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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. i. MAY 28, 1910.

before marriage, and the subsequent careers of the boys.

Vol. ii., carrying on the work to the enc of the nineetenth century, is now in progress

C. J. DUBAND,

The Villa, Guernsey.

"STANDING FOB PABLIAMENT n (11 S. i 87, 252). In the Camden Society volume ' Proceedings in Kent, 1640,* Sir Edward Dering writes to Sir Roger Twysden, 20 Dec. 1639 :

" I did, with some easterne freindes, then, anc next day, name you for a knight's service to the House, which was received with a cheereful desire. Beleeve me, heere is in these partes a very strong party indisposed, nor will they take any impression (for aught I can discerne) for them who stand."

In another letter, 16 March, 1639/40, he writes :

" About the end of Mychaelmas terme, 1639, many men were spoken of as fit to stand to bee knights for Kent."

And again, 2 Oct., 1640 : " Yf you intend to stand for one of the knights of the sheire, you must speedily appeere."

R. J. FYNMOBE.

INITIAL LETTEBS FOB NAMES : OLD LON- DON BOOKSELLEBS (11 S. i. 346). MB. PIEB- POINT is no doubt right in suggesting that the long list of letters on the book referred to represents a number of different booksellers, by whom the book, published in 1673, was to be sold. Many, if not all, of these can be identified. I would suggest the following as being probably intended by some of the initials :

H. T. Henry Twyford (see the title-page quoted). His name also appears on ' The Book of Oaths,' second edition, 1689.

J. P. J. Place, whose name also appears on ' The Book of Oaths, 1 1689.

J. B. John Bill, printer, who died about 1683, when the Book of Common Prayer Was issued by the "Assigns'of JohnBill,deceas'd. M He was probably a son of John Bill, book- seller and king's printer, who died in 1630 (see 10 S. xii. 25).

T. B. T. Bassett. ' Europse Speculum, or a View or Survey of the State of Religion in the Western Parts of the World,* by S. Edwin Sandys, Kt., was published by "T. Bassett, The George, near St. Dunstan's Church, 1687." Name also on ' The Book of Oaths,* u.s.

R. P. Robert Pawlett, who published Sir Robt. Twisden's ' Historical Vindication of the Church of England in point of Schism,* 1675.

T. D. Thomas Dring, bookseller, at " The Blew Anchor," next Mitre Court, and at "The .White Lion," for whom Milton's ' Poems * were printed in 1673. He appears to have been in business in 1655. Or per- haps " T. D." represented Sir Thomas Davis, bookseller, 1667-8, who was Lord Mayor in 1677 (see 10 S. vi. 431).

W. J. William Jones. Alexander Cooke's ' More Worke for a Masse -Priest * was " Printed for William Jones, dwelling in Red-Crosse Streete, 1681."

C. H. C. Harper, whose name also appears on ' The Book of Oaths ' above.

J. W. John Wickens. ' The Last Famous Siege of the City of Rochel,' by Peter Mer- nault, 1679, was printed for him.

Has any effort been made to form a register of old London booksellers ? I have my- self collected the names of several hundreds of them. A full list would no doubt be interesting and useful.

FBEDK. A. EDWABDS. 39, Agate Road, Hammersmith, W.

[Reply from W. C. B. next week.]

" GANION COHEBIGA," GAELIC MOTTO (11 S. i. 109). In Logan's 'Clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1 originally published by Ackermann, London, 1845, my copy being the Glasgow reprint of David Bryce & Son, 1899, at p. 81, in an article on the Mac- Donalds of Clan Ranald, it is stated that the cath-ghairm or war-shout of the clan is " Dhaindheoin co theiraidh e, n and the meaning of it is given as "In spite of all opposition." In Keltie's ' History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans, and Highland Regiments * (London, Mackenzie, n.d.) the woodcut prefixed to the account of this clan giving the arms of Clanranald has on the motto ribbon identically the same words. But in the * History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans,' by James Browne, LL.D. (Glasgow, Fullarton, 1838), in an engraving of the arms of this clan, the motto is given as " Dhandeon co heirigha.' 1 FBED. C. FBOST, F.S.I.

MacDonald of Clanranald uses ' ' Dhandeon co heirigha M as one of his family mottoes, probably a corruption of the older spelling mentioned in the query.

BEBNABD LOBD M. QUILLIN.

The words " Ganion Coheriga " are not Graelic at all. They are merely the sound of the Clanronald slogan phonetically trans- "ormed into the speech of the Sassenach. The Gaelic of the Clanronald slogan was ' A dh* ain deoin co 'heireadh e,' ? which,