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will be respected by the good people who are so anxious to turn the Abbey into a thing ol beauty by casting out all the old monument into the dustbin. W. F. PRIDEATJX.

I am now able to show that " Colbertine " 3 correct. The Potter patent of 1678 is No. 204, and the specification reads : " An Invention for making of Flanders Colbertine and all other Laces of Woollen," &c. There- fore the lace described at the first reference as " Dolberline " must be a misprint.

TOM JONES.

The following extract from ' The Registers of the Walloon or Strangers Church in Canter- bury ' (published by the Huguenot Society) may be of interest :

" AoiU 4, 1678. La femme Jean le Leu, a sauoir Judit le Keux. Et fut la premier quil fut enterre selon 1'acte du Parlement enseuely

en etofe de line."

G. DE C. FOLKARD.

" WITH ALLOWANCE " With allowance "

(11 S. v. 48). means " with the per- mission or approval " of authority. But I do not know who " allowed " or approved of it. See '"allowance" in the ' N.E.D.' ; and, with respect to the question of " im- primatur," see Milton's splendid tract on the subject entitled ' Areopagitica.'

WALTER W. SKEAT.

Is not this a token that the work had received the imprimatur of the authorities of the Roman branch of the Church ?

ST. SWITHIN.

Does not this mean " permitted by au- thority, licensed,"' in the same sense as

allowed " is used in 1589 ? " He solde it to an allowed printer," quoted in the 'N.E.D.'

In the same year, 1796, Mrs. Arnold married a Mr. Tubbs, a pianist, and in the spring of 1797, with her husband and her daughter Elizabeth, was engaged to join a theatrical company formed by Solee to play in Charles- ton. South Carolina.

In the summer of 1800 Elizabeth Arnold married C. D. Hopkins, a popular actor. He died 26 Oct., 1805, and shortly after Mrs. Hopkins married another member of her company, David Poe. See the work by Woodberry above referred to, and the ' Memoir of Edgar .Allan Poe,' by J. H r Whitiy, prefixed to the latter's edition of 'Poe'g Poems/ 1911.

These two lives give the result of the latest researches on the early life of Poe and

his parents.

Washington, D.C.

JOHN T. LOOMIS.

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in TOM JONES.

EDGAR ALLAN POE'S UZABETH ARNOLD (11 Elizabeth,

mother was

MOTHER : Miss S. v. 7). Poe's daughter of an

English actress, Mrs. Arnold, from the Iheatre Royal, Co vent Garden. On 11 Feb., 1796, The Independent hromcle and Universal Advertiser, issued at Boston, Massachusetts, announced that Mrs. Arnold would make her first appearance in America at the Federal Street Theatre, 12 Feb.

\ Mrs- Arnold gave a vocal concert, which her daughter, Elizabeth, made her first

' rtnC ^ a " (i S - ng Some PPular songs adapted youth. \\ oodberry's ' Life of Poe,' 1909,

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TATTERSHALL : ELSHAM : GRANTHAM (US. iv. 269, 314, 455, 535 ; v. 57). Allow me to answer MR. W. H. PINCHBECK'S inquiry touching my pronunciation of certain names. As far as I know, I say Byt-ham, Cheet-ham, and Greet-ham ; all the same, I was brought up on Gran-tham, and have been of the probably mistaken opinion that it was mainly vulgar speakers and outsiders vain of a bit of etymological knowledge who called the place anything Ise. In York, and Yorkshire, people would open their eyes if they heard one say Hot -ham, Boot -ham, Leet-ham, and Leat- lam, instead of Hoth-am, &c. I feel that euphony has as much claim to be regarded in our speech as the preservation of the original constituents of words in their integrity.

I believe it is possible that the first syllable of Grantham was Granth, and that the form Grandham, which is said to occur in early records, arose from Norman misunderstand- ing of the letter thorn. It was this that gave us Wilfrid instead of Wilfrith.

I should very much like to know what MR. CHARLES LANSDOWN means by saying that his claim that Grantham was at one time Great Brantham is supported by the fact that Great Gonerby lies to the north and Great Ponton to the south.

ST. SWITHLN.

The ' Encyclopaedia Britannica's ' extract from Domesday Book is undoubtedly in support of Grantham really owing its deriva- tion to G'Brantham (i.e., G'Branham, or G'Brunham), after the great Brun family, to which Hereward belonged. Again, Mor- ar, nephew of Hereward, and Earl of