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giving numerous instances of this word, which it describes as very common in the seventeenth century, somehow contrives to omit the one example which is probably most familiar to students of literature : But we, who onely do infuse The Rage in them like Boute-feus.

' Hudibras,' I. i. 785-6.

There is a characteristic note on this in the
 * Annotations ' to the poem :

" Bout-feus is a French word, and therefore it were uncivil to suppose any English Person (especially of Quality) ignorant of it, or so ill-bred as to need an Exposition."

EDWARD BENSLY.

[W. A. B. C. and MB. W. A. HUTCHISON also thanked for replies.]

ANDREW B. WRIGHT, LOCAL HISTORIAN AND ACTOR (12 S. v. 14, 78). Andrew Biggs Wright was the son of George Wright, actor, of Carlisle ; was born there in 1796 ; was a travelling actor and tragedian, and a Bohemian journalist, contributing to the press of the towns in which he performed ; died at Bexley, Kent, March 3, 1852, aged 56. He was author of (1) ' An Essay towards a History of Hexham [Northumber- land],' in three parts (Alnwiek, 1823), 8vo, pp. xi 246. Dedicated to the Rev. Robert Clarke, A.M., Lecturer of Hexham (1801-18), member of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society, &c. (2) ' Elegiac Verses upon the Murder of Joseph Hedley, alias Joe the Quilter ' (which occurred near Warden, Northumberland, Jan. 3, 1826) 1826, broadsheet.

J. W. FAWCETT.

HAMPSHIRE CHURCH BELLS AND THEIR FOUNDERS (12 S. iv. 188, 341 ; v. 44). I have read with much interest DR. WHITE - HEAD'S notes on the subject of the bell- founders R. B. and I. H., and regret that I cannot at present throw any further light on their identity. Besides the bells in Hants by these founders, I have notes of one in Dorset and six in Wilts by R. B., and three in the latter county by I. H. J should also like to point out, in fairness to Dr. Tyssen, that he is the author of the sug- gestion that John Higden was Carter r s assistant at Reading (see his ' Sussex Bells,' p. 44 of the original edition).

I am strongly in support of Mr. A. H. Cocks's opinion that geographical distribu- tion is an important factor in determining the locality in which a group of bells were made. If we apply the test in the present case we obtain the following results :

(1) R. B.'s bells between 1595 and 1624 aie nearly all to be found in South Hants

and South Wilts, and^out of the total of 29, 17 are in South Hants or the Isle of Wight. Against this we have three in North Hants, two in North Wilts, and one in Dorset.

(2) Out of 23 known bells by I. H. there are 16 in South Hants, three in South Wilts, and two in West Sussex, as against two in North Hants.

This clearly points to Winchester or Southampton as the locality of the foundry. I have excluded the R. B. b^lls in SUPFOX, as apparently they are by another (local) founder. It is possible that Anthony Bond had some connexion with R. B., but we have no direct evidence, beyond the circumstance that his bells are found in the same localities.

The most promising chance of identi- fying these founders, or at all events of ascertaining where they worked, would be- by the investigation of churchwardens' accounts. If DR. WHITEHEAD could ascer- tain which of the parishes now or recently possessing bells by R. B. or I. H. have old accounts of the period remaining, a search would probably result in unearthing* the name of the place whence the founder came, even if the bells were cast on the spot, and possibly also the founder's name, though that is not always given.

H. B. WALTERS.

FINKLE STREET (12 S. v. 69). I can supply J. T. F. with two more examples. One is in the coast town of Workington, Cumberland, and the other in Carlisle, the chief town of the same county. I can give no explanation of the name Finkle, but in the case of one of the streets mentioned above there is a bend or curve. F. W.

BELL AND SHOULDER INN (12 S. iv. 326). This sign is doubtless a compound one r formed by the union of the sign of the Bell with that of the Shoulder of Mutton, though for brevity's sake the words " of Mutton " have been dropped.

The Bell is a very common sign, and there will immediately occur to every one the recollection of the Bell at Edmonton, immortalized in the story of John Gilpin's ride. The Shoulder of Mutton is also no uncommon sign. It was at the Shoulder of Mutton at Brecknock that Mrs. Siddons, England's greatest tragic actress, was born July 14, 1755. " Fancy," writes an en- thusiastic biographer, " the English Mel- pomene behind the bar of such a place ! " There is, or was till lately, a Shoulder of Mutton Inn at Newport, Isle of Wight,, facing the mill-pond behind Ford Mill there..