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- N. & Q.' in which he is referred to. Mr.
Suttqn (my friend of thirty years), in addition to being an enthusiastic student of Sweden- borg, was a poet whose sacred verse has taken its place with the poetry of Herbert and Vaughan. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.
Manchester.
A FRIDAY SUPERSTITION (9 th S. vi. 265, 373, 454; vii. 194, 337). I have frequently heard in our Midland counties a rime similar to, and I believe identical with, the one from Virginia. Friday is an unlucky day partly, at least, because it was the day of the Crucifixion : "Friday for crosses." Is there any similar reason for the unluckiness of Saturday ? I was once rebuked by a Church of England clergyman for starting on a pleasure trip on the Saturday in Passion Week, because " there is no Christ" on that day. "No Christ ? " I asked. "Certainly not." was the answer. " He is in the grave to-day : He does not rise until to-morrow morning." C. C. B.
"CANOUSE" (9 th S. vii. 329). Apparently erroneous for "tan ouse," tanner's ouse, or oak bark, an infusion of which is employed for tanning hides. See 'Encycl. Brit.,' ninth edition, xiv. 382, for an account of the pro- cess. F. ADAMS.
BOTTLED ALE : ITS INVENTION (9 th S. vii. 287). In further corroboration of R. B.'s interesting extract from the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' it may interest him and many of your contributors to know that in 1 The Curiosities of Ale and Beer,' by John Bickerdyke (London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.), 1889, p. 178, appears the following :
"Fuller, in his 'Worthies of England,' ascribes the invention of bottled beer to Alexander Newell Dean of St. Paul's and a master of Westminster bchool in the reign of Queen Mary. The Dean was a devoted angler. ' But,' says old Fuller, 'whilst Newell was catching of fishes Bishop Bonner was catching of Newell, and would certainly have sent him to the shambles had not a good London mer- chant conveyed him away upon the seas.' Newell was engaged in his favourite pursuit on the banks of the Thames, when such pressing notice of his danger reached him, that he was obliged to take immediate flight. On his return to England, after Mary s death, he remembered, when resuming; his old amusement, that on the day of his flight he had left his simple repast, the liquor of which consisted of a bottle of beer, in a safe place in the river bank there he sought it, and, as the quaint language of fuller informs us, he ' found it no bottle, but a eun such the sound at the opening thereof; and this is believed [casualty is the mother of more invention than industry] the original of bottled ale in Eng- land. If this be the true origin of bottled ale the use of it must have spread rapidly, for we find it mentioned m many Elizabethan writers In Ben Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair' Ursula calls to the
drawer to bring ' A bottle of ale to quench me,
rascal,' and many other quotations could be given
E roving its use in those days. Of course ale must ave been carried in bottles long before Newell's time, almost as early, indeed, as bottles came into use, but the bottled ale referred to is that which has been so long in bottle as to have acquired a peculiar and delicious flavour combined with a ertain briskness not found in draught ale."
G. GREEN SMITH.
Moorland Grange, Bournemouth.
THE BARCLAYS OF MATHERS (9 th S. vii. 309). The information given in the various pedi- grees of the above family respecting John de- Berkeley's taking away from the monks of Aberbrothock all their possessions in his lands given by his brother, &c., and in lieu thereof by an agreement giving them the mill of Conveth, also binding himself and his heirs to pay them the sum of thirteen marks silver yearly, will probably be taken from Nisbet's 'Heraldry, 1804, vol. ii., appendix, p. 237. He says this agreement and the con- firmation thereof are extracted from the chartulary of Aberbrothock, and that six other documents were taken from that char- tulary in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. JOHN RADCLIFFE.
FLORIO'S ' MONTAIGNE ' (9 th S. iii. 7). Both are misprints : vide Florip's first folio, pp. 381 and 395 ; also Dent's edition, Temple Classics. "For right" should beforeright (in one word), and "madnesse" should be maidens. The evolution of the latter misprint is as follows : first folio, "maidens"; second folio (1613), " maidnes " ; third folio (1632), " maidnesse " ; Morley (1885), "madnesse." C. S. HARRIS.
" THEODOLITE " (9 th S. vii. 306). It may be worth noting that Seybold in Grb'ber's 'Romanische Sprachwissenschaft,' p. 404, in his paragraph on ' The Influence of Arabic on Spanish,' after quoting a large number of Arabic words in Spanish, such as azimut, zenith, nadir, adds, "al(h)idade, alhadida = regie mobile dans 1'astrolabe, arab. ali dada," and states that the word theodolith is a corrupted form of this word. Alideday, he states, was an older form ; then attielida, which passed into the French form alidade ; and in English the article the seems to have been incorporated into the word, like "t'other "for "the other."
HERBERT A. STRONG
SILHOUETTES OF CHILDREN (9 th S. ii. 307, 353, 396, 436; v. 190; vi. 255, 356). In a small collection of silhouettes in my posses- sion are two in oval frames, the head and bust of each being painted in Indian ink on a convex glass, by which means a dark shadow
