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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vii. DEC. 4, 1920.

his ' Grand Dictionnaire ' gives Henri fh s' aspire) phonetically represented by anri, and then says that by analogy the h is aspirated equally in Henriette, but the practice is less positive in this -case. Then is given a quotation from Moliere's ' Les Femmes Savant es ' in which cT Henriette appears.

The aspiration of Henri appears to have been at least doubtful in the eighteenth century. I have come across many ex- amples of Henri without the French aspira- tion in ' Les Monumens de la Monarchic Francoise,' by Bernard de Montfaucon, 1729-33, e.g. :

" De Francois i & d'FTenri viii." Vol. iv. p. 220.

" Entrevue de Francois i et d'Henri viii."

Plate xxix.

" Suite de Ten trevue deFrangois i. et d'Enry viii.' Plate xxx.

As to Henriette just two examples :

" Les lettres d'Henriette, dont la perte a ete deploree."

"C'est la derniere lettre de Henriette." See 'Lettres de Fernmes a Jacques Casanova,'

Recueillies par Akin Rava Traduites par

$douard Maynial [1912], pp. 279, 291.

In the ' Grammaire des Grammaires, quoted above, p. o2, we are informed that the h preserves the aspiration in all word which are composed of the words, in which the h is aspirated (of which a list is given) such as deharnacher, enhardi, enharnacher &c. (except exhausser, exhaussement).

This so-called aspiration in the compound words recalls to my memory the curious habit of a member of the House of Commons who ended his life in the House of Lords, a man of high education who had held im portant posts in the Government and ir journalism. He was much given to using the words ' ' apprehend, " " comprehend, ' "apprehension," "comprehension." These he generally, though not quite invariably pronounced " appre-ension," " compre ension," &c. This failing was vagueh referred to in Vanity Fair some forty year ago : " Being of strange aspirations he has i certain quarrel with the English languag which has never yet been mended." Thi may be taken as meaning that he used ir such words not in such words as " house err "hand" the soi-disant French aspira tion instead of the English.

Any contention that the French so-calle( aspiration is similar to the English appear to be reduced to the absurd by the fact tha whereas heros is said to be aspiratecL^it

erivatives heroine, heroisme, heroique, &C.,-

re not. There was a discussion in C N. & Q.' some

ears ago on the h in hors d'ceuvre, see 10 S. c. 229, 255 ; xi. 337. The last reference is? lot given in either the Volume Index or the General Index of the series, except under my lame. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

JOCELYN FLOOD (12 Si vii. 409). Warden. Hood, Chief Justice of the Court of King's- Bench by his wife Isabella Whiteside had wo sons : (1) the celebrated Henry Flood^ >. 1732 ; (2) Jocelyn Warden Flood, M.P. Jallan, co. Kilkenny, on the death of James VVemyss (who had^ been elected in 1762),. and d. unm. 1767. It is possible this is the- Jocelyn Flood inquired for, though there- vould have been a considerable gap between^ lis birth and that of his elder brother.

J. B. WHITMORE.

41 Thurloe Square, S. Kensington, S.W.7.

He appears to have been a younger brother of the Rt. Hon. Henry Flood,. Warden Flood (son of Francis Flood and Anne Warden), who was an Irish Judge, hact two sons. The elder was Henry, the cele-
 * >rated statesman. The younger son, called'
 * >y Burke Warden Jocelyn, was M.P. for

the Borough of Callan, co. Kilkenny, 1765 r and died unmarried in 1767. In the- Parliamentary Register his Christian name is^ given as Jocelyn only.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS,

Killadoon, Celbridge.

QUARR ABBEY : FOUNDATION CHARTEB. (12 S. vii. 332, 377, 418). Regarding the- foundation charter of Quarr Abbey and the- founding of that abbey DR. WHITEHEAD- quotes from various authors, who seem to be doubtful whether this religious house was originally a Savignian one or a Cistercian, monastery. ^The tenth and eleventh cen- turies have been called the golden age of monasticism on account of the new religious orders, which sprang into existence. Amongst. these which took root in England were the Cluniac and the Cistercian orders. Another order which arose in France during the-- eleventh century was the order of Savigny^ which had a few houses in England ; in this country the Savignian order never became important as it did in the land in which it originated. The first house of Savigny to be- founded in England was Furness in Lanes; this was followed by others and amongst^them, was Quarr AbbeV. The first Cistercian.