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 «»»8. iv. DM. a, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 449 Carre, Carrey, married the daughter of Tancred de Hauteville, King of Naples, Sicily, and Duke of Calabria. T. W. C. ST. AGNES' EVE.—In Keats's poem of 'The Eve of St. Agnes' the hero is represented as heaping a table by the bedside of his lady- love with all kinds of "cates and dainties." Is this a recognized part of the legend of St. Agnes' Eve ? ORIENTAL. ' ZAPATA'S QUESTIONS.' — What were 'Zapata's Questions 'on the'Recueil Neces- saire'? Where were they published? and where can the work be seen ? The ' Recueil Necessaire'seems to have been a collection of pieces written by freethinkers, published at Leipsic in 1765. ARTHUR HOUSTON. 22, Lancaster Gate, W. MONCK : MONKE : MONK.—There is an entry in the register of the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, under date 27 Feb- ruary, 1695, "Job son of Joan Monck was buried." The name of Joan or Joane is not infrequent in the pedigrees relating to the various branches of the family of Monck which I have so far seen; but the name of Job is not found therein. To what branch does this entry probably belong 1 I should be grateful to any of your expert genealogical correspondents who might afford a clue. J. W. B. CHARLES QOUGH was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1710, aged fourteen. Can any readers of 'N. & Q.' give me information of his subsequent career? G. F. E. B. HYPHENS AFTER STREET NAMES.—A vogue has crept in for employing the hyphen as a link with road, street, and so forth. But is such use of the character justifiable ? That colossal indicator ' The London Directory ' does not adopt the plan. Why, then, should the notion prevail elsewhere ? CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club, W. [Mr. Howard Collins in 'Author and Printer,' under capitalization and xlreet, recommends capital letters for Road, Street, &c., following a name; but adds, "in journalism, hyphen and lower-case usual, as Regent-street."] RABI'AH, SON OP MUKADDAM.—Will some Arabic scholar tell "a country cousin," who lives far away from reference libraries, how the name of this hero and that of his father are pronounced 1 What value have the vowels ? and on which syllable does the accent fall 1 P. K. M. PIG: SWINE: HOG. (10th S. iv. 407.) IN Fifeshire " swine " is the generic term, and is both singular and plural. "Pigs" are sucklings, and become respectively " hogs" and " sows " when the litter is dispersed. A brood sow may be distinguished from a feeding sow, but this is not inevitable. An outlandish person who once descended upon a rural district of the county, and entered into conversation with a cottager about her " soo " when the animal in reality was a hog, prompted free commentary and general merriment among the natives. Even in this community, however, those who have ade- quately profited by the regulations of the School Board consider " pig" the refined term to use as a general name. THOMAS BAYNE. In Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Durham " pig " is the usual term for a pig of any age, size, or weight. I have known it said of a very fat one, " It's all pig anearly," meaning that there would be very little to throw away. In a letter written by a Lincolnshire lady, 12 December, 1827, she refers to the management of a " pig " to be bought ready killed, to provide "pig-cheer" (as it is called) for Christmas (fry, sausages, pork pies, mince pies, <tc.). Canon Greenwell, who was born in 1820, has no recollection of " pig'' in Durham except as above. " Boar" and "sow "are terms used only for distinction; "hog" and "swine" not at all, in the folk speech. J. T. F. Durham. In Norfolk, at any rate in the fifties, " pig " was always used as the generic term ; "sow " always for the female, of which "swine," but, I think, more often " sows," was the plural. "Swine" was never used in the singular. It struck me as very peculiar when I first saw it used in the singular in one of Burus's poems. "Hog," I think, was always the male, or rather the eunuch, in process of fatting. " Boar " was the term generally used for the perfect male. J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W. I would call DR. MURRAY'S attention to 'Hudibras,' pt. i. canto i. 51-2 :— Beside, 'tis kiiown he could speak Greek As naturally as Pigs squeak. Also Cowper in ' The Yearly Distress' has the lines:— And one of pigs, that he has lost By maggots at the tail.