Minor Queries with Answers.
Ket the Tanner.—Can you or any of your correspondents give me any information about "Ket the Tanner;" or refer me to any book or books containing a history or biography of that remarkable person? As I want the information for a historical purpose, I hope you will give me as lengthy an account as possible.
W. J. Linton.
Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.
[A long account of Ket, and his insurrection, is given in Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. iii. pp. 222-260., edit. 1806. Incidental notices of him will be also found in Alexander Nevyllus' Norfolke Furies and their Folye, under Ket, their accursed Captaine, 4to., 1623; Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. i.; Heylin's History of the Reformation; Stow's Chronicle; Godwin's Annales of England; and Sharon Turner's Modern History of England, under Edward VI. A Fragment of the Requests and Demands of Ket and his Accomplices is preserved in the Harleian MS. 304. art. 44.]
"Namby-pamby."—What is the derivation of namby-pamby?
Clericus Rusticus.
[Sir John Stoddart, in his article "Grammar" (Ency. Metropolitana, vol.i. p. 118.), remarks, that the word "Namby-pamby seems to be of modern fabrication, and is particularly intended to describe that style of poetry which affects the infantine simplicity of the nursery. It would perhaps be difficult to trace any part of it to a significant origin.">[