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In the First Folio of Shakespeare the forms used are trod (six times : ' Tempest,' II. i 115 ; II. ii. 73 ; V. i. 242 ; ' Henry VIII., III. ii. 435 ; ' Timon of Athens,' IV. iii. 95 " Henry V.,' IV. vii. 149).
 * Julius Caesar,' I. i. 29) and trodd (once

Trod is the form found in Dryden's poems, .</., ' Absalom and Achitophel,' part ii. 1. 701 (1682) ; ' Albion and Albonius ' (1685), Epilogue, 1. 23. The spellings in Sargeaunt's Oxford edition are, it is true, not trustworthy, but I have been able to check the first example by reference to the original edition.

Guy Miege's 'English Grammar' (1688), p. 60, recognizes only the preterite trod.

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

REGIMENTAL BADGE OF THE 6TH FOOT til S. ix. 8, 58). The antelope gorged and chained was a badge of the De Birmingham family, and may have been assumed for their loyal service to Henry VI.

It is strange that this badge should have decorated the banner of a Moorish regiment in the service 'of Spain captured by the 6th Foot, because the Andalusian antelope "became the badge of John of Gaunt through his Spanish marriage, and was handed down to his posterity, the house of Lancaster.

An old, How disused badge of the regi- ment, the red rose, points to a Lancastrian connexion. ALFRED RODWAY.

Birmingham.

"RUCKSACK" OB "RUCKSACK" (11 S. viii. 447, 497, 517 ; ix. 53). DR. KRUEGER agrees with me that Rucksack is wrong because it would mean a return bag, and I gather from his reply that Rucksack is the actual name of the " bag on the back " worn by tourists, &c., in Germany. Accord- ing to him, if this compound had been formed in our own days it would be Ruckensack, but it was coined by his ancestors at a time ^vhen the short and unmutated Ruck(e) was still in use, the name having nothing to do with the verb rucken, as others main- tain. Now with regard to the antiquity of the article itself, I believe I remember having seen pictures of travelling pedlars, journeymen, &c., who roamed about Europe at the beginning of last century, and probably in still earlier days, who were carrying such " rucksacks," but of a larger size than those worn by modern tourists. And with reference to the etymology, I beg to suggest that if the word had nothing to do with the verb rucken, it would be rucke-n- ack, as the modification of the u may have -crept into the written language, but the

laws of forming compound words have remained unchanged. There are numerous compounds formed with Rucken (the back of a person or thing), and Rucksack would form the only exception from this group, whereas it would fit very well into that other small batch (Ruck, ruckweise, &c., if there are any more) if it had anything to do with the verb rucken ( = to move in fits and starts). The upshot of this short contro- versy is that rucksack is correct, but its etymology is a moot point. L. L. K.

NAME OF DURHAM (11 S. viii. 348, 455).

With reference to Lady Blair, who was before her marriage Herculina Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Hercules Durham, could A. T. M. very kindly tell me if he knows whether Hercules Durham had any brothers or sisters, and whether he had any property, and if so, where ? Many of the Durham family about whom I have notes were in the Indian Civil Service, and went to India at the end of the eighteenth or beginning of the nineteenth century, and I see the mar- riage above referred to took plaoe in India in 1790. The father of these Durhams was James Durham, born 1729, and then living in the county Tyrone ; and his father again was James Durham, who must accordingly have been born about 1699. It is this James Durham who is supposed to have migrated from Scotland. Their wills are in Dublin.

Referring back to the late MR. ROBERT BLAIR SWINTON'S letter on the name of Durham (US. vi. 436), I notice he says (what, after repeated searches having been made for me, I have also found to be true) that these Durhams of Grange were all scattered in the nineteenth century, or I think more prob- ably early in the eighteenth century. That being so, is there any proof of any one of them either going to the north of Ireland or to India ? In the case of the Irish Durhams, theScotchnam.es occur again and again, and there has always been a tradition that they were strong Presbyterians.

However, the missing link is in that I cannot bring them across the sea. There is no record, as far as I know, of the birth of the first James Durham, whose eldest son was born in 1729, and whose will was proved in 1762. JAMES DURHAM.

Cromer Grange, Norfolk.

LISTS OF BISHOPS AND DEANS IN CATHE- DRALS (US. ix. 7, 78). I have seen a list of the Bishops of London in St. Paul's Cathe- dral from Restitutus, A.D. 314, to Winning- ton-Ingram, A.D. 1901. JOHN T. PAGE.