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 12 s. iv. JULY, 1918 ] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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I can vouch that it is in regular use in Clitheroe and the neighbouring district, where such expressions as " I hutched three sheep yesterday," or " He used to be a farmer, but has now gone into the hutching business," are very frequently heard. It will be noticed from the former example that although the ' N.E.D.' recognizes only the intransitive use of the word in dialects, we also use it here in a transitive sense.

WM. SELF WEEKS.

Westwood, Clitheroe.

" Butching " is used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. I remember it in Cumberland, " He oaways used tae butch it his sel " meaning that he did the slaughter- ing of the cattle himself. It is often heard here in Lancashire, "He butches neaw'' meaning that his new occupation is butch- ing, or that he is a butcher. The word is also heard in Somerset and Devon.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

[MB. W. AVER, ME. J. W. FAWCETT, and MB. N. W. HILL also thanked for replies.]

LILLIPUT AND GULLIVER (12 S. iv. 73, 140). An obituary notice of Mr. George King of East Haddon, Northamptonshire, which appeared in The Northampton Herald of Aug. 13, 1909, contained the following paragraph :

" An interesting historical romance attaches to Mr. King's mother. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Gulliver, who belonged to a very old Banbury family. Dean Swift says in the preface of his early edition of ' Gulliver's Travels ' that he was passing through Banbury churchyard, and was struck with the name of Samuel Gulliver on a tombstone. He altered the Christian name to Lemuel, and appropriated the surname for his famous satire ' Gulliver's Travels.' The tomb was that of Mr. King's great-grandfather."

JOHN T. PAGE.

(12 S. iii. 472 ; iv. 31, 61, 114). The following extract from ' Venice in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,' by F. C. Hodg- son, is of interest, being of an earlier date than any I have seen yet. On p. 345 it says that in the dogeship of Doge Soranzo (1312-28)
 * SUGAR : ITS INTRODUCTION INTO ENGLAND

" we read of one Tommaso Loredano, who exported a large quantity of sugar to England by the hands of one Nicoletto Basadonna. The sugar was exchanged in London for wool coming from San Bitolfo, that is, St. Botolph's town or Boston ; and this wool was put on two cocche or merchant ships to be carried to Flanders, the head-quarters of the weaving trade, from whence the Venetian trader was to carry manufactured cloth or linen back to Dalmatia or the Levant. The cocche laden with the wool were taken by

English ships, and Basadonna, their captain r slain, for which the doge claimed redress "' (Marin, ' St. del Commercio Venez.,' v. p- 306 ? ' Comm.,' lib. ii. No. 191)..

W. A- HUTCHISON. 32 Hotham Road, Putner. S.W.

BIBLIOGRAPHY or SPANISH LITERATURE (12 S. i. 287, 378, 397, 455). Since you published my brief reply at the last refer- ence, I have become acquainted with Aubrey F. G. Bell's ' The Magic of Spain ' (John Lane, 1912), which contains several excellent chapters on Spanish literature. The 16th deals with ' Some Characteristics of Spanish Literature ; the 17th with ' The Poem of the Cid ' ; the 19th with ' The Modern Spanish Novel ' ; the 20th with ' Novels of Galicia ' ; the 21st with ' Novels of the Mountain ' ; and the 22nd with ' Castilian Prose.'

I may add that when I last wrote under this heading the 1913 Paris edition of Fitzmaurice -Kelly's ' Litterature espagnole ' was the latest available. In the latter half of 1916 a Spanish translation by the author himself (with some revisions and biblio- graphical additions) was published at Madrid by the Libreria General de Victoriano Suarez. The single compact volume con- tains both the text of this admirable work and the very full bibliography. H. O.

65TH REGIMENT OF FOOT : YORKSHIRE^ REGIMENTS IN CEYLON (12 S. iv. 77, 145). - The following may be considered a fairly accurate statement as to where the above regiment (renamed the 2nd Yorkshire North Riding Regiment in 1782) was serving between 1761 and 1792 :

1761-3, Guadeloupe. 1764-8, Ireland (at Limerick, July 6, 1767, and May 28, 1768), 1769, America (Castle Island, Boston., April 24, 1769). 1770, America (Nova Scotia, Halifax, April 24 to July 11, 1771). 1771, America (Charlestown Heights, Dec. 25, 1774, to June 25, 1775). 1776, America (Boston, Jan. 19, 1776). 1776-83, England (Portsmouth, Aug. 12, 1776. Several of the other places where the 65th was stationed to 1783 are recorded). In 1783 they were under orders for Ireland, and were in Dublin on Aug. 2, 1784.

1785-91, Canada (St. John's, Aug. 10 T 1790; Quebec, July 5, 1791). 1792, New Brunswick (Fredericton, Sept. 22) and Nova^ Scotia.

The dates within parentheses are the actual dates on which the regiment was- found at the places named.

E. H. FAIRBROTHER.