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 112 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ia S.IX.AUCK 6,1921. HELEN DICKS ON, married James Gavin, a Covenanter, of the village of Douglas, and had children : a son baptized November 2, 1694 ; a daughter, 1698 ; and a son in 1700. Who was she ? JAMES SETON- ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. CHARLES DICKENS IN CAP AND GOWN. I have a silhouette of Dickens "in his college dress." His signature, but not that with which most of us are familiar, is below the likeness. When was this silhouette taken, and of what college was Dickens a member ? W. COURTHOPE FORMAN. Compton Downs, Winchester. M, Me, MAC. What, if any, is the signifi- cance of these variations of the Scottish pre- fix for " son of " ? WALTER E. GAWTHORP. years ago I the chorus of NAUTICAL SONG. Many heard a sailor sing a song, which was as follows : Heave away, haul away, jolly Boys, At the mercy of fortune we go ; Now you're in for it, damme what folly, Boys, For to be down-hearted, Yo-ho. Can any reader say where the words of the song are to be found ? H. C. B. AUTHORS WANTED. The sources, authors, and to whom or what respectively the following three quotations refer : 1. " She, standing in the yellow morning sun> Could scarcely think her happy life was done." 2. " Fancy free, She dwelt un wedded, lonely as a star." 3. "A painter-priest, Something about two hundred years ago." E. R. A. I should be very grateful if readers of N. & Q.' could fix up for me the following quotations or misquotations t 1. " Speak as you think . . . fate or fortune *' (Emerson). 2. " That the light of a Sun that is coming may scatter the ghosts of the past." 3. " You did right to dissemble your love ; but why did you kick me downstairs ? " 4. " Windows richly dight." 5. " God in the garden heard and smiled " ( W. E. Henley). 6. " Get leave to work in this world " (Brown- ng?). 7. " The law's a hass." 8. Bobus " Sausage-maker on the great Scale " (Carlyle). 9. Those " petty cares and crawling interests " (Lowell ?). 10. " Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule ? " 11. "To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to- run." BICHAKD FREE. St. Clement's Vicarage, Fulham, S.W. GLEANING BY THE POOR. (12 S. ix. 70.) THE custom of gleaning, that is allowing the poor to go into the harvest field to gather the scattered ears of corn that were left after the crop had been carried, was pretty general throughout the country . In some parts the practice was called "leasing," a term used by Wycliffe in his translation of Leviticus xix. 10 : In thi vyneyeerd the reysonus and comes fallynge down thou shalt not gedere, but to pore men and pilgrimes to ben lesid thou shalt leeve. In some of the older authorities there were statements that there was a legal right in the poor to glean by the Common Law. The earliest judicial dictum to this effect is by Sir Matthew Hale, in a case at the Norfolk Summer Assizes in 1668, in the course of which he said, " The law gives license to the poor to glean, &c., by the general custom of England" ('Trials per pais/ c. 15, 438, 534). Lord Chief Baron Gilbert, in his ' Law of Evidence ' (4th ed., p. 250), founding himself on Hale's obiter dictum^ states : By the custom of England the poor are allowed to glean after the harvest, which custom seems to be built on a part of the Jewish Law that allowed the poor to glean, and made the harvest a general time of rejoicing. Mr. Justice Blackstone (3 'Commentaries/ p. 212) writes : It hath been said that by the Common Law and custom of England the poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another's ground, without being guilty of trespass . . . this humane provision seems borrowed from the Mosaical Law ; and he refers to Leviticus xix. 9, .10, and xxiii. 22; and Deuteronomy xxiv. 19. Selden (' History of Tithes,' vol. 6, p. 1087) states that it appears the actual property was in the poor unless they absolutely neglected the collection, and then it belonged to the owner of the field, and it did not accrue as a donation but as a legal right. It was thought of so sacred a nature that it was exempted from tithes. The Private Inclosure Act for inclosing the common fields of Basingstoke, passed in