ii s. iv. AUG. 12, MIL] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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nothing definite is known of its origin. 11
consists of two stanzas of eight lines each
the opening quatrain being as follows :
When Maggie and I were acquaint,
I carried my noddle f u' hie ;
Nae lint-white on all the gay plain,
Nor gowdspink sae bonnie as she. The song popularly known as ' Tweedside, published in Ramsay's ' Tea-Table Miscel- lany,' 1724, is the work of Robert Crawfurd, a cadet of the family of Drumsoy, who is likewise the author of ' The Bush aboon Traquair,' also contributed to Ramsay's anthology. Crawfurd's ' Tweedside ' opens thus :
What beauties does Flora disclose !
How sweet are her smiles upon Tweed I Yet Mary's still sweeter than those,
Both nature and fancy exceed.
See David Laing's edition of Johnson's
- Musical Museum,' i. 3*; iv. 37, 1H*.
THOMAS BAYNE.
BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH (11 S. iv. 89). 4 The Present State of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 1738, partly meets the want of your correspondent. At one time in the reign of George II. the Board of Green Cloth was officered as follows : Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset, * Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household ; John, Lord Delawar, Treasurer ; Sir Conyers Darcy, Comptroller ; Horace Walpole, Esq., Cofferer ; George Treby, Esq. , Master of the Household ; Sir Tho. Read, Bart., and Tho. Wynne, Esq., Clerks of the Green Cloth ; Thomas Hales, Esq., and Robert Bristow, Esq., Clerks Comptrollers.
ST. S WITHIN.
" SOUCHY " : " WATER-SUCHY " (11 S. iii. 449 ; iv. 13, 96). Sir Charles Hanbury- Williams's ' Ode imitated from Ode xl. Book II. of Horace ' gives a slightly different pronunciation to this word :
Powell, (d'ye hear,) let 's have the ham,
- Some chickens and a chine of lamb ;
And what else let 's see look ye, B w must have his damn'd bouilli ; B h fattens on his fricassee ; I'll have my water-suchy.
A. FRANCIS STETJART. 79, Great King Street, Edinburgh.
SPIDER STORIES (US. iv. 26, 76, 115). Esquemeling, * Buccaneers,' ed. 1893, p. 30, writing about Hispaniola, mentions a spider which is not a tarantula :
" A sort of spider which, is here found is very hideous. These are as big as an ordinary egg, and their feet as long as those of the biggest sea- crabs. Withal, they are very hairy, and have
four black teeth, like those of a rabbit, both in
bigness and shape. Notwithstanding, their bites
are not venomous, although they can bite very
sharply, and do use it very commonly. They
breed for the most part in the roofs of houses."
S. L. PETTY.
SAINT- JUST (11 S. iv. 90). No biography has appeared in English in volume form ; even the magazines and reviews, English or American, do not seem to have attempted the task. The best account I have noticed may be found in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' ; the next best in ' Chambers' s Encyclopaedia.' Hamel's ' Histoire de Saint- Just ' (18,59), "which brought," says 'The Ency. Brit.,' " a fine to the publishers for outrage on public decency," has not been translated. As Saint-Just lived his short life " under the limelight," I think we could not do better than dip into the works of Mignet, Lamartine, Thiers, or CarJyle.
HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.
There is an account of Saint-Just's early life in M. G. Lenotre's ' Romances of the French Revolution ' (trans. 1908), vol. i. A. R. BAYLEY.
PORT HENDERSON : CORRIE BHREACHAN (11 S. iv. 10, 58, 97). Scott's lines in ' The Lord of the Isles ' may be recalled in this connexion. They introduce his beautiful reference to his friend Leyden (Canto IV. st. 11) :
Scarba's isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreken's roar.
The dangers of Corrievreken have no doubt considerably exaggerated, but it is an awkward place to get into, at certain states of the tide, in a sailing vessel. The ' roar " can be heard a long distance off, especially at spring tides with a westerly vind. T. F. D.
GRINLING GIBBONS (11 S. iv. 89). AITCHO'S query prompted me to examine he indices of my set of the Historical Manuscripts Commission reports, with the 'ollowing result.
Among the manuscripts of the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle is a receipt igned by Grinling Gibbons for 100 in pay- ment for two tombs executed by him for John, Earl of Rutland, in 1686.
Under date January, 1695, Nath. Hawes, reasujer of Christ's Hospital, writes to >ir John Moore, begging he will allow his tatue to be placed in a niche in the new chool, and adding that he, Hawes, has
