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 9*8. VL AUG. 4,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 87 are the other five ? And is this one a copy of the first bookseller's catalogue printed in England? J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. " HAZY." — The view expressed by Dr. Murray, that haze is formed on ftazy, and not vice versa, receives support from a passage in Capt. Wyatt's 'Narrative of Sir Robert Dudley's Voyage to the West Indies, 1594-5,' which the editor believes to have been written during the expedition: "And withall the weather provinge hasey and wett...the com panie went on shore to make roadie their victuall" (Hakl. Sop. ed., 1900, at p. 40). This instance is some thirty years earlier than any given in the 'N.E.D.' Q. V. LITBRATURE BEFORE 1600.—The Bishop of London, in a recent address to girl students, is reported to have said the happiest years of his life were the ten during which he kept to a resolution that he would read no books which were written after 1600. It would be of interest if the Bishop would kindly favour the readers of ' N. & Q.' with the names of the books he read. N. S. S. 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. " To LUQ THE COIF."— In a copy of verses entitled 'The Ducking Stool,' written about 1720 by Benjamin West, of Weedou Beck, Northamptonshire, the following lines occur : If jarring Females kindle strife, Give language foul, or lug the coif; If noisy Dames should once begin To drive the House with horrid din, Away, you cry, you '11 grace the Stool, &c. A good deal more of the poem may be found in Brand's 'Pop. Antiq.,' ed. 1813, ii. 443. What is the meaning of " lugging the coif " ? A. Oxford. L. MAYHEW. DICK KITCAT.— Of the first two parts of the serial issue of W. H. Maxwell s ' Hector O'Halloran,' published by Richard Bentley, each contains two etchings as by " Dick Kit- cat," and this name appears on the covers ; from part iii. to the end John Leech is given as the artist. There is a considerable difference between the style of the four etchings by " Dick Kitcat " and those to which the name of Leech appears, but I am inclined to the opinion that "Dick Kitcat" was a name assumed, for some reason of his own, by Leech. Can this incident be ex- plained ? W. ROBERTS. 47, Lansdowne Gardens, 8.W. TEA AS A DECOCTION.—What is the earliest use of the word tea as signifying an infusion of any other plant for use medicinally or as a beverage? I find it in a letter dated 30 July, 1713, of one Martin Bowes to the Earl of Oxford, then Prime Minister, pro- posing an easy medicine to cure Queen Annes gout—"a decoction, or tea, made of nettle-seed " (Portland MSS., vol. v. p. 313). ALFRED F. ROBBINS. FRANCIS GEORGE MARCH DESANGES was admitted to Westminster School on 18 May, 1818, and left at Whitsuntide, 1823. I should be glad to obtain any information concerning him. G. F. R. B. JOHN D'ARCY was admitted to Westminster School on 23 March, 1773. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' give me particulars of his parentage and career ? G. F. R. B. JOHN DAWES.—Can any one give me in- formation about John Dawes, who was made a baronet in 1663, and is mentioned by Pepys, who, however1, calls him Thomas Dawesl CHARLES R. DAWES. ORIGIN OF MARYLAND.—What is the origin of the name Maryland, one of the United States of America, founded by the Catholic Lord Baltimore? Foisset in his 'Vie du R. P. Lacordaire' says (vol. i. p. 97): "Ils s'etablirent dans une contree vierge, qu'ils nommerent Maryland (terre de Marie) en Phonneur de la Mere de Dieu." Green, how- ever, in his ' History of the English People,' writes as follows :— " Ten years later a principle as unknown to Knglaml as it was to the greater part of Europe Found its home in a second colony, which received its name of Maryland from Henrietta Maria, the lucen of Charles I." Which of the above statements is correct ? Both seem equally probable. T. P. ARMSTRONG. Timperley. BEAULIEU. — Can any of your readers xplain why the name Beaulieu, Latinized as Jiellus Locus, was so frequently given in ancient times to places that were tno se,ats of religious houses, churches, or other build- ngs of an ecclesiastical nature ? It is enough X) refer amongst those in England to Beau- "ieu in Hampshire (Jiellus Locus Regis), where i Cistercian abbey was founded by King John ; Beaulieu in Bedfordshire, the seat ot a priory ; and Beaulieu in Worcestershire,