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 128. II. JULY 15, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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THACKERAY AND ' THE TIMES.' I cannot claim to be a learned Thackerayan, so am unable to say whether the following passage has been noted by the latest bibliographers of the writer :

" Thackeray came to the evening rehearsal and told me that he had written the criticism on ' Mac- beth ' in Tke^Times, but that much of it had been cut out that in what he wrote of Bulwer every word of praise was omitted. How sick 1 am of that scoundrel paper ! " 'The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-51,' ed. by W. Toynbee, London, 1912; entry of April 14, 1838.

So far as I can see there is no reference to this article (perhaps there are two) in the bibliography attached to Mr. Melville's second life of the novelist (1910). But this is not surprising, seeing that the first edition of the ' Macready Papers ' (which appeared in 1875 under the supervision of Sir F. Pollock) contained only selections from the -diaries, &c., and omitted this particular entry. H. O.

"AGED 100" AT GUSSAGE ST. T ANDREW. St. Andrew's Chapel, Handley, Dorset, is of partly Norman, partly Early English architecture. It stands close to Chapel Farm, which includes the long, mediaeval barn once belonging to Shaftesbury Abbey, and now called " the stables." Beneath the Holy Table at its east end the visitor reads :

Gulielmus Williams de Woodcotte Generos' extremu suum diem clausit Nouemb r ye 17th 1725 Aged 100.

The transition from Latin to English suggests that all but the English words were ut " ante mortem predicti Gulielmi." The survival in 1725 of the mediaeval shortening of " generosus, extremum " is also notable.

EDWARD S. DODGSON. Oxford Union Society, Oxford.

MUMBO JUMBO. According to the "* N.E.D.' the origin of this expression is unknown. This statement is inaccurate ; not only do the authorities cited Moore and Mungo Park locate the custom among the western Mandingo, as is proved by one of the citations in the Dictionary itself, -but it can be stated with some certainty 1 hat jumbo or jombo is a tree, probably Diospyros mespiliformis, the root of which is used in magic by societies of women with the object of curing a disease said to be caused by water spirits (Monteil, ' Les Khassonke,' p. 227 sq.). As the mama jombo (anglicized into Mumbo Jumbo) is, besides being a blacksmith and a dancer, the operator in a lite connected with the initiation of girls,

there are good grounds for connecting his name as initiator with that of the tree, the more so as he also practises what we call white magic, or, in other word*--, protects people against witches.

Mama jombo is found among the Soninke and Khassonke and possibly other Mandingo tribes. X. W. THOMAS.

Egwoba, Manorarate Road. Norbiton.

SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF MONUMENTAL IN- SCRIPTIONS AND HERALDRY IN THE CLOISTER, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL: BAKER MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION. (See 12 S. i. 425.) Among the MSS. mentioned at this reference has been found a square 8vo MS. vol. of some 138 numbered pp. Of these pp. 49-138 record all the inscriptions in the Cloisters, the Cloister Green, and Close. The following is a complete index to the inscriptions con- tained therein. An asterisk shows those with

arms :

Adams

Adey

Adlam

Adney

Alt'ord

Andrews

Angel

Arney

Attwood

Baker

Barker

Barter

Bassett

Bazley

Bell

Bennett

Benson

Biddlecombe

Bingham

Bouverie

Bowen

Bowes

Boyle

Bradley

Briggs'

Briscoe

Broderick

Brooke

Brown

Buckeridge

Burch

Buruis

Cane

Chapeau

Child

Clarke

Clendon

Coates

Cobb

Coleridge

Collis

Coney

Cooke

Coombs

Copeman

INDEX.

Corfe

Creser

Cunningham

Cyril

Da vies

Day

Dee

Denison

Dodsworth

Donne

Dowland

Edwards

Ekins

Emly

Eyre

Fagan

Fawcett

Finley

Fisher

Fitzgerald

Forcyth

Frizell

Fruin

Fry

Gast

Gilbert

Godwin

Golding

Goodwin

Gordon

Gould

Greenly

Grove

G rover

Guy

Hamilton

Hammick

Hammond

Hancock

Harding

Han is

Hayward

Head

Heathoote

Hedger

Hibbard Hillman Hinton Hodgson Hole Hooker Hosken Hoskens Houghton Hussey Ingram Jacob Jennings Judd Keith Kellow Kelsey Kerrick King Lacey Law Lawe(s) Layard Lear Lee Lemon Lewis Loder Lucas Lush MacCobb Macdonald Marryatt Matthews Mee
 * Luxford

Muldleton Milles Moberley Money Moody Mount Munkhouse Muiwell .V- Y.e