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12 s. ix. AUG. 27, 1021.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 169 young author William Hersee, who dedi- cated and presented to Hayley a volume of poems. (See Hayley's letter of acknow- ledgment, ante, p. 167). I should also be glad to learn the title of the book and the name of the publisher. C. W. CLARK DURANT. streets, roads or lanes, &c., named after the I very common articles of commerce, milk, butter and cheese. Are there any towns in the United King- dom, other than those already named, which have " milk," " butter " and " cheese" in their street nomenclature ? R. HEDGER WALLACE. THE PILLOW CLUB. Is anything known of this club, which existed in London in the ! " CHEESE MONDAY." Sir J. G. Frazer, early part of the seventeenth century. | in his ' Golden Bough,' notes that the John Scattergood, East India Merchant, i Bulgarians have a festival called " Cheese v/riting from Canton in 1719, remarks as Monday." Did we ever have in the United follows : There's a Club in England called the Pillow Club of which I was a member, and did promise to send them some Patna Bice and some mangoes but never had any opportunity to send any yet, my name. Please to direct them to Captain Richard Rawlins in London for the use of the Aug. 12 : BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD. | Kingdom a similar " cheese " day ? R. HEDGER WALLACE. A JEW'S EYE FULL OF BUTTERMILK." following paragraph is cut from the London Letter of The Guardian of A correspondent writes : " Can you tell me the origin or derivation of the expression one frequently hears in country districts of Yorkshire, i ' You are worth a Jew's eye full of buttermilk ' ? THEODORE GORDON, COMPOSER. In the It is usually said to children who have rendered sixties and seventies of last century, Theo- - some trifling service. Does it come within the dore Gordon composed several popular f ame cate g rv { a s those parental obliqua dicta, sons icludin o songs, including on on the with " according to fable "the expression cover of ' Sweet Soft Blue Eyes,' 1866, as " Worth a Jew's eye " came from the custom of "Walter" Gordon, but inside as " " orn s n lantaet time n order to Gordon. Who was he ? J. M. BULLOCH _ n -,. " L * 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I. he sang himself. His name is given on the with " according to fable"" the expression )ver of ' Sweet Soft Blue Eyes,' 1866, as " Worth a Jew's eye " came from the custom of Walter" Gordon, but inside as " T." torturing Jews in Plantagenet times in order to j extort money from them. He then relates the story of a Bristol Jew who, by order of King i John, had a tooth pulled out every day until he i produced the ten thousand marks demanded of AT r< T n T-> -n I him. The Jew capitulated on the seventh day, MAJ.-UEN. J. G. R. FORLONG. When : whereupon King John remarked, " A Jew's eye did this learned writer die ? What relation, ! may be a quick ransom, but Jews' teeth give the if any, was he to William Forlong of Erins ' richer harvest." This scarcely answers my (d. 1876) and to Gordon Forlong, writer I correspondent's question. " Full of buttermilk " nf roli'm^i ,. suggests that the name Jews eye mav have f religious tracts who was at one time : be l given to a small local measure, since the in VA amganui, N.Z. ? Who edited his use of the phrase suggests a small reward for a cyclopedia on ' Faiths of Man,' 1906 ? i small service. J. M. BULLOCH. Can any ' N. & Q.' expert explain the 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I. | saying ? To be " worth a Jew's eye "meant, j in my young days, to be of signal value, or MILK, BUTTER AND CHEESE STREETS. i a * k* 8 * J S u . nderstood {t - J n c f ver heard The directories of our large towns on ex- I of the buttermilk. ST. SWITHIN. animation yield the following information : London has a Milk Street, off which runs DUKE OF MONMOUTH : BURIAL-PLACE. ?y Lane, but it has not a Butter Street Can anyone tell me where James, Duke of Cheese Street. Bristol has a Cheese Monmouth, was buried ? One guide-book Lane, a Cheese Market and a Milk Street, g ive s it that he was secretly interred in the "ATMI c5 ~? i r ^ et ' 1 , Birmin g hai n church at Boldre, Hampshire, but there is w a Milk Street, also a Cheddar Road, but no record there, and not even a tradition 10 Butter or Cheese Streets Sheffield has O n the subject. What is the authority for only a Milk Street, and Manchester, Glasgow, that statement ? E. E. COPE. Edinburgh, Leeds and Liverpool have no Vicars Hill, Boldre.