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 10 s. VIIL JULY 6, 190?.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Dyer stepped forward and got into the canal. Really it was a miraculous intervention of Providence. M. L. B. BRESLAR.

MK. D. M. MOORE : NEW YORK UNDER BRITISH RULE (10 S. vii. 466). Was the Governor of New York who is here referred to Sir Henry Moore, Bt., who died, while Governor in 1769 ? He was created a baronet in 1764, and according to G. E. C.'s ' Complete Baronetage,' v. 130, the baronetcy became extinct when the Governor's " only son and heir," Sir John Henry Moore, Bt., died, " unmarried," in 1780. See also the ' D.N.B.,' xxxviii. 354, 372. If the baronetcy thus became extinct in 1780, the late Mr. D. M. Moore can hardly have been a grand- son of this Governor, unless, indeed, he was a son of a daughter. One daughter, Susanna Jane, is mentioned in Burke's ' Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies ' (second edition), 366 ; but her marriages, if any, are ignored. Some explanation of Mr. D. M. Moore's alleged descent from Governor Moore seems, therefore, to be needed. This Governor's successors at New York were John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore (1769), William Tryon (1771), and James Robertson (1778). See the ' D.N.B.,' xxxix. 388 ; Ivii. 276.

One Thomas William Moore who, accord- ing to the Winchester College Register, was born at New York on 30 Jan., 1769 was elected a Winchester scholar in 1781. In Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.' he appears as son of Thomas William Moore of New York, and as matriculating from Worcester College in Dec., 1788. Was he related to Governor Moore ? In any case I should be grateful for further particulars of him and his career.

H. C.

HOCK : HOG : HOGA (10 S. vii. 401, 494). The titles of articles are distracting. Under the above heading, which involves hock, unconnected with either hog or hoga, a question is asked concerning hoghenehine, which has no relationship with any of the foregoing.

The quotation in Bracton refers to section 23 of the Laws of Edward the Con- fessor, for which see Thorpe's ' Ancient Laws,' vol. i. p. 452. The spelling in Thorpe is somewhat less corrupt than that in Bracton, but it is bad enough. Thorpe's version is :

"Quod si tercia nocte hospitatus fuerit, et ipse forist'ecerit alicui. habeat eum ad rectum, tanquam de propria familia : qiiod Angli dicunt ' tuua nicte geste, the thirdde mete agen hine.'" Another MS. has : " tuo niht gest, the thridde oyen hine."

These are mere twelfth-century spellings.

If we have to turn them back into Anglo- Saxon, I suppose the clause' would run thus : " twa nihta gaest, tham thriddan nihte agena hlna " ; i.e., " a guest of two nights, on the third night (one) of his own house- hold servants." Hina is properly a genitive plural (see hind, sb., a servant, in the ' New English Dictionary ') ; so it is best to write agena, the gen. pi. of agen, " one's own." Whoever wrote agen hlna can hardly have considered the parsing.

The correct rendering in Bracton would have been oghene hyne ; so that it is good enough except that the Anglo-French scribe, as usual, has ignorantly prefixed an h. The sense is " de propria familia."

May I just remind the contributors to the Hockday quotations that the exhaustive article on Hockday in the ' N.E.D.' begins with the remark that " few words have received so much etymological and historical investigation " ? WALTER W. SKEAT.

Against deriving hog from a root under- lying high and hoga speaks our dia- lectal " der Hacksch " = unverschnittener Eber. Weigand connects " Hacksch " with " hecken " = to procreate. G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

IRISH GIRL AND BARBARY PIRATES (10 S. vii. 469). The poem BARBARY is in search of is the last poem written by Thomas Davis, ' The Sack of Baltimore,' giving in vigorous verse the story of the attack on that town by two Algerine galleys on 20 June, 1631, The fragments your querist quotes are all from the last four lines of the second last stanza :

The maid that Bandon gallant sought is chosen for

the Dey ; She's safe he's dead: she stabbed him in the

midst of his Serai. And when to die a death of fire that noble maid

they bore, She only smiled O'Driscoll's child she thought of

Baltimore.

The complete poem will be found in the edition of Davis' s verse edited by Wallis or in ' A Treasury of Irish Poetry,' edited by Stopford Brooke and T. W. Rolleston, p. 121. ALEX. RUSSELL, M.A.

Stromness, Orkney.

The incident referred to occurs in Thomas Davis's poem ' The Sack of Baltimore.' I have it in a collection of his poems, songs, &c., published by J. Duffy & Co., Dublin.

J. E. H.

SIR THOMAS BLOODWORTH, LORD MAYOR 1665-6 (10 S. vii. 409, 454). Is Sir Thomas known to have actually died at Leatherhead?