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 NOTES AND QUERIES. p* s. vn. FEB. 2, ioi.

fi CARTERLY. "--This word occurs in Prof. Jialeigh's 'Milton,' p. 173: "Sternhold thrust some of the Psalms of David into a carterly metre." I suppose this is a revived use of the word " carterly," defined in * H.E.D.' as meaning " like or befitting a carter, clownish, boorish, rude, ill-bred," the last quotation for which, dated 1644, is taken from Sir E. Bering's works. Can any of your readers give a quotation for the word between 1644 and 1900, exclusive of its appearance in the later editions of Cotgrave and Florio ?

A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.

SAFFORD FAMILY IN SOMERSETSHIRE. Bartholomew Safford, Rector of Enmore in 1613, had three sons clergymen, two of whom were ejected, viz., Thomas from Isfield and Bartholomew from Bicknoller, in 1662. There were two James Saffords at Bridgwater in 1658, when one issued a token. Dr. Jedidga bafford (of Taunton) took his degree in physic at Utrecht, and published a work on dysentery at Bristol in 1689, where he died 1712, leaving six children. Of these Bartholo- mew a mercer of Christ Church, Bristol, voted m 1721, and Joseph, apothecary, in 1734. In 1780 Safford & Son appear in a directory as apothecaries. In 1792 Joseph, son ot Joseph, Gent., of Bristol, aged twenty-one, matriculated at St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford Ihere was a Joseph Safford, surgeon and coroner, 1807-11 ; and Thomas Jeffery Safford, a dentist, died there in 1811. Any infor- mation concerning these, and whether and how related; or Christopher Safford, who

fS?!*? t0 V H inia in the Treasurer in 1613; Ihomas bafford, who went to New Ipswich in 1638 ; or Joseph and Silas, sons of

?7nn P 'n W v h .u Wer, e , Y? Plvm th, Mass., in 1700, will be thankfully received.

J. BURHAM SAFFORD. 48, Grosvenor Road, S. W.

' ?i HE. GOSPEL OF LABOUR.' Can you kindly tell me the author and publisher of The Gospel of Labour' (a description of the sculptures of Giotto's Tower)?

a A. B.

ALBERT THE GOOD. -The obituary notice of the Prince Consort which appeared in the Athenvum of the 21st of December, 1861 contains the following : What the word Duty was to Arthur the Great, the word Progress, was to Albert the Good." Is this the first instance in which this phrase after

b /J en ys ? in S dedication ls of the King,' was used ?

N. S. S.

PR. JOHNSON. Did Dr. Johnson ever write his surname Johnstons I I have an old copy of the works of Claudian in Latin, 16mo, in the original vellum binding, and printed at Cologne in 1612. On the top of the title- page, in a small, upright, cramped hand, is 44 Samuel Johnstone, Market Bosworth, 1733," and at the end of the poems, before the annotations, the following note in the same writing, viz. :

" Claudian seems to possess the Majesty and purity of the Augustan age uninterrupted by the execrable language of his own : in him Poetry may be said to have revived and with him to have again sunk into her long dormant state of wretche[dness]. S. Johnstone, Market Bosworth, Jan. 19, A.D. 1733."

The volume has also other autographs, "E Libris Caroli May" and "Jacob Jefferson, Oxon., Queen's, 1743." HENRY T. WAKE.

Fritchley, Derby.

RHODODENDRONS AND OLEANDERS. I have a very early edition of ' The Christian Year.' In the poem for the third Sunday in Advent, to the line

Those blossoms red and bright, there is appended a foot-note :

" Rhododendrons, with which the western bank of the lake [of Galilee] is said to be clothed down to the water's edge."

I see that in an edition published in 1889 the word " rhododendrons " is here changed to "oleanders." When, and by whom, was the alteration made, and is it justified by facts ?

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

"KH fortv - sixtl i edition (Parker, 1855) gives Rhododendrons " ; the hundred and third (Parker, 1867) substitutes "Oleanders."]

"LlFE IS NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES."

Will you or one of your readers kindly inform me what author first used this saying 1

MARGARET JACKSON. Englewood, N.J.

FUNERAL CARDS. What is the date of the earliest known printed funeral card, and what books contain references to quaint examples with peculiar posies and epitaphs printed thereon ? H. J. B.

[We have an impression that 'printed notepaper anticipated printed cards.]

CROMWELL FAMILY. Sir Gregory Cromwell, a younger son of Henry, second baron, 1592, married Frances Griffin, of the Braybrooke line. Is it known if they had any family ?

A. HALL.

THE REV. JAMES HALDANE STEWART. i)avid Dale, merchant, Glasgow, had five daughters. Ann Carolina married Robert