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B, Rector of Black Notley, Essex. 1780, May. LXVII. Origin of the Mayor of Garrat, MR. URBAN, THE learned antiquary finds a pleasure in tracing the origin of ancient customs, even when time has so altered them as totally to obliterate their use. It may therefore not be unpleasing to the generality of your readers, while it is yet recent in memory, to record in your Magazine the laudable motive that gave rise to the farcical custom of electing a Mayor of Garrat, which is now become truly ridiculous. I have been told, that about thirty years ago, several persons who lived near that part of Wandsworth which adjoins to Garrat Lane, had formed a kind of club, not merely to eat and drink, but to concert measures for removing the encroachments made on that part of the common, and to prevent any others being made for the future. As the members were most of them persons in low circumstances, they agreed at every meeting to contribute some small matter, in order to make up a purse for the defence of their collective rights. When a sufficient sum of money was subscribed, they applied to a very worthy attorney in that neighbourhood, who brought an action against the encroachers in the name of the president (or, as they called him, the MAYOR) of the club. They gained their suit with costs; the encroachments were destroyed; and ever after, the president, who lived many years, was called "The Mayor of Garrat." This event happening at the time of a general election, the ceremony upon every new parliament, of choosing outdoor members for the borough of Garrat, has been constantly kept up, and is still continued, to the great emolument of all the publicans at Wandsworth, who annually subscribe to all incidental expences attending this mock election. 1781, July. M. G. LXVIII. Explanation of the Terms used in the Game of Quadrille. As this is the season for cards, and you, Mr. Urban, have no aversion, I apprehend, to a sober game at Quadrille now and then, I shall here present you with a few slight observations on that game; not to instruct you how best to play it, for as I am but a mean proficient myself, I cannot pretend to that, (I refer you to Hoyle, and the other authors) but only to explain the terms. Quadrille is founded on the noble Spanish game of Hombre, or Man, but came to us immediately from France, for which reason we find in it a mixture both of Spanish and French expressions. Matadores in Spanish are murderers, and the specifical cards so called do cut down and murder all the rest; and the names of those cards do accord perfectly well with this meaning. Spadille, in French; in Spanish, Spadilla, or espadilla, a little sword. Hence comes the name of one of our suits, Spades, though it be not marked with espadas, or swords, as in Spain it is, but with picks, after the French, who call this suit Piques. The Spanish name is here therefore retained, though the device, or picks, be altered. Manille seems to be a corruption of the Spanish malilla, a wicked woman, capable of any sort of mischief. Basto, quasi the Club, by way of eminence, which is the meaning of it in Spanish. We, however, have changed the device of this suit into a Trefoil after the French, who therefore call it Trefle. Punto is the Spanish ace. Basted, for so it should be written, and not beasted, in Spanish means beaten. The French call it Remise from remettre, to put down again, or return a stake, as the party that is basted is obliged to do. Sans prendre is French, and means playing without taking a partner. Vole is the French word for a flam, or winning every trick. Codille. The chief difficulty lies in this word, as when we say, it is codille, for I am told that this is the proper expression, and not, you are codill'd, or we have got the Codille. Wherefore, if you, Mr. Urban, or any of your numerous correspondents, will be so good as to explain this term*, you, or he, will lay an obligation on, Sir, 1781, Suppl. Yours, &c. T.Row. From the Spanish word caudille, a general. See the word codille in Riche let's French Dictionary. E. MR. URBAN, LXIX. On Apparitions. IN the six original letters you have published between the Rev. J. Hughes, of Jesus College, in Cambridge, the learned editor of St. Chrysostom on the Priesthood, and some of his friends*, is a relation of the apparition of Mr. Naylor, who had been fellow of St. John's in that university, to a fellow collegian, Mr. Shaw, then rector of Souldern, in Oxfordshire. I have since met with another account of the same story, written by the Rev. Richard Chambre, who was then a member of Sidney College, and afterwards vicar of Loppington, in Shropshire, where he died Feb. 1752, aged 70. The paper containing this account was put into my hands by his executor, who has assured me, that it is his hand-writing. It has no date, but bears visible marks of its age; and, by the beginning of it, is plainly to be referred to the date of the letters above-mentioned, that is, the year 1707. Your readers will judge as they please of the truth of the story. My business is only to transcribe the paper containing it; which, except in a few instances of spelling, I send you faithfully and exactly done, with its superscription. Yours, &c. R. M. Another Account of the Apparition of Mr. Naylor to Mr. Shaw, from a MS. of the Rev. Richard Chambre. [This account I had in these very words from the Rev. Dr. Whitfield, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.] About the end of last summer, Mr. Grove, the public registrar of the university, was in the country at a small town near Banbury, in Oxfordshire, with his old friend Mr. Shaw, lately fellow of St. John's, and who was presented by the college to the living where he resided. While Mr. Grove tarried with him, which was about four or five days, he told him this remarkable story, viz. that some days before, as he was sitting in his study late one night, after eleven, and [* See pp. 44 and 47 of this Volume. E.] |