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RENDERED AT CAISTOR, LINCOLNSHIRE. 245 of this will be rendered more apparent, I hope, if we recur to the details of it. The man who came to render the service brought with him a whip, resembling a cart-whip, but locally called a Gad- whip, or Gad (of which a few words presently), a small purse of leather (the account in the " Gentleman's Magazine" says it was of green silk), containing some silver {qy. thirty silver pennies originally), and tied at the upper end of the whip, and four pieces (slender rods) of wych-elm, of different lengths, varying from 3 feet 2 inches to 2 feet 7 inches, or thereabouts, which were bound to the handle of the whip. We are indebted to Mr. Moore for one of these Gads, which, with its appendages, he very obligingly pre- sented to the Institute during the meeting at Lincoln, and of which a representation is here given. (See cut.) It is not an ordinary whip, Ijut of rude workmanship, and made in a pecuhar manner for the occasion, there having been a new one of the same kind every year.^ The handle, which is of ash, bound round with white leather to within 8^ inches of the butt, is 5 feet 8 inches long, and tapered off somewhat obtusely at the lower end, but without any metal point.^ The lash is of white leather, probably cow-hide, and is 7 feet .0 inches long, the upper part for 30 inches not being braided. Whether it was once both a goad and whip, or denominated a Gad by analogy, because, as a whip, it answered the pur- pose of a goad for driving animals, I must leave the curious to determine for themselves. ' Another of these whips was exhibited Promptorium also gives " Gad (or rodde, in the museum formed during the Mcetinjj Pjmson) to mete with londe, Decempeda, of the Institute, with the Ijroken fragment pertica" — "Gode,s?/^;y« In Gade." "Mas- of a third. Tiiese relics of a very singu- tifi'ia, a gadde." (Ortus Vocabulorum. — ) lar custom were regarded with much Palsgrave gives, in his Eclaircissement interest, and our best thanks are due to de la langue Francoyse, — "Gadde for oxen, Mr. Moore, for depositing one in the esf/uillon." In the Craven dialect — " Gad, Museum of the Institute. a long stick, also a tall slender person ; ■ It appears probable that this might the gads are sometimes sharpened with have served as a goad, in the original in- iron." In Urockett's North Country Dia- tention of the whip : and this supposition lect — " Gad, gaed, or ged, a fishing rod, a would certainly supply a satisfactory e.K- wand, a long stick with a pike at the end, planation of the name. — A. W. formerly used to drive oxen when they •• Anglo-Sax. Gsid— stimulus, the point were employed as beasts of draught." It of a weapon. " A gad—f/eriisa." (Catho- is a term still used for a cartman's whip : licon Materna Linirua., dated liiV.i. MS. .... . ^ mi cc , n n i n n i r„,, , ,■ ,v- i. " '• r 1 At ' " Ilecriyt, T icyfF call all ! call all ! tngi. -Latin Dictionary in Lord Monsoii s . , , i ■ , ^l i i <• n ») 1 -1 1 1 • I • 11- • And he then lete the gad-waiul tall. Library, compiled in Lincolnshire, as is " m n supposed.) The Promptorium Parvulonini, compiled at Lynn, in Norfolk, in the 1.5th " Gad, a hedge-stake or stout stick." — century, gives " Gad or gode, r/crum, Barnes' Dorset Dialect — " Ane rod is ane xciUica." (Various readings— gadde, gaade, staffe or gade of tymmer quhairwith land gadde or whyppe. This last is as the word is measured." Skene v. Purlkuta. J.^K., stands in Pynson's printed edition.) Tiie in the New English Dictionary, 1759, VOL. VI. L L