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ueritatis professionem abnegasset, damnas- setque, in horrendam incidit desperationem, Historia, A quatuor summis uiris, suinma fide conscripta,' &c., Basel, 1550. See ante, p. 62, col. 1, 1. 50, where it was pointed out that the Latin authorities mentioned were the writers in the ' Historia.'

EDWARD BENSLY.

" CACKLING CLOUTS " : " CARPILLIONS " : " GAINSHOT " : " SUFFLEE "(US. iii. 168). " Cackling clouts " are naturally rustling clothes, the " frou-frou " of silk.

" Carpillion " would be the cover of a pillion, as they appeared to use anything to stop the draughts.

MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

I think carpillions simply means rags, from the Picard carpir, O-F. charpir (Cot- grave), to pull to pieces. See char pie and carpet in ' N.E.D.'

Suffice must be the F. ^soufflee, a thing puffed out, in this case made of linen. The ' N.E.D.' gives foundation-net, a gummed fabric for stiffening dresses and bonnets, which is doubtless something of a very similar character.

I do not know gainshot; but see camp-shot in ' N.E.D.' WALTER W. SKEAT.

SWEETAPPLE SURNAME (US. iii. 66, 134). In one of Coleman's catalogues (No. 204, art. 240) this name is noted as occurring in the Court Rolls of Domerham Martyn, Wilts, in 1603 and 1604. See also will of Edward Skeat of Greenham, parish of Thatcham, Berks, 1676 (P.C.C. 24 Hale), of which William Sweetapple of Cholderton, Hants, is an executor. The will of Richard Briscoe, cit. and girdler of London (P.C.C. 2 Noel), is witnessed by John Sweetapple; and the name is found in Mr. Brigg's Register " Wootton." See vol. iii. No. 308, where Henry May, of Alton, Hants, clothier (1652), mentions daughter Eliz. Sweetapple and also Geo. Sweetapple and his child.

F. S. SNELL.

The pedigree of the family of Sweetapple, about the period of the beginning of the eighteenth century, yet remains to be pub- lished. I have several notes, but cannot connect them. A Thomas Sweetapple was host of the " Ship Tavern " at Greenwich in 1714. There was a family of brewers of that name in the parish of St. Andrew's, Holbprn. A member, George Sweetapple, married Penelope, daughter of Lewis Atter-

bury, elder brother of Francis, the Jacobite Bishop of Rochester, by his wife Penelope, daughter of Sir Thomas Bedingfield, Kt., Lord Mayor of London in 1707. (See Yardley, ' Brief Account of the Author prefixed to Lewis Atterbury's Sermons,' I. ix.) Was there any relationship?

A. RHODES.

In Hilton Price's ' Handbook of London Bankers,' p. 160, "Sweetaple, John, whose name is recorded in the ' Little London Directory ' of 1677 as keeping running-cashes at the Black Moor's Head, in Lombard Street, was one of the Sheriffs of London in 1694"; later on we learn that "Sir John Sweetaple, Benjamin Hodgkins, and Richard Harris were bankrupts." Coleman's Catalogue No. 3, 1911, p. 19, has a deed " Andover Mutual Insurance Society," dated 1801, wherein the name of William Sweet- apple appears. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

"OWNS": "BLITHERING" (11 S. iii. 148). " Blood and owns " is another form of the old oath "zounds," i.e., God's wounds. Hotspur says to the Messenger (' 1 Hen. IV.,' IV. i.) : " 'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick in such a justling time? " It was a common Tudor ex- pression, particularly used by one of the favourites of Edward VI., Sir John Perrot. But it is remarkable that, like many ether oaths and " swear-words," of the meaning and origin of which those who use them are utterly ignorant, " zounds " survives in the provincial dialects of to-day. Variations of it, in use in almost every county in England, are zuns, zouns, zookers, zowkers, zooks, zowks. The ' E.D.D.,' however, does not, I think, give " owns." " Godsookers " or " -sokers " is another form. In 'The Rehearsal,' by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (III. ii.), the line occurs, " God- sookers, you'll spoil all my play "; and in Shadwell's ' Squire of Alsatia,' which was first acted about seventeen years later, occurs " Godsookers, cousin! I always thought they had been wittiest in the universities."

For "Blithering" see ' N. & Q.,' 9 S. x. 507; xi. 335, 490, s.v. " Bletheram- skite." J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

"Blood and owns," usually written " 'Sblood and zounds," were common oaths at a time when profanity was more preva- lent, and was tolerated in all society. The words mean respectively " God's blood n and " God's wounds."