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Oarter sent to the Grave Morrice* ; for binding the whoale words of St. Chrysostom in Greek in eight volumes, guild ed very fair, and silk strings ; one Bible bound in three volumes in crimson vellat, and silver lace round the edges and silk strings ; one service book for our dear wife the Queen her own use, and one dozen of large skinne books with silk strings ; for one Bible and one skinne book bound with Turkey lether, wrought over with small tools, with fair silk strings, four large skin bookes with silk strings : seven smaller skinne books with silke strings, and one large church Bible bound in four volumes for our Lord Prince Charles."

I thought that this would interest book- binders, and make literary men think whose sonnets these might be.

CHARLOTTE C. STOPES.

"!N PETTO." I have had occasion more than once to notice a popular misuse of this Italian phrase as if it meant " in miniature," " on a small scale," Fr. en petit. It was so used in a flamboyant advertisement not long ago, and quite recently in a learned volume on Greek archaeology by an erudite professor. It is needless to say that in petto, published, undivulged, of something kept secret. A. SMYTHE PALMER.
 * l within the breast," can only mean un-

Tullagee, Eastbourne.

PURITAN NAMES IN NEW ENGLAND, 1794 1830. In gathering material for my ' Ame- rican Glossary,' I examined The Massachusetts Spy for the years named, and made a note of some unusual " given names " therein re- corded. The following is the list of them :

Abbelinc H. Wilkinson. 17 Oct., 1827.

Abial Chase. 14 March, 1821.

Abiather Shaw. 11 June, 1800.

Abiel Davis (man). 8 Sept., 1830.

Abiel Thomas (woman). 26 Nov., 1817.

Abiezer Alger. 26 July, 1827.

Abijah Hammond. 19 July, 1797.

Abisha Learned (man). 11 "May, 1814.

Achsah Rider (woman). 12 Dec., 1810.

Acus Sisson. 3 March, 1830.

Adin Holbrook. 15 Feb., 1815.

Adnah Bangs (man). 3 July, 1811.

Adonijah Howe. 7 Jan., 1801.

Ahab Arnold. 5 Dec., 1804.

Ahimaaz B. Simpson. 28 Aug., 1822.

Aijah (sic) Walker. 23 June, 1813.

Albus Rea. 28 Aug., 1822.

Aldiborontiphoscophornio Bowen. (She married Andrew Fearing of Boston, 29 April, 1829. It seems odd that her parents took the name for that of a woman. I have not had the good luck to find a Chrononhotontho logos.)

Almira Bixby. 20 March, 1822.

Alnason Morse. 2 July, 1800.

Alona B. Allen. 26 May, 1830.

Alone Davis. 8 Feb., 1826.

Alovisa Laws. 9 Sept., 1812.


 * I.e., Count Maurice of Nassau.

Alpha Bemis (man). 4 Nov., 1829.

Altheda Trumbull. 15 Nov., 1815.

Althista Wiswell. 8 April, 1829.

Alvah Hardy (man). 4 Nov., 1829.

Amariah Preston. 12 March, 1806.

Amasa Dingley. 10 Oct., 1798.

Amena Braman (man). 8 June, 1814.

Amity Tinchum (woman). 9 April, 1823.

Ammi Faulkner. 12 Sept., 1804.

Amri Strickland. 19 Aug., 1812.

Antipass Earle. 8 May, 1798.

Anvilla M. Bigelow. 29 Sept., 1824.

Apollos Tobey. 2 June, 1802.

Arad Gilbert. 14 Feb., 1827.

Araetius B. Hull. 10 Dec., 1823.

Arania Farnum. 3 July, 1822.

Arathusa Brigham. 12 Feb., 1817.

Arba Reed (man). 12 June, 1822.

ArchabiU Clapp (man). 8 Dec., 1824.

Archelaus Lewis. 4 March, 1801.

Ariel Sayles. 28 Nov., 1810.

Arietta Lincoln. 23 June, 1830.

Arodi Thayer. 24 May, 1815.

Arsenith Fairbanks. 27 Nov., 1827.

Artemas Ward. 17 Jan., 1798.

Aruna C. H. Smith. 8 Sept., 1824.

Asa Farnsworth. 7 July, 1830.

Asahel Pomroy. 16 April, 1806.

Asaph Rice. 3 Oct., 1804.

Asel Noyes. 23 Dec., 1807.

Asenath Scott. 27 Jan., 1813.

Asentha Barnes. 24 Jan., 1827.

Ashbell Willard. 11 Oct., 1797.

Ashel Corey. 21 Jan., 1829.

Asher Rice. 2 July, 1823.

Athanasius Mud. 28 Feb., 1827. (But he was a

Southerner.)

Avaline Witt. 21 Oct., 1829. Avalinia Malissa Hubbard. About 1815.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 8, Mornington Crescent, N.W. (To be continued.)

THE GERMAN WAR FETISH. (See ante, p. 198.) The following notes from L'lnter- mediaire may be of interest to readers of ' N. & Q.' :

L'histoire des Suisses fournit un rapprochement qui n'a pas ete, que je sache, signale" jusqu a present. 11 s'agit de la " Mazze," celebre dans le Vallais.

La " Mazze " etait un bois rustiquement taille en forme de figure humaine, qui representait la justice offensee. Les agitateurs populaires pro- menaient cette image, en cas de tumulte, et ceux qui croyaient avoir des griefs a venger y venaient enfoncer des clous.

Les gens du Haut- Vallais sont de race et de langue allemandes, pour la plupart. La leve de la " Mazze " derivait sans doute d'une ancienne coutume germanique dont 1'origine oeut bien se retrouver dans le paganisme, mais qui s'est trans- formed comme tant d'autres. Je ne crois pas que la statue du marechal de Hindenburg represents, pour les Prussiens, " le vieux dieu allemand," dont on parle beaucoup chez nous aujourd'hui, mais plut6t ce que les Vallaisiens voyaient dans la " Mazze," et je pense qu'ils y enfoncent des clous dans le meme esprit. Hyrvoix de Landosle.

PEREGRINUS.