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 12 S.VIIL MAY 28, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 435 OLD LONDON : CLOTH FAIR (12 S. viii. 310, 353). The most useful history of Bartholo- mew Fair is ' Memories of Bartholomew Fair,' by Henry Morley, 1858, but as it and this nucleus thoroughfare are essential parts of Rahere's Priory and its developments every work on the Priory Church or Hos- pital will afford more or less familiar in- formation about it. I am not aware that any of the numerous writers state, or even suggest, that the worthy Prior " hit upon the expedient of obtaining permission to establish the fair." ALECK ABRAHAMS. SMALLEST PIG OF A LITTER (12 S. viii. 331, 376, 395, 417). In this part of Hampshire the smallest pig of a litter is called " the darling." The 'English Dialect Dic- tionary ' gives the following names with their counties : " Darling," Ireland, also Berkshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and Wiltshire. Also in forms " dawlin," Surrey and Sussex ; " derlin," Berkshire ; " dorling," Surrey. J. P. STILWELL. Yateley, Hants. The Rev. W. D. Parish, in his ' Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect,' has " Darling, or dawlin, the smallest pig of a litter ; an unhealthy child." A. H. S. In Worcestershire the smallest pig's name was formerly " nisgull." W. H. QTJARRELL. PASTORINI'S PROPHECIES (12 S. viii. 251, 313, 396). W. Carle ton, in his 'Irish Peasantry' (1830), says of the candidate for Maynooth (' Going to Maynooth,' p. 438) : " He was a great historian, a per- plexing controversialist, deeply read in Dr. Gallagher and Pastorini " ; and an illiterate peasant says of the candidate (ibid., p. 460) : " Doesn't myself remimber him puttin' the explanations to Pasthorini ? " H. C x. SINGING BREAD (12 S. viii. 269, 297, 333, 374). The following entries are taken from an inventory of jewels, plate, &c., in York Cathedral in the time of King Edward VI. : A Box for Singing Bread Silver Guilt. . 11 A Box for Singing Bread Silver. . . . 10 A Box for Singing Bread of Silver. . 5 THOS. SEYMOUR. Newton Road Oxford. "NOTHING BUT THEIR EYES TO WEEP WITH " (12 S. viii. 228, 316). I write to say that I was a constant reader of the news- papers during our Civil War, but I never heard the saying, " leaving the people nothing but their eyes to weep with," attributed ta either General Sheridan or General Sherman until the recent World War. CHARLES E. STRATTON. Boston, U.S.A. To whatever person or date we are to assign the maxim which bids us leave the conquered nothing but their eyes to weep with, there can be no doubt that it is a picturesque development of an earlier proverb. Cognatus in his ' Adagia,' printed at the end of the 1574 edition of Erasmus's ' Chiliades,' has, in ' Centuria,' ii., No. 176, under the heading ' Praeter plorare nihil ' : Haec vox pervagata, proverbiique vim habet hodie apud Gallos. Praeter plorare nihil relictum. Horat. in 5 Satyra, lib. 2. The reference is to Invenietque Nil sibi legatum praeter plorare suisque. Horace, Sat. II. v. 68, 69. EDWARD BENSLY. [It may be of interest to note that Balzac makes Grandet use this expression. When Eugenie, having heard of her uncle's bankruptcy and suicide, asks what is the meaning of " bank- ruptcy," Grandet says : " Faire faillite est un vol que la loi prend malheureusement sous sa protection. Des gens ont donne leurs denrees a Guillaume Grandet, sur sa reputation d'honneur et de probite ; puis il a tout pris, et ne leur laisse que les yeux pour pleurer." * Eugenie Grandet.'] RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF FUNCTIONARIES (12 S. viii. 347). (b) Gustos Rotulorum. He is the principal civil officer and repre- sentative of the Crown in the county. . He is appointed by the Sovereign by com- mission from the Lord Chancellor, and must be one of the justices assigned to the Commission of the Peace. He has the titular custody of the County records and those of quarter sessions and is entitled to exercise his office by deputy. In practice the office is usually united with that of Lord-Lieutenant. Formerly the Gustos Rotulorum had the right to appoint the clerk of the peace, who in counties is, as his deputy, the actual custodian of the records and documents. See Halsbury's ' Laws of England,' xix., pp. 343, 624, where references to the statutes governing the subject are given. (d) Board of Green Cloth. See Coke's ' Fourth Institute,' 13L R. S. B.