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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. n. DEC. 10, im

(in analogy to Sprenger's Arabic spelling of Makka instead of Mekka or Mecca). H. K.

The date was 13 Jan., 624.

REGINALD HAINES. Uppingham.

PARISH DOCUMENTS : THEIR PRESERVATION (10 th S. ii. 267, 330, 414). I do not think that there is any reason for the slightest alarm with reference to the care of parish registers. The clergy are, as a rule, fully alive to the great historic worth of the documents in their charge. Moreover, numbers of them are deeply interested in historical research, and I may add that, so far as my experience is concerned, I have found the registers, papers, &c., not only well cared for, but the older volumes rebound and repaired.

(Rev.) B. W. BLIN-STOYLE.

Referring to the last paragraph of MR. J. T. PAGE'S remarks on p. 415, I may say that the Committee on Local Records ap- pointed by the Treasury issued its Report in 1902 (Blue-book Cd. No. 1333 and 1335, to be obtained from Eyre & Spottiswpode, price 3s. 2<#.), and most instructive and interesting reading it is. Of course the Committee could only recommend, not enforce, its pro- posals. What is required now is authority from Parliament to spend the money neces- sary to carry out the scheme, and to do this those members of Parliament who take an interest in the matter should be approached to urge Government to bring in and pass a Bill (several drafts of which have been made) on the lines suggested by the Committee.

As regards parish registers, a moderate sum of money expended yearly on the tran- scription and printing of them would in a comparatively short time put beyond the reach of fire, damp, and other destructive causes the contents of these records of the past.

Private enterprise and the formation of county parish register societies are doing the work, but very, very slowly, and it ought to be supplemented by grants of money from the Treasury to hasten it on.

E. A. FRY,

Hon. Sec. of the Parish Register Society, Birmingham.

On p. 47 of the Local Records Committee Report are the "recommendations." Some are most useful and suggestive, but no attempt was made to promote legislation of a compulsory character. Various county bodies have acted on the proposed lines as to various classes of documents, but, so far, parish registers are unaffected. "Appen-

dices," published at the same time as the Report, contain many suggestions. Those adopted at the Congress of Archaeological Societies to which MR. PAGE refers (p. 415) appear on p. 240. No practical scheme for dealing with parish registers has yet ap- peared. I. C. GOULD.

Every series of 'N. & Q.' excepting the Fourth has contained suggestions on this subject ; but it may interest your readers to know that the Home Counties Magazine for October supplies a list of the parishes in the 'Jity of London, with the dates of their egisters, now deposited in the Guildhall Library, where they may be consulted free of charge. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

'RELIQULE WOTTONIAN.E' (10 th S. ii. 326, 371). 1. I should read Fuhrleut in both cases, meaning "carriers."

3. A friend, an Orientalist, assures me that the phrase cannot be Hebrew. It is probably corrupt Italian or Latin. The required mean- ing seems to be "in the time of the martyrs." L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

QUOTATIONS (9 th S. xii. 468 ; 10 th S. i. 56). "Multis annis jam peractis," &c., is quoted by Dr. Laurence Humphrey in a congratu- latory address to Queen Elizabeth at Wood- stock in 1575 (Nichols's 'Progresses,' &c., L 593). JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ANAHUAC (10 th S. i. 507; ii. 196, 258, 317). Would be pronounced nearly like anaivack, only that the w is rendered like two oo's. The three syllables are equal in length, and there is no aspirate. E. A. FRY.

CRICKLEWOOD (10 th S. ii. 408). If MR' HITCHIN-KEMP will refer to Mr. Trice Martin's 1 Catalogue of the Archives in the Muniment Room of All Souls' College' (1877), he will find various references to Cricklewood. For example, on pp. 280-1 are entries relating tc sales of wood and underwood there. Or 26 October, 1525, wood " at Crekyll Woddes,' Middlesex, was sold to William Eade, and or 8 December, 1553, wood " at Crekle Woods ' was sold to William Sheppard. Q. V.

BANANAS (10 th S. ii. 409). The outwarc difference between a Canary and a Wesl Indian banana can only be detected by ex perts, but there is an unmistakable varianc< in the flavour.

The points which distinguish the two fruit* are these : The Canary is a smaller growth, th< peel of finer and thinner texture, more delicate aroma, and of a sweet buttery flavour. Th(