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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. JA*. 22, 1910.

Squire, 2 1869 and 1872, p. 185 ; in the ' Life of Curran 2 by his son (London, 1819), vol. i. pp. 383-407 ; and in Curran's ' Speeches,* edited by Thomas Davis (Duffy, 1867), on the trial of Patrick Finney for high treason in 1798. EDITOR ' IBISH BOOK LOVER.*

Jvensal Lodge, N.W,

JACK-KNIVES GIVEN TO UGLY MEN (10 S. xii. 508). About 1810 Mr. William Sabatier at Halifax, Nova Scotia, received a jack- knife from a sailor, who said that his ship- mates had given him the knife because he was the ugliest man they had ever seen, but they had added the condition that if he met a man uglier than himself he was to give him the knife. As the sailor saw that Mr. Sabatier was uglier than himself, he was obliged by the condition to resign the knife to him ! . M. N. G.

So-called ugly men are often the hand- somest in thoughts and deeds. The only explanation that one can think of as to giving jack-knives away is that there was a strong desire to cut acquaintance.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

SIR THOMAS WILLIAM BROTHERTON (10 S. xii. 490). The following extract from Walford's ' County Families,* ed. 1860, supplies in part the information desired :

" Sir T. W. Brotherton, K.C.B., son of

Brotnerton, Esq. ; born 1785 ; married 1819 Louisa Ann, daughter of J. Stratton, Esq. ; resided (1860) at 11, Upper Brook Street, W."

The ' D.N.B.* states that he married as his second wife the daughter of the Rev. Walter Hare. In ' Debrett,* 1867, the lady appears as Thomasina, daughter of the late Rev. W. Hoare.

A characteristic anecdote of Brotherton during a visit to Paris, telling how he put to ignominious flight a Frenchman who insulted him, is related in Malmesbury's ' Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, 5 ed. 1885, p. 16

W. SCOTT.

NOAH AS A GIRL'S NAME (11 S. i. 7). Noah was one of the five daughters of Zelophehad. They were early champions of women's rights ; see Numbers xxvii. 1-1 1 xxxvi. 10-12 ; Joshua xvii. 3-6.

ERNEST B. SAVAGE.

St. Thomas', Douglas.

There are interesting communications dealing with this strange choice at 7 S. iv 505 ; v. 76. W. C. B.

[MR. W. B. KIXGSFORD and J. T. also thanke for replies. ]

CLOTHES AND THEIR INFLUENCE (10 S. ii. 468). Some amusing notes published n Lectures pour Tous sketched in popular ashion some ' Precedes du Travail et danies des Ecrivains l : Buffon in his ' manchettes de dentelle,' 2 emblematical of lis aristocratic literary style ; Flaubert in lis brown cloth " houppelande," which

reached to his heels " ; Balzac's monk's ,o midday ; and Rousseau in cotton night- jap and robe of printed calico, with a cage f singing birds and a plan of the forest of Montmorency before him to remind him of ' nature " in his Parisian fourth - floor chamber. F. A. W.
 * own, in which he sat writing from midnight

Paris.

DICKENS : SHAKESPEARE : " WOODBINE " 10 S. xii. 281, 333, 411). I cannot help thinking that Canon Ellacombe's interpreta- }ion of the passage in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream l which is quoted at p. 334, that Shakespeare meant, So the 'eaves involve the flower, using " wood- bine n for the plant, and "honey suckle' 5 for the flower, is correct. Steevens supports it by a reference to Baret's ' Alvearie,* 1580 : " Woodbin that beareth the Honie- suckle " ; and recently in reading Hookes's Amanda l I came upon the following passage, which lends colour to the idea that up to the middle of the seventeenth century such a distinction was recognized : Look how that woodbine- at the window peeps, And slilie underneath the casement creeps ! Its honey-suckle shewes, and tempting stands To spend its morning Nectar in thy hands.

'Amanda,' 1653, p. 40. G. THORN-DRURY.

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HENRY ETOUGH (10 S. xii. 430). I should myself be glad of information concerning one Henry Etough who was a parishioner of SS. Anne and Agnes, Aldersgate, in 1726. He would seem to have been a man of considerable substance, his house being (apparently) the largest in the parish at the time. WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

'THE ABBEY OF KILKHAMPTON l (10 S. xii. 323, 450). As this curious production is under discussion I may perhaps be per- mitted to fill up one name which was omitted in MR. BLEACKLEY'S key. It occurs on p. 8, containing the epitaph on the Dowager Countess S y. This is evidently Christa- bella, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Tyrrel, Bt., of Castlethorpe, married first to John Knapp of Cumnor, secondly to John Pigott of Doddershall, and lastly,