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 106 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vra.FHB.5,i92i. ,to Montgaillard, i.e., the Abbe Montgaillard's .up is found to describe how ' ' la f emme Buffon, inaitresse en titre du prince, epouse du fils de 1'illustre Bufton. . . .contemple 'froidement la victime allant a 1'echafaud." 2. In vol ii., Bk. I., chap. 2, the French word for the Charter-Chests is given as Chartiers, instead of Chartriers. This may be a mere misprint, but we surely owe it to .the estimable wife of " le Pline frangais " that she should no longer be pilloried at the window as a Jezebel, but yield this place of dishonour to her daughter-in-law. EDWARD BENSLY. THE PANCAKE BELL. Pancake day, as -every one knows, is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. From the following notes it will be seen the custom was well observed on the borders of Warwickshire adjoining the Cotswolds. At Ilmington the church bells were rung -on Shrove Tuesday and the ringers then went round to the farmers, &c., collecting pancakes, in a large basket lined with flannel, one man being left in the tower to pull the "ting tang." The visit was ^accompanied by singing the couplet Link it Lank it, Give us panket. The older custom, followed as late as 1800, was that the parish clerk did the like, And claimed as his right a pancake from all the more substantial houses. All the men And boys on the farm received a pancake on that day, and although, as a rule, the making 'was restricted to Shrove Tuesday, the shepherd was entitled to a pancake when the first lamb came, even if it chanced to be midnight. J. HARVEY BLOOM. Twig KNOWLE HOTEL, SID MOUTH, was -opened as such in August, 1882. It had originally been built by Sir Thomas Staple- ton, sixteenth Lord Le Despencer, in 1810 .as Knowle Cottage, and I am told that when the Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at Woolbrook Cottage, Sidmouth, on Christmas 13ve, 1819, with the baby Princess Victoria it had already become something of a show place. Later on, at any rate, the aviaries .and the small collection of animals and the ,ub- tropical plants were well known. On Nov. 20, 1823, John Wallis, of the Royal "Marine Library, Sidmouth, published a .series of coloured prints of Knowle Cottage, which was then in the possession of T. L. and engraved by J. Sutherland. Other prints were published by I. Hervey of Fore Street, Sidmouth, and drawn by C. F. Williams. The aviaries, &c., 'have dis- appeared, but this seems to be an interesting lostelry, of which too little has been recorded. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. NOTE TO WORDSWORTH'S 'PRELUDE,' BK. v. 26. Turning over the pages of vol. iii. of Knight's edition of Wordsworth I came across an admission on the editor's part that he could not trace the quotation in the line: Might almost " weep to have " what he may lose at the reference given above. It is, of course, a reminiscence of the con- clusion of one of Shakespeare's best known sonnets ('When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced ' Ixiv.) which runs : This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. E. R. JOSEPH HATTON (See 12 S. vi. 274, 300). The enclosed may interest those who read the query and replies on " Guy Roslin " at the above references. IN AN ESSEX WORKHOUSE. " Those who knew that charming man, Joseph Hatton, will be sorry to read this sad note in The Athenceum. ' In an Essex workhouse has just died Joshua Hatton, brother of the late editor of The People, and himself not only a journalist of great experience and mark, but also a poet who had the kindly opinion of Tennyson. It was Hatton to whose misfortunes attention was drawn in this column some months since. Hatton was seventy ' years old, and at the time of his death was still hoping that the materials for his fifth volume of verse would see the light. There may be work of value among them : we trust at least they may be carefully examined by competent hands.' " DE V. PAYEX-PAYNE. 49 Nevern Square, S.W. THE SITE OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY. Readers of Mr. Lucas's letters to The Times, last autumn, 'From an American Note Book,' will recall the statements that he could find no one to direct him to the place where, in December 1773, three cargoes of tea on British ships were thrown overboard by citizens of Boston, as a protest against taxation : " I found the harbour [he writes] : I traversed wharf after wharf ; but there was no visible record of the most momentous act of jettison since Jonah."
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 * Fish, Esq. These were drawn by J. Fidler,