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 12 S. V. APRIL, 1919.1

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Edward Hyde was baptized May 10, 1607, and buried Aug. 6, 1659. He married Ann, daughter of Thomas Lambert (? of Boyton, Wilts), and had two daughters. See 'Notes on the Hydes of Wilts and Cheshire,' by J. J. Hammond (of Salisbury), Wilts N. & Q., vol. vi. pp. 342, 435.

JOHN WATSON-TAYLOR.

Wellington Club, S.W.I.

THE ' NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY ' : CHANGES IN ACCENTUATION (12 S. v. 32). The quite common di'vine and se'rene are not noticed ; nor is Thomson's ma'nure (vb.), though that stress is recorded for the noun : nor are Keats' s de'vout and vibra'te : nor Milton's infi'nite and a'mbitious. PROF. STOCKLEY might have quoted Cowper and Collins for acce'ss. The Dictionary gives three references for one-sidedness. PROF. STOCKLEY' s is earlier than any of these, but 1 had anticipated him in my sixth letter to The Times Literary Supplement.

GEORGE G. LOANE. 4 Linriell Close, N.W.4.

HEDGEHOGS (12 S. iv. 76, 140). MR. SELF WEEKS' s information upon this sub- ject is valuable no less to the naturalist than to the local historian. One remark needs enlightenment : " The hedgehog was destroyed because it was (and in some places still is) popularly sLpposed to suck the udders of cows, and abstract the milk." I am so fortunate as to be able to prove the Elizabethans right, and modern zoolo- gists wrong, respecting this long-moot point : John Cockaday of the Queen's Head Hotel at Stradbroke in Suffolk wrote to me in September, 1911, that he "has on several occasions .seen a hedgehog sucking a cow, when farming on Mr. Eustace Gurney's Sproston Hall estate in Norfolk." Such direct evidence was of capital value,. and I called on the 28th of that month at the hotel, when Cockaday, a hard-headed countryman, gave me these circumstantial details, v.v. : Five years ago (1906) he noticed a cow lying down, and, on approach- ing, that a hedgehog very common in that district was sucking the udder. This was distinctly visible at fifteen or twenty yards, and the contraction of the cheeks in the act of suction also was evident. The important point noticed was that only the extremity of the mouth touched the teat, and the teeth were not in contact at all, which obviates the theory advanced by many naturalists that their conformation precluded the possibility of such sucking habit. In this ca.se, after a short time

the teeth would appear to have actually come into play, for the cow jumped to her feet in a fright and kicked vigorously at the hedgehog, which Cockaday' s dog promptly slew. Folk-lorists will, consequently, have to relinquish this erstwhile " superstition " f

CLAUDE MORLEY, F.E.S., F.Z.S. Monk Soham House, Suffolk.

' IRRELAGH ; OR, THE LAST OF THE CHIEFS ' (12 S. v. 69). I am able, through the kindness of Dr. Crone, editor of tue- Irish Book-Lover, to reply to my own query. The authoress was a Miss E. Colthurst, and the volume was published by Houlston & Stoneman. It may be added that the story was evidently written in the interests of the Irish Society (now amalgamated with the Irish Church Missions), that the type is excellent, the punctuation execrable, and the dialogue irritatingly run into the context- without distinction of lines. Otherwise the novel is well composed and* the characters are interesting and well drawn.

J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

VAUVENARGUES : " LA CLARTE EST LA. BONNE FOI DES PHILOSOPHES " (12 S. V. 39). This fine maxim will be found in the ' Per. sees diverses ' of Vauvenargues. In my edition ( ' (Euvres Choisies ' ) it is num- bered 372 ; and followed by the equally true " La nettete est le vernis des maitres." The 'Pensees' follow the 'Reflexions et Maximes,' of which those quoted are nos. 4 and 5. GEORGE MARSHALL.

21 Parkfield Road, Liverpool.

PRE-RAPHAELITE STAINED GLASS (12 S... iv. 217, 337 ; v. 74). There are few churches- in which the development of this glass can be studied so well as in that of Middleton Cheney in Buckinghamshire, not far from Banbury. The whole of the windows in the church, if I remember rightly, are filled with it. The east window must have been designed before Morris realized that the shape of the pieces of glass was an important matter. As you approach the window from the west the effect is much damaged 1 by a large irregular-shaped piece of light glass which includes Moses's head (and horns) and beard. When you get up close to the window you lose this, and appreciate the excellence of the drawing on the surface of *he glass. The windows in the north aisle are of the same general character, but more care has been taken with the size and shape of the pieces of glass. The artists,, however, learnt to rely less upon drawing.,.