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upon me." ' Essais,' book i. chap, xxv., not far from the end, Florio's translation.

This practice is more in keeping with that of the Chinese version quoted by MB. KUMAGUSU MINAKATA. " Song and cymbals and beat of drum " in Ralston's translation of the ' Tibetan Tales ' suggests a breakfast- gong beaten by one's pillow.

EDWARD BENSLY.

Lanfranc, in his Constitutions for monks (Wilkins, ' Concilia,' i. 347, 348), gives the following direction with regard to monks dozing in the recesses of the " Necessarium," which from that habit was playfully called the" Third Dormitory." The "Circa" or " Circumitor" was to go his rounds at night :

" Accensa candela in absconsa, unus eorum in dormitorio debet circumire lectos omnium, et omnia sedilia in necessariis, solicite considerans ne

forte aliquis f rater dormiens ibi remanserit

vero cum dormientes invenerit non eps quocunque modo tangat, sed modeste atque ordinate sonitum tantum modo, quo excitentur, faciat." He is by no means to touch and so startle the sleeper, but only to make a slight noise and wake him gently. I have an impression that there is some Talmudical direction of a similar kind. If so, probably MB. BRESLAR can tell us about it. J. T. F.

An instance of a " noble sleeper " awakened by means of music is to be found in the following extract from ' King Lear,' Act IV. sc. vii. :

Cor. Is he array'd ?

Gent. Ay, madam ; in the heaviness of sleep We put fresh garments on him.

Doc. Be by, good madam, when we do awake

him'; I doubt not of his temperance.

Cor. Very well. [Music.] \

Doc. Please you, draw near. Louder the music there.

S. BUTTER WORTH. [MILDRED D. GIBBS thanked for reply.]

FRANCE AND ENGLAND QUARTERLY : ARMS OF IRELAND (11 S. x. 281, 336, 396, 417, 458, 510 ; xi. 50, 74, 96, 138, 177, 232 ; xii. 284, 370, 424). I must admit that my statement that the arms granted to De Vere "have nothing to do with Ireland " is too sweeping ; I should have said " had " instead of " have." The parallel between the grant to De Vere and the Mowbray and Holand grants is so complete that it appears to me to supply a fully sufficient raison d'etre for the crown- and-border shield, and I can see no reason to suppose any connexion between the creation of De Vere to be Marquess of Dublin and the subsequent augmentation. As the creation of (or rather substitution to) the

Dukedom of Ireland is still later in time, it can still less be brought into connexion with the grant of augmentation.

The use of these arms (minus the border), in the following century (thirty years after- the grant) on the Irish coins from Henry V. to Henry VII. is another matter, and a very instructive example of how territorial arms were found when no family arms were at hand. That a Duke of Ireland had borne these arms seemed a sufficient reason to assign them to the Lordship of Ireland. The occasion of the original grant was forgotten,, as the fashion of marshalling the arms of a favourite saint with one's own had not spread beyond the immediate circle of Richard II. The disuse of the crowns ancT the substitution of the harp may be seen in Woodward, but I am unable to see a reappearance of the earlier arms in the crown on the harp in the 1603 banner, as crowns, especially open crowns, are ex- tremely common as decorative adjuncts or as indications of sovereignty.

D. L. GALBREATH. 74, Grand' Rue, Montreux.

"I DON'T THINK" (11 S. xii. 321, 370 r 409). The record of revivals is no less important than that of origins. Even though this phrase should be traced back to ' Beowulf,' I feel sure that its popularity at the present day is due to the fact that it is repeatedly used in Mr. Harry Tate's music- hall sketch 'Motoring.' H. O.

PRONUNCIATION : " REGULARITY IN MIS- CONDUCT" (11 S. xii. 305, 430). Is M~ REINACH quite correct in his contention that " a German speaking French says pain for bain, and bain for pain " 1 Surely it is principally the Saxon who is guilty of this " misconduct." He also says du when he- means tu, and vice versa. But he does precisely the same thing when he is speaking his own dialect. H. O.

SKULL AND IRON NAIL (11 S. xii. 181, 306,. 389, 409). Timbs in his ' Romance of London ' (' Discovery of a Murder ') records the incident (ante, p. 306) as happening to Dr. Airy in St. Sepulchre's Churchyard, London. J. ARDAGH.

CROMWELL'S ALLEGED LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL (11 S. xii. 281, 324). May I be allowed a line or two to thank your corre- spondent MR. PIERPOINT for answering my question about Cromwell ? I think it must have been in Walker's book that I came upon the story. I have a note from Mr. St rat ton,.