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which the lexicographer can personally witness." When, as in the case of " gladio lus, 1 ' there is more than one current pro nun ciation, they are all given. Sometimes, but not in this case, we are told which pronuncia- tion is most commonly used, and in some rare instances (" decadence " is one) which is considered the more scholarly.

C. C. B.

I would draw attention to what Webster's
 * New International Dictionary ' says :

"The penultimate o in this word is short, and the accent therefore, as Latin, properly falls upon the antepenult, gla-dl'-o-lus, as indicated by most orthoepists ; glad'-i-o-lus is, however, common in popular or colloquial usage."

WM. SMITH DAVIS.

28, St. Helen's Road, Hastings.

The ' New English Dictionary ' gives only the two incorrect pronunciations referred to by MB. WADDINGTON. There can, I think, be no reason why it should not be pronounced " gladiolus," as it is the Latin botanical name of the genus of iridaceous plants, of which there are about ninety species. H. G. KELSEY.

Perhaps I may be allowed to answer MB. WADDINGTON' s question. 1. People who desire to be correct say " gladiolus," that being the classical pronunciation of words like presidium. 2. " Gladiolus " can, with- out doubt, be said, treating the i as semi- consonant, of which there are examples, as pituita in Horace. 3. Gardeners say " gladi61us," and it is not wrong, as the 6 became long in late Latin.

W. E. BOOTHBY-HEATHCOTE.

THE SITE OF THE GLOBE (11 S. x. 209, 290, 335 ; xi. 447 ; xii. 10, 50, 70, 121, 143, 161, 201, 224, 264). MB. HUBBABD rejects my way of translating the Coram Rege Roll, insists upon the usual way of inter- preting the orientation, and upholds the infallibility of the scrivener who drew up the original deed from which the description was copied. So far he agrees with Dr. Wallace, but he goes beyond the Nebraska professor's contention when he transfers Hilary Mempris's land to the north of Maiden Lane. Now my critic acknowledges the facts that this property was bounded on the south by the common sewer dividing it from the park of the Lord Bishop of Winchester, and that tho Coram Rege Roll makes the Globe Company's property adjoin j and abut upon Maiden Lane. Further, it should be noted that the roll does not i

mention Deadman's Place, which in the deed of conveyance is given as the eastern boundary of Mempris's new property. Hence; if MR. HUBBABD will draw up a diagram of the locus in quo as he imagines it, he will have to place Hilary Mempris's land to the east of the Globe Company's land, &c., and stop Maiden Lane short of Mempris's western boundary, to make room for the Bishop's Park which formed the southern boundary. By so doing he will find that he has proved too much, because, as far as I know, he does not deny the fact that Maiden Lane, in Shakespeare's time, began at Deadman's Place, as it did in 1720 when John Strype published his edition of John Stow's ' Survey of London.'

As regards Ironworks Yard, this with the lane and pair of gates is not shown on the ' Plan of the Cities of London and West- minster and the Borough of Southwark. showing Every House,' by R. Horwood, published in several sheets, the date of the sheet containing Maiden Lane being 1799 We find " Globe^Walk " and " Globe Court " south of Maiden Lane, but the name " Globe Alley " has already disappeared.

According to Mr. Richard C. Jackson, Globe Alley was closed in 26 George III. (October, 1785-6); and under an Act of 52 George III. (1811-12) powers were given to stop up the said alley from New Perk Street so far as the works of Barclay & Perkins extended (Athenceum, 30 Oct., 1909).

It is quite possible that the ironworks were not established until Southwark Bridge was built, although the works are somewhat too far from the bridge. L. L. K.

ST. ANDBEW : NATIONAL COLOURS (US. xii. 49, 110, 205). MB. UDAL writes on D. 206 : " The crosses of the three patron saints are .... and a white saltire on a red ground for St. Patrick." I am under the mpression it is exactly the reverse.

A. T.

PATTEBSON FAMILY (US. xii. 221). An account of the Patersons of Donegal, de- cended from John Paterson, gent., of Ayr, .vill be found in Burke's ' Family Records,' 1897, pp. 460-63.

S. A. GBUNDY-NEWMAN. Walsall.

SIB JOHN MAXWELL OF TEBBEGLES (11 S. di. 240). The mother of Sir John Maxwell, ourth Lord Henries, was Janet Douglas of

Drumlanrig. Monreith.

HEBBEBT MAXWELL.