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 256 vi. SKIT. 29, im NOTES AND QUERIES. same there. I do not think I knew it by any other until I came to London to study medi- cine. It was also customary, whenever it lighted on the hands, to repeat the following lines :— Bishy-bishy-barnabee, Tell me when your wedding be : If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. I remember being told that the first line was a corruption of Bless you, bless you, bonny bee." The explanation must evidently have been very much ex pnat facto, and invented by some one totally unacquainted with coleopterology, or he would hardly have classed this insect with the Hymenoptera. Sometimes the reduplication was used in naming it, as "There is a bishy-bishy- barnabee." J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S. W., The rime that was familiar here was :— Cushie coo lady, fly away home. Your house is on tire, your children alone. R. B—R. South Shields. VTH ROYAL FUSILIERS (9th S. v. 516).—When the Duke of Kent was colonel of the 7th Fusiliers (1791-1800) the drummers of the regiment were all negroes. Perhaps Drake had been one of these drummers, and had afterwards set up an hotel or tavern in Paris, and owned the racehorse. This guess may help MR. MILNE to gain fuller informa- tion about his engraving. M. N. G. BIBURY (9th S. iv. 108, 172, 295, 331, 524 ; v. 384, 459 ; vi. 175). — Since first writing about Bibury a calendar of the Sherborne muniments has been printed, and I am now able to give some more precise information about Bibury and its manors. Henry Sack- ville died leaving two daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine. By his will (probate copy dated 9 Nov., 1698) he divided his propertj between them. A deed of partition, datet 7 July, 1713, gives, among other things, the manor of Arlington to Katherine. Katherine Sackvilledied unmarried in 17CO, andentailec her property on her great-nephew, Estcoun Cressweil. Richard Cresswell, Estcourt's son sold the whole property, Bibury and Arling ton, to my grandfather in 1829, who resole Arlington to Sir Richard Musgrave, of Barns ley Park. There is no record of any Hal being lord of the manor, or, indeed, of theii having been freeholders. They certainlj lived at Hay Farm, but they do not claim 1x be lords of the manor on their monuments There is no record of Mrs.—or, as we shouk now say, Miss—Katherine Sackville having ived at the Hay Farm and called it a manor house. No Court Rolls of an Arling- wn manor are extant, and it seems anciently o have been included in Bibury. The old Court Rolls show Eycote (near Rendcomb), Aldsworth, and Ablyngton to have been nembers of Bibury, but not Arlington. Even undoubted manor, owed suit and service to ,he Lord of Bibury. SHERBORNE. THE MOUSE, ISAIAH LXVI. 17 (9th S. v. 165, 46, 487 ; vi. 178).—The question I raised had reference only to MR. PICKFORD'S statement ,hat it is "usually supposed that in Egyptian lieroglyphics the mouse was the symbol of destruction and slaughter." Of the passages o which he now refers the following is the only one that bears on the matter :— "A more probable explanation of it is given by Vlichaolis, quoted by Oeuzer, viz., that a mouse was the symbol in Egyptian hieroglyphics for destruction and slaughter, and hence that Hero- dotus was deceived by the figure of this animal sculptured in the hand of the statue of the king, and took it literally."—Dawson W. Turner, ' Notes on Herodotus,' p. 153. The suggested explanation is obviously a guess of Michaelis, and it could hardly be anything else, seeing that he died about the time that Champollion, the founder of Egyptology, was born. In answer to MR. HALL, the Egyptian for " mouse " was nernu. F. W. READ. PALATINATE (9th S. vi. 28).—F. B. T. shguld consult Sjr Clements R. Markham's account of ' The Fighting Veres,' Sir Francis and his younger brother Sir Horace. The latter was created Baron Vere of Tilbury. Whether the expenses of his expedition were ever refunded seems uncertain. GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool. 'The Fighting Veres,' by Clements R Markham, should contain the information your correspondent seeks. C. C. B. " PEACE, RETRENCHMENT, AND REFORM " (9th S. iii. 287, 334).—Is not the germ of this phrase to be found in a reference by Pepys to a policy ^^reformation and reducement"! v ^ POLITICIAN. IRON AND GR«AT INVENTIONS (9th S. vi. 170). —You cannot in vent an element, but you may discover one. Iron, consequently, was dis- covered, not invented, but man has both in- vented and discovered the means of utilizing the metal for human needs. What is con- sidered man's greatest invention is a mean- ingless question. The Athenaeum says
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