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 376 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9- s. VL NOV. 10, im It may be said, however, that Shakspeare has similar lines, which cannot be put right by the omission of a syllable. Perhaps so. Shakspeare was sometimes negligent in his versification. E. YABDLEY. DR. SPENCE asks whether I agree with him as to the scansion of 'Hamlet,' III. i. 88. Certainly I do. C. C. B. QUOTATION FROM CARLYLE (9th S. vi. 288, 338).—My cousin Henry Curwen, the author of a ' History of Booksellers,' was certainly not mythical. He was the author of ' Xit and Zoe.'and other tales, published by Black wood, and at the time of his death was editor and owner of the Times of India. ALFRED F. CURWEN. "LIKE ONE O'CLOCK"(9th S. vi. 198,305).— This common expression has not, I think, any connexion with workmen's dinner hour, which is mostly from twelve o'clock. "Like one o'clock" was used, and is still used, in con- nexion with things which are done rapidly. A school-lad " goes it like one o'clock !" and he can at any time do things "like one o'clock," or "like a house a-fire," or "like sticks a - breaking," or " like winking," or, which hardly " fits in," " like smoke." THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. " GYMNASTICS " (9th S. vi. 306).—Some years ago [ had occasion to pay an unexpected visit to one of ray sons who was then at a great public school. In answer to my inquiry one or the boys informed me that he had "just gone into Jim " (i.e., the gymnasium). W. C. B. " LORDSHIP " (9th S. vi. 268).—The usage of addressing the sheriffs of Scotch counties as "lordship" when seated on the bench is correct. It must be borne in mind by our English friends that the office of sheriff is different in Scotland from that in the sister kingdom, he being the civil and criminal .judge ordinary of the county, and not an honorary official like his English namesake. A. Q. REID. Auchterarder. In Scotland sheriffs, both principals (or "deputes,"as they should be properly termed) and substitutes, are invariably addressed as " your lordship " when on the bench. J. Q. WALLACE-JAMES, M.B. Haddington. SERGEANT - AT - ARMS : YEOMAN OF THE GUARD (9tb S. v. 355 ; vi. 235).—There appears to be no impossibility in a man holding the two posts of Sergeant-at-Arms and Yeoman of the Guard in 1509, as about that time th» Sergeanta-at-Arras were chiefly employed in apprehending offenders against the law, and ia<l ceased, probably from the date of the institution of. the eomen in that year, to occupy their original position of a body- guard. William Poole was possibly employed in both capacities. The relative positions of bhe Sergeants-at-Arrns, Yeomen of the Guard, and Gentlemen-at-Arms are somewhat folly discussed in the ' Nearest Guard,' by Major Henry Brackenbury, 1892, a copy of which is in the British Museum. HENRY i'.i:. KKM-.I i:. THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT KRAKATOA (9th S. vi. 185, 232, 318). —Mr. Swinburne's volume, with the 'New-Year Ode' addressed to Victor Hugo, is entitled 'A Midsummer Holiday, and other Poems,' 1884. There are twenty-five stanzas in the poem, and stanza xvii. introduces the afterglows thus :— It WM the dawn of winter : sword in sheath, Change, veiled and mild, came down the gradual air With cold slow smiles that hid the doom beneath. Five days to die in vet were autumn's, ere The lait leaf withered from his ttowerless wreath. In order to make his accuracy of reference quite precise, the poet adds in a note to the stanza that the exact date is 25 November, 1883. THOMAS BAYNE. BISHOP OF KILSANOR (9th S. vi. 289).—I cannot trace any see of this name. Might not Kilsanor bo Kilfenora, in Ireland ? Wil- liam Murray was bishop of this see from 1«22 to 1627. W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. JAMES II. (9th S. vi. 268).—In connexion with this subject, may I be permitted to venture the remark that perhaps the most momentous council held by King James in Ireland was on the occasion of This sojourn in Peter Dromgoole's house in Drogheda, in April, 1689, when he received the memorial address from Henry Dowdal, the Recorder? HENRY GERALD HOPE. Clapham, 8.W. SHAKKSPKARE AND THE SEA (9th S. 5. 504; ii. 113, 189, 455; iii. 36, 173; v. 462; vi. 56, 136, 212, 291). —MR. SIMPSON quotes three lines from ' Henry IV.,' and says ironically that this was the sort of information that Shakspeare picked up from a sailor. Seriously, I think that no sailor could have given this information. I do not know how ships used to be built, but in modern times no ship-boy • •cull! have slept at the must head without