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the exact date, however, is omitted in the manuscript pedigree before me. That he was alive on 17 Nov., 1640, is certain. It would be interesting to learn how his death came to be recorded as having taken place either on 25 July or 26 Aug., 1640.

The above Edward Rudge was of Blazies, Berks, and by his first wife Mary, daughter and coheiress of John Sharp, or Sharpe, of Lawrence Waltham, Berks, had, with other issue, an eldest son Edward Rudge of Blazies, Berks, and Great Warley, Essex, whose will was dated 23 June, 1699, and proved 6 Dec., 1701 (P.C.C. 174 Dyer), he having died 13 August in the latter year.

In my query I described the last-named Edward Rudge as Alderman of London, the reason for my so doing being that in the manuscript pedigree of the Rudge family to which I have referred he was so called, appa- rently upon the following authority :

"'History of English Lotteries,' pp. 30, 31. Another Water Scheme, January 14th, 1689. Warrant to pass the privy seal appointing Sir Robert Pointz, K.B., and Edward Rudge Aldermen of London, for the just carriage and managing of the Lottery authorized by the King for the use of the aqueduct undertaken by Sir Edward Stradling, Sir Walter Roberts, and ethers."

With a view to confirming the statement in the warrant, I searched Mr. Beaven's

author did not increase the value of his historical compilation by including in it an index of surnames !), but failed to discover therefrom that Edward Rudge, son of the Alderman and Sheriff, had also been an Alderman of London. I was at a loss, therefore, to know how to account for the discrepancy between the omission by Mr. Beaven and the description in the warrant.
 * Aldermen of London ' (what a pity the

By the courtesy and kind assistance of Mr. Edward M. Borrajo, City Librarian at the Guildhall Library, I am now in a position to confirm the accuracy, in this instance, of Mr. Beaven's ' Aldermen of London.' Mr. Borrajo has informed me that Edward Rudge, son of the Alderman and Sheriff, never was an Alderman of London, and that the mistake in so describing him appears to have arisen from the author of the

date of the warrant as 1689, instead of 1639 (vide ' Calendar of State Papers, 1638- 1639,' p. 314).
 * History of English Lotteries ' giving the

I therefore beg leave to amend my state- ment at 10 S. x. 470, col. 2, 1. 24, by the deletion of the words " Alderman of London." FRANCIS H. RELTON.

9, Broughton Road, Thorn ton Heath.

"CHRISTMAS PIG" (10 S. xi. 27, 71). The " pigs " referred to by M. P. as " mince- pie pigs " made " to please children " remind me that, when I was a child, a similar dainty was made for the children of Northamptonshire families at the time of pig-killing. This was called a " keech," and is referred to in Baker's ' Northamptonshire Glossary.' The second meaning of the word therei is: "A large oblong or tri- angular pasty, made at Christmas, of raisins and apples chopped together."

This hardly coincides with my knowledge of a " keech." It was always triangular, and consisted of a turnover or pasty filled with ordinary mincemeat ; and in the centre, where the three points of the turnover met, a dough bird was placed, with two currants to form his eyes.

For each child of the family a " keech " was always made. I had my share of these childish delights in the late fifties and early sixties, and I still possess a letter from my dear departed mother, written to me when at school prior to the Christmas holidays, wherein occur the ominous words : expect you will be too old for a keech." It is many a long year since I saw a real "keech," but I think they are still an institution in some Northamptonshire families. JOHN T. PAGE.

VILLAGE NAMES FEMININE (10 S. xi. 29). Would not the gender of the qualifying adjective be determined by the feminine parochia or parcecia, of which the masculine vicus, bearing the same name, is but the little metropolis ? CHARLES GUNMAN.

Church Fields, Salisbury.

Probably " Magna " and " Parva " were used in preference to "Magnus" and " Parvus " merely for the sake of euphony.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

SIR JOHN SYDENHAM, BART., OF BRIMPTON (10 S. x. 490 ; xi. 53). MR. RADCLIFFE will find Dame Mary Sydenham given as the second wife of Andrew, Lord Gray, in Sir J. B. Paul's edition of ' The Scots Peerage, 1907, and Dame Catherine Cadell as his third wife.

In my communication on p. 54 please read " widow " for " wife " in 1. 12.

PERCEVAL, LUCAS.

SUFFRAGETTES : ' THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD MISCELLANY' (10 S. x. 467, 518). 'The Girl of the Period' was the heading of an article in The Saturday Review of 14 March, 1868 a scathing impeachment of