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 266 . iv. SIR. so, NOTES AND QUERIES. dressing Sir John Harthover in the question, "Blessings on your heart, and what makes you look so sad the morn ? "—that is, " the morn " is used as equivalent to " this morn- ing." If this is according to the usage in the English Lake district, it suggests a curious contrast with the practice immediately across the Borders, for in Scotland " the morn" signifies to-morrow, and " the morn's mornin'" indicates to-morrow morning. THOMAS BAYNE. DISCOVERY OP ROMAN REMAINS.—The fol- lowing is a cutting from the Stamford Post for 1 Sept.:— " At Dorchester, Dorset, which has proved so rich in ancient Roman relics, another interesting discovery has just been made. During some ex- cavations on a building estate on the confines of the borough, and only a few hundred yards from the ancient Roman amphitheatre, a splendid speci- men of a villa pavement lias been disclosed. Several similar discoveries have been made of late years, but nothing so fine or so well preserved has yet been recorded. The pavement is about two feet below the surface, and the design is unusually elaborate, while the colouring of the tesserfe re- mains almost as fresh as when laid down. The discovery is regarded as of great importance." CELER ET AUDAX. SECOND-HAND MARRIAGES.— " It would appear—writes a South London corre- spondent in the Daily Chronicle—that some of the young men and maidens in this part of the world beliovej or pretend to believe, that by 'assisting' at a legitimate wedding ceremony, with intent that they shall be themselves married—by silently follow- ing; the responses and exchanging vows—they become united as legally and canonically as the parties join- ing hands before the clergyman. This curious idea has emerged into notice on account of some little difficulty in connexion with a baptismal ceremony, where objection was taken by some hostile women- folk to the christening on the ground that the parties claiming to be the parents of the candidate were ' only married at second hand.' It did not transpire why this circumstance was considered inimical to the baby's right to the ordinance—the gossips of Lambeth are nothing if not incon- sequential. But inquiry revealed that these vicari- ous weddings, if they may be so termed, are not uncommon in the district, and that the participants are usually recognized thereafter as wedded people." To me this is a new and a startling bit of folk-lore. ST. SWITHIN. " BOUZINGOT."—Bouzingots was the nick- name applied to the romantic school of writers, with Victor Hugo at their head, which in France, during the Restoration, vehemently attacked and eventually over- threw the classic school. The principal ad- herents of the romantic school, in addition to Hugo, were The'ophile Gautier, Gerard de Nerval, Petrus Borel, BOI.-U ouiV Alphonse Brot, and the origin of the name, given to the school in derision; is described by one of their number, Theophile Dondey de Santeny (Philothee O'Neddy), author of a volume of verses entitled ' Feu et Flamme,' published in 1833, in a letter to Charles Asselineau, which the latter partly in- corporated in his bibliography of romanticism. It appears that a party of romanticists— Gerarq de Nerval among the number— returning home from a dinner in the suburbs, scandalized the peaceable inhabitants of Paris in the quarter through which they passed by shouting the chorus of a popular song, "Nous avons fait" or "Nous ferons du bouzingo," with the result that four or five of the party were locked up. The affair made some noise at the time, and the "law-and-order " news- papers, always ready to ridicule the Repub- licans, declared that the Young France party had adopted the name bovzingot, and gloried in it. Sousinffot, according to Littre, is a sailor's hat, which appears, according to Landais, to have been adopted as a head- dress by young Parisian democrats between 1832 and 1833. JOHN HEBB. Canonbury Mansions, N. gurries. WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. MINSHULL.TARBOCK, AND CALDWELL GENEA- LOGIES.—I am engaged in tracing for a friend in America the ancestry of one John Min- shull (who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1715), the son of Thomas and Martha, of Penketh (m. 1696), from whom he inherited, and transmitted to his daughter, real estate in Appleton. They were members of the Hart- shaw Monthly Meeting of Friends. Young John's grandfather and great-grandfather, both named John, of Appleton, seem to have been collaterals of two successive Johns of Lachford, the first of whom, commemorated in (Besse's ?) ' Sufferings of the Quakers/ had a son Thomas, who went from Stoak to Penn- sylvania in 1682. In 1666 a John Minshull was a charterer in Appleton and Hull; and in 1639 the will was pi.jved of a John Minshull, of Appleton, junior, whose wife was named Katherine. This is as far back as I can get. Now to take up the distaff side. Martha Minshull was, as the Quaker registers (kept at 12. Bishopsgate Without) have proved, the daughter of Richard Tarbock, of Sutton, and Christian Caldwall or Caklwell (ra. 1(566).