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 12 8. V. JUNE, 1919.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Your correspondent will perhaps find all he needs in that encyclopaedic work, Carlisle's ' History of Endowed Schools in England and Wales ' 2 vols., stout royal 8vo, issued early in the nineteenth century. I am miles from nearest library, so cannot give precise date, but copies are believed avail- able at British Museum, Guildhall, and Bishopsgate Institute. At the last-named is an excellent London collection (including nearly all the known literature on London schools), for which feature scholars are not a little indebted to Mr. Goss the Librarian. WM. JAGGARD, Capt.

In the 'History of Reading,' p. 391, by Rev. Charles Coates, 1802, is the following :

" In St Giles's parish [Reading], near the corner of Silver Street, on the south side of the London Road, is the building called the Blue-School. This school was originally founded, in the year 1646, for twenty blue-coat boys, and a master, by a gentle- man of great worth and character, Richard Aldworth esq : to which six more were added by Sir Thomas Rich, baronet, three of which are to be chosen from the Parish of Sunning."

R. J. FYNMORE.

Warrington, founded 1711 (see history in Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. xxii. 89). Liverpool, founded 1709 (see Trans, of same Society, xi. and xiii.), now moved to Waver- tree. R. g. B.

WAR SLANG (12 S. iv. 271, 206, 333 ; v. 18, 79). J. R. H. is perhaps correct in his impression that "fed up " was brought home by soldiers from the Boer War, as the words are used in the City article of The Times of Oct. 1, 1904, and also in The Daily Telegraph of Oct. 20, 1900, and in both cases in the same sense as they are used to-day. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

" Yellow peril " is the name given to a well-known brand of cigarettes packed in yellow paper. They are also called "gaspers." A. S. E. ACKERMANN.

" MACARONI " : ORIGIN OF THE WORD (12 S. iv. 326). The story told by the Italian to a querist as to the origin of this word is of no etymological value, and was evidently concocted by some wag for the diversion of his audience. The Italian form maccheroni is a plural, signifying a mixture of flour, cheese, and butter. It is derived by Diez with great plausibility from It. maccare or ammacare, to bruise, pound. Maccherone, a Jack-pudding ; macaroon, a cake originally of much the same composition ; and macaronic (medley) come from the same root N. W. HILL. "

DEACON IN LOVE (12 S. v. T 42, 104). We ought to have the words of Cantilupe's Register. Has there been a misunder- standing of the common phrase " intultu- caritatis," used in records of bestowals o preferment ? If a deacon was admitted to serve a chantry, it must have been on, the understanding that he would at once proceed to priest's orders. J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

HON. LIEUT. GEORGE STEWART (12 S'.- v. 12, 75). The inscription at the first reference seems to me to be either a hoax: or a manufactured epitaph, or, as has beem said, a case of " sending a man to his gravo with a lie on the lips of the people." He certainly was not what the epitaph makes him out to be. What is the entry in the burial register ? This may throw gome light on the matter. The only solution at present seems that he was " a bar sinister..'" Is there such a name in the Army Lists ? J. W. FAWCETT..

Consett, co. Durham.

METAL-BRIDGE, DUBLIN (12 S. ii. 487 ;-. iii. 59). This bridge has now been, made- free to tl\e public. For nearly 105 years a. toll of one halfpenny was levied, the annual. rent being 3351. J. ARDAGH.

35 Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

WRIGHT OF ELMSALL (12 S. iv. 190, 285).- Concerning the part played by James,, Duke of York, in the descent of this family the following supplementary facts may be- of interest. The uncle of his victim, viz , Sir .Arthur Darcy of New Park, Hornby,. brother of the Earl of Holderness, wa Comptroller of the King's palace at York in 1665 (12 S. iv. 161). In Pepys's ' Diary * we read :

" July 27, 1665, to Hampton Court, where- I saw *the King and Queen set out towards- Salisbury, and after these the Duke and Duehesse, whose hands I did kiss."

On pp. 572 and 573 of vol. v. of ' Lives of t Queens of England,' Agnes Strickland wrote concerning the events of July, 1665 :

" The plague speedily extending to Hampton. Court, their Majesties and the Court left on the' 27th for Salisbury. It was agreed on the spote that the Duke and Duchess, with their retinue, should set off direct for York, much to their- satisfaction." This is corroborated in the State papers.

Amongst the archives of the Hartley family w-as a sheet of notepaper (now in the- present writer's possession) stamped in blua fancy type " Middleton Lodge, Richmond, Yorks," and containing the following j ottings*