Captain Booth of Stockport (Vol. viii., p. 102.).—In answer to Mr. Hughes's inquiry about this antiquary, I beg to state that he will find an Ordinary of Arms, drawn up by Captain Booth of Stockport, in the Shepherd Library, Preston, Lancashire. It is one among the numerous valuable MSS. given by the executors of the late historian of Lancashire, Ed. Baines, Esq., M.P., to that library. In Lysons' Magna Britannia (volume Cheshire), your correspondent will also find a mention of a John Booth, Esq., of Twemlow, Cheshire, who was the author of various heraldic manuscripts. It may, perhaps, be hardly necessary to inform Cheshire antiquaries that an almost inexhaustible fund of information, on heraldry and genealogy, is to be found in the manuscripts of Randle Holme, formerly of Chester, which are now preserved among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum.
Jaytee.
"Hurrah," &c. (Vol. viii., p. 20.).—The clameur de Haro still exists in Jersey, and is the ancient form there of opposing all encroachments on landed property, and the first step to be taken by which an ejectment can be finally obtained. It was decided in Pinel and Le Gallais, that the clameur de Haro does not apply to the opposal of the execution of a decree of the Royal Court.
It is a remarkable feature in this process, that it is carried on by the crown; and that the losing party, whether plaintiff or defendant, is mulcted in a small fine to the king, because the sacred name of Haro is not to be carelessly invoked with impunity.
See upon the subject of the clameur, Le Geyt sur les Constitutions, etc. de Jersey, par Marett, vol. i. p. 294.
M. L.
Lincoln's Inn.
I do not think that the explanation of these words, quoted by Mr. Brent, is much more probable than that of "Hierosolyma est perdita." In the first place, if we are to believe Dr. Johnson, hips are not sloes, but the fruit or seed-vessels of the dog-rose or briar, which usually go by that name, and from which it would be difficult to make any infusion resembling wine. In the next place, it will be found, on reference to Ben Jonson's lines "over the door at the entrance into the Apollo" (vol. vii. p. 295., ed. 1756), of which the distich forms a part, that it is misquoted. The words are,—
"Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers,
Cries old Sym, the king of skinkers;"