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 9 th s. vii. JUNE 22, loci.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Buckeridge (his uncle) without issue, would represent the family of Buckeridge. The arms of Buckeridge are : Or, two pallets sable between five cross-crosslets fitchee of the first. There is sufficient similarity to imagine that the Basildon Buckeridges bore the arms as blazoned in the third quarter of the above achievement. Can any one give me a record of their having done so ? A. S. DYER.

3. Blomfield Street, Bayswater, W.

A " PEREMPTORY." It was ordered by the Water Club of the Harbour of Cork (now the Royal Cork Yacht Club) on 21 April, 1737,

" That for the future, unless the company ex- ceed the number of fifteen, no man be allowed more than one bottle to his share, and a peremptory."

What was a " peremptory " ?

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

"PiNT UMBIT." In a foot-note on p. 194 of Edwards's 'Shaksper, not Shakespeare,' credited to Dr. Morgan, there occurs the following : ** Yus, gaffer, 'e be gwan pint umbit " What is the meaning of " pint umbit "? XL.

Philadelphia.

" HEDGE," IN BACON'S ESSAY ' ON GARDENS.' Bacon's garden is to be

" incompassed, on all the four sides, with a stately arched hedge the arches to be on pillars, of car- penters' work, of some ten foot high, and six foot broad ; and the spaces between of the same dimen- sion with the breadth of the arch. Over the arches let there be an entire hedge, of some four foot high, framed also upon carpenters' work," &c.

In the Latin version (I quote the Lugd. Bat. 1659 edition) the most important part stands thus : " Arcus extollantur supra columnas ex opere lignaris, pedes decem alti, lati sex. Spatia autem inter columnas ejusdem dimensionis sint cum latitudine arcus." What sort of a construction was intended ? Was the woodwork merely in- tended to support a live hedge trained so as to form arches ; or was the whole body of the fence intended to be of woodwork ? Another passage in the same essay, where Bacon speaks of planting " a covert alley, upon car- penters' work, about twelve foot nigh," seems to favour the former view. But then, if this is intended, how is it that Bacon does not say of what plants the hedge is to be made? A mere wooden hedge seems quite inconsistent with the grandeur of the garden that Bacon had in view.

There is another point on which I am in doubt. What is the meaning of the "breadth of the arch " 1 It is evidently not the same as the distance between the columns, as the latter is expressly defined by reference to the

former. Is it the thickness of the hedge? Note that the Latin has " spatia autem inter columnas," so that "spaces between" does not mean the spaces between the arches.

I should be glad if some reader of * N. & Q. more versed than I am in early gardening literature could explain the passage, or refer me to any books where I should be likely to find information on the subject. The Hon. Miss Amherst's book has been consulted, without avail. J. F. R.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. When late within the Caspian Sea, Our vessel lying under lee Dashed by the angry foam, O'er the blue deep my visions flow In silent ecstasy to you And to my native home. B. B.

What do we hire our ministers for if not to stop

delusion ? Oh dear, they don't know what to do, they 're all in

such a confusion !

Sheepskins, beeswax, putty, pitch, and plaster, The more you try to pull them off they're sure to

stick the faster. ARTHUR CHILD.

St. Lucia, W.I.

THE MANOR OF TYBURN.

(9 th S. vii. 381, 402.)

[See also * Executions at Tyburn,' 9 th S. vii. 121, 210, 242, 282, 310.]

To the few facts which I have advanced (ante, p. 310) in evidence of the western extension of the manor (viz., an Act of Parlia- ment stating Bayswater to be in the manor of Tyburn, and the name Tyburn twice attached to land west of Edgware Road) COL. PRIDEAUX makes an important addition. The evidence he brings forward from Stow materially strengthens the view. For the Elizabethan author, describing the supply of water granted to London by Gilbert Sanford in 1236, clearly represents the source to have been in "the Towne of Teyborne," which he further says was in Paddington. Stow is not concerned with the extent of Tyburn Manor, nor is Maitland, who wrote 141 years later. But although Maitland ('Hist, of London,' ed. 1756, i. 83) shows that he is acquainted with Stow's account of the con- duit, and his locating the source in the town of Tyburn in Paddington, he chooses to place that town or village in Marylebone. He gives no other reason for his decision that the ancient village or, at least, the ancient church of St. John occupied the site of Marylebone Court House than that "from the great number of human bones dug up