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[9 th S. I. APRIL 2, '98.

to "Mr. Phillipps's idea that the poet's father was a resident of Stratford, &c., in 1552," and said, "The whole train of argument was invented, apparently, to confound the poet's father with John Shakspere, the shoemaker." In my letter to you I charitably suggested that there must be some slip on the part of the writer. I did not think that any one dealing with the subject could make such a mistake. But MR. YEATMAN repeats the statement; and since I wrote to you I have come across his book, which I had never seen before. Therein (p. 182) I find that MR. YEATMAN prints his opinion that " it was

John the shoemaker (who) formed the

sterquilinium, &c.," in 1552 ! All Shakespeare students, of course, know that John the shoe- maker was not born in 1552 ! Upon such mistakes as this does MR. YEATMAN build his arguments, and accuse the late Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps of dishonest inventions and sup- pressions. H. P. STOKES. Cambridge.

[The interest of this subject to our readers is, we know, exhausted, and further correspondence will not be inserted.]

"DAG DAW" (9 th S. i. 207). The speaker contemptuously insinuates that her wooer, with all his display and pretension, will find a true mate in a tawdry drab. Interpreting the expression thus, we take dag as equivalent to " dage," s6.=darling, which Jamieson ('Sc. Diet.') defines as a Teviotdale expression for "a trollop, a dirty, mis- managing woman." He adds that the word "is probably the same with cto,only differing in pronunciation." Of the meaning of daw there is no doubt ; Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and other Scottish poets use it in a sense that is quite obvious. Dag daw, then, would appear to be a double-barrelled discharge, used in the Hebrew manner for the sake of emphasis. Besides, the pronunciation of it, being suggestive of jackdaw, gives a certain reasonableness to the hint regarding the utilization of the gaudy headgear in the form of a nest. THOMAS BAYNE.

Helensburgh, N.B.

I should think this was the wife of Jack Daw. F. J. CANDY.

Norwood.

" By JINGO?' (9 th S. i. 227). In ' Pantagruel,' book iv. c. Ivi. C. B. MOUNT.

Oxford.

On hearing from the skipper (pilot in the original) how on the confines of the Frozen Sea a great and bloody fight had taken place between the Arimaspian and the Nepnelo-

bates, and how in warm weather the sounds melt and are heard, Panurge, in the trans- lation, says: "By jingo the man talks

somewhat like." In the original the words are " Par Dieu (dist Panurge) je Ten croy."

H. T.

" Nothing is to be got out of him but Monosyllables ? by Jingo, I believe he would make three bites of a Cherry." Eabelais (Ozell's, 1737), vol. v. p. 132. R. R.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

" CULAMITE " (9 th S. i. 146). I was born in South Lincolnshire, and there passed the greater part of my youth, but I never heard a Dissenter called a " Culamite" until some time in the fifties, when I met in London two girls who came from Gosberton, and was greatly surprised to find that they used the term, which they did not seem to know was not generally current. I have never heard it since, and I do not think it is employed in Lincolnshire, excepting in a very limited area of the county.

Mr. Pishey Thompson, author of the * His- tory of Boston' (1856) referred to by THE EDITOR OF THE * ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY,' seems to have changed his mind concerning the derivation of "Cula-" or " Culimite," as in an article on the eponymous ' Mr. David Culy,' contributed to 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. x. 407 (1860), he says :

" Care must be taken not to blend the Culimites with the Kilhamites, as the Neio Connexion Metho- dists are, or were, sometimes called, from their principal head and founder, Alexander Kilham. The Culimites were well known in Lincolnshire, and must have been at one time very numerous there, since, even at the present day, the name is very frequently applied to all Dissenters."

David Culy was a Nonconformist preacher at Guyhirn, near Wisbeach, in the early part of the eighteenth century. ST. SWITHIN.

This is evidently a corruption of " Kilhamite." Alexander Kilham (born 1762) was a native of this town, in which a handsome chapel minister's house have been erected to memory. " Kilhamite " was originally a term reproach ; indeed, it is so still to some extent. A comparatively young man who is a member of the New Connexion body tells me he has frequently heard it shouted after himself, " There goes a Kilhamite." C. C. B.

Epworth.

Perhaps the following extract from Dr. John Evans's ' A Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World,' fourteenth edition, London, 1821, p. 255, may be useful to THE EDITOR OF THE 'ENGLISH DIALECT DIC- TIONARY':