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NOTES AND QUERIES, p* s. VIL APRIL 27, 1001.

There can be no question as to their having been drawn by hand, because there are not merely inequalities in length, but on com- paring a duplicate copy with my own I find there are numerous minute variations such as would not have been met with had the lines been printed. The time and labour and consequent expense involved in such a task must have increased the cost of each copy very considerably. The ruling in those days was done by men specially retained by publishers for that purpose.

ALEXANDER PATERSON. Barnsley.

SOURCE OF QUOTATION (9 th S. vii. 8, 292). No. 3 is from O'Keefe's musical farce 'The Poor Soldier.' WM. DOUGLAS.

D'AUVERGNE FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 68, 117, 176, 191, 251, 277). See an article by A. A. Bethune - Baker in Journal of Ex-Libris Society, vol. vii., upon * Book-plate of Philip d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon.'

PUTEANUS.

Voltaire gives a whole chapter to the peers of France, and he evidently applies the term to the ancient barons: "Mais on de- mand e quels etaient les pairs de France ? " &c. ('Histoire du Parlement de Paris,' chap. viii.). E. YARDLEY.

FUNERAL CARDS (9 th S. vii. 88, 171, 291).

" Upon his [Col. Mannering's] return to the inn he found a card inviting him to the funeral of Miss Margaret Bertram, late of Singleside, which was to proceed from her own house to the place of interment in the Greyfriars churchyard at one o clock afternoon."' Guy Mannering,'chap. xxxvii. The period of 'Guy Mannering,' after the tenth chapter, is circa 1770.

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

I presume "James Batty, Esq.," should read "James Barry, Esq.," in MR. ELIOT HODGKIN'S note at the last reference. The date of Barry's death is simply recorded as 1806 on his monument in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. I find, on reference to ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' that he died on 22 February, 1806. Is it a fact that his funeral did not take place until seventeen days after ? JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"FIVE O'CLOCK TEA": WHEN INTRODUCED

$rir S< V h 446; *?' 13 ' 96 ' l 76).-In 1766 William Dutton, then at Eton College, wrote home to his father at Sherborne, "I wish you would be so kind as to let me have tea and sugar to drink in the afternoon, without which there is no keeping company with

other boys of my standing." His eldest brother was the first Lord Sherborne. M.

In reference to the above, in a little brochure which has lately come into my possession, and which was written, 1 believe, in 1878 by Rosa Gebhard, entitled ' An English Country Squire, as sketched at Hard wick Court, Gloucestershire,' which is an illustration of the life of Mr. Barwick Baker, who was the originator of the Hard wick Court Reforma- tory, I find :

<l The hour for the five o'clock tea had come. An elderly lady, related to Mr. Baker, told me as fol- lows : 'I well remember the time when pur friends, brothers, and sons returned from the Crimean War. Alas ! how many did not return ! What enjoyment it was to them, after the terrible privations of those days, to sit once more by the warm fireside, sur- rounded by their family ! All pressed round them and listened to their narrative. Cold tea had been their favourite beverage in the trenches before Sebastopol. Hot tea with bread and butter appeared to them on their return home as nectar and ambrosia. In the oft-repeated pleasure we enjoyed in refreshing the heroes of our families with their favourite beverage the old, strict tradi- tional domestic rule was broken, and so began five o'clock tea, which is, as it were, the daily renewed commemoration of the return of our warriors ; the hour which, in reminding some how much they owe to Providence, recalls to others the painful memory of bereavements, causing us to feel from year to year more peacefully inclined towards other

nations.

P. W.

Thackeray in 'The Newcoines,' published in 1855 (ch. xxxii.), seems to allude to this light refreshment, half-way between lunch and dinner, as if it was already a fashionable institution at the time he wrote. During his courtship of poor Lady Clara Pulleyn, that little cocktail Barnes Newcome

" comes [to her parents', Lord and Lady Dorking's] every day from the City, drops in, in his quiet unobtrusive way, and drinks tea at five o'clock, &c.

H. E. M.

St. Petersburg.

ANIMALS IN PEOPLE'S INSIDES (9 th S. vii. 222). This superstition appears to be very old ; it is at any rate as old as the six- teenth century, for in the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Symonds's translation) we find a similar affliction narrated as befall- ing that great artist. Cellini, it seems, had a serious illness in Rome, and on a partial recovery he was taken to a house in Monte Cavallo. He says :

" No sooner had I reached the place than I began to vomit, during which there came from my stomach a hairy worm about a quarter of a cubit in length ; the hairs were long and the worm was very ugly, speckled of divers colours, green, black, and red.