us. VIIL DEC. 27, 1913.1 NOTES AND QUERIES.
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The word has nothing to do with the gums,
but comes from A.-S. gund, corruption."
Davies refers to Latham's ' Diet.,' and also
to Halliwell's ' Diet, of Archaic and Pro-
vincial Words ' (s.v. red-gown), and gives
instances from Sylvester and Jane Austen's
' Sense and Sensibility,' chap, xxxvii. ( = vol.
iii. chap. i.). See also Skeat under ' Red-
7. This passage, too, is given in the
- Suppl. Engl. Glossary,' and to stool defined
as "to shoot out." "in the ' E.D.D.' the meaning of the verb is said to be "to shoot out as a tree after being cut down." A. Benoni Evans's ' Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs ' is quoted to show that " a tree or plant is said to stool when two or more stems rise from a root."
EDWARD BENSLY.
CARLYLE QUOTATION (if S/viii. 406, 472). " The eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing." Another example of this occurs in ' Heroes and Hero -Worship ' ^' The Hero as Poet '). This seems to be an <eeho of Goethe's lines from ' Zahme Xenien,' iii. :
War' nicht das Auge sonnenhaft, Die Sonne konnt' es nie erblicken ; La? 1 nicht in uns des Gottes ei^ne Kraft, Wie konnt' uns Gottliches entziicken !
THOMAS FLINT. New York.
DUNSTABLE LARKS (11 S. viii. 469). Iii Dean Swift's days, and long before his time, Dunstable larks were highly esteemed by epicures by reason of their plumpness and savour, and Dunstable and its neigh- bourhood are still noted, though not to the same extent as formerly, for the number of larks that congregate there. I am sorry to have to add that Dunstable larks are, ut certain seasons, still on sale at the poulterers' shops in London and elsewhere. F. A. RUSSELL.
110, Arran Road, Catford, S.E.
UNCOLLEOTED KIPLING ITEMS : PADGETT 411 S. viii. 441, 464, 485). In MR. YOUNG'S first list how is the spelling Padgett accounted for a form which I have recently seen used also in a' Daily Mail article ? In the edition of ' Departmental Ditties ' published by Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co. at Calcutta in 1890, which I suppose was the earliest of any, the name is spelt Pagett.
PENRY LEWIS.
Kipling's poem ' The Rowel's ' appeared in The Times of 22 Dee., 1902.
A. BRAUND.
THE COLOUR OF LIVERIES (11 S. viii. 190,
295, 357, 472). Though Fox-Davies's
' Heraldry ' does not give the colour of
liveries of those who have fur in their arms,
the information will be found at p. xix of the
Introduction to his ' Armorial Families.'
J. H. RlVETT-CARNAC.
Vevey.
GROOM OF THE STOLE (11 S. viii. 466). That " stole " here means " stool " was taught in my nonage, and it surprised me to find that Mr. W. J. Thorns did not support the theory in ' The Book of the Court,' but explained " stole " as referring to
"a narrow vest of the same cloth or tissue as the super- tunic, lined with crimson sarcenet, and for- merly embroidered with eagle roses, fleurs de lia, and crowns."
He also, however, quoted from Bishop Goodman's ' Court of King James ' (vol. i. p. 390):
" The Groom of the Stole is an officer which hath the best diet in the Court drest in the King's own kitchen, in the best manner ; and the King did usually recommend guests to that table, especially such as were to be employed in the King's most private occasions." Footnotes, pp. 345, 346. Mr. Thoms's book was published in 1838, and in speaking of the First Lady of the Bedchamber's duties he says:
' This office may be considered somewhat analogous to the lately abolished appointment of Groom of the Stole, who in the Household of the King was First Lord of the Bedchamber, and wore a gold key as his emblem of office and by the virtue of the office had the custody of the long robe or vestment, worn by the King on solemn occasions.
There is, however, one important difference
between the offices : the Groom of the Stole had a salary of 2, ISO/, per annum ; the First Lady of the Bedchamber has about 500Z." P. 348.
- The Present State of Great Britain and
Ireland' (1738) at p. 245 confirms Mr. Thorns by saying :
"Groom of the Stole (so called from the Latin Stola, a robe of State) is the King's first Lord of the Bedchamber, who has the direction and Con- duct of the Bedchamber, and puts on his Majesty's first Garment every Morning."
"BARRING-OUT" (11 S. viii. 370, 417). Miss Edgeworth wrote a story called ' Bar- ring-out ' which, in a disembodied form, still haunts my memory. I think it was with ' Old Poz,' * Lazy Lawrence,' and others in a volume entitled ' Moral Tales.' As late as 1885, and probably later, barring-out the schoolmaster on Shrove Tuesday at eleven o'clock was still practised in some parts of North Yorkshire. The 5th of November was also a day when such revolt was winked at by the elders of certain villages, and perhaps of towns. ST. SWTTHIN.
