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recorded in my ' Aldermen of London.' The seven named by MB. MACMICHAEL were all Lord Mayors in the years which he mentions, but he omits (within the limits which he seems to have arbitrarily selected, 1505-1749) T. Mirfyn (1518-19), Sir T. Pargeter (1530-31), Sir T. Howe (1568-9), Sir E. Becher (1727-8), and Sir R. Godschall (17412), all of whom were Lord Mayors while Aldermen of Bishopsgate ; whereas two of his seven (viz., Pemberton and Gurney) had ceased to represent that Ward before their election to the chair, and a third, Knes- worth, changed his Ward within a fortnight of entering on his office.

In addition to three occupants of the Mayoral Chair earlier than 1505, there have been six Lord Mayors from Bishops- gate Ward since the latest of those named by MB. MACMICHAEL, viz., Sir M. Blakiston (1760-61), J. Townsend (1772-3), Sir R. Carr Glyn (1798-9), W. T. Copeland (1835-6), Sir T. S. Owden (1877-8), Sir H. D. Davies( 1897-8).

MB. W. NOBMAN (ante, p. 354) speaks of Sir " William " Dash wood as Lord Mayor in 1703. The Lord Mayor of 1702-3 was Sir Samuel Dashwood, and his Ward was Aldgate (not Bishopsgate).

MB. MACMICHAEL speaks of " Sir " Thomas Knesworth, Mayor in 1505. The knight- hood is mythical. I have myself made the same error in my ' Aldermen of London ' at p. 35, but have corrected it at pp. 123 and 256, as well as in the Errata.

Before the knighthoods ascribed to Lord Mayors of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries are accepted as accurate reference should be made to my excursus at pp. 255-7 of ' The Aldermen of London,' or to my friend MB. DTJNCOMBE PINK'S admir- able article in ' N. & Q.' of 26 May, 1900 (9 S. v. 409). ALFBED B. BEAVEN, M.A.

Leamington.

" TEENICK." The Rector of Little Chart, near Ashford, Kent, writes under date 12 November :

" To-day I have heard a Kentish word for the first time, namely, teenic/c, a sort of brushwood used in making a ' stake and binder ' hedge, also for filling-in the lower part and gaps."

I draw attention to this word, first because, perhaps, it does not occur in ' E.D.D.,' and secondly because ' E.D.D.' supplies information from which the etymology of this rare word becomes quite clear. We find recorded for many dialects in various parts of England the word tine (O.E. tynan, to enclose), meaning to repair a hedge or

fence, to close up a gap in a hedge with dry wood. The regular Kentish form of this word is recorded by ' E.D.D.' (s.v. ' Teen '), with the meaning to make a hedge with " raddles," whence teenage and teenit, wood suitable for raddling a hedge. The Ashford form teenick may possibly be merely an individualism for teenit. The Sussex forms of this word for brushwood are tinnet, tennet, see ' E.D.D.' (s.v.). For the Kentish pronunciation of O.E. tynan, namely teen, cp. Kentish mees (mice), O.E. mys.

A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.

SUFFBAGETTES : ' THE GlBL OF THE

PEBIOD MISCELLANY.' I wonder how many of us old fogies who record our reminiscences in ' N. & Q.' remember a publication which I earnestly recommend to young journalists and others who are called upon to write on this " burning subject of the day." I refer to The Girl of the Period Miscellany, which was issued in close imitation of Punch from March to November, 1869. It appears to have begun with ' The Girl of the Period Almanack' for 1869, and ended with the ' Almanack ' for 1870, presumably its last " cry." As a skit upon the fashions of the day it is a valuable contribution to history, and looking through its pages one is con- tinually amazed and amused to see how its wildest flights of imagination have become commonplace realities to-day. It is an encyclopaedia of extinct and surviving slang worthy of the attention of Sir James Murray and Prof. Skeat, and as a link in the history of the suffragette movement it is at once illuminating and pathetic.

EDWABD HEBON-ALLEN.

RICHARD ABTJNDELL, MASTER AND KEEPEB OF THE MINT. It appears from a receipt for costs given in 1738 by one Charles Eyre that it was necessary, on the appoint- ment of Arundell, to obtain the approbation of the Deputy King's Remembrancer (for which a fee of five guineas was paid), to enter into a bond for lo,OOOZ., and to find three sureties at 5,OOOZ. each. The sureties were the Earl of Pembroke, John Selwin, Esq., and Dudley North, Esq. R. S. B. r

JUDGMENT BY TELEGBAM. I observe that in Greenshields, Cowie & Co. v. Stephens & Sons, Limited, reported at 1908 A.C. 431, in which a judgment was delivered by Lord Halsbury, in which Lord Ashbourne, Lord Macnaghten, and Lord Collins concurred, Lord Halsbury added : "I have a telegram from my noble and learned friend Lord