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the trigger, but without result. Another ap was inserted, but again the pistol failed. Cournet then offered the use of his own pistols, which were accepted, and his opponent fired with fatal effect. Bar- thelemy escaped with the seconds, was afterwards arrested, and tried at Kingston, when the jury returned a verdict of man- slaughter. Three years later he was hanged at the Old Bailey for the murder of Mr. Moore and Mr. Folkard.

The above account I have condensed from a long story told me at second hand by an Egham lady, so that I cannot myself vouch for the truth of the picturesque details. FREDERIC TURNER. -

Wessex, Frome, Somerset.

" DR. SYNTAX " (11 S. v. 490 ; vi. 78). COL. MALET is quite right. Combe pub- lished in 1820 ' Dr. Syntax in Paris,' with, I think, twenty-three plates. Several copies are reported as sold in London in the first and second Indexes to 'Book-Prices Current.'

S. L. PETTY.

Ul version.

SMALL, REPUBLICS IN EUROPE : GOUST : TAVOLARA (11 S. vi. 48). These two re- publics still exist, the population of Goust comprising 70 inhabitants (in 1902), that of Tavolara c. 180 (in 1907). H. K.

W. PETITOT: BOYD PORTERFIELD (11 S. vi. 49). Boy d Porterfield, second son of Boyd Porterfield of that ilk, co. Renfrew, purchased an ensigncy in the 22nd Regiment of Foot, and afterwards purchased a lieu- tenancy in the 71st Regiment; died in America 1780 or 1781, unmarried. See Crawf urd's ' History of Renfrewshire,' Sem- ple's ed., p. 73; Robertson's ed., p. 402.

J. R. A.

" STEPHANI RODERICI CASTRENSIS Lvsi-

TANI ANN. .ETAT. LXXVIII." (US. vi. 10. 97).

There is a short account of the above, Estevam Rodrigues de Castro, and his works in Zedler's ' Universal Lexicon,' vol. v. col. 1386, according to which he was born at Lisbon, was Doctor and Prof. Medicinse Primarius at Pisa, and died in 1637, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. See also 4 Lindenius Renovatus,' i.e., J. A. van der Linden's ' De Scriptis Medicis,' enlarged by G. A. Mercklin, Xurnberg, 1686, pp. 983-4, and Jocher's ' Gelehrten-Lexicon.'

Stephanus Rodericus Castrensis must be distinguished from a more or less contem- porary physician. Rodericus a Castro or de Castro who is said to have been a Portuguese

(or Spaniard), and to have practised at Ham- burg. He was the author of ' Medicus- Politicus ' and ' De Universa Mulierum Medicina.' Notices of him are given in the books of reference mentioned above.

An interleaved and elaborately annotated copy of ' Lindenius Renovatus ' in the British Museum suggests some additions to the lists of works by these two writers. Burton refers to Rodericus a Castro on several occasions in his ' Anatomy of Melan- choly.' At I. iii. ii. iv. he calls him " a famous physician in Spain." EDWARD BENSLY.

ABERCROMBY FAMILY (11 S. v. 489 ; vi. 56). The appended isolated reference, which I noted some time since in the burial register of St. Peter's, Nottingham, may possibly have been vainly sought elsewhere, as the family was not, to my knowledge, associated with this locality: 6 June. 1593, " Sir James Abercrumby." A. S.

"CHEEK" (11 S. v. 366). In Farmer's ' Slang and its Analogues ' it is shown that the word " brow " was formerly used in the same sense, an example being cited from Fuller's ' Holy State,' 1642.

Barrere suggests that the term arose from the habit impudent people had of thrusting their tongue in their cheek when they wished to express contempt.

" BABBYLUBIE " (11 S. v. 388). In the ' E.D.D.' it will be found that lubby and lubu are defined as " awkward, lubberly " ; while bobby, of course, means infant : hence these stone blocks may have been familiarly called "awkward babies" on account of their rounded and clumsy shape.

N. W. HILL.

Honolulu, Hawaii.

BRITISH TROOPS IN GOA (US. vi. 68). During the continuance of our wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France at the close of the eighteenth and commence- ment of the nineteenth centuries, British garrisons were maintained in the Portuguese settlements of Goa and Isle Diu from motives of self-preservation. The 86th Regiment, now the Second Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles, were in garrison at Goa from April, 1806, to August, 1809, and on the departure of the regiment a most complimentary Order was issued by the Viceroy and Captain- General of the Portuguese possessions in India. I am not aware whether any " history of this occupation " has been published, but details of the garrison will