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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vm. A. 9, 1013. considering that this Vulgate Latin version of the Greek original found in the Lord's Prayer is erroneous and wrongly applied as an equivalent instead of quotidianus, it seems to be worth noting that an attempt at introducing the term "super-substantial" in the English version of Matt. vi. 11, in the place of "daily" (as recently made in a new translation of the Gospel for the use of the Roman Catholic Communion), must be rejected as contrary to the context, and exegetically untenable.

—The 'N.E.D.' quotes Hakluyt (1599) for "Cafraria" and the "Cafars," but has nothing between this and 1731, when Medley, in Kolben's 'Cape of Good Hope,' distinguishes the Caffres from the Hottentots. The following intermediate quotation is of interest. I take it from a curious book, without a publisher's name, entitled 'The Finishing Stroke,' pp. 239, issued in 1711, of which pp. 125-239 are separately entitled 'A Battle Royal between Three Cocks of the Game, Mr. Higden, [Mr.] Hoadly, [Mr.] Hottentote, As to the State of Nature and of Government.' It is an attack on Benjamin Hoadly, at the time Rector of Streatham; and the Hottentot comes in with effect, describing the principles of government as he understands them. Here is the passage (p. 161):—

"Hoad. Then I am finely Cheated! I thought my self Secure of you Hottentotes for my Independent State. But what are you? What Account do you give us of your Country?

"Hott. We are known by the Name of Cafri, which in our Language signifies Lawless, not that we are without Government (as you Fancy) but without Laws as checks upon our Kings, who Determine all our Controversies as they think fit. Our Country is called Cafraria, and Divided into many Colinies or Kingdoms, which extend over a great part of Africa about Six Hundred Miles. The most Barbarous sort of us are those about the Cape of Good Hope, who only are known to the English, who call in there in their Voyages to the East Indies. But we have no Commerce with you, so you know little of us. But you give us the Name of Hottentotes, from the Word Hottentote, which we Repeat often in our Dances every New Moon."

TEETHING. The following folk-lore item comes from The Child's Guardian, organ of the R.S.P.C.C., for June, 1913 :

" A countrywoman received from a children's home a baby to take care of. This woman had had five children, who were all dead. She did not receive any money with this two-year-old baby, which was found to be badly neglected.

"The inspector called to investigate the case, and.... the woman gave him one of her secrets in the successful bringing up of children.

" She said, ' You need never give a child any powders when it is teething. All you have to do is to get some hairs from a mare, horse, or donkey, and sew them in on the left shoulder of the child's clothing the same as yoxi see he is wearing now.' With this she showed hiai the hairs sewn on the child's vest. ' You must let a man get the hair for a female child, and a woman must get it for a male child.' "

ST. SwiTHTN.

EMPBESS AS A SUBNAME. Nannette Empress, Road Town, Tortola, received compensation from the Slaves Commis- sioners in '1836 (P.R.O., 1564, claim 2). I wonder whether " Duchess " and " Empress ?i may not have been the nicknames of slaves who were ultimately freed, and who used the nickname as a surname.

J. M. BULLOCH.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct-..

ANNE, COUNTESS OF DOBSET, PEMBBOKE, AND MONTGOMEBY. I should be very grateful if any of your readers could furnish me with information concerning the vanished Diary of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery. Lady Anne kept many diaries, records, and summaries of events, but this particular day-book must have been a monumental Work, probably of many volumes, for it is said that she took it everywhere with her, and entered in it every minutest detail, even as to wken she cut her hair and nails. Tradition has it that her grandson Thomas, sixth Earl of Thanet (who died in 1729), had the Diary destroyed ; but if so, at least one copy must have been made first, for it Was quoted by many authors for more than a hundred years later.

There may, of course, have been several diaries of different periods. William Seward, in his ' Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons,' published in 1799, gives a long extract from one dealing with the year 1603, which I know of no reason to suppose unauthentic ; while further quotations from " a MS. Day Book of the Countess of Pembroke " during the last year of her life, 1675, were contributed to N. & Q.,' 1 S. ii. 4, only some sixty years ago. Is it possible that this Day Book is