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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. DEC. 17,
In the Manuscript Department of the
British Museum a bear, in one MS. (27699,
f. 100), is represented caught in a trap ; and
there are many early drawings in which the
bear plays a part. For representations of
the wild boar and boar hunts in ancient
manuscripts, see * Early Drawings and Illumi-
nations in the British Museum, 3 by W. de
Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, 1879. Lance-
lot and Bevis of Hamtoun both have heroic
encounters with great wild boars. (See
- Popular Romances of the Middle Ages,' by
G. W. Cox and E. H. Jones, 1871.)
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
Macaulay, in vol. i. of his 'History,' chap, iii., on the state of England in 1685, writes :
" The last wild boars which had been preserved for the royal diversion, and had been allowed to ravage the cultivated land with their tusks, had been slaughtered by the exasperated rustics during the license of the Civil War."
Guillame Twici, Veneur le Roy d'Angle- terre (Edward II.), wrote a treatise in French entitled 'Art de Venerie,' which was trans- lated into English by John Gyfford, "Maister of the Game" to King Edward. In this 'treatise game is divided into three classes. The first contains four animals, called "beasts for hunting," viz., "the hare, the hart, the wolf, and the wild boar." Read Strutt's
- Sports and Pastimes of the People of Eng-
land,' book i. chap. i. p. 17. At p. 5 of that chapter there is a representation of a man on foot, armed with a spear, attacking the boar, taken from a manuscript written about the commencement of the fourteenth cen- tury. This mode of hunting the animal Shak- speare may have had in his mind when, in 'Richard III.,' III. ii., he wrote, "Where is the boarspear, man ? Fear you the boar, and go unprovided ? " JAMES WATSON.
^There is a note on this subject in Bonney's
Story of our Planet,' where it is, I think
stated that British wild boars became extinct
in the seventeenth century, and bears in the
tenth or eleventh. J. DORMER.
I refer G. S. C. S. to the different natura histories and encyclopaedias, to the back volumes of 'N. & Q.,' and to Chambers' ' Book of Days.'
The killing of an exceedingly ravenou* wild boar the last one in this immediate district, according to legendary history gave to Bradford a subject for its crest, which is a boars head erased. See Gough's edition or (Jamden's ' Britannia.'
CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.
Baltimore House, Bradford.
REV. WILLIAM HILL (10 th S. ii. 427). This
gentleman died at Hull, 17 May, 1867, aged
ixty-one, and was buried in the cemetery
here. A few paragraphs appeared in the
lull newspapers, but the only extended
iccount of him was in the Barnsley Chronicle,
May or June, 1880. W. C, B.
' STEER TO THE NOR' - NOR' - WEST ' (10 th 3. ii. 427). I know of a prose version of a
- tpry touching "a barque trading between
iverpool and St. John's, New Brunswick," which turns on "Steer to the Nor'- West "- words written by a phantom on a slate in the captain's cabin and this may perhaps be of use to OXONIAN. He will find it in Robert 3ale Owen's 'Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World,' pp. 242-5. ST. SWITHIN.
' Steer to the Nor'-Nor'-West ' is the title of a story contributed to Temple Bar in, I think, 1863, by H. A. Hills, late Judge in Egypt, and now of High Head Castle, Cum- Derland. ALFRED F. CURWEN.
HERALDRY (10 th S. i. 329). These "arms appear to be those of the family of Calverley, of York and Sussex. They are described by Burke, and by Papworth and Morant as Sable, an escutcheon within an orle of owls argent. The crest is a horned owl, and the motto " Ex caligine veritas."
H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridge.
H IN COCKNEY, iTsE OR OMISSION (10 th S. ii. 307, 351, 390). In two old editions of The Vicar of Wakefield ' I find in the first chapter "an horse of small value." In the second chapter of the older of these editions I find "an happy sensibility of look" and "an husband." But in the later of these two editions are " a happy sensibility of look" and ' k a husband." Such alterations may have been made frequently in reprint- ing old books. The Bible, however, has been untouched, and has always an before h.
Many years have passed since I read Foote's ' Mayor of Garratt,' but I think that Jerry Sneak, one of the characters in the play, is a cockney who misuses the aspirate. This is the earliest instance of the cockney in literature that I remember at present. If my memory is serving me rightly, the statement that " the dramatists of the eigh- teenth century do not make game of the cockney's h" is not quite accurate.
E. YARDLEY.
In the old Sussex dialect the h was never pronounced. It was rarely inserted where it should not be, except as an intensitive.
