alludes to an anointed king, and means a king or chief of rogues.

My own idea is that the term is a corruption of the old word aroynt, and was applied originally to a rascal, or scamp, whom every one would shun and drive away. F. C. H. This word is common in Northamptonshire, especially in the phrase mentioned by M. D. It is no doubt a corruption of "anointed," and is used to designate one who seems specially set apart for mischief. A reference to Miss Baker's Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases confirms this opinion. She says, "Nineted, or nointed, a common term applied to a loose, mischievous boy. Nineting, a severe castigation. This and the foregoing word are vitiations of anoint."

J. M. CowPER.

I had already noticed the use of anointed in a bad sense in 3rd S. viii. 452. See also the same volume at p. 547. CUTHBERT BEDE.

IMMERSION IN HOLY BAPTISM (3rd S. xii. 66, 152.) MR. BUCKTON writes, "Baptism was a Jewish custom, to which our Lord adhered. New institutions, according to Jewish practice, involved baptism by water, as a sign of initiation." This is a very common statement, but is it historically provable? It may be that I am not sufficiently well-informed on the subject, but at present I am not acquainted with any earlier authority for such a statement than the Targum of Jonathan, which is much later than any part of Holy Scripture, or than Josephus, both of which are entirely silent respecting a custom which, if in use before the Christian rite was established, they could hardly have passed over. Perhaps MR. BUCKTON will oblige us with his authorities. J. H. B.

I thank J. H. B. for pointing out that baptism by affusion is admitted in the Tridentine Catechism (the reference should be vol. i. p. 326) to be "the general practice." Immersion was long in use from the earliest period. I should be glad to inquire about what time the alternative methods of affusion and aspersion came to be adopted, and by what instruments (if any) they were sanctioned ?

Yaxley.

W. H. S.

FORM (3rd S. xii. 24, 74.) — The Sportsman of August 15, 1867, furnishes an example of a perverted use of the word form, which cannot fail to be interesting to JAYDEE. Speaking of the weather which was prevalent at the time of the Egham Meeting, the writer says:

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"Some of the fathers of the turf were to-day tempted to early reminiscences, and talked of times when the sun's

rays were so powerful that they peeled the skin off the faces of frequenters of the ring. The luminary certainly did not come up to that form during the past two afternoons, but, at the least, it was hot enough to mar, to a great extent, the pleasure and extent of the meeting, and to interfere in no slight degree with operations in the betting enclosure."

The italics are mine; the sporting writer used the word as a mere matter of course.

ST. SWITHIN.

THE MORE FAMILY (3rd S. xii. 109, 199.)—I have been very long acquainted with the monument and inscription in the sacristy of the Catholic Chapel in Trenchard Street, Bristol, to the memory of the ex-Jesuit, Rev. Thomas More. The inscription was composed by the Rev. Charles Plowden, brother of the Rev. Robert Plowden, who built that chapel, and was the missioner there when the Rev. Thomas More was buried. Mr. More was born September 19, 1722; became a professed Jesuit in 1766; was chosen provincial in 1769, and so remained till the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773. In the summer of 1793 he went to reside at Bath, where he died May 20, 1795, but was buried at the Catholic Chapel at Bristol. His colleague in London, the Rev. Thomas Talbot, sent him, with his other effects, to Bath, his three famous pictures of his ancestor Sir Thomas More, of Cardinal Fisher, and of Cardinal Pole. These pictures are probably now at Stonyhurst. This Rev. Thomas More was the last male descendant of the celebrated Sir Thomas; but it may be interesting to mention something of his last lineal female descendant, Mary Augustina More. She was sister of the above provincial, Thomas More, and became a nun in the English Priory of Canonesses of St. Augustin at Bruges. At the French Revolution she was the prioress, and was compelled to fly to England with her community. They arrived in London on July 12, 1794, and found an asylum at Hengrave Hall, in Suffolk, the seat of Sir Thomas Gage, Bart. Here they remained till 1802, when they were enabled to repurchase their convent at Bruges, and returned to it. Like her great ancestor, she possessed a mind superior to every trial. She lived as a nun fifty-four years, and was prioress forty-one. She closed a long and meritorious life on March 23, 1807.

F. C. H.

COMMANDER OF THE NIGHTINGALE (3rd S. xii. 118.)-Both this reply and that of 3rd S. xi. 523 go a good deal against the testimony of Jean Marteilhe. Yet his whole Memoir bears the appearance not only of truthfulness, but of a general accuracy which I have never seen impugned by any of the various reviewers of Le Protestant. If his narrative be at all to be trusted,

his constant, and in some respects confidential, intercourse with the Chevalier de Langeron (which commenced almost as soon as he was pronounced unfit for the oar in consequence of the wounds received from the guns of the Nightingale) would enable him to know as much as the Chevalier did, both concerning the sea-fight, the commander of the Nightingale, and "Smit," who, if captured by Captain Haddock in December, 1707, could certainly not have been in the Royal Galley commanded by Langeron in September, 1708. In a notice appended to the modern translation of Le Protestant, it is asserted that this work was also translated, but anonymously, by Oliver Goldsmith. Is this true, and if so, where is this translation to be seen? It is just possible that in this translation (executed so much nearer the date of the events recorded) there might be some foot-note or observation that would throw light on the matter of "Le petit Bossu."

NOELL RADECLIFFE.

[Goldsmith's translation of the Memoires d'un Protestant was published under the pseudonym of James Wallington. It is entitled The Memoirs of a Protestant Condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion. Written by Himself. In two volumes. Translated from

the original, just published at the Hague, by James Wallington. Lond. 1758, 2 vols. 12mo. See The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, by John Forster, vol. i. p. 134. No copy of Goldsmith's translation will be found in the Catalogues of the British Museum.—ED.]

SEARLE FAMILY (3rd S. xii. 149.)- One of the Searle family represented Andover in the last

Parliament of Queen Anne. I have a few notes respecting the family. On the pillars of the nave of Eling church, near Southampton, are elegant monuments to two of the wives of Peter Searle of Testwood. There is a monument also to Gilbert Searle, Esq., born at Leghorn, but brought to England in his fifth year. He received his education at Oxford, and was well read in history. He represented Andover in the last Parliament of Queen Anne. He married Anne, daughter of Peter Vansittart, Esq., and died in 1720, aged thirty-two. (Tour round Southampton, p. 122.)

In North Stoneham church is a monument of John Searle, with a rhyming (?) epitaph :— "Philosopho cynico, peripatetico, honoris ergo: Furum terror, finium custos, Dux emerite, fortis, fidelis, vale. Extra meiete: amor tumulum mihi fecit herilis; Sit sacrum; utcunque est munus inane canis."* Tour round Southampton, p. 215.

I think that Testwood was, in the last century, the property of the Searle family; certainly Peter Searle was living at Testwood Sept. 10, 1770. The manor and mansion of Testwood were sold at [In A Companion in a Tour round Southampton, ed. 1801, p. 216, it is stated that these lines are on an obelisk in the grounds of Botley-grange, erected by a former possessor to the memory of a faithful dog.—ED.]

Garraway's in August, 1807. (Woodward's Hants, i. 405.)

In 1741, Peter Searle gave a house at Chilworth for the poor of the parish. After his death the tenant, a man named Bursey, son of a pauper occupant of the house, claimed it as his own, and actually sold part of the land belonging to it. A formal notice of ejectment, brought by Colonel Searle, was required to get rid of the troublesome claimant. In the latter part of the seventeenth century there was a Peter Searle, alderman of Southampton; and there were Searles settled at

South Stoneham. It was whilst Chilworth be

longed to the Searle family that those capital roads were made (or remade) which so favourably distinguish that part of Hants from some other districts of the county. The road from Winchester to Cheadley Ford dates from 1758; that to Romsey and Hursley was made under an Act of 1765. The church of Chilworth dates from 1814; it was built by Mr. Searle.

The present owner is Mr. Fleming; Bennett Fleming having married Dorothy Searle. (Woodward's Hants, i. 411.) S.

EDUCATION: LANCASTERIAN SYSTEM (3rd S. xii. 168.)- Lancaster was very successful; he was patronised by George III., but he was a Quaker. Jealousy on the part of the church of England, and of some dissenters, spread reports of infidelity, &c.; the opposition got into the management, and brought all Lancaster's work to ruin. His system was monitorial; that is, he employed the more advanced boys and girls to teach the less advanced. The large buildings erected for the Lancasterians have been appropriated to a like purpose under the church, dissenters', and national systemsmuch more expensive, and perhaps less beneficial in a moral point of view.

T. J. BUCKTON.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING (3rd S. xii. 130.) The old franchise of the borough of Taunton was in "inhabitant potwallers, legally settled, not receiving alms or charity." The word potwaller was here held to mean a person who provided his own diet, and cooked it, or had the means of doing so (viz. a fireplace) within the borough. At Honiton, Devon, I believe the franchise was in "Potwallers," and the word had a different interpretation. If ANTIQUARY will refer to Doug

las's Controverted Election Cases, he will find the definitions of many of the old franchises. I have just noted ten varieties occurring in vol. i. W. P. P.

MIZZLE (3rd S. xi. 385.)-In the north of England, the word signifies a small or drizzling rain. Such is evidently the meaning in the passage quoted by J. A. P. from Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar. Colin is reminded that, as a mizzle has commenced, it is time to be hastening homewards.

Mizzle is equivalent to the " small rain" of some of the midland counties, and the "Scottish mist" of the Border. "Small Rain for the Tender Herb" is the title of a puritan tract. Had the author been a northcountry man, he How the would probably have said "mizzle.” slang word mizzle arose, I cannot make out, but it has certainly nothing to do with the passage quoted from Spenser. J. H. D.

REV. JOSEPH FLETCHER (3rd S. xi. 234.)-I think that the author inquired after can be none other than the late Rev. Joseph Fletcher, D.D., who for many years was the pastor of an Independent church at Stepney, near London. He was previously the principal of a Dissenting academy at Blackburn, in Lancashire. He was a profound scholar, an elegant writer, an eloquent His eldest preacher, and a most amiable man. son (a solicitor) wrote a life of Milton, and edited a very good edition of the prose writings of our great poet. I was not previously aware that Doctor Fletcher had written the libretto for any oratorio, but I know no other Rev. Joseph Fletcher, and therefore think that I am right in my conjecture. J. H. D.

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