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produce sores about their body for the sake of exciting pity and getting alms. Fresh ohickweed juice produced rheumatic pains. Cowhage or cowitch causes a skin eruption. The date fever occurs in Egypt about the time of the date harvest ; and harvest fever attacks harvesters. The rose fever, a form of hay fever occurring in the late spring or ^ arly summer, is commonly associated with the flowering period of roses. The " toad- stool " (Clathrus cancellatus) is said to produce cancerous sores if handled too freely. Smelling strongly and frequently of the hay saffron of commerce (obtained from Spain a, :id France) will cause headache, stupor, and heavy sleep. TOM JONES.

TATTERSHALL : ELSHAM : GRANTHAM (11 S. iv. 269, 314, 455, 535). ST. SWITHIN says that to ask for Els-ham House would puzzle a native of Grantham. I doubt that, for both Els-um and El-sham are used. How does ST. SWITHIN pronounce Bytham ? The natives of Little Bytham, a village near Grantham, say " Bite-urn." Then there are the names Greetham (Greet- um) and Cheetham (Cheet-um). Does ST. SWITHIN say Gree-tham and Chee-tham ?

MB. CHARLES LANSDOWN'S theory that Grantham was at one time Great Brantham is ingenious, but somewhat far-fetched. According to ' The Encyclopaedia Britan- nica,' llth edition, Grantham in Domes- day Book is written " Graham " and Brantham." W. H. PINCHBECK.
 * ' Granham," which seem far from "Great

In my reply on p. 536 I should have given the date of Crida as 595 A.D., not 495.

As it took about 140 years to conquer Mercia after the Romans left in 449 A.D., and as Hengist and Horsa, the great-grand- sons of Woden, were kinsmen of Crida, it is probable that Brunanborgh was so named before the crowning of Crida. Under the Romans it was called Brigae, but was of importance under the Iceni, which names remind us of the ancient Britons (the Bri- gantes and the Coritani).

Xear to Grantham are Great Gonerby to the north and Great Ponton to the south, which fact in itself supports the claim that Grantham was at one time Great Brantham, one of the numerous homes or strongholds of the Bruns, among which is also Brant ing- ham in S.E. Yorkshire, besides Brant-ing- thorp (now Bruht-ing-thorpe) in Leicester, Brant-ham in Suffolk, Bran-caster (once Brun-dinium) in Norfolk, Brun-ton and Bran-ton in Northumberland, Bournemouth

in Hampshire, and Brans-combe and Braun- ton in Devon.

Again. Malmesbury (Giles) mentions Abbot Brand, brother of Leofric, Earl Brun, as having knighted Hereward his nephew.

Therefore Brun, Bran, Brand, Brant, and Brunt are synonymous. And if the Wit- ham (once the Lindis ; hence Lindsey, Northern Lincolnshire) was ever called the Great Brant, as claimed, as distinguished from the Brant, its tributary, the people of old would perhaps be found saying (?' Brant-ham, and later still Grant-ham.

CHARLES LANSDOWN.

KINGS WITH SPECIAL TITLES (11 S. v. 7). " Most Christian King," the style of the Kings of France (1469); "Most Catholic King," a title given by the Pope to Ferdi- nand, King of Aragon (1479-1516)1 for expelling the Moors from Spain ; " Most Faithful King," the style of the Kings of Portugal ; " Most Apostolic King," a title borne by the Kings of Hungary, having been conferred by Pope Sylvester II. (Gerbert, Archbishop of Ravenna) on the King of Hungary in 1000; "Defender of the Faith," a title given by Pope Leo X. (Giovanni de' Medici) to Henry VIII. of England, in 1521, for a Latin treatise on the Seven Sacraments. A. R. BAYLEY.

The title of " Most Christian " was given by the Pope to Louis XI. of France in 1469 ; that of " Most Catholic " to Ferdinand of Aragon (d. 1516) ; that of " Apostolic " to the King of Hungary in 1000 ; and that of " Fidelissimus " to John V. of Portugal (d. 1750). C. B. W.

[MR. JOHN B. WAIXEWRIGHT and B. (who queries " Most " Apostolic) are also thanked for replies.]

J. R. : LETTERS TO LORD ORRERY (11 S. v. 8). The only ' Observations on Lord Orrery's Remarks ' so far as I know were written by the Rev. Patrick Delany, one of Swift's most intimate friends. See the standard edition of Swift's Prose Works (Bell & Sons), vol. xii., and Swift's Poems, ibid., for verses addressed to Delany.

WM. E. BROWNING.

The author of the ' Observations,' &c., is Patrick Delany, divine (1685 ?-1768). See ' D.N.B.,' vol. xiv. p. 311.

FRANCIS G. HALEY.

National Liberal Club.

[PROF. EDWARD BEXSLY, MR. WILLIAM E. A. Axox (who mentions that Delany was Dean of Down), and C. B. W. are also thanked for replies.]