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eighty years of age, to dispose of his extensive property in different lots."

" Robert Smith, of Southfield, Sir John's eldest son, was bora 24 th April, 1631, and married, in 1652, Miss Elizabeth Hope, by whom he had three sons and many daughters."

In the book is a fine view of the old house, " Cramond Regis, as in 1791." The name clearly indicates the place to have been once the property of the crown. In 1610, part of the lands came by purchase into the possession of Robert Smith, the father of Sir John. T. G. S.

Edinburgh.

Dictionaries of the English Language (2 nd S. i. 212.) I do not quite understand J. R. J.'s object, nor indeed what is meant by " bringing about a desideratum ; " but if he wishes only for a list of English dictionaries, I think he will find all that are worth notice in Watt, and it would be, at least for the seventeenth century, but a short account.- The first works I find are Bul- lohars Booke. There were two Bullokars, William, who published a work on English Orthography, in 1580, and John, who published in 1616, The English Expositor of Hard Words. These books I have never seen, but I find in the printed Mu- seum Catalogue William's work attributed to John. I presume they may be different editions of the same work. Then come Minshe w, 1 623 ; Cockeram, 1632 ; Blount's Glossographia, 1656 ; Phillips's, 1657 ; Skinner, 1671 ; Coles, 1677. These with Ray's Collections of Proverbs, Sfc. (which cannot be called a dictionary), are all that I rememb'er prior to 1700. I will add as a curiosity in biblio- graphy, that the printed catalogue of the Museum has not Johnson's Dictionary. C.

Legal Jeu d Esprit : " Look ye, d'ye see " (2 nd S. 5. 171.) Pray rescue the memory of Lord Mans- field from the reproach of his having habitually used in conversation the vulgarism, " Look ye, d'ye see," attributed to him by R. L. P. It was not Lord Mansfield, but Mr. Justice Powis, " a foolish old judge," as Lord Campbell calls him, in whom this peculiarity of diction was quizzed by Mr. Yorke, afterwards Lord Hardwicke, in lines similar to those your correspondent quotes, but which are more correctly as follows :

"He that holdetk his lands in fee

Need neither to quake nor to quiver

I humbly conceive ; for look, do you see,

They are his and his heirs for ever."

The lines were imposed upon the judge as part of a translation of Coke upon Littleton into verse, on which Yorke represented himself engaged. .The anecdote is given at some length in Camp- bell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 2nd series, vol. v. p. 12. T. P.

Hull.

Draughts and Backgammon (2 nd S. i. 214.) It is a mistake to say that draughts and back- gammon are the same game. They are not only completely different, but they are not played on the same tables, though for convenience sake and to save space and expense, the chequer of the draught- board is sometimes placed on the back of the backgammon-tables ; but the games are as dif- ferent as chess and backgammon. C.

Cambridge Jeux d'E.iprit (l lt S. xii. passim.')

" On the Masters of Clare Hall and Caius (or Keys) College.

" Says Gooch * to old Wilcox, ' come take t'other bout,' ' 'Tis late,' says the Master, I'll not be lock'd out.' ' Mere stuff,' cries |the Bishop, ' stay as long as* you

please ; What signify Gates ? arn't I Master of Keys ? ' "

Nichols's Collection of Poems, vol. vii. p. 226.

E. H. A.

Inscription, Sfc. at Stukeley, Huntingdonshire (2 nd S. i. 193.) There is no doubt as to the in- scription quoted by MR. HACKWOOD being placed over the remains of the Rev. Mr. Waterhouse. The unfortunate clergyman had some poor rela- tions in Derbyshire, who, after his murder, cama to the county of Huntingdon to attend to his funeral and administer to his estate. They erected the tombstone with the strange inscription, thus completing the murder of the old man. The case of Mr. Waterhouse excited much interest at the time. I was then residing in the neighbourhood, and forwarded notices of the deceased to my late friend Mr. Mudford of the London Courier. Waterhouse was a parson of the Tulliber class. He was the only one I ever knew drive his own pigs and sheep 'to market. He hated the clerical costume, usually wearing a long blue coat. To evade the window-tax he had blocked up nearly all the windows in the parsonage, and a young rogue in the village used to get into the darkened rooms, when the parson was out in the fields, and steal whatever he could carry away. One day he was detected and dragged from his lurking-place by Mr. Waterhouse. The latter would promise no mercy, and the thief in desperation drew a sword (which he had stolen from an alehouse and kept concealed inside his trousers), and pushing down the old man into a mash-tub in the passage ran him through the throat. At his trial a bill- hook, the supposed instrument of death, was pro- duced ; it was stained with blood, and exhibited what were considered grey hairs ! The audience shuddered, but Baron Alderson was by no means satisfied with the circumstantial evidence, and postponed the execution for a month. In the in- terval the young murderer confessed all, and told where the sword would be found. Mr. Water- house was a bachelor, and had up to his seventieth


 * Sir Thomas, Bishop of Ely.