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NOTES AND QUERIES.
. II. OCT. 29, '98.
means " in addition to the spelling vitremite,
which I give in the text, and which is the
usual reading." And again, he insinuates
that autremite is a variant of vitremite; but
this is not the case. It is a variant of the
two words, a vitremite; and it just makes
all the difference in the world.
For the solution is easy enough. Thynne, the first editor, intended to print a uitremyte, quite correctly. But unluckily the letter i dropped out at press, and the words were squeezed up together. The indefinite article a thus became an integral part of the mis- printed word utremyte; and the inevitable result was autremyte, and nothing else. This is the simple solution of the mode of genera- tion of this extraordinary form.
As the mistake occurred in Thynne's first edition, it was carefully copied in all succeeding editions, in spite of the fact that it made no sense and ruined the scansion. Speght even imagined that he knew its mean- ing, and gravely informs us that it signifies " another attire." Speght's explanation was copied by Bailey, and by the glossarists in general.
It should be noticed that the symbol u was intended by the printer to represent the con- sonant v, as was usual before a vowel. Had the word been printed in the form avtremyte, the mistake would have been more obvious. This is probably why no one has hitherto perceived the right solution.
WALTER W. SKEAT.
' DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY'
NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.
(Continued from p. 124.)
Vol. LV.
Pp. 4 b, 6 a. The late Mr. Thoms's ed. of Stow's ' Survey ' appeared in 1842, not in 1876. A paper on John Stow was read before the Elizabethan Society 4 October, 1893.
P. 6 a, line 10 from foot, and p. 296 a, line 9. For " afterwards " read now.
P. 22 b. " Causidecade." Causidicade ?
P. 23 a. " Spalatro." Spalato ?
P. 34 a. For " Kaine's " read Raines's.
P. 50 b. For " Eustasius " read JSustatius <ix. 223 b).
P. 51 a. " Cracombe." Now written Cray- combe.
P. 56 a. " provided him " ?
P. 60. Strode. See Denham's 'Poems,' 1684, p. 101.
P. 85 a, line 21 from foot. For " 1849 " read 1850.
P. 102 a. For "antiquarians" read anti- quaries.
P. 108 a. On the Stuart manors of Settring-
ton, &c., see Yorksh. Arch. Jour., x. 66.
P. 117 b. The exact title of No. 12 is " .Rose- mary & Bayes : or, Animadversions upon a Treatise called, The Rehearsall Trans-prosed. In a Letter to a Friend in the Countrey." 1672.
P. 118 a. For "Britannise" read Britannicce.
P. 128 a. For " enter the church " read take holy orders. In 1759 Gray saw Stukeley writing in the British Museum. ' Gray,' by Mason, 1827, p. 224.
Pp. 140-6. Waller wrote lines " In answer of Sir John Suckling's verses," 'Poems,' 1694, pp. 146-50.
P. 166 a, line 8. For " Dawson " read John Dawson, q.v.
Pp. 168-70. Abp. Sumner. See Illust. Lond. News, 6 May, 1848 ; 20 Sept., 1862.
P. 170 a, line 15. For " the university of " read University College.
P. 176. Sutcliffe's opinion of magistrates, 'Certamen Religiosuin,' 1652, ii. 42.
P. 180 a, line 32. For "Thornton" read Thoroton.
P. 180. Christopher Sutton's three books were reissued by Pickering, 1848-9.
P. 182 b. "His portrait." Whose?
P. 185 a. For " S within " read Swithun (see 241 a).
P. 185 b. Snaith is in Yorkshire, not Lin- colnshire.
P. 187 b. For "Sutton Dudley" read Sutton-Dudleys.
P. 189 b, line 4 from foot. Correct press.
P. 196 a. "There was no family," meaning there were no children. Why not say so ?
Pp. 204-27. Dean Swift was a friend of Parnelr; Gay dedicated a fable to him ; an anonymous ' Dialogue between Swift and Thomas Prior,' 1753; 'Cadenus and Vanessa' was reprinted in CurlFs 'Miscellanea,' 1727, where also he is styled " witty Swift," i. 143 (see Gay's 'Poems,' 1752, ii. 37) ; see a curious notice in Withers's 'Whigs Vindicated,' 1715, p. 17.
P. 229 a. Henry Swinburne. See Yorksh. Arch. Jour., i. 202, 239 ; vii. 54.
P. 238. JohnSwinton. See Smith's 'Friends' Books,' ii. 688.
P. 240. St. Swithun. See Prof. Willis's 'Winchester Cathedral,' 1846.
P. 251 b. Praise of Sydenham in Locke's 'Letters,' 1708, pp. 277-86.
P. 255. Bp. Sydserff. Much in ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. vii.
P. 256. A. A. Sykes published ' The Truth
of the Christian Religion in answer to a
Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion,' 1725.
