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Gazette, No. 368). Nathaniel Bailey (1740) thus defines " warren " :

" Waerande, Dutch ; Garenne, French, a Franchise or Privileged Place by Prescription or Grant to keep Beasts and Fowl of Warren as Conies, Hares, Partridges, and Pheasants."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

FLAGS or GREATER BRITAIN. At the time of the discussion in ' N. & Q.' as to the right of private persons to fly the Union Jack, it was suggested that the limitation of the display to this flag at times of national festivity would become monotonous, and it was thought that the difficulty would be in some way overcome by persons flying the flag of the county to which they belonged. A much larger range is now suggested by the action of the Overseas League, which proposes to arrange for the erection of flag- staffs for the display of Empire flags in towns and villages throughout the Empire. The first was erected at Marlow on Wednesday, the 25th of August. The use of Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, South African, and other flags would not only add to the picturesqueness of our streets in times of rejoicing, but also bring our brothers across the seas in touch with us on festive occasions. Especially would this be appropriate on Christmas Day, when our thoughts go out to many dear to us who are spending the day in other climes and amidst different scenes. JOHN C. FRANCIS.

" ENNUI." (See 1 S. vii. 478, 629 ; viii. 377, 523; 4 S. iv. 172, 223.) The use of this word goes back (' N.E.D.') to Berkeley <1732) and Chesterfield (1758). It may be worth while to note that in October, 1789, Mathew Carey's American Museum, pub- lished in Philadelphia, contained a set of verses (apparently of American origin) entitled ' A Charm for Ennui. A Matri- monial Ballad.' Here are the first, second, and eleventh verses of it : Ye couples, who meet under love's smiling star, Too gentle to skirmish, too soft e'er to jar, Tho' covered with roses from joy's richest tree, Near the couch of delight lurks the daemon Ennui. Let the muses' gay lyre, like Ithuriel's bright

spear, Keep this fiend, ye sweet brides, from approaching

your ear :

Since you know the squat toad's infernal esprit, Never listen, like Eve, to the devil Ennui.

When husband and wife are of honey too fond, They 're like poison'd carp at the top of a pond ; Together they gape o'er a cold dish of tea, Two muddy sick fish in the net of Ennui, h - i! t-H* RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

ZlBOPHCENIZA, A WOMAN'S NAME.

Amongst the books in my small library is Bardsley's ' Curiosities of Puritan Nomen- clature,' which is well interleaved in portions, and the margins annotated. One of my latest additions is this curious specimen. It is on a brass in the church of Llangattock- nigh-Usk, Monmouth, to the memory of Zirophoeniza, daughter of William Mathew ; she died 1625 (Add. MS. 32490, F.F.F. 28). This can only be a variant of the woman mentioned in Mark vii. 26, who was Greek, a Syrophenician by nation. A. RHODES.

" COOP " = TO DETAIN VOTERS. In

' H.E.D.' there is quoted from Farmer's 'Americanisms' of 1889, sub ' Cooper ' = " one who coops or confines," the definition, " To coop voters is to collect them as it were in a coop or cage, so as to be sure of their services on election day. Liquor dealers are the usual ' coopers ' for obvious reasons." But in the ' Reports from Com- missioners on Municipal Corporations in England and Wales ' (vol. xxvi. pp. 2486-91), issued in 1835, is an elaborate account of cooping, by that name and by both English parties, at Parliamentary contests at Nor- wich. This description, which contains much striking and some amusing detail, gives, in the Commissioners' words, " some account of what is commonly called cooping. It consists sometimes in seizing and confining the voters of the opposite party during the time of an election, and keeping them in confinement till the poll is closed or till they are induced to promise their votes to the party confining them. On other occasions, voters have been cooped by their own friends to prevent violence or seduction by the opposing party. This practice has been frequently resorted to by both parties. There is no doubt that it is some- times done with the consent of the persons cooped ; but proof was adduced before us of cases at- tended with circumstances of great brutality, in which the persons confined were taken by force, and detained against their will."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

T. L. PEACOCK'S ' SIB HOBNBOOK.' At 6 S. viii. 115 it is said that this poem was written and published by Thomas Love Peacock in 1818. I have a copy in the original grey paper cover. The date on the title-page as well as on the cover is 1814. It was " printed for Sharpe and Hailes, at the Juvenile Library, Piccadilly." At the foot of each of the eight coloured illustrations is " Published 1 June 1813 by Sharpe & Hailes, Piccadilly."

I have an extract from a bookseller's atalogue (about 1891) giving 1817 as the date of a copy. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.