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facturer, took a lease of the glass-house at Catcliffe for twenty - one years. In 1782 Hannah, his widow, transferred it to their sons Thomas May and William May, who carried on the business for some years. They certainly had it in 1785. I find these persons described sometimes as "gentlemen." There were also two glass-houses at Mas- brough, in the parish of Rotherham, which were worked for some time by John Fol- jambe, gentleman (an attorney, I believe), in partnership with Jacob Boomer, a grocer, both of Rotherham. In 1783 they leased them to the above-named Thomas May for thirteen years. Mustard-bottles, ink-bottles, decanters, and flint glasses were among the articles they produced. The Mays are no- ticed in Mr. Hunter's 'Fam. Min. Gent.,' Harl. Soc., iv. 1177. W. C. B.

In St. Stephen's Church, Norwich, is a mural tablet to the memory of Richard Matthews, Sheriff of Norwich, glass-maker, who died 1774. On it are his arms thus : Per pale : 1, Gules, three Catherine-wheels argent, on a chief or a bull's head cabossed sable ; 2, Gules, a chevron between three escallops argent.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Monmouth.

MORGANATIC MARRIAGE (9 th S. xii. 486). For an answer to this question refer to ' N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. vi. 237 ; 3 rd S. v. 235, 328, 441, 515 ; vi. 38, 54, 140, 197.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

EMMET AND DE FONTENAY LETTERS (9 th S. xii. 308). FRANCESCA may be pleased to know that she can learn all about Robert Emmet's letters to Madame la Marquise de Fontenay by reference to a huge book, privately printed, by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, called 'The Emmet Family.' There is but one copy in England, and that is in the British Museum. L. I. GUTNEY.

CARSON (9 th S. xi. 488; xii. 19, 110,331, 377). With regard to this subject, perhaps it may not be out of place to mention that in that delightful work ' Adventures with the Con- naught Rangers, 1809-14,' by William Grat- tan, late Lieutenant Connaught Rangers, edited by Charles Oman (Edward Arnold), the name of Carsons will be found ; and to add that Mr. Oman points out in the preface, at p. vii :

" It is clearly from the domestic annals of the 88th that Charles Lever drew the greater part of the good stories which make the fortune of ' Charles O'Malley.' Many of the humours of Mickey Free

seem to be drawn directly from the doings of Grat- tan's servant, Dan Carsons. Comparing the 'real thing' with the work of fiction, one is driven to conclude that much of what was regarded as rollick- ing invention on Lever's part was only a photo- graphic reproduction of anecdotes that he had heard from old soldiers of the Connaught Rangers."

Peninsular hero though he really was, yet Lieut. Grattan complains at p. 79 :

" For six days we had not seen our baggage, and

were in consequence without a change of linen

I had no nightcap."

Mr. W. Grattan was a kinsman of Ireland's

greatest statesman Henry Grattan.

HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

PAMELA (9 th S. xii. 141, 330). Since writing my former note on the pronunciation of this name I have accidentally come across it in French, in the advice given, in ' Les Gaietes de Beranger' (Amsterdam, 1864, p. 16), by the "abbesse" of to-day to one of her disciples : Vous, Pamela, Cachez cela.

The accent on the second syllable of the name is, of course, to make the name tri- syllabic, and the rhyme with " cela " shows its pronunciation to be a practical approxima- tion to that of a cretic (---); that is, to the pronunciation of Richardson.

RICHARD HORTON SMITH. Athenaeum Club.

My mother (born in 1824, when Richard- son's novel was still popular) was christened Pamela professedly after the novel. I never heard any other pronunciation of the name by relatives and friends than Pamela. The diminutive of endearment was Pam, which would not, I suppose, have been the case with Pamela. The REV. C. S. TAYLOR'S instance of Pamella is interesting on Pope's side ; but the spelling Pamala (which I have found in letters from my mother's early contempora- ries) makes for Richardson.

SAMUEL GREGORY OULD.

In 'Selecta Poemata Anglorum,' 1779, p. 281, is a poem in Latin sapphics (no name appended), entitled ' Ode ad Pamelam Canem Dilectissimam ' :

Chara, quae semper studio fideli

Me sequi gratum solita es magistrum,

Quse colis multo officio, vocanti

Pamela adesdum !

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

TlDESWELL AND TlDESLOW (9 th S. Xii. 341,

517). The claim made by your correspondent as to the prefix Tid being the name of an individual can scarcely be deemed satis-