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To see thee at thy window : ay, before I would have left my practice, for thy love, In varying figures, I would have contended With the blue Proteus, or the horned flood.

And in Act V. se. iii. Volpone wears the habit of a commandadore. In ; The Alche- mist ' Face is alternately a captain and a servant (these alternations involve eight changes), then he is Lovewit's butler, shaved and in livery, then a captain again, then a Spanish don, and lastly, once more the butler.

I believe that these characters are said to have been played by Lowin as well, and that he too was called " Protean." That he and Burbage were actors of the same type may be admitted. But the pre- eminent skill of Burbage in " Protean " and all other respects will perhaps be conceded also - D. C. TOVEY.

[We owe this Xote to the kindness of MR -

AX TOVEY, who found it aaiong his late fathers papers.]

Two " GHOST- WORDS " IN RECENT DIC- TIONARIES. The 1911 edition of ' Webster's New International Dictionary ' a remark- ably excellent work, let me say contains the following entry : " Shalder, adv. Surely. Obs" No other dictionary mentions this alleged adverb, but ' The Century Dic- tionary ' and Funk's ' Standard Dictionary ' have shalder as a verb, explained in the former " to give way, tumble down," and as a substantive, " 1, a kind of slate ; 2, a broad flat rush." The verb and the sub- stantive, which are genuine words (though the interpretation is in neither case quite accurate), are ignored in the new ' Webster ' ; the imaginary adverb has simply taken their place. The genesis of mistakes of this kind is always interesting, and often instructive, and it might be worth while to know how the thing happened. Perhaps some member of the ' Webster ' staff could solve the puzzle. In default of an authoritative explanation, I will venture to offer a guess. In the new ' Webster ' the page is divided by a hori- zontal line into two compartments, the lower one containing words of minor importance or limited currency. It seems possible that " Surely " was the editorial reply to an assistant's question whether shalder should be placed in the lower compartment, and that it was somehow mistaken for a cor- rected explanation of the meaning of the word. However this may be, it is certain that shalder was never an English word for " surely."

In the Supplement to ' The Century Dic- tionary ' there is a word sen, stated to be the

Indian name of a weight equivalent to a kilogram, and of a measure equivalent to a litre. This spurious word has evidently originated from a misreading of set; often spelt seer. HENRY BRADLEY.

Oxford.

T. CHIPPENDALE, UPHOLSTERER. (See 10 S. vii. 37.} That Thomas Chippendale, the famous cabinet-maker, originally came from Ottley in Yorkshire (and if from Wor- cestershire, only as part of his route to London) is, I think, proved by the following, which is the record of the registration of a deed in the West Riding Registry for Deeds at Wakefield :

Lease and Release, 30//1 April, 1770.

The Lease of two parts between William Chippindale of Farnley in Ottley, Yorks, car- penter, and Frances his wife and Samuel Harper of Leeds, Esquire, of the one part, and Thomas Chippindale of St. Martin's Lane, London, cabinet maker, of the other part.

The Release of four parts made between the said William Chippindale and Frances his wife and Samuel Harper of the first part, Christopher Elward of Horsforth in Guiseley, yeoman, of the second part, Thomas Chippindale of the third part, and John Fletcher of Ottley, farmer, and Benjamin Chippindale of the same place, carpenter, of the fourth part.

Concerning a messuage, gardens, orchards, &c., in Broughgate in Ottley.

(Signed) WILLIAM CHIPPINDALE.

SAMUEL HARPER. Witnessed by :

William Snell of Ottley, gentleman, and

Joseph Chippindale of Ottley, carpenter.

Registered' 28th July. 1770.

This deed clearly connects Thomas Chip- pindale of St. Martin's Lane, London, with Ottley, and I have no doubt that the other Chippindales named in the deed were brothers or cousins. Thomas Chippindale the elder appears to have married Catherine Red- shaw, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields parish, at St. George's Chapel, Hyde Park Corner, on 19 May, 1748; and their son, Thomas Chippindale the younger, appears to have been baptized at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 23 April, 1749 (as he is recorded as Thomas, son of Thomas Chippindale by Catherine his wife). The elder Thomas Chippindale was dead by 1797, as a Chancery suit arose regarding his estate, in which a relict Elizabeth (? second wife) and children Thomas, Mary, John, and Charles are named. The above is all I have been able to gather so far regarding this man, but he evidently selonged to the Yorkshire branch of the hippindales, families of which were located at Skipton, Bradford, Leeds, and Ottley