128. II. JULY 15, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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THACKERAY AND ' THE TIMES.' I cannot
claim to be a learned Thackerayan, so am
unable to say whether the following passage
has been noted by the latest bibliographers
of the writer :
" Thackeray came to the evening rehearsal and told me that he had written the criticism on ' Mac- beth ' in Tke^Times, but that much of it had been cut out that in what he wrote of Bulwer every word of praise was omitted. How sick 1 am of that scoundrel paper ! " 'The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-51,' ed. by W. Toynbee, London, 1912; entry of April 14, 1838.
So far as I can see there is no reference to this article (perhaps there are two) in the bibliography attached to Mr. Melville's second life of the novelist (1910). But this is not surprising, seeing that the first edition of the ' Macready Papers ' (which appeared in 1875 under the supervision of Sir F. Pollock) contained only selections from the -diaries, &c., and omitted this particular entry. H. O.
"AGED 100" AT GUSSAGE ST. T ANDREW. St. Andrew's Chapel, Handley, Dorset, is of partly Norman, partly Early English architecture. It stands close to Chapel Farm, which includes the long, mediaeval barn once belonging to Shaftesbury Abbey, and now called " the stables." Beneath the Holy Table at its east end the visitor reads :
Gulielmus Williams de Woodcotte Generos' extremu suum diem clausit Nouemb r ye 17th 1725 Aged 100.
The transition from Latin to English suggests that all but the English words were ut " ante mortem predicti Gulielmi." The survival in 1725 of the mediaeval shortening of " generosus, extremum " is also notable.
EDWARD S. DODGSON. Oxford Union Society, Oxford.
MUMBO JUMBO. According to the "* N.E.D.' the origin of this expression is unknown. This statement is inaccurate ; not only do the authorities cited Moore and Mungo Park locate the custom among the western Mandingo, as is proved by one of the citations in the Dictionary itself, -but it can be stated with some certainty 1 hat jumbo or jombo is a tree, probably Diospyros mespiliformis, the root of which is used in magic by societies of women with the object of curing a disease said to be caused by water spirits (Monteil, ' Les Khassonke,' p. 227 sq.). As the mama jombo (anglicized into Mumbo Jumbo) is, besides being a blacksmith and a dancer, the operator in a lite connected with the initiation of girls,
there are good grounds for connecting his
name as initiator with that of the tree, the
more so as he also practises what we call
white magic, or, in other word*--, protects
people against witches.
Mama jombo is found among the Soninke and Khassonke and possibly other Mandingo tribes. X. W. THOMAS.
Egwoba, Manorarate Road. Norbiton.
SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF MONUMENTAL IN- SCRIPTIONS AND HERALDRY IN THE CLOISTER, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL: BAKER MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION. (See 12 S. i. 425.) Among the MSS. mentioned at this reference has been found a square 8vo MS. vol. of some 138 numbered pp. Of these pp. 49-138 record all the inscriptions in the Cloisters, the Cloister Green, and Close. The following is a complete index to the inscriptions con- tained therein. An asterisk shows those with
arms :
Adams
Adey
Adlam
Adney
Alt'ord
Andrews
Angel
Arney
Attwood
Baker
Barker
Barter
Bassett
Bazley
Bell
Bennett
Benson
Biddlecombe
Bingham
Bouverie
Bowen
Bowes
Boyle
Bradley
Briggs'
Briscoe
Broderick
Brooke
Brown
Buckeridge
Burch
Buruis
Cane
Chapeau
Child
Clarke
Clendon
Coates
Cobb
Coleridge
Collis
Coney
Cooke
Coombs
Copeman
INDEX.
Corfe
Creser
Cunningham
Cyril
Da vies
Day
Dee
Denison
Dodsworth
Donne
Dowland
Edwards
Ekins
Emly
Eyre
Fagan
Fawcett
Finley
Fisher
Fitzgerald
Forcyth
Frizell
Fruin
Fry
Gast
Gilbert
Godwin
Golding
Goodwin
Gordon
Gould
Greenly
Grove
G rover
Guy
Hamilton
Hammick
Hammond
Hancock
Harding
Han is
Hayward
Head
Heathoote
Hedger
Hibbard
Hillman
Hinton
Hodgson
Hole
Hooker
Hosken
Hoskens
Houghton
Hussey
Ingram
Jacob
Jennings
Judd
Keith
Kellow
Kelsey
Kerrick
King
Lacey
Law
Lawe(s)
Layard
Lear
Lee
Lemon
Lewis
Loder
Lucas
Lush
- Luxford
MacCobb Macdonald Marryatt Matthews Mee
Muldleton Milles Moberley Money Moody Mount Munkhouse Muiwell .V- Y.e
