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

Notes and Queries, No. 179.
Saturday, April
by Various

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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