"One Mr. L——, an honest sailor not far from Stepney, who has but one arm, and who cannot walk himself without the assistance of a wooden leg, and yet has a son, born some years after the amputation of is own limbs, whom he has bred both a fiddler and a dancing master."
One more, not for the wretched play upon words, but because it may make a new Query,—What does it all mean?
"Q. Gentlemen, in the preamble to the late Earl of Oxford's patent, I observed, 'And whom they have congratulated upon his escape from the rage of a flagitious parricide.' I desire to know by whom, at what time, and in what manner, the said parricide was to have been committed.
"A. Was to have been! He actually was committed—to Newgate."
So much for some of the "NOTES AND QUEERIES" (as the word ought to be spelt) of a century ago.
M.
COLLAR OF SS.
"All the ensigns and marks of honour appertaining
to persons of highest distinction, are equestrian."—Sabnasins.
The interest which attaches to this very ancient and distinguished ensign of chivalrous honour will excuse the introduction into your pages of a fuller dissertation upon the subject than what appears in "NOTES AND QUERIES," Nos. 39. and 41., in answer to the several questions put by your correspondents B. and [Greek: Ph].