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kings there was any communication between England and Ireland except, as Freeman tells us, the consecration of some Irish bishops by the Archbishop of Canterbury. This is a subject that ought to have some interest for your readers. I will not insert William of Malmesbury's reference to the Scotch who also went to the Crusade; it is rather too coarse. DOMINICK BROWNE.

Christchurch, New Zealand.

" BREECHES " BIBLE. It is usually said that this rendering of Gen. iii. 7 was first printed by Caxton in his ' Golden Legend ' of 1483 ; but this is erroneous, as it is to be found in his Chaucer, 'Parson's Tale,' 1475. Before that Wyclifle had used the same word in that place, but his Bible only existed in MS. till long after Caxton's day. R. R.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

We must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" CULAMITE." This is said to be a term used for a Wesleyan in Lincolnshire. In Thompson's ' Hist, of Boston ' (1856), p. 703, the term is said to have been specially applied to a Methodist of the New Connexion, and to have been originally " Kilhamite," from Mr. Alexander Kilham, one of the founders of that sect. Can any one who knows tell me whether the above explanation is correct 1

THE EDITOR OF THE 'ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY.'

The Clarendon Press, Oxford.

" DEWARK." This word is used in the neighbourhood of Keighley (Yorkshire) to express two -thirds of an acre, an exact measure of land. Is the word common in other localities ? I suggest " day's work " as a probable source. The ground is hilly and stony, so that the " dewark " represents fairly accurately the amount of land that a man could plough in a day.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Keighley.

RIFLED FIREARMS. If my memory is not deceptive there is an old rifled cannon in the fine collection of arms preserved in the Arsenal at Bern, and I believe that weapons of similar make exist in other museums. What was the term used to describe them before "rifled" came into vogue 1 ? Was it "wreathed"? In the correspondence of

Richard Cromwell, once Lord Protector, given in the English Historical Review for January, the following lines occur in the fifth letter:

"Your brother wrote for the little gun, he may have it, but I thinck it is not so propper for shott it being a wreathed barrell as for a single bullet, w th w ch h e w iu no t venture to shoote at a Pheasant."

Could this "wreathed barrell" have been anything but " rifled " ? G. W.

"THE LITTLE MAN OF KENT." Who was " the Little Man of Kent " ? I have an en- graving, rather larger than a cabinet photo- graph, of a half-length figure of a very curly- headed boy, in white shirt, thrown open and turned over at the neck, his hands folded in front of him ; a stormy sky and landscape in the background. It bears the above inscrip- tion, and was "published March 17th, 1795, by Joseph Singleton, No. 1, Harvey's Build- ings, Strand." No artist's name is mentioned. I should be grateful for information as to the history of this portrait.

EVELYN M. WOOLWARD. Belton, Grantham.

ELIZABETHAN DIALOGUES ON THE GOVERN- MENT OF WALES. In a 'Dialogue of the Present Government of Wales,' written in 1594 by George Owen, the historian of Pem- brokeshire, reference is made by one of the speakers, Demetus, to a "little written pamphelett," which he is represented as reading at the time, and which is further described as " a little dialogue between Bryto and Phylomatheus touching the government and reformation of Wales, but chiefly it noteth the disorders and abuses thereof." Though Demetus makes no quotations from the "pamphelett," the foregoing description of it should be amply sufficient for its identi- fication, if either the original MS. or a tran- script of it has been preserved to the present day. Is it still extant 1 Is it referred to or

S noted by any other writer than George wen? D. LLEUFER THOMAS.

Swansea.

HAMMERSLEY'S BANK. I believe it is stated in Ward's ' History of the Borough of Stoke- upon-Trent ' that William Spode assumed the name of Hammersley. Your readers are pro- bably acquainted with the curious financial history of Hammersley's Bank, Pall Mall, as narrated in Daniel Hardcastle's ' Banks and Bankers,' 1842 how it was started by Thomas Hammersley, a clerk in the house of Herries & Co., who prevailed upon Messrs. Morland & Ramsbottom to set up a new bank with him, afterwards dissolving partnership, only