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 ii s. ix. MAY 16, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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-toiled, ' Lear,' IV. vi. 125 : in Leicestershire " soil " still means to give a horse greenmeat in the stable.

tarre, '.John,' IV. i. 117; ' Troilus,' I. iii. 392; ' Hamlet,' II. ii. 370 : survives in Midland dialect (Worcestershire).

vails, ' Pericles,' II. i. 163 : remains in some Midland dialects.

wheels, ' Antony and Cleopatra,' II. vii. 100 ; ' Two Gentlemen,' III. i. 320 : in Warwick- shire a clock that goes fast is said to go on wheels.

But this list is obviously not exhaustive* for I have myself noted the following addi- tional examples in the ' Glossary ' which are not mentioned in the preface :

end, to garner a crop, ' Coriolanus,' V. vi. 37 : current in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire.

ffoss, ' Tempest,' IV. i. 180 : probably survives in the Warwickshire phrase " as rough as goss."

horseway, ' Lear,' IV. i. 56 : cf. the modern War- wickshire use of " horse-road " for the part of the roadway allotted to horse and wheeled traffic (opposed to " footpath ").

tun-dish, ' Measure for Measure,' III. ii. 186 : still the ordinary word for " funnel" in War- wickshire.

L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg.

[See "Blood-boltered," ante,?. 369.]

A BIRD NAME : ' EMIGRATION OF BIRDS ' (US. ix. 348, 372). ' The Discourse on the Emigration of Birds '- was referred to nt 10 S. ii. 248, 291, where it was shown that the pamphlet was published at Salisbury in 1780, that the author was John Legg, and that the use of George Edwards' s name was unauthorized. It was only applied by the bookseller who printed & new title-page to work off the old stock.

C. W. SUTTON.

J[. R. H.'s discovery of an unintelligible word in a treatise on ' Emigration of British Birds ? includes one of Italian seeming, viz., etotoli or etoboli.

The nearest resemblance that I can submit to any bird in Italian is allodola or lodola; and allodole in the plural, signifying over, the lark is not among the birds named. WILLIAM MERCER.
 * c larks," is not dissimilar in sound. More-

A CHARTER OF RICHER DE L'AIGLE (US.

ix. 321). The edition of Ordericus Vitalis

by Auguste Leprevost (published by the

Societe de 1'Histoire de France, Paris, 1838-

1855, 5 vols.), at vol. v. p. 195 (1855), gives

the charter of Richer under the date of

13 Nov., 1099. In other portions of the

work of Orderic or of the 'Annals of St.

Evroult ' (vols. ii. pp. 375 and 406, iv. 65

and v. 159) the consecration of the new church of the monastery is placed in 1099, 13 Nov., thus agreeing with the charter.

According to Father Gams's ' Series Episcoporum ' (Ratisbon, 1873), Gilbert II. ruled at Evreux, 1071 (date of election) to 1112 (date of death), Gilbert at Lisieux from 1077 to 1101 (date of death), and Serlon at Seez from 1091 (date of consecra- tion) to 1123 (date of death): see respec- tively pp. 550, 566, and 625 of Gams. These episcopal dates agree, therefore, with the charter - date 1099, but not with that of the death of Richer, 1085.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

Grindelwald.

" CORVICER," AN OLD TRADE (11 S. ix 308). From the forty-six volumes already published by the Lancashire Parish Register Society, I can find in only three instances of this old trade being recorded. These are at Wigan in 1605 and 1609 ; at Manchester in 1610, 1612, 1613, and 1615; and at Ribchester in 1622, 1623, and 1624 ; during these years there are many instances given of the trade of " shoemaker." It is rather curious that two names should be given to one trade.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

" Courvoisier " is the modern form of a common French family name.

G. KRUEGEB. Berlin.

REGISTER OF DEATHS OF ROMAN CATHO- LICS BEFORE 1837 (US. ix. 330, 375). The Catholic Record Society has already re- printed a number of registers of Roman Catholic chapels in the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, but a good many registers are still in the possession of the authorities of the different chapels and churches. The secretary of the bishop in whose diocese the particular chapel may be would no doubt be able to give the information required. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

Unthank Road, Norwich.

OLD ETONIANS (11 S. ix. 350). ? John Ambrose, s. John of Hungerford, Berks, arm. Queen's Coll., Oxon, matric. 9 April, 1767, a,ged 17; created M.A. 7 June, 1771 ; created D.C.L. 8 July, 1773.

George Edward Ayscough (d. 1779), dramatist and traveller ; son of Dr. Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol, by a sister of the first Lord Lyttelton. See 'D.N.B.,' ii. 294.

A. R. BAYLEY.