the _bona fide_ author of the following
lines?--

"Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the heavens of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky."

NAPHTALI.

_Launching Query._--With reference to the accident to H.M.S. Caesar at
Pembroke, I would ask, Is there any other instance of a ship, on being
launched, stopping on the ways, and refusing to move in spite of all
efforts to start her?

A. B.

_Manliness._--Query, What is the meaning of the word as used in "N. & Q.,"
Vol. viii., p. 94., col. 2. l. 12.

ANONYMOUS.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Pues or Pews._--Which is the _correct_ way of spelling this word? What is
its derivation? Why has the form _pue_ been lately so much adopted?

OMEGA.

[The abuses connected with the introduction of pues into churches have
led to an investigation of their history, as well as to the etymology
of the word. Hence the modern adoption of its original and more correct
orthography, that of _pue_; the Dutch _puye_, _puyd_, and the English
_pue_, being derived from the Latin _podium_. In Vol. iii., p. 56., we
quoted the following as the earliest notice of the word from the
_Vision of Piers Plouman_:

"Among wyves and wodewes ich am ywoned sute
Yparroked in _pues_. The person hit knoweth."

Again, in _Richard III._, Act IV. Sc. 4.: "And makes her _pue-fellow_
with others moan."--In Decker's _Westward Hoe_: "Being one day in
church, she made mone to her _pue-fellow_."--And in the _Northern Hoe_
of the same author: "He would make him a _pue-fellow_ with lords."--See
a paper on _The History of Pews_, read before the Cambridge Camden
Society, Nov. 22, 1841.]

_"Jerningham" and "Doveton."_--Who was the author of _Jerningham_ and
_Doveton_, two admirable works of fiction published some twelve or fifteen
years ago? They are equal to anything written by Bulwer Lytton or by James.

J. MT.

[The author of these works was Mr. Anstruther.]

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Replies.

BATTLE OF VILLERS EN COUCHE.

(Vol. viii., p. 8.)

I possess a singular work, consisting of a series of _Poetical Sketches_ of
the campaigns of 1793 and 1794, written, a