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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. xn. OCT. 10, 1903.

poem from which it is taken was published m 1812 (this I have verified) :

Le mouvement, sans doute, a des appas ;

Sur le duvet oil je sommeille, Aux doux rayons de Paurore vermeille, J'aime a rever ; mais ne veux pas Qu'a coups d'^pingle on me reveille. The above are in chant ii. of J. de Lille's poem ' La Conversation ' (p. 104 of the 1812 edition, 4to). Littre ('Epingle') quotes the last two lines. E. LATHAM.

"ACCORDER" (9 th S. xii. 89, 137, 196). This word is likely enough to be an illiterate sea- man's corruption of ndkhudd, a shipmaster, but I think it unlikely that the Hindi arkati, a pilot, has any connexion with that word. That the Persian d should be converted into the cerebral of Hindi seems very improbable. At the same time, the derivation of arkati is undoubtedly obscure. Etymologically it would seem to be derived from Arkdb, Arcot, but this, as MR. NICHOLSON points out, presents a serious difficulty. Some colour is, of course, given to MR. NICHOLSON'S con- jecture by the curious form Knockaty which occurs in Ives ; but Col. Yule thought that this word looked like a confusion, "in the manner of the Poet of the Snark," between ndkhudd and arkdtl. It is a pity that the common corruption arcolty has not found a place in the 'Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases.' W. F. PRIDEAUX.

PEWS ANNEXED TO HOUSES (9 th S. vii. 388 517; viii. 89, 191, 288, 428 ; ix. 31). A demise in 1700 by Will. Helier, of East Coker, Somerset, Esq., to Will. Stier, of South Tawton, yeoman, of the messuage "known as Collabeir" (or Colibeare), reserves to the former "the seats in the parish church of S. Tawton be- longing to the said premises [Colibeare] for the use and sitting in them when and as often as the s'd

Will. Helyar shall be in this country At such

times the s'd W. Steer to have liberty to sit in the

seats belonging to Blackball or Dibbe House "

Dev. Awtoc. Trans., xxxiv. 627.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES. BIRCH-SAP WINE (9 th S. xi. 467 ; xii. 50). Perhaps the names of other old - fashioned home-made wines will be acceptable, by way of tabulating a complete list. Vine-leaf wine was made from the leaves, tendrils, and young shoots of the vine. Clary wine was made from fresh clary flowers (' Home-Made Wines,' by G. Vine, 1870). Saragossa wine, or " Eng- lish sack," was made from fennel roots. Sage wine. Elder-flower wine was also known as Frontignac('Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine,' by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1886). Balm wine is made thus: boil three pounds of

sugar in a gallon of water, skim it clean, put in a handful of balm, and let it boil ten minutes; strain it off, cool it, put in some yeast, and let it stand two days ; put in the rind and juice of a lemon, and let it stand in the barrel six months. Coltsfoot wine was made by pouring seven gallons of boiling water upon ten quarts of coltsfoot flowers, &c. (Mrs. Dunn). For the making of capil- laire, marigold, and other "home -made" wines, see ' The New Female Instructor ; or, Young Woman's Guide to Domestic Happi- ness,' 1834. There is a recipe for making rhubarb champagne in Timbs's 'Something for Everybody,' p. 196.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

Other home-made wines worthy of mention are ginger wine, green ginger wine, goose- berry, cowslip, blackberry, damson, and malt. Less well known, but once in considerable favour, is clover wine. I have helped to make this. Cop-rose or red -poppy wine was largely made in this neighbourhood at one time, but is not often met with now.

C. C. B.

Epworth.

GENERAL FRANCIS NICHOLSON, GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1719-28 (9 th S. xii. 201). It is only a small matter, lout in the interests of strict accuracy it may be mentioned that the letter of 5 May, 1683, which is quoted by MR. DALTON, was not written by Lady Fauconberg, but by her husband, Viscount, afterwards Earl Faucon- berg (' Chequers Court MSS.,' Historical MSS. Commission, 1900, pp. 53, 54). It appears from MR. DALTON'S paper that Fras. Nichol- son was born on 12 November, 1655, while his supposed father, Lord St. John, was married to Mary Scrope on 12 February, 1655, exactly nine months previously. Should not the date of this marriage be 12 February, 1656, N.S. ? A man, even in those days, would scarcely have an illegiti- mate son exactly nine months after he nad been legally married. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

The title of the eldest son of the Marquess of Winchester, afterwards created Duke of Bolton in 1689 by William III., was Earl of Wiltshire. He is twice mentioned by Macaulay in his ' History of England,' vol. ii. chaps, ix. and x., first as having gone to the Hague, probably in order to aid in concerting measures for the Revolution in 1688, and again in the Interregnum as representing Hampshire, and as proposing Henry Powle as Speaker. His father seems always at heart to have been friendly to the Prince of Orange, and when he succeeded as Wil-