"The English gypsies are constant attendants at the race-course. What jockey is not? Perhaps jockeyism originated with them, and even racing, at least in England. Jockeyism properly implies _the management of a whip_; and the word _jockey_ is neither more nor less than the term, slightly modified, by which they designate the formidable whip which they usually carry, at present in general use amongst horse-traffickers under the title of jockey-whips." Can any of your correspondents give the derivation of _jockey_? Q. Q. [Most etymologists derive it from _Jackey_, a diminutive of the Scotch term _Jock_, or _Jack_, John: primarily, a boy that rides horses.] _Boyle Lectures._--In that valuable and well-executed work, now publishing by Darling of Great Queen Street, called the _Cyclopaedia Bibliographica_, a list of the preachers of the Boyle Lecture is given. The list is very nearly complete, the preachers during the following years only being marked "Unknown:"--1729, 1733-5, 1746, 1753-5, 1764-5. With these few omissions, the names of preachers from 1692 to 1807 are given without exception. Will some of your correspondents kindly supply the hiatus above referred to? Possibly the lectures for those years were not printed, as was the case very frequently (see columns 405. 406. _Cyc. Bibl._)--so there may be some slight difficulty in identifying the preachers. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. [The same omissions occur in the _Oxford Catalogue_, 1837, so that it is a probable conjecture they were never printed.] * * * * * Replies. THE DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY OF MSS. (Vol. iii., pp. 161. 261. 340.; Vol. iv., p. 282.; Vol. vii., p. 354.) I am glad to see that a subject to which I have at various times attempted to turn public attention, has at least been responded to by one voice. When the "N. & Q." was first established, I felt that there was now at least one place where it was possible to print historical documents of various kinds, and no one can deny that at various times very interesting and important papers have been made publicly available, which might otherwise have escaped notice. I may instance a very interesting account of the inquest on Chatterton, which I have myself, in a sketch of that ill-fated {457} youth's fate, been the first to make use of for biographical purposes. It is still my conviction that at some time or other an association for such purposes will be formed, and I must attain earnestly entreat those persons whose position would command assistance, and whose learning and opportunities would aid the cause I am advocating, to give some sign of their favourable intention toward such a scheme. I must once more place this very important matter before the eyes of the public; I trust that my appeal may not be in vain.