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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. i. APRIL 23, '98.

If " Hemp " does not mean something quite different it may mean simply hemp. The word "shereinan," meaning cloth worker, suggests a hemp cloth, which I suppose might be an equivalent for sail-cloth, and " The Hempsheres " a place where canvas for boat sails was made. I never heard that any such article was made there, and do not know anything as to where, at that date, sail-cloth was manufactured. In this con- nexion one may perhaps notice the local surname of Hamsher. This was then the usual spelling, though it is now more fre- quently seen as Hampshire or Hamshire. If tnis name had, in fact, no derivation from the county of Southampton, it may possibly have some association with the subject of this inquiry. HAMILTON HALL.

MOON THROUGH COLOURED GLASS. Gail

your readers inform me if the moon shining through coloured glass throws a coloured or white light 1 Keats says, in ' The Eve of St. Agnes ' (xxv.) :

Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,

And threw warm gules, &c.

G. CURTIS PRICE.

GOETHE. Can you or your readers tell me in what edition or Goethe's poems I can find the original of which the following is a translation ?

Come with me, pretty one, come to the dance, dear ! Dance appertains to the festival day. Art thou my sweetheart not? Now is a chance,

dear ! Wilt thou be never ? Yet dance, dance away.

E. F. B.

THE WENHASTON DOOM. Has any detailed pamphlet upon or accurate illustration of this ancient example of mediaeval art ever been issued 1 It was described in the Times of 28 Dec., 1892. W. B. GERISH.

Hoddesdon, Herts.

BRANDING PRISONERS. Can any one tell me when the practice of branding prisoners on the back of the hand with a broad arrow was discontinued 1 W. S.

PORTRAIT OP HENRIETTA, COUNTESS OF vSuFFOLK. At Blickling Hall, near Aylsham, is a fine full-length portrait of this lady, a tall, slim figure, habited in a fancy dress, and holding in her hand a mask. She was the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Hobart (to whom Blickling belonged), who was killed in a duel with Oliver Le Neve in 1709. She married first Charles Howard, Earl of Suffolk, and secondly the Hon. George Berkeley. Is it known by whom the picture was painted ? There are many examples of

Jervas, the friend of Pope, in Norfolk man- sions and some at Blickling, and perhaps this may be one of them.

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

MALCOLM HAMILTON. As a descendant, I request information respecting the ancestry and career of Malcolm Hamilton, who was consecrated Archbishop of Cashel in 1623, and died in 1629. FRANCES TOLER HOPE.

19, Narbonne Avenue, S.W.

FLORIO AND BACON. Where does the state- ment occur that Florio was paid to make known (translate ?) the works of Lord Bacon abroad? F. J. BURGOYNE.

Brixton Oval, S.W.

"TWOPENCE MORE AND UP GOES THE DONKEY." This was a common saying in Gloucestershire sixty years ago. Perhaps it is so yet. Perhaps also it was common all over the country. What does it mean?

W. E. ADAMS.

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

[A full account of this will be found under ' Donkey ' in Mr. Farmer's ' Slang and its Ana- logues.']

HANDS WITHOUT HAIR. On p. 347 of 'Rhys Lewis, Minister of Bethel, an Auto- biography,' by Daniel Owen, translated from the Welsh by James Harris, will be found the sentence :

"After completing my self-imposed task, I went to talk to Miss Hughes with an easy conscience, and with hands on which there was no hair considera- tions of greater value than millions of money." It appears from the context that the words introduced by and are meant to be synony- mous of an easy conscience. Is this a common Welsh idiom? In the same interesting book, marred by some misprints, one notes, p. 182, perhaps a new word ; p. 341, their hearts, say I." What does ooft mean? PALAMEDES.

JOHN LOUDOUN, OF GLASGOW COLLEGE. What is known of this famous teacher, who nourished at the end of the seventeenth century and beginning of the next?

MIDDLESEX M.P.S. William Mainwaring was M.P. for Middlesex from 1780 to 1802, and his son George Boulton Mainwaring in 1804-6. Some particulars of these two M.P.> would be acceptable. A contemporary list of the Parliament of 1790 describes the former as "First Prothonotary of the Court ot Common Pleas, and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, Vice-President of the London Hos- pital and of the Medical Institution, I

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