_Handel's Occasional Oratorio_ (Vol. iii., p. 426.).--This oratorio doubtless received its name from the special _occasion_ when it was composed, viz. the suppression of the rebellion in 1745. It was published by Tonson in Feb. 1746, at the price of 1_s._, together with various poems, &c. relating to the same important event. The Oratorio is divided into three parts: with the exception of the overture, four of the airs, and two of the choruses, it contains little that can be popular at the present day. J. H. M. _Moore's Almanack_ (Vol. iii., pp. 263. 339. 381. 466.).--Francis Moore was not a real personage, but a pseudonyme adopted by the author, Mr. Henry Andrews, who was born at Frieston, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, February 4, 1744, and died at Royston, Herts, January 26, 1820. Andrews was astronomical calculator to the Board of Longitude, and for years corresponded with Maskelyne and other eminent men. A portrait of Andrews is extant; one is in my possession: they are now extremely scarce. As to the date of the almanack's first appearance I can afford no information; but it can be obtained of Mr. W. H. Andrews, only son of the astronomer, who still resides at Royston, and is in possession of his MSS., consisting of astronomical and astrological calculations, notes of various phenomena, materials for a history of Royston, memoir of his own life, his correspondence, &c. FRANCIS. _Kiss the Hare's Foot_ (Vol. iv., p. 21.).--This saying occurs in Browne's _Britannia's Pastorals_: "'Tis supper time with all, and we had need Make haste away, unless we mean to speed With those that kiss the hare's foot. Rheums are bred, Some say, by going supperless to bed, And those I love not; therefore cease my rhyme And put my pipes up till another time." _Brit. Past._, Book 2., Song. 2. This quotation may not be of much service as a clue to the discovery of the _origin_ of the saying; but it may be interesting to MR. BREEN as a proof that the saying itself must be considerably more than two hundred years old, the second part of the _Pastorals_ having been first published in 1616. C. FORBES. Temple. _Derivation of the Word "Bummaree" or "Bumaree"_ (Vol. iv., p. 39.).-- "BOMERIE, S. F. [terme de mer, prêt à la grosse aventure] bottomry or bottomree."--Boyer's _Fr. and Engl. Dict._, ed. London, 1767. The leading idea in the term _Bomerie_, and its English equivalent, when applied to borrowing money "on a ship's keel," is the hazarding all on a single venture: hence it is not difficult to see its application to other transactions, especially those connected with sea; such as wholesale purchases of fish, in which a large risk is run, with an uncertain prospect of return. The meaning of the word, if it be really the same, when adopted by confectioners, would probably be assignable either to the shape of the pans, or the use to which they were applied.