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have observed the legend outside a house with a garden front, " The last of the Sheffield Plate-braziers."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. 6, Elgin Court, W.

The literature of Sheffield plate is meagre in the extreme, but an admirable pamphlet on the subject by Francis Pairpoint is pub lished by Pairpoint Brothers at 80a, Dean Street, Soho. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

' RELIQUIAE WOTTONIAN.E ' (10 tb S. y. 27). Capt. John Smith of Virginia, in his 'True Travels,' describes a u strange invention " (of his own) of torchlight signals by means of which " Kisell, the General of the [Aus- trian] Archduke's Artillery," was able to inform "Lord Ebersbaught, the Governour [of the besieged strong to^vn of Olumpayh, in Hungary], his worthy friend," that he was about to attack the Turks at a specified hour, and to ask him to co-operate with the army of relief. This event is supposed to have taken place in 1601 or 1602. The 1C invention of discoursing at a great distance by lights" is also ascribed to Admiral Penn or James II. when Duke of York. (Of. 7 th S. ix. 41.)

L. L. K.

The Rev. Herbert Haines's 'Manual of Monumental Brasses ' (1816), part ii. 163, has the following under Brightwell- Baldwin, Oxon :

"John Carleton (1547) came from Walton on Thames (c. 1500), & VV. Joyce, 8 chil., Anth. Geo. Wm. John (dec. at Bologna, s.p.) t Edw. Anne (m. Rowland Litton), Kath. (m. Francis Blunt, Esqr., bro. to Lord Mountjoy), Jane (m. Erasmus Gaynesford, Esqr.). North Chantry."

A. R. BAYLEY.

MELCHIOR GUYDICKENS (10 th S. iv. 469, 537; v. 37). On reference to the Army List of 1756 I find Gustavus Guydickens as a cornet in the 6th (or Inniskilling) Dragoons, the date of his appointment being 25 November, 1754. In the Army List of 1777 he figures as a captain and lieutenant-colonel in the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, 22 February, 1775. In the Army List of 1791 he appears as "First Major" in the 3rd Foot Guards,

I April, 1786, and as an army colonel 16 May, 1781, and major-general 28 April, 1790 (pp. 5, 74). W. S.

A Rev. Fred. Wm. Guydickens died 14 Oct., 1779 (Gent. May., 1779, p. 97). As the sur- name is uncommon, your correspondent may possibly find that he was related to Melchior. CHAS. A. BERNAU.

"PlGHTLE": "PlKLE" (10 th S. V. 26). I

am unaware if any existing place names

have been given as illustrating the above word ; but I think that Pittleworth may be adduced. This is a large farm and farmstead in South Hants. Owing to the distance of the house from the high road, it has, for a farmhouse, an unusually large lawn.

H. P. L.

This word occurs as piytd in the ' Domes- day of St. Paul's' (Camden Soc.), p. 78. The date is 1222. We there read of a half-acre of land called " Goderici pigtel."

S. O. ADDY.

BYRON AND GREEK GRAMMAR (10 th S. iii. 188). There seems to be no evidence whatever that Byron wrote a Greek grammar, but the question may have arisen through confusion with Byron's studies in another language, the Armenian. The following quotations are from vol. iv. of Mr. R. E. Prothero's edition of Byron's letters. Writing from Venice to Thomas Moore, 5 Dec., 1816, Byron says : " By way of divertisement, I am studying daily, at an Armenian monastery, the Arme- nian language," &c. (p. 9). There are similar statements in letters to John Murray, 4 Dec. (p. 18), and the Hon. Augusta Leigh," 19 Dec. (p. 25). On 27 Dec. he writes to Murray :

"1 am going on with my Armenian studies in a- morning, and assisting and stimulating in the Eng- lish portion of an English and Armenian grammar, now publishing at the convent of St. Lazarus." P. 36.

To John Murray, 2 Jan., 1817, he sends some sheets of the grammar. " of which I promoted, and indeed induced the publica- tion " (p. 42). He asks if Armenian types are obtainable in England, and requests Murray to take 40 or 50 copies. The publisher actually took 50 (p. 41n). The publication of the work is referred to in two subsequent letters to Murray :

3 March, 1817. "The Armenian Grammar is published ; but my Armenian studies are suspended for the present, till my head aches a little less." P. 65.

25 March, 1817." The Armenian Grammar is published that is one : the other is still in MS. My illness has prevented me from moving this month past, and I have done nothing more with the Armenian."

Mr. Prothero's editorial note on the trans- action may be quoted here :

Byron, unable to offer Father Aucher money For his lessons, helped him, by way of payment, to- publish his 'Grammar, English and Armenian* tongue. In 1819 Father Aucher published his 'Grammar, Armenian and English,' 'in order,' as lie says in his preface, 4 to facilitate the progress of the English learner.' In this last work Aucher prints Byron's translation of the Corinthian Epistles, with the Armenian text." P. 9.
 * 1817), intended to teach Armenians the English