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the butter, eggs, and poultry which had been brought into town by the farmers and their wives. This produce was packed in panniers or pdnyers, as the word was pronounced in my young days these being large square withy (or willow) baskets, which were slung across a horse's back for carrying away. This gave rise to a once familiar saying at Launceston, " He 's as unmannerly as a horse with a pair of pangers," for the breadth of the panniers, one on each side of the animal, was such that passers-by in a narrow road were apt to be knocked aside into the hedge as the horse swung along ; and I have often heard one regrator say to another as they passed in the street, "I'm going up to panger." K. BOBBINS.

" REVENUE " : ITS PRONUNCIATION. The tendency to throw the accent on English words as far back as possible has gradually established the practise of pronouncing "revenue" with the stress on the first syllable. Till quite recently, however, it was not uncommon to hear the earlier "revenue," and it would be interesting to have late instances of its literary recognition. It must have been used in the House of Commons in the last generation, and it is not yet many years since I heard it from a Scottish representative when addressing his constituents. The practice of the eighteenth century is thus illustrated by Young in his 4 Love of Fame,' i. 21 :

When men grow great from their revenue spent, And fly from bailiffs into parliament.

In the following stanza of his * Ocean : an Ode,' the poet gives a further instance of the same thing, besides furnishing one of his numerous examples of the old value assigned to the diphthong ea :

My hours my own !

My faults unknown ! My chief revenue in content !

Then, leave one beam

Of honest fame ! And scorn the labour'd monument !

THOMAS BAYNE.

SHAKESPEARE ; A REMARKABLE FOLIO. In a glazed case on the landing of the first story, just outside the Jones Bequest rooms, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, is a folio copy of "Shakespear. Third Impression. 1664." It has an eagle and serpents on the title-page. The copy has the following autographs on the first pages, viz., Leigh Hunt, March 13, 1842 ; Joseph Fearn, 1842 ; F. G. Tomlins ; J. West- land Marston, Nov r 18th, 1843 ; Robert Montgomery ; R. H. Home, 1842; Le Schmitz,

1842 ; John A. Heraud ; W m Wordsworth ; Robert Browning, 1842, Aug. 15 ; Cha s Knight ; G. H. Lewes ; T. G. Lough ; Charles Dickens ; W m Sherman.

If this copy really belonged to Browning, Dickens, Knight, Montgomery, Wordsworth, et alii, it is certainly one of the most interest- ing and valuable in existence. D. J.

FUNERAL GARLANDS. The following passage occurs in The Tablet of 21 April (p. 611). It ought to be transferred to the pages of 'N. & Q.' The custom was once common, but has now become almost for- gotten or disregarded :

" The very ancient custom of carrying the Virgin's crown, or funeral garland, was observed at a funeral at the parish church at Abbott's Ann, near Andover. The crown, from which fine paper gloves were hanging, was made of thin wood, covered with paper and decorated with black and white rosettes, and was carried from the house to the church before the coffin by two young girls. The girls, who wore white dresses, with white shawls and white hoods, between them bore a white wand from which the crown depended. During the service, the crown was placed on the coffin by one of the girls, and at the close it waa again suspended from the wand and borne to the grave. The crown was afterwards hung on a thin iron rod branching from a small shield placed high up on the wall of the nave of the church, where there were already some 40 crowns suspended. Although there are other churches where these curious crowns are hanging, it is probable that Abbott's Ann is the only parish church in England where the custom is still observed."

An account of these Abbott's Ann garlands is given in Mr. C. G. Harper's ' The Exeter Road, 1 p. 153. ASTARTE.

PEAT. (See 9 th S. iii., iv.) I do not know whether a passage from Archbishop Grey's 'Register' (Surtees Soc., 1872, p. 236) has been considered by those who have dealt with this word. In a lease of the mine of Hexham, dated 30 May, 1230, it is stated that the lessees :

"juramento prrestito, nobis promiserunt quod in qualibet estate, ad cibaria sua per totum annum decoquenda, et ignem proprium, sibi et ministris suis de peatis sibi providebunt. Et si peatas, aliquo casu contingente, sufficients per annum sibi perquirere noil possunt, concessimus eisdem quod rationabiliter et moderate de bosco nostro defectum sine vasto suppleatur."

Q. V.

PARISH CONSTABLES. (See 10 th S. ii. 247, 335, 371, 431; iii. 37.) Those interested in this subject may be glad to know that a valuable contribution to the literature thereon appeared as a leader in The Northampton Daily Reporter of 9 April.

JOHN T. PAGE.