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 12 s. ii. SEPT. so, i9ia] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Monday morning's charge-sheet, and the grievance of one termagant against the other was that she tried " to yahk my 'air aht."

The action of a successful " yorker " is tantamount to the jerking of the stumps at the roots, and as the term obviously has a Yorkshire reference, this borrowing from the patois of the county is quite a natural theory. Many eminent professional crick- eters have learnt their game on the village green. As a rule the corners of what may be called provincial speech are nibbed off by -contact with their amateur colleagues, yet I have heard famous native bowlers exclaim with glee that they had " yahked out " a batsman whose wicket every bowler coveted.

OLD EBOK.

The Yorkshire Po*t, Leeds.

FACT OR FANCY ? (12 S. i. 509 ; ii. 17, 59, 218.) It would take up too much space in quoted in Latin, and which is properly translated " Every man's house is his castle," and is in such common use. Its real meaning is fully explained in Broom's i Legal Maxims ' (1911), pp. 336-43. What Sir J. Mackintosh said is quoted on the title-page: " Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."
 * N. & Q.' to explain fully the maxim already

HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

In ' Tales and Sayings of William Robert Hicks of Bodmin,' by W. F. Collier, 1893, p. 55, is :

" He heard a man say in a speech, ' An English- man's house is his castle ; the storms may assail it, and the winds whistle round it, but the King cannot do so.' A ludicrous perversion of a well- known quotation."

As the Cornish humorist died in Septem- ber, 1868, his acquaintance with the ex- pression used must have been long before its virtual repetition in the United States Senate in 1 880. Hicks' s ' Tales and Sayings ' are the subject of notes at 6 S. iv. 367 ; 10 S. ii. 188, 231, 355 ; 11 S. viii. 449 ; ix. 51, 154. W. B. H.

HEADSTONES WITH PORTRAITS OF THE DECEASED (12 S. ii. 210). In the Cathedral Burial-Ground at St. Andrews, Fife, are the following four instances :

Adam Ferguson, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh, died Feb. 22, 1816, medallion.

Allan Robertson (a golf champion of his time), died Sept. 1, 1852, medallion.

Lieut.-Col. Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, Provost of St. Andrews, died "Jan. 21, 1861, medallion.

" Tommy," son of Thomas Morris (father and son both champion golfers of their time), died Dec. 25, 1875. (A full-length figure posed as putting at golf.)

ALEXR. THOMS. 7 Playfair Terrace, St. Andrews, Fife.

There are several such headstones in Highgate Cemetery. Among them is that of G. J. Holyoake, which is in the new part of the cemetery, near to the grave of George Eliot. C. C. B.

MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF THE WATTS FAMILY OF SOUTHAMPTON (12 S. ii. 101, 161, 224). Is the following anecdote irrelevant ? About 1833 there rede in the South Notts Hunt a Dr. Watts of Nottingham whose head was hoary with hair-powder. One day his performances were noted by a young lord, who later in life became a Master of Hounds, and he asked who the gentleman was. " The celebrated Dr. Watts," he was told. " Is that the Dr. Watts who wrote the psalms and hymns ? " he inquired. " The very same," he was assured, and went away believing.

I have come on this story in a note ap- pended to a sporting song written to the air ' With their Balinamona Ora.' These strange words form the chorus, or a part of it.

ST. S WITHIN.

B AROSE Y ISLAND: CONSCRIPTION (12 S. ii. 189). It is quite correct that the inhabitants of Bardsey Island pay no rates or taxes, but the statement that they have announced a "benevolent neutrality towards the Allies" is a joke. From inquiries made on the spot I find that all the men of military age on the island have either enlisted voluntarily or have duly appeared before the local Tribunal.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

CAPT. JOHN WARDE (11 S. viii. 509; ix. 56). In connexion with the mediaeval house recently demolished in Folkestone, of which so excellent an account has been given by Mr. Elgar (see ante, p. 219), one dis- covery was a ceiling panel on which was depicted a cross flory; the arms, I am in- clined to believe, are those of Warde. It is just possible that this was the residence of Capt. Warde when Mayor of Folkestone, 1579. In his will, proved Feb. 13, 1601, he mentions his lands, &c., situate in parishes of Folkestone, Cheriton, Newington, and River, co. Kent. At p. 32 Mr. Elgar states that the Medieval House was " altered in Tudor times, new fireplaces being inserted,"