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trian correspondents, according to the sam pamphlet, was " a certain Pazziazzi, clerk i: the office of the secret Austrian police, wh came over to London and published, througl Mr. Bentley, a book called 'A Voice from the Danube.' "

The last-named author translated int< German two books of Count Szechenyi, an his name is given on the title-page of one o them as Michael von Paziazi. L. L. K.

PHILIP BAKER. In the 'Calendar of the Cecil MSS.,' i. n. 1754, occurs " Baker, parson of Win wick, that was provost of King', College in Cambridge." The MS. therein abstracted is undated. The 'D.N.B.,' iii. 14 says he had gone to Louvain before 22 Feb ruary, 1569/70, when he was formally deprivec of the provostship. In 1577 he resided in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, and his recusancy was valued at 50/. ('S. P. Dom Eliz.,' cxviii. 73). When was he rector o Winwick? According to Baines's 'Lanes, iii. 662, Christopher Thomson was institutec on the presentation of the queen, 19 March 1569, the living being vacant by the death of Thos. Stanley, Bishop of Sodor ; and John Cold well was instituted 7 Jan., 1575, on the presentation of Henry, Earl of Derby, on the death of the last incumbent, so that it is not easy to see where Philip Baker came in. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

SAUCY ENGLISH POET. At the end of chap, xxxii. of * Waverlev ' Sir Walter Scott writes that Capt. Waverley " likes no poetry but what is humorous, and conies in good time to interrupt my long catalogue of the tribes, whom one of your saucy English poets calls Our bootless host of high-born beggars, Mac Leans, MacKenzies, and MacGregors."

Who is the saucy English poet? and in which of his poems is this passage to be found 1

JAMES WATSON. Folkestone.

"ESQUIRE" IN SCOTLAND. Mr. Fox-Davies, in 'Armorial Families,' divides gentlemen into two classes "gentlemen" and "esquires." He sends to Scotsmen " Information Forms " drawn up ostensibly to suit Scotch law, on which it is asked whether he who fills up the form " claims to be an esquire." In the margin "Esquires" are defined according to the well-known list given by Camden and other English heraldic writers. Is it not the case that the word "esquire" is used in Scotland properly of any gentleman not in the state of knighthood, and that every Scottish "gentleman" may "claim to bean esquire " ] C. K.

PEAK AND PIKE.

(10 th S. ii. 61.)

THE information received up to this point has greatly advanced the question chrono- logically and topographically. " Aber- gavenny's Pike" is identified as the conical hill near Abergavenny, now called the Sugar- loaf. "Cam's Pike" appears to be Grose's appellation for what is now known as Cam Peak, in the Ordnance maps Peaked Down, a peaked outlier of the Cotswolds, near Dursley, in Gloucestershire. As to Aubrey's curious reference to "Clay hill, not far from War- minster, and Coprip, about a quarter of a mile there," as "pikes or vulcanos," no in- formation has been received. Is there no- Wiltshire reader of ' N. & Q.' who can tell us- about these 1

Mr. W. H. Hills, of Grasmere, has sent a, list of thirty -one examples of pike in the names of hills or peaks in the Lake district. Three examples are sent from Yorkshire, and statements have been received from North- umberland and Durham. It appears also- that the name crosses the Border, and that there are several Scottish " pikes " in the border counties of Roxburgh, Dumfries, and Selkirk. There are believed to be no- examples in Derbyshire, and none have been reported from Cheshire.

As to chronology, the important fact is

jointed out by Mr. A. H. Arkle, of Oxton,

Birkenhead, that Riviugton Pike, formerly


 * lyven Pyke, in Central Lancashire, is

mentioned in Leland's 'Itinerary ' of c. 1549 ;

and as this was a beacon hill, and an

mportant landmark from the Irish Sea, its

name occurs continually from Elizabethan

times onward. Its mention by Leland is

most important, because the date is earlier

han the first known English mention of the

D ike of Teneriffe, and confirms my opinion

hat the native "pikes" of England are not

hence derived.

Mr. Harper Gaythorpe also reports the ccurrence of Rivenpike Hill in a map of Lancashire of 1577, Speed's map of 1610, and many later maps ; also of Murton Pike in

estmorland in a work of 1673, and of ther Westmorland "pikes" in Morden's map of 1695.

Mr. Arkle mentions other Lancashire- pikes" which were beacon hills or im- ortant landmarks from the sea, and it seems i some cases that the name "pike" was rimarily applied to the natural rocky ummit or artificial cairn or beacon itself.