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unds, form the one archaeological excursion the Clacton trippers. The principal work relating to the priory is "Some Account of St. Osyth's Priory, Essex,. .....compiled by

John Watney, Jim., F.S A." This was privately printed in 1871, but can be seen in public libraries. Mr. 0. R. B. Barrett's 'St. Osyth' was published by Lawrence & Bullen in 1893, price 3d. It is well written and fully illustrated. I. C. GOULD.

CARLYLE ON "MOSTLY FOOLS" (9 th S. vii. 108, 359). With regard to Carlyle's dictum, I find in the October number of the New Monthly Magazine^ 1832, the following, under the heading of 'Hints to Physicians' :

" The great majority of mankind are fools that large portion you are to live by ; therefore mystify your patients. When you talk to them let it be in King Cambyses' vein. The ears of the million are easily captivated ; when once their senses are con- founded, they have naturally a religious veneration for everything they do not understand. Tn brief, in all your dealings with men, remember that you have to do with folks who are ' semel et simul insanibiles omnes.'"

Written, of course, anterior to Carlyle's remark, but worthy of that cynic, who appears somewhat of a plagiarist.

R. HARDSTAFF.

Cannot this saying receive its quietus from ' N. & Q. ? ? To those who are grateful for the wit and humour of Carlyle it is annoying to find so much attention paid to one foolish remark. A fool is one whose intellect is below the average, and people can no more be "mostly fools" than mostly tall.

J. J. F.

LINES ON A SKULL (9 th S. vii. 348). The authorship of this poem has received more than usual attention in these pages ; see 2 nd S. vii. 359, x. 459 ; 4 th S. x. 60 ; 7 th S. vi. 469, vii. 14, xii. 481 ; 8 th S. i. 96, ii. 193. It seems to be claimed by a Mrs. Niven and by William Wrightson, and has appeared at full in many anthologies and in 'N. & Q.'

W. C. B.

LADY PURBECK AND HER SON (9 th S. vii. 389). Lady Purbeck was Frances, daughter of the celebrated Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Exeter. She married first Sir John Villiers (brother of George, Duke of Buckingham), who was created Viscount Purbeck. She eloped from him in 1621 with Sir Robert Howard, K.B., fifth son of Thomas, Earl of Norfolk ; assumed the name of Wright, and gave birth privately at Somerset House in 1624 to a son, who was baptized at Cripplegate under the name of

Robert Wright. She was sentenced (Arch- bishop Laud passing the sentence) to do penance in a white sheet at the Savoy Church, but evaded this punishment by con- cealing herself. Her son Robert married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Danvers, and took the name of Danvers. Their son Robert claimed the earldom of Buckingham, but the House of Lords decided against him upon the ground of his father's illegitimacy. Lady Purbeck died in 1657. The last of her male descendants died in 1774 without issue.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading.

"TAPPING" AND "TIPPING" (9 th S. vii. 105, 191, 337).

11 June, 1829." Dined at Power's, and off again to the Charter House in the evening, to deliver up our young Carthusian into the hands of the old matron. Sent for Sidney Smith's son, the only boy whose father I thought I knew, to introduce Tom to him. Brought with him a son of Sir James Montgomery, who is also on the foundation, while the matron sent for the boy that was to be Tom's monitor. After talking to them a little, gave Smith a sovereign and a half to divide between the three."

12 June. " Dined Fielding's ; no one but Lord Auckland. In telling Lady Elizabeth about the scene at the Charter House last night, mentioned a conversation I had once, on the subject of tipping,

with Lord Holland 'I remember once' (said

Lord Holland) ' refusing a pound which a man whom 1 used sometimes to go to see at Windsor offered me ; but the man, thinking that I had only refused it because the sum was so small, offered me five pounds, and, egad, that I couldn't withstand.'" 'Diary of Thomas Moore,' edited by Lord John Russell.

J. LEYNE.

Dublin.

" According to common report, the waiters at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which is a daily rendezvous of brokers after the official closing of business, receive valuable 'tips' with regard to the stock markets in lieu of fees. Mr. Oscar Tscherkey, the maitre d'hotel, has admitted that extensive bond Jide purchases of stocks have been made by waiters, and that one of them, by an investment in Atchison Railroad shares, recently netted 55,000 dols. in four hours. He was similarly fortunate with regard to the shares of the Steel Corporation. Tscherkey told an interviewer that speculation in margins is interdicted, but waiters are allowed to buy outright." Daily Graphic, 14 May, p. 10, col. 3.

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

TROUBADOUR AND DAISY (9 th S. vii. 389). Daisies are mentioned in the troubadour romance ' Aucassin and Nicolete ' (circa temp. Louis VII. ?) :-

" Et les flors des margerites qu'ele ronpoit as ortex de ses pies, qui li gissoient sor le menuisse du pie par deseure, estoient droites noires avers ses pies et ses ganbes, tant par estoit blance la mea- cinete."