Gastros.
Cambridge, March 11.
[There is a Query which arises out of this subject which none
of our correspondents have yet touched upon--What was the
original meaning of _Beaver_, as applied to a hat or cap? and
was it taken from the name of the animal, or did it give the
name to it?]
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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
_Anecdote of the Civil Wars_.--In looking through your "Notes and
Queries," to which I heartily wish continued success, I find, in No.
6. p. 93, a question which appears to be as yet unanswered.
The story to which your questioner alludes as an "anecdote of the
Civil Wars," is a very beautiful one, and deserves authentication.
I have a note of it from Dr. Thomas's additions to Dugdale's
_Warwickshire_, which dates the occurrence as having taken place Oct.
22, 1642, the day previous to the battle of Edgehill, and identifies
the merry sportsman as Richard Schuckburgh, of Upper Shuckburgh; who,
however, on his presentation to the king, "immediately went home,
aroused his tenants, and the next day attended the army to the field,
where he was knighted, and was present at the battle.
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