226 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIIL MARCH 19, 1021. August 26. 'Item for a mop and use of a pitch pott 00 04 04 Iltna paid to Robt Baldwin for wyne and sugar when M r Segeant Angell was here 00 03 00 September 7.
- itm to Mathew Piggott for a pece for the
beacon and for his worke and a pitch barrell 00 05 08
- lttnt to Thomas mole for his and his mans
helpe 00 01 04 Lltm. for Caryinge Ropes tarr and other things 00 00 04 Itm spent in bere for helpe . . . . 00 00 04 Iltnat for ould Ropes and for use of Ropes to furnishe barrell and to gett it upon the beacon . . . . . . 00 02 00 lit in to Thomas Fiske sen r for a cover for the pitch barrell and ii sheaves for the crostree of the becon . . . . . . 00 01 04 It u for Rushes for the Towne ball . . 00 00 10 'It'll to Willm Bardwell for diett and wine on the eleccon daye . . . . . . 02 12 10 Itm to Thomas Incent for ii jorney to S r horiry Glemhams . . . . . . 00 01 00 -Itm to Thomas Cheney for a Cragg of sturgeon #|$J. . .. .. .. 00 16 00 Itm for burying a drowned man . . 00 00 06 Itm to Willm Bardwell for dyett on the second drift Day . . . . . . 00 06 06 Itm to John Richardson the Fen Reve for his wages . . . . . . 00 14 00 Itm to him for halfe a day.-s work in the mshe . . . . . . ' . . 00 00 06
- ltm for helpe to dryve the Cattell in. the
marshe . . . . . . 00 03 10 . 16.
- Itm for tryminge 14 Collyvers and Musketts
of the townes as appeares by his bill 01 12 08 Itm to Charles Warne^for 3 nevve stocks and 7 scourers . . ^_ . . 00 09 03 28.
- Itm to Thomas wolnoe for drawinge Caryags
to the gunnes w h his horses . . 00 03 08 Itm spent in bread and beare then . . 00 00 OS Itm to a Soldier . . . . . . 00 01 00 Itm to M r John Bence for 1 C and 1 of wood . . . . . . . . . . 00 04 00 29. Itm to Robt Pootie forkeepinge the beacons . . . . . . . . 02 00 00
- Itm to "M. T Ripen back wche he paid more than
due upon his accompte . . . . 00 02 06 iltmp'forCoggesfortheMillandNailes 00 06 00 Itm pd to M r Cheney for the Comission of the Subsidies . . . . . . 00 02 00 Itm to him for his jorney to Ipswche 00 02 06 Itm to him for p-clamacons and geven to two soldiers . . . . . . 00 02 09 .'Itm to M r Osborne for the mayned soldiers . . . . . . 00 06 08 .Item to'Swillm Bardwell for dyett & wyne when M- Revet was here att the ass subs and for wyne and dyett on Michaelmas daye 04 07 24 ARTHUR T. WINN. . AldeburgV Suffolk. (2*o be continued.) SHIRLEY HIBBERD AS POET. In the sketch in the ' D.N.B.' of this able horti- culturist and journalist there is no mention of him as a writer of verse. The ' D.N.B.' only names a few of his writings " among many other works," and though he disowns the title of " poet " it is worth recording that he published a small volume entitled 'Summer Songs' in 1852, a book which he says " will still be dear to me," and thus joined the band of naturalist poets of the fellowship of Gilbert White. Though his verses may occasionally be carelessly strung together there is something pleasantly refreshing about them ; one section, as might be expected from what we know of the author, is fittingly headed ' Flower Songs.' RUSSELL MARKLAND. " POPKINS'S PLAN." (See 12 S. viii. 175). MR. ALFRED B. BEAVEN is justified in his belief that John McGregor, member for Glasgow, and governor of the Royal British Bahk, was the original of Disraeli's " Pop- kins " in his long-famous description of " Popkins's Plan" not " Pipkins' Clan," as by obvious error it is described at the reference, given. It was on the third read- ing of the Corn Importation Bill for the repeal of the Corn Laws on May 15, 1846, that Disraeli (who had not spoken on the second reading) attacked Peel on the ground that " faithful to the law of his being, he is going to pass a project which I believe it is a matter of notoriety is not of his own invention .... After the day that the right honourable gentleman made his first exposition of his schemes, a gentle- man well known to the House, and learned in all the political secrets behind the scenes, met me and said, ' Well, what do you think of your chief's plan ? ' Not knowing exactly what to say, but taking up a phrase which has been much used in the House, I observed, ' Well, I suppose it is a great and comprehensive plan.' ' Oh ! ' he replied, ' we know all about it ; it was offered to us [the Whigs]. It is not his plan ; it is Popkins's plan.' And is England to be governed by Popkins's plan ? Will the right honourable gentleman go to the country with it ? Will he go with it to that ancient and famous England that once was governed by statesmen by Burleighs and by Walsinghams ; by Bolingbrokes and by Walpoles ; by a Chatham and a Canning will he go to it with this fantastic scheming of some presumptuous pedant ? " John McGregor was at that time Second Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trade, to which position he had been appointed by the Whigs on Jan. 24, 1840, in succession to the once well-known economist, Joseph Deacon Hume ; and he held it until Aug. 0, 1847, resigning because he had been .returned
