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Raw of the same, Maurice Frith of Wincanton, Gent., William Tiggens of Forde, John Kerridge of Lime Regis, Mariner, Robert Parsons, Samuel Venner, Andrew Fletcher, John Fowke, Robert Bruce,. Anthony Bruce, James Fox, Joseph Gaylard, William Oliver, John Woolters, Nathaniel Hook, Clerk, Richard Lucas of Dul- verton, John Bettiscomb near Lime Regis, George Stucky of White Lackington, Thomas Saxon, John Jesse, George

Nye of Cheddar, Joseph Francklyn of Worle, Clerk,

Dore, late Mayor of Limington, James Carrier of Ilmister, Nicholas Covert of Chichester, Gent., John Tripp of Ship- ham, Joseph Hearse of Badgeworth, Francis Creswick of

Fanham, Esq., Fudge of Wedmore, Collonel John

Rumsey, Joshua Lock, Junior, Stephen Lobb, Clerk, William Gaunt, Ralph Alexander, Bartholomew Ver- jneuyden, Major John Manley, Isaak Manley, his son, Walter Thimbleton, Aaron Smith of London, Gent., Sir William Waller, Slingsby Bethel, Esq., Francis Charlton, Esq., Richard Goodenough, Nathaniel Wade, John Tel- lier, Richard Edghill, Samuel Story, John Jones, John Vincent, George Bowyer, John Button Colt, Charles Earl of Machlesfield, John Trenchard, Esq., John Wildman, Esq., Titus Gates, Clerk, Robert Fergusson, Clerk.

" Provided that no process of utlary at the suit of any person plaintiff, shall be by virtue of this our pardon staj r ed or avoided, unless the defendant appear and put in bail, where by law bail is necessary, and take forth a writ of Scire Facias against the party at whose suit he was outlawed. And that this our pardon be not allowed to discharge any outlawry after judgment, till satisfaction or agreement be made to or with the party at whose suit the utlawry was obtained. And our will and pleasure is, that this present pardon shall be of as good force and effect to pardon and discharge all and singular the pre- misses above mentioned, and intended to be pardoned and discharged, as if we should by letters patents under the great seal have granted particular pardons to every one of our subjects. And for the better manifestation of our gracious intentions and desire herein, we do give leave that any of our subjects not herein excepted, may take and sue out our particular pardon, pursuant to the tenor hereof. And for that purpose we shall direct our secre- taries of state to present warrants to us for our signature, and give order to our atturney-general or solicitor, to prepare bills for passing pardons to such as shall desire the same. Provided always, that this our general pardon shall not extend to any person that were in actual arms against us in the late rebellion in the west, who being now within this realm, shall not within three months after the publication hereof, lay hold of this our pardon, and testifie the same by their peaceable returning to their former habitations, labours, and imployments.

" Given at our Court at Whitehall, the Tenth day of March, 1685. In the second year of our reign.

" God Save the King."

General Wolfe. The frequent mention of General Wolfe in the pages of " N". & Q.," and lately a notice of the ship in which he is said to have been conveyed to Quebec (2 nd S. i. 130.), have recalled to my mind a circumstance that oc- curred to me, perhaps more than sixty years ago. At the house of a near relative I met with one of her acquaintances, whose name, of no importance, I do not now recollect. He told me, in a conver-

sation respecting General Wolfe, which deeply interested me, that he had been in the expedition with that officer, was in the action in which he was killed, saw him fall, and was among those who helped to bear him from the fiald. If my memory does not serve me with perfect accuracy as to all these points, I well remember his affirming that the dead body was taken on shipboard, and that he, my informant, assisted in washing and laying out the corpse in the cabin preparatory to its interment. The latter particular made an im- pression upon me that is not obliterated. It is certainly very unimportant, and does not add a grains-weight to the history of his end; but as every thing connected with this gallant soldier, dead or alive, seems invested with peculiar interest to some of the readers of " N. & Q.," it may be taken for as much as it is worth. I have some- times thought I should like to know how far the above fact of his being taken back to the ship corresponds with any of the accounts already given. JOHN WEBB.

Tretire.

. Wild oats, to sow one's. Turning over lately the leaves of Vol. v. of "N. & Q.," I lighted at p. 306., on a suggestion as to the origin of the phrase " to sow one's wild oats," which seemed far from satisfactory. If nothing better on the point has since come in your way, take the fol- lowing from Grimm's German Mythology, vol. i.. p. 222. Speaking of Loki, the Teutonic devil, he says :

" A noxious weed (Polytrichum commune) which in- jures the cattle, is in North Jutland called Lokkens havre, (Loki's oats), and there is a proverb, ' Loki is now sowing his oats ' (havre), equivalent to the devil is sowing his tares. The Danish dictionary translates Lokeshavre, Avena fatua ; others make it Rhinanthus crista-galli. The proverb : ' Loki is sowing his oats,' and another : ' Loki is driving out his goats,' are said to be applied wken the heat of the sun causes vapours to rise and float on the earth's surface."

A.F.

Edinburgh.

Waiter. This passage in. Evelina (1779) seems curious, as showing how lately the etiquette of waiters was introduced :

" Just then a servant brought Lady Louisa a note upon a waiter, which is a ceremony always used to her lady- ship."

This curiosity may be interesting to those who are glad to know the dates of such introductions, without making martyrs of themselves by wading through three volumes of sentimentality.

T. II. P.

The First Booh printed by Steam. In the enu- meration of the various translations which had been made of Blumenbach's Physiology, appended to the Preface of Dr. Elliotsou's edition (8vo.,