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 452 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vi. DEC. s, woo. The_ myth has been epigrammatized by Ursinus (Giovanni Orsini) in his 'Prosopo- poeia Animalium ' (Pavia, 1552, p. 74):— Ad D. Syhiestrem Bernerium medicum Papientem. Vt cures bilem, ijuai se diffundit in artus, ! I •• -i- tibi capta nieo Galbula rete uenit. Oalbula. Si euro intuitu suffuses felle, quid inde ? Si me pro pretio mors uiolenta manet. Orsini himself was a physician as well as poet laureate. As to the place in Pliny's tenth book re- lating to the chlorion, of which P. Holland's translation is quoted at the last reference; C. C. B. will doubtless be pleased to learn that Liddell and Scott regard \oplutv as "pro- bably the Oriolus galbula or golden oriole," for which witwall, as we know, is a popular name. The identification of the birds of ancient writers, however, is a business that I gladly leave to others. F. ADAMS. 115, Albany Road, S.E. THE TITLE OF ESQUIRE (9th S. vi. 387).— Blackstone, in his 'Commentaries,' bk. i. ch. xii., ' Of the Civil State," omits barristers from his list of persons (i. 404-6) entitled to this " name of worship." His editor, Edward Christian, adds a note :— " Length of enjoyment has established such a right to this distinction, that the Court of Common Pleas refused to hear an affidavit read, because a barrister named in it was not called an esquire. 1 Wilt., 244." Q- V. STANLEY FAMILY OF PAULTONS (9th S. vi. 369).—The name of the younger sister of Hans Stanley was Sarah. She married Christopher Doyley, M.P. See Elwes and Robinson's ' Castles and Mansions of Western Sussex,1 p. 99. ALF. T. EVEKITT. SEDAN CHAIRS (7th S. i. 37, 295 ; ii. 6 ; xii, 394; 8th S. ii. 142 511; iii. 54, 214, 333 ; iv. 229 ; v. 33, 77 ; vii. 305, 396 ; viii. 136; 9th S ii. 165, 195 351). —In Tuckwell's 'Remi- niscences of Oxford' the author names Pusey's mother as going to church in her sedan from Grosvenor Square up to 1858. S. C. I, GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE (9th S. vi. 127) —In Mr. F. G. Hilton Price's ' Some Accoun of Ye Marygold,' 1875, is told the very inter esting story of the romantic elopement of the Earl of Westmoreland with Mr. Child's onl; daughter Sarah Anne, and the subsequen " fixing up " of their happy-go-lucky marriag at the old toll-house at Gretna Green in 178f J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. "BLACK IVORY"=SLAVES (9th S. vi. 268).— Thomas Fuller (1608-61), in his 'Good Set laptain,' says : " But our captain counts the mage of God nevertheless his image, cut in bony as if done in ivory." John Keats 1796-1820) wrote: " Sparkl'd his [the swan's] etty eyes, his feet did show beneath the aves like Afric's ebony." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. " GUTTER-SNIPE " (9th S. vi. 127, 215).TI ememberthatin my youngdays in Derbyshire we used to "snipe" (play) in the mud-puddles fter rain ; and children thus engaged were snipper-snappers i' t' muck." The term gutter-snipe as applied to children play- ng with and among dirt is still common nough. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. STRIKING THE ANVIL (9th S. 'vi. 367). — It equires both strength and skill to swing the ledge-hammer. The smith lays the hot iron MI the anvil, and begins to strike it with his ight hand hammer to see that the metal is lat on the anvil, and to point out to the striker or assistant where to strike with the sledge. After a few btows the striker begins with the sledge, which is swung in a circular manner. The blows are given alternately by smith and striker, the smith's blows being merely to point out to the striker where he wishes the sledge to land. " Another compeer of King James who also ' struck the study " was Damian, the alchemist who, according to Dunbar, Unto no mess preissit the prelat For sound of sacrying bell nor skellat, As blacksmith bruikit was his pellat For battering at the study. Though lie come hame a new-made chanon, He had dispensit with matin's canon, On him come nouther stole nor Canon For smoking of the smiddy. J. G. WALLACE-JAMES, M.B. Haddington. FRIESIC PROVERB (9th S. vi. 366).—MR. ADAMS may be interested to know that this was exhaustively treated by the late Alex- ander J. Ellis in the fourth volume of his ' Early English Pronunciation,' 1875, p. 1397. Ellis gives the Halifax proverb as follows :— Guuid bred, boter, en tshiiz, Iz guuid Ehfeks en gunid Friiz. This is identical with the version quoted by MR. ADAMS, except that it is rendered phonetically. On the other hand, the two Friesic forms given by Ellis differ consider- ably from those quoted by MR. ADAMS. Ellis obtained his from two native Frisians, Mr. de Fries and Mr. van de Meulen. The following