474.
NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JUNE is, 1907.
from the common Hindu personal name
Ramsammy, more correctly Ramaswamy,
" devotee of the god Rama." There are
other names of the same termination, such
as Krishnaswamy, " devotee of the god
Krishna." Indian Mohammedans do not
use these names, but have a similar class
formed with the prefix " Ghulam." Among
my correspondents I count a Ghulam
Rasull ("servant of the Prophet") and
a Ghulam Mohi-ud-din (" servant of the
saint Mohi-ud-din ").
JAS. PLATT, Jun.
Has not MB. R. ROB BINS confused this with ramzacking, which means a rough romp ? The late Mrs. Hewett in her 4 Peasant Speech of Devon' (1892) illus- trates the use of the latter by the following sentence in pure West Country patois : "I'm purty near mazed, vur thews yer vokes 'ave abin ramzacking tha' 'ouze awl awver awl the arternoon."
HARRY HEMS.
Fair Park, Exeter.
[Is ramzacking anything more than the local pronunciation of " ransacking" ?]
" O DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE ? "
(10 S. vi. 29, 57, 73, 92, 116, 152, 198, 454, 515 ; vii. 255, -315.) It may interest MR. PAGE to learn that the above line was parodied much earlier than W. B. H. inti- mates, viz., 'Pa Mulligan's Courtship,' a rollicking song which was issued in a series of similar things between 1832 and 1847. They were published as a collection in 2 vols. at Glasgow in 1853. A new edition was afterwards published in the same place in 1878, with biographical sketches.
The song appears on pp. 212-13 of vol. i. of this issue, as follows :
dear ! dear ! what can the matter be ?
Och, botheration now ! what can the matter be ?
Thunder and turf ! why, what can the matter be ? How Cupid my poor heart doth flail.
Then dear, c
Pewter and pots,
Cupid
Well ! well ! now nought can the matter be !
Honey and sugar now,
Pigs and praties since
Paddy no longer need wail.
The book is entitled ' Whistle-Binkie.' The name of the author of the song is not given- R. SIMMS.
Newcastle-under-Lyme.
FLEETWOOD OF PENWORTHAM, co. LAN- CASTER (10 S. vii. 302). R. W. B. is quite correct in surmising that it was Jane Fleet- wood, not her sister Honora, who became
Mrs. Hinton. Samuel Hinton, D.C.L., of
Lichfield, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Robert Chester, and had a second son
Samuel, citizen and woollen draper of
London, who married Susan, daughter of
Thomas Nevill, of London, merchant tailor.
This Samuel Hinton retired to Lichfield,
where he died in February, 1691/2. By
Susan his wife he had an elder son Samuel,
born about 1665, who married Jane Fleet-
wood before 4 March, 1690/1. Samuel and
Jane Hinton had a daughter (name illegible)
baptized at Lichfield Cathedral on 23 Aug.,
1696 ; a daughter Honor, baptized there
on 17 Aug., 1701 : a son Fleetwood, baptized
there on' 11 Feb.. 1702/3 ; and William,
son of Mr. Samuel Hinton, was baptized
there on 30 June, 1706. " Mrs. Jenny
Hinton " was buried there on 28 Sept.,
1702; "Mr. Samuel Hinton" on 7 Dec.,
1720; and "Mrs. Jane Hinton" on 6 April,
1723. Samuel Hinton, husband of Jane
Fleetwood, was a nephew of Charles Hinton,
of Lichfield Close, whom I have identified
as the master of Elizabeth Blaney, the young
woman who, if we could believe Boswell's
tale, died for love of Michael Johnson.
This romantic tale, however, is demolished
in my work on ' The Reades of Blackwood
Hill and Dr. Johnson's Ancestry,' from which
I extract these few particulars of the Hinton-
Fleetwood connexion.
ALEYN LYELL READE. Park Corner, Blundellsands, nr. Liverpool.
'THE HISTORY or SELF-DEFENCE' (10 S. vi. 489 ; vii. 155). At the end of " The Canon of the New Testament Vindicated .... By John Richardson, B.D." (London, 1700), among the " Books Printed for Richard Sare, at Grays-Inn-Gate, in Houl- born," there is mention of these : By Sir Roger L'Estrange.
The Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers St. Barnabas, St. Ignatius, _ St. Clemens, and St. Poly carp, the Sheperd [/sic] of Hernias, &c., with a large Preliminary Discourse relating thereto. Octavo.
The Authority of Christian Princes over Eccle- siastical Synods, Octavo. Price o-s.
An Appeal to all the True Members of the Church of England, on behalf of the King's Supremacy, Octavo. Price 1*. 6d.
A Practical Discourse against Profane Swearing, Octavo. Price 1*. 6rZ.
The Principles of the Christian Religion Ex- plained in a Brief Commentary on the Church Catechism, Octavo. Price 2*.
Also several Sermons on special Occasions.
The titles of these works suffice to show that, unless they were written by another man of the same name, Sir Roger L'Estrange was sufficiently theological to have been
