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was SUCK before the sermon to the tune of ' God gave the King.' The second, commencing,

When Jesus first at Heaven's command, was sung at the close of the service to the tune of 'Rule Britannia.'" - Sherman, 'Memorial of the Rev. Rowland Hill, 5 1851, p. 32. Mr. J. Spencer Curwen writes i " Rowland Hill, whether he called himself musical or not, had a strong belief that ' the devil should not have all the best tunes,' and in the music of Surrey Chapel the influence of this opinion can still be traced." Quoted in Charlesworth's ' Rowland Hill- his Life, Anecdotes, and Pulpit Sayings, 1876,

p. 156.

ADRIAN WHEELER.

"CRYING DOWN CREDIT" (9 th S. xii. 29). I have only a * Queen's Regulations ' (army) to refer to of 1893. In that par. 333, sec. vii. p. 221 mentions it. The object seems to be to warn people in a town that they give the men credit at their own risk. I do not know when the practice began whether it is under some old Act of Parliament. It may be borrowed from some foreign country like Holland, or from the civil wars of Cromwell's time. There may be a similar practice in foreign armies. R. B. B.

This is but a variant of the phrase " crying nqtchil," that is, advertising as if by the crier that a man will not be responsible for his wife's debts. But in connexion with a regiment which is temporarily quartered in any town, it is to warn the townsfolk against contracting debts with private soldiers, a custom said to date though I do not know on what authority from the time of the Commonwealth. See 8 th S. vii. 331, where it is pointed out by MR. PAUL BIERLEY that it was not always the custom to proclaim to shopkeepers that no credit was to be given. .Sometimes, on the contrary, it was the custom to cry up the credit of a regiment.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

"FOLKS" (9 th S. xi. 369, 438, 470; xii. 50). "It seems a pity " to quote from the last reference that a contributor of considerable standing should in such a petulant mood receive a reply from PROF. SKEAT, with irre- levant references to his book-dealing trans- actions. In common with most students of English philology, I esteem as one of my favourite books on my shelves PROF. SKEAT'S the pages of * N. & Q.' H. P. L.
 * A Student's Pastime,' drawn entirely from

44 A FLEA IN THE EAR" (9 th S. xii. 67). Part of the heading of chap. vii. book iii. of 'Pantagruel' reads: ''Comment Panurge auoy t la pulce en 1'oreille "; and in chap. xxxi. of the same book Panurge says to Dr. Rondi-

bilis, "Durant vostre docte discours, ceste pulce que i'ay en 1'aureille m'ha plus chatouille que ne feist oncques." The spellings mettle and aureille are so given in my Rabelais, edited by L. Jacob, Bibliophile, i.e., Paul Lacroix. JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

See Moschus, Idyll ix., 'Eunica; or, the Herdsman,' translated by Francis Fawkes, M. A., published 1760: Then mimick'd my Voice with satyrical Sneer, And sent me away with a Flea in my Ear.

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

FRENCH QUOTATION (9 th S. x. 127). I have not been able, so far, to trace the source of the dictum concerning knowledge and learn- ing ; but apparently, whoever the author may be, it is a translation or adaptation of Juvenal's words (Satire vii. 1. 157) :

Nosse volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo. EDWARD LATHAM. 61, Friends' Road, E. Croydon.

ADVENT OF THE TYPEWRITER (9 th S. xii. 69). Typewriting for legal documents was in use in the Town Clerk's office, Manchester, at least fourteen years ago. It commenced with a single operator, but has now grown to a large department. I was the first to use it for my deeds.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

"CARDS AND SPADES" (9 th S. xi. 508). The meaning of this, according to Farmer and Henley's 'Slang and its Analogues,' s.v. 'Cards,' is to give one an advantage, to give points. The expression is not un- common in modern American books. Thus, in Col. Savage's new novel, 'The Golden Rapids of High Life,' p. 44, I find the follow- ing : " Who wants a poor woman nowadays ? and yet she could give cards and spades to the whole flock." J. PLATT, Jun.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Slang and its Analogues, Pat and Present. By

John S. Farmer and W. E. Henley. Vol. VII.

Part I. (Printed for Subscribers.) WITH the present part begins the last volume of this useful and laborious compilation. It covers the alphabet between Strada and Time. It is satis- factory to find that the lamented death of Mr. Henley will in no respect interfere with or interrupt the completion of the work. As the two remaining parts are in progress, it is fair as well as consoling to think that all the illustrative extracts from early writers, and especially from those of Tudor times, have been delivered, and that this most