_On Quotations_ (Vol. vi., p. 408.).--There can be no doubt that quotations have frequently been altered, to make them more apt to the quoter's purpose, of which I believe the following to be an instance. We frequently meet with the quotation, "Nullum numen _abest_, si sit prudentia," with a reference to Juvenal. I have not been able to find the passage in this shape, and presume it is an alteration from the address to Fortune, which occurs twice in his _Satires_, Sat. x. v. 365, 366., and Sat. xiv. v. 315, 316.:
"Nullum numen _habes_, si sit prudentia: nos te Nos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, coeloque locamus."
The alteration is evidently not a mere verbal one, but changes entirely the meaning and allusion of the passage.
_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.).--In addition to the local rhymes given in your pages, I call to mind the following, not inserted in Grose. They are peculiar to the North of England:
"Rothbury for goats' milk, And the Cheviots for mutton; Cheswick for its cheese and bread, And Tynemouth for a glutton."
"Harnham was headless, Bradford breadless, And Shaftoe pick'd at the craw; Capheaton was a wee bonny place, But Wallington bang'd them a'."
The _craw_, in the second rhyme, alludes to the _Crasters_, anciently _Crancester_, an old family in the parish of Hartburn, who succeeded to the estates of the Shaftoe family.
_Coins in Foundations_ (Vol. vi., p. 270.).--I have a manuscript notice of an early example of this custom. It is in a hand of the earlier half of the seventeenth century. The Bostonians knew better, however, than to bury their "great gifts;" and all who travel the Great Northern Railway will be glad to preserve the names of the great givers, who afforded so noble a relief to the tedium of Boston station.
"_Md._ That in the yeere of o^r Lord God 1309, the steeple of Boston, on the Monday next following Palme Sunday, was digged wt many myners till Mydsomer; and by that time they were deeper than the bottom of the haven by fyve fote, and there they found a ball of sande nigh a fote thick, and that dyd lye uppon a spring of sand neere three fote thick, and that dyd lye uppon a bed of clay, the thicknesse thereof could not be known. And there, uppon Monday nexte after the feast of St. John Baptist, was layd the first stone, and that stone layd Dame Margaret Tylney, and thereuppon layd she vl. sterling. The nexte stone was layd by S^r John Tattersall, prson of Boston, who layd down thereuppon vl. sterling. And Richard Stevenson, merchant of the Staple, layd the third stone, and thereuppon vl. sterling. And these were all the great guifts that at that time were given thereunto. Remaining amongst the records at Lincolne.