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Massey after reading Holyoake's 'Bygones Worth Remembering ' at the end of last year, though they in no way apply to MR. K. HALL'S question, may appropriately be en- shrined in the pages of *N. & Q ' :

I blend the Holly with the Oak,

'Twas thus the voice of Nature spoke ;

And in fulfilment of her plan

She gave us Holyoake the man.

The ashes of Holyoake were deposited, by Eliot and George Henry Lewes in Highgate Oemetery, thus adding, in that Campo Sarito of North London, another to the
 * his desire, close to the graves of George

Immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Close by a memorial stone records that 44 Herein lie the ashes of Herbert Spencer" ; and only a few yards distant a plain, flat stone covers the resting-place of Karl Marx.

J. GRIGOR.

"PlGHTLE": "PlKLE" (10 th S. V. 26, 93,

U34). MR. MORLEY DAVIS'S recollections of this word on the old maps of Marylebone Park are probably correct, as amongst the various properties enumerated in a '* Sum- mary of a Plan of the Estate called Mary-le- Bone Park Farm,' taken by G. Richardson in 1794 under the orders of the Lords Com- missioners of the Treasury, we find " 15. Pightle, let to Thomas Hammond one acre, one rood, seventeen perches" (see Smith's pightle was used in Middlesex. It is ques- tionable if it should be classed as a dialect word, being of such common occurrence as a term for an enclosure. W. F. PRIDEAUX.
 * Marylebone,' 1833, p. 244). This shows that

MR. WHITWELL may care to have this 'modern use of the word :

" We want a place for an approaching combat between my friend here and a brave from town. Passing, by your broad acres this fine morning we saw a pightle, which we deemed would suit. Lend us that pightle, and receive our thanks ; 'twould be a favour, though not much to grant : We neither ask for Stonehenge nor for Tempe."' Lavengro,' -chap. xxiv.

W. E. WILSON.

Hawick.

PIDGIN OR PIGEON ENGLISH (10 th S. v. 46,
 * 90, 116). In answer to DR. MURRAY'S ques-

tion, I would refer him to the entertaining paragraph on pp. 204-5 of the Rev. J. L. Nevius's ' China and the Chinese ' (Harper & Brothers, 1869), beginning, "A very singular spoken language, called Pigeon-English, has sprung up on the coast of China during the last thirty years," and explaining that '"pigeon" is merely the nearest English equivalent for the uncouth sounds made

by Chinese in attempting to pronounce " business." The too scant specimens of " My name is Norval" done into pigeon Eng- lish are highly diverting.

FORREST MORGAN. Hartford, Conn., U.S.

THERMOMETER SCALE (10 th S. v. 128). The number of varying scales for the thermo- meter in its early days is very considerable. (A record of a large number of these will be found in 'The Evolution of the Thermometer, 1592-1743,' by H. C. Bolton, published at Easton, Pa., in 1900.) The scale referred to appears to be a special or enlarged one, arranged according to Celsius, and probably later than 1742. R. B.

Upton.

This is probably an example of De Lisle's scale, where zero was the boiling-point of water, and the highest point was either, as here, 100, the temperature of the Paris Ob- servatory Cellars, or 150, the freezing-point of water. The scale was introduced in the early part of the eighteenth century.

SIDNEY WHITE, LL.D.

"FAMOUS" CHELSEA (10 th S. iv. 366, 434, 470, 517 ; v. 33, 95, 133). I suppose those who hold that the lost Clovesho is now re- presented by Cliffe-at-Hoo, near Gravesend, would have no difficulty as regards Ceal- chyth, where councils were sometimes held. They would say it is the modern Chalkhithe, a spot on the coast hard by. SHERBORNE.

LONDON PAROCHIAL HISTORY (10 th S. iv. 288 ; v. 55, 95). Is MR. Me MURRAY ac- quainted with the lists of rectors of the parishes of SS. Anne and Agnes and St. John Zachary contained in the Rev. G. Hennessy's very valuable 'Repertorium Novum Londi- nense,' 1898, pp. Ixiv., 93, 96?

In Rawlinson MS. B. 381, in the Bodleian Library, f. 11, there are " Allegations of the Churchwardens of St. John Zachary against the Company of Wax-Chandlers for non- payment of a church rate," in 1681.

W. D. MACRAY.

"MisiCKs" (10 th S. v. 128). Some dic- tionaries include the word " mizzy," explain- ing that it is of doubtful etymology and denotes " a boggy place, a quagmire." Halli- well, in his * Dictionary of Archaic and Pro- vincial Words,' enters what seems to be the same term in the form "mizzick," his defi- nition being " a boggy place>" and his com- mentary running only the length of the one word "North." Halliwell's "raizzick" may perchance be that which the Lymm church-