Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Captain Booth of Stockport_ (Vol. vi., p. 340.).--As yet, no reply to this
Query has been elicited; but as it is a subject of some interest to both
Lancashire and Cheshire men, I should like to ascertain from JAYTEE in what
collection he met with the MS. copy of Captain Booth's _Ordinary of Arms_?
Its existence does not appear to have been known to any of our Cheshire or
Lancashire historians; for in none of their works do I find any mention of
such an individual as Capt. Booth of Stockport. Sir Peter Leycester, in his
_Antiquities of Bucklow Hundred_, Cheshire, repeatedly acknowledges the
assistance rendered him by John Booth of Twanbow's _Book of Pedigrees_; but
this gentleman appears merely to have collected for Cheshire, and not for
Lancashire. Sir George Booth, afterwards Lord Delamere, is the only
_Captain_ Booth I have met with in my limited sphere of historical
research; and I am not aware that he ever indulged much in genealogical
study.
T. HUGHES.
Chester.
"_A saint in crape._"--
"A saint in crepe is twice a saint in lawn."
Whence this line?
W. T. M.
Hong Kong.
_French Abbes._--What was the precise ecclesiastical and social _status_ of
a French Abbe before the Revolution?
W. FRASER.
Tor-Mohun.
_What Day is it at our Antipodes?_--Perhaps you can give me a satisfactory
answer to the following question, a reply to which I have not yet been able
to procure.
I write this at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12; at our Antipodes it is, of
course, 11 a.m.: but is it 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 12, or on Wednesday,
July 13? And whichever it is, what is the reason for its being so? for it
seems to me that the solution of the question must be perfectly arbitrary.
H.
"_Spendthrift._"--In Lord John Russell's _Memorials of Charles James Fox_,
vol. i. p. 43., there is a letter addressed to Mr. Richard Fitzpatrick, in
which Mr. Fox asks "if he was in England when Lord Carlisle's _Spendthrift_
came out." And at the foot of the same page there is a note in which it is
stated that this "was probably some periodical paper of 1767."
My object in writing the above is for the purpose of asking what
publication the _Spendthrift_ really was, and where it can be purchased or
seen?
W. W.
Malta.
_Second Growth of Grass._--The second growth of grass is known by different
names in different localities. In some it is called _fog_, in others
_after-math_ and _after-grass_. The former name is common about Uxbridge,
and the latter about Stoke Pogis, in Buckinghamshire. In Hertfordshire it
is {103} called _hugga-mabuff_; I am not certain that this is the correct
spelling of the name, never having seen it either in writing or print. In
Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire the name _eddish_ prevails, I am told,
and hence _eddish cheese_, made from the milk of cows which have grazed
_eddish_. Can any of your correspondents add to the above names, or throw a
light upon their origin?
R. W. F.
Bath.
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