Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 | Page 6

and finally
settled once more in Edinburgh a few months before February eighteen
hundred and nineteen years, when the drama of Rob Roy was first
produced in the Theatre Royal here. That the deponent by his own
industry having realised a small competency, he is now residing in
Edinburgh; and although upwards of threescore years old he finds
himself 'hale and hearty,' and is one of the same class whom King
Jamie denominates 'a real Edinburgh Gutter Bluid.' All which is truth,
as the deponent shall answer to God.
"CHAS. MACKAY, B. N. Jarvie. "JOHN STODDART, J. P. "JOHN
MIDDLETON, M.D.E., Witness. "WALTER HENDERSON,
Witness."
Hogs not Pigs (Vol. ii., p. 102.).--J. MN.'s remark on "hogs, lambs a
year old," reminds me that the origin of this rustical word still lingers in
the remote west, among the Irish and the Highland Gaels, whose
gnath-bearla, vernacular tongue, furnishes the neglected key of many a
dark chamber. The word to which I allude is "og," adj. young; whence
"ogan," a young man; "oige," a virgin.
In these islands we still apply the old French term "aver," averium, in
Guernsey, to the hog or pig; in Jersey, to a child. In France "aver"
denoted the animal produce or stock on a farm; and there were "averia
lanata" likewise. Similar apparently whimsical adaptations of words
will not shock those who are aware that "pig" in England properly
means a little fellow of the swine species, and that "pige" in Norse
signifies a little maid, a damsel.
G. M.
Guernsey.

The Baptized Turk.--Your correspondent CH. (Vol. ii., p. 120.), who
inquired about Lord Richard Christophilus (al. Isuf Bassa), a converted
Turk, may be interested in a curious account of another convert to
Christianity, which has lately fallen in my way, if he be not already in
possession of the (almost legendary) narrative. I allude to a small 8vo.
volume, entitled:
"The Baptized Turk; or, A Narrative of the happy conversion of Signior
Rigep Dandulo, the onely son of a silk merchant in the isle of Tsio,
from the delusions of that great Impostor Mahomet, unto the Christian
Religion; and of his admission unto Baptism, by Mr. Gunning at
Excester-house Chappel, the 8th of November, 1657. Drawn up by Tho.
Warmstry, D.D., Lond. 1658."
Dr. Warmstry was Dean of Worcester. His conversion of the Turk
Dandulo is mentioned in the Lansdowne MSS. (986., p. 67.), and also in
the Athenæ Oxonienses. The narrative is dedicated to
"The Right Honourable the Countess of Dorset, the Honourable the
Lord George, and the Worshipful Philip Warwick, Esq., witnesses at
the baptism of Signior Dandulo the convert."
There appears to have been "a picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish
habit put before it;" {462} but this has been abstracted from the only
copy I have seen.
This conversion appears to have been effected by the instrumentality of
a dream; and the Narrative contains an interesting essay of some length
on the subject of visions, and gives an interpretation of the dream in
question.
J. SANSOM.
[Footnote 1: On Elizabeth Williams, youngest daughter of Miles
(Smith), and wife of John Williams, Esq., died in child-bed at the age
of seventeen. The above Miles Smith, was Bishop of Gloster during the
latter part of Henry VIII. and part of Elizabeth's reign.]

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Queries.
GRAY.--DRYDEN.--PLAYING CARDS.
Although my question regarding Gray and Dodsley's Collection of
Poems has only been half answered, and my two Queries respecting
Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel and Essay on Satire not answered at
all, I am not discouraged from putting interrogatories on other matters,
in the hope that I may be more fortunate hereafter. On each of my
former inquiries I have still a word or two to say, and I do not know
why I should not say them now.
First, as to Gray and Dodsley:--Is the epithet droning, or drony, in the
first edition of the Elegy? and, as my copy of Dodsley's Collection is
dated 1748, and is said (on the half title, preceding the whole title) to be
"the second edition," was there a first edition in the same year, or in an
earlier year, or was there, in fact, no first edition at all? This question is
important, because several poetical productions, of undisputed
excellence, originally made their appearance in Dodsley's Collection.
Next, as to Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel: Is it known, or anywhere
stated, that it was printed early in the eighteenth century as a penny or
two-penny chap-book, and why was it so printed? Observe, too, that it
was unaccompanied by Tate's Continuation, which, as far as a lesson to
the lower orders is concerned, was of more consequence than Dryden's
portion. It is a circumstance I did not mention, but it is, nevertheless,
worth a Note, that