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ford's Testament,' by Robert Copland (ft. 1508-47), is not unknown.

Was the rarity of Gillian in later days caused by the evil associations of the name (cf. " Gill - flirt," &c.) ? Thackeray has Gillian in the last stanza of one of his best- known ballads, ' The Age of Wisdom ' ; and I seem to remember a Jack and Jill, a delightful pair of children, in some modern story ; was it ' The Awakening of Mary Fenwick ' ? EDWARD BENSLY.

The parish church of Newington, next Hythe, Kent, has the following entry of baptism : " 1573, July 21. Gylian, daughter of Thomas Harvie." Thomas Harvey was father of the celebrated Dr. William Harvey of Folkestone by his second wife.

In Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. iii. No. 20 (second series), p. 329, there is a pedigree of Harvey :

" Thomas Harvey m. first Juliana, or Julian, eldest daughter of William Jenkin of Folkestone, by whom he had a daughter Julian, Juliana, or Gillian. Thomas Harvey m. secondly Joane Halkc, Haulke, or Hawke, and had with others Dr. William Harvey."

' Kent Marriage Licences ' has :

" 1601. Thomas Cullinge of Northbourne, yeo- man, and Julian Harvie of Folkestone, virgin, 20 Oct. 1601. John Harvie of Folkestone, yeoman, bond."

' Kenticisms,' by Rev. Samuel Pegge, written about 1735-6, published in Arch. Cant., vol. ix.,p. Ill :

" Gill (with g soft) for Gillian or Juliana. In Derbyshire] we had two families that wrote their names Gill, but one pronounct [sic] the g hard, and the other soft."

R. J. FYNMORE.

On pp. 11-21 of "Evans's Edition. Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, .... with notes. Volume the First. London : 1777," there is that of " King Alfred and the Shepherd. With the humours of Gillian, the shepherd's wife " ,' in which the name Gillian occurs eight times as that of the old woman who scolded the scholarly king for burning her cakes. E. S. DODGSON.

ST. KILDA COLDS : TRISTAN DA CTJNHA (12 S. ii. 468; iii. 55). In a book of South American travels, which I read many years ago H. W. Bates's ' Naturalist on the Amazons,' possibly it was stated that when a white traveller journeyed along a little- visited river, colds broke out among the natives in the riverside villages.

A Roman Catholic priest, who had worked among the Indians of Central and South America, once told a brother of mine that it

is deadly for an Indian girl to live in ma- trimonial relations with a white man. He- may be unaffected by pulmonary consump- tion himself, but he is carrying the germs with him, and she cannot withstand them. Yet, notwithstanding the danger incurred, young Indian women readily fall in love with white men, and enter into legal, or illegitimate, relations with them.

I have heard that consumption has become a scourge in the torrid, but damp, climate of" tropical West Africa. W. G.

'REMINISCENCES OF} A SCOTTISH GENTLE- MAN' (12 S. iii. 30). It is very unlikely that a second volume of ' Reminiscences ' was ever published. It does not appear in the usual sources, and the author, " Philo- Scotus," Philip Barrington Ainslie, died in 1869, at The Mount, Guildford, on June 18,. and was buried at Lyne Church, near Chert- sey. Some account of him will be found in General de Ainslie' s ' Life as I have Found It ' (Blackwood, 1883).

" Philo-Scotus " was the youngest child of Sir Philip Ainslie of Piltoun, Edinburgh. H& was a midshipman on board the Iris frigate, July, 1799 ; studied at Edinburgh Univer- sity ; clerk in office of Messrs. Addison & Bagott, merchants, Liverpool, 1805 ; can- vassed the peers for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1825 ; and was a member of the Surrey Archaeological Society.. ARCHIBALD SPARKK, F.R.S.L.

" WIPERS " : YPRES (12 S. ii. 526 ; iii. 54). Yperen is the Flemish name of this victim, of the enemies of culture ; and is duly recorded in the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' of 1911. The y is locally pronounced like French y grec, and not like English ivy.

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

Baedeker says that the Flemish form of the name is leperen.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

WILLIAM HASTINGS, 1777 (12 S. ii. 508). The paragraph in The Kentish Gazette of April, 1790, seems to be largely apocryphal. Apart from its giving the courtesy title " Lord George Hastings " to the son of a supposed earl, the alleged facts are at variance with those known. The circum- stances which resulted in the Earldom of Huntingdon being successfully claimed by Hans Francis Hastings in 1819 are detailed
 * n a quarto volume, ' The Huntingdon

Peerage Case,' 1820, whence it appears that, on the death of Francis, 10th Earl, in 1789,,