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NOTES AND QUERIES.

S. N 8., FEB. 23. '56.

quantity of the penultimate syllable alone ? How long is it since T#tyre was superseded by Tey- tyre ? and er/dite redgibus by eedite reegibus ? Where did the new system originate ? and who were the chief agents in establishing it? You have, no doubt, among your correspondents, many who could give ample particulars of this change ; but if these be not soon put on record, they may be irrecoverably lost. I believe it has not yet been attempted, at least with any success, to ex- tend the above change to the last syllable. I have not yet heard meeceenace atav/ce, though con- sistency might seem to require such a pronuncia- tion ; and to my ear, it would not be more offensive than what I do hear. E. H. D. D.

" Ruclisle." Can any of your readers, who have made the peculiar county dialects of Eng- land their study, help me to the derivation of this word ? I heard it first in Cornwall, and it may probably never have been used beyond the western borders. T. H. P.

" Saxon and the Gael" Who is the author of The Saxon and the Gael, printed by J. and A. Aikuian, Edinburgh, 1814, in four volumes?

E. J. LITTLER.

De Sancto Albino, St. Aubin, Tubin ; Davbigne, Dobbyn. Are the names here set down aliases of each other ? or are we to take Daubigne and St. Aubin to be distinct ? That St. Aubin and Tobin are substantially the same name there is unde- niable proof, but it does not appear so clearly that Daubigne, Dobbyn, and Tobin are identical. Perhaps it might help towards a solution of the question if it were decided whether Daubigne is derived from the name of a place or from the saint Alban. A note in elucidation will oblige.

JAMES GRAVES.

Kilkenny.

Two Cathedrals in Dublin. Mr. D'Alton tells us in his Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin, p. 4., that " there are in the diocese of Dublin two cathedrals (Christchurch and St. Patrick's), a pe- culiarity in which Saragossa alone participates." Is this statement exactly correct ? ABHBA,

Plowdens Claim to the Barony of Dudley. Can any correspondent give me any particulars of this, and how the Plowden family founded their claim ?

C. J. DOUGLAS.

Rochester Registers. In a work by Mr. W. Osburn, an extract is given from Strype's An- nals (vol. i. ch. Ixii. ff. 521, 5'22.), where Strype states that the account " is taken out of the Re- gister of the See of Rochester," which he gives respecting one Thomas Heath (a brother of Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York), who was a concealed and dispersed Jesuit; and who was

detected at Rochester in the disguise of a Puritan preacher, with a Bull from Pope Pius iy. in his possession, about the year 1568.

Could any of your readers, who have access to the Rochester Registers, ascertain whether this record is still there ? and if so, could they supply a copy of it ?

As Dr. Edmund Gheast was Bishop of Rochester in 1568, I presume it would be in his register.

C. H. DAVIS, M.A. (Clergyman).

The "Lay Readers" of the Reformation. From a memorandum made at Oxford, where I had an opportunity of consulting Strype's Annals of the Reformation (vol. i. part i. ch. xi. ff. 224226.), I infer that there were, in or about the year 1559, certain " lay readers," licensed by the bishops to perform divine service, after making a subscrip- tion to a certain declaration. Archdeacon Hale, in his charge of 1853, at p. 19., also refers to Strype's Annals (vol. i. pp. 265. 515., of the Ox- ford edition of 1824), with reference to these readers as existing in 1559, and as recognised in the Convocation of 1562 to read divine service and homilies in places where there was no minister.

I should be glad of full information respecting the date and continuance, and precise duties, of these " lay readers," with the form of subscription made by them, and of license granted by the bishop. I would also ask whether the system of lay readers prevails to any great extent in the American Episcopal Church, where it is in use ? and whether their ministrations are confined to rooms, or extend to churches also ?

It must not be overlooked, that these lay readers are quite distinct from the "Scripture readers" of modern times, who merely read the Scriptures from house to house.

A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN.

Systems of Short-hand. Where can I find an account of a trial of different systems of short- hand, which I am told was held some forty years ago ? and, also, which is the most generally adopted and most practical system of short-hand at the present day. Each of the Encyclopaadias (Rees', Metropolitana, Britannica, and Penny) commends a different system, and most of them refer to Lewis's History of Short-hand, but none of them mentions Lewis's own system ; and I should be glad to know whether it is considered a good one.

FRANK FORTESCUE.

Stephana's Bottle.

" This bottle, which I made of the bark of a tree with my own hands since I was cast ashore." Shakspeare, Tempest, Act II. Sc. 2.

Can any of your readers inform me what was the particular kind of bottle to which the above passage alludes ? The only kind of bottle prac- ticable to Stepheno, so far as I can fancy, would