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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL APRIL 13, 1907.

TALBOT. What is the origin of this word* whether applied to the family of Talbot or to the dog so named ? Can it be a contrac- tion of St. Hubert, a hound having been formerly known as St. Hubert's breed ? Was not our word " tawdry " similarly contracted from St. Audrey, of St. Audrey's Fair in East Anglia ? The name MacMichael is scattered over Australia, Canada, and the States, but rarely occurs in England or Scotland. In Burke's ' General Armory ' it has the crest of a talbot's head. Now, so far as I can ascertain, this dog called a talbot was quite an English production, and I am naturally inquisitive as to what was his origin as a crest. He seems to have been related to the bloodhound ; but I have certainly read somewhere that he was originally a humble follower of the packhorse, just as we still see a similarly built animal called the " Dalmatian " following at the rear of, or underneath, a carriage. But he was also a hunting dog ; William Somer- ville in ' The Chase ' says :

If the harmonious thunder of the field Delight thy ravished ears, the deep-slewed hound Breed up with care, strong, heavy, slow, but sure ; Whose ears, down-hanging from his thick round

head,

Shall sweep the morning dew, whose clanging voice Awake the mountain echo in her cell, And shake the forests ; the bold Talbot kind Of these the prime ; as white as Alpine snows ; And great their use of old.

In what way did the talbot as a crest appertain to the MacMichaels, a family far more English and colonial nowadays than Scottish ? J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

[A. D. also sends a query as to the origin of Talbot]

" ROAD or WORDS." On p. 2 of " An Exposition on the Lord's Prayer ... By Ezekiel Hopkins, late Lord Bishop' of London-Derry " (London, 1692), there is the following phrase : " But to mutter over

a road of Words only is not to offer up

a Prayer unto the Almighty, but only to make a Charm." Is the expression " a road of words," in the sense of a fixed formula, peculiar to that author ? or was it a common way of speaking in Ireland or England in his time ?

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

MONTHS AND DAYS IN FRENCH. Depuis quand les journaux fran ? ais ont-ils pris 1 habitude c'est assez recent, je crois de mettre des lettres majuscules au commence- ment des noms de mois, a I'histar des Anglais ? Qu'est-ce qui a motive ce chanee- ment de front ? Et puisqu'il s'agit d'une

telle innovation pourquoi n'a-t-on pas ete assez logique pour adopter la fa$on anglaise de commencer les noms de jours avec des majuscules aussi ?

EDWARD LATHAM.

HILTON AND HARE FAMILIES. I should be glad if any of your readers could furnish me with information on two points about which, owing to my residence so far West, I am unable to gather much by my own efforts.

1. With regard to the old Hilton family of Durham, William Hylton Dyer Long- staffe shows in one of his genealogical tables (' Parentalia Memoranda ') that a son of William Hilton, of Windmill Hill, Gates- head Richard Hilton, born 1769 was drowned at sea. Now I am very anxious to learn on what this statement is based. Can it be learnt in what ship Richard Hilton was supposed to have been drowned, when, and where ? Is there any reason to suppose he left any family ? The William Hilton referred to is he who was described as " Hilton the poet."

2. I am informed that Wprmleybury Hall, near Wormley, Hertfordshire, was formerly the residence of a member of the Hare family. Can any reader tell me in what circumstances this estate passed out of the Hare family, and at what date ?

F. HILTON. 16, South Avenue, Exeter.

WILLIAM CLINDENIN, M.D. I desire to obtain the pedigree, &c., of William Clin- denin, M.D., of Peter Street, Dublin, who died circa 1795 in that city, and of his son Samuel Alexander Clindenin, M.D. and L.A.C., of Baggot Street, Dublin, and after- wards of Liverpool, where he died 27 Nov., 1847. The above William had brothers and sisters : John, Alexander, Samuel ; Rose, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Esther. The family is descended in the male line from Glendonwyn of Glendonwyn, in Eskdale, Dumfries, I believe. GLENDONWYN.

Adelaide, S. Australia.

FIFTH-MONARCHY MEN. " We have seen a Blind, Fanatical Zeal enrage Forty Men, to make War against a Mighty Nation, in full Peace, in the midst of its Principal City." Dr. Tho. Sprat's sermon before the House of Commons, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, 30 Jan., 1677/8. Was this an uprising of the Fifth-Monarchy Men ? If so, where is there an account of it ?

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Oregon.