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 ‘ 492 NOTES AND QUERIES. 1998- VI- DP=C~2`2»19°° SERJEANT HAwx1Ns (9"= S. vi. 250).-Through the courtesy of the bursar of Oriel College, Oxford, I ave learnt that the serjeant’s university career is correctly stated in Mr. Fosters ‘ Alumni Oxonienses, and that, when the serjeant gave to that college a copy of his book, the gift _was entered as from a late Fellow. The_‘D1ct. Nat. Bi<;§.,’ therefore, errs as to_ the ser;eant’s place of ucation. It also errs in mak1ug_1673 the year of his birth, if when he matriculated at Oxford, 28 Feb. 1695/6, he was correctly entered as aged fourteen. H, (,_ Conrsn ON SHIPBOARD (9°" S. vi. 246, 313' 374, 437);-What I said was that the lines quoted Y W._C. B. were not an example of corpse on shipboard, and the superstition relating thereto. The openin lines of the sixth ook of the ‘zEneid’ dlnow that the fleet was anchored, and that the Tro'ans had disembarked. After this Misenus was cfrowned ; his corpse was never on board ship at all, but lay on the seashore. 1/Eneas did not know of his death until he learnt it from the Sibyl. The fleet was plolluted by the unburied dead body.. When t e body was buried, or rather cremated, the fleet was polluted no longer. E. YARDLEY. HAYl)0N’S Pxorumcs (9"* S. vi. 346, 438).- There is here a small oil painting of Na leon at St. Helena, by Haydon, which Sir Hbnry Russell bought from him in 1842. On the back_ of the picture is pasted Haydon’s letter offering it as a companion for Sir Henry Russel ’s small portrait of Wellington, by Sir David Wilkie. Haydon’s letter is as follows : SIR.,-I have a sketch of Napoleon musin on his fixture grave, a very suitable companion for lil/ilkie. Somethingllike this [then follows a sli ht pen-and- 1nk_sketc of the picture]. Let me lmow, I will get it for you to see. Yr obedient, B. R. HAYDON. Below is pasted another paper in Haydon’s writing, saylngz “From a bronze given by Napoleon to O Meara.” CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading. ANTIQUITY or A SLANG PHRASE : “ GETTING UP EARLY ” S?" S. xi. 86, 131, 197).-An early example of t is familiar expression occurs in Rugg e’s ‘£gnoramus,’ IV. viii. (ed. 1668, p. 103) : “ 1 on decepit me, sed te : debet sur- gere per tempus qui decipit me.” This play was acted twice before James I. in 1615, although not printed until 1630, eight years after t e author’s death. F. ADAMS. f‘ HUBTLING ” (9“= S. vi. 48, 175, 370). -To me this word seems graphically to describe the sage of the arrow through the air, or_that gfulhe stone from the sling or from_a mlhwry en ine. In ‘ Pendenms ’ (chap. xix.) IS the following amusing parody of a prize poem 2- “ On to the breach, ye soldiers of the cross. Scale the red wall and swim the choking foss. Ye daunt- less archers, twan your crossbows well; On, bill, and battle-axe, and mangonel! Ply battering-ram
 * raid hurtling catapult, Jerusalem is ours-sd Deus

t.” A friend once told me that many gears age; when hearing Spurgeon preach on avid an Goliath, the reacher imitated the hurtl_1ng of the stone fliom the sling in such a forcible manner as to alarm the congregation, who stooped down to avoid its descent. J onN Prcxrosn, M.A. “ KHAKI ” (9"‘ S. iv. 86, 535).--At the last reference HIPPOCLIDES states that the mili- tary use of this material is about fifty years old. In confirmation of this, it may be worth quoting the following from an account of the attack onthe village of Sangao on 11 Dec., 1849, iven in Lumsden and lsm1e’s ‘Lums- den og the Guides’ (Murray, 1899), p. 79 :- “So quickly did the Guides accomplish their task, that an artillery omcer deliberately laid a gun on them, and was on the point of ordering it to be fired when a keen-e ed gunner called out-, _‘ Lord! sir; them is our mudlarks ! ’ referring to their mud- colour [in foot-note, Khaki] uniform, then for the first time seen in action by British troopls, though now [l899Lso generally adopted by the w ole army when in t e field.” And on p. 200 H. B. Edwardes, in a letter to H. B. Lumsden, dated Peshawur, 21 July, 1857 writes: “The whole of the troolps here are dressed in Khakee.” H. . M. St. Petersburg. BIARGARET or BoUnBoN (9'-l' S. vi. 289, 397). -I thank Mn. RADCLIFFE for giving the month (in 1472) in which Margaret was married. I am still very anxious to ascertain her date of birth. MEGAN. HU1sH(9“‘ S. v. 475; vi. 95, 154, 231, 297, 392).-The sooner MR. ELWOBTHY gives up his Celtic “theor ” as to the origin of Huish the better, Iythink, for his reputation. He should come out of his Somersetshire shell and look around him. There is neither historical, nor physiographical, nor philo- logical basis for his speculation; and the more he labours his case the worse he makes it. His difliculty seems to be due to the assumption that the meaning of the A.-S. /nfwisc or higwisc is rigorously restricted to a hide of land with its generally accepted acreadge, whereas there is evidence that it also enoted a piece of land, or a family estate ,or manor, of varying size. If we cut o&` the