Gre. Che can make curchy well enowe.
Inc. Lower, old knave, or yle make ye to bowe!"
For rationale of bows and curtseys, see "N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 157., though I fancy the bob curtseys are the ones referred to.
Thos. Lawrence.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
The Rev. Joshua Marsden (Vol. vii., p. 181.).—This gentleman was born at Warrington in the year 1777. In the year 1800 he offered himself, and was accepted by the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, as a missionary to British North America, where he laboured for several years. He removed thence to Bermuda. In 1814 he returned to England with a constitution greatly impaired, but continued to occupy regular stations under the direction of the Conference until 1836, when, worn out by affliction, he became a supernumerary, and resided in London, where he occasionally preached as his health permitted. He died August 11, 1837, aged sixty.
John I. Dredge.
A memoir and portrait of the Rev. Joshua Marsden will be found in the Imperial Magazine, July, 1830. He was at that period a preacher among the Wesleyan Methodists, having been for many years previously a missionary in connexion with that people. He was an amiable, ingenious, and worthy man, and although not a powerful, a pleasing poet. Among other things, he published Amusements of a Mission, Forest Musings, and The Evangelical Minstrel.
J. H.
Sidney as a Christian Name (Vol. vii., p. 39.).—Your correspondent R. D. B., of Baltimore, is informed that the name of Sidney is extremely common in North Wales as a Christian name of either sex, but more particularly of the female.