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were so called from the habit of exposure or the 

 mere act of carrying bodies in that condition, it 

 seems to indicate a state of heathenism ill com- 

 porting with the idea suggested by the reply of T. 

 Boys of a staff of clergy constantly employed and 

 resident in it, however such might have been the 

 case in the three other instances. 



Could the period be fixed of the introduction 

 of an appellation so exceptionably distinctive ? 

 And is the reason given for its application in the 

 instance first pointed out reconcilable with the 

 difference of circumstances above adverted to? 



J. S. 



Birmingham. 



Refreshment for Clergymen (2 nd S. ix. 24.) 

 — In some of the "City Churches" in London 

 (St. Dionis Backchurch, for instance) wine and 

 biscuit is liberally provided in the vestry every 

 Sunday for the officiating clergyman at the charge 

 of the parish. And oil occasions of " charity 

 sermons," when the Lord Mayor and Lady 

 Mayoress and certain members of the Corpora- 

 tion attend in state to bear some popular 

 preacher, wine, cake, and biscuit is handed round 

 by direction of the churchwardens to all who 

 have the entree of the vestry at the conclusion of 

 the Morning Service, while the amount of the 

 collection is being ascertained. Londinensis. 



Supervisor : Mistakes in reading old Docu- 

 ments (2 nd S. ix. 90, 91.)— I met the words 

 " supervisor aut supervisores" the other day in a 

 conveyance of 1680 in the sense of " survivor or 

 survivors." There could be no doubt about the 

 reading, as the words were written at full length 

 and with the long « (f ) in each case, and other 

 documents relating to the same had " superstes 

 aut superstites." The same set of deeds added 

 another to the thousands of instances of mistakes 

 made in the transcription of such documents by 

 persons unacquainted with local names, or who 

 cannot read the characters. A copy had been 

 made of one in a somewhat modern hand, in 

 which one of the witnesses' names figured in one 

 place as "Jo. Birkes" (which was ri^ht), and in 

 another as "Jo. Skerles ; " whilst " Va. {i.e. Va- 

 lentine) Hurt" figured as Th. Hurt. There are 

 numbers of such instances in the printed public 

 records, as those who consult them know to their 

 sorrow. The following came lately under my own 

 notice : the Sitwells of Renishaw are described 

 in one place as of Kemshaw. In the Index to the 

 Hundred Rolls, North Ecclesfield is entered under 

 N, as if one word, and not at all under E. 



J. Eastwood. 



Pets de Religieuses (2" d S. ix. 90.) — I have 

 heard my late lather say that these were the lightest 

 possible species of pancake of about the size of a 

 crown piece, and that they appeared on the tables 

 of the nobility till the end of the last century. 



They were made by dropping a single drop of the 

 thinnest possible batter into the frying-pan, which 

 caused the batter to rise up very hollow and very 

 thin, and to become very crisp — such were pets 

 de religieuses. F. A. Careington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Crinoline : " Plon-Plon " (2 nd S. ix. 83.) — 

 The derivation of this first word, already given in 

 " N. & Q.," appears satisfactory : perhaps, how- 

 ever, it may be admissible to state that a news- 

 paper paragraph assigns the first idea of weaving 

 horsehair into petticoats to a Parisian modiste — 

 Madame Crinoline. 



A correspondent of The Examiner deduces 

 " plon-plon" from the old French name for a duck 

 that duched its head. Plongeon is certainly diver, 

 sea-mew. R. F. Sketchley. 



Crispin Tucker (2 nd S. ix. 11.) — In the 

 Chronicles of London Bridge, Smith & Elder, 

 1827, Crispin Tucker is mentioned (p. 391.) as 

 " a waggish bookseller and author of all-work — 

 the owner of half a shop on the east side of London 

 Bridge, under the Southern gate." At p. 392. 

 the reader is referred to the eighth and ninth 

 chapters of Wine and Walnuts, London, 1823, for 

 " An amusing account of Dean Swift's and Pope's 

 visits and conversations with Crispin Tucker." 



F.L. 



Adam de Cardonnell (2" d S. ix. 24.) — This 

 gentleman was the author of Nvmismata Scotia, 

 and the Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland. He 

 came into possession of property in Northumber- 

 land in rather a curious way : calling one day 

 upon his friend Mr. Lawson of Chirton and Cram- 

 lington, he found him in the act of making his 

 will, and to avoid disputes entailing his estates on 

 several relatives in succession. Mr. de Cardonnell, 

 by way of a joke, asked Mr. Lawson to put him 

 at the end of the entail, which he consented to do. 

 In process of time, by the death of those named 

 before him, Mr. De Cardonnell succeeded to the 

 property, and served the office of high sheriff for 

 the county. AVhat was his connexion with Burns 

 I must leave to others to ascertain. His eldest 

 son Mansfeldt de Cardonnell Lawson, Esq., died 

 without issue at Acton House, Northumberland, 

 November 21st, 1838. E. H. A. 



Dutch-born Citizens of London (2 nd S. ix. 

 64.) — By force dT various statutes a person born 

 out of her Majesty's dominions, his father, or 

 grandfather by the father s side, being a natural- 

 born subject, is no alien, but is himself a natural- 

 born subject. By the Act 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66. s. 3., 

 a person born out of her Majesty's dominions, of 

 a mother being a natural-born subject, may inherit 

 land, or take it by devise or purchase ; in no other 

 respect, however, is he or she to be considered a 

 natural-born subject. Perhaps it would be as 



