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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY 15, ioi&

INDEX (continued).

Nodder

Norton

Nowell

Oakley

Oliver

Osmond

Ottaway

Parker

Pearee

Perkins

Perry

Phelps

Plucknett

Poore

Pothecary

Price

Prior

Read

Renaud

Repton

Richards

Richardson

Rigden

Robinson

Rogers

Ruddle

Satchwell

Seymer

Simpson

Snook

Standly

Stevens

Stewart

Stock

Sturgess

Swayne

Sweet

Tapp

Taylor

Thomas

Thompson Titball Todd Tooke Townsend Turner Vanderplank Verrinder Walker Wapshare Wenyere White Wilkins Wilkinson Williams Wilson Wyndham Yarham Young
 * VVickins

INSCRIPTIONS WHICH HAVE DISAPPEARED.

Adlam

Albert

Cloterbrooke

Dyer

Glover

Golding

Goode

Goodridge

Horner

Hunt

Jay

Judd

Powell

Price

Smedmore

Wentworth

Wilson

Wise

H. B. W.

ASIAGO. The name of this place now figures prominently in Italian and Austrian bulletins of war. It was, and probably still is, the chief place of a little district in the mountains north of Vicenza, and a century ago was inhabited by a Teutonic colony known under the name of the " Sieben Perghe " or " Sette Communi." W. S. Rose, writing to Henry Hallam from Vicenza, in October, 1817, gives a description of their folk-lore and customs, some of which according to him remind one of some of the Celtic usages. The following is worthy of notice :

" If a man dies by violence, instead of clothing him as the dead are usually clothed, they lay him out with a hat upon his head and shoes upon his feet, seeking to give him the appearance of a way- faring man, perhaps as symbolizing one surprised in the great journey of life."

In an episcopal visit to Asiago, in 1597, the statement occurs that " Cimbros se esse asserunt," and, according to Rose,Bossuet's catechism has been translated into their dialect and published under the title : " Dar kloane Catechismo vor dez Beloseland vortra'ghet in z'gaprecht von Siben Perghen. In Seminarien von Padebe, 1813." A vocabulary has been printed by Marco Pezzo P. Veronese in his ' Dei Cimbri Veronesi, e Vicentini ' (3rd edition, Verona, 1763) According to a German author, King Frederick IV. of Denmark visited them in 1709, and found that the language spoken at

lis own Court was not so polished as that ieard by him in the " Sette Communi." According to Baedeker, however, they all ipeak Italian in our days. See W. S. R(ose),.

Letters from the North of Italy ' (London,. 1819), voL i. pp. 247 et seq. ; J. A. Cramer's

Italy' (1826), i. 125; Josiah Conder's

Italy' (1831), ii. 107.

It is a curious coincidence that the >erman name of Transylvania is also Siebenbuergen ; the seven burghs are represented by seven castles in the coat of arms of that ancient principalitv.

L. L. K.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- brmation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, n order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" STILL LIFE." This term, in its very Deculiar use with reference to painting,' is arobably, like many other terms of fine art,, m importation from Dutch, which has the equivalent stilleven (compare the German. Still-kben). It does not seem easy to explain quite satisfactorily how the designa- tion " still life " has come to be applied only to lifeless objects as a subject for painting. Does the history of the term in Dutch throw any light on the question ?

The oldest example of the term in English known to me is of date 1695. Can any earlier instance be found ?

^, , HENRY BRADLEY.

Oxiord.

FLETCHER FAMILY. Joseph Fletcher, of Ballyboy, King's County, married Elizabeth Kershaw, had a son Richard, born 1798 ; also a cousin Joseph Fletcher of Tullamore, 1779, married Sarah Higgins of Dublin, December, 1798, died at Carlow, Ireland,. 1842; had a son William, born (c.) 1807,. married, at Dublin, Elizabeth Smith.

Ancestors of above with dates of birth, &c., will be appreciated.

WM. J. FLETCHEB.

1433 Jackson Street. San Francisco.

AUTHOR WANTED. There is a verse whose refrain goes something like this : These the qualities that shine In the Barons of the Rhine.

The qualities are pleasingly enumerated,, and that and the lilt of the verse tell me that it must be a ballad of Thackeray's, but I cannot find it in the only copy I have left.

It would be kind if any one could help me on such very scanty data. B. B T.