ii s. in. FEB. 4, MIL] NOTES AND QUEEIES.
85
1686. Richard, s. of Thomas Levis, of Beeston.
and Mary, baptized.
1666. Fortune, d. of John Lawson, of Lenton, buried.
1666. Thomas Sanderson of Shelford, buried.
1668. Anne, wife of William Webb, citizen of London, buried.
1669. Thomas Boylston, gent., and citizen of London, buried.
1671. Jane, wife of Richard Squire of Kinalton, buried.
1672. Luke Killingworth, of Killingworth in Northumberland, Esq., buried " in ye Middle Alley of ye Church."
1675. Susannah, d. of John Speed of Basford, gent., buried.
1675. William Presley of Howbecke, P. Cuckney. buried.
1675. John Baldocke of Widmerpoole buried.
1676. Mary, d. of Thomas Beamon of Blyth, Notts, buried.
1676. Ann, d. of James Coxe, of Outhorpe, buried.
1676. Mary, d. of Thomas Lorrinton of Stones- ley, co. Leicester, buried.
1677. " Henry Smith, of ye County of Yorke," buried.
1678. Martha, d. of William Round of Alfreton co. Derby, buried.
1678. Jonathan, s. of Jqnathan Martin of Duffield, buried.
1678. Francis, son of the late Andrew Clarke, gent., of Yorke, buried.
1679. Mary, d. of Isaac Wollet of Haslewood P. Duffield, co. Derby, buried.
1679. Adam Adcock of London buried.
1679. Susannah, d. of Thomas Newham of Arnold, buried.
1680. Cornelius Launder of Alfreton, co. Derby, buried.
1680. Jane, d. of Thomas Athorpe of [blank], co. Yorke, gent., buried.
1680. Thomas, s. of George Blagg of Gedling, buried.
1681. George, son of Peter Jackson of Mans- field, buried.
1682. John, s. of Andrew Buxton of Great Cropwell, buried.
1682. John, s. of the late Mr. John Ward of London, buried.
1682. Ann, wife of Will. Fletcher of Derby, buried.
1683. Elizabeth, d. of Samuel Spencer of Lenton, gent., buried.
1684. Martha, wife of William Wheateley of Ruddington, buried.
1684. John Whittecar of Leeke, co. Stafford, buried.
1686. Anne, d. of William Raggsdale of Edwal- ton, buried.
1686. Katherine, wife of Robert Warner of Papleweeke, co. Nottm., buried.
1686. Mary, d. of James Bingham of ECigham, co. Derby, buried.
1686. Mr. John Viccars of Loughborrow buried.
1688. Mary Greene of Shelf orde buried.
1689. William, s. of Ed Aster of Beeston, buried.
1689. " A Dutch Souldjer." [Repeated in the same year.]
A. STAPLETON.
" PASSENGER " IN THE ' N.E.D.' Meaning
No. 6 is given by Sir James Murray as follows:
" Slang. One of the crew of a racing-boat who adds to the weight without contributing his share to the work ; hence an ineffective member of a football team, etc."
The only quotation is one from The Guardian, 25 May, 1892 : "In the ordinary amateur band there are always several ' passengers.' ' The date at which the slang meaning had come into use is indicated by " 1885 [Re- membered at Oxford]." That it was familiar at Cambridge four years earlier than this can be proved by a definitely dated example with the meaning of a useless man in a boat.
In the second volume of The Cambridge Review, in the number for 1 June, 1881, appeared " The Naval Contest at Ditton, Thucydides, ix. 1." signed H. R. T(hu- cydides), i.e. H. R. Tottenham, fellow of St. John's. On p. 355 are the words
- nor is it likely that they will carry many
supernumeraries (7TpiWa>s, Anglice pas- sengers] " Mr. Tottenham's brilliant parody was reprinted in his ' Cluvienus his Thoughts,' Cambridge, 1895.
Canon Ainger in his ' Crabbe ' (" English Men of Letters") seems to have made a singular mistake about the meaning la of the ' N.E.D.,' " A passer by," in dealing with a statement in the Rev. George Crabbe' s life of the poet :
"Having left my mother at the inn, he walked into the town alone, and suddenly staggered in the street and fell. He was lifted up by the passengers." -P. 161, 1834 ed.
Ainger's comment is " probably from the stage-coach from which they had just alighted" (p. 79, chap. v.). Surely the people passing in the street are here meant. EDWARD BENSLY.
SIB THOMAS BODLEY, M.P. The ' D.N.B.'
states that " his first attempt to enter into public life seems to have been unsuccess- fully made in 1584, when he was recom- mended by Sir Francis Cobham for election to parliament as M.P. for Hythe."
On referring to ' The Barons of the Cinque Ports and the Parliamentary Representa- tion of Hythe,' by the late George Wilks, Esq., Town Clerk, I find a copy of Lord Cobham' s recommendation, dated from Cob- ham Hall 25 October, 1584, and signed W. Cobham ; and at p. 63 the entry in the Corporation Assembly Book is given thus : " Memorandum That the 27th daye of October. 1584, Mr. Mayor, the Juratts, and Comon'ty, being assembled in the Comon Hall there, touch- ing the answering of a letter sent from Mr, Lieutenant of Dover Castle, in the name of the
