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 12 s. vm. JUNE is, 192U NOTES AND QUERIES. 481 LONDON, JUNE 18, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 166. NOTES .-Sussex and Surrey Dialect Words and Phrases, 481 An Original Letter by Dr. John Sherwen, 483 Glass-painters of York : Preston, 485 " Orgy " Sir John Cope, K.B. Mistranslation in Dickens, 487 " Lightly come, lightly go " Ironmonger's Hall For- gotten Periodicals, 488. QUERIES: The Earl of Anglesea's MS. History of the Troubles in Ireland, 488 Heralds' Visitations Cockney Pronunciation " Mobs Hole " Hair-brushes Royal Suc- cession by Marriage to last King's Widow Hicks's MS. History of St. Ives Swindon : " Damas " Peter Beck- ford Christopher Milles " Single Whiskey," 489 May Saying Richard Peachey of Mildenhall John Symons of Exeter Mary Godwin Pye House Essex Cheese and Banbury Cheese Hans Andersen's ' Improvisatore,' 490 Cholerton Plume Mantlings in Heraldry Authors of Quotations Wanted, 491. REPLIES : Domenick Angelo's Burial-place, 491 Window Tax and Dairies, 492" Parliament Clock," 493" Mag- dalen " or "Mawdlen," 494 The Plague Pits " Beads of Castledowne " Handshaking Banquo Heraldry : St. Augustine's Abbey, 495 Pushkin and Dante Willow Pattern China Serjeants-at-Law Church Building and - Parliamentary Commissioners, 496 The Smallest Pig of a Litter " The Poor Cat i' th' Adage Pitt's Peers Viscount Stafford Clementina Johannes Sobiesky Douglass " Howler," 497 " Honest " Epitaph The Green Man, Ashbourne G. A. Cooke and his County Itineraries, 498 ' The Fable of the Bees 'Author Wanted, 499. NOTES ON BOOKS : The Book of Fees commonly called Testa de Nevill ' ' Bibliographies of Modern Authors ' 'Worthing with its Surroundings.' Notices to Correspondents. SUSSEX AND SURREY DIALECT WORDS AND PHRASES. THE following is a list of local words and phrases noted by me as having been heard at Ditchling in Sussex where I was born on April 5, 1841 and at Cranleigh in Surrey. So far as I can ascertain, they are not included in any dialect dictionary. The letters D. and C. stand for Ditchling and Cranleigh respectively. This list was submitted to Mr. C. T. Onions, who made observations which are recorded in the footnotes. Adder's spear : a dragon-fly. D. Akyers or acres : acorns. C. Alight wid un: to meet. C. "He's took his hoss to the blacksmith's ; if you jest goo round the corner you'll alight wid un." All to once : fall at once. C. Allowance (generally shortened to 'lowance) : food given in the hay or harvest field ; sometimes called " bait." C. and D. Anty hole : a game of marbles. T D. Ash : An old Sussex rhyme on the ash goes as follows : Ash green, fit for the Queen. Ash sire, make a good fire. Ash clung, burns like dung. D. Back piece : a waistcoat. C. Bark-hatching : to scrape off the rough outside from bark. C. Bell : the heart, liver, &c., of a sheep or pig. D. Bellwire : the wild clematis. D. " As tough as bellwire " a very common expression. Bergamy pears : bergamot pe^irs. C. Big as a barn : any object somewhat larger than usual. C. Biscakes : biscuits. Bidin' about : living in an aimless sort of way. C. Bloods : bleeds. C. Blue bottle : the wild hyacinth. C. Bob solly : in a shaky and tottering condition. C. " That old shed of Smith's is all on the Bob solly." Bowls (pronounced bowels) : round Dutch cheese. Bright as bright : very bright. C, Bullick: bullock. C. Bumbly : uneven. C. Bungy : Land that is stiff, heavy and difficult to reduce to a fineness suitable for seed sowing is said to be " bungy." C. " This field is pretty stiff and bungy." By gall : expressing surprise. C. " Is it, by gall ! " Country Dick : a home-made cheese of poor quality. D. Cacket : a slight troublesome cough. D. " He keeps on cacketing all night and I can't get any sleep." Carkoom : the black sticky substance formed by the grease applied to cart or wagon-wheels. D. Casilass : careless, uncertain, perfunctory. C. " He did it in a very casilass sort of way, as if he didn't care where 'twas done or not." Castes (two syllables) : casts. " There's a lot of them there ammut castes all over that there medder." C. Catten Hill Fair : St. Catherine's Hill Fair. C. Now abolished. Cheese bob* : a wood-louse. Chip chack day : May 29. C. Chippen : " Like chippen porridge, neither good it or harm." Chock dogs : small cakes of poor quality. D. Chog : the core of an apple or pear. D. Clothes shores : clothes-props. C. Corkn : made of cork. C. Cramp nut : a wart or excrescence on the oak-tree. Supposed to be a sure cure for cramp if carried in the pocket. C. Craning : plaiting or weaving. Crock shades : broken crockery. D. Dandy basket : a wooden basket ; Sussex trug. C. Dell : dull. C. Dipping-hole : a shallow well or spring. C. Dogs a bit : " You don't say so." D. and Hants.
 * " Chissel-bob " is the form in Berks, Bucks