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grave was buried at Kensal Green ; and Arch- bishop Longley was transferred to Canter- bury. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Kewbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BAUGHAN : BOFFIN. I shall be much obliged if any of your correspondents can give me the derivation of the name Baughan (pronounced " Boffin " ). It is the name of an old yeoman family which belonged to Long Compton, Warwickshire, for several centuries. If it were not for the pronunciation it might be a variant of Vaughan, or derived from Bourne ; but to my certain knowledge the pronunciation " Boffin " has existed for at least 250 years. The name is, I believe, now extinct, except in the female line that is to say, my wife bears it as one of her Christian names. A. PERCY SMITH.

JOHN CLAPHAM, ELIZABETHAN AUTHOR. I should be glad to have any light thrown on the parentage, life-history, and other works of John Clapham, who in 1591 (not 1581, as given by Allibone) published ' Narcissus, sive Amoris Juvenilis, &c.'

Was he the same John Clapham who published in 1602 ' The Historic of England,' and in 1606 'The Historie of Great Britannie' ?

Again, was J. C., who published three editions of ' Alcilia Philoparthen's Loving Folly' in 1613, 1619, and 1628, this same John Clapham, or a John Chalkhill ? Dr. Grosart reprinted the latter work in 1879, and may have cleared up this doubtful point. I have unfortunately no means of access to his works.

Replies direct will oblige.

J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B. 88, Grange Road, Bradford.

" HAUGHENDO " : FYLDE OATH. In Thornber's ' History of Blackpool ' I find the following :

''The pronunciation of the words 'laughing,' ' Toffee,' ' haugheudo,' &c., the Shibboleth of the Fylde, always reminds me of the deep gutturals of the Welsh, and the frequent use of a particular oath is, alas ! too common to both people.

Can any of your readers explain the word " haughendo," and say in what sense it has been a Shibboleth of the district ? The oath mentioned is also a problem which I hope some reader will solve.

As to the pronunciation of " laughing," I find that Bunyan in a poem makes " laugh- ter " rhyme with " daughter." Were both words sounded with a guttural sound originally, afterwards displaced by the sound of / ? If so, the verb " sough,"

instead of having the ugly sound usually given it to-day, must have originally been truly onomatopoeic absolutely expressive of the wind among the trees.

G. M. TAYLOK.

Rossall School.

[The pronunciation of "daughter" as "dafter" has already been discussed at length in ' N. & Q.' ; see 7 S. iii. 189, 253, 433 ; iv. 77, 198.]

WALCHEREN. Do any memorials to British soldiers who died in the unfortunate expedition of 1809 exist at Flushing, or elsewhere in the island ?

A note from any correspondent as to the present condition of such monuments, or of any still existing inscriptions, would be of interest. W. C. J,

RUBY WEDDING. In Y Drych (a Welsh American weekly) for 3 June reference is made to the celebration of a "ruby wed- ding " at Cleveland, Ohio, and it is there said that it was held on the " ddeudegfed " anniversary of the wedding. In Wales " deuddeg " always means colloquially twelfth, " dauddeg " being used for twen- tieth. Neither of these can be the meaning in the paragraph in question, as the married sons and daughters of the ones whose ruby wedding was celebrated were present. The term " ruby wedding " is not given in any of the dictionaries I have access to, including the ' Encyclopaedic ' and the ' Century.' Does it mean the fortieth anniversary ? Is the term in general use in the States ?

D. M. R.

Aberdare.

Twiss's 'VERBAL INDEX TO SHAKE- SPEARE.' In Southey's ' Commonplace Book,' vol. i. p. 401, there is reprinted a review of the above article, which originally appeared in The Eclectic Review of January, 1807. Can any one tell me the name of the writer ? M. Y. A. H.

" DAVELLY " RAIN. Lindric Common and Lindric Dale are romantic spots near here, and the latter contains less than a dozen houses, parts of some hewn out of the rock hill-side under which they nestle. Some score years ago there were living in the houses persons who used strange words for common things, and one of them who had always " th' best butter i' the wold " to sell, always called a drizzling rain a " davelly rain. Is this word for drizzle used else- where ? I never hear it now.

THOS. RATCLTFFE. Worksop.