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 400 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9" B. iv. NOV. 11, m measures about 8in. by Sin. or 5jin., and is an important piece of its kind. The order was blessed at the earlier date with no fewer than four distinctive mottoes—"Industry produceth wealth," "Be merry and wise," " Innocence with freedom," " Unanimity is the strength of society." The first of these is illustrated by a plough, the third by a stag at gaze, the last by a pretty vignette of the " old man, his sons, and the bundle of sticks." To the latest ticket are added the words "We obey." The price of the ticket was four shillings ; " Dinner on table at Two o'clock." The second and more substantial memento of this long - defunct order in a punchbowl, 12 in. in diameter and 5 in. deep. It is of Oriental porcelain of fine quality, of the kind absurdly, but almost universally, described by dealers as Lowestoft, and is very beautifully decorated in gold and colours. Its date must approximate to that of the earlier ticket, the middle of the last century. Two foresters figure as supporters to the arms of the order, which quarter (1) a hart at gaze, (2) a hart lodgen, (3) a plough, and (4) the old man and his sons above referred to. The crest is a hart's head ; and a hart's head ducally gorged in the centre of the inside of the bowl has, I doubt not, been a hundred times drowned in admirable liquor. The arms are painted twice, on opposite sides of the bowl, and between them are sprays of English flowers treated in the Chinese manner. I may have some more information on this society or club, but this is all that I can lay my hand on at the moment. It has most likely already been the subject of many com- munications to 'N. & Q.' J. ELIOT HODGKIN. [See 1" S. vii. 286; 2nd S. v. 316, 424; xii. 436; 4th S. v. 466; 6th S. viii. 361; ix. 454, 511. At 2"" S. xii. 436 some curious information is supplied by the editor, Mr. Thorns.] " CHARACTERS " (9th S. iv. 344).—Few readers will need to be told that the ' Dic- tionary ' has not" missed this word," as some- what rashly stated in 'N. «fe Q.,' but that it is fully treated in all its senses under its current spelling charactery. Considerations of space liave made it necessary to credit readers with some elements of general know- ledge ; among these, the fact that -ie is the ordinary earlier spelling of -y is one of the most obvious. The ' Dictionary' will contain more than six thousand words ending in -y preceded by a consonant, having their earlier spelling in -ie. A cross-reference to each of these—thus : Anatomic, see anatomy ; beautie, see beauty ; characterie, see charactery; dutie, see duty ; fallacie, see fallacy, &c.—would occupy the space of sixty columns, besides being (as it seemed to us) an unworthy reflec- tion on the intelligence of those to whom the 1 Dictionary' is addressed. I should be sorry to think that we have overrated their intel- ligence, though recent communications to ' N. & Q.'about words supposed to be wanting suggest for it a somewhat lower level. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford. If your correspondent will refer to the modern spelling of this word (charactery) in the ' New English Dictionary,' he will find plenty of quotations, relating to other things beside shorthand, and showing a wide use of the word. The slightest exercise of thought on his part would surely have led him to look under the current form of a word which in the sixteenth century ended in -ie. Q. V. •PYRAMUS AND THISBB' (9th S. iv. 267).— My query, repeated by the friendly Inter- me'diaire deg Chercfieurs et Cttrieux, has, to my great gratitude, brought me a copy of the original ballad, 'No. 883. Nouvelle Imagerie d'Epinal." As the words are very pretty, as well as quaint in character, I regret that it is impossible to complete the text in ' N. ik Q.'; but, alas ! brevity is not to be expected in a ' Complainte,'and this one runs to forty-three stanzas. EMILIA F. S. DILKE. HAWKER MSS. (9th S. iv. 168, 223, 309).— Mr. Wallis'sedition (1899)of Hawker's 'Works' contains a bibliography as well as editorial notes to the poems themselves concerning the original appearance of each. On p. 144, after the poem ' Baal-Zephon,' a reference is made to nrillis's Current Notes, April, 1855, p. 29 ; while in the bibliography six pieces besides this are noted in the same periodical. The references vaguely and inaccurately given to ' N. & Q.' are ' Sir Beville,' 1" S. 225 (1850), and ' A Cornish Folk-Song,' 4th S. 480 (1868). On p. 65 'The Poor Man and his Parish Church ' (dated 1840) is said to have been "printed privately in leaflet form in 1843, and published in ' Reeds shaken with the Wind: the Second Cluster,' 1844. Reprinted in ' Echoes from Old Cornwall' and in ' The Cornish Ballads.'" In the bibliography, after giving title-page and collation of Nettletons print of the same poem, the editor adds, " We have never seen a copy of this pamphlet [1843] without the words 'second edition' on the title-page." He prints the colophon as " The Festival of St. John the Baptist, 1843."