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"DOWLER" (11 S. vii. 370). Might it mean " doweller," one who dowels, i.e., fastens wood together with dowels or wooden bolts, in carpentry or cask -making or wheel- making ? Stone may also be dowelled. As the word does not seem to be recorded in the dictionaries, it might be useful to give in 'X. & Q.' an extract from the in- denture, with the exact date. Will A. C. C. be so good as to supply this ?

L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg.

The etymological derivation of " dowler " is probably to be found in " dowlas," which occurs in Webster. Dowlas, originally manu - factured at Doullens in Picardy, was also at one time extensively made in the North of England and in Scotland, but calico has now taken its place in common use. It may therefore safely be assumed that a " dowler " was a person engaged in making dowlas, just as a millhand who looks after looms in a mill is described as a weaver, and a cotton operative as a spinner.

T. H. BARROW.

I should think that a " dowler " is a maker of coarse woven materials such as canvas, and hand-spun household linen such as cloths. Coarse textile fabrics go by the name of " dowelling." THOS. RATCLIFFE.

OBELISK AT ORANGE GROVE, BATH (11 S. vii. 309, 376). In The Gentleman' s Magazine of November, 1762, there appears a short essay on William Nash, of which the follow- ing is an extract from p. 542 :

"He erected an obelisk 30 feet high in a grove near the Abbey Church, since called the Orange Grove, in memory of the late Prince of Orange's recovery there from a dangerous sickness, who made him a present of a snuff-box. On the west side of the pedestal are the Prince's arms, and on the east the following inscription : "

WEST AUSTRALIAN. [The inscription was given ante, p. 376 ]

VITRE: TREMOULLIERE (11 S. vii. 329). The name of this place should have been given as Vitre, and the name of the family is Tremoille. There are two books of import- ance : ' Essai sur 1'Histoire de la Ville de Vitre et des Seigneurs,' par Louis du Bois (Paris, 1839), and ' Journal historique de Vitre, ou documents et notes pour servir a 1'histoire de cette ville, accompagnes de nombreuses listes ' (Vitre, 1881), 4to, pp. xxxvi and 600, 6 plans, and 3 planches, sceaux, &c. See also A. de la Borderie, ' Les Paroisses de Vitre, leurs origines et leur organisation ancienne ' (Paris, 1877).

8vo, 62 pp. ; Ed. Frain, ' Les Families de Vitre de 1400 a 1789, avec listes et pieces justificatives ' (Rennes, 1877) ; and E. de la Gaulerie, ' Tableaux genealogiques, Notices et Documents inedits sur les Families de Vitre et Paroisses environnantes du XV e an XVIII 6 Siecles.' C. Brossard, ' France Pitto- resqiie et Monument ale,' vol. ii., has some capital illustrations of the town and of the chateaux, and others may be found in P. Joanne's and Vivien de St. Martin's two great Topographies of France. There is a cartulary of the Barony of Vitre and of the Due de la Tremoille in the Bibliotheque Nationale. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

For full details as to Vitre see P. Paris- Jallobert's 'Journal historique de V.' (Vitre, 1881) ; and for families connected with the place various works, especially those by E. de la Gaulerie (Vitre, 1890-91) and E. Frain (Rennes, 1877), mentioned in the Abbe U. Chevalier's ' Repertoire des Sources historiques du Moyen Age,' ' Topo-Biblio- graphie ' section, col. 3317. W. A. B. C.

[L. L. K. also mentions the Abbe Chevalier's work.]

"SUBWAY" (11 S. iv. 487). This word occurs in the title of a work written by John Williams in 1828, called ' An Historical Account of Subways in the British Metropolis for the Flow of Pure Water and Gas.' He had previously in 1822 taken out a patent for his invention, in which he describes him- self as of Cornhill in the city of London, stationer.

I do not think that his invention found much favour until within the last half- century, about which time a subway was built when Southwark Street was being constructed. Like many other inventors, John Williams was before his time.

R. B. P.

"BuccA-BOO " (11 S. vii. 89, 155, 378). See Fosbroke, under heading of ' Gnat ' : " The Termites, a most destructive species of ants, are called in the Bulama 'bug-a- bugs,' whence our bug-a-booe."

AITCHO.

FITZGERALD AND OMAR KHAYYAM (11 S. vii. 370). By consulting " Edward Fitz- Gerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with their Original Persian Sources literally trans- lated by Edward Heron- All en " (London, B. Quaritch, 1899), any student should be convinced of the fidelity of FitzGerald's expression of the thought of the original poem. A. G. POTTER.