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128. 1. APRIL 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

355 collection of celebrated naval officers at Greenwich Hospital. He represented Rochester in Parliament in 1731, and again in 1741. An account of the Haddock family is given in 'Historical Notes on Southend-on-Sea,' &c., by J. W. Burrows (pp. 82-91). G. H. W.

(US. xii. 481; 12 S. I. 37, 118, 234).—In the article 'Tiger' in Balfour's 'The Cyclopedia of India,' 1885, vol. ii. p. 878, naming for references only four authorities (Brown's 'Cochin-China,' Jerdon, Blyth, Rice), we read thus:—

JAMES SCOTT, ENGRAVER (12 S. i. 248). The place of his birth is not definitely known, but it is believed to be London. The year of his birth is 1809. His name and those of E. Scott and B. F. Scott are often met with on prints. James Scott's sporting subjects and portraits are of considerably greater merit than his domestic prints.

He executed six plates after Prentis, viz., "* The Prodigal's Return,' 18 in. by 23 in., published 1840; 'A Day's Pleasure,' 18 in. by 23 in.; 'The Man,' 'The Spirit,' both 14 in. by 11 J in., published 1845; 'Family Devotion, Morning,' ' Evening,' both 21 in. by 26 in.

The rarest of his engravings are : ' Boys Bathing ' and ' Boys robbing an Orchard,' both after Morland ; ' Breaking Cover,' ' The Death,' both after Reinagle ; ' The Age of Bliss,' after John Russell.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

" FAT, FAIR, AND FORTY" (12 S. i. 10, 53, 97). The witticism attributed to Douglas Jerrold about exchanging a wife of 40 for two of 20 is at least as old as ' Der Pfarrer von Kalenberg,' which belongs probably to the end of the fifteenth century, and was trans- lated and adapted to English ideas about 1510. There a loose-living parson, being required to replace his youthful housekeeper with a woman of 40, chooses as her equiva- lent " two of 20." See Herford,' Literary Rela- tions of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century,' p. 275. MALCOLM LETTS.

FUNERAL BISCUITS (12 S. i. 247). It was usual for wine to be provided for guests who came to a house in order to go with the family to a funeral. With the wine, cake, biscuits, &c., were served, and the biscuits were often about three inches long by one inch broad, and were also called " finger biscuits," either from their general form or from being easily held in the fingers. Several years ago, the late Canon William Fowler, Vicar of Liversedge, Yorkshire, went to see a parishioner who had been dangerously ill and was thought to be dying. The Vicar found the sick man sitting up in bed and munching away at something with apparent relish, so congratulated him on being so much better and able to enjoy food :

" Why, you see, Mr. Fowler [said he], my wife she thought I were baan to dee [going to die], an' I thought I worrant. However, she gate [got] a few fewneril biscuits like, an' I'm heitin* 'em."

" Like " is used as a sort of expletive with no definite meaning. J. T. F.

These biscuits, done up in packets with a small sheet of verses, were given to all the guests invited to funerals in Derbyshire villages seventy years ago. After a death, in all but the poorest houses, when the laying-out woman had performed her offices, she was sent to do the " biddening " to the funeral of relations and near friends. Her next duty was to order the funeral biscuits at the confectioner's as many packets as there had been biddings, as well as a quantity of loose biscuits which, from their shape, were also known as " finger biscuits." The loose ones were set out in the middle of