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called Dummy, thereby causing his death," and, as above stated, both prisoners were adjudged guilty, and received sentence of six months' hard labour each.

See also articles on ' Witchcraft in the Eastern Counties,' by Miss E. Vaughan, in The Home Counties Magazine, vol. xii. pp. 241-5 ; vol. xiii. pp. 22-9 and 100-9 ; and one on ' Witchcraft and Superstition in Essex ' in ' Memorials of Old Essex,' pp. 247-66. STEPHEN J. BARNS.

Frating, Woodford Wells.

MILITARY DUEL : TRUNTON f ? TAUNTON] v. CADENSKI (12 S. iii. 474). I think that Trunton should be Taunton. In the Army List of 1809 R Hobbs Taunton appears as a lieutenant in the 33rd Foot ; date of commission in the regiment, Aug. 17, 1807. In the index he is Rich. Hobbs Taunton. In the List of 1811 R H Taunton, presumably the same man, is a lieutenant in the 22nd (Light) Dragoons ; date of commission in the regiment, Sept. 1, 1809. In the List of 1816 he is still a lieutenant in the 22nd.

In the Lists of 1809 and 1811 P. F. Edward Cadenski is a lieutenant in the 80th Foot ; date of commission in the regiment, July 14, 1808 ; in the Army, April 30, 1807.'

I may remark that the very meagre account given by MR. BUI/LOCH of this duel makes one wish for the whole story, which must be very interesting.

ROBERT PIERPOINT'.

PARISH REGISTERS : THEIR DECIPHER- MENT (12 S. iii. 478). I will with pleasure help NOVICE in any way. The most useful books are Burn's ' Parish Registers,' Chester Waters's ' Notes on Registers,' and Wright's 'Court-Hand' all to be had second-hand.

E. E. COPE, Author of ' How to decipher Old Documents.'

In addition to the books named NOVICE will find C. T. Martin's ' Record Interpreter ' (Stevens & Sons, 1910) a very valuable help to him in the decipherment of Parish Registers, especially those written in Latin. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

[M.A.Oxox. also recommends Wright's 'Court- Hand Restored,' 10th ed., Stevens & Sons, 1912, II. Is. net.]

YOUNG LADIES' COMPANION (12 S. iii. 476). What DR. WILLIAMSON is seeking must be 'The Young Lady's Book^ a Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pur- suits.' The third edition of this was pub- lished by Vizetelly, Branston & Co., Fleet

Street, in 1832. Though not of the same- size, it was practically a companion volume- to ' The Boy's Own Book,' the second edition of which was issued by the same publishers in 1828. G. F. R. B.

A MARCH HARE (12 S. iii. 297). Perhaps on reconsideration MR. DODGSON will agree- with me that the epithet " strong," in the quotation given by him at the above- reference, does not attach to the " March hare," but refers to the madness just spoken of ; in other words, that the individual indicated was " gone off " or " out of " his mind as strongly as a March hare.

W. S. B. H.

AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. iii. 450, 492). 4. " He flits across the stage a transient and embarrassed phantom." See the answer by G. W. E. R. at 11 S. vi. 35, where the source is given as Lord Beaconsfield's ' En- dymion,' the " transient and embarrassed phan- tom " being Lord Goderich.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The epigram of Disraeli can hardly have been spoken in the House of Commons, for Lord Goderich was Prime Minister in 1827, and Disraeli did not enter the House till many years later. In ' Endymion ' (chap, iii.) |we read : " The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich...."

W. A. HIRST.

(12 S. iii. 480.)

3. There is so much bad in the best of us. The authorship of these lines was also dis- cussed at 10 S. iv. 168 ; v. 76 ; and at the latter reference they were attributed to R. L. Stevenson r but without any reliable evidence.

At 10 S. v. 248, 316, much the same sentiments were poetically expressed in an extract purporting' to have been written by the late Joaquin Miller,, as follows :

In men whom men condemn as ill

I find so much of goodness still,

In men whom men pronounce divine

I find so much of sin and blot, 1 hesitate to draw a line Between the two where God has not.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

5. E'en as he trod that day to God.

The four lines of which this is the first are taken from the Dedication to Wolcott Balestier of Mr.. Kipling's ' Barrack-Room Ballads.' In a com- munication from E. A. A. at 11 S. vi. 494 it was pointed out that "this poem.... is an adapta- tion of an earlier one by Mr. Kipling which, appeared either in The National Observer or its predecessor The Scots Observer on the occasion of the prosecution of a publisher or bookseller- for selling the writings of Rabelais."

EDWARD BENSLY. [MR. H. D. ELLIS also thanked for reply.]