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 250 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vin.MABCH26 f io2i. lieu of " Elegy," and in the punctuation. Mason does not refer to these variations in his " Notes," but states in his preliminary " Advertisement " that his text is " given exactly as the author left it in the London and Glasgow editions." Which is the textus receptud, Mason's or the Cambridge MS. ? J. B. McGovERN. " A LIVERPOOL GENTLEMAN AND A MAN- CHESTER MAN." What are the origin and meaning of this well-known saying ? As for the latter expression I found the follow- ing in a pamphlet entitled ' The Complaint of Lieut. -Col. John Rosworm against the Inhabitants of Manchester relative to the Siege of Manchester in 1642,' Manchester, 1822, pp. 84-5 : " I must needs say, I could with more ease have sold them, man, woman, and child, with all they had into their enemies' hands, than at any time I could have preserved them ; but, alas, I should then have been ' a Manchester man,' for never let an unthankfull man, and a promise- . breaker, have another name." Does this imply that " a Manchester man " is synonymous with " an unthankfull man and a promise breaker " ? If so why " a Liverpool gentleman" ? I am interested in this matter, being the first by birth and the second by long residence. J. B. MCGOVERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. THE LORD'S PRAYER IN THE GIPSY OR .ROMANY LANGUAGE. Where can I find a copy of this ? I. F. , OLD SONG WANTED. I have distant remembrances of a departed mother often singing part of a song I would like to know more of. It included : And Mary she came weeping, And Mary she came weeping, To find her Blessed Lord. A friend learned in such matters ^tells me that he has heard it years ago, in" the North of Ireland, and that it is very ancient. My mother was an Englishwoman, and never out of this country. I have no knowledge where she picked up the tune and words, but I have been told they still linger in Northumberland and Durham. J. W. F. THE ROMAN NUMERAL ALPHABET. I know the Greek numeral alphabet ; and shall be much obliged if any learned corre- spondent will kindly give me the Latin numeral alphabet the value of each letter in figures as generally accepted. A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern. LEG OF MUTTON CLUBS. These clubs nourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I want to find out all about one which was founded by members of the House of Commons who met at Bellamy's. Perhaps some of the companionship of ' N. & Q.' can help me ? WILLIAM BULL. House of Commons. THOMAS FULLER OF AMSTERDAM. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give par- ticulars of the ancestry of Thomas Fuller, merchant of Amsterdam or the name of his wife, by whom he had : (1) Henry Fuller, born at Amsterdam in 1616, and (2) Abraham Fuller, born 1622 ; came to Ireland 1651, He was ancestor of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down. TAVERN SIGN : CASTLE AND WHEEL- BARROW. In the hamlet of Radford, near Inkberrow, Worcestershire, is an old inn having the name of The Castle and Wheel- barrow. I have seen a sketch of the original sign, which shows a castle turret in a wheelbarrow. I should be grateful for any information, or reference to books, which would give me the orgin of its name. C. H. Y. JAMES PEAKE, WORDSWORTH'S SCHOOL- MASTER. -- When Wordsworth entered Hawkshead Grammar School, North Lan- cashire, the head master was the Rev. James Peake, M.A. (Cantab., but query his college). He left Hawkshead in 1781, and afterwards, it is said, became Vicar of Rowsley, Derby- shire, but this I have been unable to con- firm. Can any one give any particulars of his later career ? H. F. WILSON. 66 Louis Street, Hull. WILLIAM TOONE. What is known of this man ? The second edition of ' A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words ; with Notices of Ancient Customs,' by him appeared in 1834, and the same year saw the publication of the third edition of his work " The chronological historian ; or record of public events, historical, political, biographical, literary, domestic, and miscellaneous, principally illustrative of the ecclesiastical, civil, naval, and military history of Great Britain, and its depen- dencies, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the present time ; in two volumes." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.