gary, and an illustration of one, with other old-fix whirl and girl in the same bizarrerie now we world fishery matters, will, no doubt, be found in Otto have the opportunity of bottling gairl with Astolfo's Herman's "A Magyar halászat Könyve,' a copy of brains. E. COBHAM BREWER. which is in the British Museum. A bow-net may be the kind of net constructed upon the principle of the lasso, still in use in Hungary. It is thrown on the water fully open, and, being loaded on its circumference with small leaden balls, it sinks. On being withdrawn its mouth closes and shuts in the fish. L. L. K. GIRL PRONOUNCED GURL (7th S. ix. 472; x. 24, 116, 176, 431, 514).-My education was conducted on the same lines as that of PROF. SKEAT, and I could not imagine how DR. CHANCE proposed to sound the word until he spelt it gairl. I then remembered hearing it from those excellent people who can discover "squ'urls" in the trees, and mentally associated it with three striking sights to be seen continually in Hampshire--a child going to "schooal," a dog wagging its "tayal," and "taws'ls" to all the window blinds. I hope PROF. SKEAT will forgive me for not knowing how to put the letter e through calisthenic exercises; but I feel sure that any (not being natives) who have lived in Hampshire will recognize the sound intended. Apropos of MR. TROLLOPE'S "Maider ill," I once tried to persuade a genuine cockney damsel to say "Dinah and I," instead of "Diner and I.” She could not hear the difference! HERMENTRUDE. It may be well to adduce two instances of this pronunciation, both of some authority. The first occurs in an early volume of Punch (I quote from memory): When in the giddy dance I twirl And not a luckless Indian maid, THE GIBSON FAMILY OF BAMPTON, CO. WESTMORELAND (7th S. x. 365). In a window in Bampton Church is the following: "Memoriæ Sacrum Edmundi et Jana Gibson charissi morum parentum: Monumentum boc posuit Edmundus St. Andrews, N.B. The "restored " tombstone in the disused burial- Physician General of the Army 6th Daughter of Richard Cromwell 2nd Wife of Thomas Gibson, DANIEL HIPWELL. 34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell. SIR JOHN BURGOYNE (7th S. x. 467, 516).—According to MSS. in the British Museum, "Impington in Cambridgeshire" was one of the twenty-nine manors granted at the Conquest to Othemyles Picot, Baron of Bourne, in same county. The property passed from his son, the "Lord Robert Picot or Pigot, by marriage and confiscation to the Peverel family, and probably from this latter family to the Burgoynes." Can any correspondent say if there is a pedigree extant giving the de Almost the same rhyme is repeated by Matthew scendants, if any, of this "Lord Robert Pigot"? Arnold in the new edition of his 'Collected And he taught him how to please E. WALFORD, M.A. 7, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W. Everything should be done to make the language approach as much as possible to uniformity. All outré pronunciations are more or less vulgarities. In my eighty years of life I have witnessed a host of affectations which have had their day. George IV. made jew for “dew,” obleege for "oblige," &c., popular. And I remember when all mashers spoke of gals. 'N. & Q.' is the lex et norma loquendi, then for Heaven's sake let it class girl with its congeners thirl, whirl, twirl, &c. It is bad enough to have full and dull, cough and plough, let us not IMPINGTON. The date of the brass of John Burgoyne mentioned at the last reference should be 1525, not 1505. The inscription is given in full in 'Notes on the Cambridgeshire Churches,' London, 1827, p. 25. I have not as yet come across any evidence connecting the Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire branches of the family. F. A. BLAYDES. Bedford. THE ANCIENT IRISH SEE OF ENACHDUNE or ANNAGHDOWN (7th S. x. 503).—MR. CARMICHAEL should refer to Dr. Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ,' vol. iv. pp. 51-59, and he will there find a catalogue of bishops, deans, archdeacons, canons, and vicars choral of Enachdune (or, as the name is now spelt, Annaghdown). The bishopric of Annaghdown, although permanently annexed in the fourteenth century to the archiepiscopal see of Tuam, seems to have maintained a sort of semi independent existence until comparatively recent times; much as Clonmacnoise, which still has its dean, although united with Meath in the reign of Elizabeth, and otherwise absorbed in Meath, has done. In the Morning Chronicle of October 20, 1794, the appointment of the Hon. Dr. W. Beresford (afterwards created Lord Decies) to the archbishopric of Tuam is noted in the following paragraph, apparently quoted from the official notice in the Dublin Gazette: "Dublin, October 14. Letters patent have been passed under the Great Seal of this kingdom for the Translation of the Right Rev. and Hon. Doctor William Beresford, Bishop of Ossory, to the Archbishoprick of Tuam, with the united Bishoprick of Enaghdoen, and also for granting unto him the Bishoprick of Ardagh, in Commendam, the same being respectively vacant by the death of the Most Rev. Joseph Dean, Earl of Mayo, late Archbishop of Tuam." It would be of interest to know whether mention was made of the see of Annaghdown in the patent granted in 1867 to the late Dr. Charles Bernard, the second and last Bishop of Tuam appointed before the disestablishment. There are still some roofless ruins at Annaghdown (a few miles north of Galway) of what was once the cathedral church of that ancient bishopric. T. M. FALLOW. Coatham, Yorkshire. KILTER (7th S. x. 506).—Kilter or kelter was an "Anglicism "long before it was an "Americanism." Skinner, in 1671, has, "Kelter; he is not yet in kelter, nondum est paratus." It is also given in my reprint of Ray's Collection of 1691. The k before i points to a Scandinavian origin. Cf. Dan. kilte, to truss, tuck up, whence E. kilt. Rietz gives Swed. dial., kilter-band, a band for holding up tucked-up clothes; kiltra-sig, to gird up, tuck up and fasten. The metaphor is obvious enough. WALTER W. SKEAT. This word, kelter, as it should be spelt, is given in Johnson's 'Dictionary,' and derived from the Danish kelter, to gird; a quotation is given from Barrow's Works,' where the word is used. Bailey, in his Etymological Dictionary,' derives it from the Latin cultura. Halliwell (Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words") gives it as used in the East of England both as a substantive and as a verb. It is a word of every-day use in Surrey and Sussex, in the sense of order or condition. The Rev. W. D. Parish, in his 'Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect,' notices it in the phrase, "This farm seems in very good kelter."" I have often heard it used in the same way, and anything that is out of condition is described as being "out o' kelter." On reference to the publications of the English Dialect Society it will be seen that the word is of very general use throughout England. In the neighbourhood of Whitby it occurs as a verb and a substantive, and in the Mid and East Yorkshire glossaries also; it is used also in West Cornwall, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. In West Somerset, in Sheffield, and in Huddersfield the word means money. These references will be sufficient to show that the expression is not an Americanism, as MR. BETHELL suggests, but that the word has found, and still finds, a place in vernacular English. G. L. G. England in the sense of condition, order. Halliwell gives kelter as used in the East of W. This word, like many other Yankeeisms, may perhaps be explained by a reference to the dialect of our own Eastern Counties, where to be "out of kelter" means to be out of condition. C. C. B. COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS (7th S. x. 505).— I am almost sure that the custom of collecting the sixteenth century. The book kept for such autograms existed on the Continent at the end of purpose was, I believe, called a Stamm-buch in German. I have come across many early specimens of these during my searches in the MS. Department of the British Museum. I can now only remember one which formerly belonged to a man of the name of Puehler; but if your correspondent will refer to the Catalogue of Additional MSS. he will no doubt be able to find a great many L. L. K. more. If MR. CROFTON will refer to the Second Series of your issue, iii. 351, 413, he will find that MR. SCROPE is right in his declaration. W. H. BURNS. Dacre Vicarage. DUMB BORSHOLDER (7th S. x. 387, 478).—1 venture to supplement the interesting reply at p. 478 by pointing out that, under the heading Mace at Wateringbury,' KENT will find in 6th S. x. 446, a few lines from me on this subject. From a rough sketch and verbal description given to me about that date, the "dumb borsholder" would appear to be a globular-headed mace, "between two and three feet long, with a steel spike of a further length of six inches projecting from the head," in continuation of the stem of the mace. I have, however, no personal knowledge on the subject. Among my miscellaneous memoranda I find the following: "That which in the west country was at that time [in the reign of Alfred] (and yet is) [in 1570] called a tithing is in Kent termed a borow, of the Saxon worde bork, these pledges, which the Westernmen call a tithingman, which signifieth a pledge or a suretie, and the chiefe of they of Kent name a borsholder, of the Saxon wordes borhes ealdor, that is to say, the most auncient or elder of the pledges." The local vulgar pronunciatien "boss'lder," without the interloping h seems based upon this etymology. If I rightly recollect what I have been told, this "dumb borsholder" is still brought out to view Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. which we fail to find. These are of more value to Mr. Bradley than to his predecessor, whose chief interest was in words of Teutonic origin. We have no desire to challenge the selection of words nor the information supplied. A word, however, such as "flaskyfable," which occurs thrice in Lydgate's Chronicle of Troy, should find a place. In book i. chapter v. it is thus used:Of inconstaunce whose flaskyfable kynde Is to and fro meuynge as a wynde. The great dictionary of Mätzner extends as yet no further than the letter J; Mr. Bradley's volume is ready for immediate service. The name of its editor is a guarantee for thoroughness of workmanship. pre-volume, like most of the productions of the Clarendon Press, is handsome, solid, and serviceable, and, without being final, it is to be warmly commended to all students of early literature. Not a few readers of N. & Q.' will place it among works of constant reference on one of the most accessible shelves. A Middle English Dictionary. By Francis Henry The Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of DR. SHARPE is to be congratulated upon the successful Sir Thomas Gresham. There is also the will of John de My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn I saw good strawberries in your garden there. Bequests for the support of bridges are a striking feature in the wills, and those to the support of poor prisoners in Newgate and the Fleet are also familiar. Shakspeare's bequest to his wife of his second best bed may easily and often be paralleled. Margaret Bradford, relict of Sir John Bradford, Knt., thus leaves, in 1400, to Margaret, her servant, her "entire bed," viz., "three curtains with selur [a canopy] of blue card [supposed to be a sort of inferior silk, carda, carduus, or cadar], a coverlet with testur of green, a pair of sheets, two blankets, and a quylt" (p. 348). Cecilia Rose, in 1382, leaves to John Norffolk, for being her executor, a sum of money, a plain gold ring, and her wooden bedstead of bord, with curtains, &c. Bequests to priests, convents, &c., are naturally common, as are those to ancient companies or mysteries, coupled sometimes, in the case of religious endowments, with the saying of masses, and in that of the companies with payments to the relief of the poor. Enough is said to indicate the nature of the almost inexhaustible contents of the volumes. It remains only to add that Dr. Sharpe has executed his task in admirable style. His notes are valuable and to the point, and his introductions are important contributions to scholarship. The entire production is creditable to all concerned. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for 1891. (Whittaker & Co.) FIFTY-ONE Consecutive years of existence speak for the value of this most condensed and serviceable of peerages, which holds its own against the most formidable rivalry. Here, under an alphabetical arrangement, the simplest for all purposes of reference, we find every member of the titled classes, to the widows of knights. Privy councellors and lords of session are also given. The whole is corrected up to the moment of going to press, and fulfils every condition of a useful, and to a large class indispensable work of reference. It will be long ere the compact, handy red volume loses its popularity. THE monthly publications of Messrs. Cassell are diminishing in number. With the old year the Encyclopaedic Dictionary, the most useful and monumental of their works, came to a close. We anticipated one more number, and its unexpected completion passed with less comment than we intended to bestow. Some time will pass before this work will be superseded. Our own sense of its trustworthiness and utility is shown in the constant use we make of it in answering questions, not a few of which might have been spared had reference been made to its columns by the sender.-The Illustrated Shakespeare just lasts into 1891, and gives in a double number, with the completion of Pericles,' the title to the tragedies, and the preface and memoir by Mr. and Mrs. Cowden Clarke. As the illustrations to the number are principally of scenes hallowed by memories of Shakspeare, it has special interest, the entire work being admirably suited for a family edition of the poet.-Naumann's History of Music, meanwhile, has another six months or so to run. The present instalment is occupied with the Grand Opéra of Paris. Portraits of Grétry and Méhul accompany this, and there is a facsimile of a signed production of Liszt.-Old and New London is still in full swing. Part XL. opens with pictures of Addison and of the old Haymarket Theatre, and describes the entertainments of Foote, of whom a portrait is given. Continuing to Suffolk Street and Pall Mall, it gives views of the College of Physicians and the old Tennis Court in James Street. Golden Square and its neighbourhood follow, with an illustration of the Pantheon Theatre in 1812. Regent's Quadrant and Piccadilly are depicted, and there are two designs of Burlington House, as it appeared near two centuries ago, in the midst of trees, and as it is now seen. Picturesque Australasia, Part XXVII., has a full plate of Waterfall Gully, near Adelaide, and one of the lovely Marrawatee Gorge. Other very picturesque scenes are supplied.-The Holy Land and the Bible, Part XVI., remains in Jerusalem, ma y spots of supreme interest being depicted. The Valley of Hinnom scarcely seems to merit Milton's appellation "pleasant." It looks decidedly stern and grim. THE Builder begins with the present year a series of illustrated articles of much interest, upon 'English Cathedrals.' Canterbury is first in order. 'SOME NOTES ON BOOKS FOR CHILDREN,' by Mr. Charles Welch, appears in the Newbery House Magazine, which this month reached us late. FROM Bruges reaches us No. 1 of the Caxton Review of Catholic Literature. There is room for such a publication. The promise of the preface is, however, sanguine, to say the least, when it is declared that in queries and replies the Catholic writer will be able to seek and secure such information as he may from time to time fail to find elsewhere. A NEW volume of the British Bookmaker begins with the new year. It has a portrait of the late Mr. George Bell and some capital designs for binding. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." C. A. WARD ("Don Juan Manuel ").-"Count Lucanor; or, the Fifty Pleasant Stories of Patronio, written by Prince Don Juan Manuel, A.D. 1335-1347. First done into English from the Spanish, by James York, Doctor of Medicine, 1868. Basil Montagu Pickering." This edition has, we believe, recently been reprinted by Messrs. Pickering & Chatto. A French translation, by M. Adolphe de Puibusque, was published, Paris, 1854. There is also a German_translation, by J. von Eichendorff, Berlin, 1840. No Latin translation is known, but the work itself is supposed to owe much to La Disciplina Clericalis' of Petrus Alphonsus, and to the 'Hitopadesa,' and other collections of Eastern stories. LORA ("Fin de Siècle").-This phrase has sprung into vogue since the production at the Gymnase Dramatique, Paris, on Feb. 22 last, of Paris Fin de Siècle,' a comedy of MM. Blum and Toché, since given by a French company in London. &c.).-From the ballad of "Waly, waly, but love be J. PICKFORD (""Tis not the frost that freezes fell," bonny." See Tea-Table Miscellany,' i. 231; or Child's collection of ballads, iv. 132. LELIUS ("Celebrities' Houses ").-An effort to com memorate these by mural tablets has already made some small progress in London. 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