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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. VIL AUG. 21, 1920.

whether he, in any of his " Notes " in the periodical he was so long associated with, dealt therewith.

Quite recently in looking up something else, I came across the name in Davies' similar definition ; but with the addition of two quotations, curiously, both from the brother novelists, Charles and Henry Kingsley. By the former it is used in his 'Introduction ' to ' Two Years Ago ' (1857), and by Henry Kingsley, thus : " She was one of "the first who appeared in the Park in a low-crowned hat s, wideawake" ('Ravens- hoe,' ch. xlii. (1861). C. P. HALE. 117 Victoria Park Road, N.B.
 * Supplementary English Glossary,' with a

WORDS OF SONG WANTED (12 S. vii. 72). The enclosed was taken many years ago from a very effective gramophone record by Ada Jones. I have only heard the one verse. The setting was good and it was sympathetically sung.

JUST PLAIN FOLK. To a mansion in the city Came a couple old and grey To see their son who left them long ago : He had prospered and grown wealthy In his youth he ran away And now his life was one of pomp and show. But coldly did he greet them For his friends were by his side, Who had often heard him boast of home so grand. As the old man sadly looked at him He said with modest pride As he gently took his dear wife by the hand :

" We're just plain folk, your mother and me Just plain folk, like our old folk used to be As our presence seems to grieve you We will go away and leave you, For we're badly out of place here 'Cos we're just plain folk."

J. H. K.

SIR POLLYCARPUS WHARTON : " CASHE (COUCHEE) PEICES OF BRASS " (12 S. vii. 129). These were an early form of bomb throwers and were invented by a Master Gunner of England who was the father of Sir John Leake. Their object was to set fire to the enemy's rigging : vessels armed with " cushee pieces " figure in the old navy lists as " bombs." ' The Life of Sir John Leake ' lately published by the Navy Records Society gives information in detail. W. P. H. POLLOCK.

Ireton House, Highgate, N.

Sir Pollycarpus Wharton was the eldest surviving son of Sir George Wharton, Bart. {1617-1681), the astrologer and royalist. He succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1681,

married Theophila, daughter of Justinian Sherburne, second brother of Sir Edward Sherburne, and died without issue before- 1741, the baronetcy becoming extinct. Th extract from the Royal Warrant quoted, refers to a " quantity of strong powder ac- cording to the late invencon of Sir Polly- carpus Wharton," as he was interested in a powder works at Chilworth, near Guildford,. where he is stated to have lost 24,000.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

' THE SPECTATOR ' (12 S. vii. 131). Henry Morley says :

" Steele's signature was 'R' till No. 91; then ' T, 1 and occasionally ' R,' till No. 134 ; then- always ' T.' Addison signed ' C ' till No. 85, when he first used 'L,' and was ' L' or 'C' till No. 265, then l L ' till he first used ' 1 ' in No. 372. Once or twice using * L,' he was ' I ' till No. 405, which he signed ' O,' and by this letter he held, except for a return to 'C'(with a single use of '0'), from- 433 to 477." DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

DOCTOR or DECREES (12 S. vii. 131). " Decretorum Doctor " was the usual desig- nation of a Doctor or teacher of the Decrees or Canon Law, as distinct from a Doctor of Civil Law. If a man graduated in both Civil and Canon Law, he was a Doctor or Bachelor "in utroque jure" or " utriusque juris," hence the plural form LL.D., " legum doctor," or Doctor of laws. J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

YOUNG OF MILVERTON (12 S. vii. 71). In 1901 the portrait of Thomas Young^ M.D., by Sir Thomas Lawrence was in the possession of Mr. J. H. Gurney, J.P., of Keswick Hall, Norwich. A copy by Thomas Brigstocke hangs in the Board Room of St. George's Hospital, to which instition Young acted as physician from 1811 to 1829. GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

MOSS-TROOPERS : r BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. vii. 31, 98). See the late Major Whyte- Melville's novel. 'The Queen's Maries.'

C. L. S.

SERGEANT OR SERJEANT (See 12 S. vii. 98). Your correspondent is not strictly correct in his statement that in the Army sergeant is not spelt with a j. Reference to ' King's Regulations and Orders for the Army,' or to any official military book, will show that the common spelling of the word with a g is not adopted, at any rate by the- Printers in Ordinary to His Majesty.

FRED. R. GALE, \\

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