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century A.D., sometimes wrongly ascribed to Apuleius. It is also quoted in the ' Origenes ' of Isidorus Hispalensis.

Whilst at present I cannot but think that vaduca is the correct reading in ' Love for Love,' I should be very grateful for any other explanation of " Cadua." It may be %vorth noting here that the text of Congreve's plays is mutilated and corrupted to an almost incredible extent. This has not been done from any mere bowdlerization, as the stage directions even have been recklessly changed and transformed. The first and the very earliest quartos (of no small rarity) alone are to be trusted. Most of the eighteenth- century collected editions prove absolutely honeycombed with errors ; and modern reprints, not content with repeating every mistake, often introduce yet more flagrant divagations of their own. I may add that I have for some time past been at work upon Congreve, and hope in the not very distant future to give a fully annotated and reliable text. MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.B.S.L.

DESECRATIONOF SUNDAY. (Seeante,p. 145.) The British Museum preserves a letter written by the Very Rev. W. Digby, Dean of Clonfert and Rector of Geashill, near Philipstown, on April 14, 1803, to the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Lindesay at Dublin Castle, in which he complains of Major Morris in- specting the Yeomanry -of Tullamore and Geashill at service-time on Easter Sunday "at a time when the country is quiet " (Add. MS. 35738, f. 237). On May 10 he writes again to complain of Major Morris again profaning the Sabbath in the same way at Maryborough, Queen's County (Add. MS. 35759, f. 45). The writer was the father of Kenelm Henry Digby, author of ' The Broadstone of Honour,' ' Mores Catho- lici,' ' Compitum,' &c.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

Sheffield.

SYNONYMS FOR " NEWS " : Avisoss, INTELLIGENCES, OCCURRENCES, PASSAGES, RELATIONS. It would be interesting to collect the synonyms for " news " employed journalistically at various times. Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne's ' Late Newes or true Relations : with many particular accidents, thus opened its thirteenth num- ber, dated July 3, 1624 :

" Gentle Readers, I Promised you in one of my Relations .... for so I stile the newes which I write to distinguish them from other, which (as it seemeth) have not taken the paines, had the ineanes, or beene willing to beare the charges Which wee vndergoe to get good newes and in- telligences."

The same publishers supplied a variant on April 28, 1632, and immediately subsequent dates, by issuing ' The Continvation of ovr Forraine Avisoes ' ; though Bourne had been content on July 16, 1630, to publish ' The Continuation of the most remarkable occurrences of Newes ' ; while Butter on, Jan. 11, 1640-41. gave forth 'The Continua- tion of the Forraine Occurrences .... con- taining many very remarkable Passages.'

" Aviso," " passage," and " relation " alike cannot be traced in ' N.E.D.' in this special meaning of " news."

ALFRED F. ROBBUCS.

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

LYDIA TOUCHET. I have a very prettily bound book, two small volumes, ' Amuse- ments des Eaux de Spa,' Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier, 1740. The binding is red morocco, with a gold tooled dentelle and bees in the border. On outside of each volume, in a medallion, " Miss Lydia Touch et " is tooled in gold. There are very pretty old illustrations.

Could any of your readers identify Miss Lydia Touchet ? She was possibly a daugh- ter of Baron Audley of that day, a very old barony now in abeyance.

L. WOLSELEY, Dow. Viscountess.

Hampton Court Palace.

THE TITLES " BARON " AND " LORD." The following list of the titles of the Duke of Atholl was given a short time ago in The Morning Post :

" He was Marquess and Earl of Atholl, Marquess and Earl of Tullibardine, Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle, Viscount Glenalmond. Balquhidder, and Glenlyon, Baron Murray of Tullibardine, Lord Murray, Balvenie, and Gask, in Scotland ; Baron Strange, of Knockyn, in England ; Earl Strange, Baron Percy, and Baron Murray, of Stanley, co, Gloucester, in Great Britain ; Baron Glenlyon of Gleulyon, in the United Kingdom, Knight of the Thistle, and Chancellor of that Order. He sat in the House of Lords as Baron Strange."

It will be noticed that he is both " Baron Murray " and " Lord Murray." I did not know before that there was any distinction of status between " Baron " and " Lord," and in fact imagined that the former was the official and the 'latter the popular form of the title. Perhaps some correspondent will explain. Are there other instances in the peerage ? PENRY LEWIS.