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"_To try and get_" (Vol. ix., p. 76.).--UNEDA inquires the origin of this erroneous mode of expression? Doubtless euphony, to avoid the alliteration of so many T's: "_t_o _t_he _t_heatre _t_o _t_ry and get," &c. But evidently the word _to_ is understood, though not supplied after the word _and_. Thus, "to try and (to) get," &c.

CELCRENA.

_Abbott Families_ (Vol. ix. p. 105.).--In reply to MR. ABBOTT'S Query, I have a pedigree of Samuel Abbott, born in 1637 or 1638; second son of Wm. Abbott of Sudbury, who was born 1603, and who was son to Charles Abbott of Hawkden and Sudbury, an alderman, which Charles was son to Wm. Abbott of Hawkden. This Samuel married Margaret, daughter to Thomas Spicer. Should MR. ABBOTT wish it, I would forward him a copy of the pedigree. I can trace no connexion between this family and that of Archbishop Abbott, whose father, Maurice Abbott of Guildford, was son of ---- Abbott of Farnham, co. Surrey.

I wish especially to know what became of Thomas Abbott, only son of Robert, Bishop of Sarum; which Thomas dedicated his father's treatise against Bellarmine in 1619 to his uncle the Archbishop, calling himself in the preface, "imbellis homuncio." His sister was wife to Sir Nathaniel Brent, whose younger son Nathaniel left all his property to his cousin Maurice Abbott, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Gent., in 1688; which Maurice was possibly son to Thomas.

G. E. ADAMS.

36. Lincoln's Inn Fields.

"_Mairdil_" (Vol. viii., p. 411.).--Is there any affinity between the word _mairdil_, which is used in Forfarshire, to be overcome with fatigue for any oppressive or intricate piece of work, and the word _mardel_ or _mardle_, which signifies to gossip in Norfolk, as stated by MR. J. L. SISSON? What will H. C. K. say to this subject? Jamieson confines _mairdil_ to an adjective, signifying unwieldy; but I have often heard work-people in Forfarshire declare they were "perfectly _mairdiled_" with a piece of heavy work, using the word as a passive verb. _Trachled_ has nearly the same meaning, but it is chiefly confined to describe fatigue arising from walking a long distance.

HENRY STEPHENS.

_Bell at Rouen_ (Vol. viii., p. 448.).--Your valuable correspondent W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A., has probably taken his account of the great bell in the cathedral at Rouen from a note made before the French Revolution of 1792-3, because the George d'Ambois, which was once considered the largest bell in Europe (it was thirteen feet high, and eleven feet in diameter), excepting that at Moscow, shared the destructive fate of many others at that eventful period, and was melted down for cannon. In 1814 the bulb of its clapper was outside the door of a blacksmith's shop, as you go out of the city towards Dieppe. It was pointed out to me by a friend with whom I was then travelling--a gentleman of the neighbourhood, who was at Rouen at the time it was brought there--and there, if I mistake not, but I cannot find my note, I saw it again within the last ten years.

H. T. ELLACOMBE.

Rectory, Clyst St. George.

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_Smiths and Robinsons_ (Vol. ix., p. 148.).--Arms of Smith of Curdley, co. Lancaster: Argent, a cheveron sable between three roses gules, barbed, vert seeded, or.

Robinson (of Yorkshire): Vert, a cheveron between three roebucks trippant or. Crest, a roebuck as in the arms. Motto, "Virtute non verbis."

Robinson of Yorkshire, as borne by Lord Rokeby: Vert, on a cheveron or, between three bucks trippant of the last, as many quatrefoils gules. Crest, a roebuck trippant or.

CID.

_Churchill's Grave_ (Vol. ix., p. 123.).--If I am not mistaken, there is a tablet to the memory of Churchill, with a more lengthy inscription, within the church of St. Mary, Dover, towards the western end of the south aisle.

W. SPARROW SIMPSON.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Before proceeding to notice any of the books which we have received this week, we will call the attention of the publishing world to two important works which we know to be now wanting a publisher, namely, I. _A Syriac-English Lexicon to the New Testament and Book of Psalms_, arranged alphabetically, with the derivatives referred to their proper roots, and a companion of the principal words in the cognate languages; and II. _A Syriac-English Grammar_, translated and abridged from Hoffman's larger work.

Samuel Pepys is the dearest old gossip that ever lived; and every new edition of his incomparable Diary will serve but to increase his reputation as the especial chronicler of his age. Every page of it abounds not only in curious indications of the tone and feelings of the times, and the character of the writer, but also in most graphic illustrations of the social condition of the country. It is this that renders it a work which calls for much careful editing and illustrative annotation, and consequently gives to every succeeding edition new value. Well pleased are we, therefore, to receive from Lord Braybrooke a fourth edition, revised and corrected, of the _Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys_. and well pleased to offer our testimony to the great care with which its noble editor has executed his duties. Thanks to his good judgment, and to the great assistance which he acknowledges to have received from Messrs. Holmes, Peter Cunningham, Yeowell, &c., his fourth edition is by far the best which has yet appeared, and is the one which must hereafter be referred to as the standard one. The Index, too, has been revised and enlarged, which adds no little to the value of the book.

Mr. Murray has broken fresh ground in his _British Classics_ by the publication of the first volume of Gibbon's _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes and Preface by Dean Milman and M. Guizot_, and edited, with Notes, by Dr. Smith. If the publisher showed good tact in selecting Mr. P. Cunningham for editor of _Goldsmith_, he has shown no less in entrusting the editing of his new Gibbon to Dr. Smith, whose various Dictionaries point him out as peculiarly fitted for such a task. In such well practised hands, therefore, there can be little doubt as to the mode in which the labour of editing will be conducted; and a very slight glance at the getting up of this first volume will serve to prove that, for a library edition of Gibbon, while this is the cheapest it will be also the handsomest ever offered to the public.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--Macaulay's _Critical and Historical Essays, People's Edition_, Part I. The first issue of an edition of these admirable Essays, which will, when completed, cost only Seven Shillings! Can cheapness go much lower?--_Adventures in the Wilds of North America_, by Charles Lanman, _edited_ by C. R. Wild, forming Parts LV. and LVI. of Longman's _Traveller's Library_. These adventures, partly piscatorial, are of sufficient interest to justify their publication even without the _imprimatur_, which they have received, of so good a critic as Washington Irving.--Darling's _Cyclopaedia Bibliographica_, Part XVII., extends from Andrew Rivet to William Shepheard.

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Notices to Correspondents.

M. "Scarborough Warning."--_This expression has been fully explained in our_ First Volume, p. 138.

J. C. B., _who writes respecting_ The Gregorian Tones, _is referred to our_ Sixth Volume, pp. 99. 178., _and our_ Seventh Volume, p. 136.

R. N. (Liverpool). _There are many letters of Charles I. among the MSS. in the British Museum. We do not know where the Cabinet taken at Naseby is preserved._

OXON. Entire, _as applied to beer, signifies that it is drawn entirely from one butt. Formerly the favourite beer was a mixture of ale or beer and twopenny, until a brewer named Harwood produced a beer with the same flavour, which he called_ entire _or_ entire butt.

G. W. T. _Old Rowley was the name of a celebrated stallion belonging to Charles II._