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NOTES AND QUERIES, [9* s. VIL MAY is, 1901.
Coll., Camb.,as 1767, instead of 1769, as given
in the 'D.N.B.' There were two Warrens
commoners at Winchester, whose names were
on the Long Roll for 12 September, 1768.
One of these presumably the elder, John
Borlase had left the school before the next
Roll was issued, 11 September, 1769, so that
his entry at Cambridge on 23 September,
1769, is quite possible. The other Warren
was, I learn from G. E. C., almost certainly
the admiral's younger and only brother
Arnold, baptized 27 January, 1757, at Staple-
ford, Notts, died unmarried 27 August, 1829.
He remained at Winchester College until
after 7 September, 1772. C. W. H.
HAND-RULING IN OLD TITLE-PAGES (9 th S. vii. 169, 331). This kind of ornamentation is by no means uncommon in the better class of Bibles and Prayer-books of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In Durham Castle chapel are two copies of the 1669 folio Prayer-book, with the engraved title in one of them, ruled throughout with red lines on the title and on all the pages ; and I have a 12mo Prayer-book of 1722 ruled in the same
J. T. F.
SUFFOLK NAME FOR LADYBIRD (9 th S. v.
48, 154, 274; vi. 255, 417 ; vii. 95). Can there
be much doubt that the popular reverence
for this insect, possessing so much attraction
from the folk-rimes associated with it, is
traceable to its being in the first place iden-
tified, on account of its sanguine colour (like
the robin redbreast or the berries of the
rowan - tree), with the solar fire and sun-
worship, and thence by Christianity with
St. Barnabas's Day, 11 June, the day of the
summer solstice ? So, to this day, its quali-
fications as an augury of happiness to the
pensive love-maiden are acknowledged as she
repeats the words
Fly away east, fly away west,
And show me where lives the one 1 love best. The name " Barnabee," however, appears to have no allusion to " burning," for the bishop's name is thus spelt in the old proverb relating to the day of his festival, viz., " Barnabee bright ; the longest day, and the shortest night." In the better-known rime,
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home ;
Your house is on fire, your children will burn,
the ladybird's home is the sun ; and in Ger- many children must not kill it, or the sun would not shine the next day. A childish name for the insect in Northamptonshire is "clock-a-day "(A. E. Baker's 'Glossary'). Other names not mentioned by your correspondents are "God Almighty's cow," " fly-golding,"
" God's horse " (in Lancashire^ corresponding
perhaps to the French " bete-a-Dieu, and in
Scotland "Lady Planners " (Lady of Flanders).
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Wimbledon Park Road.
In December, 1876, some 'Stray Notes on Folk-lore ' appeared in the Churchman's Shil- ling Magazine, from the pen of O. S. T. Drake, and in article iv., p. 425 of vol. xx., the following occurs :
"Children in Sussex use the ladybird charm: they call them lady-bugs, fly - goldings, or God Almighty's cows,* and Bishop Barnabys. Set the ladybird on your finger and say : Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, Tell me when my wedding be. If it be to-morrow day, Ope your wings and fly away,"
which is a variant of the lines given at the fourth reference. CHAS. H. CROUCH.
Wanstead.
" LADY OF THE MERE " (9 th S. vii. 299). Your reviewer asks, "Have we or have we not known ' lady of the mere ' as a substitute for ' lady of the lake ' ? " He is thinking, doubt- less, of Wordsworth's
Lady of the Mere, Sole sitting by the shores of old romance.
' Poems on the Naming of Places,' iv.
C. C. B.
VULGAR MISUSE OF ' k RIGHT " (9 th S. vii. 49, 271). The misuse in the sense referred to by R. B R and F. H. is not so limited and local as they imagine. Speaking from student memories, I believe exhaustive analyses of its different meanings and shades of meaning are to found in works on jurisprudence such as Holland, Austin, and the like.
LIONEL CRESSWELL.
Wood Hall, Calverley, Yorks.
" MAD AS A HATTER" (9 th S.vi.448 ; vii. 251). On a previous occasion I pointed out that the hatter's madness was dipsomania, induced by working with hot irons in a heated atmo- sphere and in a standing position. The tailor works under similar conditions, but seated ; his condition is therefore less aggravated, and he accordingly gets credited only with pusillanimity and lubricity.
THOMAS J. JEAKES.
"SARSON STONES" (9 th S. vii. 149, 234, 270). I am possibly a miserable creature, but even a worm will turn, and I should like to suggest that I may not deserve quite all the scorn which DR. J. A. H. MURRAY intends for m reproof and correction. I have for many
- In Spain, voca de Dios.
