Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_A regular Mull--Origin of the Phrase._--"You have made a regular _mull_
of it," meaning a complete failure. This expression I have often heard,
from my school days even to the present time. Can you give me the origin
of it? In reading a very clever and interesting paper communicated by J.
M. Kemble, Esq., to the Archæological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland in the volume of their proceedings for 1845, entitled, "The
Names, Surnames, and Nicnames of the Anglo-Saxons," I found the
following paragraph:
"Two among the early kings of Wessex are worthy of peculiar
attention, viz., the celebrated sons of Cênberht, Cædwealha and
his brother Mûl. Of the former it is known, that after a short and
brilliant career of victory, he voluntarily relinquished the power
he had won, became a convert to Christianity, and having retired
to Rome, was there baptised by the name Petrus, and died while yet
in the Albs, a few days after the ceremony. His brother Mûl,
during their wars in Kent, suffered himself to be surprised by the
country-people and was burnt to death, together with twelve
comrades, in a house where they had taken refuge."
This "Note," I think, answers my Query. Do you know of any other
explanation?
W. E. W.
_Register-book of the Parish of Petworth._--Can any reader of "NOTES AND
QUERIES" assist in discovering a document which was formerly quoted by
this title? Heylin used it for the reign of Edward VI., but his learned
editor (Mr. Robertson) appears to have searched for it in vain.
C. H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.
_Going to Old Weston._--When a Huntingdonshire man is asked "If he has
ever been to Old Weston," and replies in the negative, he is invariably
told, "You must go before you die." Old Weston is an out-of-the-way
village in the county, and until within a few years was almost
inapproachable by carriages in winter; but in what the point of the
remark lies, I do not know.
ARUN.
"_As drunk as Chloe._"--Who was Chloe, and what gave rise to the
expression?
J. N. C.
_Mark for a Dollar._--What is the origin of the mark for a dollar, $?
T. C.
_Stepony_ (Vol. ii., p. 267.).--If not too stale by this time, may I put
a Query to any Worcestershire reader on the possible connexion of
Stepony ale with a well-known country _inn_ in that county, which must
have startled many a traveller with strange hippophagous apprehensions,
viz., _Stew-poney_?
B.
Lincoln.
_Longueville MSS._--Was the collection of MSS. possessed by Henry
Viscount Longueville, and catalogued in Cat. Lib. MSS. Angliæ, 1697,
dispersed; or, if not, where is it to be found?
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