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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XIL DEC. 5, 1903.

meaning attached to the word is obvious, but when did it begin to be employed in this country ? POLITICIAN.

[For qiiestionary in this sense see *N.E.D.']

'MY OLD OAK TABLE.' Can any reader give me the words of a song so entitled 1 I heard it sung in the seventies to the well- known tune 'My Lodging is on the Cold Ground.' W. B. H.

VILLAGE FEASTS. I cannot understand the method adopted hereabouts for keeping village feasts, and shall be glad if some kind reader will explain. For instance, our church being dedicated to All Saints, the feast week follows the Sunday after All Saints' Day (1 November). This year the festival fell on a Sunday, and I supposed the feast would be kept in the weekdays which immediately followed. I found, however, that instead of this being so, the next Sunday was called Feast Sunday, and the feast was kept from 8 to 14 November. Thus there have been two Feast Sundays, one kept by the Church on 1 November, and the other kept by the villagers on 8 November. The oldest in- habitant assures me it has ever been so under these circumstances, and i also find the con- tiguous villages follow the same rule. There must be some reason for such an ancient and common custom, but I am at present quite at a loss to account for the two Feast Sundays. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

PINDAR FAMILY. Would any of your readers be kind enough to give me informa- tion respecting the Pindar family ? I wish to ascertain whether the Lincolnshire Pindars, who, according to a topographical book I have seen, lived at Owston, Lincolnshire, for centuries, were related to Sir Paul Pindar, the London merchant, born 1565, died 1650. Any information respecting the two families and their descendants would be much appreciated. Do any members of the family still sur- vive ? The names of any books of reference relating to the Lincolnshire Pindars other than Storehouse's 'History of the Isle of Axholme : would be valued ; and lastly I should like to know why the crest was dis- allowed after a certain date (I think 1655). LEWIS LAMBERT.

"INGLAXD": " INGLISH." In the "Royal Kalendar : or, complete and correct Annual Register, for Ingland, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1810," printed for J. Stockdale, Piccadilly, the words "Ingland" and " Inglish " are frequently substituted for "England" and "English," perhaps in the

majority of cases. Was it desired to intro- duce a new fashion of spelling 1 The same

notice.

U. V. W.

REV. T. WILSON. In 1783 Mr. Cadell, Strand, published an octavo volume entitled 'An Archaeological Dictionary ; or, Classical Antiquities of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, Alphabetically Arranged,' by the Rev. T. Wilson. The dedication, addressed to Samuel Johnson, LL D., is dated " Clitheroe, 30 September, 1782." I should be glad if any of your correspondents could give me some information about the author. What con- nexion, if any, had he with Leeds 1

CHARLES A. FEDERER.

[See 'D.N.B.,' vol. Ixii. p. 142, where a life is- given.]

" POPES." What is this word, which is used in hosiery catalogues to indicate a certain size of garments ? C. S. WARD.

[See 7 th S. vii. 225, 351.]

SIR GEORGE CAREY, KNIGHT MARSHAL OF THE HOUSEHOLD. He was M.P. for Herts in 1571, and for Hants from 1584 to 1593. But he was also a member of the Parliament of 1572-83, probably returned at a by-election about 1580. I shall be glad to learn by what constituency he was then elected. He suc- ceeded as second Lord Hunsdon in 1596.

W. D. PINK.

SALEP OR SALOP. Information, not en- cyclopaedic, wanted about the mucilaginous drink made from powdered orchid tubercles, and about the early morning salep-stall, long replaced by the coffee-stall. Is this drink still served from a street stall or at any place- of refreshment either here or on the Con- tinent? C. E. CLARK.

[We presume that our correspondent knows the reference in Lamb's essay concerning ' The Praise of Chimney-sweepers.']

CAPT. PEPPER. Who was Capt. Pepper, author of ' France Daguerreotyped,' 1842, and, according to the title-page of that work,

of ' Written Caricatures,' &c.

W. ROBERTS.

AYLMER ARMS. Some time ago (8 th _S. x. 279) I attempted to obtain decisive in- formation as to the exact birthplace of John Aylmer, Bishop of London, but it has not been forthcoming. A family of Aylmers has long been settled at Fincham, in Norfolk, and their arms, as given in the Rev. E. Furer's ' Church Heraldry of Norfolk ' (vol. ii. p. 177),