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town of Chipping, is traceable in Lancashire from the middle of the thirteenth century down to the present day, with no sign of the " Ch " becoming a " K."

There is also in Cheshire a place called Coppenhall or Coppenhale ; it is mentioned in the Testa de Nevill and in Cal. Rot. Chart., and gave name to a family, one of whom, Kobert de Copenhale, held a fee there before 1327. W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

Kirkby Lonsdale.

ARMORIAL (US. vii. 91, 138). Alexander Stevenson of Chester (the exact locality of which I do not know), described as "brother of Hermieshiels," recorded arms in 1693 : Argent, on a chevron bet\veen three fleurs- de-lis azure, a cross moline of the first ; on a chief gules three mullets or. Crest : A rose tree bearing proper. Motto : " Virtus ubique sedem." The Stevensons referred to in the query were possibly a branch of this family. J. B. P.

"Stevenson (Hermishiels, co. Lanark). Arg., a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis gu. ; on a chief of the last as many mullets or."

" Stevenson (Chester, 1693. cadet of Hermishiels). Arg., on a chief between three fleurs-de-lis az., a cross moline of the first ; on a chief gu. three mullets or v Crest : arose tree bearing roses proper. Motto : ' Virtus ubique sedem.'" Burke's 'General Armory,' 1884.

The latter coat is confirmed (but without mention of the crest or motto) in the present Lord Lyon's ' An Ordinary of Arms,' as recorded in his Register in 1693. Thirteen other coats of Stevenson are also given, mostly variants of the Hermishiels bearings. S. A. GRUNDY-^EWMAN.

Walsall.

"MARROWSKYING" (11 S. vi. 307). Whatever the origin of this word may be, it appears to mean other things besides the actor's accidental transposition of syllables. According to Barrere and Leland, ' Dic- tionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant ' (1897), " marrowskying " is synonymous with " medical Greek," i.e., the slang used by medical students at the hospitals. This explanation is repeated in H. Baumann's ' Londinismen ' (second edition, Berlin, 1903) in somewhat preciser form.

" Marrowskying," says Baumann, is a sort of medical slang, formed by certain rules from actual words, e.g., " flutter-by " for "butterfly." This might be regarded as an example of the ordinary type of Spoonerism, caused by transposition of initial consonants. Baumann refers us to " medical Greek," and defines that as " argot of the London medical students."

J. Redding Ware's * Passing English of the Victorian Era ' (London, Routledge, n.d.) records neither 'marrowskying" nor "medical Greek," but two entries may be quoted :

" Mentisenfal (Syllable tra version [sic] E. of London only). Sentimental."

" Wroth of reset (Theatrical, 1882). He wore a wroth of reses letter inversion of 'wreath of roses.' This treatment was started by Mr. F. C. Burnand (Punch, about 1877), who began with '.she smole a smile,' &e. Said of a male singer who vocalises too sentimentally."

I hope some reader will be able to throw more light on the subject.

BURJCE QUOTATION (11 S. vi. 468). Possibly the passage desired is the following, in Burke's ' Speech on a Bill for Shortening the Duration of Parliaments,' of uncertain date ('Works,' Bonn's edition, vi. 137-8). At any rate, if this is not the precise quota- tion, the thought is the same :

"The candidate, instead of trusting at his elec- tion to the testimony of his behaviour in parliament, must bring the testimony of a large sum of money.

The charge, therefore, of elections ought never

to be lost sight of in a question concerning their frequency ; because the grand object you seek is independence. Independence of mina will ever be more or less influenced by independence of fortune ; and if, every three years, the exhausting sluices of

entertainments, drinkings are to be periodically

drawn up ...I see that private fortunes will be washed away, and every, even to the least, trace of

independence borne down by the torrent The

destruction of independent fortunes will be the consequence on the part of the candidate,"

L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg.

"MARSHALSEAS" (11 S. vi. 289). The allusion must be to the Marshalsea Prison, Southvvark. Churchwardens' accounts com- monly show entries of sums of money handed over to "the Collector" or " ilie Constable," or other responsible official, for the relief of victims of poverty, disease, or other calamity, often in a distant part of the country, such moneys having been raised in the parish in response to the appeal of Kings', Bishops', or Justices' "Briefs," or (after the enactments of Eliza- beth's reign) enforced by local taxation.

In the accounts of South Tawton, Devon, we find, for instance, in 1597 : :

"Unto M r Markes Wykes for the goyle [i e, gaol], maymed soldiers, the forte of plimoth, for the Queene's household and for the Marxialtye, due

at o r Lady Day and Midsomer "

More or less similar items recur, year by year, for a long period in these and other accounts that I have examined.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.