As to MR. HALL'S suggestion of an arrangement among the booksellers, I think he may be right. I have added a foot-note to p. 315 of The Life of Daniel Defoe, stating that "the trade were so chagrined at Taylor having secured the enormous profits of Robinson Crusoe to himself, that they formed a confederacy to publish future works of our author's imaginative genius." The dates of all the other entries of Defoe's works in the books of the Stationers' Company, quoted by MR. HALL, confirm the accuracy of the dates respectively stated by me as those of publi BELL INSCRIPTIONS (4th S. iv. 478, 520, 573.)With reference to the statement and the innuendo of your esteemed correspondent MR. ELLACOMBE (p. 573) I am instructed to say, that the volume which I mentioned in your impression of the 11th ult., and which is still in the possession of Messrs. Mears and Stainbank of Whitechapel, contains fac-similes of all the bell inscriptions copied in Mr. John Mears's book, and also of many others not to be found elsewhere. a Golden Square. THOMAS WALESBY. a melody. Ulicandubho was certainly a round So much for the" Vulcan Dancies” of England, MEANING OF "LUN” (2nd S. x. 287, 336.) — The interesting article by MR. W. H. HUSK, headed "Three Early Pantomimes 500), called to my recollection an inquiry made (4th S. iv. in your pages many years ago as to the meaning of Lun in the following couplet quoted from Churchill's Rosciad : The "On one side Folly sits, by some called Fun, lines, as the inquirer justly stated, being made more obscure by Park's note, which explains that "Mr. John Rich, the manager of Covent Garden, acquired the name of Lun by his excellent performance of Harlequin, in which he remained unrivalled for half a century." As this query was not answered (except partially by myself) it may be as well to note for the benefit of future readers of Churchill, as well as for all who connect the name of Lun with Rich, that VULCAN DANCY (4th S, i. 510, 590.) — Some time ago I queried the meaning of the words "Vulcan dancy," found in the old lyric "Hollo, my Fancy!" and I now think I can answer my own question-for I was not satisfied with your editorial explanation about the "welkin a word, by the by, which has nothing to say to "wheel" or a "circle," in my opinion. The answer, which I think is the true one, comes curiously enough from her Majesty's castle of Balmoral, where, on a late festive occasion, some Highland lads and lasses performed several dances, among which the report mentions the Hulican-a name I never saw before, but one "Lun had been the name of the famous man who repreeminently calculated to catch the eye of an ety-sented Harlequin at Paris; therefore, whenever Mr. Rich mologist. I think it gives an explanation of the appeared as Harlequin, the name of Lun was inserted in above query. Having made one discovery I the bills."-The Mirror, or Actors' Tablet (published in stumbled on another, which, if you have no objecmemoirs of Tate Wilkinson, vol. iv.p. 153.) tion, I shall make a "note" of here. I had in fact seen the Hulican before, without knowing it, for I now believe it is the "Ulican" of the Ulicandubh-o, the title of one of the old Irish melodies. The Irish etymologists all say that this means "Little Black Cow," or something of that sort, which, I think, is a good old Irish blunder. The term signifies 66 a dancing or choral measure." This could be proved by a little show of etymology; but the reader will take the Balmoral boys' word for it, the Ulican or Hulican means a "dance." As for the word dubh-o, it has apparently the same meaning. I think I see it in the Moorish dimma, the Berber demke, and the Arab touaf, all meaning "dance," and represented in Irish by the word dump, a certain kind of ancient CHARLES WYLIE. ORIGIN OF THE WORD "ASMONEAN" (4th S. iv. 448.)-This word was the appellative of the valiant family of Mattathias, and signifies, according to Eichhorn (Apok. Schrif. 216), greut or noble men; but at length came into use as a nomen proprium. Hence the books which described their noble actions were sometimes called by the ancient fathers the books of the Asmoneans. Josephus calls these warriors 'Acauovaîoi, Arapovalov yeveά; also, οἱ Ασαμωναίου παίδων ἔκγονοι (Antig. xii. 6, 1, xiv. 16, 4, xx. 8, 11, xx. 10, 1). And Josephus Gorionides (pp. 66, 159, 443) ' or '. When the Jews quote our books of Maccabees they term them 'NJIDWn¡ '70 ', "the two books of the Hasmoneans," according to R. Asa 1. pinguis fuit vel evasit (for this condition is thought by the Asiatics to be peculiarly applicable to the noble and honourable of a nation. (Compare in, Ps. lxxviii. 31, Is. x. 16, xvii. 4.) 2. multos habuit famulos et asseclas. It is a mere etymological whim to derive the name Hasmonænus from a certain person of the name of Hasmon (n), whom they include amongst their ancestors. (Iken de Juda Maccabeo in Symbolis Liter., Brem., i. 172), although the notion is ancient, for Josephus speaks of 'Arauovalov maídwv ¿kyóvois, and calls Mattathias vidu 'Iwávvov, τοῦ Συμεῶνος, τοῦ ̓Ασαμωναίου. Some have a notion that this word is derived from D', hasidim, the just; but this was not their characteristic (see 1 Macc. ii. 42, 2 Macc. xiv. 6). The Syriac word which corresponds with Asmonean is en, chesham, cœnavit, not as MR. HENRY CROSSLEY thinks a, chesam, æmulatus est. In the chronicles of R. Joseph ben Joshua, also in Gans's Tsemach David, and other rabbinical writers, the popish cardinals are called Den, Hasmonæans. There was a town and a station of this name, all originating in the idea of fatness. (Jos. xv. 27, Num. xxxiii. 29.) See the genealogy of Mariamne wife of Herod the Great, from Mattathias and Asmonæus in the Penny Cyclopædia, ii. 486. T. J. BUCKTON. Waterfield House, Rickmansworth. MONUMENTAL BRASS (4th S. iv. 514.) "Sir William Vaus: Arg. within orle of martlets, an inescutcheon gu." (Boutell's Heraldry, p. 175). HERMENTRUde. BOGGARTS (4th S. iv. 508.)-Can MR. HIGSON favour me with any account-is it allowable to say history?-of two boggarts which flourished a few miles from him about the second decade of this century, and bore the attractive names of "Old Lob" and "Old Jenny Greenteeth"? HERMENTRUDE. SIR T. FLIMER (4th S. iv. 335.)-In reply to MR. JOHN E. FOSTER'S query, I beg to inform him that there does not appear to have been any one of this name created baronet; but in 16751720, there was Sir Thomas Filmer, Baronet, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Bever sham of Holbrook Hall, Suffolk, and was succeeded by his eldest son Edward. He married Mary, daughter of John Wallis of Soundess, Oxfordshire. This family bore arms; Sable, three Belmont House, Cumberland Road, Bristol. SEAL OF HAWISE, LADY OF CYVEILIOC (4th S. iv. 523.)-The question asked by M. C. J.-"I should be glad to know whose arms this shield represents?"-may, I think, be answered to some extent as follows: The arms in the first quarter of the first and fourth grand quarters, belonged successively to three families-Paganel, Someri, and Erdinton. Hawyse Paganel, daughter of Gervase Paganel, temp. Rich. I., was married to John de Someri. Their great granddaughter, Maud de Someri, was the wife of Henry de Erdinton, or Erdington, who died 10 Edw. I. I believe that this descent discloses one of the numerous instances of the assumption of the mother's arms without change of name. Here is another instance: - Paganel bore the coat: Or two lions passant B. De Someri marries the heir of Paganel, and takes the Paganel coat, retaining his own name. Erdinton marries the co-heir of De Someri, and does the same thing. I know nothing of the local history which M. C. J. is so agreeably illustrating. But I hope he will not think me trespassing on his ground of inquiry if I add, that the date of the glass may be of great assistance; and that the appearance of the arms in glass may probably bring the ownerD. P. ship down to Erdinton. Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells. "THREE LADIES PLAYING AT BALL" (4th S. iv. 517.)-I was familiar in childhood in the north of Ireland with this ballad: now, alas! quite forgotten, except a line or two and its refrain, which differs from those recorded in "N. & Q.": "There were two ladies playing ball, A great lord came to court them all: He gave to the second a far better thing, The swan she does swim bonnie, O!" The drowning of the sister occurs in the millstream; and the finding of the body by-whom I know not a harper or the true knight: "He made a harp of her breast bone, The harper takes it to court, and youngsters in the nursery by a religious old crone? "I dreamt I was in heaven last night, I had been glad to stay, Mamma." 3. The lines that I now proceed to quote are of mysterious import to a child; I wish to know whether they belonged to a legend or to a riddle ? OLD FRENCH WORDS (4th S. iv. 96, 178, 541.) MR. PAYNE is no doubt right in his suggestion that bolle means "bowl." The word occurs twice in the Memorials of London: "unum bolle pro mingendo," and "12 hanaps (handled vessel) of gold, called bolles." I would further suggest that the word gaudes has not been rightly explained by your correspondents. The gaudes, or gaudees, were the larger beads in the rosary, or paternoster, being so called in allusion to Luke i, 15; the smaller beads being called aves. The tande being often used interchangeably in writing, escroitz should probably be written estroitz, meaning “2 baldekins of narrower breadth from beyond sea." Seul dor, probably means a "saddle-cloth of gold." Image de cokille-"image of shell"—means a cameo, probably on a plate of gold. HENRY T. RILEY. HEWES: PITMYE (4th S. iv. 532.)-Probably the adjoining parishes of Huish and Pitney, co. of Somerset, are those sought by Y. S. M. The name of Cliffe is to be met with in the locality. W. H. COTTELL. Brixton, S.W. HILDYARD MOTTO (4th S. iv. 297, 371.)-No doubt W. B. C. is quite correct in his remark upon the interpretation which J. G. had put upon this motto. I believe it is not known for certain how or when the motto originated; but the traditionary account in the family is, that the grantee was the captain of a garrison which was scantily *I localised this castle. provisioned, but who by sending out half his men was enabled to hold out till he was relieved. The crest-A cock, sable, beaked, legged and wattled, gu. on a wreath-was granted to the family for their behaviour at the battle of Cockbridge, or Towton, near York; on which occasion the bridge itself was successfully defended against a body of Yorkists by Robert Hildyard, commander for the house of Lancaster in that battle, and father of Sir Robert Hildyard, a person of great note in the reigns of Henry VI., Edw. IV., and Rich. III.; and was commonly called Robin of Riddesdale. The more ancient, and it must be confessed handsomer crest, had been on a wreath, a roebuck, proper. W. H. THE PHRASE "DEAR ME" (4th S. iv. 531.)— There can be little doubt, I think, that the phrase "Oh dear me" is a corruption of the Spanish "Ay de mí" ("Woe is me"), known to many of your readers probably in the burden of the Spanish poem, Ay de mí, Alhama." It was adopted probably about the time of James I.; and when once in use, such curt expressions as "Dear me," "Oh dear,' 'Dear, dear," would come to be used in time almost as a matter of course. 66 HENRY T. RILEY. ENGLISH WINES (4th S. iv. 293.)-The Emperor Napoleon III. planted a slip from the celebrated vine at Hampton Court Palace, at No. 11, Grosvenor Street West, London (cir. 1849); which was transplanted to the garden of 100, Sloane Street, Belgrave Square (cir. 1852). Mr. F. Wustemann realised thirty-three and a half pounds of grapes from it, and made four and a half gallons of wine resembling sherry in 1868. N.B. The vine is in the open air. 41, Eccleston Square, S.W. CHARLES VIVIAN. THE TOWER PRETERNATURALS (4th S. iv. 578.) The shadow of the axe on the Tower wall is a story which I discredit, as utterly as I do its prior appearance in 1848. I was at that period resident within that fortress; and, had such a marvel occurred, must have heard of it from one or other of my neighbours. Its penny-a-liner has, however, chosen a favourable date for his inventionthe bicentenary of that regal murder, the "lasting shame" whereof no discontinuance of its annual atonement can efface, any more than its fellowbloodstain of 1793 can be wiped off the wing of the French eagle. For my own mysterious visitation, in 1817, I will but repeat my statements in "N. & Q." (2nd S. x.), neither subtracting from, nor adding to, a syllable of their original verity. EDMUND LENTHAL SWIFTE. SIR BRIAN TUKE (4th S. iv. 489.)- Although your correspondent TEWARS quotes his authority, I fear he is not correct in saying Sir Brian Tuke died in 1536. The will of a Sir Brian Tuke was dated Sept. 24, 1546, and proved in London Dec. 7, 1547, “RARE-OVERS FOR MEDDLERS" (4th S. iv. 507.) Lees, near Oldham. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Womankind in Western Europe, from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century. By Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A., &c. (Groombridge & Sons.) nothing to be desired in the way of printing, paper, and the getting up generally, but that they are prepared for the press in a scholarlike and efficient manner. The two volumes whose titles we have just transcribed are instances in point. Johnson's admirable and philosophical tale is introduced by an admirable preface by Mr. West, of it, which, as he well remarks, is "its best preface"; in which he reprints for the first time Boswell's account illustrates it by valuable references to old and modern travellers in the regions of the Happy Valley; and points out the connection, hitherto we believe unnoticed, between it and Thomson's Castle of Indolence. So, again, the charming little volume of Selections from the writings of Lord Chesterfield is appropriately introduced by a translation of Sainte-Beuve's admirable criticism on the works and character of that accomplished nobleman. BOOKS RECEIVED:-Books I. and II. of the Annals of Tacitus translated into English, with Notes and Marginal Analysis of the Chapters, by A. H. Beesly, M.A. (Longmans), is a conscientious and painstaking translation. The translator has rather endeavoured to interpret his author's meaning accurately, than to reproduce his style. Handbook of Physical Geography, by Keith Johnston junior, (Johnston), is intended as a companion to John ston's "Atlas of Physical Geography," and well calcu lated to add to its utility. James VI. of Scotland and I. of England. The Essays of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie and a Counterblaste to Tobacco, carefully edited by Edward Arber; is another of Mr. Arber's cheap, well printed, and well edited reprints. The Bookworm, an Illustrated Literary and Bibliographical Review, Nos. XI. and XII., which complete the those who desire to secure the fifth volume should at once communicate their wishes to the publisher. There is probably no scholar of the present day to whom the task of producing a pleasant, readable, and instructive book on any subject which calls for a copious and varied knowledge of the medieval literature of France and England, whether printed or manuscript, combined with the pen of a ready and practised writer, could be so safely entrusted as the author of the present contribution to the history of Female Life in the Middle Ages. Nay, we would go further and say, that if the book is to be illustrated, as this is, from the works of fourth volume of this curious and interesting Bibliogracontemporary artists, Mr. Wright's familiar acquaint-phical Magazine. As the number printed is very limited, ance with early manuscripts fits him, in a peculiar manner, for its preparation. In the book before us, which is dedicated to Lord Lytton, Mr. Wright, without troubling himself with the vexed question of woman's claims, and woman's rights, has endeavoured to trace, from sources which are not commonly known, and many of which are not very easy of access, the history of Womankind in Western Europe up to the seventeenth century, and to describe the condition, character, and manners of the sex through the various revolutions of Western society, and, avoiding as much as possible all speculative views, to give a trustworthy picture of female life in each particular period of which he treats. To accomplish this object he lays under contribution every species of contemporary record from the grave annals of the professed chronicler to the-almost as valuable for his purpose-narratives of the romances and the chansons of the Jongleur. As might be expected, therefore, Womankind in Western Europe is replete with curious information on a subject well worth studying; and being profusely and handsomely illustrated, may not only be read with great advantage, but forms a very appropriate gift-book, we need scarcely say to whom. LOCAL ALMANACKS.-Those of our readers who take an interest in our provincial dialects will thank us for directing their attention to the numerous local almanacks publishing throughout the country, many of which are written in the peculiar dialect of the district in which they are produced. The following are the titles of five, all published in Yorkshire:-"The Original Illuminated Clock Almanack for 1870, in the Yorkshire dialect by John Hartley," is published at Halifax. "The Dewsbere Back at Mooin Olmenac an' "Twest-Ridin' Historical Calendar for t' Year 1870, clapp'd together by Mungo Shoddy, Esq., B.M.A.," is published at Batley. "The Nidderdill Olminac an' Ivvery Body's Kalender. All Hot. Compiled, composed, skrewed up an' fastened doon by Nattie Nidds," is published at Pateley Bridge. "The Barnsla Foaks' Annual and Pogmoor Olmenack. By Tom Treddlehoyle, Esq. By Authority a' t' Man i' t' Moon," is published at Leeds, as is "Tommy Toddle's Comic Almenac for all t' fowks i' t' Warld an' rahnd abaght." These curiosities of literature contain tales, songs, and jokes, made more piquant by the racy vernacular in which they are told, and some are illustrated with quaint woodcuts, very creditable to the skill and humour of the artists. Can any other county in England show five such almanacks? Those who know the value of M. Vapereau's admirable Dictionnaire des Contemporaines will be glad to hear that a fourth edition of it is not only in preparation, but very far advanced towards publication. It will be enriched by some six hundred additional names, while the additions and rectifications to the existing articles may probably be numbered by thousands. DEATH OF WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, Esq.-It is with great regret that we announce the death of this accomplished gentleman, who was formerly Librarian at Stowe, where he doubtless acquired much of that intimate knowledge of the men and politics of the past century, which enabled him to edit so effectually the four vols. of Grenville Papers, published by Mr. Murray in 1852. Mr. Smith's Essay in the third volume, in which he maintained that Lord Temple wrote the celebrated letters of Junius, was very ingenious if not convincing. Mr. Smith was at the time of his death, which took place on Christmas Day, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. DEATH OF THOMAS CRESWICK, R.A.-English landscape-painting has lost one of its most genial exponents in Mr. Thomas Creswick, whose works have for upwards of forty years regularly graced the walls of the Royal Academy. At the time of his death, which took place on the 28th Dec., Mr. Creswick was in his fifty-ninth year. "His works," says The Times, "like himself were pleasant and cheerful, ever taking the sunny view of nature, and by his death the public has lost a benefactor, and the profession an esteemed brother." The Athenæum, which has been slightly enlarged to meet the requirements of additional space rendered necessary to give effect to the increased attention which foreign literature is to receive in its columns, will, it is understood, be from this time conducted under the immediate superintendence of Sir Charles W. Dilke. Rumour is reported to have done scant justice to Mr. Twisleton's forthcoming volume on JUNIUS, which, it is said, will contain some new and remarkable documents calculated to clear up, in a very striking manner, the mystery in which the authorship of these extraordinary Letters has hitherto been involved. DEATH OF WILHELM WACKERNAGEL.-English philologists will learn with deep regret the death of this accomplished pupil of Lachmann, whose reputation almost equals that of the brothers Grimm. His Deutsches Lesebuch and Deutsches Wörterbuch are doubtless wellknown to many of our readers. Like the Grimms, he was not only an able and industrious editor of early monuments of German national literature, but a frequent contributor to Hoffman von Fallersleben's Alt-Deutsche Blätter, and other periodicals of a similar character; and was, moreover, a poet of no ordinary ability. Wackernagel was born at Berlin in 1806. The mention of Wackernagel's contributions to the archæological and philological journals of Germany reminds us that Dümmler of Berlin has just issued the fourth volume of Jacob Grimm's Kleinere Schriften, which contains upwards of sixty articles on literature, folk-lore, mythology, and superstitions, not of Germany only, but of almost all people and languages. 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