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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. AUG. 6, '98.

says it was regarded as " old lumber." The other was at Ran by, in Nottinghamshire ; it had been used for harrowing grass land. The teeth were set in the " bulls " in a slanting direction, and corresponded to Fitzherbevt's description of those at Ripon in that they stood up high above the frame.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

" WHOSE CURTAIN NEVER OUTWARD SWINGS " (9 th S. ii. 67). This line occurs in Whittier's poem 'Snow-bound':

O heart sore-tried ! thou hast the best That Heaven itself could give thee rest, Rest from all bitter thoughts and things ! How many a poor one's blessing went With thee beneath the low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings !

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

The Brassey Institute, Hastings.

QUOTATION IN EMERSON (9 th S. ii. 27). The Rev. James Wood, in his c Dictionary of Quotations,' attributes the following lines to Sydney Smith :

The good of other times let other people state ; I think it lucky I was born so late.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

Prisca juvent alios : ego me mine denique natum Gratulor.

From Ovid, 'Ars Am.,' iii. 121. I have obtained this reference from Smith's ' Latin Dictionary.' C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

" DRANGUT " (9 th S. i. 507). This word is not locally in use, but " drangway " is common enough all through Devonshire :

"Urn up thickee there drangway, Polly ; there's a wild buUick comin awver drii tha strayte." See Mrs. Hewett's 'Peasant Speech of Devon' (1892).

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

" Drangway " for a narrow passage is in very general use throughout Devonshire and Somerset, especially in the rural districts, although in the latter county, I believe, it i: more frequently "drang." I have never met with "drangut" before, nor does it appear in any work on Devon or Somerset provincialisms with which I am acquainted.

A. J. DAVY.

Torquay.

HAMLAKE = HELMSLEY, co. YORK (9 th S. ii 67). MR. RUTTON wishes to know a reason able explanation of the relationship between the final syllables -lake and -ley in these names. I have shown in ' Names and their Histories,' p. 374, that the A.-S. -leah(L), a "rough woodla,nd pasture," generally becomes

ley in modern names ; but names derived ! rom -ledr/e, the dative of -leak, usually become lege or -lage in Domesday, although Domes- day sometimes has -lac instead of -lage. Thus Helmsley is JSlmeslac, Pockley is Poche- 'ac, while Osmotherley is Asmundrelac, and Beverley is Beverlac. Afterwards lac was spelt lake. ISAAC TAYLOR.

CRUCIFIXION IN YORKSHIRE (9 th S. ii. 25). [ cannot say whether the depositions of this

rucifixion trial of 1649 are still in existence ; Dhey would undoubtedly be interesting both as regards folk-lore and a peculiar branch of religious fanaticism. But a much more remarkable crucifixion case occurred as recently as 1823 at Wildenspruch, in Switzer- land, and the trial and depositions are fortu- nately fully recorded in a book of 350 pages (penes me) published at Zurich in 1824. A household of seven grown-up persons was involved, and their portraits, grouped as a frontispiece, throw a little light, perhaps, on the mystery. They all aided and abetted, as did Isabella Billington's husband. I am afraid the account of the Yorkshire case is too meagre for any theory of " survival," but the date, 1649, is certainly suggestive of

Eikon Basilike ' and the royal martyr. What if the Billingtons were devoted Royalists fanatically offering another sacrifice for the sins of the nation ? NE QUID NIMIS.

East Hyde.

This case is briefly mentioned in White- locke's ' Memorials,' 1682, p. 298. W. C. B.

STONYHURST CRICKET (9 th S. i. 361, 416 ; ii. 76). The account of the Roman Catholic College of Stony hurst appears in the Pall Mall Magazine, and not in the Pall Mall Gazette, of July, 1894.

HENRY GERALD HOPE.

Clapham, S.W.

" TIT-TAT-TO " (9 th S. ii. 26). I do not know how it may be in other counties, but in Gloucestershire, where my childhood \\as passed, the more original East Friesic name of this form of amusement, disclosed by PROF. SKEAT, seems to have been closely preserved. I well remember victory in "noughts and crosses" was not deemed to be properly rounded off unless the winner tapped his completed row of marks with his pencil to the accompaniment of tic-tac-to, never tit-tat- to. CHAS. GILLMAN,

Salisbury.

SHERIDAN AND DUNDAS (9 th S. ii. 28). The words referred ' to have lived as a reply ; but were they ever uttered? They are not