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L.
_Wat the Hare_ (Vol. ii., p. 315.).--Your correspondent K. asks what other
instances there are of _Wat_ as the name of a _hare_? I know of one. On the
market-house at Watton the spandrils of an Elizabethan doorway have been
placed, taken from some old building in the town. This has a _hare_ on one
side, a _ton_ on the other,--a rebus of the town name Watton.
H.H.
_The Letter Yogh_ (Vol. ii., p. 492.).--_Yerl_ for _Earl_, and _yirth_ for
_earth_, &c., are, to this day, quite common in Scottish ortho�py among
many of the lower classes.
G.F.G.
_Did Elizabeth visit Bacon at Twickenham Park?_ (Vol. ii., pp. 408.
468.).--To this question your correspondent J.I.D. replies with a quotation
from Nicols (edition of 1823), who dates her visit in 1592 or 1593. I had
looked into Nichols's first edition (1788) without finding the subject
mentioned; and I am now inclined to think, as at first, that it is
altogether a misapprehension. Sir Francis Bacon, in _His Apologie in
Certaine Imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex, written to the
Right Hon. his very Good Lord the Earle of Devonshire, Lord-lieutenant of
Ireland_. Lond. 1604, in 16mo. pp. 74., says, at p. 32.:--
"A little before that time, being about the middle of Michaelmas terme,
her Maiestie had a purpose to dine at my Lodge at Twickna[m] Parke, at
which time I had (though I professe not to be a poet) prepared a
Sonnet, directly tending and alluding to draw on her Maiesties
reconciliation to my Lord," &c. &c.
This I conceive to have reference to an intention of Elizabeth, rather than
to an accomplished fact.
At p. 14. of this work, Bacon says he had sold Twickenham park some time
ago to Reynold Nicholas. I consider Lysons to have been the first author
who mentions the subject and at _Environs_, vol. iii. (1795), p. 565.,
there is a note: "From the information of the Earl of Orford." And I
therefore conclude it to have been some mistake of Lord Orford's.
YOUR FORMER CORRESPONDENT.
Dec. 27. 1850.
_Mock-Beggar_ (Vol. ii., p. 478.).--The origin of this term was discussed
in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ in 1840. Two localities so called were cited
(vol. xiv. p. 114.), with the opinion of Sir William Burrell, that some
buildings so named at Brighton had been "a mendicant priory." Another
writer (p. 331.) suggested that the term was applied to country houses when
deserted or unoccupied; or to rocks, as one near Bakewell, where the
semblance of a ham might attract a wayfarer from the high road, only to
deceive his expectations of relief.
J.G.N.
_Cardinal Chalmers_ (Vol. ii., p. 493.).--The insignia mentioned by your
correspondent S.P., in No. 60, are very common among Roman Catholic
ecclesiastics on the Continent, and are frequently to be seen on tombs. The
hat and tassels are appropriated to Notaries Apostolic of the Holy Roman
See, as well as to Cardinals and the dignity having some privileges
attached to it, it is sought after by ecclesiastics of standing.
HYDE CLARKE.
_Binsey, God help me!_ (Vol. i., p. 247.).--I remember the _same_ words
respecting the village of Binsey, half-way between Oxford and Godstow.
During the winter and spring months it was nearly all under water, like
Port Meadow, on the opposite side of the river: so if you asked a Binseyite
in winter where he came from, the answer was as above; if in summer,
"Binsey, where else?"
CHAS. PASLAM.
_Midwives Licensed_ (Vol. ii., p. 408.).--On this subject I would refer
S.P.H.T. to Burn's _Ecclesiastical Law_, under the head of "Midwives,"
which is all nearly that can be ascertained at present on that head. Among
other things it says in the oath taken of them,--
"You shall not in anywise use or exercise any manner of witchcraft,
charm, or sorcery, invocation, or other prayers, than may stand with
God's law and the king's."
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