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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. JULY 13, 1901.

This is probably the first of a good many editions. Charles Dibdin says nearly three sets of plates were worn out in thirteen years. On the title of one edition (upright folio, 43 pp., no dedication, price 6s.) is :

"The former edition being very incorrectly engraved, it has been Revised, Corrected, and Engraved again, and the Songs and Overture may be had in single numbers."

This is published at No. 15, Holborn, by F :.

The name is obliterated in the two copies I have seen. Mr. Marshall suggests F. Linley.

1768. The Songs in the Comic Opera of ' The Pad- lock ' adapted for the German Flute. Price Is. M. London : John Johnston and Longman, Lukey & Co.

1768. Damon & Phillida, comic opera, in two acts, altered from Cibber, "with the addition of new aongs and chorusses." Drury Lane. " The music entirely new composed by Mr. Dibdin." London : W. Griffin, 1768, 8vo, 27 pp., price Is. This is ' Love in a Riddle ' with the dialogue reduced to prose, and five new lyrical pieces.

1768. Damon & Phillida, for the voice and harpsi- chord or violin. Composed by Mr. Dibdin. Lon- don : C. & S. Thompson, n.d. Oblong folio, 30 pp.

1769. *The Maid the Mistress, produced at Ranelagh, 1769.

I have been unable to trace this publication. 1769. *The Captive, comic opera, two acts. Hav- market. Written by I. Bickerstaff, music partly by Dibdin.

The libretto was printed "for W. Griffin," but I have not seen the music.

1769. The Recruiting Sergeant, a new musical

entertainment compos'd by Charles Dibdin.

London : C. & S. Thompson, n.d. Upright folio, pp. 46, price 6,9.

A later edition published by Longman & Broderip, price 6s. Written by Bickerstaff, performed at Ranelagh and Drury Lane.

1769. In the Universal Museum for April, 1769, is "a new song set by Mr. Dibdin " (in some issues Bibdin), which begins "There was a fair maiden, her name it was Gillian."

The air is that of ' The Jolly Young Water- man.'

1769. The Ephesian Matron, or the Widow's Tears, a comic serenata (by Bickerstaff). The music by Charles Dibdin. Performed at Ranelagh, price 6s. London : John Johnston, n.d. Oblong folio, 43 and 4 pp.

E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. Morningside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton. (To be continued.)

" WICKEN " = WYKES. The Wicken, in South Northamptonshire, mentioned byJ. B. (9 th S. vii. 442), is an interesting instance of a place-name being altered so as to disguise the original name. The parish of Wicken was formerly two parishes, named from former lords

of the manors Wyke Dy ve and Wyke Hamon. The parishes became united, and the name popularly given to them the Wykes, or, as the people called them, the Wyken (-en, sign of the plural) became the name of the new parish and of the village. I remember that a gentleman hunting up the Washington pedigree told me that he was nonplussed for months in trying to find Wyke Hamon. He never suspected Wicken. K.

" WENT." I have lately examined in the museum at Bury St. Edmunds a vellum manuscript written in a hand of the fifteenth century. It contains copies of three or four wills of persons who had made charitable bequests to the town, and terriers of the land bequeathed. One of these is entitled in a later hand * Rentall of Jankin Smyth's lands.' I read it, and made the following extracts :

" Half [an] acre of lond lyeth in the same went betwene the lond perteyning to the tenement of Wegerys on the west side and the lond of the maner of Berton on the est aide and butteth upon the lond of the tenement of Wegerys northword and southword upon the lond of the maner of Berton."

"ij acres lye in the same feld in Nedirfurlong betwene the lond of the maner of Berton on the west side," &c.

Further on I found :

" And ix acres & j halfe rode sumtyme of Johne

Elys of lyeth att Nettyl mere went and Grene-

howe."

The word " went " occurs four or five times in the terrier, and in all cases it appears to be equivalent to " feld," though in Halliwell the meaning given is "furlong." The word strikes me as being of considerable value, on account of its possible occurrence in place-names. One thinks of Wentworth, Derwent, Venta Belgarum (Winchester), Venta Icenorum, Venta Silurum, &c. I express no opinion, however, as to the origin of these names. S. O. ADDY.

DOWSING. Mr. James Mansergh, the Presi- dent of the Institution of Civil Engineers, touched upon this subject last November in his address, which has appeared in print. To most men of science the reported achieve- ments of the "dowser" are on a par with the rogueries of Sir Walter Scott's Douster- swivel, but both men of science and folk- lorists will be interested in what Mr. Mansergh has to say about "divining by rod." It is perhaps not so well known as it ought to be that Mr. W. F. Barrett, Professor of Experimental Physics in the Royal College of Science for Ireland, has presented two papers on the subject to the