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 516 NOTES AND QUERIES, cio- s. iv. DEC. 23, IMS. capitals for street, road, &c., in my ' Aggra- vating Ladies,' 1880. RALPH THOMAS. WELSH POEM (10th S. iv. 208, 392).—Dean Ramsay, in his ' Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character,' gives an anecdote illus- trating the effective vowel usage of the Scottish dialect. If not showing a success in continued vowel utterance equal to that of the Welsh poem quoted, it has, nevertheless, an aptness not less genuine. An interview between a haberdasher and a customer is set forth thus:— C. Ae oo' * H. Ay, ae oo'. O. A'aeoo'? H. Ay, a' ao oo'. This may be anglicized as follows :— C. One wool? H. Yes, one wool. C. All one wool» //. Yes, all one wool. W. B. I think there must be an error in D. M. R.'s third line. Ought not the second word to be iveua, not " weuae"? The final « seems to be redundant. It is an ingenious composition, apparently made up entirely of vowels, the Welsh w (=00) being one. Really, howeve_r, all the words haying to do with " weaving" and "web" begin in their primi- tive form with » y—gwau, gwe, tfiveau, &c.; also ;rwiio, "proper," and yaitaf, "winter," the <i being dropped by one of the laws of Welsh mutation. C. S. JERRAM. Oxford. [As we heard this in Edinburgh more than hall a century ago, the first two linos were Aoo'? Ay, a oo', ».e. " All wool!" " Yes, all wool."] "THOLSELS" (10"' S. iv. 387, 453). —MR. PLATT is correct when he writes of "Tolbooth" as a Scotch term, if he means that it has been and is current across the Border; but if his intention is to give the impression that it is not also an English word, he is in error, as the following references bear witness :— Dawson, ' History of Skipton,' p. 203. Canon Raine, ' Hemingborough.' 10, 149. Cambridge.—Walford. 'Fairs.'78. Durham.—Thoresby,' Diary,' i. 140. Ripon.—The Antiquary, July, 1896, 214. Cambridge. — ' Luard Memorial: Grace Book A,' p. 213 Bradford.—' Depositions from York Castle (Surteea Soc.), p. 118. EDWARD PEACOCK. ITHAMAR (10th S. iv. 387,438).—The interes of this name consists in the fact that it :t undoubtedly a South-Arabian appellation ind was borne by some of the Himyaritic cings. In its Sabtean form it is ^spelt Vetfia" - amar, which means "Yetha" has ommanded." Yetha' was the tutelary god of Aden, in Himyaritic times. Prob- ibly Aaron's wife, Elisheba, whose name H Sabtean, was a native of South Arabia, further reference may be made to two papers •f mine that were published in the second •olume of the Transactions of the Society of Jiblical Archaeology, 1873, entitled ' On some lecent Discoveries in South-Western Arabia' .nd ' Note on M. Lenormant's " Lettre sur 'Inscription dedicatoire Himyaritique do Temple du dieu Yat'a a Abian."' W. F. PRIDEAUX. DUELLING IN GERMAN^ (10th S. iv. 388, 455).—Law and custom need not agree; at any rate, they do not always do so. Duelling i* an old inheritance, and as much may be said
 * or it as against it. To-day the coward is

setter off than the brave man, and formerly one could fight for one's right oneself, whereas to-day one is at the mercy of law- mongers and supercilious judges. In a duel one might lose one's life, but the affair came off quickly ; whereas in our peaceful days one may lose one's cause, one's fortune, and one's health into the bargain ; and your law- suit drags on for years. So far as I am aware boxing in the public road was never lawful in England ; yet is the time so long past when such honest meetings took place in the open every day in your country? Unfortunately it is no longer generally true "that severe social condemnation falls on any one who refuses to face his antagonist's pistol." This only holds good with officers in the army and navy. G. KRUEGKR. Berlin. SAMUEL WHITCHURCH, POET (10th S. iv. 429).—He was an ironmonger at Bath and » correspondent of the old AtonM;/ Mayazi'M. A list of his works will be found in the 'Bifr graphical Dictionary of Living Authors' (1816), and also in Allibone. G. F. R. R SIR LAWRENCE DUNDAS (10th S. iv. 44S) was the second son of Thomas Dundas, ot Fingask. by his wife Bethia, daughter of John Bailfie, of Castlecarry, Shropshire According to Collins :— " In 1756 he attended his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland from London, and had tie charge of supplying all the troops in Scotluw during the Duke's command In 1748 his ROTJ! Highness ordered him to attend in Flanders, in* appointed him Commissary-General to the armf under his command. In 1759 he engaged in sevtril large and extensive contracts with the Lords of H«