Since the above was written, we have received a communication from _An
English Mother_ with the words and _music_ of the nursery song, showing
that the music does not admit the expressions "eat _up_," and "drink
_up_;" quoting from Haldorson's _Icelandic Lexicon_, Eysill, m.
Haustrum en Ose allsa; and asking what if Shakspeare meant either a
pump or a bucket? We have also received a Note from G. F. G. showing
that _eisel_ in Dutch, German, and Anglo-Saxon, &c., meant _vinegar_,
and stating, that during his residence in Florence in 1817, 1818, and
1819, he had often met with wormwood wine at the table of the Italians,
a weak white wine of Tuscany, in which wormwood had been infused, which
was handed round by the servants immediately after the soup, and was
believed to promote digestion.]

_Saxon Coin struck at Derby._--In the reign of Athelstan there was a royal
mint at Derby, and a coinage was struck, having on the obverse merely the
name of the town, Deoraby, and on the other side the legend "HEGENREDES MO
. ON . DEORABY." What is the meaning of this inscription?

R. C. P.

Derby, Feb. 26. 1851.

[If HEGENREDES is rightly written, it is the name of a moneyer. MO . ON
. DEORABY signifies _Monetarius_ (or Moneyer) _in Derby_. Coins are
known with MEGENFRED and MEGNEREDTES, and our correspondent may have
read his coin wrongly.]

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Replies.

SCANDAL AGAINST QUEEN ELIZABETH.

(Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11. 151. 197.)

The Marquis of Ormonde having been informed that certain statements, little
complimentary to the reputation of Queen Elizabeth, and equally
discreditable to the name of his ancestor, Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, have
appeared in "NOTES AND QUERIES," wherein it is stated "that the Ormonde
family possess documents which afford proof of this," begs to assure the
editor of the journal in question, that the Ormonde collection of papers,
&c. contains nothing that bears the slightest reference to the very
calumnious attack on the character of good Queen Bess.

Hampton Court, March 17. 1851.

[If the Marquis of Ormonde will do us the favour to refer to our Number
for the 8th March (No. 71.), he will find he has not been correctly
informed with respect to the article to which his note relates. The
family in which the papers are stated to exist, is clearly not that of
the noble Mar