_Title wanted--Choirochorographia_ (Vol. viii., p. 151.).--The full title of the book inquired after is as follows:
"[Greek: Choirochôrographia]: sive, Hoglandiæ Descriptio.--Plaudite _Porcelli Porcorum pigra Propago_ (Eleg. Poet.): Londini, Anno Domini 1709. Pretium 2^d," 8vo.
The printer, as appears from the advertisement at the end of the volume, was Henry Hills. The middle of the title-page is occupied by a coarsely executed woodcut, representing a boar with barbed instrument in his snout, and similar instrument on a larger scale under the head, surmounted with some rude characters, which I read
The dedication is headed, "Augusto admodum & undiquaq; Spectabili Heroi Domini H---- S---- Maredydius Caduganus Pymlymmonensis, S.P.D." The entire work appears to be written in ridicule of Hampshire, and to be intended as a retaliation for work written by Edward Holdsworth, of Magd. Coll. Oxford, entitled _Muscipula, sive_ [Greek: kambro-muo-machia], published by the same printer in the same year, and translated by Dr. Hoadly in the fifth volume of Dodsley's _Miscellany_, p. 277., edit. 1782.
Query, Who was the author? and had Holdsworth any farther connexion with Hampshire than that of having been educated at Winchester School?
_Second Growth of Grass_ (Vol. viii., p. 102.).--R. W. F. of Bath inquires for other names than "fog," &c. In Sussex we leave "rowens," or "rewens" (the latter, I believe, a corruption), used for the second growth of grass.
Halliwell, in his _Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words_, has "_Rowens_, after-grass," as a Suffolk word. Bailey gives the word, with a somewhat different signification; but he has "_Rowen hay_, latter hay," as a country word.
In Norfolk this is called "aftermath eddish," and "rowans" or "rawins."
The first term is evidently from the A.-S. _mæth_, mowing or math: Bosworth's _Dictionary_. Eddish is likewise from the A.-S. _edisc_, signifying the second growth; it is used by Tusser, _October's Husbandry_, stanza 4.:
"Where wheat upon _eddish_ ye mind to bestow, Let that be the first of the wheat ye do sow."
_Rawings_ also occurs in Tusser, and in the _Promptorium Parvulorum_, _rawynhey_ is mentioned. In Bailey's _Dictionary_ it is spelt _rowen_ and _roughings_: this last form gives the etymology, for _rowe_, as may be seen in Halliwell, is an old form for _rough_.