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 218 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2 s.ix. SEPT. 10,1921. REBECCA GODSALVE (12 S. ix. 170). A j in England, then passed over to America, Godsalve Sibley, son of John and Mary j and survived there, though they became Younger, was christened at St. Stephen's, 1 -* Walbrook, April 11, 1767. Perhaps a re- ference to the registers of the church might reveal some records of those bearing the sur- name of Godsalve. G. W. YOUNGER. 2, Mecklenburgh Square, W.C.I. THE OLDEST LONDON STATUE (12 S. ix. 122). MR. ABRAHAMS'S contribution on this subject is very welcome in that it confirms a history for a statue that the London County Council asserts is of unknown origin ; see under : ' London County Council : Return of Outdoor Memorials in London,' 1910, p. 8. Alfred the Great ?, Trinity-square, Southwark. Stone statue, over life-size ; crowned ; clad in loose robes with girdle, over which is a mantle fastened at the throat ; robes gathered up in left hand ; a low pedestal. The origin of the statue obsolete in the place of their origin. Such words may properly be called Americanisms. The ' N.E.D. ' furnishes ex- amples of illy, 1549, 1594, 1681, &c. And I have collected in my ' American Glossary ' more than twenty American examples, be- ginning with Thomas Jefferson in 1785, and ending with Claiborne's 'Old Virginia' in 1904. These examples range from New Hampshire to Alabama, and from Pennsyl- vania to Oregon. RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon. AUTHORS WANTED. (12 S. ix. 130.) 1. Thomas Heywood in ' The English Traveller ' (1633), Act I., sc. i., has : I know not how the day goes with you, but is quite unknown. It is usually said to represent j m y stomach hath struck twelve, I can assure you Alfred the Great, but there seems to be -no that," valid grounds for this assumption. Erected some time before 1836. Maintained by the Corporation of Trinity House. There is a footnote to the above to the following effect : The Secretary of Trinity House states that the Corporation have on more than one occasion endeavoured to ascertain the facts in connection with the origin of the statue but without success. Mr. Alfred Chadwick, whose father laid out the square about 1825, when it is believed the statue was set up, on being asked some time ago by the Corporation of Trinity House to endeavour to procure information on the point, was not able to ascertain anything definite. He stated, however, that he knew of no grounds for calling it King j Alfred. WILLIAM R. POWER. and in 'The Late Lancashire Witches' (1634), I. i. : " I know not how the day goes with you, but for mine own part, my stomach is now much upon twelve." It is repeated by Webster in ' Appius and Vir- ginia' (1654), IV. ii. : 1st Soldier : " How goes the day ? " 2nd Soldier : " My stomach hath struck twelve." and Massinger has something similar in * The Bondman' (1624), II. ii : " Look on my watch, when my guts chimed twelve." The dates given are those of the first editions of the plays quoted. H. DUGDALE SYKES. He is known by a short Latin poem in which all the words begin with a P Pugna For cor urn, 1530, a small pamphlet in 8vo of eight leaves. I give the above information in case it may be of any help, and I believe I could find a copy of the poem which 1 could lend to your correspondent. HOWARD S. PEARSON. AMERICAN ENGLISH (12 S. viii. 449 ; ix. 97, 136). Illy is one of those fairly numerous words which were once current Enfield. FABIUS SEGNIUS AND RAPH. PLACEN- I (12 s. ix. 112.) TINUS (12 S. ix. 129). I cannot find either of ! (5) "God in the garden heard and smiled." these in Bayle or in the ' Petite Biographie I Fr m ' As like the woman as you can,' a ballade Universe!^' but in the latter it is stated f^t . -I t, - -_.-^ i-w that Segm the historian died in 1558 ; and I also find therein the following brief account of another Placentius of about the same date, and also a Latin poet : Placentius (J. Leo) called Le Plaisant, Latin poet, born St. Tron, near Liege, died about 1548. A IJ Humorous M. H. DODDS. (12S. ix. 170.) The correct form of these lines is : " Would she could make of me a saint. Or I of her a sinner ! " They are the conclusion of the little song in Congreve's " Miscellanies " that begins : "Pious Selinda goes to prayers." EDWARD BENSLY. (10 S. x. 68.) It is some years since EMERITFS asked for the author of " Who when she died, like Flora fair, Did make the Commonwealth her heir." As EMERITUS' s signature has appeared in ' N. & Q.' more than once during the present