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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ndS. No74.,May30. '57. 



Forms of Prayer (2°^ S. ili. 393.) — I think 

 with others of your contributors on this subject, 

 that it would be a very desirable thing that a list 

 of " these pious effusions " (to use Dr. Niblock's 

 expression in his letter to the Gents. Mag. on the 

 same subject) " of the Parkers, Grindalls, Whit- 

 gifts, Tillotsons, and Seekers, of our Church, 

 which, there is no doubt, have wafted a praying 

 Nation's petitions and thanksgivings to the Throne 

 of Grace, and brought down blessings on our 

 heads," should, while we have the opportunity, be 

 enrolled in the pages of " N. & Q.," for although 

 originally issued to every parish in the kingdom, 

 they are continually vanishing from observation. 

 I trust, therefore, notices on the subject will not 

 fall off: a large number have already been noticed; 

 but beyond a doubt there are many more which 

 are not contained in the lists already given. Dr. 

 Niblock mentions many in the Gent's. Mag. ; but 

 as he only mentions the years in which they were 

 published, it only makes us wish that more de- 

 tailed notice of them was attainable. Nowhere does 

 there appear to be a perfect collection, not even at 

 Lambeth. From 1690 to 1740, very few have 

 been enumerated in " N. & Q. ; " and yet, according 

 to Dr. N., those fifty years were quite as prolific 

 in them as any others. Another large hiatus is 

 from 1740 to 1746, and again the earlier years of 

 Geo. III.'s reign. Can any correspondent inform 

 me of the possessor of Dr. Niblock's collection, 

 mentioned as sold by Straker, in 1" S. ix. 405. ? :; 



H. T. 



Ancient Tenure (2"'' S. iii. 388.) — The Brace- 

 lettus is, according to Cowel, " a hound or beagle 

 of the smaller and slower kind." (Pat. 1 Ric. 2. 

 p. 2. m. 21.) The word is evidently a diminutive 

 of Bracetus, and this of Braco. Our old word 

 Brack preserves the root. Deymerettus is perhaps 

 another form of Deynectus, of which Beckwith, in 

 his edition of Blount, p. 114., says : 



" The monstrous word Deynectox [unam mensam Dey- 

 nectorum canum] is the creation of Blount's scribe either 

 for Hareetorum, and then means Harriers, or Heymec- 

 toruni, Terriers." 



I am disposed to think that Deymerettus is a 

 misprinted diminutive of Damarius, a buckhound, 

 which is a word of probably common occurrence, 

 though I am just now unprovided with an au- 

 thority for its use. H. G. H. 



Gray's Inn. 



The Rainiow (2»'' S. iii. 226. 279.) — I used to 

 be told when a child, that if I could reach the 

 spot where the limb of the rainbow touched the 

 earth, upon digging there I should find a pot of 

 money. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Raining Cats and Dogs (2"'^ S. iii. 328.) — This 

 saying is derived, not from willow catkins, but 



from the French word catadoupe, a waterfall ; 

 cats and dogs being the nearest approach which 

 John Bull can find for the expression. 



T. W. Rs., M.A. 



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