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shortened in similar fashion. Hickory, paucjie, samp, squash, were originally pohickery, scuppauy, ^nasaump, asquuta squash. Some- times it is the termination which is lost. The Micmae name for the lake trout, mtaksunch, is cut down to toyue by Canadian fishermen. But that is another story. I think we may feel sure that hominy is short for rockahomonie, which is the Virginian Indian name for thisfood, and isdulyentered by Strachey in his Virginian vocabulary (of circa 1615) as "rokohamiii) parched corne, grownd small." The meaning of the suffix is doubtful. It may be mm, grain, as suggested above. Of the first element I can speak with certainty. It is ^ the common name for maize or Indian corn in most of the Algonquin dialects. In Virginian maize was called lockatance, in Delaware lokat, in Xatick noohkik, in Narra- gansett nokehick. The last of these forms was actually adopted into English in the spelling nocake. Nocalte, does not look much like the first syllable of rockahomonie, but the dissimilarity vanishes as soon as we know that in the Algonquin dialects there is con- stant interchange between I, n, and r, and also between t and k. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

ABBEY ^OR PRIORY. (See ante, p. 266.) Until quite recently Worksop Priory was commonly called the Abbey by all sorts of persons, high and low. Some twenty -one years ago, soon after his coming, the present vicar of Worksop, the Rev. H. T. Slodden, noting that a writer in one of the local newspapers invariably spoke of the Priory, made inquiries, and, finding that it was properly a priory, restored the name in all matters relating to the church ; but not more than half the residents speak of it as the Priory. The schools connected with it are "Abbey" schools, nor can the name be altered. An old street hard by is called Abbey Street, and it would be a waste of time to attempt to induce the local authority to change the name to Priory Street.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

CATHOLIC." The Irish Nationalist members of Parliament took objection last year to the insertion of "Roman" before "Catholic" in their House of Commons ques- tions. A controversy has now arisen in The Pall Mall Gazette on the same point. The historical title of the Western Church pre- sided over by the Pope is "Catholic, Apos- tolic, Roman." It will be found in the docu- ment signed by Henri IV. when he ceased to be a Huguenot, and in similar formal statements of the present day. For early

instances of the term "Roman CathoMc" see 9 th S. ii. 227, 394, 475, 515. D.

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.

" PLEACHY." Under this word the 'Eng- lish Dialect Dictionary ' quotes Clare's 'Rural Muse '(1835), 11. 26, 77:

While o'er the pleachy lands of mellow brown.

The old propt haystack's pleachy brow. What does "pleachy" here exactly mean? "Pleachy" is said to mean "mellow, pow- dery." I conclude, therefore, that the " pleachy lands " are of mellow, powdery soil ; but what is a haystack's "brow"] and in what sense can this be said to be " pleachy " ? Will some Northamptonshire man or woman, who knows the word, explain]

J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

, ENGLISH GOVERNMENT FUND FOR FRENCH EMIGRES. In the memoirs of that distin- guished emigre, Count de Cartrie, whilst in England, constant mention is made of his pension from the English Government (1794- 1800) of one shilling per day and an additional allowance of one shilling for his servant. Can any correspondent give me information as to the public funds for this purpose, the amounts paid, the duration of the fund, and whether records are known to exist of its recipients ?

JOHN LANE. The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

Cox's 4 HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE.' This is the back title of a book recently purchased. It appears to be part of vol. v. of a collection of county histories, is paged 581 to 920, and contains a map by Robert Morden. Can any one give me the title, &c., of the whole work? AVERN PARDOE.

Legislative Library, Toronto.

CAPT. WILLIAM WADE. I should deem it a favour if B. W. T. would confirm his interest- ing communication (ante, p. 215) by giving his authority for the statement that, a few years after the crim. con. action in which he was concerned, Capt. VVilliam Wade again offered himself as a candidate for the office of M.C. of Bath, but was so coldly received that he was obliged to withdraw. Owing to the coincidence of dates, 1 have little doubt, as suggested previously, that the divorce case was the cause of Capt. Wade's retirement.