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 .V.JA N. 6, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARYS, 1900.

CONTENTS. -No. 106.

NOTES : Editorial Good Wishes Origin of Yeomanry Cavalry, 1 A Lifetime's Work Special Literature for Soldiers, 2 "Boer" Hogers's ' Ginevra ' " Quagga and "Zebra," 3 A Pastille-Burner Henry Cavendish "Wroth Silver " - Poe's ' Hop-Frog ' " Wound " for " Winded "Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, 4 A Pasquil Kinnui : Jewish Eke - names " Waits " and " Gaitas," 5 Partridge, the Almanac - maker Omar Khayyam " Byre "St. Michael's Church, Bassishaw, 6.

QUERIES: Portrait of Madame Laffitte Correspondence of English Ambassadors to France' On a Pincushion ' Lambert in Guernsey" The Dukes"' Methodist Plea '

Marriage Gift Author Wanted Moseley Hall, 7 "Remote "Thomas Tomkinson, Gent." Lieut. James

Brothers Mayor and Town Clerk St. Eanswyth Wagner's ' Meistersinger ' Dr. Syntax Stop-press Edi- tions Marylebone Churchyard Public Vault Toad Mugs- Sidney, Young, and Brownlow- Hogarth's 'Sigismunda' Viscount Cholmondeley's Scotch MSS., 8-" Bully " Dandy's Gate "Th< Beurre " " Witchelt "=Ill-shod, 9.

REPLIES : Cromwell and Music, 9 ' An Apology for Cathedral Service '"To Priest " ' Pickwickian Studies ' Boxing Day, 10 "The Appearance " Polkinghorn Swansea Shepherdess Walk Hawkwood, 11 Bryan, Lord Fairfax The Mint "Bridge "Stafford Family "Lowestoft China," 12 The Great Oath "Tiffin n Edgett, 13 " Cordwainer " Boudicca May Road Well, Accrington "A pickled rope " Authorship of The Red, White, and Blue ' Prefaces, 15 Morcom Margaret Blount Hannah Lee "Hoastik carles," 16 "Dozzil" "Middlin"' Cox's Museum, 17 "King of Bantam " Grolier Bindings, 18.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Sidney Lee's ' Life of Shakespeare '

Fernald's ' Students' Standard Dictionary ' * The Library ' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

EDITORIAL GOOD WISHES. THE recent issue of the Jubilee Number of Notes and Queries having brought the editor into communication, more or less close and personal, with some to whom individually he was the mere shadow of a name, and having elicited manifestations of toleration and even of sympathy, by which he has been flattered and touched, he feels justified in taking the opportunity of the first number of the New Year to wish his contributors a full share of the privileges and blessings with which, in spite of a not too propitious outset, he is fain to hope it is charged. His indebted- ness to those who make his post enviable and his labours light is not to be expressed. Should even his aspirations be of no effect, the attitude of benevolence -to use the word in its classical sense is like that of devotion or prayer, good in itself, and is a step (the longest that can be taken) towards its own fulfilment, For congratulations on the arrival of a new century he has still twelve months to wait, That fact) simple as it is, is not obvious to all. To him and to most of his readers it is patent as the sun. at mid-day.

That an imperial rescript should put one great and energetic country a year in advance of its neighbours, though a little surprising in modern ciays, is not unprecedented On the other side of the land over which this imperial doctor or scientist holds sway is a country in which a calendar other than ours prevails. The same holds true of Turkey, and once held true of Republican France. To add to the complexity of calendars seems a subject for regret. At any rate, in presence of conflict- ing authorities imperial, ecclesiastical, or popular the attitude coincides with that of Galileo when, striking the earth with his foot, he said, or is reputed to have said, " E pur si muove." It is still the nineteenth century, and the Editor at least will wait for a time he may never see before congratulating his readers on the advent of the twentieth.

THE ORIGIN OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY,

IN connexion with the decision of the Government, announced on 20 December last, to recruit a new mounted infantry force for service in South Africa from the ranks of the Yeomanry, it may be interesting to place on record the fact that it is to the great Suffolk agriculturist Arthur Young that we owe the inception of Yeomanry Cavalry.

The germ of Young's idea of forming a "militia of property" for this country is contained in some reflections on the French Revolution at the end of his * Travels in France,' published in May, 1792. In August, 1792, he repeated the suggestion in vol. xviii, of his 'Annals of Agriculture' (p. 491), and expanded it in his well-known pamphlet entitled * The Example of France a Warning to England,' which went through four English editions in 1793-4 (besides two editions in French one published at Brussels and the other at Quebec), and made a great sensa- tion in its day.

Young says in this pamphlet :

"A regiment of a thousand cavalry in every county of moderate extent, just disciplined enough to obey orders and keep their ranks, might be enrolled and assembled in companies three days in every year, and in regiments once in seven, at a

very moderate expense to the public It has been

said that such a militia is impracticable ; I will not reason on a case absolutely new, but we may venture to assert that a law which legalises and regulates the mode in which all the land proprietors

in the kingdom .may instantly assemble, armed*

m troops and regiments.. i... a law which prepares the means of security and defence, while the rage of attack unites and electrifies the enemies of peace and order, must be good, and may be essential to the salvation of the com munity*" Fourth edition,