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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. i. A, i<uoot worth." It may appropriately be added that the name is still pronounced locally Wint'orth. In 1887 an exhibition in honour of Queen Victoria's jubilee was opened at Elsecar by H.R.H. the Duchess of Teck. After the ceremony I inquired my way to Wentworth, and when about a mile away inquired again, this time of a lad about twelve years old. He denied all knowledge of the place. I then asked him whether he was not, like myself, a stranger in the locality, to which he replied that he had always lived thereabouts. "Then," said I, "you must know, surely, where Earl Fitzwilliam lives." His face at once beamed with intelligence as he said, " Oh, yo meean Wint'orth," and followed up by directions which were all that one could wish. This is but one of many instances which might be adduced of the persistence in the local dialect of the pronunciation as recorded in Domesday.

"" — The earliest example of this locution as yet sent to us for the 'Dictionary' is of 1837, "this being part and parcel of my present subject." I have little doubt that much earlier instances can be furnished, and shall be obliged to any reader of 'N. & Q.' who will send them. Address Dr. Murray, Oxford.

. — When did this Latin adverb begin to be used in English context, after names of authors or books? We greatly want examples before the nineteenth century. One would expect to find it in the eighteenth century, and perhaps in the seventeenth; but the 'Stanford Dictionary' has it only from 1803.

. — The Sixty-seventh Canon directs, "When any is passing out of this life, a bell shall be tolled, and the Minister shall not then slack to do his last duty." Dr. Johnson explains "Passing-bell" as "The bell which rings at the hour of departure, to obtain prayers for the passing soul: it is often used for the bell which rings immediately after death." Is the passing-bell as thus defined now rung anywhere? And is the name "passing-bell" commonly given to the bell rung after death? .

— J'ai 1'honneur de faire appel à l'intermédiaire de votre estimable journal pour òbtenir, s'il est possible, des renseignements relativement à une étude historique que je poursuis. Elle a pour objet la vie et les œuvres du graveur François Vivarès, qui, né en France en 1709, passa en Angleterre à l'âge de dix-huit ans et vécut à Londres jusqu'en 1780. L'œuvre de cet artiste est très considérable, et a eu une influence décisive sur l'orientation, en Angleterre, de l'art de la gravure, qui a atteint dans votre pays un degré de perfection si remarquable.

Je suis suffisamment documenté sur l'œuvre de Fr. Vivarès. J'ai le catalogue complet de ses planches et un certain noinbre de ses gravures. J'ai le catalogue de la vente de son fonds, après sa mort, et j'ai relevé toutes les notices biographiques qui ont paru à son sujet dans les ouvrages anglais et étrangers.

Ce que je cherche aujourd'hui, ce sont les renseignements inédits qui pourraient me faire pénétrer plus avant dans la vie privée de l'artiste et le suivre dans sa descendance. Peut-être existe-t-il de pareils documents, soit sous forme de correspondances manuscrites, de mémoires non publiés, &c. Peut-être se trouvent-ils dans des bibliothèques publiques ou privées dont il serait possible de les faire sortir dans l'intérêt de l'histoire de l'art.

Puisque votre journal a pour but principal l'étude des problèmes de ce genre, je pense que je ne suis pas indiscret en m'adressant à lui et à votre obligeance.

. — Is it possible that the greatest of English naval commanders is buried in a second-hand sarcophagus? It appears so, for the tomb at St. Paul's is said to be that of Cardinal Wolsey.

. — James Ray, of Whitehaven, took part in the battle of Culloden as a volunteer serving under the Duke of Cumberland. On the northward march in January, 1746, he records in his letters that "we had a fine view of Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, whence the Scots derive their march on the drum." This must mean that his soldiering experience in Flanders and elsewhere had made Ray familiar with a military air used in the Scots regiments and named after the Bass Rock. Can any reader say whether this air has survived, or whether there is any other record of it? It has been suggested to the querist by a military author, Col. Greenhill-Gardyne, of Finavon,