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around instep and ankle." That the above is
the true etymology appears from the following
quotations :
" Their boots vary in length, and in the material used for the sides, but all have soles of maclock, or seal-skin." F. Whymper, 'Travels in Alaska,' 1868, p. 136.
" The Innuit name of the same seal is muklok, a word which is also used by the Russians to designate seal-skin." W. H. Ball, 'Alaska,' 1870, p. 533.
JAS. PLATT, Jun.
dgum.es,
WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation 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.
" SMALLAGE." What is the origin of this word ? It does not occur in the 'Encyclo- paedic Dictionary,' nor in Paxtori's ' Botanical Dictionary,' but is still used, I believe, at any rate in some parts of the country. In Herrick's ' Hesperides,' No. 220, we have the lines :
Dear Perenna, prithee come And with smallage dress my tomb.
This, in Pollard's edition, is explained to mean the water-parsley. In Syme's 'English Botany,' however, we are told (vol. iv. p. 99) that smallage means the wild celery (Apium graveolens),~with which agrees the 'Cyclopaedia' of Rees. Halliwell gives "smallage," and calls it the water-parsley, quoting a passage from Hey wood's 'Marriage Triumph' (1613). But according to Syine the latter is the English name of a species of CEnanthe.
W. T. LYNN. Blackheath.
[Smallage = water -parsley, occurs in Barclay' 8 ' Argenis,' translated by Le Grys.]
LORDS RAYMOND AND PENGELLY. On p. 62 of a booklet entitled "The Stranger's Guide through London ; or, a View of the British Metropolis in 1808, by William Carey," occurs this note : " Furnival's Inn, situated in Hoi- born, contains a hall, about 70 feet by 24, in which are portraits of Lords Raymond and Pengelly." What is become of these portraits? E. S. DODGSON.
IMMUREMENT IN SEA-WALLS.' In the Fen- land Past and Present,' by S. H. Miller and S. B. J. Skertchly, 1878, it is said that formerly, when an inundation was caused by neglect of the sea-walls, the man in fault in some cases " had his sins brought home to him in a striking manner he was placed in the breach and built in." Whence is this
statement derived 1 Does it occur in Dug-
dale's ' History of Imbanking and Draining of
Fens and Marshes "? M. P.
"MONKEY ON THE CHIMNEY." This saying indicates the existence of a mortgage on a house. It is said to be current in Devonshire, but I have not met with it before. What is its origin, and how does the comparison hold good? A. J. DAVY.
Torquay.
ST. MEWBRED. What is on record about this saint, to whom Cardinham Church is dedicated ? I have Mr. lago's paper on Car- dinham (Journal It. I. Cornwall, xix., Nov., 1877), which quotes William of Worcester for St. Mybbard alias Colrog : but the refer- ence " concerning St. Mewbred see also Bothes Reg. fo. 22," is beyond my reach.
C. S. WARD.
GERARDE JODE. Can any correspondent give me information respecting the artist Gerarde Jode? WALTER L. JODE.
[There is a notice of this artist and his works in Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.']
LESLIE STEPHEN'S 'ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.' There are two references in this delightful volume about which I venture to ask for information. On p. 100 Stephen says : "When
the 'moneyed men' were roused by the
story of Capt. Jenkins's ear, Walpole fell"; and on p. 136, "Crusoe is the voice of the race which was to be stirred by the story of Jenkins's ear and lay the foundation of the Empire." Who was Jenkins, and what is the story ?
On p. 123 occurs :
" The taste [for gardening] has, I suppose, existed ever since our ancestors were turned out of the Garden of Eden. Milton's description of that place of residence, and Bacon's famous essay, and Cowley's poems addressed to the great authority Evelyn, and most of all perhaps Maxwell's inimit- able description of the very essence of garden, may remind us that it flourished in the seventeenth century."
Will some reader tell me something of Maxwell ? G. W. P. S.
[For the War of Jenkins's Ear see Prof. Laugh- ton's article on Robert Jenkins, master mariner, in the 'D.N.B.,' or Rawson Gardiner's 'Student's History of England' under 1738-42.]
SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE. What is the reason for the general belief that the slab in the chancel in the church at Stratford covers the grave of Shakspere ? It bears four lines of doggerel, but says nothing about Shak- spere. The monument in the north wall says that Shakspere is " within this monument."
