Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 2.djvu/422

 416

NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. NOV. is, IOUL

rule existing ;,,buut. tl;ut ; 1 would tiiat the rings in the form of a cable should be studied, and I recommend for that, of course, the precious works of Gay and Dom Cabrol.

As for the dimension of the rings, they had to be large enough to be worn, above the liturgical gloves, because the bishops \isually wore gloves both in reverence for the sacred unction, and in order to prevent them from touching anything with their naked hands (according to the ceremonial for consecrating the Kings of France written by order of Charles V., quoted by C. Enlart, loc. cit., p. 384). PIERRE TURPIN.

Folkestone.

" FAUGH- A-BAIXAGH " (12 S. ii. 350). probably is, cne of the nicknames of the 1st Battalion Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers). John S. Farmer in ' The Regimental Records of the British Army,' 1901, p. 203, says that the nickname came from the war cry of the 87th at Barossa : " Fag an Bealac "=" Clear the way." The name is apparently changed familiarly into " The Old Fogs." See ' Nicknames & Traditions in the Army/ published by Gale & Polden, 1891, p. 106.
 * ' The Faugh- a-Ballagh Boys " was, and

At the time of the tattle cf Barossa the regiment was " The 87th (The Prince of Wales' s Irish) Regiment of Foot."

The nicknames of the 2nd Battalion, the 89th, were, and probably are, " Blayney s Bloodhounds " and " The Rollickers."

ROBERT PJERPOINT.

In a foot-note to a poem of this title (recte " Fag an Bealach ") by Sir Chas. Gavan Duffy, he says " Fag an Bealach " (" Clear the road "), or, as it is vulgarly spelt," Faugh a Ballagh," was the cry with which the clans of Connaught and Munster used in faction fights to come through a fair with high hearts and smashing shillelahs. The regiments raised in the South and West took their old ^hout with them to the Continent. The 87th or Royal Irish Fusiliers, from their use of it, went generally bv the name of " The Faugh a Ballagh Boys." " Nothing," says Napier in his ' History of the Peninsular War, " nothing so startled the French soldiers as the wild yell with which the Irisn regiments sprang to the charge" ; and never was that haughty and intolerant shout raised in battle, but a charge swift as thought, and fatal as flame, came with it, like a rushing incarnation of " Fag an Bealach."

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'


 * [MR. ARCHIBALD SPAKKE thanked for reply.]

" HAT TRICK " (12 S. ii. 70, 136, 178, 375)..

When I first went to Eton in 1863, the getting of three wickets with successive ball- was called " bowling a gallon," and the- bowler was supposed to be awarded a gallon of beer. W r hether this was a local phraet or not I cannot tell.

" YORKER" (12 S. ii. 209, 276, 376). In those days what is now called a " yorker " was universally called a " tice," as the batsman' was enticed to hit at it as if it were a half- volley. I believe the word arose from the fondness of some Yorkshire players for this particular ball. The deriva- tion " yerk " would appear to indicate some difference in its delivery, whereas the bowlerV action is exactly the same whether he sends down a half-volley or a yorker.

JOHN MURRAY.

50 Albenmrle Street, W.

PHITJP WINTER [sa'c, but recte WINTON] (12 S. ii. 266). I am much interested in tht subject of this queiy by S. T., but, from, Winton family papers and MS. notes in my possession, it is evident that " Winter'' must be either a mistake or misprint foi Winton.

I have a copy of the entrv of Philip Winton's marriage with Hannah North, at Elland, March 2, 1772 ; and an original letter from Capt. James Winton, dated March 26, 1841, in which he mentions that his father married Hannah, daughter of Isaac North. a farmer and coal-merchant at Wibsey, near Bradford, co. York. In another letter hi states that

"Philip Winton, my father, was born in Hereford- shire ; where he was christened I do not know, but from what I have heard he was not more than, ii2 years older than myself. Therefore it mast be.. I presume, about the year 1750, or a little before."

Strange to say, he did not know his grand- father's Christian name. " My late father's mother was living when. I was a young man," he writes in another letter, " but I never saw her, nor do I know where she was buried ; . but, I believe in Herefordshire."

James Winton, the first child of Philip Winton by Hannah North, was bom Dec. 5,. 1772, at Dumfries, where his father's regiment (presumably the 4th or King's Own Regiment of Foot) ws then stationed. He obtained a commission as ensign in the North Middlesex Militia, March 26, 1798; served with the 17th Foot in the expedition to Holland, August to October, 1799, when " H.R.H. the Duke of York was pleased to promote him to a Lieutenancy, Signed in the Field of Battle " ; captain and adjutant