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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. VIIL DEC. 27,

" DOUBLE ENTENDRE." An able writer in The Westminster Gazette has recently laid down the law that " double entendre " is not French. He suggests that the phrase should be double entente. Surely there is nothing wrong with " double entendre " ? At any rate, that phrase can be found in many French dictionaries. H. K. H.

[The phrase was discussed at considerable length at 7 S. iv. 86, 197 ; 8 S. i. 276, 439, 516 ; ii. 52, 315.]

ALB AN DOLMAN. Mr. Gillow in his 'Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics,' vol. ii. (London and New York [1885]), at pp. 85-7, gives an account of this Marian priest, and at p. 85 states that

" he was undoubtedly a member of the Pocklington Dolmans, if not the same Math ' Thomas Dolman,' who Wood states, was a Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, who was ejected, in the first year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, for refusing the oath of spiritual supremacy."

Thomas Dolman, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, who was deprived early in Queen Elizabeth's reign (Wood, ' Annals,' ed. Gutch, i. 145-6), is probably to be identified with Thomas Dorman, B.C.L. 1558, Fellow of All Souls 1554, deprived about 1562. This Tl^mas Dorman entered Winchester College in 1547, aged 13, from Berkhamp- stead, and graduated B.D. at Douay 1564/5. He died, beneficed at Tournay, in 1577, and his biography is to be read in the 'D.N.B.' So much for Alban Dol- man's identification with Thomas Dolman (or Dorman). Was Alban Dolman "un- doubtedly a member of the Pocklington Dolmans " ?

All that is definitely known about him is that he was a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in March, 1557/8, when he was ordained acolyte in London, as a native of the diocese of London. It is certain that he was ordained priest very shortly after- wards. Was he ever a Fellow of Trinity College ? And what is his connexion with Pocklington ?

He was taken prisoner while saying Mass at Lord Morley's house, within Aldgate, on Palm Sunday, 4 April, 1574, and was im- prisoned therefor. He was liberated the following 26 Aug. He was committed to Newgate 13 Feb., 1585/6, and was liberated by the Recorder of London before December in the same year. In 1593 he had been at Cowdray ; in 1594 he had been with one Mrs. Greene in Essex or Suffolk; and in 1595 he was a prisoner at Wisbech. When and where did he die ? What additional facts are known as to his birth, career, &c. ? JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

" Boss." I cannot for the moment> owing to library changes here, trace from your index volumes whether boss has been dealt with. My impression is that it has been treated. Meantime, however, may I ask whether modern African and American and Australian uses of the word boss are not all derivatives of the Bantu and Zulu word bas ? Bas and the Libyan and Egyptian bat for king may, perhaps (I am suggesting), be not unconnected with the- same word. Boss is quite the regular word,, with hardly the slightest implication of slang about it, out here in Western Australia for any head of any profession or industry. My point is that it has come in through mining channels from Africa into Australia.* and into America from the " niggers," many of whom must be of Bantu stock.

I have seen somewhere the theory (to- my idea, no idle speculation) that the Latin bos meant the Libyan ox par excellence. I think, too, Schrader, somewhere in his ' Primitive Aryan Civilization,' has some- interesting evidences. That the ox and cow were alike in Etruria, in Crete (putting Homer aside), in Pelasgian and Achaian " Greece," Libya, EgypCand India sacred signs and symbols of kinship is a common- place. I shall be indebted to any readers who can help me with this boss. The specu- lation has been forced upon me by such researches as I am, and have been, making in Herodotus's 'Euterpe,' and a recension of his text in that book. CECIL OWEN.

The High School, Perth, Western Australia.

[" Boss" was discussed at 5 S. i. 221, 253, 356; ii. 275 ; x. 289, 338, 357 ; xi. 77, where the deriva- tion from the Dutch baes was the one shown to be- most likely. The ' N.E.D.' says : " adaptation of] Du. baas master (older sense 'uncle'), supposed to- be related to Ger. base female cousin, OB.G. basa 'aunt.'"]

GEORGE FREDERICK EAYMOND. In 1785 a folio volume of 608 pp. in double columns, with a title-page of forty-five lines, com- mencing ' A New, Universal and Impartial History of England,' by George Frederick Raymond, Esq., was issued by " J. Cooke, at Shakespear's Head, No. 17, Pater- noster-Row." The volume is divided into sixteen books, contains a list of 376 sub- scribers, and is dedicated " To the most high, pui .sant, and illustrious George Au- gustus-Frederick, Prince of Wales," &c., and now reposes in the Bodleian Library, through the mediation of an Oxford scholar, who sup- plied me with a description of it. It is curious that it should there find a permanent resting-place, since it bears the name of