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DANIEL HOBBY (11 S. iv. 89, 138). I am now able to give further information in regard to Daniel Horry, which I find in a most interesting work describing Colonial and Revolutionary times in South Carolina, viz., ' Eliza Pinkney,' by Mrs. Harriott Horry Ravenel.

Daniel Horry was the son of Col. Daniel Horry of Hampton, Santee, S.C., and Harriott Pinkney, daughter of the Hon. Charles Pinkney, and was born in 1769. He was

" sent to England very young, became so attached to European life that he never returned to America, except on visits. He settled in France, where he married the niece of General La Fayette, Eleonore de Fay de la Tour Maubourg, daughter of the Comte de la Tour Maubourg. They left no children. A lovely portrait of this lady still exists. A portrait of her husband (who, dropping the name of Daniel, called himself Charles Lucas Pinkney Horry), a most beautiful painting by Romney, was unhappily destroyed in 1865. It was a full-length picture representing a handsome youth in college gown and buff satin breeches. He held his cap in his hand, and seemed stepping from the doorway (beautifully painted) of Trinity College, Cambridge."

E. H. H.

REV. JOHN HUTCHINS (10 S. xi. 409). He had served as curate of the parish of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, prior to his in- stitution to the rectory of SS. Anne and Agnes, Aldersgate, 14 September, 1796. See the case of Hutchins v. Denziloe and Loveland, argued and determined in the Consistory Court of London, 9 February and 14 May, 1792, included in Haggard's Reports,' 1822, vol. i. pp. 170, 181.

His son, the Rev. James Toll Hutchins, Librarian of Sion College, London, a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1810 ('Graduati Cantabrigienses,' 1823,' p. 254), was instituted Rector of St. Alphage, London Wall, 4 March, 1842, and died in 1851 (Hennessy, 'Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense,' 1898, pp. Ix, 87).

DANIEL HIPWELL.

BIBLES WITH CTJBIOUS READINGS (11 S. iii. 284, 433 ; iv. 158, 217). The best account of the " Knave's Bible " will be found in 'Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' 1894 :

" In an old version of the Bible we read ' Paul, a knave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,' &c. (Rom. i. 1.). This version, we are told, is in the Harleian Library, but is generally supposed to be a forgery. But, without doubt, Wycliff (Rev. xii. 5, 13) used the compound ' knave-child,' and Chaucer uses the same in the ' Man of Lawe's Tale,' line 5130."

The notice in Edwards' s * Words, Facts, and Phrases,' 1897, is practically similar to the above. HEBBEBT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

In Our Race (a quarterly magazine pub- lished at New Haven, Connecticut) for June, 1911, p. 47, is a list of 35 "Remark- able Bibles," of which 14 are Bibles with curious readings. No. 6 is the Knave Bible (Romans i. 1 ), but no date is given.

L. M. R.

The "Idle Bible," 1809. The word "idol" is printed "idle" in the sentence "Woe to the idol shepherd that leave th the flock ! " (Zech. xi. 17).

T. SHEPHEBD.

" Paul, a knave of Jesus Christ ' ? (Romans i. 1), occurs in the Wycliffite Bible, where "knave" is reverently used for "servant," the latter being the reading of the A.V. In Anglo-Saxon Cndpa is a servant, literally a boy (Germ. Knabe). Compare * Antony and Cleopatra,' IV. xiv. 12, where Antony- talks with his friend Eros :

My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body.

TOM JONES.

"PUT THAT IN YOUB PIPE AND SMOKE IT" (11 S. iv. 207). See 'Pickwick,' chap, xvi. (Sam Weller to Job Trotter) : " The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere, reflection." G. W. E. RUSSELL.

TWINS AND SECOND SIGHT (US. iii. 469*;: iv. 54, 156). There is a fairly general opinion that twins are very sensitive in regard to> each other, and " feel for each other '" when something out of the common is hap- pening to either. I have heard "a twin 2 ' express himself in this way. Girl twins are considered more sensitive.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

"CASTLES IN SPAIN": "CASTLE IN THE AIB" (11 S. iv. 66, 113, 178). See the, remarks in the N.E.D.' s.v. 'Castle," 11. Littre cites the Mercure Francis of 1616 to account for the origin of the phrase, but questions the absolute truth of the^ statement. N. W. HILL.

New York.

"SEVECHEB" (11 S. iv. 209). Probably "searcher." Searchers were persons who were formerly elected (with the other parish officers) to " search '* the body of a deceased person in order to ascertain the cause of death. W. McM.