Norwich, touchant son opinion accordante avec le pur service divin d'Angleterre." L'Utopie de Thomas Morus, Chancelier de l'Angleterre (1643), was another of their reprints which have an interest for the English reader. At the same time, I must not forget to mention the Elzevir editions of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (1678) and Aminta (1678 and 1679), or those of Guarini's Pastor Fido (1678), or of Corneille's Théâtre, Charron's De la Sagesse (four editions, 1646-1662), Montaigne's Essays (1659), Rabelais's Works (1663), Boccaccio's Il Decameron (1665), Molière's Plays (1675), or the many editions of the works of Scarron and Balzac, or a 'little volume entitled Geor. Buchanani Scot. Poëmata quæ extant, 1628. language he was continually dilating, led him to translate into Latin, with copious notes, many Talmudical and Jewish works. In 1637 the Elzevirs published a work of his entitled De Legibus Ebræorum Forensibus ex Ebræorum Pandectis versus (sic) et commentariis illustratus, wherein he compared the Jewish legislation with that of the Romans and other peoples. It may be mentioned that to L'Empereur we owe one of the finest editions of Benjamin of Tudela's Itinerary.* It is not possible to recount much of the work which the Elzevirs did in the service of literature, and for the moment this must suffice. A catalogue of their publications was published by one of themselves in 1674 at Amsterdam, and occupied seven volumes in duodecimo. In conclusion, I may add that tradition says that women were employed in the Elzeviriana Officina as correctors of the press, by reason of their carefulness and the belief which their employers had in their honesty in their non-perversion of the text. During last century it was commonly believed that the books were printed in silver type, but the absurdity of the notion and its probable origin from a corruption between "Elzevir" and "silver" were pointed out in "N. & Q.” of March 16, 1861. Many books have been published on the subject of the Elzevirs, and one of the latest-" Essui Bibliographique sur les éditions des Elzevirs. A Paris. De l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot, MDCCCXXII."-has been before me during the writing of these lines. It contains an account of about 350 publications, and I have been prompted in my selection by a desire to interest English readers, and to recall to their memory their indebtedness to the Dutch Elzevirs. The political works published by the Elzevirs are, however, the most numerous of their productions, and I have selected the following as examples, because of their interest to English readers. One of their earliest was, "Relation de l'Estat de la Religion, par quels Desseins et Artifices elle a été forgée et gouvernée en divers Estats de ces Parties Occidentales du Monde. Tirée de l'Anglois du Chevalier Edwin Sandys, avec des additions notables" (1641). Another work was, "Relation du Voyage en Angleterre, où sont touchées plusieurs Choses qui regardent l'Estat des Sciences et de la Religion, et autres Matières Curieuses (par Samuel Sorbière)," 1666. Another was, La Tyrannie Heureuse, ou Cromwel Politique, avec ses Artifices et Intrigues dans tout le Cour de sa Conduite (1670). The life of General Monk was published in 1672 from an English work of Thomas Gumble, "Docteur en Théologie"; and in 1670 had been published a full account of the political and religious condition of the Ottoman empire, with statistics of military forces and revenue, translated from the English of "Monsieur Ricaut, escuyer, sécrétaire de Monsieur le Comte Winchelsey, Ambassadeur Extraordinaire du Roy de la Grande Bretagne, Charles II." In 1676 appeared Litteræ Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, Cromwelii, reliquorumque perduellium nomine ac In a Calendar of Charters of the Duchy of Lanjussu conscripta, a Joanno Miltono, besides num-caster, published by way of appendix to the Thirtyberless other works of interest. The chief law first Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Records, is work published by the Elzevirs is said to be the Corpus Juris Civilis of 1663, a huge folio volume, containing 1576 pages, being a digest of the chief modern writers on jurisprudence. It is impossible to close the account of Elzevir publications without mentioning the Oriental works which proceeded from their Officina. They published a Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac Grammar in 1628; a Rudiments of the Persian Language, an Arabic-Latin Lexicon, &c. Their Hebrew works were chiefly edited by Constantine L'Empereur, a Dutch Orientalist of Oppyck, and Hebrew professor at Leyden University. His anxiety to extend a knowledge of Hebrew among the Christians, upon the dignity and utility of which SYDNEY L. LEE. CHARTLEY CASTLE AND THE EARL OF the following noteworthy item: "Letters patent pardoning Edmond, Earl of Lincoln, the King's Brother, and Reginald de Grey, for the slaughter of those who fell on either side at the siege of Chartley Castle, in Somersetshire; and also confirming the letters of pardon which the said Edmond had granted to several of the rebels after they had been made prisoners, together with Robert de Ferrers at their head.-Rothelan, 1282, Dec. 20." No such castle of Chartley belonged to the Ferrers in Somersetshire, or, indeed, to any one else; therefore most certainly this castle is the wellknown one of Chartley in Staffordshire, which, built by Randle, Earl of Chester, a century pre*S.v. Empereur, in vol. xiii. of Biographie Universelle, Paris, 1815. viously, came A.D. 1232 to the Ferrers, Earls of Derby, by a marriage with a co-heiress of the Chester Earls, and which fell by the attainder of the last Earl of Derby of that line, by grant, afterwards cancelled, as we shall see, to the king's brother Edmund, styled here Earl of Lincoln. This royal prince first mentioned as pardoned is that Edmund, surnamed Crouchback, who is known in history as Earl of Lancaster, and who was the second son of King Henry III. How is he called here Earl of Lincoln? We know that his son Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, afterwards espoused the sole daughter and heiress of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (Dugdale's Baronage). We know, further, from the same authority that he himself was with the "Earl of Lincoln" in Gascony, whither he had been sent with twentysix bannerets, and where he died A.D. 1295. Nor this alone; for in the very year of the aforesaid pardon (1282) Sir Francis Palsgrave noted a writ of military summons addressed to "Henricus de Lacy," Earl of Lincoln, calling him to the expedition against the Welsh (Parliamentary Writs, vol. i. p. 6); and Edmund himself was summoned to the same expedition as the Earl of Lancaster (ib., p. 693). We have, then, the very best evidence to dispute the correctness of his designation in the above pardon. How then can we explain the error but by supposing Lincoln placed inadvertently for Lancaster? If the letters patent are themselves here faulty, the error is indeed strange, anticipating by nearly half a century the grant of the said earldom to the House of Lancaster -almost as startling to us as was to Macbeth the witches' greeting : "I know of Lancaster; but how of Lincoln ?" The Lancastrian princes became Earls both of Leicester and Lincoln; and Sir Harris Nicolas records that, at the coronation of Richard II., John of Gaunt, King of Castille and Leon, claimed, as Earl of Leicester, the High Stewardship of England; as Duke of Lancaster, to bear the Chief Sword, called Curtana; and as Earl of Lincoln, to be Carver at the King's Table, all which claims were allowed (Nicolas's Historic Peerage, p. 283). The other distinguished Royalist singled out for pardon is Reginald de Grey. He is conspicuous in the records of the time, but was not summoned to Parliament until 1295. By his marriage with the heiress of Wilton Castle he was the founder of the line of the Greys of Wilton, and, through a second son, he was grandson of Henry de Grey, whose name became, by grant of Thurrock from Richard I., associated with a well-known village in Essex, on the left bank of the Thames-Thurrock Grey. The substance of the deed informs us that these two distinguished personages had done something calling for royal pardon. What had they done? From the entry in the Calendar one would suppose that they had been making war on their own account, and had, as was Garibaldi in Naples, been pardoned for acts done without the authority of the Crown, but redounding to its advantage. Or is one to infer that the "king's brother" and his favoured Justice (for Reginald de Grey was then Justice of Chester, see the list in Ormerod's Cheshire, ad annum 1282) had been so cruel and unmerciful in their slaughter of the rebels at Chartley Castle that it exceeded the king's wishes or commands? Neither the one thing nor the other, I am convinced. Is it presumption in me to hint, in spite of the wording of the Calendar, that these were not the things pardoned? What then? They must have been pardoned, it seems to me, for having usurped the royal prerogative of mercy, and having themselves professed-the king's brother as earl, and Reginald as functionary-to pardon; for having, in effect, treated the earldom of Lancaster as at that time a county palatine, and its earl as invested therein with the regalia. Nearly a hundred years had still to elapse before it would confer that attribute of royal power (see Collins's Life of John of Gaunt), and it may be questioned whether John of Gaunt ever would have wrested that portion of royal rights from his warlike father had the latter not been, when he conferred palatine rights upon his ambitious younger son, in the decrepitude himself of cld age, with his heir a minor. The whole document is, for many reasons, of interest, particularly to those who vainly interrogate the grey stones of Chartley to tell us how and when the castle came to be destroyed. What pity that the general reader knows so little of the contents of those letters patent, which might by an omitted word clear up a doubt, identify a person, fix a locality, and bring more vividly before the imagination the doings of a period which it was the wish of the actors perhaps to cover with still greater obscurity! Since reperusing the above, I find myself strengthened in my conviction by a fact that perhaps has not excited so much attention in the historian as it deserves. Edmund, "theking's brother," mentioned in this patent, had been created Earl of Chester, A.D. 1258, by Henry III.; but this was recalled, and he was afterwards named Earl of Leicester and Lancaster. Neither of the latter dignities, however important, conveyed at that time the "regalia," as the earldom of Chester did, and consequently the last became more properly the appanage of the Prince of Wales. See Sir Harris Nicolas's Historic Peerage, where he corrects an error of Dugdale upon this subject. T. J. M. *It is hardly necessary to tell the reader that the amidst these ruins, but in a castellated mansion, since famous prison of the poor Scottish queen was not almost all destroyed by accidental fire, which occupied a site beneath, near the ruins on the west. BILLIARD BOOKS. (Continued from p. 105.) Anweisung gründlichen und vollstung, in der kunst, Billard zu spielen. Leipzig, W. Nauck, 1801. 8vo. Taschenbuch für Billardspieler. Mit kpf. Wien, Gerold, 1801. 8vo. New instructions for playing, in all its varieties, the game of Billiards with ease and propriety; to which is By an prefixed an historical account of the games. amateur. Illustrated with an elegant copper-plate, representing the tables, players, &c., and cuts to delineate the fortification game. London, Hurst, 1802. 12mo. Académie universelle des jeux. Nouvelle édition, augmentée. Avec figures. A Lyon, chez B. Cormon et Blanc,...An 13.-3 tomes, 12mo. pp. viii-334; iv-300; iv-332. Tome ii. pp. 265-282, Le jeu du Billard, avec ses règles. M. A philosophical essay on the game of Billiards. By an amateur. London, Robinson, 1806. Académie universelle des jeux. Lyon, 1806. 12mo. 3 vols. A practical treatise on the game of Billiards. By E. White. London, 1807. 8vo. Unterricht im Billardspielen, nebst regeln d. gebräuchl. spiele. (By Joh. K. Möley.) Leipzig, Weigel, 1807. 8vo. A poetical essay on the game of Billiards. By E. White. 1808. 8vo. Mr. John Dew's Game of Billiards. With a copperplate. London, 1808. 12mo. Taschenbuch für Billardspieler. Leipzig, W. Nauck, 1808. 12mo. Hoyle's games improved, consisting of practical treatises on... [card games], Domino, Chess, Backgammon, Draughts, Cricket, Tennis, Hazard, Billiards, Goff or Golf, Skittles, Eo, and Loto. With an essay on Game Cocks, wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. A new edition, considerably enlarged. London: printed for R. Baldwin... [and others by C. Whittingham]. 1808. Price six shillings, bound.-12mo. pp. iv-428. Pp. 327-372, Mr. John Dew's game of Billiards. M. Billardregeln, der gebräuchlichsten spiele. Leipzig, Weigel, 1808. Fol. Billardregeln, der gebräuchlichsten spiele. Leipzig, Weigel (Arnold in Dresden), 1809. Fol. Billardspiel, das nach der geprüftesten regeln, &c. Berlin, Hahn, 1810. 8vo. Encyclopædia Londinensis. By John Wilkes. Volume III. London: printed by J. Adlard. 1810.-4to. Billiards 5 pages. M. Billardregeln, der gebräuchlichsten spiele. 3e aufl. Leipzig, Weigel (Arnold in Dresden), 1811. Möley (Joh. K.). Unterricht im Billardspiel, &c. Mit 2 kupfern. Leipzig, Taubert (auch Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen), 1812. 8vo. Pantologia. A new cyclopædia,......alphabetically arranged,....of arts, sciences, and words....with....engravings. By John Mason Good... [and others]. Vol. II. London: printed for G. Kearsley [and others by T. Davison]. 1813.-8vo. Billiards 4 pages. M. Encyclopædia Perthensis. Second edition. Edinburgh: printed by John Brown for the proprietors. 1816.-8vo. Vol. III. Billiards 2 pages, description and rules. M. Düben (C. G. F. von). Talisman der glücks, oder der selbstlehrer für alle Karten-, Scach-, Billard-, Ball-, und Kegel-spiele. Mit kupfern und 12 bildern. Berlin, Sander, 1816. 8vo. The new Hoyle, containing easy rules for playing the games of... [Cards, Dice, Chess, Backgammon, Draughts, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Goff), with tables of odds, calculated for betting equitably and advantageously; with the laws of the several games. New edition, improved. London: printed for G. Walker [by Plummer & Brewis] 1817.-12mo. pp. iv-200. A second title, engraved, "Hoyle's games improved. A new edition with additions," and a plate, both bearing date 1816. Pp. 119-150, Billiards. The rules of the various games are reprinted from John Dew's treatise with acknowledg ments. M. Düben (C. G. F. von). Talisman der glücks, oder der selbstlehrer für alle Karten-, Schach-, Billard-, Ball, und Kegel-spiele. Mit kupfern und 12 bildern. 2e auflage. Ebd. [ Ebersfeld], Sander, 1819. 8vo. The cyclopædia; or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. By Abraham Rees. Illustrated. London printed for Longman,...1819.-4to. Vol. IV. Billiards 2 pages. M. Billardregeln, der gewöhnlich spiele, in 2 tabellen. Leipzig, Taubert, 1819. The modern encyclopædia... By Amyas Deane Burrowes.... Vol. II. London, Richards & Co.-1820? Billiards 8 pages. 4to. Le musée des jeux. Paris, 1820. Taschenbuch für Billardspieler. Neu. aufl. Leipzig, W. Nauck, 1820. 12mo. Die kunst im Billardspiele meister zu werden, &c. (? By V. R. Grüner.) Ilmenau, Voigt, 1823. 8vo. Dictionnaire technologique. Paris. Thomine et Fortic, 1823. 8vo. Vol. iii. pp. 113-121, Billard. M. Hoyle's games improved, consisting of practical treatises on... [card games, Loto,] Chess, Backgammon, Draughts, Cricket, Tennis, Hazard, Billiards, Goff or Golf, Eo, and Rifle. With an essay on Game Cocks, and the rules, &c., at Horse Races, wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. A new edition, considerably enlarged. London: printed for Geo. B. Whittaker... [and others by Shackell, Arrowsmith & Hodges]. 1826.-12mo. pp. x-512. Pp. 384434, Billiards. M. Oexle (C. J.). Neueste und vollständig. Billardregeln. 1 Tabelle in gr. imper. fol. Augsburg, Jenisch u. St., 1826. Billard-reglement, oder anweisung massigen Billardspiel (W. Heinsius). 1826. Roy. fol. zu einen regelGera, 6e aufl., Grüner (V. R.). Unterricht im Billardspiele, nebst der Erklärung und anweisung zu allen coups secs oder Orehstössen. Mit 5 kpft. Wien, Haas, 1827. 12mo. Billardregeln. 2 blatt. in gr. fol. Königsberg, 1828 (Berlin, Th. Enslin). Uebung für Billardspieler, bestehend in Geheimnissen und Kunststücken. Mit 1 zeichnung. Stralsund, Trinius, 1829. 8vo. Stein (K. R.). Beschreib. des Billard-Controleurs, einer neuer fundenen, höchst einfachen mechan. Vorrichtung, welche nicht allein beim Billardspiele die gemachten Points, sondern auch die Partien zählt und gänzlich gegen die Unterschleife der Marquers am Partiegelde sichert. Nebst 1 abbild. Quedlinburg, Basse, 1829. 8vo. Neuestes Billard-reglement. 1 tabelle in fol. Frankfurt-am-Maine, Jäger, 1829. The London encyclopædia. By the original editor of furt. Jäger, 1835. Théorie mathématique des effets du jeu de Billard, par G. Coriolis. Paris, Carilian-Goeury. [Imp. Fain.] 1835. -8vo. pp. viii-174, twelve plates. M. obscure its origin by disguising its affinity with such words as Scot. rit, to scratch or incise; Cumberland rit, to mark out a line or trench with a spade; Icel. rita; Swed. rita; Low Ger. riten; Ger. reissen; Dan. ridse; O.H.G. rizan, to scratch; and with the rooting of pigs, Cumberland reutle, Dan. rode. When Christ wrote on the ground, Otfried renders it, "Christ reiz mit demo fingero" (Garnett, Philolog. Essays, p. 39). The reviewer goes on to lay down a law, somewhat hastily it seems to me : "Grammar-makers seem never to see, when they are making rules and tables about g hard and g soft, c hard and c soft, that the simple law is that g and c (as distinguished from ch) are always hard in natural English ported words." words, while they become soft in certain classes of im Is not gibe a natural English word? Is gib, to start aside, an imported word? Is gyves? A remarkably fine specimen of the Hibernian bull is printed on the next page, which would excite our admiration more if we did not remember that infallibility commonly deals in bulls. It is rendered the more amusingly conspicuous by the fact Hoyle's games, improved and enlarged by new and of the writer being engaged at the moment he practical treatises, with the chances of the most fashion-makes it in passing some heavy censures on the able games of the day, forming an easy and scientific guide to the gaming-table and the most popular sports of faulty style of an American contemporary. The the field. [Doctrine of chances, Dice games, Card games, 'sinking mortal" referred to is Vanderbilt La Roulette, French Lottery, Eo, Loto, Backgammon, the millionaire :Domino, Billiards, Chess, Draughts, Polish Draughts, Cricket, Goff or Golf, Tennis, Archery, Game Cocks, Horse Racing.] By G. H, Esq. London: printed for Longman, Rees & Co. [and others by Baylis & Leighton] 1835.-12mo. pp. xii-492. Pp. 292-322, Billiards. M. Grüner (V. R.). Die kunst in kurzer zeit im Billardspiel meister zu werden, oder leichtfassl. Anweisung dasseibe nach Austands- und Klugheitsregeln spielen zu lernen. Mit e. anhange der Weiner neuen Billardregeln für alle jetzt üblichen spielparthien versehen. 2e ausg. mit 5 kpfrtaf. Wien, Haas, 1836. 12mo. (To be continued.) F. W. F. "Take the best example of all; rite, write, right, wright, are words of four different meanings, of four different origins, once of four different sounds, but which, through phonetic decay'—that is, in plain words, through sheer idleness-have come to be sounded all alike. But though they are now sounded all alike, yet the four different spellings keep the difference of meaning and origin quite distinct. The phonetics would doubtless spell them all the same way: by so doing they would not only destroy the history of the words, but might lead to great confusions of meaning."-P. 108. As far as one of these words is concerned, this is anything but a happy example, as the w of write (originally meaning to scratch, scrape, or engrave), instead of elucidating its history, seems rather to "In The Last Scene of All we are shown the sinking mortal in private conference with his wife and his favourite minister, Dr. Deems. When alone with the latter he 'converged with her for some time '-the Herald reporter must have been present under the bed, for the closely. She asked him as to the ground of his faith, keyhole would be too far off-'on religious subjects very and he expressed himself very deliberately and decidedly.'"-P. 109. Surely Nemesis stood by and smiled grimly when the oracular reviewer made the sick man converse with his wife--while alone with his minister! A. SMYTHE PALMER. Lower Norwood. SIR THOMAS PARKYNS'S TOMB.-In the bracketed rider to the note on the Wadsley tombstone (5th S. vii. 66) mention is made of the emblematic tomb in Bunny Church, Notts. It may be that a fuller account than is there given will interest the readers of " N. & Q." The passage is taken from Walks round Nottingham, 1835:— "On the north wall of the chancel, and near the communion table, is the monument of Sir Thomas Parkyns, the wrestler. It is divided into two compartments: the one on the left hand contains the statue of Sir Thomas, in a wrestling attitude, and is said to be as strong a resemblance to the original as the sculptor could possibly preserve, even to the jacket and cap in which he used to practise his favourite art. At the top of this compartment, and above the head of Sir Thomas, is the motto, 'Artificis status ipse fuit.' In the lower part of the second compartment the strong man is conquered. Time is represented with his scythe, in the attitude of a mower who has just cut down the ripened grain, and is preparing to take another sweep with his instrument of destruction. Stretched at his feet lies poor Sir Thomas, in the same habit as described on his statue, and in the position of a man fairly thrown on his back in a mortal struggle betwixt life and death. This is in bas-relief, and has been much mutilated. In the upper part of this compartment appear the following Latin lines, written by Dr. Friend, Master of Westminster School, whose assistance Sir Thomas had asked; for this monument (as well as the coffin) was prepared whilst the man whose memory it was designed to treasure was yet in his vigour and strength 'At length he falls; the long, long contest's o'er, And Time has thrown whom none e'er threw before; At last shall rise again and conquer thee.' O'er Death, when time shall be no more." Nottingham. F. D. UNUSUAL CHRISTIAN NAMES.-From the exceptionally perfect registers of Youlgreave, Derbyshire, I extract the following unusual baptismal names, which occur between 1650-1750:-BoysBarnabas, Bathiah, Davenport, Delgreaves, Denis, Gawin, Guy, Harthill, Immanuel, Launcelot, Lazarus, Marmaduke, Nehemiah, Obadiah, Raphael (frequent), Silvanus, Tancred, and Valentine. Girls-Amen, Arabella, Barthia, Bennitt, Cassia, Daphne, Diana (frequent), Edee, Emmett, Goodie (also spelt Gooddie), Millesant, Olive, Phalis, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Rosamund, Rosemary, Sabarina, Sibillah, Silence, Thomasin. These I jotted down when searching the registers for other purposes, and the list might doubtless be extended, but it struck me as containing a far larger number of infrequent names than any other village register that I have examined. In 1708 William and Mary Castle caused their son to be baptized Windsor, thus making the curious combination of "Windsor Castle." In 1739 the vicar enters :-"Baptized Charity, the daughter of the Lord knows who." J. CHARLES COX. ST. MARY'S, NEWINGTON, SURREY.-This church having been now swept away, I think it may be of interest to place upon record in your pages the following notes of some of its monuments, and also of the armorial bearings upon them :- Family of Reading.-Arms, a chevron between 3 boars' heads couped sa. ; crest, a griffin's head erased or, impaling family of Smith:- Per bend indented, or and azure, 2 crosses forncé counter-charged. Monument to James Reading and Mary, his third wife. He died Nov. 24, 1694, aged 70, and she August 9, 1697, aged 62. This monument erected by their son Edmund. Family of Oliver.- Arms, Ermine, on a chief gules 3 lions rampant, impaling a lion rampant. Edward Oliver, ob. June 17, 1697, at. 35, wife and children. In the aisle-Family of Brawne.-Arms, Argent, 3 bars sable; on a canton or, a griffin's head erased of the second. Sir Hugh Brawne, Knight, the sole founder of this aisle, ob. 1614, at. 77. Effigies of himself, two wives, four sons, and six daughters. Also, in the window at the east end of this aisle-Arms, Argent, a cross engrailed gules, the first charged with a cinquefoil sable. (Query, these are the arms of St. Mary Overies.) Romford, Essex. C. GOLDING. "YANKEE.”—The following remarks on this word are, whether accurate or not, worth transferring to the pages of "N. & Q.” : 'January 2, 1838.-I passed the evening with Thierry. He is much skilled in etymology, and thinks our etymologies of the word Yankee are all wrong, and that, having arisen from the collision and jeerings of the Dutch and English in New York and New England, it is from the Dutch Jan-pronounced yan-John, with the very common diminutive kee, and doodlen, to quaver; which would make the whole 'quavering or psalm-singing Jacky or Johnny Doodle-sack means a bagpipe. "Johnny would refer to John Bull; and if doodlen be Johnny that sings psalms. Hart-kee, my little dear heart, made in the present tense, Yankee-doodle would be and hundreds of other diminutives, both in endearment and in ridicule, are illustrations of the formation of the word. It amused me not a little, and seems probable enough as an etymology; better certainly than to bring and Journals of George Ticknor, vol. ii. p. 124. it with Noah Webster from the Persian."-Life, Letters, 66 ANON. "THINK TO IT."-" What do you think to it?" Oh, I don't think much to it." This peculiar use of "to" is very common in Rutland. CUTHBERT BEDE. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PROVINCIALISM.-A person lately said to me, in reference to a task which she preferred that some one else should do rather than herself, "I gave her best about it," which she next explained, observing that I did not quite comprehend her meaning, "I told her that I had rather she did it than myself." This provincialism is not in Halliwell. P. J. F. 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