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 12 s. ix. SEPT. 24, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 241 LONDON, SEPTEMBER 24. 1921. CONTENTS. No. 180. NOTES : Passing Stress, 241 Arms on the Leventhorpe Monument, Sawbridjre worth, 244 Glass-pointers of York : Henry Gylss, 245 Butlers of Durham : British Hatchments in the Netherlands, 247 " Otherwhere " Tennyson Concordance Where was the Land of Gore ? Music transmitted by Wireless, 248 Charles Dickens Sotthwark Bridge, 249. QUERIES : Gentlemen-Pensioners, 1684 William Duthie and Dickens De Goncourt on Collecting King John's Hunting Lodge. Datchet, 249 The Index Librorum Prr hibU.orum Bernard Capes: Inscription at Win- chester Philobiblon Society E. R. Hughes, Artist Burial-places of Eminent Scientists Burial-places of Judges Jews' Disabilities, 250 Burbridge : Burbidge Mrs. Sherwood Wheatley's 'London Cries ' Benard- Greyn Talleyrand at Kensington Mottoes : Origin sought Charles II. and Barbara Villiers Burning Tower Crest Author wanted Reference wanted, 251. KEPLIES : Colonel Johnson's Regiment of Foot Reviva. o* Old English Marriage Customs, z52 Mustard Family- Cheshire Cneese Song Shakespeare's Cheese-loving Welsh- man, 254 Quotations on Cheese Sir Thomas Miller of Chichester Stukeley Cheese Saint Naming of Public Rooms in Inns Oe Brus Tomb at Hartlepool, 255 Hafod Press Theodore Gordon, Composer Greenhouse Artec Calendar Prince Lee Boo Gleaning by the Poor, 256 The Margate (Jrotto Church of St. Mary, Little Oakley, Essex Morden Family William Toone Tenant in Capite "Allusion in ' London Lyrics,' 257 Marquess of Down American English Hearth Tax, 258 Milk, Butter and Cheese Streets, 259. NOTES ON BOOKS : Beowulf : an Introduction to the Study of the Poem ' "Hie Book of Puarte Barbosa.' Notices to Coi respondents. PASSING STRESS. A CENTURY ago, English, Prussians and Russians marched as " the Allies " to Paris. Now, many had it that "the Allies" were to march east and west to Berlin. Words- worth though, in the contemporary Shelley, already, men Have been abandoned by their faithless Allies. The Arnaut, Servian, and Albanian allies. lifted up a great voice for a poor man, victim of Napoleon : Thou hast great allies. Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love and Man's unconquerable mind. Swinburne, after 1880 in ' Bothwell ' (11. v.): And has betrayed the blood of his allies. And as late as 1894 Lionel Johnson sang, for Ireland : <;<,!, i, . n (/Hies are thine, bright souls of saints, Glad choirs of intercession for the Gael. Matthew Arnold, too, had said, in ' Merope ' (c. 1850) : How useless an ally a people is. Coventry Patmore at that time, in * The Angel in the House ' (x. 4) : Prove his most powerful allies. Then Tennyson ( ' Iliad,' xviii. ) : Thrice backward reel'd the Trojans and allies. Aubrey de Vere, in 1876, ' St. Thomas of Canterbury,' V. iv. : Your English barons ; barred them from allies. And Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate of this day, in * Demeter ' : I welcome you, my loving true allies. and in ' The Growth of Love ' : Trusting too much to her divine ally. But even poets might, if they would, more often (judging by present -day general uses), follow Shelley with allies. Gerald Gould, author of ' Monogamy ' (1918), speaks of Taking for allies music and good wine. And Punch's joke reads " Deutschland iiber Allies " ; as by an Oxford scholar, one is in- formed. And indeed ally seems holding on, less unshaken than allies. " I have heard edi cated people say allies, but very seldom ; and never ally." Another such one writes, in England, Sept. 24, 1918, " I say allies and ally." Nevertheless, another, at the same date, " Personally 1 say ally, but hear it often ally" To him comments Oxford, 1918, " The uneducated seem commonly to say ally, and alleys (horribile dictu )" Then to him Cambridge, 1918, "I only know ally" Another, a Cambridge ex-Fellow, has heard (but does not say) ally to rhyme with dally." London, 1918, in a man of letters thinks ally and ally are used with equal frequency. " I have heard them both in the same sentence." So, another, an Oxford hearer. Another Londoner thinks allies now only " exceptional Scots." And yet Lord Holland's Lady Sarah Lennox had remarked how her King, in 1760, " laid the accents on the first syllable of Allys and Revenues, which is after the Scottish pro- nunciation." " Alleys " is how the popu- lace commonly talked in Ireland concerning the Allies. Certainly, when in ' N. & Q.,' 12 S. i. 365, allies was suggested instead of malice, in ' Julius Caesar,' III. i. 174, it was fair 12 S. i. 477) to point out that such a trochee could not be heard by Shakespeare. That there is a changing in accent, many not too thoughtless people do not note. As