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all Cistercian houses at the end). The name is a French form of its first name " Elee- mosyna," said to have been given to it by reason of the lavish gifts made to it by its founders. For a list of works and articles relating to Aumone see the " Topo-Biblio- graphie " section of the Abbe U. Chevalier's wonderful ' Repertoire des Sources his- toriques du Moyen Age,' vol. i.,Montbeliard, 1894, column 259.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

PUNCH AND JUDY (11 S. v. 289). An interesting account of the performance, with the text of some of the dialogue, will be found in an article called ' The Punch and Judy Men of London : an Interview with One of Them,' which appeared in The Pall Mall Gazette on 15 June, 1887. M.

" ROOD-LOFT" (11 S. v. 287). A great many " rood-lofts " have survived to the present time. See the recent works on rood-lofts by Mr. F. Bond and Mr. Bligh Bond. J. T. F.

Winterton.

"LIKE" (11 S. v. 251). Is this more than a vigorous provincial utterance of "look'" = look out? OLD SARUM may be unused to the disguises of Northern vowels.

ST. SWITHIN.

ST. BRIDE'S : J. PRIDDEN (11 S. iv. 448). An account and list of the religious societies of St. Bride's, London, by J. Pridden ; extracts from the parish registers, 1587-95; lists of preachers at St. Bride's Church, 1759-94, with lists of briefs and accounts of sums collected thereon 1753-94, three quarto volumes, MSS., formed lots 1351 and 1746 in Messrs. Sotheby's sale by auction of John Gough Nichols's library on 7 and 8 Dec., 1874. The volumes subsequently found a place in the library of Mr. T. C. Noble, which was sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simp- son on 27-29 Oct., 1890.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

CASANOVA AND THE ENGLISH RESIDENT AT VENICE (11 S. v. 207, 315). Towards the end of his ' Memoirs ' Antonio Longo mentions William and George Murray, " figli del fu ambasciatore d' Inghilterra alia Corte di Constantinopoli, poscia ministro a Venezia," among his friends in Treviso in the early years of last century. William suffered from melancholia, and could not endure the sunlight. A number of friends used to do their best to amuse him.

L. COLLISON-MORLEY.

KEIGHLEY : PRONUNCIATION (11 S. v. 289). He would be hardy who en- deavoured to explain any apparently strange pronunciation of either a place or a family name. In regard to Keighley, how- ever, it may be noted that, if this query had been put just thirty-six years ago, it might have saved the comic press of that time from perpetrating jokes on the town's name which would have lost all their in- tended point if the accustomed pronuncia- tion had been known in London. In the summer of 1876 some members of the Keighley Board of Guardians, being op- posed to compulsory vaccination, refused to carry out the Vaccination Act, and set at defiance, not only the Local Government Board, but the Court of Queen's Bench. They were arrested for contempt of court, and committed to York Castle ; and while there, and before being liberated on bail, they were alluded to as " the Lock and Keigh-ley Guardians " ; while Punch of 2 September, 1876, carried on the idea by observing that " something like a dead-lock has occurred in the affairs of the Keighley Union." ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

According to Prof. Otto Jespersen (' A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles,' Heidelberg, 1909, pp. 285-6), the th- sound has been substituted for a less familiar sound which has acoustically some resemblance to it. This is the sound still heard in the Scotch pronunciation of light, right (as licht, richt). According to A. J. Ellis ('Early English Pronunciation,' v. 61*), the old sound is retained in one of the two local pronunciations of the name Keighley. Jespersen compares the Durham, Westmore- land, and Yorkshire pronunciation of fort- night as fortnith (see Wright's ' Dialect Dic- tionary,' s.v. ' Fortnighth ').

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

" CONFOUNDED RED HERRINGS " (11 S. v. 288). " Red Herrings " was the sobriquet of the third Marquess of Hertford (1777- 1842), who is usually considered to have been the prototype of Thackeray's Marquess of Steyne. He married Maria Fagniani in 1798, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1822. The name of " Red Herrings " was given to him previously to that date, when he bore the courtesy title of Earl of Yarmouth, and was due partly to that and partly to his ruddy complexion and reddish hair and whiskers. The story of the " confounded red herrings " (which is too long to set out in full) will be found in