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 2 s. is. OCT. i.iM.j NOTES AND QUERIES. 263 22 years before, at Hampton,- and has since gone there yearly to keep his anni- versary. There is one case where the baby himself has an adventure John de Pavely, being at Little Houghton when the whole town almost vas burnt and carried out into a j field lying in his cradle. Houghton Church ; at that time had its gable broken down : | and in the churchyard a few days after the child's baptism John Barker might be seen going three times round the church with a candle in his hands as penance for | not having enclosed the churchyard he j having been let off the fine of half a mark j through the intercession of Robert de ; Pavely. There seems some want of courtesy in the man who brings up as his remembrance of a child's birth that he had in that year obtained certain writs against the father in the King's court. However, many peaceful or pleasant facts of domestic history also come to be )rnmemorated how Alice, a witness's sister, was hired to be nurse to the new-born heir ; how on the day Mattger, son of Thomas Vavasour, was born, William Den ton (the witness) came with cloth for Joan, the mother, to colour with murrey ', how there was a proclamation of archery made on the Midsummer Day before the death of >ir John de Wittelbury, and how, by award of good men of the country, a barbed arrow was delivered to the father of William Chaumberleyn as the best archer there ; how Gregory Nercote, about the* feast of St. Margaret, built a new hall with a soler on the west side at Aldebury and heard among the carpenters of the birth of John <i<- Nowers ; how Roger de Toynton and William, son of John son of Geoffrey of Layceby, began to build their ship lLa Maudelayn in the summer after the birth of John de Heyling and finished her and launched her at Grimsby early in the following autumn. There is not much in these particular ''proofs" about travel to foreign lands, but we hear of John Bailif of Dunsby going to Flanders to sell his wools ; and of John Biketon crossing from Southampton to Rouen jbo purchase merchandise. The witness's own marriage or the birth of one of his own children is naturally one of the commonest events which serve to fix a date. PEREGRINTJS. PASSING STRESS. (See 12 S. ix. 241.) W T rLL you advertise or advertise ? You should "advertise, in Johnson's ' Dictionary,' 1755. So you do popularly in Ireland in 1921. In the natural course of English accent, Shakespeare, in ' Measure for Measure,' I. i. 41 (c. 1600), had : I do bend my speech To one that can my part in him advertise. North England, at least, and all tradi- tional Ireland, still sometimes make adver- tisement. This was given first place in John- son's 1755 pronunciation ; but already unsettled, he acknowledged. Intrigue of the dictionaries, as peremp- tory, cited above, are spoken otherwise, even by some of the elect. You may say indisputable or indisputable, said the ' Century Dictionary,' 1890, and says the ' New English.' In the beginning of the century Todd's ' Johnson/ 1818, of course, had only indisputable ; and so Cassell's ' Encyclopaedic Dictionary,' 1889 ; though the ' Imperial Dictionary,' 1882, had only the modern indisputable. Now from verse to prose. Does it compensate or compensate ? Even in the other harmony of prose, in Coleridge, it imports much to know that compensate was not in his day : " Are then the plays of Shakespeare's (sic}, works of rude un- cultivated genius, in which the splendour of the parts compensates for the barbarous shapelessness and irregularity of the whole ? " One may fairly conclude how Sir James Mackintosh heard his own words on ' Endy- mion,' w r heii he wrote: "We . . . just beg leave, on the contrary, to say that anyone who, on this account, would represent the whole poem as despicable, must either have no notion of poetry, or no regard to truth.'* As in Shakespeare's Arden ('A.Y.L.,' I. i. 106), where " three or four loving lords have put themselves into voluntary exile with him, whose lands and revenues enrich the new Duke " unless one would be caught jumping in anapaests where they fleet the time. The late Canon Sheehan, author of ' My New Curate,' heard confessor in the rhythm of his " It was for this, that martyrs shed th^ir blood ; it was for this, that confessors wont to prison, chanting the eternal theme, that liberty is indestructible so long as the spirit survives." As again, in Shakespeare's own beautiful