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 12 s. viii. FEB. 5, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 117 Almanac ' for 1750 among items of Christ- mas fare. There is a recipe in Mrs. Frazer's mentioned in The Tatter. It may be of interest to note that both ^plum-broth and mince pies were distasteful to Quakers and Puritans. C. G. N. STONEHENGE (12 S. viii. 71). This belief as to the origin of Stonehenge is expressed, in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'History of the Britons ' (temp. Stephen). Inigo Jones was commissioned by James I. to examine and report on Stonehenge. His "Conclusion was that the masses of stone were C. G. N. There is no mystery about John Speed. He was born in Cheshire about 1555, and >devoted himself to the study of English History and antiquities. Having no truck with Geoffrey of Monmouth and other fabulists, he commenced at once with solid and rational matter, as has been said of him. The map referred to by your correspondent is no doubt a copy of the map of Wiltshire in Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain ' having Stonehenge engraved in a -corner, with the inscription quoted by Mr, BRADBURY, beneath it. Speed wrote further a 'History of Britain,' 1614, in which he again takes up the problem of Stonehenge. He died in 1629, and while he probably settled the matter to his own satisfaction, it
 * Cookery Book,' 1791. Plum-pudding is
 * the remains of a Roman Temple.
 * seems to have been done after timely

deliberation and thought by Speed, (Mr. BRADBURY began the play on the word.) yet without haste. His son John Speed, M.A., M.D. wrote 'Stonebenge, a Pastoral,' which was acted at St. John's College, Oxford, but seems not to have been printed. Can it be said that, with its bibliography of some thousand volumes, there was ever a popular belief in regard to the origin of Stonehenge ? See 'Stonehenge and its Barrows,' by Wm. Long, F.S.A., 1876, Devizes, &c. J. L. ANDERSON. Edinburgh. This map appeared in John Speed's first edition, 1611. The quotation is in- complete and not quite accurate. A very useful handbook, ' Stonehenge To-day and Yesterday,' has been written by Mr. Frank Stevens, Curator of the Salisbury Museum, and published, 1916, by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. PRESCOTT Row. "To OUTRUN THE CONSTABLE" (12 S. viii. 29, 58, 97). The reference to Ray's 'Proverbs,' 2nd edition, 1678, at the last reference is incorrect. The proverb is to be found on p. 236 of that edition with the ex- planation: "To spend more than one's allowance or income." DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE. THE TRAGEDY OF NEW ENGLAND (12 S. vii. 446, 493 ; viii. 16). A short note to the ballad ' Cassandra Southwick ' by Whittier the American poet appears in a new edition of his works published in England in 1861. It is therein stated that : " The son and daughter of Laurence Southwick were fined 10 each for non-attendance at Church which they were unable to pay. The Court at Boston issued an order which may still be seen on the Court Records bearing the signature of Edward Bawson the Secretary by which the Treasurer of the County was empowered to sell the said persons to any of the English Nation at Virginia or Barbadoes to answer the said fines. An attempt was made to carry this order into execution, but no shipmaster was found willing to convey them to the West Indies. Vide Sewell's History, pp. 225-6." Upon this incident Whit tier's ballad was founded. Z. WIDEAWAKE HATS (12 S. vii. 28, 157, 171, 198, 214, 238, 316). The following paragraph is from p. 41 of ' Paul Periwinkle or the Press - gang,' by the author of 'Cavendish' (W. Johnson Neale), published 1841, and carries the origin of the phrase to an earlier date than any yet given in ' N. & Q. ' : " Jonathan replied that his hat was like him- self wide awake, and that he held it on a tenure somewhat similar to that by which the Lombard kings did their iron crowns." J. B. Croydon. EMERSON'S 'ENGLISH TRAITS ' (12 S. vi. 9, 228). At No. 22 of the first reference the words attributed to Nelson are from his description of "a brush with the enemy " before the fortress of Bastia on the N.E. coast of Corsica, in the year 1794. " A thousand men would certainly take Bastia ; with five hundred and Agamemnon I would attempt it. My seamen are now what British seamen ought to be, almost invincible. They really mind shot no more than peas." Southey: 4 Life of Nelson,' chapter iii. No. 11, at the second reference, " The English are those ' barbarians ' of 3 amblichus, who ' are stable in their manners, and firmly continue to employ the same words, which also are dear to the gods.' "
 * Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine,'