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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. AUG. s,
an officer belonging to the Court of Common
Pleas,
- ' to whom every Fine is brought, after it hath been
with the Gustos Brevium [i.e., the principal clerk o the Common Pleas], and by whom the effect of th Writ of Covenant is entred in a Paper-Book, anc according to that Note, all the Fines of that Terrr are also recorded in the Rolls of the Court, and hi Entry is in this Form : He putteth the Shire oye the Margin, and then saith : ' A.B. Dat Domin< Regi dimidium Marcse ' (or more according to the value) ' pro licentia Concordandi C. cum C.D. pro talibus terris in tali villa, et habet Chirographum per pacem admissum,' &c."
King's silver itself is described by Cowe in his ' Interpreter,' 1701, as being
"properly that Money due to the King in th( Court of Common Pleas pro licentia concordandi, in respect of a License then granted to any Man for passing a Fine." Vol. vi. fol. 39 and 43.
J. HOLDEN MAcMiCHAEL.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE (10 S. x. 49). Two poems by Hartley Coleridge a song and a sonnet are to be found in ' The Gem for 1829, edited by Thomas Hood. The song is the familiar one beginning " She is not fair to outward view." The opening lines of the sonnet run thus :
It must be so my infant love must find In my own breast a cradle and a grave.
Both contributions were included by Der- went Coleridge in his edition of his brother's poems, published in 1851. It is quite possible that an exhaustive search through the various annuals which appeared during Hartley Coleridge's literary activity might result in the discovery of more verses.
S. BUTTERWORTH.
"T WIFE BAZAAR" (10 S. ix. 207, 416). -There is an article of some length on wife- selling in the Daily Mail of 1 March, 1899. It is quoted, along with extracts from other newspapers, by Prof. Knapp in the notes to his edition of ' The Romany Rye,' p. 384.
ALEX. RUSSELL. Stromness, Orkney.
CONSTABLES AND LIEUTENANTS OF THE TOWER OF LONDON (10 S. ix. 61, 161, 243, 390, 490; x. 70). I thank MR. BEAVEN for his courteous admission, and for his amendments, which, so far as supported by evidence, tend to the completeness of the catalogue. I have little to add. ' D.N.B.' has " Penington or Pennington." I do not know where the name is found with one n (possibly an autograph ?), for in ' Cal. S. P. Dom.,' Heylin's ' Help,' Whitelock, Overall's Index to ' Remem- brancia,' and all else at hand I find two n's.
My error " Earl of Dartmouth " was the
result of oversight. I now find that my
only " good company " is Stow's ' Survey,*
Strype's ed., Book I. p. 77.
I am satisfied as to Col. Thomas King. W. L. RUTTON.
MILL AT GOSPORT, HANTS (10 S. x. 68). Your correspondent might find assistance in locating this mill from the (apparently) accurate description of the immediate neighbourhood, in or before 1854, contained in Besant and Rice's ' By Celia's Arbour,* : which I have just re-read with enjoyment. By which of the writers the scene is described I know not ; but it is evidently drawn from personal and (I may call it) affectionate recollection and intimacy. W. C. J.
MAN IN THE ALMANAC (10 S. ix. 408, 475 ; x. 56). An interesting instance of the use of this expression occurs in Johnson's account of Capt. Edward England, ' History of the Pirates,' vol. i. p. 123 (London, T. Woodward, 1726). In narrating Capt. Mackra's adventures on board England's ship, after the fight at the island of Juanna the author says :
"A Fellow with a terrible Pair of Whiskers, and a Wooden Leg, being stuck round with Pistols, like bhe Man in the Almanack with Darts, comes swear- ing and vapouring upon the Quarter-Deck, and Asks in a Damning Manner, which was Captain Mackra."
The story is the more interesting in that
- he one-legged pirate, as pointed out in a
recently published book on ' The Malabar Pirates,' is undoubtedly the prototype of Stevenson's John Silver in ' Treasure [sland.' That worthy, it will be remem- bered, had served " first with England, then with Flint." He had moreover sailed n the Cassandra (the ship taken from Capt. Mackra), and had been at the taking of the Viceroy of the Indies (i.e., of Goa), who was captured in a Portuguese ship of 70 guns which the pirates found dismasted .t the island of Mascarine, near Mauritius. This was one of the most famous prizes n the annals of piracy, it being asserted by "ohnson that there was on board, " in the ingle article of Diamonds, to the value of Between three and four millions of Dollars."
T. F. D.
DOLLS IN MAGIC (10 S. ix. 168). The Tactice of employing images of wax, or ometimes of clay, with pins, needles, or horns stuck into them, for the purpose of ausing the death of a person supposed to e an enemy, is one of the commonest
