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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. JULY 9, '98.

thought that, when he wrote that the adjec- tive ought " in strictness " to be dvra^ia, he quarrelled with the termination of ai/ra^tos. I ventured to think that Liddell and Scott are wrong, and that avragia (not, as GENERAL MAXWELL gives it, dvrdgia) is a vox nihili.

J. S. Westminster.

In what editions besides Mr. Birrell's does the misprint of the inscription given in Malone's note occur? Before reading GENERAL MAXWELL'S note I had no opportunity of calmly swallowing the lurid example, as I was not aware of its existence. And now, after reference to many later editions than my own of 1823, I am unable to trace it beyond Mr. Birrell's printer. If he is not to blame, I can only say, with Dr. Johnson, "Mr. Compositor, I ask your pardon again and again. KILLIGREW.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EYE HOUSE PLOT (9 th S. i. 68, 212, 372). 'The Eye House Plot,' which appeared in Reynolds^ Miscellany, was by G. W. M. Reynolds. I had it at the time it was running. Afterwards it came out in penny weekly numbers, and I think in three-volume form, and some years ago in Dicks's cheap series at sixpence per volume. I believe the work is still issued from the office of Reynolds's Newspaper.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

'Russell; or, the Rye-House Plot,' other- wise ' Russell : a Tale of the Reign of Charles II.,' by G. P. R. James.

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

" FOND " (9 th S. i. 365). MR. TATE'S interest- ing note on this word with its two meanings has sent me to my copy of Nathaniel Bailey's 'English Dictionary^ (1733, sixth edition), where I find the old lexicographer has duly noted the second and now common mean- ing of the word affectionate. Bailey has it " Fond=pa,$siona,tely desirous of and devoted to, vainly affecting." He has also " Fon=& fool," on the authority of Spenser (cf. ' Shep- heard's Calend.: April'). It will be noted that he does not give both meanings of the word, like Coles, from whom MR. TATE quotes. ^OTid^affectionate can, I find, be traced further back than the dates quoted by MR. TATE. Shakespeare in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream,' II. i., uses the term with this meaning,

More fond on her than she upon her love. Cf. ' Encyclopaedic Dictionary.'

The older signification does not now obtain to any great extent, I believe, although il has probably some vogue provincially. In

Yorkshire it would appear to have been in common use at a comparatively recent period. In a ' Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases' (1855), which I have before me as I write, there are seven separate references to the meaning. Noticeable among these is " Fond=foolisn, weak-minded," and hence the saying " As fond as a horn, the horn answer- ing to every one's tuning, reasonless." Fond- cruke= foolish whim, and Fond tal/c=non- nse. C. P. HALE.

The original meaning "foolish "still attaches to this word in the north of England, at least in certain localities. I well remember when at school in Yorkshire one of the favourite terms of abuse amongst the boys was " fondy "; they used the noun as well as the adjective. A remarkable use of " fond " appears in No. 22 of the Articles of the English Church. R. DENNY URLIN.

Grosvenor Club.

This word is still commonly used in the old sense in the Isle of Axholme. Does not Shelley so use it in ' Hellas ' ?

Swift as the radiant shapes of sleep, From one whose dreams are Paradise,

Fly, when the fond wretch wakes to weep, And Day peers forth with her blank eyes.

C. C. B.

On Tyneside this word has the meaning of foolish. " He 's a fond fellow " is an expres- sion one often and everywhere hears.

R T B.

COPE AND MITRE (8 th S. xii. 106, 175, 350, 493 ; 9 th S. i. 14, 212, 351). Amongst the charges brought by the Puritans against Dr. Hey wood, rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, in 1641, is his manner of celebrating the Holy Communion in his church. After speaking of the crucifixes, images, &c., and of the altar lately erected there, the indictment charges the rector with repeated bowings and pros- trations at the time of Communion, also "that the said doctor and three sub-deacons doe all goe from the body of the church unto the west end, being there cloathed according to their order, some in scarlet, silk, and fine linen." The service described is evidently what Anglicans would now call a high cele- bration, and vestments certainly would seem to have been used, though the church inven- tory makes no mention of either copes or chasubles. The whole of the charges brought against Dr. Heywood may be seen in a very scarce tract printed in 1641 and largely quoted from by Parton in his ' Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields,' published in 1822. Like MR. ANGUS, I have never been