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 '214 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. MARCH 12, 1921. 'Sacred Roman Empire, and in all places and lands, in every occupation and career, shall be called and held to be true Counts of the Sacred Roman Empire. (Sacri Romani Imperil Comites did et haberi)." H. G. ST. P. B. HAZEBROUCK (12 S. viii. 121, 143, 197). By an error of transcription I stated at p. 121 that the old province of Flandre Maritime existed " in its full extent " from the Peace of Ryswick " down to the Revolu- tion." This, of course, is obviously in- correct. The chdtellenies of Fumes and Ypres had been detached and restored to the ^Netherlands as far back as 1713. The boundaries of the province of Flandre Maritime in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries underwent several changes, which may be thus summarized : 1. By the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 Gravelines and its forts together with the chdtellenie of Bourbourg were ceded to France by Spain, and became the nucleus from which the Province developed. 2. In 1662 Dunkerque was purchased from TEngland, and Mardyck acquired. 3. In 1668 Bergues and Furnes with their 'dependencies were annexed by France, and the " Intendance de la Flandre Maritime" p -came into being. 4. In 1678, by the Treaty of Nymegen, France further acquired the chdtellenies of Cassel, Bailleul, and Ypres, which being the area of the province. There was a slight extension in 1699, when Merville and the Forest of Nieppe were added. At this period Flandre Maritime was at its greatest extent, and included five fortified towns .{Ypres, Furnes, Dunkerque, Bergues, anc Gravelines), fourteen open towns (including Hazebrouck and Cassel), and 236 villages. 5. By the Peace of Utrecht (1713) Franc 'lost Ypres and Furnes with their chdtellenies which were incorporated in the Austrian "Netherlands. There were slight adjust orients in 1769 and 1779, but otherwise the eastern boundary of the province after th Peace of Utrecht was pretty much that o the Franco -Belgian frontier of to-day. F. H. CHEETHAM. BODY'S ISLAND (12 S. vii. 470). Bodie' or Body's Island got its name from the Hon K. W. Boddie of Nashville, North Carolina see H. Gannett' s ' Origin of certain Place juames in the United States.' N. H. RANELAGH IN PAKIS (12 S. viii. 171). think I am able to give the required iii- ormation. In the ' Nouveau Dictionnaire listorique de Paris,' by Gustave Pessard Paris, 1904), p. 1227, one can read : " The ball of the Ranelagh, part of which .isappeared under the reign of Napoleon III. in onsequence of the alterations decided by baron laussmann, was founded in 1774 by a certain VEoisan, keeper of one of the gates of the Bois de Boulogne, who had obtained authorization to put up an enclosure to close up the place and to use t as a place for dancing and entertainment with a ' caf6 ' and a theatre. " As the fashion was then to admire everything hat came from England it was given the name of Ranelagh, similar to an establishment of the ame kind which then existed in London. " In the newspapers of the day, one can read : Le petit Coblenz, les Champs-Elys^es, les Tuileries, Bagatelle even, are not any longer in ashion. The " bon ton " requires a promenade on the lawns of the Ranelagh ' When Marie Antoinette stopped at the castle of La Muette, ler great pleasure was to show herself there. Afterwards Mesdames Tallien et R^camier were ihe queens of the place. The Duchesse de Ben was there at the beginning of the Restoration About 1811 a fashion paper states what highest ' bon ton ' to observe concern 'emale attire : " ' En grande parure, la gorge est nue. Oi fait des tuniques sans corsages, sans Epaulettes, par consequent qui ne sont retenues que par ceinture. La mode n'admet pour les chapea de femme que les extremes. Le matin, ils soi grands comme des parapluies, le soir, ils sont imperceptibles. Pour le rouge, on n'en m< ' que le matin. Le soir, il faut etre pale coi la mort.' " C. BRUNNER. PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK (AND LATIN) (12 S. viii. 26, 78). From the nature of the case one can hardly expect to assign an exact date to the process by which one mode of pronunciation gives place to another. But SURREY may be interested in looking up an answer on the pronunciation of Latin at 12 S. i. 353, where an extract is given from Sir John Sandys 's ' History of Classical Scholarship,' with references bear- ing on the same matter to Strype's ' Eccle- siastical Memorials,' Cooper's 'Annals of Cambridge,' and Mullinger's 'University of Cambridge.' These writers may be con- sulted with profit with regard to the history of the changes. Any miscellaneous dis- cussion of the scientific or practical reasons for the adoption of particular methods of pronouncing the so-called dead languages seems to me at least to call for an inordinate amount of space and usually to open the floodgates to much unprofitable talk. EDWARD BENSLY.
 * added to Flandre Maritime nearly doubled