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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin ; for instance, with 

 a\a\h, the shout used by soldiers of ancient 



Greece ? Conf. &\oXaf&), 6\o\i^<a, H??^, &c. 



Your correspondent 'Outis, no doubt intended 

 to derive " halloo " from au hup ! (not au coup). 

 This is a derivation well deserving attention in all 

 cases where " halloo ! " is employed as a cry for 

 setting 011 dogs. 



But there is a third use of the word " halloo ! " 

 which is when we call a person at a distance, wish- 

 ing him to come to us. This meaning is evidently 

 connected with that first noticed ; but in old Eng- 

 lish the word for calling was " holla ! " " Holla!" 

 is Spanish, French, Portuguese. In the Portu- 

 guese language, " ola " is " ho, there." In French, 

 also, " hola " is an interjection used in calling. 

 And in old Spanish " hola " stands in like manner 

 for " holla! " in calling to any one at a distance. 



For this word " Holla ! " common to so many 

 languages, the German, always independent, and 

 always original, has a phrase of its own, " he da ! " 

 — but still with the same signification, " Ho, 

 there ! " Thomas Boys. 



Cannes Bible (2'"> S. iii. 487.) — Mb. Gibson 

 inquires in which edition the word " not " is 

 omitted in John xvi. 26. This error is in those 

 printed by the King's Printers in Edinburgh, 

 Watkins, 1747, and Kincaid, 1766.- Those pub- 

 lished by Canne, who was a printer in Amsterdam 

 in 1647 and 1662 ; republished in small and large 

 type, 1682 ; in small type, 1684 and 1698 ; and in 

 quarto, 1700; are all correct as to John xvi. 26. 

 The account of Canne's useful Bibles should oc- 

 cupy some interesting pages in a history of the 

 English Bible. I hope that, should it be out of 

 my power to publish the result of my extensive 

 researches on this subject, the MS. may prove 

 available to some successor. George Offob. 



In answer to your correspondent's inquiry as to 

 Canne's Bible, I beg to state that in my duode- 

 cimo edition of that Bible, " Edinburgh, printed 

 by Alexander Kincaid, His Majesty's Printer, 

 MDCCLxvr.," the word " not " is omitted in John 

 xvi. 26. John Fenwick. 



Deira Kings (2"'^ S. iii. 466.)— Not only Mb. 

 R. W. Dixon, but other readers of " N. & Q.," 

 who delight in genealogical researches, may be 

 glad to learn that it was King iCthelred II. whose 

 daughter ^Itgifu married Uhtred, Earl of Nor- 

 thumberland, kinsman of King Harthacnut and 

 father-in-law of Maldred, progenitor of the second 

 dynasty of the family of Neville. It is a great 

 pity that the error of Thoresby in the Jirst edi- 

 tion of the Ducatus (evidently a clerical one), 

 escaped the quick eye and correcting hand of Dr. 

 Whitaker in the second., as much time and labour 

 might have been spared in efforts to trace a pedi- 

 gree through a king (Ethelred III.) that never 



existed. I have received my information from 

 Dr. Lappenberg, whose History of England under 

 the Anglo-Saxon Kings, translated by Mr. B. 

 Thorpe, is an invaluable addition to the literature 

 of the nineteenth century. a. 



Ivory Carvers of Dieppe (2^^ S iii. 509.) — In 

 answer to this inquiry I cannot say when the 

 trade was established there. I lived a few years 

 in Dieppe, and was often in communication with 

 ivory carvers of that place, and am led to suppose 

 that no record was ever kept of any principal 

 artists engaged in that profession. One of the 

 most distinguished artists who learned his profes- 

 sion at Dieppe, was a " Mr. Belletete," who esta- 

 blished himself in Paris, and who had a very fine 

 shop opposite the " Bourse," or " Exchange " of 

 that city. I was often at his house, where I saw 

 some very beautiful crucifixes and ships which he 

 had worked. As well as I can remember, he died 

 at his house in or about the year 1831. 



H. Baschet. 



Waterford. 



John SobiesM and Charles Edioard Stuart (2"* 

 S. iii. 449. 496.) — Whatever credit is to be at- 

 tached to the claims of these brothers, there is no 

 foundation for the report heard by L. M. M. R., 

 that Lord Lovat had examined their papers, and 

 was convinced of the truth of their story. It so 

 happened that just after reading the paragraph 

 last indicated, I had an opportunity of showing it 

 to Lord Lovat, who assured me that he had never 

 seen one of their papers ; but during the whole 

 time of their residence on an island on his estates, 

 he had refrained from putting them any questions 

 upon their history, being aware that they did not 

 wish any allusion to the subject. F. C. H. 



St07ie Shot (2"'i S. iii. 519.) —When I was in 

 Rome in 1844, I went over the Castle of St. An- 

 gelo, and remember seeing piles of cannon-shot 

 upon the platforms : these shot were made out of 

 marble, and the custode told us that many works 

 of art had been demolished in their manufacture ; 

 whether this is true, I do not pretend to say. 

 Perhaps some of your numerous readers may have 

 seen them at a later period. Centurion. 



Athenajum Club, Pall Mall, 



Abbreviation wanted (2°'^ S. iv. 5.) —Professor 

 De Morgan appears to have an antipathy to his 

 own title in full, and does not feel flattered by 

 the commonly-received abbreviation, " Prof," for 

 Professor. When, however, he suggests " Pr.'| aa 

 a better contraction, he forgets that both Priest 

 and Presbyter have long been signified by those 

 letters, and consequently his suggestion comes too 

 late. Why the usual " Prof." should be consi- 

 dered "ambiguous" can only arise from an over- 

 •sensitivenesa as to what can, or " may," be meant, 



