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architecture. But why copy some existing inscription when so many excellent virgin phrases offer themselves? A brief study, for instance, of Bacon's 'Essays' might reveal a number of crisp sentences suitable for MR. McCARA's purpose. WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

[MR. H. \V. UXDERDOWX also refers to the book byS. F. A. Caulfeild.]

DR. SAMUEL HINDS, FORMERLY BISHOP OF NORWICH (10 th S. i. 227, 351, 415). I remem- ber, when a boy at school, the strange rumours prevalent in 1857 regarding this prelate's resignation, which was caused by an entire loss of memory and mental aberra- tion of a very distressing character, culminat- ing in the scandal of his second marriage. After his resignation he lived in the neigh- bourhood of Notting Hill, and during the years 1863 to 1866 I often used to meet him in the streets of that neighbourhood, and in his strange attire he presented a striking appearance. It was said that at first he was in very straitened circumstances, eventually relieved, as it was commonly reported, by the bounty of the fourteenth Earl of Derby, the Prime Minister, who more than once unsuc- cessfully endeavoured to obtain for him a pension from ecclesiastical funds, and upon one occasion raised a debate upon the subject in the House of Lords, thus paving the way for the existing law, passed a few years subsequently, authorizing the payment of a pension, out of the salary of his successor, for a bishop who is compelled by age or infirmity to retire.

Dr. Hinds had been a Fellow and Tutor of Queen's College, Oxford, and was Vice- Principal of St. Alban Hall when and after Archbishop Whately was Principal. He was Dean of Carlisle for about a year (October, 1848, to September, 1849), succeeded Bishop Edward Stanley in 1849 as Bishop of Nor- wich, and was a member of the first Oxford University Commission. F. DE H. L.

HAREPATH (10 th S. i. 190, 459). Harepath is a common field-name in Devon in and within a few miles' radius of So.uth Tawton, and I have noticed it in a Wiltshire terrier I think, near Bishop's Canning.

A farmer told me once he fancied that one of his meadows might have got the appella- tion from its being traversed by hares, the tracks or paths worn by their habitual use being even more clearly discernible than those made by rabbits. The field or place name Harper is also to be met with in the neighbourhood. Having found a twelfth or thirteenth century surname "Le Harpur"

connected with the vicinity of a tenement so called, I imagined its bearer to have been a bard, and the dwelling to have derived its name from him ; but I have lately seen a case in which Harper would seem to be a corruption of Harepath ( = Herpath), and its situation might well be distinguished as lying close to the military route. It occurs in a printed handbill, dated 29 September, 1820, announcing the sale by auction of "that messuage called Harper, otherwise Hare- path these premises adjoin the Turn- pike road leading from Okehampton to Exeter, and are distant about a mile from S. Tawton lime-kilns."

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

TOPOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT LONDON (9 th S. xii. 429 ; 10 th S. i. 70, 295, 457). As MR. MAcMicHAEL is au courant about the ceme- tery of the French refugees in London in 1721, will he kindly send us a word as to the register of the burial of their dead at that period? Does it exist? Does it tell us where Pierre d'Urte (whose Baskish transla- tion of Genesis and a part of Exodus I criticized in an unfortunately single-proofed article in the American Journal of Philology for the year 1902) died and was interred ?

E. S. DODGSON.

"SEND" OF THE SEA (10 th S. i. 368, 456). In the 'Gentleman's Dictionary,' London, 1705 : " When a ship falls deep into the trough or hollow of the sea, then 'tis said she Sends much that way, whether a-head or a-stern." In J. K.'s 'New English Dictionary,' fifth edition, London, 1748 : " The ship sends much, i.e., falls with her stern deep into the hollow between two waves." W. S.

BLIN (10 th S. i. 428). The ' New England .Register,' vol. xvi. p. 19, contains a pedigree of a family of this name.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

"GoLF ;i : is IT SCANDINAVIAN? (10 th S. i. 168 ; see also the quotation from the ' Book of Articles '* in the first column of 9 th S. vi. 445.) It is hardly likely that Mary should be described as playing "with the palmall and goif," unless these words meant the clubs used in the games now known by the names of pall mall and golf. We cannot be certain until the ' N.E.D.' has treated the preposition with. Q. V.

DOGE OF VENICE (10 th S. i. 469) In the Appendix to his ' Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice,' Byron gives the account of him in

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 * Of which the true date is 1568, and not as there