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[12S. III. MAY, 1917.

portions of what her father acquired were sold to pay his debts. The property came to him by deed of gift from his employer and relative, Hugh Awdeley. Awdeley's father John was a London merchant from Sutton in Kent. Can any one help me to trace this family in Kent ? Among the tenants who held leases of the manor from the Crown the names of John Wevant, Thomas Knevett, Cuthbert Lynde, Edmund Doubleday, John Mayle, occur. And the names of John Trayleman and Thomas Pearson occur in connexion with the sale by the Crown. Possibly they may have been Government officials. Any information as to them will be valued.

In a lawsuit about the property coxmsel asks witness this question : " Mr. York, do you know a place called Owden Manor, and who is the owner of that manor or farm ? " York replies, " Sir Thomas Gros- venor." " How came he by it ? " "It came by one Mr. Davies." Can any one account for the name Owden ?

The financial misdemeanours of Gran- field, Lord Middlesex, are set forth at some length in the Parliamentary History, but is there elsewhere a full and particular history of him and his doings ?

William Dockwra, of postal fame, comes into my story. Can anybody tell me whom he married ?

In 1883 Mr. Loftie published an article in Merry England on Mary Davies, and starts by saying that all the materials exist for compiling a true account of her, but unfortunately he did not give it.

All the really important points of her history her being hidden in France, twice sold in marriage, her conversion, her second marriage in Paris and the four years' litiga- tion that arose from it he never mentions. The story is worth telling and the materials abundant, but great accuracy is required, for people could lie and be inaccurate in the seventeenth as well as the twentieth century. It is a very large jig-saw puzzle, and the bits are scattered far and wide ; and any one that can help me to information about the points I have indicated, or can tell me about the grants from the Crown of the parts of the Manor of Eia that Mary Davies never got, such as Berkeley Square, Mayfair, the frontage of Park Lane from Dorchester House to Piccadilly, and from thence to Brick Street, and the Neat House property as given by Mr. Rutton, will do me a real service, and help to make a useful book.

CHARLES T. GATTY, F.S.A. 47 Upper Grosvenor Street, W.

PRONUNCIATION OF " DUDE." How was; this word usually pronounced when it appeared in the " eighties " or later ? My recollection of it points to dud ; but I am. far away from opportunities of viva voce reference. The 'N.E.D.,' with its strong predilection for the insertion of y before- long u, even in words such as " chew," " Jew," " abjure," gives the pronunciatioix as diud ; but the female word dudine, very probably pronounced as in the dudeen^ dhudeen, pipe, in which there is certainly no y, seems to show that dude was similarly" pronounced. The pronunciation of this- word is of some importance, for if it was dud, this would show that, in a new word,, the English and American tongue does not allow the intrusion of y between a dental consonant and long u so willingly as it does in the case of a guttural or labial. We- know that the uneducated tongue, to avoid the intrusion of y after a dental consonant,, will either boldly resist it and say " Toos- day," " stoo," even " noo," or evade the- difficulty by changing the consonant to ch or j, both inhibitory to y, and say " Choos- day," " chune," " juke," " ojus," &c. The- much less objectionable " pikcher " is ad- mitted by the ' N.E.D.' for " picture."

EDWARD NICHOLSON.

Nice.

ARCHBISHOP. LAUD : BIBLIOGRAPHY. Would any reader give a bibliography re- lating to the life of Archbishop Laud ?

W. A. HIRST.

[Several works are mentioned at the end of the- article on Laud in the 'D.N.B.' A list of these- and of those given in the ' Encyclopaedia Britan- nica' is being supplied to the querist. Will correspondents who answer this query kindly restrict themselves to books and articles not- mentioned in the above works?]

HENRY FAMILY. Hugh Henry of Dublin, had a brother-in-law John Firilay (wife's name Jane), who had issue Robert, Sarah,. Mary, and Catherine Finlay, and died about 1734; buried in St. Michan's Churchyard, Dublin. I should be grateful fo"r particulars about above families. ' E. C. FINLAY.

1729 Pine Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Two CHARADES. Will our Editor reprint accurate versions of the persistent puzzles,

Men cannot live without my first and

I 'm the loudest of voices in orchestra heard ? Between sleep and wakefulness I frequently ponder over these mysteries, but I am never sure that I have an accurate remembrance- of the conditions. ST. SWITHIN.