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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. SEPT. 3, 190*.

I should much like to know who this St. Thomas was. I have before me a sketch taken from a painted widow of this person. He is habited in mitre and cope, &c., all in white, with embroidery in gold-coloured roses on both. The left hand holds a crosier; the right is uplifted in the act of bless- ing, with a ring on the second finger. In bold old English characters are the words, "Ste. Thomas de Hereford," on a ribbon behind, while at his feet is a shield on which are the arms, representing a diceboard pattern in black and white. The figure is 6 in. high, and fixed in the extreme upper part of a beautiful stone window in Cothel- stone Church, near Taunton, Somerset. I should be pleased to show this sketch, an admirable one, to any one interested.

HAROLD MALET, Col.

For churches dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket see 8 th S. vi. 468 ; vii. 57, 118, 277.

JOHN T. PAGE.

FINAL "-ED" (10 th S. ii. 47). I am glad to see this matter come under discussion in your pages; for while, as one who has visited many churches in different parts, I can confirm the experience of W. C. B. that there are " not a few " clergy who deliberately make a separate syllable of the final -ed, yet I feel sure that nine out of ten read the services and lessons in church with the same pronunciation they would give to such words outside the church. I am in the habit of attending a church where the old fashion of sounding -ed as a syllable has of late been revived, and yet is not consistently observed ; but I am sure neither of the clergy would think of pronouncing preserved, for example, in three syllables when used in ordinary conversation, or hanged in two. Certain words must, by a cultured man, have the final -ed sounded (this last word, for instance), but then this is done in everyday life as well as in church ; and why should any difference be made 1

Then a distinction should be made, I take it, between original words ending in -ed, as " wicked " applied to a man, and cases where the -ed is added to original words, as moisten, moistened ; enrich, enriched, &c The objectors to the formation of the wore 41 talented " would, I suppose, hardly acknow ledge " half-hearted," " whole-hearted," but 1 think they will be found used by gooc authors, and are examples of -ed that must be separately pronounced.

I have never had the privilege of hearing " ragged " spoken as " ragg'd," but " fagged ' (tired out) is, I should fancy, always soundec as one syllable, as also " wicked " would be if

t referred not to an action or an individual,. ->ut to a shoemaker's candle, which is "double- kicked." W. S. B. H.

ANAHUAC (10 th S. i. 507). The intrdductory hapter to that capital boys' book 'The- rlifle Rangers,' by the late Capt. Mayne- rleid, is entitled 'The Land of Anahuac.' The author there gives a poetical and some- what rhapsodical account of Mexico, and in a foot-note, if my memory serves me right, states that the word is pronounced Anakawk- [ am unfortunately unable in this instance- which I have access contains a copy of the 3Ook referred to. Perhaps some other reader of ' N. & Q.' can confirm this. T. F. D.
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PAMELA (9 th S. xii. 141, 330 ; 10 th S. i. 52 t 135, 433, 495 ; ii. 50, 89). It may be worth- noting that M. C. B., writing from New York State (10 th S. i. 237) about some curious- Christian names, gives Pamela.

There is nothing, I think, to show how the author of the following book would have- pronounced the name : " The True Anti- Pamela ; or, Memoirs of Mr. James Parry..

Written by Himself Second edition.

London, 1742." The name appears only,.

I think, on the title-page and in the dedi- cation, p. vi. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

IRRESPONSIBLE SCRIBBLERS (10 th S. ii. 86; 136). I must promptly correct an error which occurs in my reply, an error, I am afraid, for which I alone am to blame. I should have written Hawkshead, and not " Hartshead," as the place where Words- worth's name is still to be seen.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Bradford.

No doubt it is great presumption on the part of 'Arry and 'Arriet to follow the example of their betters. 1 remember a clear space (amidst hundreds of names) once being found for me upon the wooden walls of the little railway station at New Wilmington,. Pa., and recollect the distinctly expressed disappointment of my farmer cousin when I declined to add my own name to the multitude.

Last Eastertide I happened to be in the Banqueting Hall at Rosenburg Castle,, Copenhagen. The room as many will 1 recollect is somewhat curiously situated upon the top floor of the palace, and therein may be seen the silver circular font (3 ft. 2 in. high and 2 ft. 9 in. in diameter), made in Frederick IV. 's time (about 1671), and used for royal baptisms ever since. Our Queen was christened there in 1844. Dr. P. Brock,,