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is probable that his death took place on the 20th of the month, and not as above stated.

The gravestone of Dr. Charles Lucas lies in St. Michan's Churchyard. Brooke wrote some lines in admiration of his character, wherein he apostrophized him as " Great Leach, both of our persons and our state ! "

Both men in their day were conspicuous for talent and patriotism, while a mutual sympathy made it fitting that their final resting-place should be within the same precincts. J. N. DOWLING.

67, Douglas Road, Handsworth, Birmingham.

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.

HALLIWELL MS. WANTED. In vol. i. of the ' Reliquiae Antiquse,' edited by T. Wright and J. O. Halliweli in 1841, pp. 38-44, there is an article ' Old English Prayers, &c.,' printed " from a small MS. on vellum, of the fourteenth century, in the possession of J. O. Halliweli (No. 219), consisting chiefly of a religious exhortatory treatise." One of the extracts from this MS., fol. 48, verso (printed on p. 41 of 'Rel. Ant,'), runs : " Thus the devil farith with men and women : first he stirith him to pappe and pampe her fleisch, desyrynge delicous metis and drynkis," &c. This passage is important, as containing what may be the first trace of our verb pamper. But it is important to have the MS. re-examined to know whether the actual reading is pa/mpe^ or is a contraction for pampre or pamper, which the transcriber may have overlooked. I have failed to discover what has become of the MS. : it is not among the Halliweli MSS., now in the Edinburgh University Library, and it has not found its way to the British Museum, nor has any scholar whom I have consulted been able to tell me anything as to what has become of it. If any librarian or other reader of * N. & Q.' knows anything as to its present place of rest, or can make any useful suggestion to me privately, I shall be very grateful. (Address, Dr. Murray, Oxford.)

J. A. H. MURRAY.

HIDDEN TREASURE. Has the following cache, recorded in ' Ephemeris Vita? Abrahami Pry me ' (Surtees Society), ever been brought

to light 1

" Upon several reparations makeing in our church of the Holy Trinity of Kingston-upon-Hull, con-

sidering that no way is better to preserve anything to posterity than to hide the same, it came sud- dainly into my head, seeing a convenient place, to lay some books up there to future ages. Upon which, haveing a great veneration for that most excellent of kings k[ing] C[harles] the 1st, who is so much reviled and despised nowadays, I wrapped carefully up his Et'/cwi/ BacriAi/o) of the first edit[ion] in '48, doctfor] WagstafF s Vindication of the same against Toland ; Gilbert and Young's Defence of him; and Boscobel, or the wonderfull account of k[ing] Ch[arles] the 2nd's preservation after Worster fight ; and takeing a piece of parch- ment, I writt the following verses thereon : In perpetuam rei memoriam, in

Perpetuam optimi Principis Caroli Primi Martyris Piissimi, Doctissimi, Mitissimi, Patris Patrise Regisq. Regum, memoriam,

Posuit

In hoc loco hos tres libros,

Servus Christi indignissimus

Abr. de la Pryme de Hatfield

Juxta Danum hujus S. S. Eccl.,

Lector quptidianus Qui hujus Bibliothecse catal.

Primo fecit.

Hujus ecclesise, oppidi et Comitatus, historian! primo

Composuit, etc. Anno ab Incarnatione

Filii Dei 1699.

Then having roll'd it up and wrapped them together, I committed them to fate." Pp. 217, 218.

ST. SWITHIN.

" NITCHIES." What is the exact meaning of this word in the following passage from ' The Frontiersman,' by Roger Pocock, p. 31 (the reference is to Canada in the year 1885) ? ''The nitchies can't fight us before June.' ' Ah 'm thinking,' purred a Scotch voice. ' that ye 're no calculating on this Louis Kiel forbye his veesions.' "

WM. C. RICHARDSON.

"CAVATINA." The origin of this word seems to be unknown to the dictionaries Murray, Skeat, * Stanford,' Diez, Scheler, and Grove's * Dictionary of Music.' Can any one throw light on it ? A. SMYTHE PALMER.

S. Woodford.

COUNT SZAPARY. Who was he 1 He is mentioned in the following passage written by the author :

"The winter of 1853-54 was spent by Emilia Bunsen at Paris with her fellow-sufferer and ever- kind friend, the Princess of Wied. Here both wonderfully recovered their health through the marvellously successfultreatmentof Count Szapary." 'The Life and Letters of Frances, Baroness Bunsen,' by Aug. J. C. Hare (London, 1879), ii. 157.

What was the treatment that produced the wonderful cure? The author does not supply any information as to either query, evidently forgetting that his readers had no