216 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io*s.iv.SIM.fl.ua which, in 1826, Clarke, the originator of the Leicester Square Panopticon, took an ener- getic part, and it seems likely that this was also known originally as the Panopticon. Later, in 1830, Clarke occupied a prominent position at the Science and Art Exhibition in the King's Mews, and established the London Electrical Society, the early meetings of which were held at his residence. See 'The Illustrated Handbook of the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art,' 1854 (intro- duction), and Timbs's 'Year-Book of Facts," 1855, pp. 9-10. No telescope is mentioned in the 'Guide.' J. HOLDEN MACillCHAEL. 6, Elgin Court, Elgin Avenue, W. During the year 1791 Jeremy Eentham (1748-1832) published two pamphlets, entitled ' Panopticon ; or, the Inspection House,' and ' Panopticon verms New South Wales; or, the Panopticon Penitentiary System and the Penal Colonization System Compared,' in which he suggested a prison so constructed as to admit of the inspector seeing the prisoners without his being seen by them. These pamphlets are included in vol. iv. of Bentham's works, published in 1843 under the superintendence of his executor, John Bo wring. A copy may be consulted in the Corporation Library, Guildhall, E.C. I believe he was the originator of the term. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. RUSHBEARING (10th S. iv.87).—On 14 August, 1900, the Daily Mail contained a note on the annual Rushbearing Feast then in progress in the Brighouse district, Yorkshire. It was stated therein that " in former times a gaily decorated rush-cart was dragged through the streets by the merrymakers, but this picturesque detail is now omitted." JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northampton. In an old MS. book of " Congleton Cor poration Accounts," made by me many years ago, occur the following items :— " 1607. To the Rushbearers. Wine, Ale, Cakes 6s." " 1622. To Buglawton Folks who brought a Rush Bearing to our Chapel, &«." These were, in all probability, to strew the floor of the old chapel pulled down in 1740 Congleton is in the county of Chester. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. BODDINGTON FAMILY (10th S. iv. 89).—Three separate pedigrees of this family have beer published, and pedigrees may also be founc in the following works : Miscellanea, Genea of/ica et Heraldica, New Series, vols. i. and ii.. and Second Series, vols. i. and iii.; Midland Antiquary, vols. i. and ii.; Burke's ' Landed 3entry,' eighth edition; Hunter's 'Famili» rlinorum Gentium,' vol. iii.; and Howard's Visitation of England and Wales,' vol. i- The name is sometimes spelt Bodington. In April, 1903,1 noted a monument to a member of the Boddington family in West tfycornbe Churchyard, Bucks, while there are two tablets of this name in Enfield Jhurch. If worth aught I could send copies of the inscriptions of the last named. The only note I have of Boddington arms s the following, taken fromRobsonV British Herald,' 1830 :— " Sa., on a chief ar. aem£eof cross-crosslets fitchee
- u. a demi-lion issuant of the last.—Crest, a demi-
ion ramp. gu. holding in the dexter paw a cross- crosslet ntcnta ar." Burke's 'Armory' probably gives others;
- he last edition, viz., 1884, is the best.
CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead. ROGER ASCHAM : "SCHEDULE" (10th S. iv. 169).—The proper pronunciation is Askham, which is the only one given by Murray, Smith, Thomas, Webster, Worcester, and other orthoepists. The name is derived from the villages of East and West Askham, near York. The other word inquired about was in early English written cedule, derived ultimately from the popular Latin scedula. Sedv.lt is therefore the oldest Englisn pronunciation, and because it survived the change of ortho- graphy which improved cedule into schedule, we have the apparent anomaly of a term beginning with sch sounded as if it were *. This, I should say, is still the most respect- able pronunciation. Our old lexicographers —Sheridan, for instance—give no other. More modern dictionaries admit alterna- tives, viz., sedule, skedule, and shedule. Of these, sedule, as already remarked, is a relic of the past; skedule, whether American or English, is a reversion to the pure Greek form ; shedule is difficult to explain, and not to be recommended. JAS. PLATT, Jun. The way in which Ascham pronounced his name is shown by the fact that a number of his letters are signed " Roger Askam." I am away from home, and cannot give references. I believe that in America schedule is always pronounced skedule. While travelling in the United States I never heard it pronounced in any other way ; and I heard it often, as the word is there used for time-table. DAVID SALMON.
