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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. T. MAY 28, '98.

rigours of a Northern spring outside. It was snowing and blowing hard, and the thermo- meter was about at zero. The intention of these sentimental jail-deliverers is kind and praiseworthy, but it is to be feared that it is too often a case of " out of the frying-pan into the fire," and that many a poor, shivering, draggle-tailed fugitive as he fluttered away would sadly pipe (if he knew his ' Prisoner of Chillon '),

Even I Regained my freedom with a sigh !

H. K M. St. Petersburg.

RINGERS' ARTICLES. In the church of St. Cleer, Cornwall, are some curious lines, painted upon a framed panel in the tower, which may be worth recording for their quaintness :

THE RINGERS ARTICLES.

Wee ring y e Quick to Church

the dead to grave,

Good is our use,

such usage let us have,

Who swears, or curses

in an angry mood

Quarell or strike

although he draw no blood

Who wears his hatt or

spurs ore turns A bell,

Or through unskillfull

ringing, marrs A peall,

Shall forfett six-pence

for each single crime,

Twill make him cautio u8

Against another time.

These ringers' boards occasionally occur, but I have not met with one elsewhere similar to this example. I. C. GOULD.

SIAMESE NAMES. Since the visit of the King of Siam to this country, now nearly a year ago, I have several times been asked the meaning and pronunciation of his Majesty's name. Perhaps the information might interest some of the readers of ' N. & Q.,' especially as the name has been often misprinted in the newspapers as Khula, and even in the accu- rate 'Whitaker's Almanack' as Khoulalon- korn mistakes which seem to show that the initial has-been taken for a guttural, whereas it is nothing more than the familiar ch in church. As to the accent, it should fall upon the second and fourth syllables, Chulalon- k6rn, and the signification, ridiculous as it may appear, is hairpin. The word is not Siamese, but is derived from the Sanscrit Chulalankarana. While on the subject I may draw attention to a coincidence between Siamese and English in the termination -bury in names of towns. Petchabury and Ratbury recall Canterbury, although not so forcibly

when it is known that they are stressed upon their final syllables. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

DR. THOMAS RUTHERFORTH. The subjoined extracts from the Rev. William Cole's manu- script ' Athense Cantabrigienses ' respecting Thomas Rutherforth, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, are interesting and amusing. I believe they have never before appeared in print.

" Dr. Rutherforth had been declining the begin- ning of the year 1771, yet preached the Hospital Sermon at St. Mary's in June that year, when it was visible he had been better in bed, though he was always of a very pale and sallow complexion. He declined after this much more, and in the autumn was advised to go to town for advice, and had the opinion of Dr. Thomas, whose directions he followed, and went with his lady to her brother's, Sir Anthony Abdy's, where on Friday, Oct. 4, he was observed to be more easy and better spirited, went out an airing in the afternoon, and played at cards in the evening, but was suddenly taken with a shivering, put to bed, and grew delirious, and died next morning at 5 o'clock, Oct. 5, 1771, and is to be buried at Barley. He has left his widow with one son at Eton about 16 years of age, and, like his mother, very fat : he is reckoned wild, and will now have an opportunity of more displaying his genius, if it is, as they say, rather gay : but he is very young, and may be excused. He is to inherit his uncle's estate, and to change his name. The Doctor was tall and thin, and limped a little in his gait. He was the great and unrivalled ornament of the Divinity Schools, and seemed peculiarly adapted to that j>rofession, w hich will hardly be filled by his equal, let whomsoever have the election. He was a very worthy man, though proud and stately, and rather bent on raising a family. He was buried in a private manner at Barley. Dr. Rutherforth was pitted with the small-pox, and very yellow or sallow com- plexioned."

At a later date Cole wrote this additional paragraph :

" I always supposed that, although his father was minister at one of the Papworths, he drew his origin from Scotland, especially since he called Sir Anthony Abdy his brother, which he always affectedly did, and used then the seal of the Scotch noble family of his name : yet it is more reasonable to suppose that he was extracted nearer home, as I find that name in the earliest part of Cherry Hinton register, in Queen Mary's time, and continued there many generations."

His only son, Thomas Abdy Rutherforth, the Eton boy above referred to, became rector of the parish of Theydon Garnon, Essex, and died on 14 Oct., 1798.

THOMPSON COOPER, F.S.A.

EARLY ENGLISH DOORWAY, WEST SMITH- FIELD. The street from Aldersgate Street to West Smithfield projected by the City Cor- poration would nave passed through the site of the cloisters of St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, and would have destroyed