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before he leaves the world ; why should we when we hear of " humble pie " ?

J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

"HUMBUG."- A writer in'N. & Q.' (1 st S. viii. 64) said, " I do not remember any earlier use of this word than in Fielding's ' Amelia,' 1751." Although earlier instances than this are now known to us, we should be glad to have the passage from ' Amelia ' for the ' Dic- tionary.' The early use of " humbug " seems to have been somewhat different from the later, and it is desirable to see how it is used by Fielding. Will any reader of ' N. & Q.' assist by sending us this passage 1 I find, by the way, that the verb used to be accented on the second syllable, as I think it still is in Northern dialects. J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

" AFTERTHINK." Trench, in 'English Past and Present' (1877), p. 76, says that "after- think," in the sense of " to repent," is still in use in Lancashire. Can any of your readers corroborate this statement ? The word is not found in 'H.E.D.' or the 'English Dialect Dictionary.' A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

' FRIAR BACON AND FRIAR BUNGAY.' Can any of your readers tell me where the 1599 quarto of Greene's 'Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay ' can be found ? It may save trouble if I say that it is not in the Bodleian Library, as Dr. Ward in his introduction to his edition of the play supposes. Is there any proof that any of Greene's editors have seen it?

J. C. C.

'THE THREE LITTLE PIGS.' Is it known when and by whom this nursery story was written? ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

'THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP.' Who was T. Wood, who set this ballad of Moore's to music ; and in what year did it appear? Any information will be most acceptable. S. J. A. F.

AN OLD CUPBOARD. I have in my posses- sion a very old corner cupboard, which I bought from a man named Cotterill some forty years ago, who brought it from America with a number of old relics. At the time I was told it came from a member of the Washing- ton family. In the centre of the panel of the door is a shield, and upon the shield an eagle with outstretched wings, and underneath the stars and stripes. It seems to me to be about the date 1770. I should like to knew if any

furniture of the Washington family with similar shields is in existence.

CHARLES GREEN. 18, Shrewsbury Road, Sheffield.

SIR THOMAS HERBERT'S 'MEMOIRS OF THE LAST Two YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.' In this memoir of Sir William Dugdale, dated in 1678 (what is the exact date ?), he says in paragraph 2 : -

" Some short Notes of Occurrences I then (1646- 1648) took, which, in this long Interval of time, and several Removes with my Family, are either lost or mislaid, so as at present I cannot find them ; which renders this Narrative not so methodical, nor so large, as otherwise I should, and probably by you may be expected."

Have these original ' Notes of Occurrences ' been found since 1678 ; and, if so, where can they now be seen and consulted ; or is there a copy of them, and, if so, where ?

C. MA.SON. 29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

ARMS OF GRIGSON OF NORFOLK. The Grigson family were separated by their arms differentially, one branch bearing Gu., two bars ar., on a chief of the last three mullets of the first, whilst the other bore Gu., two bars ar., in chief three annulets of the last. Can any reader inform me which of the two was the bearing of the Grigsons of Hingham, Norfolk, in the seventeenth century, or give any particulars of that family, their ancestors and descendants ?

COL. MOORE, C.B., F.S.A.

Frampton Hall, near Boston.

WALPOLIANA. In the course of the sixties an interesting series of little booklets, under the general title of "Odds and Ends," was published by Edmonstone <fe Douglas, of Edin- burgh. To this series Dr. John Brown, the author of ' Horae Subsecivee,' and other well- known writers were contributors. One of the most interesting numbers of the series was an anonymous brochure entitled ' Biblio- mania.' The writer, amongst other things, describes some interesting books which were apparently in his own possession. From a purely literary point of view, perhaps the most valuable of these was a copy of the first edition of Southey's ' Joan of Arc,' which was the identical copy mentioned in a note to the last edition of the ' Biographia Literaria,' ii. 31, and was covered with Coleridge's marginal notes. The book, however, which I venture to inquire about is Horace Walpole's copy of " Letters written by the late Right Honour- able Lady Luxborough to William Shenstone, Esq. London, 1775." This volume is full of notes in Walpole's handwriting, u indicating