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Eastern origin. Reference to works upon ancient sculpture showed that such was the case, although not a common feature. It is to be found in Grecian, Roman, and Indian sculpture.

There is still another question, Was any psychological suggestion, impression, or sentiment intended by this pose of the limbs ? The feeling conveyed to me, per- sonally, was that the militant knight was now resting in peace. This personal impres- sion is confirmed in Winckelmann's ' History of Ancient Art among the Greeks,' trans- lated by G. Henry Lodge, 1850, p. 161, where, mentioning a figure with crossed

3, a foot-note on p. 162 reads :

"This attitude is, however, only given to figures in which it is intended to express stability and repose."

It would seem therefore, if I am correct, that this cross-legged attitude was intro- duced from the 'East, and the pose of the limbs in these effigies is an expression in sculpture of the idea of repose or rest.

HABBY QUILTEB.

49, Asfordby Street, Leicester.

WIDOWS' PETITION. From the Ad- miralty Records, Adm. 1/5134 :

Portsmouth Oct r 25 th 1828. MY LORDS,

We are informed that the Widows of Officers of the Navy that are Married again are about to loose their Pent ions.

We most of the Widows who are Married again to Officers of the Navy and shall loose our first Husbands Pention have to request that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in case of a Second Death will be Pleased to allow us to apply for the Pention of the Husband which is most per year.

To The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

E. H. FAIBBBOTHEB.

BOBBOW'S LETTEBS FBOM HUNGABY. Mr. Clement K. Shorter in his recently pub- lished book on Borrow prints a few of these, but does not state whether the one written to Woodfall (Murray's printer ?) and another from Clauseriburg to Mrs. Borrow have been discovered or not. The Scotchman in Pesth who made so much of our George was one Andrew Clark, the executive engineer for William Tierney Clark, the designer of the suspension bridges at Ham- mersmith and Budapest. The rich Greek \vhose champagne was too sweet for Borrow was no doubt Baron George Sina.

L. L. K.

djmrus.

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.

" SHOBT-COAT." I should be glad to receive any elucidation of the specific application of this word in either of the following quotations :

1. "As also for other places where no main- tenance is assigned for the Minister, but the people starve for want of bread, and where those great Impropriations are that devour all the Profits, and have all to a short-coat Vicarage; How these things should be mended, is infinitely beyond my sphere." Blithe, 'The English Im- prover Improved,' ed. 3, 1653, p. 79.

2. " Public opinion in the Poultry was against her ; her coachman's wig had excited derision ; the footmen had given themselves airs ; there was a strong feeling against the shortcoats." Disraeli, ' Tancred,' bk. ii. ch. x.

HENBY BBADLEY. Oxford.

" RUCKSAC " OB " RUCKSAC." Which is the right form of this word for a knapsack ? What is the derivation ? A writer in The Gardeners' Chronicle says it is " derived from rucken. which means to jostle or jumble up." Is this so ? H. K. H.

FEAST OF BELSHAZZAB.' (See ante, p. 429.) A ''comic Xewdigate,"' under this title, was written by Sir Robert Herbert when he was at Oxford, 18558, and the piece became very well known, though it was never printed. Some lines from it were quoted more than once in a correspondence in The Times in March of this year. I should be very glad to communicate with the present owner of the MS. F. H. P.

Harringay.

Two CUBIOUS PLACE-NAMES : SIDBUBY. In my researches connected with the early history of Ottery St. Mary I have more than once come upon a strange place-name, varying much in spelling : Kester mel way, Kester me le way, Kyster myll waye ; also Kestormealde heade, Kester Milhead.

As near as I can judge, the place is situated near the boundary on the Sidbury side on the brow of East Hill a rough moor abounding in barrows, far removed from any water-mill, and perhaps represented in later records by Pester Hill.

Mr. Anderson-Morshead, to whom I am indebted for the third variant, informs me that the name is mentioned in the bounds of a Sidbury estate, and that not far distant