Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 7.djvu/156

 148

NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL FEB. 23, uoi.

SOURCE OF QUOTATION. I like to," verify my quotations, and should be glad if any correspondent would tell me where these lines occur, quoted from memory : I saw a falling leaf soon strew The soil to which it owed its birth ; I saw a bright star, falling too, But never reach the quiet earth. Such is the lowly portion blest, And such ambition's foil'd endeavour The falling leaf is soon at rest, While stars which fall, fall on for ever.

s. s.

RUTTER FAMILY. Parentage and birthplace wanted :

1. Joseph Rutter, poet, 1635-40, friend of Ben Jonson (' D.N.B.' known).

2. Samuel Rutter, Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1661-3 (' N. & Q.,' 3 rtl S. iii. 30).

3. John Rutter, M.A., nonjuring priest, 1716 (' N. & Q ,' 3 rd S. iii. 243-4). W. C. B.

"BOUGEES": "BUGGIES." I find the fol- lowing in a letter from an undergraduate at Caius College, Cambridge, of 29 August, 1767:

" I have been somewhat more gay and idle than I should have been this last fortnight in making parties to go on the water, and in riding out to New- market and the country round about Cambridge in little one-horse chaises, which they call Bougees."

Is the vehicle thus named the original of " buggy," which now comes back to us from America ? ALBERT HARTSHORNE.

SACK AND SUGAR, In the same letter it is stated that during the intervals of examina- tion by the Master and Fellows for a number of exhibitions at Caius College, worth from 31. to 101. a year each,

" it is customary with us, and has been so ever since the days of Dr. Caius, to have sugar-roll and sack standing in the hall, and battledores and shuttlecocks to divert ourselves with while we are not engaged with the Fellows."

Is "sugar-roll" sugar-candy and is not this a late survival of the once universal habit of taking sugar with dry Spanish wine, after its first use had passed from medicinal em- ployment? Falstaff exclaims, "If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! "

ALBERT HARTSHORNE.

"BELONGS WITH." James Russell Lowell concludes his article on Thoreauin 'My Study Windows ' with this sentence :

" He belongs with Donne and Browne and Novalis ; if not with the originally creative men, with the scarcely smaller class who are peculiar, and whose leaves shed their invisible thought-seed like ferns."

Is " belongs with,'' used as here in the sense of " ranks with," a literary Americanism ?

THOMAS BAYNE.

VERSES ON THE IRISH FAMINE. - Can any I one direct me to the full text of a jingle, perhaps by Thackeray, that appeared during our Irish famine of 1845-7 1 It commences :- What's to be done at all, Mr. Commissioner? Here's a lot of praties wouldn't plaze the pig, si "Earlies" and "lumpers," "cups" and common

praties Gonetothedivil. ALPKED WEBB.

Rathgar, Dublin.

"JEBER'S COOKS."

" And though the Cockatrice bee veneme, with- out remedy whilest hee lyueth : yet when hee is dead and burnt to ashes, hee loseth all his malyce, & the ashes of him are good for Alkuroistes, & namelye in turning and chaunging of mettall. 1 naue not seene the proof therof, and yet I haue beene one of Jeber's cokes."

So Gerard Legh in his 'Accedens of Armorye,' 1568, fol. 61. Will any one say why Jeber's cooks are so called 1

WM. NORMAN.

LAY CANON. What are the meaning and origin of the office of a lay canon ? In what English cathedrals does the office exist ?

KOM OMBO.

[For petty canons or vicars choral see 7 th S. viii. 368, 474.]

JOHN EDWARD FOSTER, born 13 November, 1804, was admitted bo Westminster School on 12 February, 1816. Can any correspondent give me particulars concerning him for the ' Westminster School Register ' ?

G. F. R. B.

J. FOULIS was admitted to Westminster School on 13 March, 1809. Can any corre- spondent of ' N. & Q.' help me to identify him 1

G. F. R. B.

F. N. B. V. B. FORTUNE was admitted to Westminster School on 26 June, 1811. I should be glad to obtain any information concerning him. G. F. R. B.

SOURCE or LINES WANTED.

Plays are a mirror

By which men may see

How bad they are,

How good they ought to be.

H. J.

ABRAHAM ELDER. Who was "Abraham Elder, Esquire," who appears on the title- page as author of ' Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight,' published 1841, second edition 1843, with illustrations by Robert Cruik- shank? One of the legends, 'The Piper of Newtown,' is almost literally (in its essentials) identical with Robert Browning's 'Pied Piper I of Hamelin,' only in prose. Browning (if I