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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1128.111. JUNE, 1917.

" June 25. The Mayor came home from London.

" August 7. A great number of persons of the baser sort subpcened to Bodmin Assizes, to swear against Mr. James Halse concerning the last election.

" August 11. The before-mentioned people arrived from Bodmin, and it's reported that a bill has been found against Mr. Halse.

" March 23, 1821. A great number of persons subpoenaed to I^aunceston against James Halse, Esq., on account of the last election, under pretence of trying him as an agent for Messrs. Graham and Evelyn."

"From The True Briton :

" Mr. Douglas moved in the House of Commons that the Clerk of the St. Ives Election should attend at the ensuing Cornwall Assizes with the poll-book, to answer an indictment against him for bribery : ordered.'

" March 30. Some of the evidences returned from Launceston. J. Halse, Esq., was declared by the jury to be innocent, although so many scandalous, lying, and infamous characters there appeared against him.

" March 31. Mr. Halse came into town, escorted by a great concourse of people.

" May 18. Lord Normanby canvassed the town, Mr. Graham having resigned his seat.

" February 14, 1822. The news arrived that George Patrick Dunn, the Irish false swearer against Messrs. Graham and Evelyn and Halse. was sentenced on Monday last to seven years' transportation. May this be a warning to all voters. Many more, in my opinion, deserve to bear him company."

Even these extracts leave in doubt the pre- cise reason why Graham resigned his seat in May, 1821, eleven months after he had been declared by a Select Committee of the House of Commons, on hearing the petition, to have been duly elected. They throw no light, moreover, on what happened to the true bills found at the Launceston Assizes of March, 1820, against him and his colleague (Evelyn), who did riot think it necessary to withdraw from Parliament when he did. The entry of April 26, 1820, states that " recognizances had been entered into to bring the newly elected members to trial." Did that refer to the trial of the petition before a Select Committee of the House of Commons (as was then the practice), or of the members for the offences on which true bills had been found ? There is a decided gap in the statement of facts here ; and, as I wrote in my original note in 1891, " as affecting one who afterwards was a distin- guished statesman, these might be worth exhuming." ALFRED P. BOBBINS.

"OAKY.'' On p. 221 of " A New Journey over Europe .... By a late Traveller, A. D. Chancel, M.A." (London, 1714), we read of Dublin that "It is well wall'd, neatly built, very populous, and pleasantly situated,

famous for Trade, and the sweet Plains, Oaky Woods, and fine Parks about it." The word " oaky " is not in the Oxford Dictionary before the year 1849 in this sense. In which University was Mr. A. Doriack Chancel a ITast er ? And did h e h imself writ o the English version of his book ? In ' The Dedication,' addressed to " The Lord Marquis of Mire- mont," he describes himself as " a French- man." E. S. DODGSON.

" AMONG THE BLIND THE ONE-EYED MAN is KING." (See 11 S. ix. 369, 412, 477; x. 15.) Perhaps I may be allowed to note that John Skelton, writing against Cardinal Wolsey about 1522 in his ' Why come ye not to Courte ? ' has these lines :

But have ye not heard this,

How an one-eyed man is

Well sighted when

He is among blind men ?

JOHN B. WAINE WEIGHT.

"KADAVER." In view of the allegations recently made as to the disposal of the bodies of dead soldiers by the German military authorities, and of the assertion that the word " Kadayer " refers to animal and not to human bodies, the following note may be of some interest.

The word, otherwise spelt " cadaver," is said to be formed of the first syllables of the words " caro data vermibus " (flesh given to the worms): "The burial of the cadaver (that is caro data vermibus) is nullius in bonis, and belongs to ecclesiastical cognizance" (3 Coke's 'Institutes,' 203, cited by Mr. Justice Holroyd in Bex v. Coleridge, 1819, 2 B. and Aid. '809). It would be in- teresting to know what other authorities there are for this origin of the word.

J. H. LETHBRIDGE MEW.

[In case some hasty occasional reader should quote this etymology as sanctioned by ' N. & Q.' merely because it appears here as a curiosity, we may jast note that " cadaver " a good classical word is, in the opinion of modern scholars, a formation from the stem " cad- " = fall.]

SOME AUSTRALIAN MEMORIAL INSCRIP- TIONS : II. THE SCOTS CHURCH, SYDNEY. (See ante, p. 269.) The following abstracts were made in 1895 :

1. On stone on exterior wall. Scots Church, erected A.D. MDCCCXXIV.

2. On marble tablet on north wall near pulpit. Erected by the Scots Church Congregation, and other Friends, in memory of John Dunmore Lang, D.D., First Minister of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, and for fifty-five years the Pastor of this Congregation. Born at Greenock, Scotland, A.D. 1799 ; Graduated at Glasgow, A.D. 1820 ; Arrived in Sydney,** A.D