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quantity of the penultimate syllable alone? How 
long is it since Tittyre was superseded by Tey- 
tyre? and eddite redgibus by eedite reegibus? 
Where did the new system originate ?_ and who 
were the chief agents in establishing it? You 
have, no doubt, among your correspondents, many 
who could give ample particulars of this change ; 
but if these be not soon put on record, they may 
be irrecoverably lost. I believe it has not yet 
been attempted, at least with, any success, to ex- 
tend the above change to the dastsyllable. I have 
not yet heard meeceenace atavice, though con- 
sistency might seem to require such a pronuncia- 
tion; and to my ear, it would not be more offensive 
than what I do hear. E. H. D. D. 
“ Rucksle.” —Can any of your readers, who 
have made the peculiar county dialects of Eng- 
land their study, help me to the derivation of this 
word? I heard it first in Cornwall, and it may 
probably never have been used beyond the 
western borders. bis loging 
“ Saxon and the. Gael.” — Who is the author of 
The Saxon and the Gael, printed by J. and A. 
Aikman, Edinburgh, 1814, in four volumes ? 
. KK. J. Lirrcer. 
De Sancto Albino, St. Aubin, Tobin ; Daubigne, 
Dobbyn. — Are the names here set down aliases of 
each other ? or are we to take Daubigne and St. 
Aubin to bé distinct ? That St. Aubin and Tobin 
are substantially the same name there is unde- 
niable. proof, but it does not appear so. clearly 
that Daubigne, Dobbyn, and Tobin are identical. 
Perhaps it might help towards a solution of the 
question if it were decided whether Daubigne is 
derivéd from the tame of a, place or from the 
saint Alban. A note in elucidation will oblige. 
Jamers GRAVEs. 
Kilkenny. 
Two Cathedrals in Dublin. — Mr. D’ Alton tells 
us in his Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin, 
.4., that “there are in the diocese of Dublin two 
cathedrals (Christchurch and St. Patrick’s), a pe- 
culiarity in which Saragossa alone participates.” 
Is this statement exactly correct ? ABHBA, 
Plowden’s Claim to the Barony of Dudley.—Can 
any correspondent give me any particulars of this, 
and how the Plowden family founded their claim ? 
C. J. Doves. 
_. Rochester Registers. —In a work by Mr. W. 
Osburn, an extract is given from Strype’s An- 
nals (vol. i. ch. 1xii. ff. 521, 522.), where Strype 
states that the account “is taken out of the Re- 
gister of the See of Rochester,” which he gives 
respecting one Thomas Heath (a brother of 
Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York), who was 
a concealed and dispersed Jesuit; and who was 
detected at Rochester in the disguise of a Puritan 
preacher, with a Bull from Pope Pius IV. in his 
possession, about the year 1568. 
Could any of your readers, who have access to 
the Rochester Registers, ascertain whether this 
record is still there ? and if so, could they supply 
a copy of it ? : 
As Dr. Edmund Gheast was Bishop of Rochester 
in 1568, I presume it would be in his register. 
C. H. Davis, M.A. (Clergyman). 
The “ Lay Readers” of the Reformation.— From 
a memorandum made at Oxford, where I had an 
opportunity of consulting Strype’s Annals of the 
Reformation (vol. i. part i. ch. xi. ff, 224—2926.), I 
infer that there were, in or about the year 1559, 
certain “lay readers,” licensed by the bishops to 
perform divine service, after making a subscrip- 
tion to a certain declaration. * Archdeacon Hale, 
in his charge of 1853, at p.19., also refers to 
Strype’s Annals (vol. i. pp. 265. 515., of the Ox- 
ford edition of 1824), with reference to these 
readers as existing in 1559, and as recognised in 
the Convocation of 1562 to read divine service and 
homilies in places where there was no minister. 
I should be glad of full information respecting 
the date and continuance, and precise duties, of 
these “lay readers,” with the form of subscription 
made by them, and of license granted by the 
bishop. I would also ask whether the system of 
lay readers prevails to any great extent in the 
American Episcopal Church, where it is in use ? 
and whether their ministrations are confined to 
rooms, or extend to churches also ? 
It must not be overlooked, that these lay 
readers. are quite distinct from the “Scripture 
readers” of modern times, who merely read the 
Scriptures from house to house. 
A Country CrerGrMan. 
Systems. of Short-hand. — Where can I find an 
account of a trial of different systems of short- 
hand, which I am told was held some forty years 
ago P and, also, which is the most generally adopted 
and most practical system of short-hand at the 
present day. Each of the Encyclopedias (Rees’, 
Metropolitana, Britannica, and Penny) commends 
a different system, and most of them refer to 
Lewis’s History of Short-hand, but notie of them 
mentions Lewis’s own system; and I should be 
glad to know whether it is considered a good one. 
Frank Forrescug; 
Stephano's Bottle. — 
“This bottle, which I made of the bark of a tree with 
my own hands since I was cast ashore.”—Shakspeare, 
Tempest, Act II. Se. 2. 
Can any of your readers inform me what was 
the particular kind of bottle to which the above 
passage alludes? The only kind of bottle prac- 
ticable to Stephéno, so far as I can fancy, would 
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