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Is there any work accessible containing newspapers, &c., it would be interesting
the names of all the holders of this office, to know something, from those who can
1 " ' still give the information, as to the transition from the use of woodcut engravings to the present process blocks for the purpose of illustrating magazines, newspapers, &c. For
with the time during which they flourished?
In default of such a work can any reader of
' N. & Q.' tell me when, each of these par-
ticular officials received his appointment,
and the time during which he filled his I example, when was the last illustration office? W. S. B. H. I given direct from a woodcut, and the first
process block used in, say, Punch, The
" MOUNEB." What is the meaning of this I frustrated London News, The Graphic, word, which occurs frequently in mediaeval & c? E. N. G.
documents? In a volume of the Calendars [Linton's book on wood engraving would probably of Close Rolls I have just been consulting ang wer some of these points.] (1288-96) there is mention of William the
Mouner at Winchester, Roger the Mouner in - AMES GBANT or BENGAL. - Can any of p.i^i fv, M , vi~w,, your readers give me additional information
Kent,
Ac.
Richard the Mouner in
Yorkshire,
STAB.
SIB WILLIAM LANGSTOW : ST. ZITA'S
as to James Grant of Bengal? He went to
India in 1779; was Resident at Hyderabad
1781-4; in 1786 was appointed " Serishta-
apparently created
CHAPEL AT ELY. Can any of your readers? ar f Ben g a l> .
supply me with biographical or other r hun ' ard m 179 Pblished in London
references to a Sir William Langstow, who
according to Baring-Gould's ' Lives of the
Saints' (27 April), built a chapel at Ely in
honour of St. Zita in 1456? I shall also
be glad of any information relating to this
church. W. H. .B
SIMON DE MONTFOBT : TBANSLATION OF FBENCH POEM. A contemporary poem on Simon de Montfort and the battle of Eves-
the result of his researches into the native
land laws, entitled ' An Inquiry into the
ing, from Rickey's Bengal Gazette, September,
1781, refers to his appointment at Hydera-
bad :
" On Tuesday last James Grant, Esq., set out on an Embassy to the Nezam's Court. More mischief Brewing."
There are many letters from him to the
ham, written in French, has been translated Governor-General m the Warren Hastings
into English. I have seen the translation
ascribed to G. Ellis, but it does not seem
to be in his 'Works' in the British Museum .
Can any one tell me (a) who translated it,
(b) in what book or paper the translation
first appeared? H. C s.
correspondence at the British Museum, but
they contain nothing of a personal nature,
very anxious to ascertain his parentage;
if he married and had children in India;
when he died, &c. Can the following
announcement amongst the deaths in Gent.
Mag., March, 1816, refer to him?
" Feb. 4 in Welbeck St., aged 65, James Grant, Esq., Head of the Department of the Ship Letter and East India Packet offices; and one of the Commissioners of Hackney Coaches. He was son
^f 4*\~ ~ l~i,, o:_ T a _ i ^ A i
" BABNBUBNEB " : " HTJNKEB." In one
of Hawthorne's letters, written in 1853,
this passage occurs : "He tells me he is a
democrat; but as to hard shell or soft shell, I of the late Sir Ludoyick" Grant of Dalvey, and or Barnburner or Hunker, he don't know ' brother of Lad y Mackintosh. Were those the names What does mean?
M. L. R. BBESLAB. Percy House, South Hackney.
[Webster has : " Hunker, originally a nickname for a member of the Conservative section of the
one from another.'
of American political parties?
" hard shell or soft shell " -
AND
Democratic party in New York; hence, ___
opposed to ^progress in general; a fogy (Political
OflnTr, U.O.)* J
M. F. H.
INTEBCHANGED. The interchange of c (or k) and t in names of places and other words is not uncommon. Thus " inmake " was at one time used for inmate "; and the other day I noticed the
THE WOODCUT : ITS PASSING. As the
time is approaching when there will be no
engravers, pressmen, or editors left to us
who have had the cutting of, printing, and
arranging for woodcuts in books, magazines,
statement that a hill formerly called Beacon
Hill is now marked Beaton Hill on the map
a change against expectation, for the former
name is intelligible. The alteration no
doubt takes place according to some law;
what is it? Children will say " lickle IJ for
' ' little "; is the change from c to t due to
advance from childhood to maturity in
language? J. B.
