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WILLIAM TOLDERVY AND THE WORD- BOOKS : "MoRT" (12 S. i. 503). I have heard this word constantly used all my life, both in Northamptonshire and Warwick- shire, as meaning a targe quantity. Both Baker and Sternberg give it place in their Northamptonshire Glossaries. John Clare often uses it, and I believe it was also known to Robert Bloomfield. So recently as 1904 Mr. Israel Zangwill criticized Kingsley's ' Water Babies ' as requiring " a mort of annotations."

(See also 7 S. VL 128 : 153, 176 ; viii. 95.) JOHN T. PAGE.

FAIRFIELD AND RATHBONE, ARTISTS (12 S. ii. 27). Information relating to Charles Fairfield will bo found in Redgrave's ' Dic- tionary of Artists ' ; Gentleman 1 8 Magazine, vol. Ixxv., 1805, p. 880 ; Nagler's ' Kunstler- Lexikon ' ; Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and Engravers ' ; and ' Dictionary of Na- tional Biography ' ; whilst particulars of John Rathbone will be found in Redgrave ; Bryan ; Graves' s ' Dictionary of Royal Academy Exhibitors ' ; Mayer's ' Early Art in Liverpool ' ; and ' D.N.B.'

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193, 275, 416, 474; ii. 14). There are at least three still standing in our neighbourhood : one at Cark, opposite to Cark Hall ; another at Goosegreen, Dalton ; and still another by the side of the mill-dam, Ulverston. All three are circular in shape, constructed of stone, and are situated near a stream. Will some of your readers kindly inform mo if the law required that pounds were to be situated near running water ?

Amongst the animals that were interned in these pounds surely none were more troublesome than goats. An old inhabitant of Ulverston informs me that once old Charles McArthur, the pindar, had im- prisoned three goats, the property of Mr. Worthington of the Sun Hotel. The pindar had scarcely left the pound, when the goats scaled the wall and followed him down the street, to the amusement of the old inhabi- tants. But something worse befell old Tom Turner, the pindar of Dalton. Tom's out- standing characteristics wi-re a fondness for fun and rum, and a wooden leg. On one occasion he had incarcerated five goats that had strayed from Askam-in-Furness. When the owner heard of their fate, he hurried to Dalton, and paid the fine. Old Tom, in the majesty of his office, went down and liberated the goats, when one of the flock, no doubt

feeling the indignity placed upon itself and its t\ llov.s, went for old Tom, knocked him down, and broke his ]*_'. Fortunately, this was Tom's "off" leg the one constructed of timber. Needless to relate, Tom had many a chaffing about this episode, and never more had any dealings with goats.

W. G. ATKINSON. 21 Princes Street, Ulverston.

FARMERS' CANDLEMAS RIME (12 S. ii. 29). Although I cannot complete the rime at this reference, I am familiar with

and

Candlemas Day 1 Candlemas Day ! Half our fire and half our hay ;

On Candlemas Day

You must have half your straw and half your hay ;

both meaning that on Feb. 2 we are only midway through winter, and therefore ought to have half our fuel and fodder for cattle in stock. There is an old Latin proverb (referred to in Sir T. Browne's Vulgar Errors ' ) that if the sun shines on the Feast of the Purification there will bo more ice after the festival than before it. The subject is fully dealt with on pp. 18-21 of ' Weather Lore,' by Richard Inwards (third edition, 1898). A. C. C.

WRIGHT FAMILY ARMS (12 S. i. 327, 415).

" Wright (London, Cos. Northampton and Surrey, 1634). Or, on a pale gules a cross pomee fitchee argenf ; on a chief azure three bezants. Crest, a falcon's head erased proper." From Burke's
 * General Armory,' 1884.

E. C. FlNLAY.

1729 Pine Street, San Francisco.

PATRICK MAD AN (12 S. i. 265, 393). I think I overlooked this note respecting Madart :

Old Bailey, December, 1781 : Patrick Madan and Richard Hill are respited on condition of transportation to Africa. They are put ashore as sick and further respited. Patrick Madan is later transported for life. ERIC R. WATSON.

DORTON-BY-BRTLL (12 S. i. 128, 220). MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS may like to know of the following book of 54 pp., a copy of whi- h I have :

" The I History | of the | Dorton Chalybeate, near Brill, Bucks ; | with a | concise treatise on its | chemical properties and medicinal uses. . By | T. Knight, Suiveon. | ' Infirmo capiti fiuit utilis, utilis alvo.' Hor. Epist. lib. 1. \\i. M. | Hiill: | printed by J. Ham, | for Whitt.-.k.-r .V Co., Ave Maria Lane, London ; | and W. Graham, High Street, Oxford. | 1833."

CHAS. HAIX CROI < H.

204 Hermon Hill, South Woodford.