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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2» d S. IX. May 5. '60. 



Family of Havard (2 nd S. ix. 124.)— Five- 

 and- twenty years ago, Havard was the name of 

 the Frenchman who kept the first hotel at Munich. 

 He had, I think, been a maitre d'hotel to Eugene 

 Beauharnois, who, when Due de Leuchtenberg, 

 had married one of King Joseph Maximilian's 

 daughters. J. P. O. 



Brighton Pavilion (2" d S. ix. 163.) — "The 

 carefully executed outline Etchings " are from 



"Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace at Brighton; 

 formerly the Pavilion : executed by the Command of 

 King George the Fourth, under the Superintendence of 

 John Nash, Esq. Architect, to which is prefixed a History 

 of the Palace, by Edward Wedlake Brayley, Esq. F.S.A." 

 London : Printed by and for J. B. Nichols and Son, 25. 

 Parliament Street; sold also by R. Loder and James 

 Taylor, Brighton, 1838. 



My copy of the work (a folio) has, in addition 

 to the outline etchings, one set filled in to represent 

 drawings, mounted on light brown tinted card- 

 board. They consist of thirty-one plates. 



W. E. W. 



The Letter "w" (2 nd S. ix. 244.)— This 

 letter is sounded as a consonant in all the Slavonic 

 and Germanic languages [as v in English], ex- 

 cepting only the English and Cambrian, where it 

 is sounded as a single or double o. (Eichhofi's 

 Vergleichung, by Kaltsehmidt, p. 58.) The Eng- 

 lish and Welsh sound of w is represented in 

 French by ou (as in oui), in Spanish by hu or 

 gu, and in modern Greek by ou. The v sound of w 

 is represented by a distinct character in Gothic, 

 German, Friesic, and Anglo-Saxon. The cha- 

 racter v in German and Dutch is sounded as f in 

 English. In Slavonic and Russian the v sound is 

 represented by b (yiedi). In Friesic w is some- 

 times pronounced as the English u in under. 

 (Rash, by Buss, p. 27.) T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Arms of Border Families of Armstrong 

 and Elliot (2 nd S. ix. 198.) — Armstrong (of 

 Eskdale) : Argent, issuing from the sinister, a dex- 

 ter arm habited gules, the hand grasping the 

 trunk of an oak tree eradicated and broken at the 

 top, ppr. 



Elliot. — Gu. on a bend or, a baton az. (by 

 some called a flute or shepherd's pipe.) 



The different branches of this family have 

 varied their arms by indenting, invecking, en- 

 grailing, or coticing the bend. 



Those of Roxburghshire bear the arms (the 

 bend engrailed) within a bordure vaire. J. W. 



Shoreham. 



Pigtails (2 nd S. ix. 315.) — It may be inter- 

 esting to notice the modus operandi of the military 

 pigtail. I recollect my father ("luring our bar- 

 rack life in 1803) wearing a pigtail about twelve 

 inches long, and it was thus managed every morn- 

 ing before parade. A lock of hair at the back 



of the head was allowed to grow a little longer 

 than the rest, and ypon this was placed a piece of 

 whalebone about ten inches long, and of the size 

 of a small quill ; a narrow black ribbon was then 

 wound round the lock and the whalebone, and 

 continued along the latter, until near the end of 

 it. when a lock of hair (kept for the purpose) 

 was placed on the whalebone, projecting two in- 

 ches beyond it, and the ribbon wound to the end 

 of the whalebone, where it was fastened off. It 

 thus resembled a continuous tail of hair, terminat- 

 ing with a curl. J. S. Burn. 



Refreshment for Clergymen (2 Dd S. ix. 24. 

 90. 189. 288.)— I well recollect that on the grand 

 charity sermon days for the parochial school at Rom- 

 ford, Essex, the vestry-table was covered with the 

 large white communion cloth, and that two bottles 

 of wine (Port and Sherry), with plates of almonds 

 and raisins, biscuits, &c, were provided for the 

 clergymen and their friends, morning and afternoon. 

 Whether all these good things were for tokens of 

 rejoicing after the liberal collection, or really for 

 the refreshment of the weary, I know not ; but 

 this I know, that Romford church was celebrated 

 for the annual charity sermon collections, amount- 

 ing generally to 701. or 80Z., or nearly 100Z., for I 

 recollect 951. having been collected at the doors 

 in good old days. An Old Curate. 



It is customary in a Dissenting congregation, in 

 the interval (about an hour) between the fore- 

 noon and afternoon's services, to offer the minister 

 a glass of wine in the vestry. A highly respecta- 

 ble minister from England happening to officiate, 

 one of the deacons of the church, as usual, brought 

 forward the wine, with the modest apology : " I 

 presume, Sir, you can take a glass of wine?" "O 

 yes" (replied the minister, seemingly rather aston- 

 ished), " I can take two." G. N". 



French Church in London (2 nd S. ix. 230.) 

 — Galterus Deloenus (or Walter Deloene) was not 

 a French but a German Protestant. He was one 

 of the four foreigners appointed by Edward VI.'s 

 charter of 1550 to be the first ministers of the 

 German church in Austin Friars, under the su- 

 perintendence of John a' Lasco. This is but a scrap 

 of information, but, such as it is, is quite at Mr. 

 Bradshaw's service. G. M. G. 



Jew Jesuit (2 nd S. ix. 79. 312.) — The Jesuits 

 have much to answer for, but I do not think what 

 is here recorded of them can be true. They are 

 reported to have stolen a child from Jewish pa- 

 rents, and to have brought up that child as a 

 Jesuit. There may have been many Mortara 

 cases, but it should be observed that by a decree- 

 of the fifth General Congregation of the Order, it 

 was ordained that no one hereafter be admitted 

 into this Society, who descends from the race of 

 Hebrews or Saracens ; and if any such has by 



