n s. in. FEB. 11, MI.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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London hall-mark for 1618; the maker's name
was F. Terry. This with the companion dish
realized 4,200?., Messrs. Crichton being the
purchasers. The ewer and the dish are both
illustrated in the sale catalogue. A similar
dish is at Windsor Castle, and is illustrated
in the sixth edition of Cripps's * Old English
Plate ' (frontispiece). There were also in the
sale (4-7 May) several articles in rock
crystal, notably a standing cup and cover
with mounts of French workmanship of the
early part of the seventeenth century ; this,
which may be the article inquired after by
MB. LANE, realized 1,900 guineas. An
account of the collection appeared in The
Times of 13 April, 1908. The Marchioness
died on 28 November, 1907, and an obituary
notice of her was published in The Times
of the day following. She was the wife of
the third Marquess. W. ROBEBTS.
HOLWELL FAMILY (US. ii. 528 ; iii. 74). The best account of Governor Holwell (bapt. 23 Sept., 1711 ; died at Pinner, 5 Nov., 1798) will be found in Dr. H. E. Busteed's
- Echoes from Old Calcutta,' 4th edition,
1900, pp. 47 sqq. (See also 10 S. ix. 370, 455, 518 ; x. 76). Holwell was a grandson of John Holwell, the mathematician and astronomer (see 'D.N.B.'), whose father and grand- father are said to have given their lives to the Stuart cause, which involved the loss to their descendants of an ample patrimony in Devonshire that had been in the family for generations. I am, however, a little sceptical with regard to these statements. I cannot find any Holwell recorded in Mr. Peacock's ' Civil War Army Lists ' as having held a commission in the King's forces, nor in the ' List of Knights and Gentlemen that have Compounded for their Estates. 1 Holwell was not a Visitation family, and Risdon does not include it in his list of the gentry of the county of Devon. I conclude, therefore, that the Holwells were a family of small yeomen, who may, of course, have suffered losses in the Civil War, but were not people of local importance. Holwell's great - grandson, Major W. A. Holwell, died at Toronto in October, 1890.
I should like to learn something further of Edward and Bowes Walcot, both of whom are said by MB. W. JACKSON PIGOTT, and also by Burke in his * Landed Gentry,' to have survived the horrors of the Black Hole. Holwell in his ' Narrative,' in giving the list of survivors, mentions only an 41 Ens. Walcott," who was afterwards sent with Holwell and two others by Meer
Muddun to Murshidabad, where they
were put in chains and endured much
misery. No one of the name of Pigott is
mentioned by Holwell in his lists either of
those who perished or of those who survived.
W. F. PBIDEAUX.
THACKEBAY AND PUGILISM (11 S. iii. 28). The article, in Temple Bar headed ' The Millers and their Men,' and signed " P.," may perhaps have been written by Robert Kemp Philp. My reasons for thinking so are, I fear, not very convincing. Philp, who was, at different periods, Chartist, journalist, editor, and author, sometimes wrote under the initial "P." His known works include such titles as * Walks Abroad and Evenings at Home,' * Natural History,' ' Physical Geography and Geology,' &c., and show him to have been a keen and intelligent observer ; but I am not aware of his ever having written anything on pugilism. He is best remembered by his ' Enquire within upon Everything. 1 W. SCOTT.
DICKENS: " SHALLABALAH " (11 S. iii. 68). As a child (in the early sixties), I remember an old Indian who used to come round the houses in Thurloe Square beating a sort of tom-tom, which was hung round his neck, and crooning out some such word as the above. We always called him the " Shallabalah man." But I fancy he was a Hindoo, and not a Moslem.
E. STUABT SHEBSON.
"ELZE"=ALBEADY (11 S. iii. 25, 72). My note on this word was written, primarily, to register the fact that it still has currency, and is not a fossilized form resuscitated from ancient authors by the lexicographer. Secondly, it seemed apposite to show that the term in a specific meaning is not ade- quately considered in what is a generally approved edition of a standard poet. MB. WABBACK'S contribution has substantial supplementary value ; and PBOF. SKEAT'S etymological explanations are, as always, as welcome as they are satisfactory.
THOMAS BAYNE.
"PUCKLED" (11 S. ii. 526; iii. 78). Most readers at a first glance would probably understand this word as puckl-ed, the preterite of an unknown verb to puckle (like buckled from to buckle), akin to puckle (Old Eng. pucel), a diminutive of puck, in the sense of being possessed by a little puck. It is really, of course, puck-led, mazed or led astray by that mischievous imp Puck. The word survives in some of the Midland dia- lects.
