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necromancers were not answered on it [t] Sabbath] ; remember that on it the incom prehensible river resteth." D. Levi, the tran lator, adds this note, " This denotes the rive frtD3DD (Sambatyon), said to rest on th Sabbath from throwing up stones, &c., whic it does all the week." See Sanhedrin, fo Ixv. 2 ; Yalkut on Isaiah, fol. Hi. 1 ; Pesikt Tanchuma, sect. HE'D p. See also Shalshelet Hakkabala and Juchsin. MARY JOHNSON.

'/ ACCON" (9 th S. xii. 29). EMERITUS has, think, misunderstood the last part of th passage he quotes, viz., "was himselfe take prisoner in the accon." For "accon" reac acc'on, i.e. action (fight). The contractio c'on for tion is common in seventeenth-cen tury manuscripts. DONALD FERGUSON.

ENGLISH GRAVE AT OSTEND (9 th S. xii. 9). The missing surname, I think, should b Neville. W. C. B.

THE ANTIQUITY OF BUSINESSES (9 th S. xi 165, 191, 410). In my reply at the last refer ence I should have said, if I did not say, tha Messrs. Hooper tk Co. claim that theirs i the oldest pharmacy in London continuously carried on under the same roof. C. C. B.

An interesting book bearing on this topic was published in 1901 by Harrison & Sons of 59, Pall Mall, S.W., entitled 'Gillow's: a Record of a Furnishing Firm during Two Cen tunes.' Robert Gillow started the business here in 1695. The brochure is well worth reading, and is excellently illustrated.

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

Lancaster.

GOAT IN FOLK-LORE (9 th S. v. 248, 359, 521, V u' 1: i 2 ' 196 )- I" connexion with this subject' the following, which appeared in the Irish 1 imes of the 6th inst., is of interest :

"All the medical papers are commenting on the remarkable survival of superstition at Cambridge where a dairyman possessed of a goat is sending the animal, by request, into and around the house's of nis neighbours in the area affected by the smallpox along the Newmarket Road. The rustic super- stition that goats bring good luck is widespread and 1 the Lancet ouotes many instances. The British Medical Journal waxes merry over many ingenious theories to explain the goat's supposed value and one of its suggestions, that the goat is antiseptic was seriously made by an amateur writer in Note* ana yuenes some years ago/'

S. A. D'ARCY, L.R.C.P. <k S., I. Rosslea, Clones, co. Fermanagh.

'PASSING BY' (9* S. xi. 489 ; xii. 12, 111). MR. Ji. u. HOPE convicts me of a piece of carelessness to which I hasten to plead guilty. In noting that two scholarly antho-

logists had curtailed this lyric, I rnyseli attributed to it one more stanza than il possesses. It has but six. My only excuse is that I was writing away from home, anc (not being able at the time to refer to Mr Bullen's collection) rashly trusted to memory A journalist as I am should, I admit, have known better. L. H.

NIGHTCAPS (9 th S. xi. 489 ; xii. 55). As an old R.M.C. cadet, 1855-8, 1 can aver that our kit list included nightcaps, and probably so continued until the College was most un- fortunately done away with for educating boys for the army ; but I never wore one or ever saw one worn there.

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

A Yorkshire jingle is quoted by W. C. B. My recollection of it is rather different (sixty years ago) from his :

Did you ever see the d-v-1,

With his wooden spade and shool (shovel),

Supping poddish through a riddle (sieve)

With his tail cocked up ?

J. L.

Lamberlmrst.

^ In that very successful novel entitled ' The Caxtons : a Family Picture,' which originally appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, and in complete form in 1849, Edward, Lord Lytton, placed before the world a picture of life in the last century which should be a companion ncture to the life depicted by Sterne in ' The ^ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent./ first published in 1759. The "nightcap" is mentioned in the following manner. When he gentle wife of Mr. Caxton presents him with a boy, the loving creature thus refers o her husband :

" ' Mr. Squills,' exclaimed my mother, and the ed curtains trembled, 'pray see that Mr. Caxton pes not set himself on fire ; and, Mr. Squills, tell im not to be vexed and miss me, I shall be down ery soon shan't I ? ' ' If you keep yourself easy on will, ma am. 3 ' Pray, say so, and, Primmins, very one, I fear, is neglecting your master. Be ure (and my mother's lips approached close to Irs. Pnmmms's ear) 'be sure that you-air his igktcap yourself.'"

" Tender creatures, those women," solilo-

?,o ec L Ml \? quills - HEN *Y GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham Park, S.W.

PEAT (4 th S. ix. 79, 225). In North-Country ore and Legend, ' Monthly Chronicle,' for un. e > J 8 87, pp. 148-51, there is an article

n A, L ? dy Peafc and the Herrington ragedy, which gives a very amusing account t this singular woman miser, cleptomaniac. nd so far well off that she died leaving ersonal property worth over 250,OOOZ. She as the wife of the Rev. Sir Robert Peat,