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. iv. JCLY is. loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 51 synonym for it in English or French. Thus 1 might say, "Adjectives precede substantives in German and English, and follow them in French and Italian : thus schon, reap, beau- tiful, will come before their substantive, and beau, resp. bello, will follow that which they qualify." I have come across a passage in Paul's ' Principien' which may serve to illus- trate the use of " respective" in German :— "Ein zweites mittel, wodarch das wort bezie- hung auf etwas concretes erhalt, bildet das ein- gesprach, respective in der einseitigen ausein- umersetzung des redenden vorangegangene." " Another means whereby the word receives its power of reference to something concrete and precise is what has preceded in the conversation «f the speaker, or, it may be, in his explanation given from his point of view." H. A. STRONG. University, Liverpool. This contraction, written out in full, would be in German respektiv, from mediaeval Latin respective. The original sense was, of course, " respectively " or " relatively," but in modern German it is employed with much the same meaning as " or," or the French ou lien. JAS. PLATT, Jun. As used by German writers this abbrevia- tion stands for the Latin respective, and is the equivalent of "bzw." = " beziehungsweise." In practice this word, which should mean "respectively," often expresses little more than "or." LIONEL R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg, Germany. This is one of those contractions of which Germans seeni inordinately fond. Fliigel, >.i'. Respectiv, exemplifies it thus: "4 resp. 4i""», 4 or say 4i per cent." The source is cfearly the Latin retpectus, the sense being " 4, with some consideration of 4i." J.~ DORMER. Having bought Prof. Kluge's 'Etymo- logical Dictionary' soon after its publication, I took it to a Swiss village as my literary pabulum for a fortnight, and became worried oy the recurrence of this expression, then Dew to me, on almost every page. I thought, and think, that it was an unnecessary and unworthy addition to the simple German language; but it may contain an inward grace not generally patent. Those who have read Beneuix's comedy ' Die Mode' can imagine what fun he would have made of " Resp." By the way, are we not alone in using the convenient abbreviation of the Lat. id est ? H. P. L. MINT AT LEEDS, YORKSHIRE (10th S. iii. 489).—Thoresby's assumption that Leofder/n is a mistake happens to be totally wrong. The '/ is an occasional variant of th, espe- cially as a capital letter, and Leofder/n is thus a permissible and recognized variant of Leofther/n, in which the th was written as a crossed D. Leoftltegn is a well-authenticated and extremely intelligible name. It occurs in the Liber Vitse of Durham, and means, literally, " dear thane." One key to the amazing assertions of our old antiquaries is to remember that they usually knew nothing of Anglo-Saxon, and had few books to help them. Some of our modern antiquaries are even worse ; for they pose as knowing Anglo-Saxon when they can neither read nor pronounce it, and they do not even take the trouble of consulting any of the fairly numerous authorities. WALTER V. SKEAT. MR. GATES should consult Ruding's ' Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain,' 1840, vol. ii. p. 229. From the observations made upon the subject it evidently is a fallacy that any of the kings of England had a mint at Leeds. JOHN RADCLIFFE. BENSON EARLE HILL (10th S. iii. 162, 472). —The peerage inquired for at the last refer- ence was the Earldom of Huntingdon. It was dormant from 1804 to 1819, when (14 January) Lieut. Hans Francis Hastings, R.N., was summoned and took his seat as Earl of Huntingdon. According to G. E. C.'s 'Complete Peerage' he was the fourth and youngest, but only surviving son and heir of Lieut. - Col. George Hastings, of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards. He was educated at Repton and elsewhere, joined the naval service 1793, Lieutenant R.N. 1799, Commander 1821, and, finally, Post-Captain 1824. He was Ordnance Barrack Master in the Isle of Wight, and afterwards from 1808 to 1817 Ordnance Storekeeper at Enniskillen. His claim to the earldom was reported as proved 29 October, 1818, by (Shepherd) the Attorney-General, and he took his seat as stated above. See also ' The Huntingdon Peerage,' «fec., by Henry Nugent Bell (4to, 1820), " whose exertions in assisting the claim to the title were very great." From the foregoing it would appear that B. E. Hill's 'Recollections' were inaccurate in more than one particular. C. S. H. THE HOBSEFERRY. WESTMINSTER (10th S. iii. 248).—The Archbishop of Canterbury held the Horseferry from Westminster to Lambeth up to the erection of Westminster Bridge, when he was allowed 2,205/. for loss of the same, which was funded (' The Origin and Progress of the Watermen's Company,' by Henry Humpherus, 1887, vol. i. p. 26). The