rs, _quae nunc_, &c.

A DRAGOON.

_Nightingale and Thorn_ (Vol. iv., p. 175., &c.).--

"If I had but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle,
To knock my nose against when I am nodding,
I should sing like a nightingale."--Fletcher, _The Lover's Progress_, Act
III. Sc. 2.

W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.

Temple.

_Burial in Unconsecrated Ground_ (Vol. vi., p. 448.; Vol. viii., p.
43.).--The following curious entry occurs in the parish register of
Pimperne, Dorset:

"Anno 1627. Vicesimo quinto Octobris.

"Peregrinus quidam tempore pestes in communi campo mortuus eodem loco
quo inventus sepultus."

There was a pestilence in England in 1625. In 1628 sixteen thousand persons
died of the plague at Lyons.

W. E.

I do not know whether the case recorded in _London Labour and the London
Poor_, vol. i. p. 411.--by the way, is that work ever to be completed, and
how far has it gone?--of a man buried at the top of a house at Foot's Cray,
in Kent, has been noticed by any correspondent.

P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.

_Sangaree_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--I take it that the word ought to be
spelled _sansgris_, being derived from the French words _sans_, without,
and _gris_, tipsy, meaning a beverage that would not make tipsy. I have
been a good deal in the French island of Martinique, and they use the term
frequently in this sense as applied to a beverage made of white wine ("Vin
de Grave"), syrup, water, and nutmeg with a small piece of fresh lime-skin
hanging over the edge of the glass. A native of Martinique gave me this as
the derivation of the word. The beverage ought not to be stirred after the
nutmeg is put in it, as the fastidious say it would spoil the flavour.

T. B.

_Point of Etiquette_ (Vol. viii., p. 386.).--The title _Miss_, without the
Christian name, belongs to the eldest unmarried daughter of the
representative of the family only. If he have lost his own children, his
brother is _heir presumptive_ merely to the family honours; and can neither
assume nor give to his daughter the titles to which they are only
expectants. The matter becomes evident, if you test the rule by a peerage
instead of a squirage. Even the eldest daughter of a baronet or landed
gentleman loses her title of Miss, when her brother succeeds to the
representation, provided he have a daughter to claim the title.

P. P.

_Etymology of "Monk" and "Till," &c._ (Vol. viii., pp. 291. 409.).--Will
you allow me one word on these tw