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9* s. VL DEC. s, 1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 455 to an American agent for 300J. A sale cata- logue ia preserved in the Corporation Library, Guildhall, E.G. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. MAEOEEY (9th S. vi. 151, 352).—I find the Christian name Margett occurring in the parish registers here something over a cen- tury ago. Is this a variant of Margaret t ' JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. ARMOUE IN POETEAITS (9th S. vi. 389, 414).— If by " the well-known miniature of the Prince Consort and his brother" D. means Thor- burn's admirable masterpiece, which belongs to the Queen, and was finely lithographed (R.A., 1855) by the late Mr. Maguire, ne may know that this is not at all a " conventional " case of armour-wearing in portraiture. The princes were represented as they appeared at a very famous royal costume ball. The later coins of George II. give that monarch's por- trait in the armour he actually wore; like- wise do many of Keynolds's portraits of military men, as well as those of our own time, which are not "conventional" coverings. O. I possess full-length paintings of the last Earl Marischal and of Capt. John Urquhart, of Cromarty and Craigston, painted about the year 1735 by Francesco Trevisani, a por- trait painter of Rome. They are represented as wearing complete armour. I also have a full-length one of Marshal Keith, painter unknown, similarly attired. F. E. R. POLLABD-UBQUHAET. Craigston Castle, Turriff, N.B. Armour was in use so recently as 1689, as in Henry's ' Upper Lough Erne in 1739 ' (1892), p. 34, quoted from William MacCarmick's 'Farther Impartial Account of the Actions of the Inniskilling Men' (1691), i.v. ' Justin McCarthy, Lord Viscount Mountcashell':— " In the battle of Newtownbutler his horse was shot under him, and he would have been slain but for the goodness of his armour.—MacCarmick." CHAELES S. KINO, Bt. St. Leonard's-on-Sea. ENGLISH ACCENT AND ETYMOLOGY (9th S. vi 267, 335).—In a former letter (p. 335) I pro- tested against the wanton disregard of etymo- logy on the part of the dictionaries in their syllabication of words commencing with the prefix ab>. Permit me now, as only fair, to mention an honourable exception, 'Charabers's Etymological Dictionary,' edited by the late Dr. Findtater. In that dictionary such words we uniformly syllabled properly, e.g., abs- tain, abs-tract, abt-truse. They are thus at a glance distinguished from other words com- mencing with the same three letters, abs, but of which the prefix is ab, e.s.,ab-sorb, ab-turd. Against all comers I am still the champion of inu'ndate. In inu'ndate I hear the roll of the wave and the roar of the torrent; in inundate I listen to the pattering of hail or the drop- ping of rain. There can be no doubt which of the two pronunciations would have com- mended itself to the musical ear of him who wrote the lines:— The sound must seem an echo to the sense ; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows: But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. R. M. SPENCE, D.D. Manse of Arbuthnott, N.B. REFERENCES WANTED (9th S. vi. 67, 276).— " Apres nous le deluge." Dr. Ramage, in his ' Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors' (second edition, Liverpool, 1875X p. 381, apparently attributes this saying to Louis Xv., but he adds :— " This was a saying of Madame de Pompadour's in the reign of Louis XV., who saw at a distance the fury of the Revolution on the horizon of royalty. —' Essai sur la Marquise de Pompadour.'" Further, he says that "Mirabeau quoted the expression in 1785 in a pamphlet under the title of ' Lettre du Comte de Mirabeau a M. La Couteulx de la Noraye sur la Bauque de Saint - Charles et sur la Caisse d'Escompte.'" ROBERT PIEEPOINT. "CEmciZB" (9th S. vi. 208).—The unedu- cated in West Cornwall always say critikize and critiJcitm. YGREC. BROKEN ON THE WHEEL (9th S. vi. 251, 373). —In the 'Diary' of that remarkable man General Patrick Gordon, who left Scotland in 1651 a poor unfriended wanderer, and, when he died in 1699, had his eyes closed by the affectionate hands of his sorrowing master the Czar Peter the Great, the following entry is to be found, under date Hamburg, 22 March, 1686 :— " This day, a man and a woman, a burger of the towne being the womano master, for murthering, were carted from the prisone to the house where the murder waa comitted ; and there before this house, with hotte pinsers, the flesh was torren out of their armes, and from thence ware carted to the place of justice without the towne, and there broken and layed on wheeles." An instance fifty years later than those quoted at the last reference is recorded in the ' Correspondence of Mr. Joseph Jekyll'