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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.V.JULY, 1919.

three of my first cousins had tine heads of hair also The wealth of hair has descended to some of my nieces, and to at least one of my grand-nieces. So much for heredity for four generations at any rate if not from our ancestress Lady Godiva."

ST. SWITHIN.

EAST ANGLIAN CHARACTERS AND CHARAC- TERISTICS. In an old eighteenth-century commonplace book occur the following manuscript rimes, signed " R. S.," and dated 1785. They appear worth preserva- tion in the archives of ' N. & Q.' if only for their humour and shrewd observation. At so lengthy an interval it is not easy to identify all the persons named.

You I love, my dearest life.

More than gracious George his wife,

(King George HI.) More than Harbord loves grimace,

(Sir H. Harbord) More than Bacon loves a place,

(Sir Francis Bacon ?) More than Billy Leigh the Church, More than Parr to handle birch,

(Dr. Parr, bibliophile, and Rector of Asterby,

Lines, and afterwards Vicar of Hatton, near

Stratford-on-Avon)

More than Cutting loves a Welchman, More than Jaggard loves a Frenchman,

(Rev. John Jaggard, Rector of St. Nicholas',

King's Lynn)

More than Wade does love to game, (Capt. Wade) More than Twist a married dame. More than Addey loves to smile, More than Money to beguile, (Major John Money) More than Parson Brand a trope, More than Burcham hates the Pope, More than Chamber loves a rout, Or the Baron loves to spout,

(Baron Robert Harvey) More than Hardingham a flower, More than Gay the midnight hour, More than Lloyd his handsome self,

(Dean Lloyd of Norwich) More than Houghton loves his pelf, More than Adkins loves his wife, More than Bacon noise and strife, (Sir F. Bacon ?) More than Payne a drinking bout, (Capt. Payne) More than Dewing hates the gout, More than Billy Crown a tussle, More than Kerrison a bustle, More than Walker loves his muse,

(Rev. Walker)

More than Garland loves his views, More than Parr a Greek discourse, (Dr. Parr) More than Beevor loves his house, (James Beevor) More than Harvey loves his gold,

(Robert Harvey, sen.)

" TAMASHA." The Morning Post of April 29 contained the following :

44 Cherbourg, April 27. "The Navy's first joy ride for five years is almost

over. To-morrow the Second Battle Squadron

will leave Cherbourg with regret. As a young officer put it this afternoon : 4 What a tamasha r Now 'tamasha' is a word of the Navy's own lingua franca, that tongue which seafaring has built up from the slang of many ports. Philologists may tell you learnedly of the derivation of 'tamasha' and its different meanings in the Pushtu, Korean, or Thibetan tongue, but when the Navy says = 'tamasha' it just means a jollification of first-class dimensions."

J. R. H.

More than Hooke does hate a scold, (Dr. Hooke) More than Beevor loves his book, (James Beevor) More than Prince of tarts to cook,

(Benjamin Day) Thus, my fair, I love you more Than ever man loved *rnaid before.

Aug., 1785. B. g.

WM. JAGGARD, Captain. Repatriation Records, Winchester.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- 'ormation on family matters of only private interest x> affix their names and addresses to their queries,, n order that answers may be sent to them direct.

PROCLAMATION STONES. At Totnes is- Brutus Stone, on which the mayor standa to proclaim a new sovereign. London Stone- appears from Shakespeare (' 2 Henry VI.,' v.6), following Holinshed, to have conferred' special sanction on a new ruler. On the- oronation Stone the new sovereign receives: lis crown. At St. Austell is the Maengaw Stone, where proclamations of peace and war and new reigns used to be made. If Kingston-on-Thames takes its name from the Stone of the King and not from his -ton or town, a new origin and meaning for, at any rate, some of the many Kingston place- names suggests itself.

Can local archaeologists give us full details of the history, tradition, position, &c., of any other similar stone conferring like sanctions ? For, from a comparison of all the instances with their varying detail, there may emerge one or more characteristics which, being common to all, may show the original essential underlying idea. For instance, Totnes and the Coronation Stone agree in pointing to association with foreigners, Jacob and Brutus ; while London; Stone has been assigned to Romans 1. Or, again, Totnes and St. Austell are used only for such proclamations as were national, international, or intertribal : peace, war, and"

new rulers ; so perhaps, too, Kingston.

Queries that suggest themselves, among others, are :

1. Can they be connected with the de- tached standing stones often found outside- stone circles, as at Stonehenge, the Stennis Stones, the Hurlers, the Rollright Stones,, and many other stone circles ? Presuming,.