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tion is a large one, he has thrown ample light upon it. The general, if decreasing, ignorance regarding the English of Chaucer and his contemporaries must be my plea for the somewhat vague terms of the query. I shall now turn to the perusal of ' The King's Quair ' with deepened interest.

It is to be hoped that in our schools and universities every advantage will be taken of the splendid work which has been done by PROF. SKEAT the chief of a capable band of native scholars for Chaucer and Middle English study. There are trustworthy signs, indeed, that an appreciation of it is rapidly growing among our educational authorities.

STUDENT.

MELCHIOR GUYDICKENS (10 th S. iv. 469, 537). In the forties and early fifties there lived in Connaught Terrace, Hyde Park, now the west side of the Edgware Road, two old maiden ladies, the Misses Guy dickens. They were friends of my mother, and were the daughters of General Guydickens, who, I surmise, was identical with Gustavus Guy- dickens, the son of Melchior. They were related to the family of Viscount Tracy, a title which is now extinct or dormant, I do not know which. Lord Sudeley is the present head of the Tracy family, and in all probability he would be able to give MR. H. ATHILL-CRUTTWELL the required informa- tion. BASIL A. COCHRANE.

30, George Street, Manchester Square.

PUNCH, THE BEVERAGE (10 th S. iv. 401, 477, 531). In Saxon charters relating to Hamp- shire, Nos. 674, 787, 982 (Birch, ' C. S.'), occur the place-names "pungcheshyl" and dune, <fec. The prefix survives in one locality in the names Purisholt Farm and Lane.

I have in a book on Surrey pointed out that in Rostrenen's Franco-Breton dictionary the word " Puncgz " is explained as a well or cistern. There are Roman remains in both places that might account for the cistern.

It appears to me that the beverage was probably introduced to the Dutch and English marine by the Breton sailors who brought over the cargoes of "right Nantes," and that the name came from the vessel in which it was brewed. Similarly, we now talk of "cup/' whether of claret or cham- pagne.

I fancy brandy was the first form of alcohol to be known commercially and apart from home distilling, and the Breton sailors were famous in early times.

Punch as a beverage is not so entirely extinct as some of your correspondents seem to think. A well-known club of antiquaries

strictly confines its after-dinner potation to it, whether in town or country. Its use has been ruined of later years by the number of strong liqueurs and other abominations that have been crowded into it, which make it extremely to be dreaded. It is evident that the definition of it as "a form of lemonade" was not entirely a jest, and that ill-results were the effect of quantity rather than of quality. RALPH NEVILL, F.S.A.

There is an amusing account of punch- drinking in 4 Redgauntlet ' (the probable date of which is 1760), chap, xi., at the table of Provost Crosbie, of Dumfries.

In 'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk' (the date of which is about 1819), vol. iii. letter Ixvii., is a description of a dinner-party at Glasgow, in which punch is a conspicuous feature. The sugar is melted with a little cold water ; then lemons are squeezed over it, and the water poured on it. It is then called sherbet. Afterwards rum is added.

At Jesus College, Oxford, is a silver-gilt punch-bowl, holding ten gallons, and weigh- ing 278 ounces, the gift of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne in 1732.

An old recipe for punch-making ran : One of sour, two of sweet, Three of strong, four of weak.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. [T. F. D. refers also to Peter's seventieth letter, as containing an account of the "awful results" that followed the drinking of the punch.]

GEORGE III.'s DAUGHTERS (10 th S. iv. 167, 236, 291, 336, 493). COMMANDANT REBOUL will find references to the story of Capt. Garth in ' The Creevey Papers,' vol. ii. p. 196 (14 Feb., 1829), p. 197 (2 March), and p. 200 (19 March). RICHARD HEMMING.

[MR. R. J. FYNMORE also refers to Creevey.]

" PHOTOGRAPHY " (10 th S. iv. 367, 435, 450, 490). In my list of terms beginning with 44 photo" I omitted the common "photo- zincography." The earliest record I have of this is in the following title : " Shakespeare's

Sonnets, 1609 Reproduced in Facsimile by

the New Process of photozincography

1862." WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

JOHN PENHALLOW (10 th S. iv. 507 ; v. 15). In vol. iii. of 4 Proceedings in Chancery : Elizabeth ' (published 1832) there is mention of a case in which Richard Williams was plaintiff and John Penhallowe defendant. The object of the suit was personal, and the date 1597. This was possibly a relative of the John Penhallow who died in 1716.

CHR. WATSON.