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subjects are represented on the centre
column on the north and the three columns
on the south side of the nave, and I should
be very much obliged if any reader of
- N. & Q.' could give me a reference to some
mediaeval series of six pictures of the legend. Perhaps with the aid of such it would be possible to discover the subjects represented on the other four columns.
I should also be glad to know of any other instance of the subject of the legend being shown on a column or columns. I do not remember having met with a similar one, although wall-paintings of the subject are fairly numerous.
MATILDA POLLARD.
Belle Vue, Bengeo.
A BISHOP AS BOXEB. In ' A Biographical Index to the Present House of Commons,' London, 1808, there appears on p. 130 a brief sketch of Sir Robert Williams, Bart., M.P. for Carnarvonshire, to which the follow- ing foot-note is added :
" In 1796 he had a contest with Lord Penrhyn, on which he proved successful, having 690 to 370 votes. It was on this occasion that a holy bishop is said to have had recourse to boxing ; this adventure became the subject of a Maccaronic epistle from the late Dr. Geddes [Alexander Geddes, LL.D., b. 1737, d. 1802]."
Who was this member of the Church militant ? and is the Macaronic epistle to be found in the Doctor's work The Battle of B[a]ng[o]r ; or, The Church's Triumph,' a comic-heroic poem (vide ' Cassell's Dic- tionary of English Literature'), to which I have not access ?
The letters in square brackets are inserted by me. FBANK CUBBY.
Liverpool.
" BALLOXI." This word, which is not found in ' H.E.D.,' is the name of a game introduced into England in 1768, or possibly a year or two earlier, as appears from the following passage from the ' Memoirs of William Hickey ' (chap, x.) :
" In the afternoon I walked towards Chelsea, intending to cross over to the Red House, but at Pimlico I was overtaken by some acquaint- ances, who said they were going to see Balloni played, an Italian game then just come into fashion, and played at a public-house at Pimlico. As I had never seen it I joined them, and looked on until dusk, when we went into the house to which the Balloni ground was attached, and drank coffee."
The precise date of Hickey 's record of the game was 15 Aug., 1768.
What was the game ? Are there other notices of its being played in England ?
JOHN T. KEMP.
" DILLING." In ' Adam Bede ' Mrs.
Poyser bids Totty to be "a good dilling "
(chap. xiv.). What is this ? I find the
word in an old volume of Puritan divinity
Gurnall's ' Christian in Complete Armour r
(1658), p. 46 : " To see a poor dilling or rush-
candle in the face of the boisterous wind and
not blown out," &c. Can this be the same
word? J. WILLCOCK.
Lerwick.
[The only definition of dilling included in the- 'N.E.D.' is "a term of endearment, sometimes equivalent to darling, sometimes the youngest of a family, the last born. In modern dialects applied to the weakling of a litter." The etymology is said to be doubtful. The quotations range from 1547 to 1890, though there is none from the eighteenth century.]
SAMUEL WOODWABD. He was com- missioned Secretary of Massachusetts on 23 June. 1715; reached Boston 22 Sept. r and was sworn 24 Sept., 1715. On 12 July, 1716, he produced to the Council " His Majestys Licence to absent himself e from the s d Province for & during the term of twelve months " ; he was present at a Council meeting on 3 Aug., 1716, after which his name disappears, and no doubt he sailed for England on or immediately after that date. He never returned. To what family did he belong ? and when did he die ? ALBEBT MATTHEWS.
Boston, Mass.
DE GLAMOBGAN. What was the origin of this family ? They were lords of the manors of Wolveton, *&c., Isle of Wight, from before 1248 till 1362-3, when, on the death of Nicholas de Glamorgan, the estates passed to his seven or eight sisters.
AP THOMAS.
THBOP'S WIFE. Can any of your readers give me any information about an expression ." As busy^as Throp's wife," which I have heard more than once in these parts ?
JOHN R. CLABK HALL.
Flintoftsgarth, Heworth Green, York.
[A correspondent at 5 S. vii. 35 referred to- Southey's ' Doctor,' Longmans, 1849, p. 310, for this- proverb.]
" FBEKE FBIDAY." I am far from a library here, and am not sure that a library knows. Will any of your readers give me a clear account of what " Freke Friday" actually was, and what was ( 1 ) the nature of the dancing on that day, and (2) the object ? Was it simply hilarious, or was it religious ? Glossaries are no use.
EDMUND R. NEVILL, F.S.A.
West Hanney Vicarage, Wantage.
