Darlington.
[The charge of simony is loosely noticed by Shaw in his _History of
Staffordshire_, vol. i. p. 278. He says, "Edward Chandler was
translated from Lichfield and Coventry to Durham in 1730; and it was
then _publicly said_ that he gave 9000l. for that opulent see." To this
Chalmers, in his _Biog. Dict._, adds, "which is scarcely credible." The
Charge by the bishop is in the British Museum: it is entitled, "A
Charge delivered to the Grand Jury at the Quarter-Sessions held at
Durham, July 16, 1740, concerning engrossing of corn and grain, and the
riots that have been occasioned thereby." 4to., Durham.]
_Huggins and Muggins._--Can any of your readers assign the origin of this
jocular appellation? I would hazard the conjecture, that it may be
corruption of _Hogen Mogen_, High Mightinesses, the style, I believe, of
the States-General of Holland; and that it probably became an expression of
contempt in the mouths of the Jacobites for the followers of William III.,
from whence it has passed to a more general application.