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circle and by old people (p. 171). He points out also many other traces of Teutonic civilization still existing in this district. At p. 12 of Czoernig's pamphlet it is stated that the Catechism mentioned by L. L. K. was first printed at Padua in 1603, and again in 1813 and 1842. He gives ' Our Father ' in the local dialect. Is it possible that L. L. K. Mf&s thinking of the " Tredici Comuni," another Teutonic settlement, north of Verona, where the Germanic dialect has really completely disappeared ? It should be borne in mind that of recent years a powerful propaganda has been carried on by the " Deutscher Schulverein " in Vienna {founded in 1880) in these and other isolated settlements in " Austria " to revive the use of the Teutonic dialect. There are a number of other isolated German-speaking settle- ments to the east and south-east of Trent, "where a Teutonic dialect is still spoken all near the Val Sugana railway. Such are the Fersen Valley, near Pergine, Lusern, and Folgaria (see Badeker, pp. 451-2, and Czoemig, p. 11). There are also scattered Teutonic settlements in Friuli.

As to all these linguistic curiosities may I be allowed to refer to my own book 'The Alps in Nature and History' (1908, pp. 65-6 and 70) ? The newspapers stated at the beginning of the war that the Italian Government had transferred all these Ger- man-speaking inhabitants to the interior of Italy, but I do not know precisely which settlements were there meant.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE. Orindelwald.

THOMAS HTJSSEY, M.P. FOB WHITCHURCH 1645-53 (12 S. ii. 88). The parentage of this M.P. has long perplexed me. Like your correspondent, I can discover nothing in the various references to him in the Commons' Journals or State Papers that casts light on the subject. That he was the Winchester Scholar of 1608 appears most probable, but to which of the Hussey families of Dorset " Thomas Hussey of Blackdon " is to be assigned is anything but clear. His age at admission 11 years does not quite fit the age attributed in the Dorset Visitation of 1623 to either Thomas of Shapwick or Thomas of Edmondsham, though not far off from that of both, and it is well known that the age given in many of these admission registers is often wrong by a year or two.

The M.P.'s public career was comparatively brief, and not very conspicuous. He was, I believe, the " Master Hussey of Shaftes- bury " appointed on the Dorset Assessment

Committee in August, 1643. He subscribed to the League and Covenant as M.P. for Whitchurch, Dec. 31, 1645, and though at first apparently one of the members in- cluded in the Purge of December, 1648, was readmitted to his seat June 2, 1649, and retained the same until the Cromwellian dissolution in April, 1653. He was added to the Berkshire Sequestration Committee in February, 1650, and in the second Protec- torate Parliament of 1656-8 was elected for Andover, being then described as "of Hungerford Park, Hungerford, co. Wilts." Under the Act of 1656 he was nominated Sequestration Commissioner for both Hants and Berks. He died some few months before the close of the Parliament of 1656-8. His will, which unfortunately affords no help as to his family identity, is dated July 3, 1654, with codicils Feb. 15, 1655, and Dec. 14, 1657 ; and was proved in P.C.C. Feb. 25, 1657/8. He names his wife Catherine; two sons, Thomas (then under 15) and William; and daughters Anne, Catherine, Mary, and Cecily. Perhaps these few notes may help to direct H. C. to further efforts of research as to his parentage. W. D. PINK.

Winslade, Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

ARCHER : BOWMAN (12 S. i. 29 ; ii. 15). MR. ROWBOTHAM has apparently mistaken my meaning, and the object of my inquiry. It was to ascertain whether the two names were now sufficiently localized to suggest the respective " origins " of the two types of soldiers of six hundred years ago. Pre- sumably, the Archers were men of the " long- bow," and Bowmen those of the " cross-bow." MR. ROWBOTHAM' s descent of so many " Archers " from a William 1'Arcuarius who came over with William the Conqueror disturbs my hypothesis that both the cross- bow and the long-bow were peculiar to Eng- land before 1000 A.D. It is remarkable that amongst the six counties in which he states the Archers are common, Nottinghamshire, of Sherwood Forest fame, is not included.

L. G. R. Bournemouth.

PANORAMIC SURVEYS OF LONDON STREETS (12 S. ii. 5). A noticeable addition to these was

" A Balloon View of London [&s seen from Hampstead]. London ; published May 1st, 1851. By Banks & Co., 4 Little Queen Street, Holborn. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange," an important work, measuring 42 by 25 in., and extending from Primrose Hill to Batter- sea Park, and from the London Hospital to Kensington Palace. Apparently on steel,