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all occur in John of Salisbury's * Policraticus,' books i. and ii.? Even references to later works might be useful in tracing them :

1. " Voluptas [or Prosperitas, both occur] noverca virtutis."

2. "Qui lepores agitat, verba consumit."

3. " Serpentem toxicare."

4. "Cometa apparente, creduntur im miner e comitia."

C. C. J. W.

FOLK-LORE OF SAILORS AND FISHERMEN. Can you kindly help me to obtain informa- tion concerning the superstitions of English sailors and fishermen 1 Can you refer me to works on the subject ? C. A. B.

(See 1 st S. v., xi. ; 4 th S. iii. ; 6 th S. i., ii., x. ; 7 th S. v., xii.]

SOURCE OF MAXIM. "Sow an action, reap a habit ; sow a habit, reap a character ; sow a character, reap a destiny." CANTAB.

NEEDLE PEDLARS. A lady is living at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, who remembers a needle pedlar of her girlhood in the thirties. He used to carry a piece of flannel on his left arm stuck all over with his wares, of various sorts and sizes, which he sold for three a penny. As he ranged through the streets he used to chant or sing a ditty, even as did Autolycus, and the housewives (as they were then still called) came from their doors to him to choose what they required. These were his words :

Bodging needles,

Codging needles,

Darning needles,

Muslin needles, All sorts of needles, oh !

Bodging may be supposed to be a variant of botching. Was codging similarly represen- tative of the stitches required for codge ware (spelt by Nathan Bailey cog ware), a coarse linen used in the Northern counties?

The chant or song was from the low soh to the doh, to speak in the terms of tonic sol-fa. Are other pedlars' ditties recollected 1

JENNETT HUMPHREYS.

FEES ON BEING MADE K.C.B. OR G.C.B What are the fees now payable by gentlemen on being made K.C.B. or G.C.B. ; or are they abolished 1 R. B. B.

AN OLD SCOTCH PSALM BOOK. I have a copy of "The Psalmes of Dauid in metre, vsed in the Kirk of Scotland, with diuers notes and tunes agrnerited to them. Middel- bvrg. Printed by Richard Schilders, Printer to the States of Zeeland. 1596." Is it rare 1 In the * Memorial for the Bible Societies in Scotland,' 1824, by the late Very Rev. Principal Lee, then minister of the Canon-

gate Church in Edinburgh, the following note is to be found at p. 49 :

" Many editions of the Psalms and Catechisms of the Church of Scotland were printed on the con- tinent The writer of this paper possesses three

copies of different editions two printed at

Middleburgh, one in 1594, and another in 1597, also a third at Dort, 1603."

Principal Lee, who was in early life assistant to the celebrated Carlyle of Inveresk, is dis- guised as an archdeacon in Hill Burton's chapter on ' Mighty Book-hunters,' where it is related of him that on his return to Edinburgh from a short visit to London he was followed by a waggon containing 372 copies of rare editions of the Bible which he had purchased. He may have become pos- sessed of a copy of this 1596 Psalm Book in the interval between 1824 and 1859, the year of his death ; but in Cotton's ' Editions of the Bible,' second edition, 1852, p. 156, Mr. Lea Wilson is the only person named as possessing a copy. I have not met with any other mention of this 1596 edition. W. S.

" DAVIES, ESQUIRE." According toBetham's 'Baronetage,' Hester, daughter of Sir Francis Edwards, of Shrewsbury, second baronet, who

died in Ireland 1690, married "Da vies,

Esq.," of Stanton Lacy (and Marsh?), co. Salop. I wish to ascertain the Christian name of this Davies or Davis, and the names of his children ; and if he was identical with

the Davis, of Cork, whose daughter Hester

married Richard Heacock by Cloyne dio- cesan marriage licence bond dated 1728. Will any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' kindly assist me 1 WILLIAM JACKSON PIGOTT.

Dundrum, co. Down.

BURIAL OF ALARIC. Alaric was buried with the treasures of Rome around him in the bed of the river Busentinus, or, as it is now called, Busento. Gibbon tells the story, and gives Jornandes as his authority. In Smith's Orosius is also referred to. Do any other historians who were not mere copyists of one or both of the above mention the terrible circumstances which attended this funeral ? It may be well to add that Cameron, in his 'Across Africa/ ii. 110, speaks of burial beneath the bed of a river.
 * Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography '

EDWARD PEACOCK. [See 5 th S. ix. 248, 331, 372 ; x. 39, 218.]

" LANSPISADOES." This word is in a note to Southey's ' Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo,' taken from Grimestone's 'History of the Netherlands,' relating to the siege of Ostend. As it is sandwiched in a death-roll by ranks