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give in due rotation. Making her take a seat, 

 with one interposed between them, he began with 

 the first: — "Honor (directing himself to her) 

 and Honesty," followed by " Love and Loyalty" 

 from his next neighbour; when, ordering a bum- 

 per, he said, " Come Honor, you know the next 

 toast; be not squeamish, and let us have it." " No, 

 Sir," replied she, with an arch smile, " but I will 

 pledge you in your own toast — ' Honor and 

 Honesty, or, yoxir absent friends.'' " These last 

 words were uttered with special emphasis, and, 

 in their provoked ap])lication, well sustained the 

 barmaid's reported character ; as, indeed, promptly 

 acknowledged by Curran himself. I have more 

 than once heard similar retorts from her when 

 thus assailed. J. E. 



Cork. 



Sibi (Vol. iv., p. 327.). — The erroneous use of 

 the reflective pronoun, of which Mb. Forbes gives 

 an example in a quotation from the Legenda 

 Aurea, is common in monkish writings. I have 

 an instance before me, in a charter of Cntit 

 (Kemble's Codex Dipl. Anglo-Sax., vol. iv. p. 28.) : 



" Eius (i. e. Cliristi) quippe largiflua bonilate regia 

 dignitate subtronizatus, ego Kiui6 rex Angligena; 

 nationis, pro nauciscemlii eius immensitatls misericordiiE 

 done, concerlo sibi de suo proprio qua; niihi gratuito 

 concessit, villain," itc. 



C. W. G. 



Cassek Givenwyn (Vol. iv., p. 269.). — I learn 

 from the dictionaries of Walters and Owen, that 

 casec gwanwijn, mare of spring, means a wood- 

 pecker. And tiie more curious part of the name 

 is confirmed by Llwyd, who calls a woodpecker 

 casec diychin, mare of storms. But here I read 

 that casec gwenwijn, mare of poison, means a 

 screech-owl. Of this I have not elsewhere found 

 anything. Therefore I ask for more information ; 

 to save me from the heresy of thinking that that 

 woman was turned into a woodpecker. Li what 

 country and language does mara mean a screech- 

 owl ? A. N. 



The Monnmentcd Inscriptions of the Bourchier 

 Famihj (Vol. iv., p. 233.). —Your inquirer L. RL M. 

 will most probably meet with the Information 

 he desires in the county of Essex, of which por- 

 tion of the kingdom they were Jiarls, and held 

 innnense possessions from the early jiart of the 

 fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Their prin- 

 cipal estates were in the parishes of j\Ioreton, 

 Tollesbury, Chingford, Little Laver, Greensted, 

 Ramsden, South Church, Wakering, Mahlon, 

 North Farnbridge, Lachingdon, Mayland, Lang- 

 ford, Great Totham, Bentley, Wickes, Tendring, 

 Great Holland, Beaumont, Kamsey, Bromfield, 

 llivenhall, Halsted, Hanningfield, Chicknall, Til- 

 ting, Messing, Hedingham Sibil, Balliugton, Fox- 

 earth, Belchamp, Toppesfield, Braintree, Little 



Easton, Chickney ; Broxted, Roding Aythorp, 

 Little Hallingbury, AValden, and Farnham. In 

 all these parishes they held manors, with the ad- 

 vowsons of several of the churches. IMany of the 

 manors are called after the family, JBowchiers 

 Hall; some members of the family were buried in 

 Bilegh Abbey, which stood in the west part of the 

 town of Maldon. In Halsted they founded a 

 chantry for a master and eight priests ; and ad- 

 joining Little Easton church still remains a fine 

 chapel, known as Bourchier's chapel, where there 

 are tombs to some of the family in fine preserva- 

 tion. By a visit to the churches of the parishes 

 above enumerated, much information may pro- 

 bably be obtained, for there can be little doubt but 

 so powerful a family were great benefactors to the 

 churches of the several parishes where their estates 

 and mansions were situated ; and most probably 

 many members of the family were interred in 

 them, and had tombs to their memory. J. R. J. 



Test of the Strength of a Bow (Vol. iv., p. 56.). 

 — Toxor-HiLus will find all his Queries well an- 

 swered in Hansard'-^ Book of Archery. The modern 

 method of proving a bow is very different from 

 that quoted by Piiilosophus from Ascham, p. 211. 

 A bow is now, I believe, tested by placing the 

 bow across a piece of stout timber made for the 

 purpose, and hanging weights to the string till it 

 reaches about twenty-seven or twenty-eight inches. 

 The weight necesoary to do this determines the 

 power of the bow. PL N. E. 



Bitton Vicarage, Oct. 1851. 



Stilling fleet., Bishop of Worcester (Vol. iv., p. 

 274.). — Is it worth while, in reference to Sigma's 

 inquiry as to the name of the author of one of the 

 Bishop of Worcester's works, to tell you a droll 

 mist:ike on that point, which I have before my 

 eyes ? I have the work in a fine old binding, 

 which in the gilt lettering on the back, states it to 

 be by Ed. Wigorn. This reminds me of another 

 similar naivete. When the late Bishop Prettyman, 

 then Bishop of Winchester, wrote to propose to 

 ]\Ir. IMurray to publish his life of Pitt, Mr. Murray, 

 following the signature too literally, addressed his 

 answer to Geoj'ge Winton, Esq. C. 



Yankee Doodle (Vol. iv., p. 344.). — During the 

 attacks upon the French outposts in 1755 in 

 America, Governor Shirley and General Jackson 

 led tlie force directed against the enemy lying at 

 Niagara and Frontenac. In the early part of 

 June, v/hilst these troops were stationed on the 

 banks of the Hudson, near Albany, the descendants 

 of the " Pilgrim fathers " flocked in from the 

 eastern provinces; never was seen such a motley 

 regiment as took up its position on the left wing 

 ofthe British army. The band played music some 

 two centuries of age, officers and privates had 

 adopted regimentals each man after his own 



