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396. Augusta Robertson, of Auchleeks, ob. 18 May,

397. Thomas Townley, ob. 14 Feb., 1839, a. 32.

398. H.S.E. | Hugo Jacobus Rose, S.T.B. | Anglus
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episcopo Cantuariensi a sacris domesticis | collegii regalis apud Londinenses prsefectus | qui cum jam (?) academia Cantabrigiensi j (quod) egregia posset indoies | rectissimis studiis iriformata | haud ob- scure significaverat | id deinc.eps | quum ex umbra in solem processerat | clarissimis patefecit indiciis

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 * totum se dedit ecclesise \ in concionibus | quarum

nima eloquentia | oculos aures mentes omnium | tenebat in sese defixas \ in scriptis | strenuus tidei Christianee defensor j insanientem redarguit sapi- entiam | ingraviscente ecclesiae et reipublicse peri- culo | de neutra desperavit et ut alii bene sperarent
 * canorse YOGIS dulcedine | sancta copiosa flexa-

versatus | graecarum latinarumque scientissimus I animi candore eximio | singular! morum suavitate | omnium omnis setatis et ordinis | mirifice sibi con- cilians benevolentiam | per brevis sed actuosse vitae curriculum | et in valetudine semper infirma | cpnsulens aliis prodigus sui | domi maximis labo- ribus I non tarn fatiscens quam fractus | hospes eheu | in hac urbe florentina placide conquievit | xi Kal. Jan. CIOIOCCGXXXIX, JEt. XLI. | Have anima generosa dulcis et pia.
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G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col. 18, Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne.

(To be continued.)

" PAPALOI " : " MAMALOI." These are the names given to the high priest and priestess of the degraded " Voodoo " cult of Hayti and the West Indies generally. They have never been traced to their source, but I have just come upon a note in Sir H. Johnston's new book ' Grenfell and the Congo' (1908, p. 636) which states that " -loki, -loshi, -lozi, -loi, in varying forms, is a widespread Bantu root for an evil spirit." Further on Sir Harry shows that it is also used to denote the sorcerer (e.g., p. 660, " the Mu-loshi, or sorcerer"). This appears to be just what we want, and I think we need make no iffi-d culty about " Papaloi " and " Mamaloi " being hybrid words, of which the first ele- ments are the European papa and mama, and the ending the Congo term -loi, sorcerer. The sense would thus be " father of wizards " and " mother witch."

JAMES PI^ATT, Jun.

" WAINSCOT." I beg leave to draw atten- tion to an early mention of wainscot, because the spelling is so unusual that it may easily be overlooked.

In the ' Royal and Historical Letters ' (Rolls Series), ed. Hingeston, i. 262, we find a reference to a new ship with a remarkable

cargo : " nova navis, cum tritico, braseo,. farina, cervisia, terebinto, et lignis voag henschot onustata." That is what the editor gives us. But surely the strange pair of: words here printed in italics is really but one word, and vo is a playful Anglo-French symbol for w. The reference is to waghenschot,. the Middle Dutch spelling of ivainscot.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

COTTESWOLD, IN ITALY. Among fifteenth century forms of the term Cotteswold (now more usually shortened into Cotswold) occur Cottyswold and Cottasowlde. The word then would seem to have been pronounced as a trisyllable. Mr. Duignan in his ' Worces- tershire Place-Names ' instances an example as early as 1231 Coteswold. I have not been able to find intermediate examples in English deeds which could throw further light upon the pronunciation. However, in Balducci Pegalotti's ' Merchant's Manual,' MS., A.D. 1315 (Riccardiana, 2441), occur the following names of British monasteries and places that supplied the Florentine wool-market. They were published by S. L. Peruzzi in. his ' Storia del Commercio/ 1808, together with many of the English equivalents of the Italianized forms. These were supplied to the author by two- accomplished authorities : Cecil Monro and E. A. Bond. But certain of the fourteenth- century forms therein offered them diffi- culties, and their equivalents consequently do not appear. Among these I venture ta think we have good evidence of the trisyllabic pronunciation of the above name for the " Montes Hwicciorum " :

Guesame in Chondisgualdo=Evesham in Cotteswold.

Osea in Chondisgualdo = Osency in Cottes- wold.

Cilesi in Condisgualdo = (?) Selsley in Cotteswold.

Labricciera di Condisgualdo = Brueria, co. Oxon.

Lofusteltro in Chondisgualdo = (?) Le Fosse Stretton.

The Italian ch being the equivalent of k, and gu that of w, we should arrive at Kondis- wald as approximating to the sound of the name as caught by a Florentine ear of the days of Edward II. The same list gives " Chonterbery " for Canterbury ; " Chinch^ Sulda " for Kingswood (Cistercian Monas- tery) ; " Guarverlea " for Waverley (Cist. Mon.) ; " Isticchi Sigualdo " for Stixwould (co. Line.) ; " Biliguassi " for Bildwas ; and " Guiccicumba " for Winchcombe.

ST. CLAIR BADDELEY..