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 12 s. vii. JOT* .10,1920.* NOTES AND QUERIES. 21 LONDON, JULY 10, 1920. CONTENTS. No. 117. NOTES : John Aikin's Excursions : I., 21 Printing House Square Papers: V. Two of Delane's Writers, 24 Irish Family History : Keon of Moneagh and Keonbrook, 25 - Principal London Coffee-houses, Taverns and Inns in the Eighteenth Century, 26 A Judicial Passion for Dates, 27 Wideawake Hats "Bug" in Place-Nanies Warren Hastings, 28. QUERIES : Thomas Larkham : Portrait Wanted Manderstoun, 28 Heraldry of Fishes Courfcenay Riots Jedidiah Buxton Hauck's Pistols 84th Regiment in ilndia, c. 1760 Mary Ann Bohun : Marcella French Willow-plantations -Van der Plaes- Richard Smith. 29 Cryptography Catharine Macaulay and St. Stephen's Walbrook Fanning Jacob : Earliest Use as Christian Name Wild Darrell Cnristiin Name Levard The Prefix "Right Honble. "30 Southey and Malvern Plant at Quarr Abbey St. Anthony of Padua Fair of Great Bring'on, Northampton Moss Troopers : Bibliography- John Brown, fl. 1475 Emerson's ' English Traits,' 31. REPLIES : Old Semaphore Towers, 32 German and Austrian Titles Relinquished Queen of England and Pope, 33 Old Stained Glass Mostyn House Rifles Curions Surnames, 34 Enrico Noris " Bellum " Spoonerisms, 35 A. Descendant of Pontius Pilate "Ox " in Place-Names, 36 Elephant and Castle Royal Arms for Village War Memorial The Use <-f the Royal Arms on War Memorial Boards Robes of Sergeants-at-Law Funeral Parlour Davidians : David George's Sect Kolk- Loreof the Elder, 37 Horse-bl.>cks Woodhouse's Riddle ' Itinerary ' of William of Worcester A Late Brass- Sign Painting Manor of Frinton A Secret Tide Grove House, Woodford, Essex, 38. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Ancient Glass in Winchester ' ' English into French.' .Notices to Correspondents. Jioies* JOHN AIKIN'S EXCURSIONS. I. READERS of ' N. & Q. ' may like to be pre- sented with five accounts of "rambles " or "excursions," as their author calls them, made in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1807, through different parts of England. They exist in manuscript, and have never been published. The writer, Dr. John Aikin (1747-1822) was well known in his day in medical, literary, and Unitarian circles, and in Manchester College, Oxford, his portrait, with those of his father, John Aikin, D.D., and his sister, Mrs. Barbauld, is to be seen in the window of the library. Adequate information about him and other members of his family will be found in the ' D.N.B.' The journals tell their own story. Dr. Aikin was at the time living at Stoke Newington ; and although he does not say so definitely, he was probably accompanied each time by his wife ; he speaks always of "we," and it is not likely, as various passages indicate, that his companion was any one else. The first journal, of which the scene is Sussex and Hampshire, is now printed here, and the others will be given in succession. A EAMBLE, 1802. June 2d, Wednesday. Left home about nine Horse stumbling and dull wish he may hold out. Bait at Morden, noon : vehicles of all sorts going by to Epsom races. We jog soberly on.. Very well everyone to their liking ! trahit sua quemque voluptas. Got to Burford-bridge at four. A delightful walk after tea through Mr. Lock's Woods. Surely we shall see nothing finer ! The Tempe of England ! Sunless day, but upon the whole favourable, especially the evening. 3d Thursday. Set out at eight. Heavy showers soon after which alarmed us a little, but proved not so bad to bear as expected. Horse made a sad faux pas and broke his knees. He is likely to be our greatest care and plague. The day cleared up and became very fine and warm. Stopt to dine at a clean little inn at Slinfold. Walk into the churchyard which afforded the following very tolerable epitaph : More than in bed of down the mortal part, Here rests secure from trouble grief or smart, Till Power Supreme reanimates the dust, Blest may he rise with all the rising just. Attended to the scrubbing of two meazled pigs in the churchyard, and learned the application soap-suds and ashes Some instruction to be. got everywhere ! With much exertion got to Pulborough before five. Very hot. The county of Sussex hitherto woody and flat. Found a very unpromising inn at this place, on the banks of the Arun, here a tame stream, gently flowing through meadows. Soon a thunderstorm rolled awfully from the high downs in full view before us. It was the prelude of a wet evening, which with our tired horse, fixed us for the night at this spot, much against our inclination. It is somewhat, however, to have a dry house overhead. Spirits flat time hangs heavy think of home. Poor supper early to bed. 4:th Friday. Off, before seven, right glad to get away from ou quarters. Misty morning. Breakfast at a small village inn at Bury, and then prepared for a dreadful ascent of the downs. The fog cleared, and with walking and favouring our horse we got up the ascent very well. A glorious prospect rather improved by the skirts of the fog rolling away over the hills. On descending to Arundel, a fine richly wooded country opened, affording views of uncommon beauty terminating in the tract of meadows on the lower part of the Arun. Arundel, a town with several marks of antiquity some good modern houses in the main street. Visited the castle which towers proudly over the town. A fine seat of an ancient baron, but the ruins somewhat incongruous witlf the spruceness of the modern part, though the gothic style in the latter is well preserved. Beautiful mahogany