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s. xii. DEC. 4, 1915.

(Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. vol. viii. p. 429) ; but I am unable to go to the British Museum to consult Norfolk pedigrees which might identify him. with the apothecary of Fleet Street. It seems to me, however, quite likely that the latter retired to Norfolk in his old age, and is the " medical man of Norfolk " whom Evelyn met at Rome in 1644.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

"ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR" (11 S-

xii. 380). A spirit inspired by such morality was noted in Italy by Sir John Reresby, who travelled there in Cromwellian times. He says that the people leave " nothing un- attempted, though ever so mean, to gain a woman they love, or to destroy a man that they hate " (' Travels,' " Dryden House Memoirs," p. 90).

A few lines later (p. 91) occurs an illus- tration of "The Bloody Shirt" (11 S. xii. 318, 368) :

"A gentleman of [Padua] who by the persuasion of his uncle had been reconciled to a too potent enemy of his family, which quarrel had occasioned his fathers death, was frequently importuned by his mother to continue the feud, telling him it^was unworthy of his extraction to forgive an injury, and often showing him the bloody shirt worn by his dead father when killed, the more to incite to enmity."

ST. SWITHIN.

TAVERN SIGNS : " MOTHER HUFF-CAP" (11 S. xii. 279, 346, 385). I could wish that MR. H. H. JOHNSON, at the last reference, had " shown " the equation which he gives, because he does not make it clear whether Skelton or his other authorities actually use the name Huff-Cap. I have been familiar with the name and the thing in East Somerset for nearly forty years. I was introducing a new tenant to a neighbouring farmer, whom we met on the land as we were walking over it. The new man, wishing to be complimen- tary, said to the other: " Pretty good land this: I don't see any of them emmet- batches about here." " No," said the other, huff-caps." In the first two I recognized anthills and molehills, but " huff -caps " were new to me, and on inquiry later I was told that a huff-cap is the patch of sedge grass which appears here and there in good pastures, so called because it covers the
 * but you'll find s:>me want-heavings, and

huff (hough) of an animal standing with the foot in it I first thought my informant meant hoof, but found this was pronounced

nopve. Huff -caps are now practically eradicated from the land in question, by means of an implement known there as a

huff-cap spade, which is shaped like the spade on a pack of cards, and has very sharp

With regard to the drink after Dickens's stray definition of " Dog's-nose " as a hot drink was accepted as final, whereas a very competent authority assured me that it was a mixture of porter and gin, black and cold, as a dog's nose ought to be, I am sceptical as to the definition of huff-cap given. I believe it was the first morning drink, and humorously called a huff -cap as beginning at the foundation, so to speak, just as a night-cap was the final glass : neither being necessarily a prescribed mixture.

A. T. M.

HISTORY OF CHURCHES IN SITU (11 S. vi. 428, 517 ; vii. 55, 155, 231, 298, 377 ; viii. 12, 57, 136). To this list I would like to add (1) '.The Church of St. Materiana, Tintagel,' by Rev. A. G. Chapman, M.A., Vicar and Rural Dean.

(2) 'The Parish Churches of Boscastle,' by Rev. B. G. Lowe, M.A., dealing with the parish church of Minster (St. Merthiana) and Forrabury (St. Symphorian).

W. H. QUARRELL.

"LIENIN" '(11 S. xii. 321, 364, 409).-- " Lienin " is evidently a modified form of " linhay," the word noted by MR. YEO at the second reference. The * E.D.D.' defines " linhay," with its variants " linney," " linny," and " linnedge," as current in the south and west of England for " a shed or open building, a farm building for cattle, or for storing provender, &c. ; generally with a lean-to roof, and an open front " ; the word also being found in the compound " linhay -house."

The"'N.E.D.' describes "linhay" as of obscure origin, but is disposed to connect the first element with the stem of A.-S. hlinian, to lean, bend.

The spelling " lienin " may have arisen through a mistaken idea that the word was connected with " lining" ; vide ' N.E.D.,' sb. 2, where the Scotch municipal lining, or decree of lining, is explained as permission given by a Dean of Guild to erect or alter a building or buildings with reference to their dimensions and alignment.

N. W. HILL.

36, Leigh Road, Highbury, N.

DERIVATION OF HANWELL, MIDDLESEX (11 S. xii. 377). In J. M. Kemble's * Codex Diplomaticus,' No. 824, the place-name " Hanewel " occurs. This is a trisyllable, and the elements of the word are Hane and