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NOTES AND QUERIES, [9* s. VIL MAY is, 1901.

Coll., Camb.,as 1767, instead of 1769, as given in the 'D.N.B.' There were two Warrens commoners at Winchester, whose names were on the Long Roll for 12 September, 1768. One of these presumably the elder, John Borlase had left the school before the next Roll was issued, 11 September, 1769, so that his entry at Cambridge on 23 September, 1769, is quite possible. The other Warren was, I learn from G. E. C., almost certainly the admiral's younger and only brother Arnold, baptized 27 January, 1757, at Staple- ford, Notts, died unmarried 27 August, 1829. He remained at Winchester College until after 7 September, 1772. C. W. H.

HAND-RULING IN OLD TITLE-PAGES (9 th S. vii. 169, 331). This kind of ornamentation is by no means uncommon in the better class of Bibles and Prayer-books of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In Durham Castle chapel are two copies of the 1669 folio Prayer-book, with the engraved title in one of them, ruled throughout with red lines on the title and on all the pages ; and I have a 12mo Prayer-book of 1722 ruled in the same

J. T. F.

SUFFOLK NAME FOR LADYBIRD (9 th S. v. 48, 154, 274; vi. 255, 417 ; vii. 95). Can there be much doubt that the popular reverence for this insect, possessing so much attraction from the folk-rimes associated with it, is traceable to its being in the first place iden- tified, on account of its sanguine colour (like the robin redbreast or the berries of the rowan - tree), with the solar fire and sun- worship, and thence by Christianity with St. Barnabas's Day, 11 June, the day of the summer solstice ? So, to this day, its quali- fications as an augury of happiness to the pensive love-maiden are acknowledged as she repeats the words

Fly away east, fly away west,

And show me where lives the one 1 love best. The name " Barnabee," however, appears to have no allusion to " burning," for the bishop's name is thus spelt in the old proverb relating to the day of his festival, viz., " Barnabee bright ; the longest day, and the shortest night." In the better-known rime,

Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home ;

Your house is on fire, your children will burn,

the ladybird's home is the sun ; and in Ger- many children must not kill it, or the sun would not shine the next day. A childish name for the insect in Northamptonshire is "clock-a-day "(A. E. Baker's 'Glossary'). Other names not mentioned by your correspondents are "God Almighty's cow," " fly-golding,"

" God's horse " (in Lancashire^ corresponding perhaps to the French " bete-a-Dieu, and in Scotland "Lady Planners " (Lady of Flanders).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Wimbledon Park Road.

In December, 1876, some 'Stray Notes on Folk-lore ' appeared in the Churchman's Shil- ling Magazine, from the pen of O. S. T. Drake, and in article iv., p. 425 of vol. xx., the following occurs :

"Children in Sussex use the ladybird charm: they call them lady-bugs, fly - goldings, or God Almighty's cows,* and Bishop Barnabys. Set the ladybird on your finger and say : Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, Tell me when my wedding be. If it be to-morrow day, Ope your wings and fly away,"

which is a variant of the lines given at the fourth reference. CHAS. H. CROUCH.

Wanstead.

" LADY OF THE MERE " (9 th S. vii. 299). Your reviewer asks, "Have we or have we not known ' lady of the mere ' as a substitute for ' lady of the lake ' ? " He is thinking, doubt- less, of Wordsworth's

Lady of the Mere, Sole sitting by the shores of old romance.

' Poems on the Naming of Places,' iv.

C. C. B.

VULGAR MISUSE OF ' k RIGHT " (9 th S. vii. 49, 271). The misuse in the sense referred to by R. B R and F. H. is not so limited and local as they imagine. Speaking from student memories, I believe exhaustive analyses of its different meanings and shades of meaning are to found in works on jurisprudence such as Holland, Austin, and the like.

LIONEL CRESSWELL.

Wood Hall, Calverley, Yorks.

" MAD AS A HATTER" (9 th S.vi.448 ; vii. 251). On a previous occasion I pointed out that the hatter's madness was dipsomania, induced by working with hot irons in a heated atmo- sphere and in a standing position. The tailor works under similar conditions, but seated ; his condition is therefore less aggravated, and he accordingly gets credited only with pusillanimity and lubricity.

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

"SARSON STONES" (9 th S. vii. 149, 234, 270). I am possibly a miserable creature, but even a worm will turn, and I should like to suggest that I may not deserve quite all the scorn which DR. J. A. H. MURRAY intends for m reproof and correction. I have for many


 * In Spain, voca de Dios.