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vicarage-house in the vain hope that the vicar would adopt it. Whilst this custom was enforced special religious services were held, during the herring season, for the spiritual welfare and earthly pro- sperity of the fishermen; and, from an old manu- script, I learn that the proper Psalms and lessons in use at such services were as follows : Psalms, the whole of the Ixvth; verses 19 to 41 of the Ixxviiith ; from verse 24 to the end of the civth ; verses 23 to 32 of the cviith. Lessons : Genesis i. 20 to 24; 2 Kings vii. 1, 2, and 20; Habakkuk iii. 17 and 18 ; Matthew viii. 23 to 27 ; Luke y, 4 to 10 ; John vi. 26 and 27. Before the Reformation it was usual for the priest ' to give a blessing to the fishing

yearly.' It may be interesting here to state that

the half dole which was claimed by the town of Great Yarmouth ceased to be collected in 1824."

Norwich.

JAMES HOOPER.

" BY JINGO " (9 th S. i. 227, 276). From pre- vious references and they are many I find the earliest date to which " Jingo " is as yet carried back to be 1679 (Oldham's 'Satyrs upon the Jesuits,' sat. iv.). Cowley, however, had used the word at least sixteen years earlier in the 'Cutter of Coleman Street,' published in 1663, but first performed in December, 1661: "Hey, Boys Gingo " (II. viii. sub fin.). Translators of Rabelais have introduced the phrase " By Jingo " into their renderings, as shown at the latter reference ; but although Rabelais overflows with fan- tasticjwrtms, he appears to use none bearing anv literal resemblance to " Jingo." I find, indeed, something like it in the earlier 'Farce de Patnelin,' scene v.

He", par sainct Gignon, tu ne mens ! where Geriin would have us understand St. Gengoulf, called in the Pays-Bas " Gigon " or "Gengon"; but the bibliophile Jacob favoured the view that this St. Gignon (which he con- nected etymologically with Latin gignere) is St. Guignolet, invoked by barren women in Brittany. Which opinion is the more likely it is not my purpose to judge. My reason for bringing under notice the 'Pathelin' juron is that whereas "Jingo" has been regarded as a modification of the Basque for " God " (see 8 th S. iii. 334), the etymology of "Jingo" from St. Gengoulf has also been ventilated in your pages, PROF. SKEAT taking a very decided position on the affirmative side (8 th S. vi. 149, 312). F. ADAMS.

" BROACHING THE ADMIRAL " (9 th S. i. 128. 271). This tale was universally believed when I was a boy. I remember asking my father about it, when he said it was quite true, and that he would let me ride with him to Spilsby Market and show me a fine paint- ing of it, over the door of a public-house called " Nelson's Butt." In a short time he

took me, and there I saw the " butt " as large as life, and Nelson standing by the side of it, also as large as life, in his uniform, with his armless sleeve pinned to his breast. This would be about 1833 or 1834, when many of Nelson's old sailors were still living. After this I had no more doubt about the tale ; for had I not seen a picture of it ? R. R.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

With regard to the questionable statement at the last reference, that when the body of Lord Nelson was brought to this country for burial, "it was preserved in a cask of rum" I request permission to quote from my copy of Southey's ' Life of Nelson,' p. 382 (Bell & Daldy, London, 1873), the following asser- tion :

" The leaden coffin, in which he ivas brought home, was cut to pieces, which were distributed as relics of St. Nelson so the gunner of the Victory called them."

The italics are mine, of course.

HENRY GERALD HOPE. Clapham, S.W.

REV. JOHN LOGAN (8 th S. x. 495 ; xi. 35 ; 9 th S. i. 237). With reference to the suggestion as to Logan's burial-place, there is no burial- ground attached to the chapel in London Street, Tottenham Court Road (now St. Saviour's, Fitzroy Square, parish church) the chapel occupies the whole of the site, ana the houses at the rear in Whitfield Street appear to be of the same date as the chapel, so that Logan cannot have been buried there. The nearest burial-ground is the ground attached to Whitefield's Tabernacle, and it is possible Logan may have been buried there or in the burial-ground belonging to the parish of St. Pancras, in Pancras Road. JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury, N.

A PSEUDO-SHAKSPEARE RELIC (9 th S. i. 226, 295). I understood that the hair was thought to be the real hair of Shakspeare. I do not see how it could be worthy of preservation if it were spurious. Hardly would it be of value because Ireland once was the owner of it.

E. YARDLEY.

" (9 th S. i. 187). Halli well, in his ' Dictionary of Provincial Words,' and Wright, in his ' Dictionary of Obsolete English,' both explain that this word is used in Norfolk, and means " to stick up."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

BICYCLES IN THUNDERSTORMS (9 th S. i. 248). To this question another may be attached. Has a railway train in quick movement ever been struck ? If the erratic path of the chwf