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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. I. JAN. 15, 1916.

Nor do I see the " equation " which MB. H. H. JOHNSON gives in the matter of the drink. Because a man says at one time, " The ale is strong, 'tis Hufcap," and at another time says, " The ale is of the best, 'tis frothy," it does not follow that frothy ale is Hufcap, any more than it follows that frothy ale is strong. The dictionaries all agree that Huffcap is strong ale, but do not attempt to decide the derivation of the name. Dyce's attempt to do so seems very far-fetched, particularly if MB. JOHNSON is right in asserting that all the " Mothers " were one and the same person. For the Mother Redcap sign only claimed that the ale was good :

Old Mother Redcap, according to her tale, Lived twenty and a hundred years by drinking this good ale.

If indeed it could be shown that Huffcap was frothy ale, I think we should be nearer the derivation. " Huff " is as near as we can get to the sound made when a man blows off the froth. And if this kind of ale was vulgarly called " huff," and was sold at the Mother Redcap, the name huff-cap might easily be evolved, and as easily trans- ferred to cider e.nd perry in the counties in which those drinks prevailed.

As Hotten has not been referred to, I may add that he deals fully with Tom o' Bedlam, but does not mention George in the Tree. But this is probably King Charles in the Oak brought up to date in a later reign by a publican more loyal than learned. A. T. M.

" ALL IS FAIB IN LOVE AND WAB " (11 S.

xi. 151, 198 ; xii. 380, 446 ; 12 S. i. 13). This was Don Quixote's view :

" Advertid que el amor y laguerra son una misma cosa, y asi como en la guerra es cosa licita y acostumbrada usar de ardides y extratagemas para veneer al enemigo, asi en las contiendas y competencias amorosas se tieneii por buerios los embustes y maranas que se hacen para conseguir el tin que se desea." ' Don Quixote,' Part II. cap. xxi. G. C. MOOBE SMITH.

IVY BBIDGE (11 S. xii. 317). Ivy Bridge, or Pier, was situated at the bottom of Ivy Lane, and was used as the landing-stage of the halfpenny steamboats that used to ply between the Strand and London Bridge up to 1847. Perhaps this is the landing-

Elace referred to by Pepys (May 10, 16G8). trype says the bridge was lately taken down. The gardens of Carlisle House extended to Ivy Bridge. Ivy Lane was the eastern boundary of Durham House, and marked the limit of St. Martin's parish ;

from Ivy Bridge to near Temple Bar was in the liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster (' Old and New London,' vol. iii. ; ' Adelphi and its Sites,' Wheatley, 1885). " Ivie Lane,'" Newgate Street, is mentioned by Stow (1842 edition, pp. 117 and 128).

J. ABDAGH. 35 Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

ST. SWITHIN AND EGGS (11 S. xii. 480 ? 12 S. i. 16). It may be as well to say that this spelling of the saint's name is by no means a modern affectation. In a metrical Life of the thirteenth century (Bodleian MS- Laud 463, fol. 63), quoted "by Prof. Earle, we have " Seint Swithin ]> e confessor "" plain enough. I ought to have said in my~ reply (ante, p. 16) that the egg miracle is not omitted in this MS. The heroine appears with " a bagge ful of eyren," is roughly treated by a man, and made happy by " Seint Swithin," who blessed the " eiren that weren to broke," and put them all together again (see ' Gloucester Fragments,' i. p. 79). ST. SWITHIN.

ALCESTEB (11 S. xii. 257). The earliest known reference to this place is in * Car- tularium Saxonicum,' charter 134, where it is spelt Alneceaslre, i.e., the castle or fort on the river Alne. EDWABD SMITH.

Wandsworth.

BlOGBAPHICAL INFOBMATION WANTED (II

S. xii. 421 ). (3) Thos. Lisle. Can he be this one mentioned in Foster's * Al. Ox ' ? Son of Edward of Crux Eston, Hants, arm. Magd. Hall matric. Sept. 10, 1725, aged 16 ; demy 1726-32, B.A. 1729, M.A. 1732, Fellow 1732-47, B.D. 1740, D.D. 1743. Dean of Arts 1740, Bursar 1741, Public Orator 1746-9 ;. Rector of Wootton, Isle of Wight, 1737, and of Burghclere, Hants; died March 27, 1767, I think Magdalen Hall must be a mistake for Magdalen Coll. M.A.OxoN_

THE BBITISH ABMY : MASCOTS (12 S. i. 10).. No book appears to have been published on the subject of mascots in the British Army. The following articles may, there- fore, be useful to your correspondent :

' Pets of the Regiments,' in Danby and Field's ' British Army Book,' Blackie, 1914..

' Regimental Pets,' in Tucker's ' Romance of the King's Army,' Hodder & Stoughton,, 1908.

' Regimental Pets,' by E. W* Low, in, The English Illustrated Magazine, vol. xviii.. p. 309.

' Regimental Pets,' by J. P. Groves, int The Art Journal, vol. xliii. p. 201

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