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London railway companies. I well remem
ber travelling in a train from Waterloo b
one of these, on the L. and S.W.R., abou
1862. The words " covered carriages " have
to my knowledge, occasionally appeared in
railway announcements of excursion train
within the last year or two.
F. A. RUSSELL. 4, Nelgarde Road, Catford.
LADIES RIDING SIDEWAYS (10 S. viii. 168) See 2 S. viii. 238 :
" Mr. F. W. Fairholt, in the first of his interest ing papers on 'Ancient Carriages,' in The AT Union Monthly Journal (No. 106, p. 119, April 1847), says : ' riding on side-saddles was in use bj ladies in England during the Saxon times.' In proo of this assertion he engraves an example (on p. 118 of a lady thus riding, copied from an A.-S. MS. and adds, 'that this fashion was continuous i shown by the seal of Joanna de Stuteville appendec to a document dated 1227, who is represented riding in a similar manner.' "
I have also a note that Richard II. 's queen introduced the side-saddle into England.
Some years ago there was a discussion on this subject in The Daily Graphic.
R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.
MORAVIAN CHAPEL, FETTER LANE (10 S viii. 26, 111, 194). A history of chapels in Fetter Lane (3) and Miles Lane (3), with lives of the ministers, appears in Wilson'
- History and Antiquities of Dissenting
Churches and Meeting-Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark,' 4 vols. 8vo, London, 1808. The account of Miles Lane occupies pp. 462-525 in vol. i., while that of Fetter Lane covers pp. 420-75 in vol. iii. These volumes are a lordly treasure-house of information about Nonconformity, its homes or refuges, and its preachers and teachers in the metropolis down to the end of the eighteenth century.
RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
HIGHLANDERS " BARBADOSED " AFTER THE 1715 AND '45 REBELLIONS (10 S. viii. 68, 135, 176). If MR. FOTHERGILL will say through your paper where " all the other lists" are to be found, and mention the exact period over which they range, the thousands of genealogists in the United Kingdom and in America will owe him a lasting debt of gratitude. C. MAPON.
29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.
SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND (10 S. viii. 150). There is an account of this charity in A. Highmore's ' Pietas Londini- ensis : the History, Design, and Present
State of the Various Public Charities in and
near London,' 1810, pp. 608, 611-13, 617,
and 621 ; but I do not find any allusion to
the annual reports, either there or under
' Philanthropic Soc.' in the B.M. Catalogue.
Would not the present chaplain and secre-
tary be likely to possess the desired informa-
tion ? J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
"INCACHED" (10 S. viii. 90). If "in- cached " be not a misprint of " encoached " =seated in a coach, can it be an anglicized derivative of Castilian enca/e=lace, formerly written encaxe and pronounced encache ? In the latter case it would mean " dressed in lace." EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Does not this mean concealed, secretly, with blinds or curtains drawn in fact, en cachette, from cacher, to conceal, to cover ? J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.
NOVEL WANTED (10 S. viii. 168). This is evidently ' The Inner House,' by the late Sir W. Besant : it is one of several short stories published together under the title of ' The Holy Rose, &c.' My copy is dated 1890. J. T. BROOKE.
[A. M. and ME. T. NICKLIN also thanked for replies.]
'OLD TARLTON'S SONG' (10 S. viii. 188). All that is known about this song and its variants is given by Mr. Halliwell in ' The STursery Rhymes of England,' 5th ed., sm. 4to, London, F. Warne & Co. First, ' from MS. Sloane 1489, fol. 19, written in the time of Charles I." : The King of France and four thousand men, They drew their swords, and put them up again. Secondly, from " a tract called < Pigge's Jorantoe, or Newes from the North,' 4to, ,ond., 1642, p. 3," in which it is called Old Tarlton's Song.' Mr. Halliwell thinks t may have been a parody on the popular 3pigram of Jack and Jill,' and that, as Darlton died in 1588, the rime must be sarlier :
The King of France went up the hill
With twenty thousand men ; The King of France came down the hill,
And ne'er went up again. Thirdly, a variant introducing the King if Spain :
the King of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again ; "'he King of Spain with twenty thousand more Ilimb'd the same hill the French had climb d
before.
Lastly, a version in which " the nurse [ngs the first line and repeats it time after
