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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. FEB. 2, 1007.

"His dress on the evening in question consisted nt a llue coat with a velvet collar, and the consular button,* a buff waistcoat, black trousers, and boots. It is difficult to imagine what could have reconciled him to adopt the two latter innovations upon r\ ruing costume, unless it were the usual apology for such degeneracy in modern taste, the altered

proportions of his legs He was averse to strong

contrasts in colours One evening he said, 'My

(K-iir Jessse, 1 am sadly afraid you have been read- ing " Pelham " : but, excuse me, you look very much like a magpie. I was dressed in a black coat and trousers, and white waistcoat, and though I had never given that gentleman's adventures a second thought, I considered myself at least a grade aboA-ea magpie." 'Life of Beau Brummell,' 1854, chap. vii.

The fashion of black must have come in very slowly ; for from various fashion-plates in my possession, blue, brown, and dark- green coats were common in the thirties, and not entirely unknown in the early years of the following decade.

R. L. MOBETON.

In the Daily Mail of 14 December, 1900, was an illustration of men's evening clothes as they were worn in 1801, showing that the decorated waistcoat and frilled shirt, such as it is desired in some quarters to revive to-day, were then in vogue. I have not verified the quotation, but in Chambers' s Journal for May, 1904, the adoption of black is said to have come about through a paragraph in Lytton's ' Pelham,' his second novel, which did not appear until

1827. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

THE AINSTY or YOBK (10 S. vi. 462, 511 ; vii. 36). It seems to me to be rather im- probable that a large tract of country con- taining 49,720 acres, and, nowadays, twenty parishes, should be named after a track only wide enough for the passage of one horse or carriage. Was Canon Taylor utterly wrong in his suggestion that Ainsty signified, as regarded York, its own pos- session, its peculiar ? See 8 S. i. 383.

ST. SWITHIN.

"THE MAHALLA" (10 S. vii. 45). MB. MAYHEW is not quite correct in ascribing to this the sense of army or army corps. It is the technical term for a column quartered on a rebellious city, with the object of " eating it up," and so reducing it to sub- mission. Mahalla is a well-known Arabic word, derived from the verb "to abide," and meaning a parish or other division of 'a city or town. The term is in constant use m Persia, India, Turkey, and other Moham- medan countries, and has been taken over

HS ai)pointed British Consul at Caen

as a loan-word by several European lan- guages. Thus in Greek we have yua^aAas^ a street or quarter ; in Roumanian mahald* ward, section, suburb ; in Servian and Croatian maliala, " Vorstadt oder Stadt- viertel," &c. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

ROTABY BBOMIDE PBOCESS (10 S. v. 346). I should like to confirm what L. L. K. says as to the excellence and convenience of copies made by competent operators in this process. Perhaps he will be so good as to let me know the name and address of a photographer who will do such work in the Public Record Office.

R. J. WHITWELL.

70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

PBOF. WALTER BAILY'S BOOKS (10 S. vi. 507). The Reference Department of the City of Birmingham Free Library does not possess an original copy of Dr. Baily's pamphlet on the baths at Newnham Regis,, but about twenty-five years ago there was added to its collection of Warwickshire books a carefully written transcript of it. The copy from which this transcript was made was dedicated " To the right honor- able Sr. Frauncis Walsinghm knight princi- pall secretarye to the quens most excellent Ma." BENJ. WALKEB.

Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

ANDBEW JUKES (10 S. vii. 48). Mr. Jukes died at Woolwich, 4 July, 1901, aged 85. A list of his extremely thoughtful and sug- gestive works will be found in Crockford's ' Clerical Directory ' for 1899 and 1900. They begin with a Hulsean prize essay on the interpretation of prophecy, in 1841,. and end with ' The Order and Connection of the Church's Teaching ' (notes on the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels the least striking of his works, so far as I know them)^ in 1893. He was B.A. of Trinity College,. Cambridge, was ordained deacon in 1842, and never proceeded to priest's orders, but after holding a curacy at Hull for a short time lived a studious and retired life.

W. D. MACS AY.

The Rev. Andrew Jukes was admitted to deacon's orders in 1842, and was licensed to the curacy of St. John's Church, Hull. My personal recollections of him are of what he was after he had become the pastor of an independent congregation in the town. In his public ministrations he continued to use- the prayers of the Church of England, but his teaching was akin to that of the Ply- mouth Brethren. The publication, in 1867,. of his book ' The Second Death and the