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tongues, the plural is formed by change of initial, instead of by a suffix, so that when we speak of kola- nuts they say trola, and simi- larly the plural of kam is tram.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

W. E. ADAMS'S ' TYRANNICIDE.' (See ante, p. 192.) The reference in MR. J. C. FRANCIS'S interesting letter to the prosecution of Mr. E. Truelove for publishing a pamphlet on * Tyrannicide ' affords an opportunity of recording the fact that the whole of the circumstances relating to this prosecution appear on pp. 352-61 of * Memoirs of a Social Atom,' published by Hutchinson & Co. in 1903. The author of these 'Memoirs' was the writer of the famous pamphlet my old friend Mr. W, E. Adams, for many years editor of The Newcastle Chronicle, and an occasional contributor to ' N. & Q.'

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

RICHD. WELFORD.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

HARDY AND THOMAS SOPER. I have seen a watch which is said to have belonged to Hardy, and to have been worn by him at the battle of Trafalgar. Instead of ordinary numerals for the hours, it has the letters THOMAS SOPER *. This watch (so the story goes) was given to Hardy by Thomas Soper, who was supposed to be some relative of his. The name does not occur in 'The Three Dorset Captains at Trafalgar,' and I can obtain no information concerning him. The above-named book, moreover, gives a photo- graphic reproduction of a watch worn by Hardy at Trafalgar, which is certainly not the same as the one I have seen. Can any correspondent say who Thomas Soper was, and what, if any, was his connexion with Hardy? A. D. POWER.

3, King Street, St. James's, S. W.

CORNELIUS HOLLAND, M.P. In an able history published at 7 th S. v. 281 (14 April, 1888), the late REV. A. W. CORNELIUS H ALLEN, editor of Northern Notes and Queries, gave an excellent description of the life and career of Cornelius Holland, a prominent man in the time of the Commonwealth ; but he was then unable to ascertain the date of Cornelius Holland's birth or marriage, or the names or dates of baptisms of his ten children. Can you or any of your numerous readers give

this information, now that the contents of the London City registers are better known ?

C. B.

[There is a short life in the ' D.N.B.,' with a list of authorities. His birth is given as 3 March, 1599 ; and a son James was baptized at St. Laurence Pountney on 17 Feb., 1627/8.]

COPYING LETTERS. Can any correspondent furnish information as to the beginnings of this process ? I allude, not to the so called "invention" of the copying press, but to an anterior period, when it seems reasonable to suppose that it had been discovered that certain kinds of ink would "set off" on to a sheet of thin paper, if moisture and a certain amount of pressure were applied. Some letters as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century have every appearance of having been subjected to this process.

J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

CATTERTON SMITH. I should be glad of information as to Catterton Smith, a pencil artist, circa 1820-30. 1 have some pretty pencil sketches by him of lady members of my family about that period, and 1 should like to know something of the artist. I imagine that he was a West of England man, probably of Bath or Bristol. V. K. T.

[Is this Stephen Catterson Smith, who was born in Yorkshire, but resided for some years at Yeovil ? See the life in the 'D.N.B.']

JANICE, an old-English form of Jane or Janet. Will any reader be so kind as to supply instances ? G. C.

HENRY ANGELO. This famous swordsman retired to *' a village " (name unknown) '* within two miles of Bath," about the year 1827, and there he wrote his 'Reminiscences' and ' Angelo's Pic-Nic,' both recently repub- lished in sumptuous style by Kegati Paul & Co. Henry Angelo is said to have died there about 1839, and his wife, Mary Bowman Angelo, in or soon after 1827. Will some Bath antiquary oblige with the name of the village, and with copies of the burial registers? CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

India Office.

THE PHILIPPINES. ' Vingt Annees aux Philippines' was published in Paris in 1853, as by Paul de la Gironiere. The same year Vizetelly issued a translation (no doubt by Henry Vizetelly) under the title 'Twenty Years in the Philippines.' The Athenaeum (24 September, 1853, p. 1121), in what I should term a rollicking review, chaffed the author most unmercifully, and in fact, as I read it, treated the book as a fine piece of imagina- tion, like that lately exposed by MR. EDWARD