Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853.

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Title: Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc
Author: Various
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{325} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 179.] SATURDAY, APRIL 2. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Jack, by John Jackson 325 Mythe versus Myth, by Thomas Keightley 326 Witchcraft in 1638 326 St. Augustin and Baxter, by E. Smirke 327 FOLK LORE:--Subterranean Bells--Welsh Legend of the Redbreast 328 Johnsoniana 328 MINOR NOTES:--White Roses--Fifeshire Pronunciation --Original Letter--Erroneous Forms of Speech 329
QUERIES:-- Eustache de Saint Pierre, by Henry H. Breen 329 Passage in Coleridge 330 MINOR QUERIES:--Cann Family--Landholders in Lonsdale South of the Sands--Rotation of the Earth --Nelson and Wellington--Are White Cats deaf?-- Arms in Dugdale's "Warwickshire," &c.--Tombstone in Churchyard--Argot and Slang--Priests' Surplices--John, Brother German to David II.-- Scott, Nelson's Secretary--The Axe which beheaded Anne Boleyn--Roger Outlawe--"Berte au Grand Pied"--Lying by the Walls--Constables of France-- St. John's Church, Shoreditch 330 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Sir John Thompson --Ring, the Marriage--Amusive--Belfry Towers separate from the Body of the Church--An Easter-day Sun 332
REPLIES:-- Hamilton Queries, by Lord Braybrooke, &c. 333 The Wood of the Cross 334 Edmund Chaloner, by T. Hughes 334 "Anywhen" and "Seldom-when:" unobserved Instances of Shakespeare's Use of the latter, S. W. Singer 335 Chichester: Lavant, by W. L. Nichols 335 Scarfs worn by Clergymen, by Rev. John Jebb, &c. 337 Inscriptions in Books, by Russell Gole, George S. Master, &c. 337 PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Head-rests-- Sir W. Newton's Explanations of his Process--Talc for Collodion Pictures 338 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Portrait of the Duke of Gloucester--Key to Dibdin's "Bibliomania"--High Spirits a Presage of Evil--Hogarth's Works--Town Plough--Shoreditch Cross and the painted Window in Shoreditch Church--Race for Canterbury--Lady High Sheriff--Burial of an unclaimed Corpse--Surname of Allan--The Patronymic Mac--Cibber's "Lives of the Poets"--Parallel Passages, No. 2.: Stars and Flowers--Schomberg's Epitaph--Pilgrimages to the Holy Land--Album--Gesmas and Desmas--"Quod fuit esse"--Straw Bail--Pearl--Sermons by Parliamentary Chaplains, &c. 338
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 345 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 346 Notices to Correspondents 346 Advertisements 346
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NOTES.
JACK.
I wish to note, and to suggest to students in ethnology, the Query, how it comes to pass that John Bull has a peculiar propensity to call things by his own name, his familiar appellative of Jack?
Of all the long list of abbreviations and familiar names with which times past and present have supplied us, that which honest Falstaff found most pleasing to his ears, "Jack with my familiars!" is the household word with which ours are most conversant. Were not Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Bean-stalk, and Little Jack, the intimates of our earliest days? when we were lulled to sleep by ditties that told of Jack Sprat and his accommodating wife (an instance of the harmony in which those of opposite tastes may live in the bonds of wedlock); of Jack, the bachelor who lived harmoniously with his fiddle, and had a soul above the advice of his utilitarian friend; of Jack who, like Caliban, was to have a new master; of Jack[1] the brother of Gill; and of the Jack who was only remarkable for having a brother, whose name, as a younger son, is not thought worthy of mention. And were not our waking hours solaced by songs, celebrating the good Jack[2], little Jack Horner, and holding up to obloquy the bad Jack, naughty Jacky Green, and his treachery to the innocent cat? Who does not remember the time when he played at jack-straws, fished for jack-sharps, and delighted in a skip-jack, or jack-a-jumper, when jack-in-a-box came back from the fair (where we had listened