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man, woman, and child of his or her iate.

The scene of ribaldry which ensued in the boys' part of Newgate, when the Ordinary communicated the royal clemency, has been very graphically described by Wakefield and others. ERIC B. WATSON.

"VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORIES "(12 S. i. 386). No one is more conscious of short- comings in these than the editors are. But I do not plead guilty to all H.'s criticisms. Lord Hylton very kindly supplied a great deal of valuable information more than the plan of the Histories allowed me to use and I could not have gone to a better source. It was from him that I got the date of the amalgamation of Merstham and Alderstead. If he or I made a miscopying of a date, it Is a pity. It is not said in the History that the " manor " of Chilvertons was bought by Mr. Watson. Our information that a 'Court had been held was positive. It is plainly inferred that the School Board built the present schools. The stone quarries are undoubtedly the great historical feature of industrial Merstham. It is not fair to suggest that they have been confused with the lime- works, when the latter are mentioned separately. Both are more fully described in the Industries Section. Finally, this editor at least has visited every parish in his county (generally several times), except one, and that one is not Merstham. He is not aware now who was responsible for making Baron Hylton a Viscount. He can only hope that he or she merely anticipated the action of the prerogative of the Crown. He cannot continue this correspondence. EDITOR ' V. H. SURREY.'

RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN SEMITIC AND MEXICAN LANGUAGES (12 S. i. 70, 234). Is it possible to understand Dr. le Plongeon's assertion as intended to be something in the way of a striking illustration of a certain similarity between the rather little known Maya and the old Semitic languages ? In itself the affirmation is, of course, far from being accurate. Both of the quoted sen- tences are real riddles for the linguist the -first " Eli, Eli," being a mixture of Aramaic and Hebrew ; the second a grammatical puzzle, according to Hastings's ' Dictionary of the Bible.'

As for Capt. Marryat's theory, the lost tribes of Israel seem to have originated a lot of nations quite different one from an- other. I remember reading seriously given ^explanations about the Saxons being really

Isaac's sons. In the Middle Ages Ireland was said to have been filled, in old times, by Jewish people coming either from Palestine or from Egypt. In the sixteenth century Giles Fletcher, LL.D., wrote an ' Essay upon some Probable Grounds that the Present Tartars are the Posterity of the Ten Tribes of Israel ' (see ' D.N.B.,' xix. 301).

I should suggest to MR. W. L. KING to study the article on ' Maya ' in the * New Catholic Encyclopedia ' ; I have not it at hand, but, if my memory is not wrong, it was a really interesting one.

Shall I add that phonetic assimilation is a dangerous method, even when used with a perfectly good English pronunciation ? When Mrs. Baker G. Eddy tells us that " Adam " may be read " a dam," it means only a personal feeling, quite respectable indeed. P. TURPIN.

ANNE CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF DORSET, PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY (12 S. i. 310, 356). Her Diary is in the MS. Department, British Museum. I found some of her letters in the State Papers, and sent them to The Athenceum, June 2, 1894. These were also printed in my book ' British Freewomen,' fourth edition, p. 136.

Some little information about her relatives may be gleaned from the article ' Sir Andrew Dudley and Lady Margaret Clifford ' in my volume ' Shakespeare's Environment,' p. 247.

I know that there are two people engaged in writing the life of this lady.

C. C. STOPES.

" COAT AND CONDUCT MONEY" (12 S. i. 189, 316). May I add the following extract from Grose's ' Military Antiquities,' 2 vols., 1801, to my recent reply about " Coat and Conduct Money " ?

"About the time of Henry VII. we meet with a regulation that somewhat respects quarters [this being the subject of the chapter] : this is a coat and conduct money ; the first was, as has before been observed, a species of clothing, probably for recruits ; the money for which was advanced by the county wherein they were raised, or such other as was directed by the king or his privy council ; conduct- money was an allowance tor subsistence, to and from the army, according to the number of days the soldiers had to march ; a day v s march was sometimes estimated at twelve and sometimes fifteen miles ; both the coat and conduct-money was occasionally advanced by the different counties wherein the troops were quartered."

Notes at foot of p. 342 :

" 1280J. is charged for coote and conduyt money in Cardinal Woolsey's warrant, anno 14 Henry VIII. by Thomas Magnus Clerk, for the king's army going to Scotland."