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 354 NOTES AND QUERIES. [u 8. vii. May 8, ma Authors Wanted (11 S. vii. 251).— The line What horrid silence doth assail my ear ? is either a parody or else an imperfect recol- lection of the seventh line of Dryden's ■* Astrsea Redux ' :— An horrid stillness first invades the ear. L. R. M. Strachan. Heidelberg. " Scaling the Hennery " : " Mouse Buttock" (11 S. vii. 110, 257).—I am ■obliged to St. Swithin for his illuminating reply to my query. I note in The Academy of 5 April that "' hennery " is stated to be used by farmers in Staffordshire and Warwickshire. It was in that journal and in The Oxford Times that my attention was first directed to these curious expressions. J. B. McGovern. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. Early Railway Travelling (11 S. vii. 109, 193, 271, 313).—I have a distinct recollection that my grandmother was in the habit of travelling by rail in her carriage from London to the seaside in or about the year 1862. Cecil Clarke. Junior Athenseum Club. Lamb's Chapel, London (11 S. vi. 291, 357, 435; vii. 51).—The following notice appeared in The London Evening Post, No. 2862, Tuesday, 11 March, 1746 :— " St. James's upon the Wall, or Lamb's Chapel, near Cripplegate, London, belonging to the Wor- shipful Company of Clothworkers : " Whereas- many of the former Clergymens Widows have taken away the Marriage Registers for their Benefit, to get the usual Pees for search- ing : If any Person can produce the authentick Register of 1683, and give Notice to Mr. David Garret, the present Clerk, upon producing the same, they shall be handsomly rewarded." The chapel was one of the " lawless" churches, and a place of great resort for clandestine marriages. The human remains from Lamb's Chapel were deposited, in 1873, in a crypt under the tower of the demolished church of All Hallows Staining, Mark Lane. Rev. John Hutchins (10 S. xi. 409; 11 S. iv. 259).—He edited "Select Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of the Parish Church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London. Printed for the benefit of the Ward School," 16mo, London, 1790. Two copies of the book are preserved in the British Museum Library, press-marks 1018. K. 19 (2) ; 3433. bb. 1 (l). Daniel Hipwell. 84, St. John's Wood Terrace, N.W. Henry Morris (11 S. vii. 287).—Some of the dates given at this reference do not agree with those stated in the ' Victoria History of Lancashire,' vol. vi. p. 452. His name appears in the registers as early as 1638, and as curate in 1653. He did not die in 1653. He was alive in 1664, when, on 13 June, as Curate of Burnley, he certified twelve marriage licences (' Chester Marr. Lie.,' vol. v. p. 112, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire). R. S. B. " Four square humours" (11 S. vii. 287). —I take " square'' here to mean quarrelsome, wrangling, opposing. See ' Square ' in the ' Century Dictionary.' Shakespeare uses "square" for " quarrel" in two or three places The four humours are, I suppose, the four cardinal humours of ancient physicians : the blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. W. H. Pinchbeck. " Itte-dhandu," Indian Game (11 S. vii. 308).—Iti-dandd is the Mahratta name for the game usually known in Northern India as Otdli-danda, which is identical with the European tip-cat. Iti or gulll is the " cat," or short piece of stick which is struck by the longer one, the dandd. Emeritus. An Evelyn Query (11 S. vii. 269).— No peer of any sort was buried in West- minster Abbey in 1611. See Chester's ' Westminster Abbey Registers,' pp. 135-6. G. F. R. B. Poem Wanted (US. vii. 308).—The poem inquired for is ' Dear Speckle-back,' by Miss Sheridan Carey. It is a long one, of sixty-two quatrains, but I well remember that it did not seem too long to me, in the far-off days when I first knew it. It is in the first volume of' The Playmate ' (published by Joseph Cundall, 12, Old Bond Street), a book immeasurably superior to most of the juvenile publications of its day—or ours ; and dates from 1847. Howard S. Pearson. Biographical Information Wanted (11 S. vii. 270).—1. Possibly Richard Lamar Bisset, s. Robert, of Isle of Madeira, arm. Christ Church, matric. 17 Oct., 1777, aged 16. Carisbrooke Castle, I.W. : Water- Wheel (US. vii. 269).—Possibly the follow- ing references may be helpful : W. Beattie, Journal Archceol. Assoc., xi. 193-205. P. G. Stone, F.S.A., Proc. Soc. Antiq., 2nd ser., xvi. 409-11. A. R. Bayley.