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Health-time, 639 ; make thy Will in thy

health time ...... Not D.

Home- dweller, 279 not a home-dweller.

D. 1593 only.

Kalendsr, 21(5. . . ., the Kalender in thy bones, ..D. not.. Perhaps for "calenture " =fever. On p. 328 of vol. i. of ' Persian Tales,' by Ambrose Philips (London, 1714), we find " ...., and the Calenders, according to their usual Practice, ran to and fro in the Streets." Does it then mean " herald, crier, monitor " ?

Lub(b)erness, 315. Vse not slcepe as a meanes to satisfie to foggie Inbernesse of thy flesh :.... Not D, where, however, we find " lubber " as an adjective. Cf. " cleverness."

Multiloquy, 289. . . . : that in multiloquie the wisest man shall ouer-shoot himselfe. D. 1542, 1677, 1700, 1721 only.

Over-carry, 71...., ouer-carried with affec- tions, D. 1579, 1648 only.

Pontifician, 793. .. .the Ceesorianand Pontifician pollicie of Rome, D. not before 1614.

Spiration, 10, equally from both the Father

and the Son, by an internall and incomprehensible 8piration : For as the Son receiueth the whole diuine Essence by generation ; so the holy Ghost receiueth it wholly by spiration.

Spire, 8.... : secondly, because he is spired, and as it were breathed from both the Father and the Sonne,

Surquedred, 71. . . ., surquedred with Dmnken- nesse, .... D. not yet.

Trulier, 340. . . ., the trulier & Man doth seme God, D. not after 1648.

These quotations are from a copy of ' The Practice ' which has no title-page perhaps the edition of 1632 kept in the Reference Library at Bath.

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

SHAKESPEARE'S WALK. Kelly's 'Post Office London Directory ' does not show a single thoroughfare in the City of London bearing the national poet's name, and includes only two streets so named in the suburbs. In the reign of Queen Anne there was a street known as Shakespeare's Walk in the East End of London. The local authority might endeavour to identify its situation and restore the original name.

W. A.

THOMAS JAMES, TYPE-FOUNDER. The following advertisement appears in The Gentleman's Magazine for August, 1736 (vol. vi. p. 492) :

" The Death of Mr. Thomas James of Bartho- lomew-Close, Letter-Founder, having been in- dustriously publish'd in the News-Papers, without the least mention of any person to succeed in his Business, it is become necessary for the Widow James to give as Publick Notice, That she carries on the business of Letter-Founding, to as great Exactness as formerly, by her Son John James, who has managed it during his Father's long Illness ; the Letter this Advertisement is printed on, being his Performance : and he casts all other

Sorts, from the Largest to the Smallest Size ; also the Saxon, Greek, Hebre\v, and all the Oriental Types, of Various Sizes."

This advertisement is printed by Mr, Talbot Baines Reed in his ' Old English Letter Foundries ' (p. 220), but it does not say where it appeared.

It is probable that it was circulated in the form of a handbill, and this supposition is borne out by the reference to " the Letter this Advertisement is printed on," which would have no meaning in the columns of an ordinary newspaper, and certainly has no meaning in The Gentleman's Magazine* where the type used is similar to that of the other pages of that publication. I have searched several of the London papers of the day without finding the advertisement, and I have not found that the news of James's death was " industriously pub- lished," as his widow avers. The following announcement appears in The Country Journal, or, The Craftsman, edited by Caleb D'Anvers, of Saturday, Aug. 28, 1736, No. 530, p. 2, col. 2:

" On Sunday died of a Complication of Dis- temper, at his Lodgings at Islington, Mr. Thomas James, a Letter Founder in St. Bartholomew close." (This would be Aug. 22.) I have consulted the registers of St. Bar- tholomew the Great, Smithfield, and find that James was buried there on the 24th of the same month. These particulars are now, I believe, published for the first time.

R. B. P.

[This note by our old correspondent, whose death was recorded in our April issue, has been forwarded to us by his son.]

" SLOUCH " is the name of the flexible leathern tube or conduit-pipe by which railway engines receive water from a tank. During a trial at the Middlesex quarter sessions on Feb. 2, 1918, all the witnesses used this word, and the Justices alone wanted enlightenment. Neither the ' N.E.D.'- nor the ' English Dialect Dictionary ; gives this meaning, but " to slouch " is Devonshire for to wet or drench. J. J. FREEMAN.

WESTMORLAND CENTENARIANS' EPITAPH. In the churchyard of St. Lawrence, Appleby, Westmorland, is the following :

" To the memory of John Hall of Hoff Bo we, who departed this Life Jan. 19th, 1716, aged 109 years.

" Also John Hall, his son, who died Sept. 10th, 1749, aged 86 years.

" Also John Hall of Hoff Howe, his grandson, who died March 27th, 1821, aged 101 years."

J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.