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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. FEB. 5, '98.

Peel, indeed, employed the phrase for his own uses on the following Friday, during the stormy discussion in which his speech was interrupted by the arrival at Westminster of William IV. to dissolve Parliament; and by that time it had passed into current employment, for it is to be found in the Times of 13 April, and it was freely used by both supporters and opponents of the Reform Bill in the press and on the hustings during the immediately en- suing general election. And the Spectator was proud of its child, for in the following June it exclaimed :

"We claim the invention of the phrase, 'The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill,' which appeared for the first time in print in the Spectator of 12 March. What educated Briton has not uttered the phrase many times since then?"

ALFEED F. BOBBINS.

This was, and is, generally supposed to be the original outcry of the Reform agitators in 1831 and 1832. It is nothing but an adapta- tion of a cry uttered in the Moniteur when Napoleon insisted that the British Govern- ment were playing fast and loose with their engagements entered into under the Treaty of Amiens, especially with regard to the occupation of Malta, and that cry was no doubt inspired by Napoleon himself : " We must have the treaty, the whole treaty, and nothing but the treaty."

Similarly it was supposed that Mr. Glad- stone had dexterously described and made the word "boycotting" less offensive by calling it "exclusive dealing." This, again, is to be found in Charles Dickens's ' Election of a Parish Beadle,' published in 1845, where what is now known as boycotting of offending tradesmen was resorted to, and is described by Dickens as " exclusive dealing."

JAMES GEAHAME.

Samuel Warren, in his 'Ten Thousand a Year,' published in 1840, called the first Reform Bill of 1832 "the Bill for giving everybody everything." Illustrative of this, there is the old anecdote of the Tory staying at an inn, and, on the bill being presented, inquiring what the political views of the land- lord were. " Oh, sir," replied the waiter, " we are all Reformers master, mistress, and all the servants in the house." " Very well," replied the parting guest, " there is the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill."

JOHN PICKFOED, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

A MISSING BIBLE (9 th S. i. 27). I, to9, am anxious to find a "missing Bible," in which is a prayer for Charles I. or Charles II., and containing manuscript entries concerning

the family of Astley, counties Warwick and Staff. Some years ago I posted to many of the second-hand book-dealers a lithographed letter suggesting that whenever they offered Bibles, or prayer or other books, containing family notes the fact should be mentioned in their catalogues. Occasionally this is done, but only rarely. J. ASTLEY.

Coventry.

THE POETEE'S LODGE (8 th S. xii. 507). Mr. Willock would not have written as he did had he consulted Nares's 'Glossary,' in which the "porter's lodge" is explained as " the usual place of summary punisnment for servants and dependants of the great, while they claimed and exercised the privilege of inflicting corporal punishment," several quo- tations and references being given. Students of feudal domestic life may be able to give a fuller account, but this is sufficient for ordi- nary readers, who are aware that the porter was the janitor. F. ADAMS.

This means the porter's lodge, neither more nor less. In the ancient days, when more houses had such lodges than have now, when there were more large establishments and more sharp discipline, servants (and some- times children of the house too) were taken to the porter's lodge to be chastised for their iniquities. As to Massinger's line, I have known an ancient priest say the very thing to a couple who came to be married, and had about thirty-eight years between them, "Why, you 're not past your whippings yet ! "

C. F. S. WAEEEN, M.A.

Longford, Coventry.

If ME. WALMSLEY will turn to * N. & Q.,' 7 th S. xi. 289, he will find that " the porter's lodge," or ward, has already been explained, and that the question is no " poser for the readers of ' N. & Q.'"

In addition to the reference to Howard's 'State of the Prisons,' 1784, given by the Editor, I would refer ME. WALMSLEY to Nares's ' Glossary illustrating English Au- thors,' where he will find further examples of the use of the expression in the plays of Massinger, Heywood, Shirley, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Green's ' Newes both from Heaven and Hell,' 1593.

EVEEAED HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

This phrase occurs in Massinger's ' Duke of Milan,' III. ii.:-

1 am now

Fit company only for pages and for footboys That have perused the porter's lodge.

In Keltic's 'Selections from the British