Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 | Page 6

to be
spread for coach travellers at that time from four in the morning till ten
at night, we were presented with eggs stained in the boiling with a
variety of colours: a practice which Brande records as being in use in
his time in the North of England, and among the modern Greeks.
S.S.S.
_Cure for the Hooping-cough._--"I know," said one of my parishioners,
"what would cure him, but m'appen you woudent believe me." "What is
it, Mary?" I asked. "Why, I did every thing that every body teld me.
One teld me to get him breathed on by a pie-bald horse. I took him ever
such a way, to a horse at ----, and put him under the horse's mouth; but
he was no better. Then I was teld to drag him backward through a
bramble bush. I did so; but this didn't cure him. Last of all, I was teld to
give him nine fried mice, fasting, in a morning, in this way:--three the
first morning; then wait three mornings, and then give him three more;
wait three mornings, and then give him three more. When he had eaten
these nine fried mice he became quite well. This would be sure to cure
your child, Sir."
W.H.K. Drayton Beauchamp.
_Gootet._--In Eccleshall parish, Staffordshire, Shrove Tuesday is called
Gootet. I am not aware if this be the true spelling, for I have never seen
it in print. Can any of your readers supply the etymology, or state
whether it is so called in any other part of England? I have searched
numerous provincial glossaries, but have hitherto been unsuccessful.
B.G.J.

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THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S POCKET-BOOK.
It is reasonable to conclude, that the article copied from _Chambers'
Edinburgh Journal_, in No. 13., furnishes the strongest evidence that
can be adduced in support of the opinion, that the book in the
possession of Dr. Anster is the one found on the Duke of Monmouth
when captured, after his defeat at Sedgemoor; and, if so, it is
impossible to admit the hypothesis, because a portion of the contents of
the real book has been given to the world and contains matter far too
important to have been passed over by Dr. Anster, had it existed in his
volume. In the 6th edition of Dr. Welwood's _Memoirs of the most
material Transactions in England for the last Hundred Years preceding
the Revolution in 1688_, printed for "Tim. Goodwin, at the Queen's
Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, 1718," the
following passage is to be found at p. 147.:--
"But of the most things above mentioned there is an infallible proof
extant under Monmouth's own hand, in a little pocket-book which was
taken with him and delivered to King James; which by an accident, as
needless to mention here, I have leave to copy and did {398} it in part.
A great many dark passages there are in it, and some clear enough that
shall be eternally buried for me: and perhaps it had been for King
James's honour to have committed them to the flames, as Julius Cæsar
is said to have done on a like occasion. All the use that shall be made of
it is, to give in the Appendix some few passages out of it that refer to
this subject, and confirm what has been above related."
In the Appendix the following extracts are given from the Duke's
book:--
"October 13. L. came to me at eleven at night from 29, told me 29
could never be brought to believe I knew anything of that part of the
plot that concern'd _Rye House_; but as things went he must behave
himself as if he did believe it, for some reasons that might be for my
advantage. L. desired me to write to 29, which I refus'd; but afterwards
told me 29 expected it; and I promis'd to write to-morrow if he could

call for the letter; at which S.L. shew'd a great concern for me, and I
believe him sincere though S is of another mind.
"14. L. came as he promis'd and receiv'd the letter from 3 sealed,
refusing to read it himself, tho' I had left it open with S. for that
purpose.
"20. L. came to me at S. with a line or two from 29 very kind, assuring
me he believed every word in my letter to be true; and advis'd me to
keep hid till he had an opportunity to express his belief of it some other
way. L. told me that he was to go out of town next day and that 29
would send 80 to me in a day or two, whom he assured me I might
trust.
"25. L. came for me to ----, where