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NOTES AND QUERIES, [9* s. VIL JE 15, 1901.

some of your readers will be able to supply.it. The custom at the present time of not pub- lishing the name of the poet whenever the song is printed is to be regretted. At few of the popular concerts of the day where the grand old songs of the past are sung is the name of the author of the words ever given, but that of the composer of the music is never omitted. It is surprising, comparatively speaking, how few people know the author's name and the historic interest associated with numbers of the old songs.

CHARLES GREEN. 18, Shrewsbury Road, Sheffield.

[A much longer version, differing in many respects, is given in Hamilton's collection of 'Parodies,' vol. iii. p. 220. It is said to be anonymous.]

CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING (9 th S. vii. 408). Josephus (' Wars/ VI. ii. 1) fixes the date when the daily sacrifice failed, namely, 17th day of Panemus or Tammuz (=1 July), A.D. 70. C. S. WARD.

Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke.

UGO FOSCOLO IN LONDON (9 th S. vi. 326; vii. 150, 318). Faulkner's copy of Ugo Foscolo's epitaph certainly does not corre- spond with that at present on the tomb. I copied the various inscriptions in 1889 as follows :

[East end.] Ugo Foscolo

died September 10th

1827

aged 50

[West end.]

Restored

1861

[North and south sides.]

Coat of arms and motto

Accingar zona fortitudinis

[North cope.]

This spot where for forty-four years the relics of Ugo Foscolo

reposed in honoured custody

will be for ever held in grateful remembrance

by the Italian nation.

[South cope.]

From the sacred guardianship of Chiswick

to the honours of Santa Croce in Florence

the Government and people of Italy

have transported the remains of

the wearied citizen poet

7th June 1871.

Under date 17 June, 1871, 1 N. & Q.' duly recorded the exhumation of Foscolo's remains " in the presence of the Italian Minister and a number of distinguished Italians." The same paragraph also noted the curious circum- stance referred to by MR. PICKFORD as follows : " Although the body has been under ground

for forty-four years, the form was intact and the featured still perfect." I presume this strange factmust have been much talked about at the time. It is a subject about which one would certainly like to hear more.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

BARON GRIVIGNCE AND POWER (9 th S. vii. 409). If MR. BODDINGTON will apply to the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick Bedford, rector of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, who is a member of one of the families referred to by your correspondent, he will probably obtain the information he desires. Mr. Kirkpatrick Bedford is the learned author of 'The Blazon of Episcopacy ' and many other antiquarian works. JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

" BANDY-LEGGED "= u KNOCK-KNEED " (9 th S. vii. 124, 255). Would not the word " bandy," as applied to a knock-kneed person's legs as well as to one who is bow-legged, have come into use from the fact of the word comprising both the angular and the bowed sense, for a person's legs may be bent in either way ? That the bowed or con vex! y curved meaning of the phrase is, however, the proper and preferable one is no doubt accidental, since the word " bandy " is originally identical with the name of the club or bat used in the game of golf, or bandy-ball, which in the reign of Edward III. was called a "bandy "from its bent shape (see Brand's ' Pop. Antiq.,' 1870, vol. ii. p. 310). " Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal 1 " says King Lear to Oswald. On the other hand, one whose knees knock together in walking, " as if kneading dough," says Grose, was spoken of as "baker-kneed ":

His voice had broken to a gruffish squeak, He had grown blear-eyed, baker-kneed, and gummy. Colman, ' Poetical Vagaries,' p. 13.

The latter deformity is also known as being " K-legged," from the resemblance of the legs of such a person to the letter K, and is said to be printers' slang. " To knock one bandy " is tailors' slang meaning to astound, to " flabbergast," and probably alludes to the attitude of having the legs somewhat apart that might be assumed at the reception of astounding news. J. H. MAoMiOHAEL. Wimbledon Park Road.

"CARRICK" (9 th S. vii. 208, 292, 393). A writer in the Glasgow Evening News of 21 May says that this game, under the name of " the knotty," is fashionable at the present time in the county of Caithness. It is played by old and young, and the writer's informant, who has lived in Thurso for the last ten