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all ST. SWTTHIN mentions, the Prayer Book, the versified Psalms with music, '* Forme of Praier for Godly houses," and other prayers, <fcc. ' CAROLINE STEGGALL.

My " Breeches " Bible, although dated 1607, seems to correspond in almost every respect with that mentioned by ST. SWITHIN. It is in black letter, with Eoman marginal notes, and has "wee trussed up our fardels" in Acts xxi. 15. The Concordance is by R. F. H. ST. SWITHIN'S Old Bible must be a " Breeches." The date is evidently a printer's error. It would probably be the original edition.

J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

The Bible mentioned by St. SWITHIN is evidently of that edition which is thus des- cribed by Mr. Dore ('Old Bibles,' p. 234):

"A quarto Genevan Bible was issued in 1594, on the New Testament title-page of which two figures in the date were transposed. Frequently the first title with the true date is lost, and the book is exhibited as an English black - letter Bible of the fifteenth century."

In fact 1495 stands for 1594.

S. G. HAMILTON.

I once possessed a " Breeches " Bible with exactly the same misprint in the date on the title-page to the New Testament as that mentioned by St. SWITHIN. It contained a number of interesting scribblings on margins and fly-leaves, including entries of the family of Fillingham, of Blyton, in the eighteenth century. JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Monmouth.

FlNGAL AND DlARMID (10 th S. ii. 87). I

think G. E. MITTON will find all the informa- tion required in the 'Beauties of Scotland,' 1806, where at vol. v. p. 262 it is said that " in front of the manse or clergyman's house of Kintail (Ross-shire) stands Donan Diarmed, or Fort of Diarmed. It is of a circular form, twenty feet high, and of the same breadth. There is no other spot on the same plain which commands so great a prospect. There is a wall on the outside, and the best harbour for shipping in all Loch Duich. Diarmed's tomb is on the North East of the fort. Ine rough stones of which it is composed are regu- larly placed by the hand of art, and measure fifteen feet by three. His supposed descendants, the Campbells, who resort to the place, often visit and measure the tomb of the Fingalian hero."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

EPITAPH ON ANN DAVIES (10 th S. ii. 106). Some eight or nine years ago I copied an epitaph in precisely the same words from a tombstone which stood against the flight of steps leading to the main entrance to the Church of St. James, Clerkenwell, erected to

the memory of Mrs. Ann Henwell, who died 10 November, 1801, aged forty-seven years. I have heard of its occurrence in other places also ; so it seems to have been a sort of common form. ALAN STEWART.

7, New Square, Lincoln's Inn.

TlDESWELL AND TlDESLOW (9 th S. xii. 341,.

517 ; 10 th S. i. 52, 91, 190, 228, 278, 292, 316 r 371, 471; ii. 36, 77, 95.) MR. JERRAM gives Carlisle as the local, Carlisle as the general pronunciation . My experience is exactly the contrary. I had never heard Carlisle until I went to live in Cumberland, and then the word was invariably accented on the second syllable. Since I left Cumberland I have always heard it accented on the first syllable, except in the case of decided north-country- men. The name of the neighbouring county, Westmoreland, is sometimes, in London,, accented on the second syllable. Is this only a peculiarity of the cockney dialect, or is it- the local pronunciation 1 I have not lived in Westmoreland ; but, as far as I remember, in Cumberland it was always pronounced West- moreland, and not Westmdreland.

J. FOSTER PALMER.

8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

As a Cumbrian, now fifty years of age, I am? surprised at MR. C. S. JERRAM'S assertion that "you generally hear Carlisle, except when Southern influence has been at work."' I respectfully maintain that educated Nor- therners and Southerners alike pronounce the- name Carlisle, and that it is alone the Border- man, indulging in his Northern dialect, who pronounces it Carlisle.

If, as appears, MR. JERRAM further suggests- that to lay stress on the first syllable of place- names is a peculiar " tendency of the district,"" I again respectfully demur, and submit that the accent in most place-names in England is on the first syllable. . MISTLETOE.

WILLIAM HARTLEY (10 th S. i. 87, 157, 198,. 253, 316). I have just come across the subjoined paragraph from the Gentleman's Magazine for 1808, p. 176, which shows conclusively that the William Hartley, of Hartley, Greens & Co., the famous Leeds- potters, was not the William Hartley who- was High Sheriff of York in 1810.

Obituary, Feb. 1808. " In his 57th year, at Hunslet, co. York, William Hartley, Esq., upwards of thirty years a principal acting partner in the extensive pottery near Leeds."

A. H. ARKLE.

ETON LISTS (10 th S. ii. 107). I should recommend MR. AUSTEN LEIGH to refer to> N. & Q.,' 7 th S. xi. 7, where he will obtain