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he notice of Dr. Bradley, he wrote to me asking whether we might not read inclusions. I at once referred to the MSS., and found the c turned round so as to be exactly like an o, though really no doubt a c. And so vanished the ghost-word molusio.

In Dugdale, 'Mon.' ii. 380 (ed. 1661), we have the impossible reading " unam nocium. carnis," and accordingly nocium appears in Ducange with a suggestion as to its meaning. On referring to the MS., P.R.O. Esc. 15 Edw. III., No. 73, I found " unam peciam carnis." See ' Memorials of Ripon,' Surt. Soc., i. 224 and note, and correction, p. 334 (' N. & Q.,' 6 S. v. 45). J. T. F.

Winter-ton, Lines.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

SOURCE OF LATIN MAXIM WANTED. The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has for its book-plate motto the words, .* Communiter bona profundere deorum est." There seems to be no record as to the manner in which the phrase was proposed. It may be possible that readers of <N. & Q.' familiar with Latin literature may know the source. The seal of the Company reads, " Communiter bona profundere deum est," with the contracted form of the geni- tive, which may have been due to a desire to economize letters. I shall be glad of any information concerning the sentence.

HENRY LEFFMANN.

Philadelphia, U.S.

["Deum " is presumably the not uncommon con- tracted genitive plural. J

PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORD " GLADIO- LUS." Can any one tell me what is the correct pronunciation of this word ? I have always pronounced it the same as the Latin word "gladiolus," from which, of course, it is derived ; it is, in fact, the same word. Many persons, however, guided by Nuttall's '^Dictionary,' urge that it is pronounced " glad-I'-o-lus " ; while a still larger number pronounce it " glad-i-6'-lus." Which of these three pronunciations is correct, and which does the new Oxford dictionary approve ? Does that dictionary give the correct pro- nunciation of words, or only such pronuncia- tions, or mispronunciations, as may be in common use ? SAMUEL WADDINGTON.

15, Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, W.

CONSTITUTION OF HIGHLAND SEPTS. In what work can I find the best account of the constitution of the Highland septs in regard to the relation between the chief and his people ? W. CROOKE.

MRS. GOOCH. Who was Mrs. Gooch, who published in 1792 ' The Life of Mr.^ Gooch ' ? In Burke' s ' Peerage ' I find a William Gooch, who married Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of William Villa Real of Edwinstow, Notts, a marriage which was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1781. Was this the same person ? References to other accounts of her life, and to the family to which she belonged, would be welcomed.

R. M. HOGG.

MAJOR SEMPLE. In his autobiography Semple, the "Northern Scoundrel," speaks of his wife as a goddaughter of the celebrated Duchess of Kingston. Who was Mrs. Semple ? Is there any notice of Semple' s death ? R. M. HOGG.

Irvine, Ayrshire.

AUTHOR WANTED. Can any of your readers say who wrote ' Scarsdale ; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border Thirty Years Ago,' a novel ? (And what other works by the same, if known ?) It ap- pears to be one which would be conveniently classified with those termed " dialect novels.'* My copy is 3 vols., 8vo, red stamped cloth gilt, London, Smith & Elder, 1860. It has a gryphon book-plate, " Edmund Potter, Camfield Place." Halkett and Laing has no mention of this work. R. B T.

SIR ANTHONY JACKSON was buried in the old Temple Church, London, on 14 Oct., 1666. His wife obtained per- mission to visit him when he was a prisoner in the Tower of London in 1651. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' tell me where Lady Jackson was buried, or anything about her ancestry or family ?

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

"NARTHEX." The ' N.E.D.' gives little or no information as to how or why this word came to be used as a term in architecture ; neither does it, nor Liddell and Scott, give any derivation of the Greek word. It is the name of an umbelliferous plant, used by schoolmasters as a cane (Latin ferula).

In architecture the narthex is the vesti- bule or space across the entrance to the nave, but separated from it by a screen, into which catechumens and penitents were