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The next benefactor to the poor of the two parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, who has a memorial in the church of St. Margaret is Joan Barnett, and the inscription sets forth as follows :

Here lyeth | the body of Mrs. Joane Barnet

wid | dow borne in this Parish ( Mr. Michael Simnel | and Joane

Daughter of is wife) who

setled | by deed on Trustees of this Par | ish for ever : Several! Houses in | London for the uses following | vez* | 40: per ann' to be equally divi | ded every quart' between twen- | ty of the Poorest ancient Widpwes | of Civill life & conversation. In- ha | biteing in this Parish, and those | borne here to be first preferred : | 20s : for a yearely Sermon in this | parish on the feast of all Soules : | 20s : for a Collation for y* Trustees | 10s : for the Church officers : | she departed this life ye 6 of May | 1674, in the 82 yeare of her age."

It is set forth that in 1670 Joan Barnett, by deed under date 20 July, gave two houses in Robin Hood Court, near Bow Lane, and a messuage in Ivy Lane, St. Faith's, London, the yearly rents thereof (40.) to be paid to

"twenty of the poorest and ancientest widows of Civil life and Conversation which shall be in- habitants of the parish of St. Margaret, 40s. to be paid to such alms-people a-piece 10s. on Lammas- day (1st August), 10s. on All Souls'-day (2nd Novem- ber), 10s. on Candlemas-day (2nd February), and 10s. on May-day (1st May) ; 20s. to the minister of St. Margaret's on All Souls'-day for a sermon, and 10s. to the Servants of the Church ; and 20s. to be spent at a dinner or Collation for the minister, trustees, and Churchwardens."

This dear old benefactress of the Westminster poor is said to have got her livelihood by selling oatmeal cakes hard by the church doors, and in memory of this circumstance a large oatmeal pudding used to be a standing dish at the "Feast." From the report of 1890 we find that the premises in Robin Hood Court were sold for City improvements in 1851 for 628., and from the proceeds of the sale of the Ivy Lane premises 1,183. 14s. Qd. Consols were purchased in 1883. In 1880 the quarterly payments were increased to 15s., the funds of the charity having considerably improved. The scheme of 1889 provided that the payments to the recipients at the time of the transference of the charity to the parochial trustees should be continued to them, but none others are to be elected to vacancies, so that the charity will eventually be merged in the consolidated account. In 1890 the sum vested in new Consols was 2,334. Os. 5d., and the annual income 642. 3s. Od. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

71, Turner Buildings, Millbank, S. W. (To be continued.)

SAXON NAMES FOR MEAT STILL CURRENT. In the opening chapter of 'Ivanhoe' Sir

Walter Scott, by means of the conversation between Wamba and Gurth, points out that the animals used for food, which while alive bear Saxon names, are called when dead by Norman names, showing that the Saxon serf herded the animals and his Norman master ate them. But Scott does not carry the argument one step further, and show that the inferior portions, which the serf was permitted to eat, still bear Saxon names, such as bullock's head, bullock's heart, ox tail, ox tongue, cow heels, &c. ; sheep's head, sheep's tongue, sheep's liver, sheep's trotters, &c. ; calf's head, calf's liver, calf's tail, calf's feet, &c. ; pig's head, pig's cheek, pig's liver, pig's fry, &c. : deer's fry, for even the royal stag produces deer's fry, not venison fry.

As a boy I was duly taught the change of name between the live and dead animal, but I have never discovered any one who, when ordering a neck of mutton and a sheep's head, perceived that, while speaking of two adjacent portions of the same dead animal, he called it in the one case by its Norman name and in the other by its Saxon name. EDWIN DURNING LAWRENCE, Bt., M.P.

Athenaeum Club.

GEORGE SANDYS." A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems, with Musical Notations by Henry Lawes. Folio. At the Bell in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1638." A large-paper copy of this book sold lately at Sotheby's for 4/. 10s. A note in the catalogue stated, " The present copy has portion of the suppressed leaf Aaa 2, which is always wanting." This is an error, as the Williamscote copy has the leaf intact. Will owners of the folio edition of this book look into their copies, and if they have the suppressed leaf state the fact in ' N. & Q.' ? It is the first leaf of the text of the Lamenta- tions of Jeremiah. JOHN E. T. LOVEDAY.

SHERIDAN AND MAGINN. The financia. straits to which Sheridan was habitually driven sharpened his wits as well as his wit, and he created a reputation for smart things, many of which are apocryphal. Among them the famous dictum, "Thank Heaven that 's settled ! " seems open to attack. I confess I always credited Sheridan with its invention, and thousands of men have done the same. According to Charles Gibbon in 'The Casquet of Literature,' William Maginn claims "proprietary rights." M. L. R. BRESLAR.

"HoG." I confess that I am somewhat surprised to notice that the ' New English Dictionary* marks this important substan-