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side's Regt. seven years ; his Father is Capt. in the same Regt. Recommended by Col. Blakeney." William Haviland was after- wards promoted to captain in Blakeney's 27th Foot, Sept. 7, 1742; major, May 24, 1751 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof Dec. 16, 1752, until he was made colonel-commandant of the 3rd Battalion of the 60th or Royal American Regt. of Foot in America, Dec. 9, 1760, which he held till it was disbanded at the Peace of 1763. He was made local " colonel in N. America only," Jan. 9, 1758 ; was on half -pay 1763-7, and was colonel of the 45th Foot, June 1, 1767, till he died Sept. 16, 1784, set. 67, having become major- general, July 10, 1763, lieutenant-general, May 25, 1772, and general, Feb. 19, 1783. W. R. WILLIAMS.

EXCHANGE OF SOULS IN FICTION (12 S. v. 124, 191, 246). In 'Tales from Black- wood,' vol. ii., is a story called ' The Metem- psychosis,' by Dr. Robert Macnish. The date of its publication in Blackwood's Magazine is given as May, 1826. Two students in the College of Gottingen exchange their souls, or rather their bodies, for the spirit of each is unchanged. The inter- mediary is apparently the, or a, fiend, in the shape of " a little, meagre, brown-faced, elderly gentleman, with hooked nose and chin, a long, well-powdered queue, and a wooden leg," whose contract the one student has signed deliberately, the other carelessly,

t having read what he was signing.

ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

RALPH GRIFFITH (12 S. v. 236). I would refer MR. A. WILLIAMS to George Paston's ' Sidelights on the Georgian Period,' 1902 (Methuen & Co.). Article: The Monthly Review, pp. 145-66, where he will find a great deal of interesting information.

J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

ROBERTSON (12 S. v. 208, 249). This miniaturist married Christian, daughter of Thomas Jaffray. Some miniatures of the Jaffray family are in possession of Harriet, Lady Cope, who inherited them from her ancestors. MRS. COPE.

FINKLE STREET (12 S. v. 69, 109). There is a Fenkle or Finkle Street in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and one in Stockton- an-Tees, co. Durham. Streets with the some name occur in Carlisle and Workington Cumberland, in Kendal, Westmorland, in Knaresborough, Yorks, in Barton - on - Humber, Lines, &c. All these streets are crooked or have corners in them. The wore

comes from the Danish virikel or vinkle, an, angle or corner. Finchale Priory, co. Dur- ham, is situated in an angle or bend of the river Wear.

The Rev. Joseph Hunter in his ' South Yorkshire,' vol. ii. (1831), p. 329, in speaking of Wortley by Tankersley, says :

" The little hamlets in Wortley, all of ancient oundation are Finkel-street,"

and then adds :

k The name of Finkle street is found in other mrts of the county [York ]. Finkel is Fennel. But t seems hard to explain how that plant should jrive name to a village, and harder still to account r or its union with the word street in more instances
 * han one. while it is not found in union with any of

e usual local termimals."

J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

One would expect Winkel (shop) Street to be a common name on the east and south coasts frequented by the Dutch.

J. K.

" AS JOLLY AS SANDBOYS " (12 S. V. 180)

The ' N.E.D.' defines " sandboys " as " a boy who hawks sand for sale." In John Bee's ' Dictionary of the Turf,' sandboy is given as " all rags and all happiness ; the urchins who drive the sand laden neddies through our streets, are envied by the capon- eating turtle-loving epicures of these cities." " As jolly as a sandboy " designates a merry fellow who has tasted a drop."

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

The offering for sale of sandbags of the shape and size described has been familiar to me for very many years in inland counties, but it was only one with other articles carried by general hawkers, often in vans ; and the use to which the sandbags, usually in green or red baize, were put was to lay on window ledges and frames, or along doors, to stop draught. W. B. H.

"SCORES" (12 S. v. 122, 165, 194). J. R. H. will be sure to find an explanation current in St. Andrew's, where a seaward street, a level one, is so called. There are steps enough at the end of it, viz., the famous archery butts. J. K.

BIRTH AND BARTH PLACE-NAMES (12 S. v. 238). The name Bartham, co. Suffolk, occurs in a document (8 Eliz.) referred to by Copinger (' Suffolk Records and MSS.,' i. 120). Copinger also states that Barton in Suffolk is sometimes spelt Berthon. Possibly one of these names may have been contracted into Barth. M. E. CORNFORD, Librarian.

William Salt Library, Stafford.