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NOTES AND QUERIES. or* s. n. JULY 23, m

MILES STANDISH'S WIFE (9 th S. i. 509). To a former inquiry respecting the Standish family, the late EDWARD WALFORD replied that a full account of the house of Standish of Duxbury would be found in Sir B. Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' 1886, vol. ii. ; and an anony- mous correspondent gave a list of twelve works in which reference was made to families of above name. See '1ST. & Q.,' 8 th S. iii. 458.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

Moore's ' Surnames and Place-names of the Isle of Man ' has the following : " Standish (1511), a Lancashire place-name. It was never common in the Isle of Man. William Standish was proprietor of Pulrose, in Braddan, in 1511." The name is not found here now.

F. G.

Douglas, Isle of Man.

REFERENCE WANTED (9 th S. i. 507). 'Faerie Queene,' III. ii. 51 (p. 168 of the "Globe" edition). The passage is remarkable for the double accentuation of "contrary ":

Thrise she her turnd contrary, and returnd All contrary,

F. ADAMS.

JAMES Cox's MUSEUM (9 th S. ii. 7). This is mentioned among the poems in Hugh Kelly's 'Works,' 4to., 1778. The Rev. John Newton visited it in 1772. See his ' Cardiphonia.' Edin., 1824, pp. 26, 477. W. C. B.

"TIGER" A BOY GROOM (9 th S. i. 326, 493). Your correspondent Q. V. will find reference to this and the Barrymore livery in a work published a few years ago, entitled ' The Last Earls of Barrymore ' (Sampson Low <fe Co.). JOHN ROBERT ROBINSON.

A farce called ' The Irish Tiger,' by John Maddison Morton, was first acted at the Hay market Theatre in April, 1846.

J. S. M. T.

" Jackal " certainly would have been more appropriate in the case cited, the more especially as the " masher " or " heavy swell " of those days was at least in France called a "lion." I thought the groom's striped waistcoat gave the name.

THOS. J. JEAKES.

ARMS OF SLANE (9 th S. i. 429). The town of Slane and the county of Meath have no armorial bearings. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

PORT ARTHUR (9 th S. i. 367, 398, 437). Would it not be of interest to ascertain whether Arthur was indeed the Christian name or surname of the captain of the Iron Duke who is stated to have christened the port, or whether the Iron Duke, Arthur of Wellington, was really the godfather in-

tended ? The affair being matter of compara- tively recent history, authoritative evidence may perhaps still be hoped for. H. E. M.

St. Petersburg.

BRANDING PRISONERS (9 th S. i. 328, 413). Is it not true that some of the slaves in our West India possessions were branded 1 I was told many years ago by a clergyman, who was the son of a London solicitor, that his father had made many conveyances of slaves, and that they were described therein as " marked and branded on the buttock " with the initials or other device of the owner. K. P. D. E.

THE "SCOURING" OF LAND (9 th S. i. 286, 411). Scouring is the word used in leases and in common language in Scotland for clearing out ditches. A. G. REID.

Auchterarder

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9 th S. i. 329).

When in retreat Fox lays his thunder by. Is not this from Scott's ' Marmion ' ? E. E. T.

(9 th S. i. 509.)

Hush ! Hush ! I am listening for the voices are the words of a charming old song with a harp- like accompaniment which I have in a MS. music- book of my grandmother, belonging probably to between 1827 and 1833. E. E. T.

Has matter innate motion? Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an universe of dust. The above passage is from "i oung's ' Night Thoughts. 5

T. H. PLOWMAN.

The lovely young Lavinia once had friends ; And fortune smiTd, deceitful, on her birth.

Thomson's 'Seasons: Autumn.' M. E. Foss.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.

Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray. (Oxford,

Clarendon Press.)

THE section of Vol. V. of the ' H.E.D.' now issued to the public continues the letter H from Haversine te Heel. It contains 1,856 words in all, illustrated by 7,904 quotations, and maintains, necessarily, the same measure of superiority over all competitors on which we have previously commented. The rate of progress kept up is eminently creditable, and the feeling at one time inspired that the con- clusion of the work would concern our children perhaps even our grandchildren rather than our- selves is fading from the mind. The letter H, which will shortly be completed, represents a third of the alphabet. We learn, moreover, with satis- faction that the remainder of the work to the end of the alphabet "is in an advanced state of pre- paration words which experience has shown us have, in the case of the ' Dictionary,' a very precise