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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. HI. FEB. 25, MOB.
He says : " It begins badly, ' musical anti-
quarian,' adjective for substantive." I have
said " antiquary " since then.
EDWARD HERON- ALLEN.
FONT CONSECRATION (10 th S. ii. 269, 336). I am much obliged to MR. J. HOBSON MATTHEWS for his information. An account of the ceremony will be found in an Anglo- Saxon Pontifical in the Public Library at .Rouen, also in the Pontifical of Edmund Lacey, 1421. Q. W. V.
BANKRUPTS IN 1708-9 (10 th S. ii. 487). Walter Rye, in his 'Records and Record Searching,' 1888, says that the bankruptcy deeds before 1831 are at the Bankruptcy Commissioners' Office, after that year in Close Roll. A correspondent at 8 th S. v. 417 stated that the records subsequent to 1710 were in the new Bankruptcy Buildings next Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Probably MR. MASON may obtain some information from the following work in the library of the London Institution, Finsbury Circus : " The Bankrupts' Directory with an alpha- betical list of all those persons who have surrendered themselves to, or have been summoned to be examined by, the Commis- sioners according to the last two Acts of Parliament," London, 1708.
Ev-ERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
HOUR OF SUNSET AT WASHINGTON (10 th S. iii. 87). The latitude of Washington being 38 55' N"., and the sun's declination 23 15' S. on 15 December, the hour angle at rising or setting will be 70 32', equal in time to 4h. 42m. By that interval, then, the sun will rise or set at Washington before passing the meridian. But as the meridian passage takes place on 15 December at 5m. before noon by mean time, the sun will set 4 h. 42 m. after that, ie, at 4h. 37m. by a clock regulated to Washington time.
W. T. LYNN.
Blackheath.
TRAVELS IN CHINA (10 th S. ii. 408 ; iii. 15). In the Royal Geographical Society's library, 1, Savile Row, W., the other day why do we say the other day when we mean an other day 1 I came across a book which will pro- bably give the information about English travellers in China desired by the REV. EDWIN S. CRANE. Its title is 'Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire Bibliographique des Ouvrages relatifs a 1'Empire Chinois,' par Henri Cordier, vol. i., Paris, 1904. No doubt the librarian would allow the inquirer access to this book, or would help him to the desired
information. He might also refer to the
recently issued volume dealing with China
in " The World's History," edited by Helm-
holt, and the articles in the ninth edition of
the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' and supple-
ment, whioh, I believe, give bibliographies.
FREDK. A. EDWARDS, F.R.G.S.
56, Eyot Gardens, Hammersmith, W.
HAMLET WATLIXG (10 th S. ii. 488). This gentleman is still living in Ipswich. He is a very aged man, and I believe he has copies of every drawing he has ever done, many of them very remarkable. For instance, some curious mural drawings were discovered under the whitewash when the church at Earl Stonham was being restored. These, owing to needful repair, had to be destroyed, and Mr. Watling's copies are all that remain of them. M. E. NOBLE.
HERALDIC (10 th e S. ii. 408 ; iii. 33, 94). My authority for stating that Crawe is a variant of Crab is the first volume of the ' Exchequer Rolls of Scotland.' John Crab, custumar of Aberdeen, is described on p. 64 as Crawe, in the passage where mention is made of him as buying rope for military engines at Ber- wick and Norharn. The passage runs thus :
- ' et Johanni Crawe, ad emendum Cordas pro
dictis machinis, vijl. vjs. et ijd" The date is 1327. On pp. 398 and 530 he is called Crabbe and Crab. Is there not a connexion between the words craw and crab ? Cf. Skeat's 'Etymol. Diet.,' sub 'Crayfish, Crawfish.'
CHR. WATSON.
Crow in Northern dialect is doubtless cra?t>,as is shown by the story of the Yorkshire clergyman who asked Abp. Temple to let him hold in plurality a Northern living over some hills only a few miles away. " You are not a craw and you shan't have it." But has E. B R thought of crayfish=ecrivisse, G. Krabbe, to scrab, and crabbed 1 T. WILSON.
Harpenden.
Reference to Prof. Skeat's ' Concise Dic- tionary ' will, I think, substantiate what R. B R says as to the impossibility of " era we " being a variant of " crab."
J. HOLDEN MAC-MICHAEL.
"ILAND" (10 th S. ii. 348, 493 ; iii. 98). I see no particular difficulty. If a detached part of a barn can be called a bay, it may also be called an island. See 'Goaf in the 'Eng. Dialect Dictionary,' and ' Island ' in the 'N.E.D.,' which does not appear to have been consulted. The latter shows that an island is applied to anything that is in any way isolated or detached ; as a cluster of houses, a clump of trees, and the like. It is obvious
