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preparatory to the house being pulled down. Here the drunken mob fired their courage with liquid loot before they created the horrible scene of arson, debauchery, and death enacted outside Langdale's Distillery, a little further on. The tavern probably occupies the site of the Barnard's Inn Coffee-House, which itself was formerly Seagoe's Coffee-House, opposite to what is now the great insurance palace, on the site of Furnival's Inn (see ' The Epicure's Almanack,' 1815).

"Dropt on Thursday or Friday last, a small Chrystai Seal, with a Coat of Arms, the Crest a Maremaid, set in Silver. Whoever brings it to Seagoe's Coffee-House in Holborn, shall have Five Shillings reward, it being of no Value but the Silver to any one but the Owner." Daily Adver- tiser, 20 March, 1742.

Another announcement perhaps by one of the " resident " students of Barnard's Inn, or perchance by one of the three " ancients," or even the Principal himself is as follows :

" Whereas on Wednesday Night last two Tickets were hir'd for Vaux-Hall of a Person unknown : If the Owner or Owners thereof will call at Seagoe's Coffee-House in Holborn, and describe the Names and Numbers of the same, and pay the Expence of this Advertisement, they may have them again." /fad., 22 May, 1742.

In 1803 it was " Owen's and Seagoe's Coffee-House and Tavern, Holborn," with a coffee-room dinner at four o'clock (' Picture of London ' for that year, p. 355). It was ''Owen and Sago's" in 1818 (' Picture of London ' for that year, p. 415).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. 29, Tooting Bee Gardens, Streatham, S.W.

' THE PEDIGREE REGISTER.' While thanking you for your very kind notice of ' The Pedigree Register ' (ante, p. 340), may I be allowed to say that this publication is in no way similar to ' The International Genealogical Directory,' recently reviewed in your columns ?

No genealogist with any pretension to thoroughness in research can possibly afford to ignore Mr. Bernau's work : but the aim of ' The Pedigree Register ' is actually to print pedigrees, because it is felt that the best way to extend one's knowledge of family history is to print what one does know, inviting additions and corrections.

Believing, as he did, that " this is an age when genealogy has taken a new lease of life," it approaches the subject in the spirit suggested by Robert Louis Stevenson, that " as we study we think less of Sir Bernard Burke and more of Mr. Galton." The new

quarterly is intended to be an actual record of the transmission of family traits and characteristics, and a help to those who wish to know more of the history of their own families. GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD.

50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E.

' BOOK-PRICES CURRENT ' INDEX. To avoid misunderstanding, may I be permitted to correct a little slip in the review of 4 B.P.C.' (ante, p. 339) ?

In the preparation of the second General Index, now at press, Mr. Slater had (as in the first) no hand whatever. Both of these were compiled wholly by my staff and self.

Your kind hint about library owners is an idea with which I have long been in accord (see Athenaeum, 15 Sept., 1906, p. 305). It was, in fact, conceived and effected over a year ago, and the eleven hundred entries then prepared are now printing, forming a supplement to the second index volume. WILLIAM JAGGARD.

" CHASE." Walking recently in East Essex, hard by the Blackwater, I had occa- sion to inquire my way of a cottager. " Keep straight on," was the reply, " until you come to a chase down a field on your left. That will take you to it."

The word " chase " thus applied may be a local expression, but it is new to me. It is an interesting word, anyhow, and I think it deserves a brief note. " Chase " (meaning a line, groove, or furrow) is an entirely distinct word from its homonym (meaning a hunt, and also a frame or enclosure in various senses). The two words are derived by received authorities from the same root ; but I think I shall be able to show that this is erroneous. The homonym is rightly derived through the Fr. chasse, Ital. caccia, Lat. captare, from the Latin root cap- and the Aryan root kap = to seize or hold. But " chase " (meaning a line, &c.) is derived from the Latin cced-ere and the Aryan root kut=to cut. It is applied to grooving in wood- and brickwork, to the lines marked on a tennis court, and to a form of decora- tion in metalwork. This form is effected by a cutting tool which produces lines or grooves upon the metal. An allied tool, the chisel, is also derived through the dimin. cceselltis from ccedere. Although ccedere grew to mean felling or killing in any form, its primary meaning was cutting only. Ccesim meant with the edge of the sword, as opposed to punctim, with the point.

H. D. ELLIS. 7, Roland Gardens, S.W.