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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. in. MAY 13, 1905.

During her stay at Biarritz in 1889, Queen Victoria visited the Queen Regent Doila Cristina, at the Palace of Ayete, which is mentioned in one of the above epitaphs, and which was erected in 1878. I saw Her Majesty drive through Biarritz on the way to and from the railway station on that occasion. No other King or Queen of England had been in Spain before, after accession to the throne. Your correspondent MR. HUBERT SMITH, of Leamington Spa, went from Biarritz on purpose to see the two queens together in Donostian on that memor- able day, and was surprised to find that the house of Ayete, about 2 kilometres outside the town, resembles one which belonged to his maternal grandfather, in Shropshire, built by a French architect. On the lawn in front of the house the Duchess of Bailen caused a grey marble column to be set up, with a cross-topped crown on its summit, and four slabs of white marble on its sides bearing the following inscriptions in roman capitals, painted red. The colouring has nearly dis- appeared, except in that which commemo- rates Queen Victoria.

1. Don (sic) Alfonso XII. I se deturo en Ayete el 22 de Febrero de 1876 | levantando el bloqueo de San Sebastian | sitiada por las fuerzas Carlistas | Desde el dia 28 de Setiembre de 1875, | dando termino a la guerra civil, | paz si la nacion y gloria a su nombre. | Aiios adelante el 5 de Setiembre de

1883, | dirigiendose a Alemania a visitar | al empera- dor y rey Guillermo I. | se hospedo en esta casu de la duquesa | viuda de Bail6n, | acompaiiado de su augusta esposa la reina | D a Maria Cristina de Austria, | que el dia 6 regreso a Madrid.

2. D a (sic) Isabel II. | ya descargada del grave

gjso del Reinado, | vivio en esta Morada | de la uquesa Viuda de Bailen, | los veranos de 1883,

1884, 1886, | aniada y amante de estos naturales.

3. Don Alfonso XIII. | Nino Aun, | Cuidado por la tierna solicitud | de su augusta madre la Reina Regente [ D a Maria Cristina de Austria, | y acom- panado de sus hermanas | la princesa de Asturias D a Maria | de las Mercedes | y la infanta D a Maria Teresa, residio en Ayete los veranos | de 1887, 1888, 1889, | 1890. 1 1891 y 1892. | 1893.

4. Victoria Alejandra I Reina del Reino Unido | de la Gran Bretaiia 6 Irlanda, | Emperatriz de las Indias, | visito, en este sitio de Ayete, | a S.M. la Reina Regente de Espaiia D a Maria Cristina de Austria, | el 27 de Marzo de 1889.

The following inscription in Guipuzcoan Baskish was placed in the portal of the office of the Credit Lyonnais in San Sebastian at the beginning of 1905, on a slab of black marble covered by a thick sheet of glass. It is in gilt roman capitals. It shows that Baskish is not quite so extinct as some people suppose, and is much more correct than some others recently erected in the province. It may be rendered thus :

"The money and the paper of all countries is changed (not tricked). Letters and cheques of all regions are paid ; yea, and also all other money matters of that kind for America, and all further money negotiations. Besides, gold, silver, and any- thing whatever of great value, which is desired, are kept in the

Credit Lyonnais

hutches which stand made for that purpose. Baskish is spoken."

Trukatzen da erri | danetako dirua | eta papera. | Pagatzen dira aide | guzietako letrak | eta chekak ; baita | ere Amerikako beste | onelako diru gai | guziak, eta ganeraco | diru tratu danak. | Gordetzen dira berriz, | artaraco eginak | dauden kucha-etan, gauza. | Mintzatzen | da Kuskara/.
 * nai diran urre, zillar | eta balio aundiko | zer nai

(T. Altuna, San Sebastian.)

Diru is a corruption of Castilian dinero, from Latin denario. E. S. DODGSON.

SCOTTISH JUDGES: THEIR TITLES.

AT 8 th S. v. 206 I was permitted to explain the history of the titles of Scottish judges, which had confused so learned a student of our customs as my distinguished friend the Comte de Franqueville ('Le Systeme Judi- ciaire de la Grande Bretagne,' Paris, 1893> vol. ii. p. 568 foot-note), and even the ' Alrna- nach de Gotha.' The judges of the Court of Session by old custom on taking their seat on the bench assume a name of a territorial kind, probably because the old custom (not yet extinct) was to address a laird by the name of his lands, eg. Durnbiedykes. Thus on 27 May, 1532, Sir William Scott, of Bal- weary, became a senator of the newly founded College of Justice as " the laird of Bal weary," and he is afterwards referred to in the lists- as Lord Bal weary. His son, who was laird of Petgormo, also became a judge, and wa styled Lord Petgormo, and so on to the- present day, every judge being presumed to be a laird ; if a judge has no lands he (as a rule) takes a territorial title all the same ;. thus the present Lord Justice Clerk (the Eight Hon. Sir J. H. A. Macdonald) is Lord Kingsburgh. The rule is not without many exceptions, for Lord Trayner, Lord Young, &c., simply put the title Lord before their surname, and this practice has some advan- tages, as the judge never, in fact, signs his title ; thus Lord Kyllachy signs " W. Macin- tosh," and Lord Kincairney signs "W. E. Gloag."

This year, however, a great change has been made by the King's Warrant, pub- lished in The Edinburgh Gazette of 14 Feb- ruary, that judges who retire from the bench are to retain their titles, and that the wives of judges are to bear the title of Lady thus removing the awkward anomaly of the name*