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This being so, is there anything to be surprised at in the particular failing assigned to the Scot ? The Scot on the Continent in the sixteenth century and later certainly Ibore the reputation of being Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel.

Barclay in his ' Icon Animorum,' lib. iv.,

ays of " Scoti," " Iracundia in promptu,

sed quam facile post primes impetus miti-

gant," and, when speaking of Scottish

adventurers who expected assistance from

their wealthier countrymen residing abroad,

he writes, " nihil est superb a mendicitate

deterius." Compare, too, the saying,

"" Scotus est, piper in naso " ('N. & Q.,' 9 S.

iii. 109). L. N. Moltke in his ' Annotata

&d Religionem Medici,' published with an

edition of Merry weather' s translation in

1652, renders or paraphrases " le bravache

Escpssois" by "Scotus thrasonice agit aut

rojicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba." b ought perhaps to be added that the four Trench lines as printed in Dr. Greenhill's charming ' Golden Treasury ' edition of the ' Religio Medici ' are incomplete, the first half of the second line being intentionally omitted. EDWARD BENSLY.

Aberystwyth.

[MR. OLIVER HESLOP thanked for reply.]

TREE FOLK-LORE: THE ELDER (US. xii 361, 410, 429, 450, 470). At p. 410 1 quoted in answer to a query on the above, the ' Oxf ore English Dictionary' on " Jew's ears," SirT Browne, 'Vulgar Errors,' ii. vi. 101. MR A. S. E. ACKERMANN thanked me, but con tested the reference, and, after search in the edition of S. Wilkin, F.L.S. (" Bonn' Library "), 1901, and in an earlier edition of the same, I could but agree that the chapter was vii. (not vi. ). Dr. Craigie, how ever, has shown me that the Dictionary quoted a 1646 edition, where " Jew's ears ' occurs in ii. vi., 9, p. 101. In later edition vi. was divided into two, the passage now appearing in vii. 7.

(Prof.) H. H. JOHNSON,

B.A.(Oxon.),M.R.I.A.

Elder bushes are invariably to be seen planted outside the dairy windows on the north side of old-fashioned farmhouses in the Mid- lands. This is done because elder-leaves are supposed to be very objectionable to flies wasps, and other insects, the tree thus pro- viding both shade and protection. For the same reason a switch of elder with the leaves on is used when taking or driving a swarm of bees. THOS. M. BLAGG.

124, Chancery Lane, W.C.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED : ANGFORD, LAUSSAC, LUSACK (US. xii. 380).

(1) Abraham Langford of St. Paul, Covent

Garden, auctioneer, d. 18 Sept., 1774,

iged 63, M.I. at St. Pancras. Will (P.C.C.

341 Bargrave). His wife Mary, will (P.C.C.

239 Bevor), was also buried there. They

lad, with other issue : 1. Robert, bapt.

27 Feb., 1743/4, of Ensham Hall, Oxford- hire, will proved in 1785 (P.C.C. 473 Du-

3arel), probably the Westminster boy ;

3. Cock, bapt, 31 Oct., 1748; admitted to

Westminster in 1761, aged 12.

(4) and (5) James Losack of the island of St. Kitts, Dep. Sec. 1728, Speaker 1744, Member of Council, Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty 1754, was buried at Basse- terre, 30 Nov., 1756. He married Mary, dau. and heir of Richard Hawkshaw, of the same island, merchant, and they were probably parents of the two boys at West- minster. Of the younger, James, I know nothing. The elder, Richard Hawkshaw Losack, became Lieutenant-General of the Leeward Islands in 1769, President of St. Kitts 1770, and d. 2 Nov., 1813, aged 83 ; buried in St. Anne's, Soho ; will (P.C.C. 553 Heathfield). See Misc. Gen. et Her., 4 S. i. 305 ; and 3 S. i. 241. By tradition the above James was descended from Antoine de Lussac, Comte d'Eran, supposed to have emigrated from France to St. Kitts soon after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

V. L. OLIVER.

Sunninghill.

"LOCK" AND "KEY" (11 S. xii. 420). It may be worth recording that in Pembroke- shire English also " lock " means to shut, arid " key " to lock. DAVID SALMON.

SALONIKA (11 S. xii. 400). Whatever is the pronunciation cf the above town in English, there is no room for doubt in Italian, where it is spelt Salonicco. This can only be pronounced as it is written by rule of all Italian sounds.

WILLIAM MERCER.

METHODS OF WAKING A SLEEPER (US. xii. 440). Montaigne, when describing how his education was ordered by his father, writes :

" Whereas some are of opinion, that suddenly to awaken young children, and as it were by violence to startle and fright them out of their dead sleepe in a morning (wherein they are more heavie and deeper plunged than we) doth greatly trouble and distemper their braims, he would every morning cause me to be awakened by the sound of some instrument ; *ind I was nev^r" without a servant ; who to that purpose attended