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of Camelford, but does mention Mr. James Beauford, Rector of Lanteglos. This worthy was the second son of John Beauford, M.A. (bapt. 13 April, 1617 ; bur. 14 May, 1679). Rector of St. Columb Major, by his first wife Anne (bur. 11 Oct. 1663). He matri- culated at Oxford 10 July, 1668, from Exeter College, aged fifteen, and became Rector of Lanteglos, 1677, and Vicar of Padstow, 1684. He married (1) Anne, dau. of Joseph Sawle of Penrice ; (2) Jane (bapt. 31 Jan. 1654; bur. 10 June, 1696), fifth dau. of John Vivian of Trewan. By the latter he had a son James (bapt. 16 Nov., 1683). He died 19 March, 1720/21. See Jewers's ' Registers of St. Colomb Major,' passim.

For his half-brother John, whose mother was Anne, second dau. of Henry Trengrove, alias Nance, see Munk's ' Royal College of Physicians,' ii. 110.

Mr. Jewers thus describes James Beau- ford's monument in St. Columb Churchyard (op. cit., p. xviii) :

" Against the outside of the north wall is a large monument with three shields, the centre one, Per pale, on a bend three lions passant gardant, in chief a crescent for difference ; on the shield to the dexter side are three falcons' heads erased (Sawle) ; on that to the sinister side, a chevron between three lions' heads erased, and a chief (Vivian)."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

This probably refers to John Beauford of Trinity Coll., Camb., B.A. 1686 ; M.D. Comitiis Regiis, 1728 ; Candidate of Coll. of Physicians, Lond., 25 June, 1729 ; d. 10 Oct., 1750. See Boase and Courtney's 'Bib. Corn.,' vol. iii. p. 1060, and vol. i. p. 19. Cf. also Munk's 'Roll' (1878 ed.), vol. ii. p. 110; Gent. Mag., vol. xx. (1750) p. 477 (Obit., Oct. 1, "Dr. Beaufort, an eminent physician, very old"). See also J. C. Jeaffreson's * Book about Doctors,' 1860, vol. i. p. 188, or one volume edition, p. 97, where a very amusing conversation with Beauford is recorded. He regarded temperance as a vice.

For several Beaufords who held livings in Cornwall see Foster's ' Alumni,' Series I. vol. i. p. 97 ; and Walker's ' Sufferings of the Clergy,' part ii. p. 191.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S x. 309, 353). The author of ' Fate,'

Two shall be born the whole wide world apart, is Susan Marr Spalding, an American writer born in Maine in the fifties. Her best work small in quantity, but some of it of a high grade in idea and technical skill-

is collected in a little volume ' The Wings of Icarus,' published in Boston in 1892.

F. M. Hartford, Conn,

The lines entitled ' Fate,' about which MR. HIBGAME asks a little poem of two- nine-line stanzas were written by Mrs- Susan Marr Spalding, of Bath, Maine, and later resident in Rockford, Delaware.

M. C. L.

New York.

[Our American correspondents at the time of writing- had not seen the reply at the second refer- ence, attributing the poem to G. E. Edmundson.]

"MOTTE": " MOT " (10 S. x. 265). " American " is too comprehensive an adjective to apply to this word, as its use is restricted to Texas. DR. SMYTHE PALMER'S communication demands an ex- tended reply. The following extracts show what American lexicographers and others- have had to say about the word :

" Motte, or Mot (French.) A clump of trees in a prairie ; also called 'an island of timber.' Texas." 1859, J. R. Bartlett, 'Dictionary of Americanisms,' 2nd ed., p. 281.

" These islands, as they are poetically named, in the vast ocean of waving grass, were called Mottes. by the early French explorers, and in many parts of the West still retain their old names." 1871, De Vere, ' Americanisms ' (1872), p. 102.

" Mot, or Motte. This well-known Texan word for a clump of trees, a small grove, is not in the ' Century Dictionary.' Compare Fr. motte, a lump, a patch, a mound ; Sp. mota, a mound." American Notes and Queries, 9 Aug., 1890, v. 170. (The corre- spondent wrote from Austin, Texas.)

" With this word, in the sense of a small grove,, compare the Spanish mats, a coppice, thicket ; Portuguese mato, matto, or mata, a brushwood, scrub, or wild heath. I do not mean to assert that this is the true origin of the Texan word mot." American Notes and Queries, 6 Sept., 1890, v. 225.

" Motte, ri. [Cf. F. motte, a clod, clump, or hillock.] A clump of trees in a prairie. [Local, U.S.]" 1900, ' Webster's International Dictionary.'

" Motte (Fr.) A grove or clump of trees, in the prairies." 1902, S. Clapin, 'New Dictionary of Americanisms,' p. 281.

The first of the above extracts is par- ticularly significant. In the first (1848) edition of his ' Dictionary of Americanisms r Bartlett did not recognize the word ; but in 1850 he himself picked it up in Texas. Can we doubt that in 1859 he recorded the local belief as to its origin ?

Next, let us turn to American writings. In 1844 G. W. Kendall (who visited Texa& in 1841) spoke of " mots," italicizing the word. In 1857 F. L. Olmsted spoke of

mottes." In 1880 R. H. Loughridge spoke of " motts." (For these extracts see the ' N.E.D.') In 1852 Capt. Mayne