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Terrington, of Hull ; she died at Clifton, Somerset, 14 Dec., 1876 ; their youngest son, Wilderspin Terrington, was living at Font- hill Villa, Keynsham, in 1893.

Mr. Wilderspin's works are :

On the Importance of educating the Infant Poor, from 18 months to 7 years, containing an account of the Snitalfields Infant School, and the new system of instruction there adopted. Small 8vo., London, second edition, 1824.

Early Discipline illustrated. 12mo., 1834.

The Infant System for Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children from 1 year old to 7. By Samuel Wilderspin, inventor of the system of Infant Training. One plate, 12mo., London, eighth edition, 1852.

System of Education for the Young, applied to all faculties. 12mo., London, 1840.

Many school lessons.

Complete school apparatus, of which he was author and inventor.

Manual for the Religious and Moral Instruction of Young Children in the Nursery and Infant School, by Samuel Wilderspin, originator of the system of infant training, and T. J. Terrington, Secretary to the Hull Infant School Society. 8vo., Hull, 1845.

W. C. B.

Samuel Wilderspin, the originator of infant schools, was born about 1792, died 10 March, 1866. He was the master of the London Central Infant School, and author of various works on the education of the young.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED (9 th S. i. 169). Upwards of twenty years have passed away since the same "want" appeared in ' N. & Q.' (5 th S. viii. 209), and, so far as I can trace, no reply has been received.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

DANIEL HOOPER (9 th S. i. 188). I have copies of the wills of Hoopers of Barbadoes, but they were of Hampshire origin, and came from Heron Court, near Christchurch, which now belongs to Lord Malmesbury. The estate was bought from the Hoopers early in this century. B. FLORENCE SCARLETT.

WILLIAM WENTWORTH (9 th S. i. 7, 31, 50). Has G. F. R. B. looked into "Long John" Went- worth's book, viz.,' The Wentworth Genealogy,' 3 vols., Boston, U.S., 1878 1 "Long John," who in his day was a noted Chicago character of national reputation and never suspected of having literary inclinations, electrified his compatriots by the issue of this huge com- pilation of several thousand pages, which had cost him a fortune in the rough. That is to say, " Long John," having a plethoric purse, caused the working tribe of genealogists to move lively. In addition to its noble army

of American Wentworths the work contains an elaborate genealogy of English Went- worths (whether trumped up I know not), going back to the dark ages, and, what pleased " Long John " better, a fine portrait of himself, engraved on steel, showing his gigantic form and celebrated hat. C.

" BROACHING THE ADMIRAL " (9 fch S. i. 128). The following is from Mark Lemon's ' Jest- Book,' published in 1864, being No. mcccliv., with the heading 'Above Proof':

"An East India Governor having died abroad, his body was put in arrack, to preserve it for inter- ment in England. A sailor on board the ship being frequently drunk, the captain forbad the purser, ana indeed all in the ship, to let him have any

liquor. Shortly after the fellow appeared very drunk. How he obtained the liquor, no one could guess. The captain resolved to find out, promising

drunk. How he obtained the liquor, no one cpulc guess. The captain resolved to find out, promising to forgive him if he would tell from whom he got the liquor. After some hesitation, he hiccuped

te quor. ter some estaton, e ccupe out, 'Why, please your honour, I tapped the Governor.' "

Whether this is adapted, mutato nomine, from another story, I cannot say, but I think the sea term for tapping is " broaching."

F. ADAMS.

106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

A story relevant to this query is recorded in 'I've been a-Gipsying,' by George Smith of Coalville, p. 69. Said a gipsy at North- ampton Races :

"My grandfather was a soldier in the Queen's service [the poor gipsy woman did not understand history so well as cooking hedgehogs in a patter of clay], and fought in the cattle when Lord Nelson was killed. And do you know, sir, after Lord Nelson was killed he was put into a cask of rum to be preserved, while he was brought to England to be buried ; and I dare say that you will not believe me my grandfather was one of those who had charge of the body ; but he got drunk on some of the rum in which Lord Nelson was pickled, and he was always fond of talking about it to his dying day."

ST. SWITHIN.

It is said, I know not on what authority, that when the body of Lord Nelson was brought to this country for burial, it was preserved in a cask of rum, but that the sailors, who at that time would " stick " at no opportunity which presented itself for "suck- ing the monkey," had, before the arrival of the gallant admiral's corpse, drained the cask completely dry by means of the usual straw. Hence the phrase " tapping the admiral."

J. H. MACMlCHAEL.

"CARNAFOR" (9 th S. i. 189). It would not be easy, and is perhaps impossible, to find another word in the language similarly con- structed. It may be an early and substantive