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 9"‘S- VI- Slrtr- 15. 1900.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 201 LONDON, SA TURDA Y, SEPTEMBER 15, 1900. CONTENTS. -No. 142. NOTES =-Horace Walpole and his Editors, 201- Shake- gnariana, 203-Suppression of Anglican Book of Common rayer. 206-A Teacher of “ Petites," 1553-English Par- simony and the Cat-“Mazame,” 206-Mary, Saeco of Scots : Bastien-A “ Paradise "-“ Disintellectua tion,” 207 - “Devassalage ” - “Data” as Singular Noun - “ Criticize "-A Lemfrlere Statement, 208. QUBRIBS =- Inscript on at Lincoln, 208 - ‘Wedded ’ - Henry VIII. and Cromwell-Anne of Austrla-Hervé- Gates of Sandwich - Bal|¥vha1ne - “ Marglowlet " - “Magerful"-Comsarative honology and Ethnic Cha- racters - Greentiel -Fraser - DolgF- Stuart Family - " Practical ,polltlcs," 209 - Mellard amlly- ‘Crown of H1 lli H ts '1‘obaccoTons Car- Wild Olive - nywe n un - gl - tulary of Ross-Lauderdale on the Government of ndla- ‘°Blight"-Account of the Irrzquisitlon-Clock, 210- Bleanor Cross, Waltham- He dic-Hadon or Haden Famlg-Hongun, 211. RBPLI S :-“ eek ” or “ Seeks ”-Dr. Rowe, 211-Marriage as a Male Christian Name-“ N esquaw "-“ Alamaius "- Shakespesre and the Sea, 212 - List of Book Sales- ' ' Bucks " and “ Good Fellows," 213-“ Vlridlcal ”-Shake- s and Cicero-Horse Equipment, 214-‘Three Kings ol Colchester ’-Macaulay Portraits - P11-tures made of Handwriting-“ Gutter-snipe ” - Looking-glass Folk-lore -“A mache and a horseshoe”-“Agam,’ 215-Order of Avis - Beaulieu - ‘ Welsh Peolple ' - Newman - Lsmb’s Hoaxes-Richter’s ‘ Dream of nnnlty,’ 216-“ Creak"- Virtues and Vices -Ur. Hall-Cyclometer-°‘Shot-free ”- Double Christian Names-Negro N icknames, 217-“ In- undate "-Twyford Yew Tree-Abbot of Furness-Woore, 218-Rev. Mr. aaron - Daniel Defoe - Treble Christian Names, 219. NOTES ON BOOKS =-Wh1blsy's ‘ Bs.belals’s Gargantua and Pantagruel ’-Penny’s ‘ Fort St. George, Madras! Notices to Correspondents. §atrs. HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS EDITORS. (Continued from p. 83.) Henson WALPOLE’S letter to Lady Ossory dated 13 November, 1777 (Cunn1ngham’s edition, vol. vii. pp. 7-10), evidently ends on . 8 with the words “one Arnold is miglity apt to interrupt him.” The various disconnected paragra hs which are printed b Vernon Smith and) Cunningham as part of' the letter do not belong to it, nor to the ear 1777. This is apparent from the fol- Iowin considerations. 1. 'Islas next paragraph of the letter (as it stands at present), after the words above quoted. is as follows :- “ Thursda morning.-I am come to town to take ion of Berkeley S uare ° and your ladyship’s letter of the 9th, which, NB.. I received but yester- day, 'ves me rest -hopes of finding you in town. Howdlap y I siall be if you are, and that I may catch a. gllimpse of you after dinner E” The foregoing statement as to Horace Walpole’s new house in Berkeley _Square makes it easy to assig; a date to this para- graph (which should treated as a. letter in itself). The note was evidently written on 14 October, 1779 (which, in fact, fell on Thursday). Horace Walpole’s letter of that date addressed to Lady Ossory (Cunning- ham’s edition, vol. vii. p. 259) begins practi- cally with the same words : “ I came to town this morning to take possession of Berkeley Square.” subseauent Wssage in this letter will explain orace alpole’s reason for writin§ two letters to Lady Ossory on the same ay, beginning in almost identical terms. He sa 's, “ I stop at the turn ike, and sent to Grosvenor lace, but no tiflin s of you ; however, as I shall sta in town tg] Saturday, I do not despair, having left a note for you.” The “note” in question is evidentl the paragraph under discussion dated “'l:hursday morning.” It belongs, not to November, 1777 but to October, 1779. It should be printed as a letter complete in itself, "and should be placed immediately before Walpole’s letter to Ind Ossory of 14 October, 1779, i.e., between Nba. 1,853 and 1,854 in vol. vii. of Cunningham’s edition. 2. The next paragraph is as follows :- “ Your Ladyshipi is most obliging, and I will let the Strawberries now the honour you intended them, but alas! they go into Yorkshire on Wednes- day for two months. I shall be quite content with the party already named of yourselves, your two lady daughters and Mr. Selw n. You have all seen how likely I am to tumble on my nose, and therefore I shall not be ashamed if I do; but I do not wish for more witnesses; and as I cannot stand to show my house you will be so good as to excuse my sitting; and I should row confused if I had new honours to do, and coufd not perform them.” This paragraph was the subject of a note of mine in the Academy of 8 August, 1896, where it was shown that the passage must have been written not earlier than the winter of 1787-8, when Horace Walpole first made the acquaintance of the Miss Berr s, who are here referred to as the “Strawgerries.” I am now able to assign a more exact date to this passage, which also should be treated as aseparate etter. Horace Walpole mentions that the Miss Berrys were to set out for York- shire “on Wednesday for two months.” In his letter to Mary Berr written from Straw- berry Hill, and dated’ Tuesday, 23 June, 1789, he writes :- - “ I am not a little disappointed and mortified at the post bringing me no letter from fron to-day; you promised to write on the road. _ reckon you arrived at your station on Sunday even1ng,” &c. As Wal ole wrote on Tuesday, 23 Jun the Sundliy here mentioned was 21 June. 3 the Miss Berrys left London on the previous Wednesday (17 June) the short letter te Lady Ossory under discussion must, at any rate, have ween written before that date. The rest of the note points to Lady Ossory’s intention of visiting Strawberry Hill, in