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NOTES AND QUERIES. IIIB.IV. AUG. 28,1911.

by distributing it over forty issues of five different newspapers, the assignment being based on the interest attaching to the par- ticular district served by each journal. The distribution has been as follows :

MS.

Journal.

Subject. Second Duke 1-90 Huntly Express

Date. 30,

{.Sept. 23, 30 Oct. 14, 21, Nov. 4, 11,

28, 1910

91-103 Ross-shire Journal Jan. 20, 1911

104-124 Strathspey Herald Dec. 15, 22, 1910

125-133 Ross-shire Journal Jan. 27, 1911

134-140 Strathspey Herald Dec. 22, 1910 141-157

( Jan. 5, 12, Feb. 2,

158-301 Strathspey Herald- March 2, 16, 30, t April 13, 27, 1911

302-339

> 27 >

340-367 Strathspey Herald May 11, 18, 1911 368-371

Second 372-446 Aberdeen Weekly! April 15, 22, 29,

Duchess Free Press / May 6, 1911

Duke's 447-456 Banff shire ) MOW.*, i ion

Family Advertiser f March 16 ' 19n

His son 457-468 Aberdeen Weekly \ M arf ,i, A 1011

(Le-vis) Free Press J

463-483 Banffshire \. , 1 19 484-540 Aberdeen Weekly) March 11, 18, 25,

Free Press / April 1, 1911

His son 541-602 Banffsbire ) Feb. 23,

(Adam) Advertiser/ March 2, 9, 1911

This list helps to show the enormous difficulties facing the bibliographer who attempts to catalogue the numerous con- tributions to family history now in progress among provincial papers, much of it never likely to see the comparative accessibility of book -form. J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

' MR. BARNEY MAGUIRE'S ACCOCTNT or THE CORONATION, 1838.' In T.P.'s Maga- zine for August I see a reprint of this ex- cellent ' Ingoldsby Legend ' with annotations (dating from 1902) by John o' London. It is, on the whole, very well annotated, and has told me much that I did not know ; but there are four lines,

And Wellington, walking with his sword drawn,

talking

To Hill and Hardinge, heroes of great fame ; And Sir de Lacy, and the Duke Dalmasey <They called him Sowlt afore he changed his

name),

which need an extra gloss. To c: Sir de Lacy " is appended the note, " Was Sir de Lacy more than a rhyme ? " I think he was. It seems to/me' that there is no doubt that he was Sir George de Lacy Evans, who fought against the Carlists, and who^was made a K.C.B. in August, 1837.

A. FRANCIS STEUART. 79, Great King Street, Edinburgh. jij^_^ ^

ALEXANDER POPE AND THE REV. MATHER .-^It seems that the Rev. Mather Byles (1706-83), when a young man, wrote a complimentary letter to Pope from Boston, 7 October, 1727, sending him some poems ; to which Pope replied that it had long been supposed that the Muses had deserted the British Empire, but the recep- tion of this book of poems had relieved him of his sorrow, for it was evident they had only emigrated to the Colonies. See Buck- ingham's * Specimens of Newspaper Lite- rature,' i. 109- 11, where Byles's letter appears in full. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

STOCKINGS, BLACK AND COLOURED. This I read, or reread, a few weeks ago in that admirable collection of interesting matter which is entitled ' The Everyday Book ' :

Women's Blacks '.... is the name of the common black worsted stockings, formerly an article of extensive consumption ; they are now- little made because little worn. One of the greatest wholesale dealers in ' women's blacks ' in a manufacturing town was celebrated for the largeness of his stock ; his means enabled him to purchase all that were offered to him for sale, and it was his favourite article. He was an old- fashioned man, and while the servant-maids were leaving them off, he was unconscious of the change, because he could not believe it ; he insisted it was impossible that household work could be done in ' white cottons.' Offers of quantities were made to him at reduced prices, which he bought ; his immense capital became locked up in his favourite ' women's blacks ' ; whenever their price in the market lowered, he could not make up his mind to be quite low enough ; his warehouses were filled with them ; when he deter- mined to sell, the demand had wholly ceased ; he could effect no sales ; and becoming bankrupt he literally died of a broken heart from an excessive and unrequited attachment to ' women's blacks.' " Vol. i. p. 454.

The paragraph is probably more amusing to me than it would have been if the ill- judging tradesman had been an ancestor of mine own ; but, in any case, it surprises me to find that women's blacks were out of fashion about 1825, when ' The Everyday Book ' first appeared, inasmuch as I dis- tinctly remember they were worn in " the forties " by our family nurse and by other servants in my father's house, who, I feel sure, would not have considered themselves fitly attired for work in white cotton hose. Did the good sober sense of early Victorian times check the advance towards inutility and incongruity made by the Georgian age ? When I first joined the nineteenth century, men wore blue -tin ted stockings, and children white socks, while, unless I mistake, their mothers concealed limbs that were