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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. X. Nov. 15, 1902.

Braddon's 'Golden Calf,' chap, xiv., "He 's not half a bad fellow," as well as in the still more vulgar "I don't half like it." In the other slang use the phrase signifies a great deal more than half in fact,' " wholly " or " com- pletely." A few evenings ago I was in a tram- car when one fellow-passenger asked another if he knew a certain locality, and received the laconic answer, " Not "arf." The phrase was not new to me, for I had repeatedly heard it before, even among persons from whom more refined speech is expected, and had also met with it in one of the comic weeklies in the following form : " He has taken to gin, and he didn't get half mopsed on it last night either." The meaning of " not half mopsed " is, of course, " dead drunk." Possibly this vile locution is derived from the music-halls or from America.

F. ADAMS.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" G. E.," PORTRAIT PAINTER. I have three portraits (pastels) of the same style and date. On one is written " G. E. pinxit, 1776." At the back, amongst some old pieces of news paper of the date 1828, is a slip of paper, "Mr. George Eadon, 2, George Street, Sheffield." I thought at first that this might be the painter's name, but it seems that this G. Eadon (a carver and gilder) was not born till 1796, and that his uncle, of the same name, was only fifteen in 1776 (information from Mr. R. Eadon Leader). Can any reader help me with a suggestion ? The people repre- sented presumably in the portraits resided in Hull hvl776. J. VENN.

Cams College, Cambridge.

NELL GWYN. In what year did Nell Gwyn go to 79, Pall Mall, and in what year did she leave that place ? [ believe in former years you have had a good deal of corre- spondence about this lady, but not having your indexes I cannot refer. G. C. W.

[Gwyn references are specially abundant in the General Indexes to the 2 nd, 3 Bl , and 4 th Series.]

Buss QUERIES. The late Robert William Buss (died 1875) drew and etched illustrations to W. H. Ainsworth's 'Court of James the Second.' In the edition of 1849, published by Colburn, three volumes, there are three illus- trations only. I have, however, impressions

of several more, and do not find the edition in the British Museum. Can any of your readers inform me when the book was pub- lished with all the illustrations 1

R. W. Buss also drew and etched illustra- tions for Capt. Marryat's 'Jacob Faithful' and ' Peter Simple.' I cannot find the editions in which they were used in the Museum. I shall be glad to learn when they were used.

OCTAVIUS Buss.

3, Canonbury Square, N.

[For Buss designs see 6 th S. vi. 488; vii. 216; 7 th S. iii. 514 ; v. 141, 249, 352.]

LEGEND ON CHURCH PLATE. What is the interpretation of the following legend on a piece of church plate : " Dominium Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus + Anno 1569+"? There seems to be a verb assumed.

YGREC.

" THETTERIN." I wish to ascertain what this is. The word is used in a letter from Jamaica in 1769, and appears from the con- text to be probably some kind of vehicle. A person is spoken of as "jumping hastily from a thetterin wherein he was in danger of being overset." W. M. H.

PAUSANIAS. What was the outrage in- flicted on Pausanias by Attalus, the uncle of Kleopatra, the wife of Philip of Macedon, which led to Philip's assassination by Pau sanias ? Grote says : " The provocation which he [Pausanias] had received is one which we can neither conveniently describe, nor, indeed, accurately make out, amidst discrepancies of statement " (Grote's ' History of Greece,' vol. ix. p. 298). JOHN HEBB.

'A WOMAN'S LOVE DREAM.'! wish to know the name of the author of the follow- ing lines and where they are to be found :

We all have waking visions : I have mine ;

And being young and fanciful and counted fair,

I sometimes dream of love.

CHARLES HIATT.

' PUNCH ' : A REFERENCE. I should be grate- ful for the exact words of (or reference to) the famous joke in Punch in which a sport- ing " chappie " announces that he has made a splendid "book": he must lose a little, and he may lose much. W. F. C.

PURCELL FAMILY. Can any reader tell me exactly what are the arms of Henry Purcell as shown on his tomb in Westminster Abbey? The 'D.N.B.' says: "Arms on monumental portrait : Barry wavy of six argent and gules, on a bend sable three boars' heads couped of the first." These are the arms of the Shropshire Purcells. But Burke says ;