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ray assistance, as far as I am able ; but, as I hav never wrote anything in a historical way, have now and then suggested hints to others as they wer writing, and never published but two pamphlets- one was to justify the taking and keeping in ou pay the 12,000 Hessians, of which I have forgot th title, and have it not in the country ; the other wa published about two years since, entitled * Th Interest of Great Britain Steadily Pursued ' i answer to the pamphlets about the Hanover forces 1 can t tell in what manner, nor on what heads, t answer your desire, which is conceived in sucl general terms : if you could point out some stated times, and some particular facts, and I had befor me a sketch of your narration, I perhaps mi^ht b able to suggest or explain some things that are come but imperfectly to your knowledge, and some anecdotes might occur to my memory relating to domestic and foreign affairs, that are curious and were never yet made public, and perhaps not prope to be published yet, particularly with regard to the alteration of the ministry in 1717, by the remova ot my relation, and the measures that werepursuec in consequence of that alteration ; but in order to do this or any thing else for your service, requires a personal conversation with you, in which I should toe ready to let you know what might occur to

I am most truly, v Sir,

Your most obedient and most humble servant.

To the Rev. Henry Etough. DKAH ETOUGII, Wooltferton > SeP*- 10, 1755.

1 cannot forbear any longer to acknowledge the many favours from you lately; your last was the 8th of this month. His majesty's speedy arrival among his British subjects is very desirable and necessary, whatever may be the chief motive for Ins making haste. As to Spain, I have from the beginning told my friends, when they asked, both in town and country, that I was not at all appre

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possibly be the interest of the Spaniards to do t; for should the views of the French take place in making a line of forts from the Missisippi to Canada and of being masters of the whole of that extent of Country Peru and Mexico, and Florida, would be

them than theBritish settle -

Mr. Fowle has made me a visit for a few days and communicated to me your two pieces relating to my brother and Lord Bolingbroke, and I think yoS do great justice to them both in their very different and opposite characters, but you will give me leave to add with respect to lord Orford, there are several mistakes and misinformations of which I am persuaded 1 could convince you, by conversa

fe nf"!3 - observat i ns are nofc Woper for a Jtter Of this more fully when I see you, but when that will be I can't yet tell.

I am ever most affectionately yours, &c. Neither of the above letters appears in the index volume to Mrs. Toynbee's valu- able work. No letter to Dr. Birch earlier than 1/58 appears in the 'List of Corre- spondents, arid no letter at all is indexed as -addressed to the Rev. H. Etough.

I should like to point out that in her note 3, vol. xiii. p. 249, Mrs. Toy n bee is m error in calling the Earl of" Strath- more, who was the first husband of Mary -h-Ieanor Bowes, the seventh earl. He was the ninth earl. FRANCIS H. HELTON

9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

" : " PiKLE ' (10* S. v. 26, 93).- beheve MR. WHITWELL will find this word on some of the maps of Marylebone Park, 1768-1806, in the Grace Collection (Map Portfolio xiv.) in the Print-Room, British Museum. I say this from recollections of tour years ago, when I had occasion to study those maps very carefully ; but I cannot now spare time to verify it. My impression is that the name was applied to a small en- closure immediately adjoining one of the inns, which was probably a dwelling-house of the seventeenth century.

A. MORLEY DA VIES. Winchmore Hill, Amersham.

Blount's 'Glossographia,' 1674, says that ptcle,pitle, orpightel signifies "a little small close or inclosure.' 1 In Dr. Adam Littleton's 'Syllabus Vocabulorum,' 1703, is " Pictellum, a Picel or Pightd of ground, a little close, a P-mgle." The word pingle is still in common use in the Midlands. In Harris Nicolas's

Notitia Historica,' 1824, at p. 137, a tl pick of land" is stated to be "a parcel of land that runs into a corner." This definition is not satisfactory. The i in pikle would be sounded long, as in pike, and probably also n ptctel, which occurs in the old deed set out jy MR. WHITWELL. Pick would in early irnes probably have the same sound as pike* or we get "right" from rectus, and Wight the isle) from Vectis, and some of the old hronicles wrote Fights forthePicts (Gibson's

Camden,' pp. 1081-6). Pight was also an old orm of the past participle pitched ('Imp. )ict.'). Pightel most probably meant a piece f ground staked out or fenced with strong palings or palisades. Such protection round

homestead or a foldyard would be necessary n primitive times. W. R. H.

I have to thank MR. ADDY for his early uotation, and MR. W. FARRER for a most aluable series of quotations, which I have anded to Dr. Murray.

These quotations make it needless to look nto the High Wycombe instance. It is ossible that the word in * Leger Book I ' is, fter all, not pightle in any form, but articulns. H. T. Riley (who reported on le book) may have been an East Anglian, r may for some other reason have believed lat the dialect word pightle is English for