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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. OCT. 15, 1904.

THE TRICOLOUR (10 th S. ii. 247, 290). As the writer of the query on the Devonport picture which has happily produced PROF. LAUGHTON'S most interesting reply, I may observe that I agree with him in all he says except as to the indistinctness of one of the flags. I examined it, close, in a strong light, and can say that one at the masthead is blue -white -red, vertical, i.e., the present French ensign. D.

PRINCIPAL TULLIEDEPH (10 th S. ii. 207). He held, while Principal, the dual appoint- ment (frequent in those days) as minister of St. Leonard's Parish ; and from the Kirk- Session Minutes of 1 July, 1778, I find that "Principal Thomas Tulliedeph" died 14 November, 1777. This probably is suffi- cient to prove the spelling of his name.

ALEX. THOMS.

On a book-plate I have (circa 1730) of David Tullideph there is no e in the name and no I in the final syllable.

J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.

" SILESIAS ": " POCKETINGS " (10 th S. ii. 268)- The best notice of the former is that in Blount's ' Glossographia,' 1681 (and doubt- less in earlier editions). He says :

" Sleasie Holland, common people take to be all forrain linnen which is sleight or ill wrought ; when as that only is properly Slesia, or Silesia linnen cloth, which is made in and comes from the Coun- trey Silesia in Germany."

The term is still in use.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

Silesias originally may have been made of flax, but nowadays they are made of cotton. They are produced both in plain cloth and twilled, dyed in all shades, and printed in fancy designs. They are used for the linings of garments (chiefly for men's use), as in the sleeves of coats and the backs of waistcoats.

Pocketings are made for the pockets of male garments, in both plain and twilled fabrics, and of almost all colours. Another kind is known in the trade as hop-pocketing. This is made in several widths, in jute or linen or cotton, and, as its name indicates, it is used for the packing of hops.

MAN UF ACTURER.

Silesians are the ordinary linings used for trousers and vests. A word used in a similar way is hessian, which means jute packsheet, made chiefly in Dundee. The textile trades are rich in words of this kind. An old word in common use for a certain cloth is zephyr. Zephyrs are superior cotton cloths for ladies' dresses, their special feature being that the colours are woven into the cloth, as dis-

tinguished from printed. The word is com- monly used also in Spanish among textile merchants zcfiro. Glasgow is the famous place for zephyrs, though of late years its glory in this particular trade has been some- what dimmed. P. F. H.

Dr. Ash, in his * New and Complete Dic- tionary of the English Language ' (London, 1775), defines the former to be "a kind of thin linen cloth," and the latter "the stuff of which pockets are made."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

[Replies also from E. G. B., MR. ALFONZO GAR- DINER, and ST. S WITHIN.]

UPTON SNODSBURY DISCOVERIES (10 th S. ii. 268). These relics are deposited in the Free Library Museum at Worcester.

W. BRADBROOK.

JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS (10 th S. ii. 248). On seeing a similar note in a bookseller's catalogue some time ago, I wrote to the Librarian of the House of Commons, and I was informed that the volumes in question are transcripts of the originals. ANDREW OLIVER.

MAZZARD FAIR (10 th S. ii. 228). In Halli- well's * Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,' vol. ii., eleventh edition, occurs, " Mazzard, a kind of cherry," so that Mazzard Fair is simply a fair where " mazzard cherries " are exposed for sale, as mentioned by your correspondent. ANDREW OLIVER.

Charles Kingsley, in chap. i. of ' Westward Ho ! ' says :

" He had no ambition whatsoever beyond pleas- ing his father and mother, getting by honest means the maximum of red quarrenders and mazard cherries, and going to sea when he was big enough."

Doubtless the fair took its name from the fruit, which was plentiful at that time.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

Surely YGREC has arrived at the correct conclusion when he mentions mazards, which, by the way, has only one z. Other explana- tions might be from maze, meaning continu- ally busy, and so on. You have admitted one hazard in the query, so possibly you will indulge me in a similar manner.

This third fair mentioned by YGREC was, according to Britton and Bray ley, held annually in a place called Fair Meadow. This was granted in the time of Henry VII. to the Bassets of Tehidy, and subsequently was conveyed to Lord de Dunstanville, who was formerly known as General Massey.