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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. JAN. is, 1917.
And in a work not a novel by a
Professor of Literature :
" Finally Sir W. proposed that each man write on a slip of paper a name," &c.
This peculiarity seems worth noting ; perhaps some of your readers can throw light on the genesis of it.
JOHN MURRAY.
50 Albemarle Street, W.
In his ' Dictionary of Archaic and Pro- vincial Words ' Halliwell duly enters " cricket," and defines it as " a low stool." This seems to be the sense in which it is used by Sir Walter Scott in ' Kentlworth,' chap. x. When he makes Way land Smith settle to describe his career for Tressilian, he writes thus :
" So saying, he approached to the fire a three- footed stool, and took Another himself, while Dickie Sludge, or Flibbertigibbet, as he called the boy, drew a cricket to the smith's feet, and looked up in his face," &c.
It may be surmised that Sir Walter thus uses the term as being appropriate to Berkshire, with which he was specially concerned at the moment.
Jamieson in the ' Scottish Dictionary ' gives the " crackie " mentioned at the last reference, and wonders, like MR. HOPE, if it has its name through being intimately associated with housewives' " cracks." He seems to indicate that its use is limited to the counties of Berwick and Roxburgh. Whether the range is wider or not, there are certainly districts in the Scottish Lowlands in which the word is never heard.
THOMAS BAYNE.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172, 211, 275, 317, 337, 374, 458, 517 ; iii. 15). Few windows, probably, contain more authentic portraits than that given to St. John's College, Cambridge, by Mrs Charles Taylor in 1910, in memory of her late husband, for twenty-seven years Master of the College. This window, which is in the College Chapel, shows, in addition to Dr. Taylor, the following distinguishec members of the College : T. Clarkson and W. Wilberforce, Prof. E. H. Palmer, Dr Kennedy of Shrewsbury, Bishop Georg< Selwyn and Henry Martyn, the poet Words worth, J. Herschel and Adams the astrono mers, Lord Palmerston and Lord Chief Justic< Denman.
A correspondent at ii. 517 mentions thi portrait in glass of John Harvard at Em manuel. That of Peter Sterry in the sarm College chapel also deserves mention. Sterrj is numbered among the Cambridge Pla
onists; and he is severely handled m-
Hudibras,' III. ii. 215-30, where it is said
hat Oliver, in consequence of the " furiou
lurricane" that raged at his death, was
generally believed
To founder in the Stygian ferry,
Until he was retriev'd by Sterry.
See Zachary Grey's note. W. A. C.
In Birchanger Church, Essex, there is one- of a former vicar named Hatch.
M.A.OxoN.
AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S.- i 471). The lines in Fielding's ' Amelia are taken from the Duke of Buckingham^
Rehearsal,' Act III. sc. ii., p. 81 in Arber & reprint. They come at the end of a speech of Prince Pretty-man's, and their correct orm is :
The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot.
And, when she writ my name, she made a blot.
EDWARD BENSLY.
(12 S. ii. 529.)
I have always heard that the lines " Charms and a man I sing," &c., were- written by the late James Kenneth Stephen^. author of ' Musae Etonenses,' who died in 1892. A. GWYTHER.
Windham Club.
A NAVAL RELIC OF CHARLES I. (12 S.. ii. 487). The gun referred to must be one that is now in the Rotunda at Woolwich, In the excellent Catalogue of that Museum it is noticed as follows :
No 17. A brass demi-Culvering of the time of Chas. J.
On the chase is a crown with an anehor and a rose,. a trident and staff:
Carolus Edgari sceptrum stabilivit aquarum. Charles established Edgar's sceptre on the waters.. On the reinforce the inscription :
Mountjoye Earl of Newporte M r Generall. And then :
John Brown made this piece ANO. 1638. Length 9 ft. Calibre 4'4 inches Weight 20 ewt. 23 Ibs. There is no reference in the Catalogue as, to its having been in the Park, but I have a. note I copied from Col. Cleveland's ' Notes on Royal Regiment of Artillery,' which is : " King Charles l Bt directed this [referring to the Rotunda gun] to be cast, and it was placed in St. Jamess Park and emphatically called Ihe Gun."
The diameter 4' 4 inches would make i1 rather less than a 12-pounder. A whole- culverin, whose bore varied from 5' 20- inches to 5-50 inches, was roughly computed an*. 1 8-pound er.
