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it ever used as a charge on a shield, or as an ensign? Does the motto "Y Draig coch j ddury gruchian" refer to it? What does i mean ? L. LLOYD.

Chiswick.

MITFORD'S ' OUR VILLAGE.' Will some on acquainted with the Miss Mitford biblio graphy be so kind as to explain the anomalies of my copy of this book 1 It consists of vol. ii. third edition, London, Whittaker, Treachei & Co., 1832 ; vol. iii., same edition, London Geo. B. Whittaker, 1828 ; and fourth series London, Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1830 The size and type of the books are identical The printers of the first and last are Gilbert & Rivington, St. John's Square ; of vol. iii the printer is R. Gilbert of the same address

THORNFIELD.

PICKWICKIAN PHRASE. Where do the lines in ' Pickwick ' (Jingle's)

In hurry post haste for a licence occur? I think I have met the answer in 4 N. & Q.,' but cannot find it now. Is it in Haynes Bayly ? PERCY FITZGERALD.

"TO SWIM IN GOLDEN LARD" (Jonson,

'The Fox,' I. i.). Equivalent to the vul- garism "to roll in wealth." But what was the origin of the phrase ? It is a safe rule in reading Jonson to assume that any odd or startling phrase is a translation. Gifford, in a note on the passage, waxes ecstatic over "this bold and beautiful adoption of the eastern metaphor for a state of prosperity." I should be glad of a parallel from any lan- guage, Eastern or other. PERCY SIMPSON.

WATERPROOF CLOTHING. The following extract is from Hist. MSS. Com., 'Lord Kenyon's MSS.,' p. 558 :

" 1801. Nov. 8. Mr. F. Filmer was one of the callers ; he pointed out to me an excellency in his coat, which I should not have discovered (it looked as other coats do), that it was waterproof ; and said that there was a method used by a man at Chelsea which would make muslin or the thin bank note paper waterproof."

Can an earlier instance than this be shown of ordinary clothing being waterproofed after this manner ; also, can the name of the " man at Chelsea " be stated ? RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

FORSHAW. Can any reader inform me when and^by whom my great-uncle, the Rev, Charles Forshaw, was ordained ? He was Rector of Taxal, Cheshire, from 1822 to 1825, and afterwards Rector of Altcar, and Head Master of the Grammar School at Ormskirk

for about thirty-five years. He is in some directories given the degree of B.A., though I am not aware that he ever graduated. Also particulars of the ordination of my grandfather, the Rev. Thurstan Forshaw. He was curate of Alsager, Cheshire, in 1836, and Master of the Grammar School at Audley, Staffs, until appointed Vicar of Newchapel in that county in 1842. He held that living until 1 July, 1875.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Bradford.

VOLANT AS A CHRISTIAN NAME. What is the origin of the word Volant now used as a Christian name, and what is its meaning? The only clue I can give towards an explana- tion of this word is that about 150 years ago the family of Ballard bearing this name migrated from Presteigne, in Radnor, to Ludlow ; and thus the word Volant may be Welsh, and may bear a meaning in that language. INQUIRER.

[Volant in Latin means "flying," and in French a shuttlecock.]

SIR JOHN WELD, of Willey, Salop, was Sheriff of that county in 1642, and is said to have been Town Clerk of London. Can any one oblige me with the date of his appoint- ment to, and of his removal from, the clerk- ship? WILLIAM PHILLIPS.

Canonbury, Shrewsbury.

' CLAVERHOUSE'S LAMENT.' I shall be greatly obliged to any one who can send to ne the music of 'Cumha' Chlabhers,' the Highland lament for the loss of Viscount Dundee, or who can indicate where it is to be found. W. M. GRAHAM EASTON.

Carron Hall, Graham ston.

FAHRENHEIT THERMOMETER. What is the reason of the peculiar graduation of the scale n the Fahrenheit thermometer? That is, what was it that led Fahrenheit, after fixing
 * he zero-point, to adopt 32 degrees as the

'reezing-point, and 212 degrees as the boiling- point, of water ? SCRUTATOR.

LINES BY JEAN INGELOW.

I said then let men curse or bless ;

What is failure what success

Can only be read in the light of the throne

Where dwelleth the Holy and Infinite One.

Some failures must wear the crown of success

Where man cannot ban what God wills to bless.

'he exact reference for the above is asked. J. MARSHALL STURGE. Charlbury, Oxon.

DOUGLAS THE BLACK. Can any of your eaders throw light on the following events