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Here the syllabic augment y- is prefixed to a present participle, a form of which there are very few examples, though ilestinde, y-lasting, or permanent, occurs in the proclamation of King Henry III. referred to in a note on page 225. The prefix is rarely applied to any but Saxon radicals, and thus y-pointing is a double departure from the English idiom. Y-pointed, indeed, is found in Robert of Gloucester, and it is possible that Milton wrote y-pointed, in which case the meaning would be pointed or surmounted with a star, like some of the Egyptian obelisks, which have received this decoration since they were transferred to Europe, instead of pointing to the stars."

(11 S. viii. 126, 194).—Within the last week I heard a farmer in South Cornwall say. "It 's that wet I shall put the yearlings in the house, or they 'll get the esk," which was explained to me as "tightness on the breath." See, too, s.v. 'Yox' in 'E.D.D.'

 (11 S. viii. 250).—The querist is probably asking for Bishop Welldon's article in The Nineteenth Century, February, 1906. In the 'D.N.B.' are 1,270 names of real celebrities, sons of clergymen (exclusive of lesser lights), out of 30,000.

Mr. A. Birrell writes in an essay on Andrew Marvell:

 (11 S. viii. 190).—For some discussion on this difficult subject see 'The Complete Guide to Heraldry,' by A. C. Fox-Davies (1909), pp. 73, 386, 404, 474.

 (11 S. viii. 208).—This was possibly Henry, s. of Henry Campbell of Marylebone. Middlesex, arm. Christ Church, matric. 17 Oct., 1792, aged 18; B.A, 1796: M.A. 1801.

(2) —The dates do not quite agree, but can he be identical with John William James Bennett, o.s. John of Devonport, gent. (St. Edmund Hall Oxon, matric. 21 June, 1836, aged 23 B.A. 1840)?

  (11 S. viii. 208, 277).—I reprinted this inquiry in The Farnham, Hindhead, and Haslemere Herald, and have been favoured with the following letter:—

 (11 S. viii. 226).—Henry VIII. (1543) endeavoured to introduce a regular uniform for the whole army, but the practice was not really established for a century after his death. This regulation clothing was to consist of a blue coat guarded with red, and a pair of breeches with the right leg red and the left leg blue, the latter having a red stripe 3 in. broad along the outer seam. Every soldier was to have a large St. George's Cross on his coat, and no other emblem whatever.

In the Elizabethan army there was a fixed custom of putting all the men belonging to the same band into a regular uniform; but the only feature common to the whole army was the red St. George's Cross worn on cassock or jerkin. The levies of different years and different shires are noted as having worn very different equipment. Red was not uncommon. In the early years of the reign we often hear of white coats with the ordinary cross on them. An ordinance of 1584 for raising troops for Ireland orders the men to be dressed in 'some motley or other sad green colour or russet."

But, as Prof. Firth says in his 'Cromwell's Army,' pp. 232-4, "the familiar red coat is a relic of the New Model, and it was first generally adopted in 1645." At Edgehill the regiments of Denzil Holles and Lord Robartes in Essex's army wore red coats; but in battle the two sides were distinguished simply by the fact that the Parliament men wore orange scarves, and those of the King red. Gradually, however, greater uniformity in the colour of the soldiers' clothing became the rule amongst the Parliamentarians. At the relief of Newark in March, 1644, we hear of the Norfolk Redcoats. About the