NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. XL JAN. 9, 1909.
Papers,' vol. iv. had ever been published.
This I have been unable to ascertain. Dr.
Furnivall in his Forewords to his edition of
' The Anatomy ' discusses the question of
the author's family, and discredits Wood's
account. But it seems difficult to get over
the fact that Philip Stubbs, vintner, of St.
Andrew's Undershaf t, evidently believed that
he was of the same family, and apparently
told Wood so ; and the latter may possibly
have used the word " descendant " loosely
in the sense of " relative." There are two
Philips in the pedigree of the Kentish family
(Archceologia Cantiana, vol. xviii. 209) before
the vintner's time, but neither looks like the
author.
In 1879 I chanced on a bond, dated July, 1586, executed by " Philip Stubbes of Benefield in Northampton, generosus," to " William Stubbes, of Ratcliffe in Middlesex, generosus " ; it relates to a messuage in Congleton, Cheshire, which Philip grants to William for ever. The author in 'The Anatomy' (Part I.) speaks of knowing a man " for a dozen or sixteene yeares togither " in Congleton, and this may furnish a possible link between the two names. The late Bishop Stubbs made some searches in the Congleton records, but found nothing to the point. None has been made at Benefield, so far as I am aware. As to any relationship between John Stubbs, " Scseva," author of ' A Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf,' &c., and the author of
- The Anatomy,' it is significant that in 1719
Dr. Wolf ran Stubbs, grandson of " Scseva," by his will left the reversion of his three manors in Norfolk to the Rev. Philip Stubbs, then Rector of St. James, Garlickhithe, London, who was the eldest surviving son of Philip Stubbs the vintner. Had there been no relationship between the families, it is difficult to account for the testator's making this disposition of his estate. But what the connexion was is now unknown.
H. STUBBS. Dan by, Ballyshannon
EDWARD YOUNG, AUTHOR OF ' NIGHT THOUGHTS' (10 S. x. 490). The Rev. John Mitford, who wrote the memoir attached to the ' Poetical Works of Edward Young,' 2 vols., 1896 (Aldine series), says (p. x) : " On the 23rd April, 1714, he took his degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, and his Doctor's degree on the 10th of June, 1719." He makes no mention of the LL.D. degree having been conferred on Young.
W. B. GEBISH. Bishop's Stortford.
In a memoir prefixed to my copy of the
above work it is stated that Young was in
1708 nominated to a law-fellowship at All
Souls, and that in 1714 "he took his degree
of Bachelor of Civil Law, and his Doctor's
Degree on 10 June, 1719." On the title-
page, however, he is styled LL.D. No doubt
considerable laxity obtained in the use of
the two styles. H. P. L.
According to the memoir of Dr. Young prefixed to an edition of his ' Night Thoughts' printed in 1807, he possessed both degrees. On the title-page, and at the beginning of the memoir, he is described as LL.D., and further on in the latter it is stated that he took the degree of B.C.L. in 1714, and D.C.L. in 1719.
Dr. James Dugdale in his ' British Tra- veller ' (who was LL.D. himself) gives the whole of Young's epitaph in Latin, beginning "M. S. Optimi parentes Edwardi Young,
LL.D." J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
[MB. A. R. BAYLKY also thanked for reply.]
" WANEY " TIMBER (10 S. x. 490). Waney simply means " defective," from the sb. wane, " diminution." When the moon is on the wane, it might have been called wany, though this use is not actually recorded.
The word is duly explained in the right book, viz., in the 'English Dialect Diction- ary,' vol. vi. p. 377. It is only applied to wood or timber, and expresses a certain kind of deficiency. The explanation is given thus :
" Wane, a natural unevenness of the edges of boards. Hence waney, (1) tapering, irregular, having an imperfect edge, gen. used of wood ; (2) of wood ; having the grain separated by the violence of the wind, partially unsound." Six illustrative examples are given, which should be considered.
I lately met with an example of " wany " bundles of faggots, i.e., bundles in which several of the sticks were deficient in length, so that the ends were uneven, instead of being flush. WALTER W. SKEAT.
The word " timber " is in the query used in the narrow sense of logs or baulks : " waney timber " is that which is only partially squared, and has consequently rounded corners which are arcs of the original rough circumference of the tree.
The term " shake " indicates a crack proceeding from the centre of the tree.
W. ROBERTS CROW.
In the timber trade the definition "waney" implies not quite square in section, i.e. minus the corners. Some round logs have
