by the words "whistling in the fist," except that where the fingers of both hands are employed it might be still more descriptively expressed as "whistling into the fists." BR. NICHOLSON.

Queries.

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

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'NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY,' VOL. III.—Quo-
tations are wanted for the following words :-
Elect (adj.), in general sense chosen, eighteenth
century. Also as in bishop-elect, after 1709.
Elect (verb), to choose a
eighteenth century.
course of action,
In sense "to elect to an
office," seventeenth century. In theological sense,
eighteenth century.

Elicit (adj.), before 1624.
Elicit (verb), before 1641.

Eloign (verb), as law term, after 1809.
Elope (verb), either in legal or popular use before
1596. Examples of the Latin or Anglo-French
forms would be useful.
Books Edward III., A.D. 1338.
I find aloper in Year-
Eluder (subst.), any date.
Eludible (adj.), any date.
HENRY BRADLEY.
11, Bleisho Road, Lavender Hill, S.W.

AT

been a corporal of volunteers, which force he mentions more than once. AN OLD RIFLEMAN.

'ALUMNI WESTMONASTERIENSES.'-When did this book first make its appearance? I have come across references to the editions of 1851 and 1852. the latest edition? There is no copy of any ediWas it published annually? What is the date of tion in the British Museum. Will any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly allow me the loan of his copy for a few days? I will take great care of it, and return it, together with all postage charges. J. B. WILSON.

Knightwick Rectory, Worcester.

EDWARD LIGHT, BORN 1747.-Can any one tell
me where I can obtain the baptismal certificate of
harp, two of which are in the South Kensington
this individual? He was the inventor of a dital
Museum. His address when taking out a patent
for these, about 1816, was Foley Street, Maryle-
bone. His father is supposed to have been Thomas
Garrard, coheiress, of Ifield Court, Northfleet,.
Light, of London, merchant, who married a Miss
Kent (Hasted's 'Kent'). Address direct,
P. E. CLARK.

24, Duke Street, St. James's, London,
THE STAR CHAMBER' AND
How many numbers were published of the Star
THE WASP.'-
Chamber and the Wasp, both commenced in 1826 ?
HENRY SAXBY.

to in stanzas xxxi-xxxiv of Shelley's' Adonais '
SHELLEY'S 'ADONAIS.'--Who is the poet referred
and who is the "Pilgrim of Eternity" in stanza xxx?
W. FELLS.

Sheffield.

COURT OF ASSIZE HELD CROSS, DERBY.-Glover's 'Derbyshire' states, at THE MARKET p. 604, that in the year 1514 "Sir William Milnes, the Sheriff, was obliged to hold his Court of Assize and County Courts at the Market Cross." Did any public event occur at that date likely to account for the sheriff being obliged to hold his Court of Assize at the Market Cross? 'MEMOIRS OF SYLVESTER DAGGERWOOD, COMESheriffs" Glover names "Roger Minors, Esq.," as In his "List of DIAN,' 2 vols., 1807.-By whom is this work? serving the office in 1514. 'Sylvester Daggerwood E. S. M. George Colman. was a pseudonym of URBAN.

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AUTHOR OF BOOK SOUGHT.-I should be obliged for information as to the name of the writer of a book entitled on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns...... Scloppetaria; or, Considerations By a Corporal of Riflemen. London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple Bar, for T. Egerton, Military Library, near Whitehall. The author's assumption of military rank must be 1808." a description de plume, for he writes scientifically on the projection of balls, &c.; and besides an Horatian motto, his book contains several quotations from the Latin poets-acquirements which no corporal in the ranks from which the British soldier was enlisted eighty years ago was likely to have possessed. He mentions the 95th Rifles (Rifle Brigade), then the only British regiment of riflemen, but not in terms suggestive of his having served in the regiment. He may, however, have

Dr. Wolff wrote this ?-
TAILED ENGLISHMAN.-Who was it of whom

mentioning], who walks exactly as if he had a tail; and "There is, even in England, a gentleman of dark complexion and of great talents [whose name Wolff forbears people of high rank told him [i.e., Wolff, who wrote, like Cæsar, in the third person] that he and his family there is a hole in the seat where he sits, in order that he were known to have tails; and therefore in his carriage hired a house from this Father of the Tail,' as he may may be able to sit comfortably. A peer of the realm has be styled; which is a title the Arabs give to their horses." vol. ii. chap. xxx. -Travels and Adventures of Joseph Wolff,' 1861 edition,

E. L. G.

may be able to assist me in discovering how GENEALOGICAL.-I hope some reader of 'N. & Q.' Euphemia Ross, second wife of Robert II., was related to the king in "the fourth degree of consanguinity" (Dispensation, May 2, 1355), daughter of

years' absence, to have died in Messina, Sept. 6, 1615? By this account his piracies appear to have been thought most discreditable; they were brought up afterwards as an argument against one marrying his widow. Mr. Hannay calls him a Buckinghamshire squire. He was more properly a Herts squire, being of the Verneys of Pendley, now owned by Mr. J. G. Williams. The Verneys for generations lived at Pendley, and were buried in Albury, both in Herts. Some of the earlier knights were buried at Ashridge (now Lord Brownlow's), and on dissolution of the monasteries removed to Albury. Of the famous or infamous Algerine only a certificate of death, his turban, &c., were brought home, if we may trust the Verney papers. HANDFORD.

AUTHOR OF WORK WANTED.-"Musa Juveniles. Londini, Typis H. Parker: cura Josephi Pote, Bibliopola Etonensis. M.DCCXXXII.," 8vo., pp. 104. The first fifty-six pages contain a Greek drama, Σοφία θεήλατος. This is followed by 66 Oratio Etonæ habita ad Electionem ibi celebratam 1730. Præsente Celeberrimo Principe Gulielmo Augusto, Duce Cumberlandia"; then by five Latin poems, and two translations into English verse, the former from the second Georgic, the latter being 'The Nightingale' and 'Lutanist,' imitated from Strada. The Latin verses are not in the 'Musæ Etonenses of 1755. May the work be by Dr. John Burton, of Corpus, Oxford, who, though not elected to a fellowship at Eton till 1733, was for some years previously engaged in epistolary correspondence and social intercourse with the masters of the school and the provost and fellows of the college, owing to his having had several young Etonians who excelled in genius and learning among his pupils at Oxford? See Harwood's 'Alumni Etonenses,' 1797, p. 89.

W. E. BUCKley.

As supplementary to the note of F. M'C., I beg to send an extract from Caxton's 'Chronicles of 1480,' p. 42, upon this subject. It commences :castell that wolde not stande without mortier tempred "How Vortiger went into Wales and bigan there a with blode...... Masons in hast tho were set and bigan the werke upon the hylle of Breigh. But certes thus it befell all the werke that the masons made aday adoune it fell anyght and wist not what it myght bene. Ther of what to done. Wherfor he let send after the wysest the Kyng was sore an'oied of that cha'nce and wyst not clerke and also letred men that weren thurgh oute Wales that myght bene founde. For they sholde tell wherfor the foundament so failled under the werke and that they sholde bym telle what was best to done. And the wysest men lo'ge tyme had studied they said to the Kyng that he sholde done seke a childe borne of a woman that neuer had with man to done, and that childe he sholde slee and tempre with his blode the mortier of the werke and so sholde the werke ever endure without ende." The Chronicle' further relates how the king sent messengers throughout Wales to find such a child, who, hearing some quarrelling going on between two persons at "Karmardine," they heard one say to the other, "Ye have no thyng of God Almyghty sith ye had never fadre."

The account of the circumstances attendant upon the young man's (Merlin) birth is given at some length, but the particulars are not quite suitable to the pages of N. & Q.' However, Merlin, being brought before the king, accounts for the inability of the masons to continue the work by reason of two dragons who lived in a pond at some depth in the hill. The king was satisfied with this explanation, and Merlin's blood was not required for the mortar.

C. LEESON PRINCE.

Poole, in his Ecclesiastical Architecture,' refers to this. He says:—

"Mixing blood with mortar in order (as was supposed) to increase the stability of foundations seems to have been an ancient superstition amongst the British." And in a note continues :

"Fitzstephen, in his description of London, says that the town was built with mortar tempered with the blood of beasts. Habet ab oriente arcem Palatinam, maximam et fortissimam, cujus et arca et muri a fundamento profundissimo exurgunt; comento cum sanguine animalium temporato.' The writer evidently attributes the strength of the citadel as much to the blood as to the depth of the foundation."

"Vortigern, when attempting to build his town on Mount Eriv, was told by his magicians that in order to procure a firm foundation, he must find a youth that never had a father, and kill him, and then sprinkle the stones and cement with his blood,' for by those means, they said, he would have a firm foundation."

R. W. HACKWOOD.

Advices were brought from Accra, dated Dec. 8, 1881, that the King of Ashantee had murdered 200 girls, for the purpose of using their blood to mix with the mortar employed in the building of a new palace. Compare this with St. Luke xiii. 1. Some instances are mentioned in an article on

'Panics' in the Spectator, Sept. 1, 1888, p. 1186, especially a recent case in England. W. C. B.

F. M'C. will find a striking illustration of a part of his subject in 'The Tower of St. Maur,' a poem in Miss Mary Robinson's recently published volume, 'Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play.' JOHN RANDALL

THE TURIN PAPYRUS (7th S. vi. 209).-This papyrus, containing what is now a singularly fragmentary list of Egyptian kings, was brought from Thebes by an Italian named Drovetti. Accounts more or less full are to be found in the writings of most of the distinguished Egyptologists, whether British or continental. I may thus mention Brugsch Bey,' Hist. of Egypt under the Pharaohs,' vol. i. pp. 39, 47, 48; a translation is given vol. ii. p. 165. This writer says that the Turin papyrus 'once contained the most complete list of the kings of Egypt in their chronological order, according to the views of the compiler, who, however, did not give any account of the contemporaneous double reigns of two kings, which have been proved beyond all doubt by the inscriptions." The late W. Osburn, F.R.S.L., in his 'Monumental Hist. of Egypt' (Lond., 1854), vol. i. pp. 227-8, has an account, in the course of which he severely criticizes Seyffarth's arrangement of the fragments In the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, N.S., iii. pp. 128, seqq., will be found a paper by Dr. E. Hincks, read before the society in 1846, on A Portion of the Turin Book of Kings. A facsimile of the Turin papyrus is in the library of the society, and either I or my colleague, the librarian, Mr. T. R. Gill, M.R.A.S., would be happy to show it to your correspond ent

if he could call, by appointment, on a Friday, between four and six o'clock.

C. H. E. CARMICHAEL, Foreign Sec. R.S.L. 21, Delahay Street, S.W.

COLOURS AS SURNAMES (7th S. vi. 208, 272).—Io a reply (6th S. x. 438) to a query on the origin of the use of colour in surnames, I incidentally introduced a quaint quotation, remarking, just as MR. HACKWOOD does, on the absence in England of some colour names that are common in other countries. This characteristic style MR. HACKWOOD deprecates, was met by a rejoinder from PROF. SKEAT, in the pointing out that Red does exist as a surname, under the spelling Reid, &c. This cannot be considered a satisfactory rejoinder, as it only moves back the difficulty which remains under this form: Why was the earlier spelling retained in this one particular

instance?

Other replies, however, were elicited, which supply instances of persons of the name of Red, Orange, Purple, actually existing, just serving to accentuate their general absence (see 6th S. x, 289, 438, 520; xi. 72, 129, 452). MR. HACKWOOD will find some curious information anent his inquiry in the work named by me at 6th S. x. 438. R. H. BUSK.

16, Montagu Street, Portman Square. Blue exists among us in its early form of Bluet, or Bluett, sometimes spelt Blewet. My list of curious mediæval names, now very large, contains but few instances of colour. I give such as there are, the date referring to the earliest known. Green, as your correspondent J. T. F. remarks, is almost always of local origin.

Brown. - Fauuel (chestnut), 1327; Browneswayne, 1389.

Black.-La Blak, 1272; Blakson, 1343; Blakamour, 1362.

Grey.-Greygrom, 1327; Grayson, 1461.
Red.-Skarlet, 1275; The Rede, 1253; Le
Rede, 1291; Le Redclerk, 1325; Redheued, 1347;
Redemane, 1376.

Violet.-Vyolet, 1469.

White.-Whitemon, 1321; The White, 1339; Whitfelawe, 1380; Whitebrest, 1392; Snowhite, 1416; Whitechild, 1439.

Gold.-Goldheu, 1274; Gowlde, 1459.
Silver, 1457.
HERMENTRUde.

There are several Welsh surnames traceable more
or less certainly to colours. Thus Gwyn, from
Gwin white. Lloyd, from Llwyd=grey. Also
others probably derived as follows: Dee (Du=
black); Mellin (Melyn-yellow); Gough (Coch=
red); Glace or Glass (Glas-blue).
name occurs in the registers of our parish church.
ARTHUR MEE.
Llanelly.

This last

was an intelligent man, with red hair: was, "They call me Redhead, but Readhead (= Reedhead)."

His answer my name is W. C. B.

I may inform MR. HACKWOOD that the death of "Winter Purple" was recorded in our local press this year. I shall be glad to refer to my file for further particulars if wished. WM. VINCENT.

Belle Vue Rise, Norwich,

New York

MR. HACKWOOD will find in the City Directory' the names Redd, Blue, Purple, and Yellowlee, also Violet. A. TOWNSHend.

"A HOLBORN WIG" (7th S. vi. 228).-Judging from a passage in Etheredge's 'The Man of Mode,' Act III. sc. iii., it would seem that "a Holborn wig" meant " an untidy or unfashionable wig," the idea being Holborn as opposed to the West-End. "Oh! odious, there's many of my own sex with that Holborn equipage trigg to Grey's Inn-Walks; and now and then travel hither on a Sunday."

This is spoken in "the Mail" (Mall). I quote from a copy of the play "Printed for the Company of Booksellers," probably about 1730.

Liverpool.

J. F. MANSErgh.

ST. LAURENCE (7th S. v. 468; vi. 131).-I should like to know the actual authority for the statement that St. Laurence of Canterbury was not canonized, as he is mentioned in catalogues of saints in the same manner as those who unquestionably were. Is it meant that he was only beatified? Baronius, 'Mart. Roman.,' has at ruary 2:

Stocktun.

HERALDIC (7th S. vi. 248).—The arms are those of the ancient family of Stoughton, which Burke describes as one "of remote antiquity." In the time of Stephen, Godwin de Stocktun resided at Stoughton, co. Surrey, became extinct at the deThe chief line, the Stoughtons, of cease of Sir Laurence Stoughton, second baronet, in 1692. The crest of the family is a robin-redbreast ppr. ONESIPHORUS.

ANSON'S 'VOYAGES' (5th S. iii. 489; iv. 78, 100, 396; 7th S. vi. 92, 235).—It may be that some of the internal evidence of authorship and of its ing both Anson and Thomas, may be worth a place mixed nature, noted a year or so ago when readin 'N. & Q.' I think your correspondent (p. 92) is in error that Thomas's allusion to the return of some one, and subsequent claim to determinations of longitude, refers to Mr. Walter, who it is clear was with the ship till she reached Canton; for Thomas, on the opposite page, speaks and further adds that it was "thought safe" beof the report of this claim as reaching them while there, cause they were believed to be lost. I understand that two, at least, of the party (a Capt. Norris and a lieutenant) returned (Thomas, p. 5) before Anson rounded Cape Horn; in doing which, or after, he was thought to be lost, and nothing was heard of him till he reached China. At the close of chap. ii. book iii. Anson's account is given of a separation of the party, Mr. Anson and some of the crew being on shore at Tinian, one of the Ladrones, while the ship was driven to sea. Here the narration of the Feb-party at sea is in the first person: "Leaving be hind us, on the Island, Mr. Anson with many of our officers" (p. 429). In the next chapter the story of the party left on the island is in the third person: "And here I must relate an incident which for some time gave Mr. Anson more concern than all the preceding disasters" (p. 433). This chapter ends with their return to Tinian: "The joining of our Commander and Shipmates were not less pleasing to us than our return was to them" (p. 441). In Pascoe Thomas's list of officers who were on shore at the time the chaplain's name does not occur, as I think it would had he been with them. The relation of those driven to sea (chap. iv.) is in the first person again. In Anson (chap. vii.), after they had reached Canton, occurs: "And I, having obtained the Commodore's leave to return, embarked with them" (p. 483); and Thomas also speaks of some who returned to England from Canton in other vessels, and says: "I think, in the same, ship, Mr. Walter our Chaplain" (Thomas, p. 269). Anson's narrative continues in the third person after this, till quite at the end there are some remarks on the Chinese in the first person.

"Cantuariæ in Anglia natalis S. Laurentii Episcopi, qui post S. Augustinum eam ecclesiam gubernavit, et regem ipsum ad fidem convertit."-P. 57, Paris, 1607. Ribadeneira and Alban Butler notice him upon the same day. I have not for reference Trithemius, De Viris Illustr. O.S.B.,' iv. 49, where there may be some notice of this. He obviously has a place in the Roman martyrology, whether justly or not. By the kind reference of my friend the Rev. W. D. Macray to the Acta Sanctorum,' February 2, I have been able to ascertain that while Archbishop Laurence is named in calendars and martyrologies at various places, and has an office in the Sarum Breviary, there is no mention in that collection of any decree for canonization or beatification, and that nothing is said there of any formal recognition. I am aware that the absence of canonization can be referred to the statement of Bishop Stubbs, and have referred to Haddan and Stubbs's 'Concilia,' vols. i. and iii., so that the query may rather take this form-How the name comes to be in such lists as those above mentioned, and in the Sarum Breviary, which is, apparently, a more general recognition than local saints obtain.

ED. MARSHALL.

All this looks as though Mr. Walter edited Lord Anson's journal; for when he is with them