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 12 8. IV. JULY, 1918.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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In the Midland counties, where in my boyhood the word was in very common use " mow " was, so far as my knowledge extends, always pronounced to rime with " how," whether used alone or in com- position with another word. So, too, in Gay's ' The Hare and Many Friends ' :

... .a favourite cow Expects me near yon barleymow

unless, indeed, Gay pronounced cow " coo," which is not likely. C. C. B.

A passage in ' Bombastes Furioso ' gives the pronunciation : Meet me this evening at the Barleymow. I'll bring your pay ; you see I'm busy now. Begone, brave army, and don't kick up a row !

I quote from memory, not having read the play since I learnt it for acting as a boy.

G. H. WHITE. 23 Weighton Road, Aneriey.

OLD WOOD CARVING: INSCRIPTION (12 S. iii. 230). MB. G. H. PALMEB'S plumed figure is evidently Joshua with the sun above him. I should render the inscription roughly in English :

With God besought [the sun] to stay, Half a dozen kings I slay.

J. KEY. South Africa. [We have forwarded to MB. PALMER the details of the emendations suggested by DR. KEY.]

'THE HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE' (12 S. iv. 106). The Hibernian Magazine, or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, was published in Dublin from 1771 to 1785, and was afterwards continued as Walker's Hiber- nian Magazine until 1811. It is erroneously stated in the volume for 1796 that The Hibernian Magazine was established in 1764. It did not commence until 1771. The copy in the British Museum is im- perfect (so says the Catalogue). Several pages and plates are wanted, and the pagina- tion is often irregular.

ABCHIBALD SPABKE. [MR. E. E. BAEKEB replies to the same effect.]

" HE WHO WOULD OLD ENGLAND WIN " : DIEGO OBTIZ (12 S. iv. 78). The following information may, perhaps, enable MR. WAINEWBIGHT to discover the writer he is in quest of.

Don Diego Ortiz de Zuniga (1632-80), author of an important work, ' Annalas eclesiasticos y seculares,' on the history of Seville, also wrote in 1670 a ' Discurso genealogico de los Ortizes,' which was much praised by Pellicer de Ossan. Unfortunately only the first -named book is in the B.M.,

but the latter should contain particulars of the correspondent of Philip II.

There is a brochure by Senor Manuel Chaves, ' Don Diego Ortiz de Zuniga : su vida y sus obras ' (1903), which gives a list of the Don's ancestors, and from this it appears that his grandfather bore the name of Diego ; see pp. 45-8. N. W. HILL.

See 7 S. iii. 247, 480. Mr. Wm. Le Queux refers to the Weybourne Hoop couplet in his ' Invasion of 1910.' The Germans are therein described as landing troops at this spot. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

[ST. SWITHIN also thanked for reply.]

GEBONTIUS'S DREAM (12 S. iv. 102). ' Chambers' s Biographical Dictionary ' states that

" Newman's ' Dream of Gerontius,' musically^ wrought out by Elgar, refers to no historical person, but (with the etymological sense of Senex} 1 to an aged Christian on the verge of death, enabled by vision to see beyond the veil."

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

[ST. SWITHIN replies to the same effect. MB. N. W. HILL also thanked for reply.]

" BENEDICT " (12 S. iv. 103). A benedict is a man who is wived. Very early in my career I was given to understand that Benedick of ' Much Ado about Nothing ' was the blessed one who is commonly brought forward as the antithesis of a bachelor. Twice over is he distinguished as "Benedick the married man" (V. i and iv.) ; and it was he who confessed,. " When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married " (II. iii.). ' The Concise Oxford Dictionary ' retains the Shakespearean spelling of the inverted celibate's name.

ST. SWITHIN.

[MR. F. A. RUSSELL also thanked for reply.]

CAPT. JOHN MACBRIDE AND MARGARET BOSWELL (12 S. iv. 106). The following notes may be helpful to your American
 * orrespondent.

James Boswell married, Nov. 25, 1769, tiis cousin Margaret Montgomerie of Lain- shaw, Stewartcn, Ayrshire, She was a daughter by Veronica Boswell of David Laing (who adopted the name Montgomerie on succeeding to Lainshaw), son of the Rev. Alexander Laing of Donaghadee. If Admiral tfacbride, son of the Rev. Robert Macbride of Ballymoney, was a cousin of Boswell' s wife, she was also cousin to Jane Macbride,