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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. i. MAY 7, im.

which, as is said of a fountain in the Peak of

Derby, boils over twice in four-and-twenty

hours." E. STEVENS.

Melbourne.

An illustration of the truth of what PROF. SKEAT says at the end of his latest letter on Tideswell and Tideslow is to be found at Tintinhull in Somerset. The people of the village still pronounce its name Tin knell. Ihis spelling of the name is represented on some late mediseval brasses on the pavement of its church. Is it of Keltic origin ?

E. 8. DODGSON.

The "growing tendency to acrimonious disputation in 'N. & Q.' i s greatly to be regretted, and has been most ably pointed out by MR. PIERPOINT at p. 110 of the present volume. His remarks I respectfully recom- mend to the attention of some frequent and important contributors.

T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D. Salterton, Devon.

"AS THE GROW FLIES " (10 th S. i. 204, 296).

fi? 1 ! Z !u a c mraon expression, used to signify that the distance is to be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane. If to get trom one place to another it is necessary to pass over a mountain the distance will be much greater than the distance measured as

he crow flies. There are numerous cases in which disputes have arisen as to the mode in which a distance is to be measured. It may that the measurement should be by the nearest public road, it may be by going up hill and down dale, or it may be as theiow

ies. In order to avoid disputes in the con- struction of Acts of Parliament, the Inter- pretation Act, 1889, 52 & 53 Viet. c. 63 sec. 34, enacts

"that in the measurement of anv distance for

commence unless the

See also section 231 of the Municipal Cor- porations Act, 1882. Every one has seen the crow flying home at the end of the day,

6x P re T s T Sion is often used in

r- AND BOROUGHS

- Jt is not unlikely that the

., n r e u f the instan es in the te hn Stuarfc Mil1 wh en he

h- w en e

made his memorable speech in the House of Commons in favour of the enfranchisement p I**** in hi * ' Brevia Parlia- Rediviva,' refers to sundry earls,

lords, nobles, and some ladies who were annual suitors (freeholders) to the county court of Yorkshire, being the sole electors of the knights, and sealing their indentures. He gives, pp. 152 and 153, two instances of such indentures. The earliest is dated 13 Hen. IV., and is signed by an attorney of Lucy, Countess of Kent. Another, in 2 Henry V., is signed by the attorney of Margaret, widow of Sir H. Vavasour. In 7 Edward VI. the return for the borough of Gatton was made by the Lady Elizabeth Copley, widow of Roger Copley. Other instances could be cited, but I fear to trespass too much on your valuable space.

HARRIETT MC!LQUHAM.

Miss BETHAM-EDWARDS will find much information about women voters in Sydney Smith's 'Enfranchisement of Women the Law of the Land' (1876), Mr. Chisholin Anstey's papers on 'The Representation of the People Acts, 1876,' and Miss Helen Blackburn's articles in the Englishivomaris Revieio. The work of these three authors was combined and much expanded by Mrs. Stopes in her ' British Freewqmen, their Historical Privilege ' (Sonnenschein, 1894).

A. B. 0.

See 4 th S. xi. ; 6 th S. iv. ; 7 th S. vi., vii.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. [Reply acknowledged also from ALICE COBBETT.}

BIRDS' EGGS (10 th S. i. 327).- On 3 July, 1897, Mr. Hugh Leyborn Popham found in the valley of the Jenessei river, in Siberia, the first recorded nest of the pigmy curlew or curlew-sandpiper. The four eggs which it contained are figured in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for that year (plate 51), and he himself described the circumstances of the discovery in the Ibis for October, 1898 (pp. 515-17). The "glory" of it has therefore " fallen to one of our own country- men." So with the knot. Its eggs were found, on what were then known as the North Georgian Islands, in Parry's first Arctic Expedition, and again in abundance in Melville Peninsula, some years later, by the younger Ross facts which NE Quro NIMIS might have easily ascertained had^ he consulted any standard authority, which, however, is about the last thing that an ordinary writer on zoological subjects ever thinks of doing. In other quarters he might as easily hear of the achievements of Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (who did not happen to be exactly a German), but as they concern Siberian exploration more than "birds' eggs," I need not dwell upon them here. A slight acquaintance, too,