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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. in. MAY 27, m
which, whatever meaning we are to attach to
them, are admirably short. Here are two :
Honesty is ye best.
Thomas Cutforth
I hope is gon to rest.
March 27th, 1720.
Wm. Furniss was here interred March
ye 12th, 1731. Pietas Furnisiana.
C. C. B. Ep worth.
HEREDITARY ODOUR (9 th S. ii. 505 : iii. 78, 192, 318). Have we not all been taught from our earliest childhood that to one race of people an Englishman has a smell of his own?
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Bishop Stillingfleet, in his 'Idolatry in the Church of Rome,' 1672, second edition, p. 215, quotes from the lives of St. Catherine and Philip Nerius how that the former "could not endure the stench of wicked souls," and the latter " was sometimes so offended with the smells of filthy souls, that he would desire the persons to empty the iakes of their souls." W. C. B.
HERNE THE HUNTER (9 th S. iii. 328). For interesting information on this subject I beg to direct the attention of DR. SMYTHE PALMER to 'Windsor Castle,' an historical romance, by William Harrison Ainsworth (Routledge & Sons).
There is an old tale goes, that Herne the Hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns,
And there he blasts the tree
You have heard of such a spirit ; and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Received, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Herne the Hunter for a truth.
Clapham, 8.W.
HENRY GERALD HOPE.
" LONDON " AND " LONNON " (9 th S. iii. 304).
"Lonnon," or rather "Lunnun," was the
usual pronunciation in Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire when I was a boy there
fifty years ago. It was only in reading from
book or paper that the d obtained recogni-
tion. Among elderly people many other-
words, when they came to be read, had a
different pronunciation from that which pre-
vailed in ordinary conversation. For example,
in reading have became " hay ve," are was
"air," said was turned into "sayd," and
the ed of a participle was sounded as a
separate syllable. Colloquially a man might
say, "We hav err'd and stray'd like
lost ship " ; but at church he would swell out
the phrase to " We hay ve err-ed and stray -ed
like lost sheep." So also the common
remark, "I sed, How ar you?" became, in reading aloud, " I sayd, How air you 1 " No doubt these peculiarities have been noted before ; if so, I have not been fortunate enough to meet with the record.
RICHD. WELFORD.
THOMAS ASKE (9 th S. iii. 368). I am able to inform MR. JACKSON PIGOTT that Capt. Thomas Aske was a grandson, not son of John Aske as he surmised. He is named, and left 1,000/., in the will of his father, Richard Aske, of the Inner Temple, serjeant-at-law, counsel to the Regicides, afterwards Master of the Crown Office, but styling hiraself "one of the Justices of the Court of Pleas before the Lord Protector," who died 23 June, 1656. Jane Aske (daughter of Thomas Heber, of Marton, co. York), of London, widow, mentions in her will (d. 27 Aug., 1666, p. 8 May, 1668) "my late son Thomas Aske dec." I knew nothing more about him until I read MR. PIGOTT'S query. The Rev. Nathaniel Aske, brother of Thomas, was rector of Somerford Magna, Wilts, died 1675, leaving a son Richard Aske. Richard Aske, the elder brother of Thomas and Nathaniel, was a barrister of the Inner Temple, and left an only son Conan Aske, living in London 1714, and then married, the last heir male of this ancient family I am able to trace, as I mentioned in an article on the Askes in the East Riding Archceol. Transactions.
John Aske, Esq., "of London, late of| Aughton," died in 1605, and all he then had ; left was a lease of Bubwith ferry. Christiana; Fairfax, his widow, was buried at St. Mary,] Bishophill, York, 1 July, 1619 ; but he seems | to have been living "as his wife "with one Margaret, daughter of John Guillim, oi Minsterworth, co. Glouc., and is named as if her husband in 'Visit, of Glouc.,' 1623, &c., Harl. Soc., p. 252.
How many ancient families have been swallowed up by the metropolis, some perhaps still surviving in obscurity ! All this is new genealogical matter.
A. S. ELLIS.
Westminster.
CURIOUS CHRISTIAN NAMES (9 th S. iii. 225, 312). I remember hearing the following story from the late Canon Bardsley, author of 'English Names and Surnames.' There was once a woman " a little ' cracky,' I think,' said the Canon, by way of parenthesis who had a son whom she had christened " What.' Her idea seems to have been that when in
