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showed that his father's name was Thomas Blackall. The parish registers printed by the Harleian Society give us most of the facts. Charles Ofspring was rector of St. Antho- lin's, London, and was buried 13 March, 1659/60. His wife, Martha, was buried 22 August, 1649. These two had a daughter, Martha, who was baptized 1 October, 1625. This Martha Ofspring was married, 6 Sep- tember, 1648, to Thomas Blackall, and they were the parents of Ofspring Blackall (viii. 60, 79, 87, ifcc.). On 6 March, 1706/7, Dr. Ofspring Blackall, rector of St. Mary Alder- mary, baptized one of the many children of John Blackall, woollen-draper, and Elizabeth his wife, at St. Dionis Backchurch (iii. 146).

W. C. B.

HOT WATERS=SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. An earlier illustrative quotation for meaning of <k hot waters " as spirituous liquors than that given in * H.E.D.' a letter of October, 1643 is to be found in 'A Proclamation for pre- venting of the Abuses growing by the unordered retailing of Tobacco,' issued by Charles I. at Whitehall, 13 October, 1633, this referring to those who " sell any distilled or hot Waters, Wine, Ale, Beer, or Cider in their Houses" (liymer's 'Fcedera,' vol. xix. p. 475). ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

UPRIGHT BURIAL. In the Undertakers' Journal for March occurs the following :

"There are two well-known cases of upright burial in England. The first is of Ben Jonson, who was interred in Westminster Abbey. The other case has been immortalized by Wordsworth in ' The White Doe of Rylstone.' Under a chantry in the church of Bolton Abbey lie in an upright position the Claphams of Bearnsley, and the Mauleverers. Referring to the story, Wordsworth wrote the following lines:

Pass, pass who will yon chantry door, And look through the chink of the fractured floor, Look down, and see a grisly sight : A vault where the bodies are buried upright. There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand, And in his place among son and sire Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire, A valiant man and a name of dread In the ruthless wars of White and Red, Whodragg'd Earl Pembroke from Banbury Church, And smote off his head on the stones of the porch." Under 'Burial of a Suicide' (9 th S. viii. 502 ; ix. 96, 158, 238) instances were given of a fanner buried on horseback and of a Major Labelliere, of Dorking, both in an upright position, but head downwards.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

"TANNIER," BOTANICAL TERM. This is a popular American name for the eddoes or

taro, a farinaceous tuber. The * Century ' says "origin obscure"; the ' Encyclopaedic ' says "etymology doubtful." I once thought it African, as it is often employed by travellers in the Dark Continent ; but investigation shows it to be Brazilian. In various spellings it has been in European use for centuries. Marcgrave and Piso have the compound taia-oba, so has De Laet (' Nouveau Monde,' 1640, lib. xv. cap. x. 501). Purchas calls it tqjas, and this plural form occurs also in Stedraan's 'Surinam,' 1806, vol. ii. cap. xxv. 232 :

" The layers, which are the hearts of a farinaceous green shrub, not above two or three feet high, with remarkable large leaves in the form of a heart ; the trunk something resembles that of a banana-tree."

The explanation of the modern tannia, tannier, instead of taya, tayzr, is that in the Tupi language of Brazil y regularly inter- changes with fi. Thus a much-advertised hair tonic, yaborandi, appears also as naborandi. Yandu, an ostrich, is now called nandu; contrariwise, naquunda, a fish, is now called yacunda. Hence the synonymous taya, tana, from which in turn is derived tayasu, taiiasu, the name of a \vell-known Brazilian peccary, meaning "tannia eater," from ruu, to eat. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

LEGEND OF ST. LUKE. In Amari's trans- lation of the 'Solwan' of Mohammed ibn Zeffer there is a passage of gnomic wisdom which reads:

"It is said that Father Luke wrote this sentence above the door of his cell : ' He only may profit by our wisdom who knows himself, and is able to confine his desires within the limits of his ability. If thou be such a one, enter; but if not, return when thou art become such.' "Chap. ii. 6. In the introduction Amari mentions this reference to St. Luke, which apparently alludes to some legend about the Evangelist. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

WYKES PEDIGREE IN COLBY'S ' VISITATIONS.' Colby's 'Visitations of Co. Devon' is, so far as I can ascertain, the primary printed authority for the alleged alias of "Moreton Wyke" for North Wyke in South Tawton, Devon. In his work we find :

" William Wikes of Moreton Wikes in Devon m. Katharen, d. and coh. of John Burnellof Cokenays, [and had] Richard Wikes, [who m.] Eliz. d. and heir of John Avenells of Blackpool?, [and had] W illiam Wikes, [who had] William Wikes of North Wikes, [who ml] Jane, d of Pridieulx of Rowborough, [and had] John Wikes," &c. Now in his preface Colby tells us that for the Visitation of 1564 he followed Harl. 5185, and when that failed him went on with