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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. MAY 2, i9u.

-prostrate, intrans. verb=to act as pander. " I T prostrate you" =1 shall provide you with virgins. ' App.,' T. iii. 34. (A similar use of the noun prostration occurs in 1647, Ward, ' Simple Cobbler,' 47 : " Peoples prostrations of Civill

Liberties and Proprieties are prophane

prostitutions." ) ^protest against, intrans. verb = to claim for non- payment. " My brother's bills are protested against." ' D.M.,' III. ii. 171. (This verb is quoted 1622, but used transitively.) put down, intrans. verb =to yield, to give up some business. " I '11 dance myself rather than thus put down." ' Cuck.,' II. iv. 73. put in, active verb =to put into prison. " Say that a gentlewoman. . . .were committed, would it not show a cruel part to put her in naked ? " ' W.D.,' V. iii. 48.

put in, intrans. verb = (fencing) to thrust. "A fencer.... as he put in for 't." ' D.L.C.,' V. iv. 29. recovery, noun = help, assistance. " He came to

my recovery." ' Cuck.,' II. iv. 79. repoison, active verb =to poison a second time. " Lest the physicians should repoison her." ' D.M.,' II. i. 186.

ring forth, active verb = to make resound. " The same hands .... rung shrill plaudits forth." ' App.,' V. iii. 10. ying-galliard, noun = a trick practised in managing horses. " The career, the salt and the ring- galliard." ' W.D.,' IV. ii. 95. roaring-boy, noun = (fig.) cannon. " A vessel. . . . carries twenty roaring boys on both sides on her." ' Cuck.,' II. iv. 137.

round, adj.= (?) "Fencing of a congey with arms and legs, be round with them." ' In duction to Malcontent,' stage-direction. .rupture, noun=a loud fit of passion. " I can be angry Avithout this rupture." ' D.M.,' II. v. 56. .scarce, adv. = privately.

I would not publish to the world Nor have it whisper'd scared.

' D.L.C.,' I. i. 79.

scrape up, active verb = to scratch out, to dig. " The wolf shall find her grave and scrape it up." ' D.M.,' IV. ii. 327." Though oft she scrape up earth from. .. .graves." ' Mon. Col.,' 251.

.searing, noun=searing iron. " Heat the lotion, and bring the searing." ' D.L.C.,' III. ii. 164. (This may be a wrong spelling for syringe.) ^sea-thunder, noun=a volley of cannon on board. " After a peal of sea-thunder." ' Mon. Hon.,' 50.

.sea-triumph, noun = a naval pageant. "Two eminent spectacles in manner of a Sea-triumph." ' Mon. Hon.,' 30.

.singular, adj.=holding a single benefice (with a pun on the adverbial use of the word). " Some singular fine churchman, or though he be a plural one." ' D.L.C.,' III. iii. 62. (The noun singularist is quoted 1799 and 1832 with this meaning. )

.sinking, adj. = failing, unreliable (of a person). " Giddy and sinking I had found 'em oft." ' Cuck.,' III. i. 34.

B ON A. F. BOURGEOIS.

[On night-cap see the note by MR. H. D. SYKES -at 11 S. vii. 68.]

PARISH REGISTERS. It has been said that the printing of marriage registers alone will prove a hindrance to the publication of the complete registers of any given parish, but no evidence has been adduced in support of this statement. On the contrary, the fact of a parish having had its marriage registers printed almost invariably acts as an incentive and guide to those persons who would wish to see the baptisms and burials similarly dealt with. It is open to any one who can provide the necessary funds to publish these latter in an edition uniform with anything which may have appeared in book-form.

Approximately, the marriages make about an eighth of the total number of entries in a register, and, for the combined purposes of general research and enlisting the interest of as many persons as possible, it is certain that the marriage registers of eight parishes, in one volume, are more useful than the complete registers of one isolated parish.

Most assuredly, all parish registers prior to 1837 should be printed, and, if the proper authorities were to manifest a sense of responsibility in this direction, the State could not properly refuse a subsidy in aid of the movement. At present it chooses to leave this most important and urgently necessary work entirely dependent upon voluntary effort. THOS. GURNEY.

ALTAR FRONTALS FROM LANHERNE CON- VENT, CORNWALL. A contemporary records the sale of two altar f rentals from the ancient convent at Lanherne. One was worked by Lady Mary Lovell, the daughter of Lord Rogers, who founded the English Convent at Antwerp in 1619, and died in 1628 ; and the other by Lady Mary Petre, and given by her as a jubilee gift in 1699. Both were brought to Lanherne in 1794. Mr. W. E. Hurcombe of London and Lynton purchased them both for 210Z.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

Unthank Road, Norwich

LICENSED VICTUALLER PARISH CLERK. The following is from The Irish Times of the 8th April :

When the licence of the old Beverley Arms Public-house at St. Stephen's was transferred by

the St. Augustine's (Kent) magistrates yesterday, it

was stated that the tenant held the house rent ree so long as he acted as parish clerk, a condition

which is unique in the licensed trade of England,

and probably of the Kingdom."

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin.