Herculis ærumnas credat, sævosque labores,
Et Venere, et cœnis, et plume Sardanapali."
if by spatium he meant "length;" but how apt and beautiful in Lord Bacon's sense! A note on the passage in the Var. Ed. of 1684 has "Qui sciat mortem munus aliquod naturæ esse."
Emmanuel Cantab.
Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral (Vol. viii., p. 215.).—In consequence of the very curious Notes communicated by H. Thos. Wake, I would beg to draw that gentleman's attention to the very important MS. collections of Bp. White Kennet on the subject of this cathedral in the Lansd. MSS., British Museum, to which I shall be happy to give him the references in a private letter, if he will favour me with his address.
E. G. Ballard.
Lord North (Vol. vii., p. 207).—I feel much obliged to your correspondent C. for his courtesy in replying to my inquiry concerning this nobleman. His remembrance of the personal appearance of George III., and his remarks on the subject, are in my opinion conclusive; but the appearance of the statement in the Life of Goldsmith was such as to provoke inquiry. May I ask our correspondent C. (who appears to be acquainted with the North genealogy) whether a sister of the premier North, by the some mother, was not alive some years after the year 1734? Collins records the birth of an infant daughter, but the fact is overlooked in modern peerages.
Observer.
Land of Green Ginger (Vol. viii., pp. 34. 160. 227.).—Mr. Frost, in his History, p. 71., &c., has shown many instances of alteration in the names of streets in Hull from the names of persons, as from Aldegate to Scale Lane, from Schayl, a Dutchman; and Mr. Richardson has made it most probable that the designation "Land of Green Ginger" took place betwixt 1640 and 1735. It has occurred to me, that a family of the Dutch name of Lindegreen (green lime-trees) resided at Hull within the last fifty years or more. Now the "junior" of this name would be called in Dutch "Lindegroen jonger," which may have originated the corruption "Land o' green ginger." This conjecture would amount to solution of the question, if the Lindegreens had about 150 years ago any property or occupation in this lane. The Dutch had necessarily much intercourse with Hull: one of their imports was the lamprey, chiefly as bait for turbot, cod, &c. obtained in the Ouse near the mouth of the Derwent; which fish was conveyed in boats in Ouse Water, and was kept alive and lively by means of poles made to revolve in these floating fish-ponds, as I was informed by an alderman prior to the reform of that ancient borough. But lamprey has now either migrated, or been exterminated by clearing the Ouse of stones[[5]], or by the excessive cupidity of the fisherman or gastronomer.
T. J. Buckton.