PRESENTMENT OF AN INCORRIGIBLE SCOLD. To the Worshipful Thomas Parker of Browsholme, Esq. Wee whose names are subscribed doe humbly certifye that Margarett, the wife of Edward Hancocke, hath since her coming to have residence in Bradford, been noted and knowne to be a common disturber of her neighbours, in the way of Scoldinge, for which she was in Slaideburne Court presented for a common scold, and continuing that unneighbourly practice was Ducked, and for all that, shee hath hitherto practised the like way of Scoldinge, soe that scarce a familye in the said Towne is free from her; and this wee make bold to certifye unto your Worship, as a certaine Truth. Witnesse our hands the 6th day of March, Año Dom. 1673. HENRY KNOWLES, WILLIAM CALVERLEY, STEPHEN ANDERTON. Browseholme, is in the parish of Waddington, in he West Riding of Yorkshire. PLEASE THE PIGS! a common colloquial phrase is a verbal corruption of "please the pyx," that is, the vessel containing the Eucharist, which by believers in Transubstantiation was superstitiously regarded as Divinity. WILLIAM HENRY IRELAND. NEMO's desire in reference to some account of this somewhat accomplished man,' would, were the truth told, afford him but little gratification. NEMO is in error in supposing him to have been "the Author of the Shakespeare Forgeries." His father, Samuel Ireland was the original deviser of the whole affair. He had succeeded so well in befooling professed judges' of the original designs by Hogarth; that prompted by his needy circumstances, he let fly at a higher game, and befouled the shrine of England's dramatic bard! It was Samuel Ireland's eldest daughter who wrote the imitations of the dramatist; the younger one assisted, and the redoubtable William Henry was merely a copier. It was Samuel Ireland who began by collecting books of Shakespeare's time, fabricated manuscript notes and inserted them in the books as if written by the immortal bard, when finding them greatly admired, he persisted till their frequency might have divulged the nefariousness of the transaction, to all but those who were stupidly blind. In one of his freaks, Samuel Ireland desirous of accommodating the world with a portrait of the irritable Shakespearian Critic John Dennis, and not aware there was really one extant, engraved by Vandergucht-ventured on one copied from an original drawing by Hogarth, in the second volume of his Graphic Illustrations of that celebrated painter. It is almost nugatory to observe Hogarth never troubled himself about John Dennis of theatrical thunder notoriety, and the portrait there presented, is a fiction by Samuel Ireland, though received as genuine by many respected Hogarthian Collectors. Should NEMO's desire be still unsatiated, the writer to whom William Henry Ireland was long personally known, may possibly communicate some particulars, hitherto but very imperfectly known. Let this be generally understood, the Confessions' published by him, were a tissue of lies from beginning to end, and the original idea of the volume, was caused by an irresistible impulse at the moment, that of raising the wind, as he himself assured the writer When needs must, the devil drives! Baggin. The luncheon of a ploughman, generally carried in a bag. Belly vengeance. Very weak beer. Bin. To be. Examples. How bin you? They bin bad uns they bin! Blow, pronounced blow. Blossom. Brummack. A hook to cut broom. Brummill. A hill covered with broom, By Gosh! By Gum! Two oaths, the first "by God's house;" the second referring to the Trinity. Ceout. To bark as a cur, generally called a ceouting dog. Chats. Very small potatoes. Clat. To tell false tales of another. Clem. To starve. Ex. I am welly clemmed. Clout. A blow. Colly West. Awry, or crooked. Cornell. A corner. Cow. To frighten. Ex. Dunna be cowed by him! Cowt. A colt. Cratch. 1. A bacon rack. 2. A horse rack. Cricker. A man who attends the market to buy butter, fruit, etc. to sell elsewhere. Croodle. To crouch down, as over a fire. Dither. To shake as from cold. Ex. I'm all of a dither. Duck. To stoop the head. Dout. To extinguish. Ex. Dout the candle. Dych (pronounced long). To cut or clean out a ditch. Elrake. A heel rake, Ess. Ashes. Ess hole. The space under a kitchen grate for ashes. Sometimes also called a Purgatory. Evil. A dung fork called also a dungevil, and a sharevil. Fasten. To seize. Ex. The dog fastened him by the leg. Fauce. False. Feg. Fog grass. Fettle, s. Order, condition. Fettle, v. To put in order. Ex. I soon fettled it. Fresh. Denotes a state not quite drunk, but decidedly not sober. Lungous. Violent. Sometimes used in an approving sense, as a lungous workman, etc. Melch. In milk. Ex. A good melched cow. Mixen. A midden. Mot, or motty. A mark, as in the game of quoits. Nesh. Tender, delicate. Ex. A poor nesh creature. Oont-catcher. The mole catcher. Oss. To try or endeavour sometimes to promise well. Purgy. Prond, conceited. Rack. A pathway in a wood. Racklin. The smallest of a litter, as pigs, dogs, etc. Sapy. Moist, denoting the first stage of putrefaction in meat. Scutch. The roots of the dog grass. Shut. A narrow outlet from one street to another. Soak. The place where a spring bursts out. Gaup. To stare foolishly. Ex. What bin'e gaup-out; this piece is said to spaul. ing at? Girder. A violent blow. Glat. An opening where a fence has been broken. Grin. A gin, or snare for rabbits and hares. Growte. To work in. A dirty hand is said to be growted with dirt. Haggle. To dispute while buying. Handy. Expert, ready; a handy fellow; things be handy. Heft. An exceedingly hard lift or draught. When a cart is so fast as not to be stirred, the horses are said to draw at a dead heft. Stodge. To satiate. Stoul. The stump of a tree cut down. Sup, v. Sup, s. To drink. A draught. Tade perfect of To take. Ex. I tade him home. Teart. Sharp, acute. Unshut. To ungear horses. Uvver. Upper. The hill country by those in the Lats. Laths. Linty. Lazy. I didna. I did not. etc. Lissom, Pliant, supple. I shanna. I shall not. I shudna. I winna. I should not. I will not. I will not. I would not. HONEST DICK LEVERIDGE. Among the many attempts to enforce their claims on the public patronage, none pursue that course with a greater chance of effect than the player or the singer. The General Advertiser, March 14, 1743-4, has the following which may possibly afford some amusement. Advertisement, by Mr. LEVERIDGE, to be sung to the Tune of A Cobler there was, that liv'd in a stall. Derry down, down Derry down. And thus now I raise my voice to the Town, Some advertisements in the papers of that year, show that Leveridge then resided in lodgings, "in Hanover Street, the third door on the right hand from LongAcre." That side of the street has vanished in the recent widening of the thoroughfare. Subsequently, Leveridge kept the Constitution Tavern, corner of Tavistock Court in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, and here Thomas Frye painted his portrait in an admirable manner, it is now in the possession of Edmund Calvert, Esq. December 8. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. DECISION OF A PRUSSIAN MONARCH. FREDERICK THE GREAT, in 1755, sometime before the impending war, travelled incognito, attended by one or two servants into Germany, At an inn in one of the towns through which he passed, being alone, he enquired what company there was in the house, and being told there were four gentlemen, he sent a polite message, with his compliments, and desired he might spend the evening with them: his request was refused. The king asked the innkeeper, if there was any gentleman in the neighbourhood, whom he might for the evening obtain as a companion. An officer who lived close by was sent for, when the association was wholly to Frederick's gratification, and he learned from him, the character of several of his officers, and other matters. Not long after the king sent him a letter, made himself known, and proffered his former evening companion a considerable post in his army. The officer replied, that though very sensible of the honour, he could not accept it, as he was actually engaged for two years, after which he should be at his Majesty's service. This, the king failed not to remember, the two years expired but a day or two before the important battle of Rosbach, when Frederick, in a letter, written wholly in his autograph, wrote to remind him of his promise-the honour of both was maintained. The Emperor Napoleon the First, in his last will dic tated at Longwood, in April 1821, directed that among the effects which Marchand was to take in charge, and convey to his son, was ' My alarum Clock: it is the alarum clock of Frederick the Second, which I took at Potsdam. After this explanation can it be matter of surprise that Old Fritz's successor in the Monarchy has since been ignorant of knowing-what's o'clock ! ENTRE NOUS. SAMUEL ROGERS the poet, and the associate of poets, threw off this mortal coil early on the morning of Tuesday, the 18th inst., about half an hour after midnight— the last of the stars that shone in his orbit. In the unpublished autograph Journal and Confessions of the once celebrated Lady Caroline Lamb, is the following allusion to names and parties who are now all passed to that bourne from which no traveller returns. The lines here stated to have been written by the author of "The Pleasures of Memory," are not in any edition of his writings. The first time Lord Byron called at Melbourne House he came with Moore and Rogers; my child, a beautiful boy of three years old, fell asleep on his knee, and he sat for two hours, fearful of awakening him. In the very spirit of prophecy, Rogers wrote on that occasion the following lines: TO AN INFANT SLEEPING IN A POET'S ARMS. Upon the cloud that veils the storm. And o'er each flow'r of bliss be twined; And blight the Eden of the mind. To break thy doating mother's heart. THE notice of Samuel Rogers, in Cadell's Contemporary Portraits, was communicated by himself, and there the date of his birth at Newington Green is stated July 30, 1763; he therefore died in his ninety-third year, at No. 22, St. James's Place. TALBOIS. Having obtained the pedigree of the Lincolnshire branch of the ancient family of Talbois, I am desirous of knowing if there are any records of them in the county of Bedford, and possibly some of your correspondents can give me some information? 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