doubt that a large circus was originally planned at the Marylebone Road end of Portland Place. In fact Elmes, in his 'Metropolitan Improvements,' quoted at the first reference, distinctly says so. On p. 88, under the heading of 'Park Square,' he writes as follows:

"On this spot it was originally intended to have completed the crescent opposite, into a circus, which would have been the largest circle of buildings in Europe. The foundations of the western quadrant of it were even laid, and the arches for the coal-cellars turned. For some reasons, however, this plan was abandoned, and the entire chord of the semicircle left open to the park, instead of being closed in by the intended half circus. This alteration is a manifest improvement of the entire design, and is productive of great benefit to the houses in the crescent and in Portland Place. Park Square is erected in its stead, and consists of two rows of houses, elongated upon the extremities of the crescent, and separated from the New Road, from the park, and from each other, by a spacious quadrangular area, laid out with planted pleasure-grounds, and enclosed by handsome ornamental iron railings."

ALAN STEWART.

A PHRASE OF SWINBURNE'S: "THE MORN" (11 S. vi. 147). "The morn" means "to-morrow" on Tyneside. Children used to take a snail and repeat:

Snail, snail, put oot yer horn, And tell us what the day's the morn;

i.e., what the weather will be to-morrow. It is odd for Swinburne, a Northumbrian, to use the word with the meaning pointed out by MR. WILSON. R. B R.

South Shields.

HENRY HUNT PIPER (11 S. vi. 129, 176). The Rev. Henry Hunt Piper was born in London, 26 Aug.. 1781 . He was minister of Rochford, Norton, 1805-43; Banbury, 1843-53. He married Alicia, daughter of Samuel Lewin of Hackney, and had issue eight children. He was private chaplain to the Shore family (to which the first Baron Teignmouth belonged) for thirty-seven years. He died 13 Jan., 1864, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. Sir John Bowring was his brother-in-law. Mr. Piper was- instrumental in the rebuilding of the Banbury Unitarian Chapel, of which he was minister for eleven years. The last ten years of his life he spent in retirement. In Allibone he is credited with having published a sermon on Galatians v. 1, London, 1808, 8vo, and also apparently, under the name of H. H. Piper, with "Lectures on Unitarianism in Reply to Best. London,. 1840, 12mo." D. M. R.

In addition to my previous reply I should like to say I am informed by the Librarian, of the British Museum that ' The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England adapted for General Use in other Protestant Churches ' (London, William Pickering, 1852) is also attributed to H. H. Piper in the British Museum Catalogue.