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to different points on the look-out for the fugitive monarch the Brighton, the Dieppe, and the Newhaven, but he succeeded in getting on board, near Treport, the Express, a packet belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company, which landed him at Newhaven early on the morning of 3 March. The "Bridge" Hotel, where Louis Philippe put up, still bears a tablet recording the circumstance. 11. B.

I have always understood that Louis Philippe fled from France on 28 February, 1848, landed at Newhaven, Sussex, and spent the night at the chief inn now the "Ship" Hotel of that town. The fact is, I think, recorded upon the front of the house named, or, in some fashion, within. I am confident as to the date of arrival, for it happens to have been upon my natal day, and the cir- cumstance of the notable flight which occurred thereon has been impressed upon me from childhood. CECIL CLARKE.

A full account of the King's flight from France and his landing at Newhaven, his conversation, costume, &c., is given in * The Annual Register, 1848,' 'History,' p. 236. No doubt The Times of that year gives further particulars. J. E. L. PICKERING.

Many of the details are supplied in The Illustrated London Neivs, March, 1848, pp. 166, 176, 179, 206 ; see also 9 th S. ix. 129, 195 ; Boase, * Mod. Eng. Biog.,' iii. 646.

W. C. B.

' CHERRY RIPE' (10 th S. iv. 469; v. 214, 254, 297, 352). 'The Story of Nell Gwyn,' by Peter Cunningham, edited by H. B. Wheatley, pp. 68-9, gives an account of Nell's per- formance in ' All Mistaken.'

WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

" (10 th S.^ v. 261, 329). I do not think the pronunciation of pour makes a derivation from F. purer impossible. Vowels before r are difficult to discriminate, and do not always develope as they should. Thus floor and moor now (I believe) differ, though in both cases -oor represents A.-S. -or. And floor and door may be rimed together, though the A.-S. forms are flor and duru. As to deriving E. scour from Dan. skure, Jessen says that Dan. skure is merely borrowed from Low German ; and Kluge derives G. scheuern, Du. schuren, and Dan. skure all from Romanic, just as I propose to do.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

On Sunday evening, 29 April, I heard the congregation at the parish church here sing Veale's hymn (No. 302 ' A. & M. 3 ), " Come, ye

faithful, raise the anthem," in which occurs the following verse :

There for us and our redemption,

See Him all His life-blood pour ! There He wins our full salvation, Dies that we may die no more ; Then arising, lives for ever, Reigning where He was before.

Every one, of course, pronounced the word "pour," as riming with "more" and "before." I take this to be the general rule everywhere now, whatever it may have been years ago. Scores of times I have heard ancient dames, both in Northamptonshire and Warwick- shire, pronounce the word "pour " as though it were spelt "power"; but such methods are only to be found in the lingo of very old- fashioned people. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

Rimes which seem unusual, and which are sometimes ascribed to poetic licence, are generally to be attributed to the prevailing pronunciation in the county or neighbour- hood to which the rimester or poet belonged. In the Eastern counties " hour," " sour," "flour," " four," " your," and "pour" are all similarly pronounced. FRANK PENNY.

Though " pour" is pronounced here in the normal way, yet I have heard people pro- nounce it * 4 power." R. B R.

South Shields.

I myself during a long life have never heard the word pronounced otherwise than as we pronounce pore. However, Hood may be added to PROF. SKEAT'S list of those who have favoured the other pronunciation ; vide his line

The King's rain and all the pours that be.

LOBUC.

ESCUTCHEON OF PRETENCE (10 th S. iv. 429, 496). i s MR. JAMES WATSON correct in limiting to sons only as apparently he does the right of the children of an heiress (heraldice) to quarter their mother's arms with their paternal coat? Surely all the children of the whole blood of a man who has married an heiress are so entitled. Of course, if the heiress should have only a daughter and no son by her husband, and that husband has a son by another marriage, the daughter would alone be the heir of her mother and not of her father, whose arms would be solely inherited in their full form by her brother of the half-blood. But such paternal arms have, nevertheless, been allowed, by what has been styled by some heraldic writers " marshalling by incorpora- tion," to be borne by such daughter in a special manner, i.e., upon a canton upon the