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But the term " Sarte " is used to distinguish
the trader and shopkeeper from the nomadic
Tadjik. One writer says, "Quand un Usbeg
est devenu completement sedentaire il
devient Sarte ; le mot * Sarte ' n 'est done pas une appellation ethnique." See 'Eucyc. Brit.' under * Tajak,' and Brockhaus's ' Kon- versations-Lexikon ' under ' Tadschik.'
ARTHUR MAYALL.
PAYING RENT AT A TOMB IN CHURCH (9 th S. viii. 302, 355). Some instances are men- tioned in Walcott's 'Traditions and Customs of Cathedrals,' 1872, p. 95. The tomb of Thomas Haxey, the treasurer, in York Minster, was commonly used for the payment of rents, &c. (Walcott misprints it Haxby). One of the most interesting cases is noted by the Deputy- Keeper of the Public Records, where 50/. was duly tendered on the tomb of " Jeffrey Chawcer" at Westminster, 28 Eliz. (Eighth Rep., 1847, app. ii. p. 169). An ancient rector of Easington, in Holderness, used to sit on a tombstone in the churchyard of Easington, and there receive dues from tenants whose lands had been washed away by the sea (Poulson, * Holderness,' ii. 372).
SWEENY TODD (9 th S. vii. 508; viii. 131' 168, 273, 348). I trust the Editor and readers of ' N. & Q.' will not think me too trouble- some if, before this subject is finally wound up, I venture, speaking as a "hack-artist (descended from a long line of artist-hacks), to say a few words in the hope of saving from total oblivion the name of W. Hornigold, who was the champion artist of the "penny dreadful," "penny plain and twopence coloured," school during the forties. In his day he was regarded as unequalled in this line. Vile drawing, extravagant attitudes, overdone action ; still there was life, spirit what you will let us say, the old Coburg method. Unfortunately he was even better known as a victim of the ubiquitous drink fiend than as an artist. He was, in short, a
remember hearing of him as an artist on
active service during the winter of 1861-2,
when he designed a record poster for
Sanger's (Astley's) Christmas pantomime.
It represented an elephant (the living
original of which used to be trotted up
and down the Westminster and Ken-
nington roads during the season as an
advertisement). The poster was cut on soft
wood and roughly coloured by hand. I
would like to add that it was not through
ignorance, but through fear of giving offence,
that I refrained from mentioning the rela-
tionship between Saville Faucit and Lady
Martin. Before concluding may I, as an
enthusiast in old china, draw attention to
what one might style "criminal crockery"?
Some few months back there was a loan col-
lection of old English china at Bethnal
Green. I have stupidly forgotten the name
of the collector, and the collection has since
been removed. But one special feature was
a glass case filled with specimens of crude,
vulgar, coarsely coloured china-ware, repre-
senting murder subjects, such as 'The Murder
in the Red Barn,' 'Stanfield Hall and J. B.
Rush,' and so on. Now and then one may
see samples of this sort of old crockery in the
shop windows ; sold for but a few pence fifty
years ago; chiefly got-up to be hawked
through villages, and usually swopped for
old clothes. Nowadays specimens of this art
fetch, I believe, far better prices than they
did in the last century. In conclusion, I
would wish to thank GNOMON for his kindly
references to myself and to the late G. A.
Sala. HERBERT B. CLAYTON.
The melodramatic actor referred to by GNOMON was named Edmund (not Edward) Faucit Saville. Mr. Truelove, unless I am very greatly mistaken, was in the British Museum Reading-Room a few days ago.
WM. DOUGLAS.
125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill.
HALSH
vulgar modern edition of Richard Savage or very sorry to have cast an undeserved slur
Mitford. But I prefer not to say too much
about the career of this ill-starred genius.
During the later fifties he was sent to the
wall by the superior talents of the late
Robert Prowse, who combined the dash of
" Old Horny " with good drawing and a more
brilliant style. Thirty or forty years ago
publishers who could not afford to pay "Bob"
Prowse's terms used to employ an artist of
nearly equal talents named Clifton. Robert
Prowse the Younger is, I am glad to say, still
"in the thick of the fight." Hornigold died
somewhere during the sixties. I last
upon MR. MAYALL'S industry. His words
were (p. 81), " One wonders why the ' H.E.D.,'
which gives 'halse,' did not also record
' halsh,' s. and v., as a main word." I ventured
to point out that halsh does appear as a
main word, but under the spelling hatch, a
fact which seems to me to correct if not
almost to contradict his statement. The
first criticism he intended to make (as
appears from his second note) was that the
word should have been treated as a main
word under halsh, with a mere cross-
reference from halch; and in this criticism
