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" TAR-POUGH." I cannot find this word in ' N.E.D.' except under the heading ' Pough,' where the compound which I give above appears as " terre powghe," as if it were two words. But it means " tar-bag," and is a compound like " tar- fooist " and " tar-box," both of which refer to the tar-box carried by shepherds. The point is that the compound " tar-pough," occurring in 1394, is older than either of the other terms, and shows that tar was already used for sheep in the fourteenth century. WALTER W. SKEAT.

HERTFORDSHIRE INSCRIPTIONS : HUNDRED OF DACORUM. (See 11 S. iv. 326.) I may supplement my former note by stating that the inscriptions in the churches and churchyards, chapels, and burial-grounds in this division of the county have now been transcribed, and index of names prepared and bound in volumes, which may be freely consulted, by arrangement, in my library at Ivy Lodge, Bishop's Stortford ; or inquiries will be duly answered if a stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed.

W. B. GERISH.

A PHRASE OF SWINBURNE'S : " THE MORN." The first line of Mr. Swinburne's poem ' The Bloody Son ' is as follows : O where have ye been the morn sae late ! The poet evidently means " the morn " to signify " this morning " ; but in Lowland Scotland, and possibly in Mr. Swinburne's native Northumberland, " the morn " always signifies "to -morrow. ' ' A Northerner would feel it odd to be asked where he had been " the morn," but would deem it quite rational to be told to " gang the morn," i.e., " go to-morrow." W. E. WILSON.

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A DANISH VISITOR OF SIR WALTER 3cOTr's. Andersen Feldborg paid a visit to Sir Walter at Abbotsford on 10 Oct., 1822, and has left a long description of it, a German version of w r hich appeared in the Stuttgart Morgenblatt of 15 July 1829, and subsequent issues. L. L. K.

"DICTOGRAPH." An improved micro- phone, supplied by three small accumulators, which has been recently invented by an American acoustician, Mr. Turner, and called by him a "dictograph," should be included, as a synonymous term for " micro- phone," though differentiated by its me- chanical contrivance, among the addenda of the supplementary future volumes of

the ' N.E.D.' Cf. the July number of The Review of Reviews and the Journal des Debate of 21 July, where a brief description of this new apparatus and its application is given in French, with a reference to The Review of Reviews. H. K.

WE must request correspcndents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" LORD BURLACY " IN 1645. In an assessment laid by the Parliamentary Com- missioners on 17 Nov., 1645, against certain Royalists, but on which " no proceedings were taken," occurs the name of " Lord Burlacy " for 3,OOOZ. (' Cal. Comm. for Ad- vance of Money,' ii. 640). Who was the individual intended by this title ? Certainly no such peerage existed. Two members of the Borlace or Burlace family were con- spicuous Royalists, viz., Sir John Borlace of Brockmore, Bucks, and his distant cousin, Nicholas Borlace or Burlace of Newlyn, Cornwall. Sir John Borlace never served in military affairs, nor, indeed, took an active part in the Civil War, beyond going for a short time to the King at Oxford, for which, in 1645, he paid a fine of 6.800Z. Nicholas Borlace was, on the contrary, a colonel in the King's service, and in 1649 compounded under the Truro Articles of War. He had considerable property in Cornwall, but was let off with a fine of 320Z. Difficulty was afterwards raised as to this composition, on the ground that he, being a Papist recusant as well as delinquent in arms, was incapable of compounding; and it was only after two years' litigation, and the statement of Col. Nicholas that he had " conformed," that the composition was allowed to stand. He would be a likely man for promotion to the peerage by his royal master, but there is no evidence of any such creation. He had been returned to the Short Parliament for Tregony at the election in March, 1640. There was, however, a double return, and the indenture containing the name of Borlase was not allowed. He lived until 1677. His only son, Humphrey, after several unsuccessful attempts to obtain a seat in Parliament, was ultimately elected for St. Michael in 1673. He was a strong supporter of James IE., whom he followed into exile, and was by that king, at St. Germains, created