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 9* S. IV. Deo. 23, "99.] 515 NOTES AND QUERIES. the origin of the terms " stock brick " and " place brick," which is new to mo and may perhaps be of interest:— " You will notice that I have mentioned stock bricks and place bricks were [by law] to be kept distinctly separate in the kiln. This seemed to me peculiar, because nowadays we understand place bricks to be a soft and defective stock brick. After searching I discovered the meaning of it; stock bricks and place bricks were in those days [temp. George I.] two distinct classes of brick, made in different ways and of different clays. The stock bricks were made of a stiff marly clay and made on a board called a ' stock,' which gave it its name: the place brick was made of a softer clay, and being much more delicate to handle and dry, it was necessary to prepare a place close to the moulding board to ' place' the bricks upon to dry and prevent their being damaged by too long carriage or much handling, and for this reason they were called place bricks. I found this corroborated by several writers of the time, so I think I can fairly put it forward as correct."—Builder, 25 November. John Hebb. " Papaw."—-Our dictionaries seem unanim- ous as to the Asiatic origin of this word. Ogilvie and 'The Century' call it Mala- barese, whatever that may mean. ' The Encyclopaedic' calls it Malay, which is con- firmed by the fact that it duly appears in the Malay-dictionaries (Crawford, for instance, and Marsden). Yet Humboldt thought it was South American, classing it with paramo, piragua, «fec.; and a still more positive state- ment to that effect is the following from Father Qili's 'Saggio di Storia Americana,' 1782, vol. iii. p. 146 :— " II nome, die quasi da tutte le nazioni dell' Orinoco vien dato al Pappajo, a pooa differenza e lo stesso in tutti i linguaggi. Altri dicon Papaja, ed e il nome adottato dagli Spagnuoli. Altri, come gli Ottomachi, Pappai, altri finalniente, ed e il nome piu universale, Mapaja." Obviously the word cannot be indigenous to both continents. There must have been borrowing somewhere, though I do not pre- sume to say whether the Spaniards took from the Malay and carried to the Orinoco, or vice versd. James Platt, Jun. Bibliography of Christmas. (Continued from 9th S. ii. 505.)—Gospel of St. John used as a charm (see ' N. & Q., 6th S. viii. 490); men- tioned by Giraldus Cambrensis, 1147-1223; quoted by Gairdner, 'Early Chroniclers of Europe: England,' S.P.C.K., p. 169; also in Andrew Willet's 'Hexapla in Exodum,' 1608, p. 179. Account of the food provided for Christmas Day in the Priory of Tunbridge, in Turner and Coxe ('Calendar of Charters and Rolls in the Bodleian Library,' 1878, p. x). 1480. At Lincoln, by proclamation, no arrest could be m&de from St. Thomas's Day to Twelfth Day. The proclamation was made by the mayor's officers in special antique robes ('Hist. MSS. Comm., 14th Rep.,' app. part viii. pp. 23, 65, 67). 1565. A Christmas song, sung by the three city waits at Lincoln, called 'The Three Senators,' i.e., ' The Three Wise Men' (' Hist. MSS. Comm., 14th Ren.,' app. part viii. pp. 58-60). lo87. Sermon against the observance of Christmas, by H. Gray, ' Athenre Cantab.,' ii. 392, b. 1637. William Austin, 'Meditations,' folio; in- eludes Christmas carols. 1705 In 'N. &Q.,'7'hS. ii. 502, " A. Caul" should prolmbly be A. Cant. 1710. Waits and Christmas pies, in the Taller, ed. 1723, iv. 138, 277. 1753. Sermon to a large congregation in the country on old Christmas Day, 5 Jan. 1822. J. Manning, ' Apology for Christmas Day,' Exeter. 1855. 'Christmas Dawn and New Year's Eve,' 1854-5, by H. R. F. (in blank verse), 12mo. Camb. 1888. R. L. Stevenson, Christmas sermon in ' Across the Plains,' ed. five, 1897, pp. 302-17 (re- printed from Srribner's Mayaxine). 1898. ' Was Christ born in Bethlehem ! a Study in the Credibility of St. Luke,' by Prof. W. M. Rani- say, D.C.L., LL.D. 1898. 'The Nativity in Art and Song,' by W. Henry Jewitt, crown 8vo. illustrated. 1899. 'Christmas Mummers at Rugby,' by W.H. D. Rouse in Folk-Lore, Sept. (' N. k Q.,' ante, p. 200). 1899. ' Yule and Christmas,' by Alexander Tille, Ph.D. (' N. & Q.,' anie, p. 239). 1899. 'Christmas Ceremonies at Bethlehem,' .in the Graphic, 14 Jan., p. 50, with illustration. Modern Christmas carols are innumerable. W. C. B. Christmas Drinking, 1607.—The following delectable history is recorded by Andrew Willet in his 'Hexapla in Exodum,' 1608, p. 442 :— " A strange example of Gods iudgement, shewed Sxm three excessiue drinkers, in little Eason in ssex the 27. of December last. " And here I cannot omit to make mention of a strange iudgement of God shewed of late vpon three persons for this sinne of excessiue drinking; which happened vpon the 27. day of December last, being the Lords day, next after the Natiuitie, in the towne of little Ashen, or Eason in Essex, in the house of a worshipfull Knight there dwelling. The manner of it was this: One Thomas llugesby a seruant of the house, with another that was a Retainer, and a youth about the age of thirteeno yeeres, did in the afternoone withdraw themselues into a priuate chamber, taking with them strong Beere, Aqna vita, Rosa soils, Tobaccha; and shut the doore close, that they might be priuate, and take their fill of drinke without controlement: who so execssiuely and immoderatly distempered them- selues with drink, that they in most beastly manner vomited'it vp againe : two of them, the seruant of the house and the youth, were in vomiting strangled, and were found dead in the morning; the first sitting in his chairc, the other lying vpon the bed: that which they cast vp, being by the cold of the night frozen to their niouthes : the third, the Retainer, was taken vp in the morning, wallowing vp and downe in his vomitc, and in a manner halfe dead, whom they had much adoe to recouer,"