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 9th s. VIL JUNE 22, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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extant more than a century older than 1210 which describe streets and tenements which make it almost certain that Perth stood then where it stands to-day. It is thought, however, that the tradition about the city being swept away by a flood may refer to a royal residence, which is believed to have stood near the mouth of the Almond." Hunter's 'Guide to Perthshire,' p. 50.

T. P. ARMSTRONG.

GUN REPORTS (9 th S. vii. 207, 258).- It was on a Waterloo Day in the early sixties that I was addressed by my fellow-passenger as we were seated on the roof of the up stage-coach from Brighton, and had arrived at the top of Peaspottage Hill. "In 1815," he said, " I was in a similar position to what I am at this pre- sent moment and on this same day of the year, when about midday I distinctly heard the boom of guns ; and this was, as it turned out, the guns at Waterloo."

HAROLD MALET, Col.

"To HOLD UP oiL"(6 fch S. i. 118). Until I lately read PROF. SKEAT'S 'A Student's Pas- time,' wherein (p. 132) the above reference occurs, I had been satisfied with the notes in Prof. Henry Morley's edition of Gower's * Con- fessio Amantis ' (" The Carisbrooke Library," Routledge, 1889). The note runs :

" To bere lip oile, to sustain the affirmation (of Zedekiah). Oil or pile is an old form of out, yes. ' Oil par ma foi, sire, oil mult volontiers,' says each of the false prophets to Ahab." P. 371.

The above explanation appears plausible and simple. Has it been discredited 1 H. P. L.

'PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE' (9 th S. vi. 450; vii. 53, 414). I do not feel altogether the jus- tice or cause of the charge made at the last reference, because I did not assert anything beyond what was on the frontispiece, and the first page of the music and words, and in part of the words themselves.

The copy I have of this song was published by Hopwood & Crew, 42, New Bond Street, W. ; and I may add that Clifton is represented elsewhere as being the author. Beyond this I have not any information respecting the song. I confess the title-page of a book, &c., is not an infallible guide to its author (more's the pity), and I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of what MR. ANDERSON states any more than the title-page of the song, or to regret that I may have been the innocent cause of his contribution on the subject.

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

This is a very old title for a song and for verses. Who originated it I know not. Very likely it came into vogue about the time that Mr. Macgregor " canoed " more or less round the world. In the Family Herald for 1853

Clifton's Book of Comic and

s,' and in this the piece is given

by Harry Clifton," without any

ame. This song I distinctly re-

are some unsigned verses with this title. Mrs. S. K. Bolton wrote a simple song also called 4 Paddle your own Canoe,' which was very popular in domestic circles. She was the author of many a song and short story. She died in August, 1893. In regard to Harry Clifton's claim, I may add that I have before me 'Harry Clifton's Book of Comic and Motto Songs, as " written

composer's name. s song -

member hearing sung constantly when I was a child in the middle sixties. Later I may be able to add to this note. S. J. A. F.

KINGSMAN FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 390). - William Long Kingsman, of St. Marylebone, was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 2 November, 1762; and Henry Long Kingsman, gent., first son of William Long Kingsman, of Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, Esq., was admitted there on 11 July, 1792. The latter, or another of his names, "son of William Kingsman of Newbury, Berks," and a West- minster scholar in 1787 (then aged twelve), became a barrister-at-law,and died in Jamaica in 1802 (' Westminster School Register, 1764- 1883'). H. C.

VERBS FORMED OUT OF PROPER NAMES (9 th S. vii. 182, 263, 393). To cant. This word, ac- cording to the New Monthly Magazine of 1 January, 1817, p. 514, derives its origin from two Scotch Presbyterian ministers, father and son, and both named Andrew Cant, in the reign of Charles I. Whitelock, in his 4 Memorials,' p. 511, after narrating the defeat at Worcester in 1651, says :

" Divers Scots ministers were permitted to meet at Edinburgh to keep a day of humiliation, as they pretended, for their too much compliance with the King ; and in the same month, when Lord Argyle had called a parliament, Mr. Andrew Cant, a minister, said in his pulpit that God was bound to own that parliament, for that all other parliaments were called by man, but this was brought about by his own hand."

Hence the imputed origin of the word as applied to fanatical preaching and hypo- critical pretences in religion. But the earliest use of the word given in the ' H.E.D.' is 1640 : " By lies and cants (they) Would trick us to believe 'em saints" (Cleveland, in Wilkins's * Polit. Ballads,' i. 28) ; so that it would have an interesting bearing upon the matter to ascertain when the Cants really lived.

To gurneyize.K cheap and convenient mode of manuring (1895), still practised in some parts of Greater London in the case of radishes, when the straw is raked off so soon as the sun is out and replaced at night. The