Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 5.djvu/483

 v. JUNE 16, im] NOTES AND QUERIES.

475

In the same enclosure is a stone erected to the memory of his wife :

"Dame Charlotte Mary Wilson, Widow of Sir Erasmus Wilson, Born 14 th July, 1808, Died 3 rd No- vember, 1886. And is buried here. A loving and gen tie wife, who sympathized in her husband's good works, and cheerfully helped with her own means to his munificence."

CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES.

RUSKIN'S RESIDENCES. John Ruskin was born at No. 13, Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, a house on the west side of the street, three doors from Great Coram Street, St. George's, Bloomsbury. When Ruskin was four years old his father removed to flerne Hill, where he remained until his son was twenty-one years old, when he removed to No. 163, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, a house now in the occupation of Mr. Walter Druce, adjoining the residence of the late Sir Henry Bessemer. When Mr. Ruskin's cousin, Mrs. Arthur Severn, married in 1871, he presented her with the residue of the lease of the Herne Hill house, and he then removed to Brant- wood, by Coniston Lake, where he died. The first volume of 'Modern Painters' was written at the house in Herne Hill. JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury Mansions, N.

" CAKE INK." As the earliest quotation in the 'N.E.D.' is dated 1704, it may be worth while to copy an advertisement from fo. A8 of John Vernon's ' Compleat Comptinghouse ' of 1678 :

" That rare Invention of Cake Ink, so convenient for carriage, as well by Land as Sea, already ex- perienced by many thousands in England, and For- reign Parts, to be the blackest, fluentest, and strongest Ink yet invented ; and the more desirable, because he that hath the least bit of it in his Pocket, is possest of the best Ink. It is to be had at Mrs. Vernons Coffee - House, against Vintners Hall in Thames-street in London : or at Benj. Billingsley at the Printing- Press in Cornhil ; with directions how to use it."

Q. V.

HUISH. (See ante, p. 447.) In your review of ' The Church Towers of Somerset ' you say, "What is the origin of Huish, sometimes spelt Hewish, we are unable to conjecture." It would be unintelligible without a knowledge of the older forms of the name. Huish is a later form of the A.-S. hiwisc, a hide of land. Huish Episcopi, in Somerset, means the "Bishop's hide." Hardhuish, in Wilts, is proved by the A.-S. name Heregeardingc Hiwisc to mean the " hide of Heregeard." We have also Huish Champflower and Rodhuish, both in Somerset, and Southhuish in Devon. Similarly, Fifehead, a name as common as Huish, denotes an estate consisting of five reputed hides. ISAAC TAYLOK.

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 maybe addressed to them direct.

" INWARDNESS." What is the source of the current use of this word in such expressions as " the true inwardness of Mr. Chamberlain's policy," "the true inwardness of a man," and the like ? When so used about 1880-90 the word or phrase was usually in inverted commas, as if a quotation from some one. The word had been used in a similar (hardly identical) sense by Henry More in the seven- teenth century, but rarely, if at all, during the intervening period, till it came in like a flood in the seventies and eighties. Whence did its renascence come ?

J. A. H. MURRAY.

I.O.U. I should be glad of quotations for this before 1836. In N. Breton's Discourse between the * Courtier and Countryman ' (1618), p. 9, occurs : " Hee teacheth od fellowes play tricks with their creditors, who instead of payments write IOV, and so scoffe many an honest man out of his goods." This shows that the practice existed more than two cen- turies before 1836, though it is possible that the writing was not as yet called an I.O.U. But the name must have been in colloquial use before 1836, when our quotations begin and come in all at once in full force.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

RONJAT, THE KING'S SERJEANT-SURGEON. Sterne relates that Uncle Toby insisted that his wound should be healed immediately, or he would send for Monsieur Ronjat, the King's Serjeant-Surgeon. Is anything known of Ronjat? He is not included in the, con- fessedly incomplete, list of serjeant-surgeons given in the British Medical Journal of 10 March. WILLIAM BRADBROOK.

Bletchley, Bucks.

INSTALLATION OF A MIDWIFE. Sterne mentions that Parson Yorick, upon the

origin

this ecclesiastical control of midwives ? What was the wording of the licence ?

WILLIAM BRADBROOK. Bletchley, Bucks.

JOHN WHITE, THE PATRIARCH OF DOR- CHESTER. Having been engaged upon the biography of the Rev. John White, known as the Patriarch of Dorchester (b. 1575