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828 to 1857. I am anxious to discover the orrect title of the work, the names of tuthor and publisher, and the date of pub- ication. GUALTERULUS.

SCOT ABROAD. Can any of your readers nform me where the proverb "Scotus est, piper in naso," is to be found, and also what .s the exact wording of it 1 The proverb is supposed to describe the readiness of " the Scot abroad " to resent any slight or suspected slight on himself or his country. I think I have come across it in one of Scott's novels, but cannot find the passage.

JOHN WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

SPELLING OF SURNAMES. Is there any rule as to which is the correct spelling of sur- names such as Marshall, Thurnall, &c.? I have sometimes seen them spelt Marshal, Thurnal, and have an idea that the doubling of the final I is a comparatively modern innovation, though it is seldom the one I spelling is met with now. W. B. H.

MR. SAINTHILL AND HIS BASQUE STUDIES. Dr. R. Garnet, of the British Museum, sent me on 7 January the following query, which I venture to submit to the readers of VN.&Q.':

" Did you ever hear of a Mr. Sainthill, who lived about 1660, and may have been the first Englishman to study Basque philologically ? There is a letter from him in the Sloane MSiS. in the British Museum, by which it would seem that he had compiled a Basque grammar, which apparently has not been published."

I should be glad to learn any details about the life of this Mr. Sainthill, more especially such as would show that he visited Basque- land (Heuskal-herria), or what Basque books he used. Has his grammar survived any- where ? PALAMEDES.

ISAAC JOHNSON. I should be greatly obliged to any reader of * N. & Q.' who would give me information relative to the place of birth and parentage of Isaac Johnson, an eminent Suffolk antiquarian artist. He was born about 1753 and died at Aid borough ^ in 1835, after fifty years' residence and practice as a land surveyor at Woodbridge. His works were at one time eagerly sought after by such eminent antiquaries as Nichols, Gough, and Jermyn, who prized them for their fidelity. PERCY C. RUSHEN.

12, Fentiman Road, S.W.

WILLIAM BOYLE was elected from West- minster School to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1590. Any information relating to him

which correspondents of ' N. & Q.' can give me will be useful. G. F. R. B.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

The gin within the juniper Began to make him merry.

C. B. MOUNT. Hark ! Hark ! Hark ! 'Tis a message of mercy free.

E. W. D.

Like Libya with all its lions up. Who is the author of the verse added to the National Anthem at the Queen's Jubilee ? Lord, let war's tempest cease, Fold the whole world in peace Under Thy wing, &c.

JOHANNA BUBE.

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PRIME MINISTER.

(8 th S. x. 357, 438; xi. 69, 151, 510; xii. 55, 431; 9 th S. ii. 99 ; iii. 15, 52.)

MR. GEORGE MARSHALL'S extract from Mr. John Morley's ' Walpole,' at the last reference, to show that the form " Prime Minister " was much older than the synonym " Premier," had already been given by me (8 th S. xi. 69) in an examination of the evidence bearing upon the history of the term ; and Mr. Morley, I may note, expressed himself personally as much interested in the fresn light then thrown on the subject. Every additional investigation confirms the opinion that, while both " Prime Minister " and " Premier Minis- ter " were earliest applied to Harley, and were expressly drawn from French usage, "Prime Minister" was first generally given as an official title to Walpole and " Premier " to the younger Pitt. It is of special interest in this connexion to note that Sir John Van- brugh, architect and dramatist, whose use of "First Minister" in comedies of 1697 and 1705 I have mentioned (ante, p. 15), wrote on 26 Nov., 1723, to Lord Carlisle, upon the death of the French Regent :

" The Duke of Bourbon was designed by the late L>uke of Orleans to be prime minister in his room very soon, the fatigue being too much for him; so he was immediately declared upon this account." ' Historical MSS. Commission Fifteenth Report,' Appendix, pt. vi. p. 46.

But on 30 Dec., 1727, Lady E. Lechmere wrote to the same peer from " Twitneham " that "our Premier, who is now hunting a hind in the neighbourhood, is in as great favour with the King as with the Queen, and in all appearance will con- tinue so." Ibid., p. 53.

While almost exactly two years later Lady Mary Howard told her father of the quarrel