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days ago to the Portuguese Lexicon of Moraes, I 

 found " Lorcha, Genero de einbarcafao Asiatica " 

 (Lorcha^ a kind of Asiatic ship). In three other 

 dictionaries of the Portuguese language which I 

 had previously consulted, there is no such word. 



The Lexicon of Moraes refers for the term to 

 Pinto, Peregr., chaps, xlvii. and Ixxiv. 



But of some thirty or forty Pintos who stood 

 catalogued as Portuguese writers a century ago, 

 the individual here referred to is no other than the 

 illustrious Ferdinand Mendez Pinto. In his Pe- 

 regrinagam (Lisbon, 1678) I have verified the two 

 references given above, and the word occurs else- 

 where in the same work. In the English trans- 

 lation (London, 1690, p. 56.) lorcha is rendered 

 lorch. Thomas Boys. 



Terminational Greek Lexicon (2"'^ S. iii. 184.) 

 — It is much to be regretted that Mr. Robert 

 Hall expended so much time and labour as must 

 have been necessary in arranging the words of 

 the Greek language according to their termina- 

 tions, as that work has been accomplished by a 

 laborious Dutchman, Henry Hoogeveen. The 

 following is the title : Dictionarium Analogicum 

 Linguce Grcecce, Henrici Hoogeveen Opus postu- 

 mum. Cantabrigiaa, typis ac sumptibus acade- 

 micis, 1810, 4to. 



It is a very useful book to any one engaged in 

 philological investigations in the Greek language, 

 since, from all the words possessing identical ter- 

 minations being brought at once under the reader's 

 eye, their roots can be much more readily ascer- 

 tained than without such aid would be easily 

 practicable. 'AAjeiJs. 



Dublin. 



Marriage ly Proxy (2"^ S. iii. 150. 198.) — 

 Was not Henry VIII. married by proxy to Anne 

 of Cleves ? It certainly was the custom to put 

 one leg into the bride's bed. (See Quarterly Re- 

 view, CLXI. 214.) A like custom prevailed in 

 Auvergne. It was the lord of the soil's privi- 

 lege " to attend at the bedding, and to put one 

 leg in the bride's bed." A pecuniary compensa- 

 tion was generally accepted in lieu of this. Com- 

 plaint was made that one M. de Montvallat in- 

 sisted on going through the ceremony, and^ the 

 Grands Jours cC Auvergne fixed the compensation 

 to be always received at one crown (see Memoires 

 de Flechier sur les Grandes Jours tenus a Cler- 

 mont en 1665). Montvallat was condemned for 

 his abuse of the Merchela Mulierum. Where can 

 I find a complete account of this feudal custom ? 



Thkelkelo. 



Cambridge. 



James Howel, Esq. (2°'» S. iii. 212.)— In the 

 dedication of his Londinopolis, this remarkable and 

 voluminous author refers to his " foreign employ- 

 ments," and I find a note in my copy of that work, 



, in which it is stated, on the autliority of the editor 

 of The British Theatre, 1750, p. 41., that Howel 

 was employed by King James I. in a negociation 

 at the Court of Madrid, and that he was Secretary 

 to Lord Scrope, President of the Council of the 

 North. The writer of the note has added, " Mr. 

 Collins, in his Collections of Noble Families, 1752, 

 p. 98., says that Mr. Howel was Clerk of the 

 Council to King Charles I." He was Master of 

 the Ceremonies to both those kings, and author of 

 a little book on the precedence of foreign ambas- 

 sadors, entitled Sir John Finetfs Observations, 

 published in 1656, which I do not find in the 

 printed catalogue of his works. In my copy of 

 Londinopolis, I find the following additional me- 

 moranda : 



" Mention of Howel is made by Sir Kenelm Digby in a 

 discourse on the cure of wounds by sympathy, of which a 

 translation was published in 1658. See note w to ' Lay of 

 the Last Minstrel ' (Scott's Poetical Works, vi. 262.), for 

 anecdote of Howel." 



The article in the GentlemarLS Magazine for 

 1795, from which Mr. Thompson gives an extract, 

 does not do justice to this remarkable writer. 



Wm. Sidney Gibson. 



Gillray's Caricatures (2"'' S. iii. 228.) — The 

 following explanation of Blowing up the Pic Nics, 

 is given in Messrs. Wright and Evans's Account of 

 the Caricatures of James Gillray : 



" Mrs. Billington, Garrick, Lewis, Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, 

 Sheridan, Lady Buckinghamshire, Lady Salisbury, Col. 

 Grenville, Lord Cholmondeley, Lord Valletort The Pic- 

 nic Society is understood to have originated with Lady 

 Albina Buckinghamshire ; it was formed in the spring of 

 1802 by a number of the fashionable stars of the day, to 

 perform farces and burlettas, which were to be relieved 

 with feasts and ridottos, and a variety of other entertain- 

 ments. The Society was very exclusive. Each member, 

 previous to the performances, drew from a silk bag a 

 ticket which was to decide the portion of entertainment 

 which he was expected to afford. The performances took 

 place in rooms in Tottenham Street. 



" The regular theatrical performers took alarm at this 

 scheme, which thej^ imagined would draw from the stage 

 much of the higher patronage on which it depended for 

 support. A charge of immorality was also raised against 

 them, and they became the butt of the attacks of many of 

 the newspapers, among which the Post, Chronicle, Herald, 

 and Evening Courier, were prominent. The greater actors 

 are here attacking the Pic-nics, led by Sheridan, who was 

 said to be the great instigator of the newspaper attacks." 



'A\ievs. 

 Dublin. 



Clerks (2""^ S. iii. 229.) — The word anciently 

 designed a student or candidate for the Holy Min- 

 istry. Archbishop Heath in his Controversy with 

 Bishop Day says, " Latin Service was appointed to 

 be sung and had in choir, where only were Clerici, 

 such as understood Latin." (Bradford, i. 528.) 

 But the term was used for the single attendant on 

 the Celebrant ; as Bradford says, at " his Domi- 

 nus vobiscum," the clerk answering in the name 



