Cheese is now eaten with apple puddings and pies; but is there any nook in England where they still grate it over plum pudding? I have heard the joke of forgetting the pudding-cloth, told against Lord Macartney during his embassy in China. Your correspondent will find plum porridge and plum puddings mentioned together at page 122. vol. ii. of Knight's Old England.
Thos. Lawrence.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Muffs worn by Gentlemen (Vol. vi., passim.).—The Tatler, No. 155., describing a meeting with his neighbour the upholsterer, says:
"I saw he was reduced to extreme poverty by certain shabby superfluities in his dress; for notwithstanding that it was a very sultry day for the time of year, he wore a loose great coat and a muff, with a long campaign wig out of curl," &c.
Erica.
The Burial Service by heart (Vol. vii., p. 13.).—In the Life of the Rev. Griffith Jones, the celebrated founder of the Welsh circulating charity schools, is this note:
"Living amongst dissenters who disliked forms of prayer, he committed to memory the whole of the baptismal and burial services; and, as his delivery was very energetic, his friends frequently heard dissenters admire his addresses, which they praised as being extempore effusions unshackled by the Prayer Book!"
E. D.