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fashioned, are visually found on both kinds of these ladles. In the time of George III. the bowls of many punch -ladles were hammered out of five-shilling pieces, and in such instances the lettering on the outer rim of the coin is still visible : these ladles usually have a shilling of Queen Anne or George I., II., or III. inserted in the base of the bowl. These shillings are very often gilt, and consequently they are sometimes mistaken for gold coins. At this period it was usual for the ladles to have whalebone handles with neat silver tips tapering to a point. Punch-ladles of these patterns are still fairly plentiful, but those in which Queen Anne and George III. guineas have
 * been inserted are very scarce.

F. BRADBURY. Sheffield.

BYRON IN FICTION (12 S. iv. 10). Byron is a character in Mrs. Humphry Ward's novel ' The Marriage of William Ashe.'

M. H. DODDS.

" HEUEWERC " (12 S. iv. 14). This is bad spelling for the German word Hauwerk, meaning carved work (literally hewed work), just as a sculptor is called in German a Bildhauer (literally picture-hewer).

WALTER WINANS.

Stratmann's 'Middle English Dictionary' does not include this word, but as it seems to be compounded of heue or hiwe, domestic, from hiw (heow), a family, and were (weorc), labour, work, it should refer to work done by servants kept at a house or farm.

N. W. HILL.

PARISH REGISTERS PRINTED (12 S. iv. 14). In 'The Parish Registers of England,' by J. Charles Cox, D.D., F.S.A. (published in Methuen's series of "The Antiquary's Books "), there will be found a list of ' Bishops' Transcripts,' pp. 261-3 ; ' Places where Registers are to be Found,' pp. 264-71 ; and a ' List of Parish Registers Printed,' pp. 272-82.

ANDREW OLIVER.

5 Queen's Gardens, W.2.

DYDE (12 S. iii. 417 ; iv. 30). The name has been known in Canada for at least four generations, the original owner coming, I believe, from London, England. De- scendants, not all bearing the name, are found J* in Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Edmonton, and elsewhere. We know of no variant spelling.

S. W. DYDE, D.Sc., D.D.

Robertson College, Edmonton South, Alberta.

AIGUILLETTES (12 S. iv. 14). In answer to M.D. (2) I may say that these represent the pen and pencil carried by A.D.C.s. A Russian general, some 25 years ago, showed me his, actually nmde to contain a pen and pencil, he being A.D.C. to the Emperor. WALTER WINANS.

ST. PETER'S FINGER (12 S. iii. 449, 518). Will MR. J. DE BERNIERE SMITH kindly say what the two numbers of The Treasury he mentions contain about the lines from Hall's ' Satires ' which I quoted from Hotten and Larwood's ' History of Signboards ' ? I do not recollect anything about it in the July issue, which I bought before writing to ' N. & Q.,' but that for November last I am not likely to see. To get an odd copy of a magazine of but a few weeks old is not an easy matter in these disturbed days. I should like to know where the tavern was to which Bishop Hall referred.

ST. S WITHIN.

LANDED GENTRY temp. GEORGE III. (12 S. iv. 18). I have a book with the following title :

" An | Alphabetical | Account | of the | No- bility and Gentry | which are (or lately were) related unto the several | Counties | of ) England and Wales. | As to their | Names, Titles, and Seats, | by which they are (or lately have been) generally known ) and distinguished : according as they were recei- | ved from the Hands of divers Persons in | each county experienced therein as well by | their Public Offices, as otherwise, j The like never before published. | London j Printed Anno Dom. MDCLXXHI."

The size is small folio ; and at the end are 12 leaves containing impressions of over 800 shields of arms.

ASTLEY TERRY, Major-General. 48 Combe Park, Bath.

BOREMAN'S ' DESCRIPTION OF A GREAT VARIETY OF ANIMALS AND VEGETABLES ' (12 S. iv. 14). The title of this book is

" A Description of Three Hundred Animals : viz., Beasts, Birds, Pishes, Serpents, and Insects ; with a particular account of the Whale Fishery ; extracted out of the best authors .... illustrated with copper plates, by T. Boreman."

The author is Thomas Boreman. The book was first published in London in 1730, and a seventh edition in 1753. Both these editions may be seen in the British Museum Library. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

WILLIAM BLAGRAVE (12 S. iii. 334). I have the reference to a William Blagrave about the date mentioned : " Catalogue of the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum, No. 981. 31. William Blagrave. Biographical