ii s. i. MAR. 12, i9io.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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m ra Esther Howchin being then her maid and
haueing a Respect for her after y e Death of her
Husband m r Jeremiach Howchin I went many
times to see her when she lined In y e house with
her Sonn Bozoune Allin where I found her most
times alone hi a Cold Boome most times no fire
or at best but a little Dirty Baske on y e hearth &
in a sick & weak Condicon."
It should be added that Jeremiah Howchin was a tanner ; that he died in 1670 or 1671 ; and that when, in 1673, Bozoun Allen married Howchin's daughter Rachel, he (Allen) succeeded to his father-in-law's business.
What does the word " raske ll mean, and what is its derivation ? I have been unable to find the word in that form in any dic- tionary, though my guess is that it is the same word as "risk, 31 stated in the 'English Dialect Dictionary ^ to be found ' ' also in form rusk" and to mean "rind or bark. 5 ' In his ' Ancient Language *and Dialect of Cornwall, 1 1882, F. W. P. Jago says : "Rusk or Risk. The rind or bark. It is rise in Celtic Cornish " (p. 322). And in his
- English-Cornish Dictionary,' 1887, Jago
says: "Bark, s. (Of a tree). .. .rise, ruse, ruscen n ; and gives several references to places where the word occurs, none of which is modern.
Can English scholars throw any additional light on "raske, n or cite any modern
examples ?
Boston, U.S.
ALBERT MATTHEWS.
BORROW'S ' WILD WALES,' ' LAVENGRO,'
AND ' ROMANY RYE.' Nearly ten years ago
(9 S. viii. 343) you kindly allowed me to
insert some queries on Borrow's ' Wild
Wales.' Most of these remained unanswered,
and I venture to send two of them a second
time.
(1) Has the Father Toban, so often men- tioned (chap, iv., &c.)f any prototype, or is he purely imaginary ? (2) Was Potosi the actual name of the lead-mine of chap.lxxx., and where is it situated ?
To these I should like to append a query on ' Lavengro.'- One of the most vivid portraits in that book is Peter Williams, the Methodist preacher. This personality is certainly real, yet the ' D.N.B.' (Ixi. 438), speaking of another Peter Williams, remarks : " Peter Williams, the hypochondriacal evangelist, who figures so largely in ' Laven- gro J (cc. 71-81), was probably a creation of Borrow's own imagination. 51 Now it will be remembered that at parting Peter Williams gave Borrow a Welsh Bible, and Dr. Knapp tells us (notes to ' Lavengro, 2 p. 567):
This Bible, with Peter Williams' name in it,
was sold in London in 1886, out of George
Borrow's collection." Surely some Welsh-
man, especially a Welsh Methodist, should
be able to identify him.
Who is the Lord Lieutenant of the song in ' The Romany Rye,'- chap. xlii. ?
R. S.
CHINESE GALLERY IN LONDON. Gordon Gumming the lionslayer, in his introduction to the first volume of his ' Five Years of a Hunter's Life in South Africa, 1 dated Altyre, June, 1850, p. viii, note, states : " My collection may now be seen in my Museum at the Chinese Gallery in London." Where was the Chinese Gallery ? Alexandre Dumas appears to have seen the collection in Coventry Street, Leicester Square, in 1851.
A. H. D.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Non sibi, sed toti genitos se credere mundo. ' N. & Q.* is the great benefactor for ' Quota- tions Wanted, 1 and England is the country in which classical studies are most honoured at large. For my own part, I have vainly searched Latin literature for the above fine verse, and my only hope now lies in ' N. & Q.' Lead on, kindly light ! H. GAIDOZ.
22, Rue Servandoni, Paris (VI.).
Great God I to see the golden stream
Of happiness roll on I To count the many barques that gleam In morning's sun and evening's beam, Each on its journey gone !
GEORGE WOLSELEY. Thatched Cottage, Wateringbury, Kent.
The lines,
Two grey stones at the head and feet,
And the daisied turf between, are quoted by the late K. H. Digbyin ' Com- pitum, z vol. vii. p. 568, but no reference is given. Whence do they come ? ASTARTE.
Whence come the following lines ? They plainly relate to Oliver Cromwell : I heard a little bird sing That the Parliament captain was going to be king.
M. Y. A. H.
In his hand
The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains.
S. W.
[Wordsworth : see a sonnet beginning "Scorn not the Sonnet."]
Within this earthly temple there's a crowd. There's one of me that's humble, one that's proud ; There's one of me in misery repents his many sins, And one that in a corner unrepenting sits and grins.
M. HALLIDAY,
