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Also, there is a complaint as to " refuse behind La Motte's stable door, and three heaps in Bull Street. Fined four pence, and to be removed by midsummer next on pain of twelve pence."

The widow Des Mestres was also reported in 1611 to have "a decayed house at the south end next the street, which is ready to fall down" ('Court Leet Records,' Southampton Record Society, vol. i. part ii.).

In 1604 a complaint was also presented as to the trading of foreigners :

" The comon complaints and grievaunce of Shoppkeepers of this towne, namely, Lynnen drapers, woolen drapers, grocers, and other men of trade of like qualitie, against the too muche Libertie w h the frenchmen and aliens heere resident have and doe enjoye as well as in buy- enge and sellinge, barteringe and exchaunge, Hath eftsones mooved us as Sworne men to the state of the Towne To present and comende the same to your advised good consideracons, beinge well knowne to some of our companie, That Mr. Lamote, peter Legayr, Estien Latalas, John Hersaunt, Baltaster demastre, and Robert, Lepage, doe daylie and weeklye, as well as in Grosse as retayle, sell to the people both of the town and countrie in there howses divers sorts of Lynnen and wollen cloth and grocery ware at there pleasures as freelie as any Burgess amongst us.... We further desire they may be strictly warned .... and that there Lynnen clothe that they bringe it to the Lynnen hall there to sell the same according to the order of the town and not otherwise upon peine of 20s. a piece for everie tune they shall doe to the con- trarie."

In this church's register of burial is a note that

" Phillippe de la Motte, Minister of God's Word of famous memory, deceased on the sixth day of May, 1617, and was buried on the 18th, being followed to the grave by all the magistrates of the town."

Judith, the widow, and her son Jan appear to have carried on the business, for according to the 'Books of Examinations and Depositions made before the Justices of Southampton' on the 18th of August, 1624, Jean de la Motte (examined) exposed that "they dyed all their serges within the dwelling house of the said Judith."

Mr. F. W. Camneld, in an article contri- buted to the Hampshire Field Club Papers (vol. v. 1906), entitled ' The Maritime Trade of Southampton in the Seventeenth Century, says that " a worsted cloth called Hampton serge was introduced and manufactured by the Walloons," and that on one occasion the ship transporting these bales of serge to La Rochelle, in France, was taken by ,a Spanish man-of-war, and the traders lost their goods.

The burial of Judith, widow of Phillippe de la Motte, minister of this church, took

ilace on 18 August, 1640, when she wa& nterred " dedans le tombeau de 1'Eglise de St. Jean." Of all their children, Joseph de la Motte (buried beside her on 28 March, L672) alone appears in the later registers of Elder ; and after its rites there buried his e, Jacamaga, on 15 August, 1644. Of lis daughters, Anne was married ther& n September, 1669, to Jean Ralens ; Judith married Elie de Gruchy of Jersey, in Febru- ary of the same year ; and Elizabeth married Cornelius Matcham. This family of Macham (sic) were of St. Noets, Cornwall, whence Thomas, settling in Southampton, married Patience, daughter of Richard Dornellius, merchant of i that town. By her le was father of Cornellius Macham, of the Darishof St. Lawrence (buried at Holy Rood, Southampton, 25 December, 1693). He married Elizabeth de la Motte, buried beside lim 30 September, 1706. It was from the elder brother of the St. Noets family that descended Mr. George Matcham (sic) who was married at Bath on 26 February, 1787,
 * he French Church, of which he was an
 * o Catherine, youngest daughter of the

Rev. Edmund Nelson of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, the " Kitty " of the letters of her illustrious brother Horatio Nelson.

F. H. SUCKLING-

' THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY.'

SARAH HUGGINS is a good plain cook; she cannot boil potatoes, burns her sauces, fries indifferently, makes heavy pastry and cakes, and does not attempt entrees ; but I can recommend her as a reliable cook." The character you give ' The Concise Oxford Dictionary ' in your number of 26 August is so much on these well-known lines, the damnatory details bulk so large beside the general commendation, that your readers will be puzzled unless you allow us to answer the questions in which you " criticize the judgment with which the collaborators have done their part."

1. " Only ' current >} words are admitted ; yet we find foreign words, like chapeau- bras, voe, and Zeitgeist, to the exclusion of Biblical and Shakespearian words like neese, tache, and mobled. Why not these- as well as Milton's scrannel, which does find a place, and the Mahound of old plays, and niddering?" It is perhaps a sufficient justification of our omitting neeze, tache, and mobled, and including scrannel, Mahound^ and niddering, to state the ' N.E.D.'s "