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RINGS WITH A DEATH'S HEAD (11 S. viii
170, 217, 253). A ring in ray possession is
rather a curious one, for the death's heac
is mounted below a single paste stone
To see it one must look through the stone
of which it forms the back, acting as a foil
The stone is mounted in an open-work heac
of fine gold, and the shank is in scroll
shaped sections enamelled in heliotrope
colour. The inscription, in gold, has one
or two words in each section, as follows
" Mary | Denham | ob. 11 | June 1741 |
29." I think it is an ordinary mourning
ring of the period.
HERBERT E. NORRIS. Cirencester.
PAULET OF EDDINGTON (11 S. viii. 208, 314). According to a seventeenth-century pedigree, Sir William Paulet of Edington married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Seymour, son of Sir Henry Seymour, K.B., of Harwell, Hants, and nephew of Sir Edward, first Duke of Somerset, and also of Queen Jane Seymour and Queen Katherine Parr. They had seven children, as follows : (1) Honor, born 1602. (2) Elizabeth, born 1603, married first, in 1631, to Robert Devereux, third Earl of Essex (a widower aged 40 years, who died 1646), by whom she had a son Robert, born 1634, died 1636 secondly, in 1647, to Sir Thomas Higgons, born 1626, died 1692 she died 1656. (3) Frances, born 1605, married in 1621 Col. Thomas Leveson, Governor of Dudley Castle (who died 1651), by whom she had a daughter Frances, b. 1622 (married first to William Forster of Hanslap and Wolver- hampton, by whom she had a son Richard, b. 1640 ; and secondly to Sir Thomas Holly- man), also five children who died young, and finally a son Robert, born 1636, who married Sarah, daughter of John Povey of Hounslow, Middlesex. (4) Mary, born 1608. (5) Alice, born 1610. (6) William, born 1613. (7) Essex, born 1616.
GEORGE WRIGHT.
CHOIR BALANCE : ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR (11 S. viii. 168, 212, 315). In reply to the question of HARMONY, whether the change to which I before referred (ante, p. 212) was in 1892 or in 1893, I would say that the change was not sudden, but gradual. When my old master retired in 1892, the boys were not immediately removed from their house in the Chapel precincts to the larger one they now occupy near the foot of the North Terrace, and possibly the removal did not take place till the next year. Until it did
the boys could not have been increased to
their present number ; but I believe air
new boys had to pay, though it would have
ruined the choir to tell the existing boys
that they must either pay or go, and so
they completed their time in the usual way.
W. A. FROST.
WILLIAM MURDOCH (11 S. viii. 227, 307). If my memory serves me well, the state- ment in question was from an Ayrshire newspaper report of the North British Association of Gas Managers' meeting. They, I imagine, would be in a position to settle the question, which is possibly a newspaper error of "Churchyard" for Church only. ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.
" ANGELINA GUSHINGTON " (11 S. viii. 307). If my memory serves me rightly, papers under this heading came out in The Light Blue, a Cambridge University magazine, in or about the year 1868. C. L. S.
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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles..
Edited by Sir James A. H. Murray. Tombal-
Trahysh.' (Vol. X.) By the Editor. (Oxford,
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THE latest section of the ' N.E.D.' is among the most interesting also, if such discrimination is valid, among the most ably handled of the parts that have appeared. The total of the words dealt with main words, combinations, and subordinate entries all together- amounts to 3,295, and these are illustrated by 12,210 quotations. As the editor remarks in his Pre- atory Note, we have here a good representation of the chief constituents of the English vocabulary, and, moreover, the items are all words of more or less substance and colour, including a perhaps unusually large proportion of slang.
" Tomboy," used of a girl, is an older expres- sion than some of us might have guessed ; the irst quotation here given is from Lyly. A note o " Tom cat " explains how Tom in this con- nexion took the place of the older Tybert, hrough the publication of an anonymous ' Life L,nd Adventures of a Cat ' in 1760, which became r ery popular. The article " Tommy " furnishes , good example of rough, primitive, popular wit, exercised in personification ; the word is used for jread, goods, or food generally, the truck system,. sundry tools, a trough for gold -washing, pewter solder, and one or two more matters. " Tom Fiddler's ground," which has a respectably antique appearance, goes back no further than the begin- ning of last century. We are reminded that it vas not till the middle of the eighteenth century
- hat " to-morrow " ceased to be written as two
words. The Dictionary has rescued for con- ideration the expressive attempts " to-morrower " Coleridge and Meredith) and " to-morrowness in The Bookman of 1897). The combinations with " to " make^an interesting feature in this
