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BREEDING OF WOODCOCKS (12 S. v. 319). .As my query has not been answered I may perhaps be allowed to give the results of inquiries undertaken on my behalf by an obliging legal friend He discovered, through -the Leicester Probate Registrar, the will of
 * a widow, Mary Tupman, which was proved

will relates to the breeding of woodcocks, but it is a very curious coincidence that Mrs. Tupman appointed a Rev. Hy. Wood- cock as her executor ! Possibly this fact was the origin of the story given by the author of 'Rural Sports,' vol. iii. (1812), pp. 167-8. HUGH S. GLADSTONE.
 * about the time in question. Nothing in the

JEANNE OF FLANDERS ( 12 S. vi. 208, 235). Ulysse Chevalier, ' Repertoire des sources historiques du moyeh age, Bio-biblio- graphie,' col. 3987, under the heading " Robert, fils de Robert III., comte de Flandre, seigneur de Cassel et de Dun- kerque 1320, fl331," refers to a work by P. J. E. de Smyttere, ' Robert de Cassel et Jehanne de Bretagne sa femme (XIV e s.),' "Ha^ebrouck, 1886. As this book has over 350 pages it ought to contain the information "wanted. EDWARD BENSLY.

HlNCKS AND FOTJLKES FAMILIES (12 S.

vi. 229). Pedigrees of Foulkes in Ear- waker's ' History of St. Mary's-on-the-Hill,' Chester, pp. 268-^-9, and Ormerod's ' Cheshire' (1882), ii. 771, show that the Currie family represent Robert Foulkes, who married Susanna, daughter of Edward Hincks of

Chester.

A writer in the ' Cheshire Sheaf,' ser. i. -vol. ii. (1880), p. 120 said that the direct descendant in the male line of the Hincks family of Chester and Huntington (co- Chester) was then Capt. T. C. Hincks of Breckenbrough, co. York

R. STEWART BROWN.

CURIOUS SURNAMES (12 S. vi. 68, 196, 238, 282, 302). I have just now found in MS. ' Lincoln Chapter Acts,' July 17, 1350, the name John Swete in beclde (sweat in bed).

J. T. F.

"STUNNING" (12 S. v. 335; vi. 298). (a) The idea of the word " stunning " as equivalent to " amazingly admirable " (very often connoting bulk or " out-size ") is illustrated by Lucretius, iv. 1157 (Munro, 1163) : " Magna atque immanis, Kcn-arA^is, plenaque honoris," among other hypocoristic

- terms of Greek slang, (b) May I protest

against the phrase " now obsolete " ? Surely "stunning Warrington " (' Pendennis,' cap. 28) is still understanded of the people. That no later quotation is given in the ' N.E.D.' proves nothing. I hear the word used several times a year : and in any case a word should not be called obsolete short of an occultation of two centuries.

H. K. ST. J. S.

F. E. HUGFORD (12 S. vi. 252). An account of Ferdinando Enrico Hugford, and of his younger brother, Ignazio Enrico, i given in 'D.N.B.' See also Walpole'a ' Letters,' Mrs. Toynbee's edition, vol. i., p. 303 ; vol. ii., pp. 288, 405.

ClNQVOYS.

TONE OF BODENSTOWN, co. KILDARE : PROSPEROUS (12 S. vi. 288). On p. 289, s.v. " 3. Matthew Tone " MR. HENRY FITZGERALD REYNOLDS writes " Had a cotton manu- factory at Prosperans (?) co. Kildare." There can, I think, be little doubt that Prosperous is the name wanted. It is about three miles due West of Clain. Robert Brooke, having acquired a fortune in the East, first established in or about 1780, a cotton factory in Dublin. Then he pro- ceeded to build a new town, in order to remove the works from the insalubrity and expensive living of the metropolis. In three years it was finished. He also, in co- operation with one Kirchoffen, set up the business of making machinery. In these undertakings he spent 18,000. He called his "rising colony" "Prosperous." Hav- ing in further constructions, aqueducts, &c., exceeded his means, he obtained from the Irish Legislature a grant of 25,000. In 1786 he applied for more aid, which was refused, and he became insolvent. In 24 hours 1,400 looms were stopped. The manufactures continued on a small scale, " till 1798, when they became an object of attack from the rebels, since which time Prosperous has gradually descended to decay, and only a few scattered weavers now [c. 1 822] linger among its ruins." See 'The Irish Tourist,' no date c. 1822, vol. ii., pp. 173-175.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

LATIN AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (12 S. vi. 202, 234, 261, 282, 300). To the list of books on the speaking of Latin (at the third reference) may be added ' How to speak Latin,' by Stephen W. Wiley (John Murphy & Co., New York, 1896), a useful