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cannot be a lince on a hillside, or a sheading, as MR. FARRER suggests ; but his other sugges- tion, that it may be an assart, is possible, and would suit the passages quoted by Du Cange. If any of your readers who know Hinksey woula tell us where the lacu is or was, it might help to determine the meaning of a scalinga. ISAAC TAYLOR.

"HEAR, HEAR!" (4 th S. ix. 200, 229, 285; 6 th S. xii. 346 ; 8 th S. iv. 447 ; v. 34 ; xi. 31, 95.) In 'N. & Q.,' 4 th S. xi. 522, is given, in connexion with a very different subject, an extract from the epilogue to Lady Craven's comedy 'The Miniature Picture' produced at Drury Lane in 1780, in which the audience are told that the fair sex Can (juit the card-tables to steer the state, Or bid our Belle Assemblee's rhetoric flow To drown our dull declaimers at Soho. Methinks, even now. I hear my sex's tongues, The shrill, sharp melody of female lungs : The storm of question, the division calm, With "Hear her!" "Hear her!" "Mrs. Speaker,"

"Ma'am,"

" Oh," "Order, order," Kates and Susans rise, And Margaret moves, and Tabitha replies.

" Hear her ! " is a variant of " Hear him ! " or "Hear, hear !" which deserves to be pre- served. POLITICIAN.

OCNERIA DISPAR (9 th S. i. 127). The British name is "The Gipsy." See the description and engraving in Furneaux's * Butterflies and Moths (British),' 1894, p. 227. F. ADAMS.

This moth is known as the Gipsy moth in English. It is, of course, called Ocneria (or Hypogymna) dispar in England as elsewhere. JAMES DALLAS.

" WINGED SKYE " (9 th S. i. 6, 75, 150). When editing the poetry of Scott I ventured to think that the line in ' The Lord of the Isles,' "This for the coast of Winged Skye," was a misprint for " This winged for the coast of Skye, and I further ventured to say so ; but I did not alter the text. The metaphor of " wings" for "sails," I need not point out, has long been known to poetry. A particularly fine instance of its use occurs in ' The Mer- chant of Venice,' where the "petty traffickers " of the sea are described as " flying past on their woven wings." The metaphor, indeed, is as obvious as it is beautiful. I am now, however, convinced by the interesting refer- ences of MR. BUCHANAN that the line as printed is the line as Scott wrote it. He is to be congratulated on clearing up a point that has been the subject of some doubt and dis- cussion. Whether the word " Skye " etymo- logically signifies "the isle of mist" or "the isle with wings," this at least may be con-

sidered as certain, that Scott knew it as " the winged isle." I beg to thank MR. BUCHANAN for nis note, and also to thank A SCOT for raising the question.

J. LOGIE KOBERTSON.

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE (9 th S. i. 168). A corroborative proof that this oath (as pre- scribed by 18 Geo. III. c. 60) was taken, at least to some considerable extent, in London as well as in Lancashire is afforded by a letter from Bishop Challoner (V.A. of the London district) to Bishop Hornyold (quoted by Butler, * Histor. Mem. of English Catholics,' ii. 85). " A great many of our clergy, both secular and regular," writes the venerable prelate, "have taken the oath in the courts at Westminster."

OSWALD HUNTER BLAIR, O.S.B. Fort Augustus, N.B.

If your correspondent will turn to 'N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. i. 374; xi. 170, 300; xii. 338, he will find references to ' A Treatise on Oaths ' and ' The Book of Oaths and the several Forms thereof,' with much valuable information on the subject. There are also nine works in the Guildhall Library, published between 1639 and 1829, on this matter.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

CHESTER APPRENTICES (8 th S. xii. 509). If MR. FRANCIS BADCLIFFE will communicate with me direct, giving me the names of the Chester freemen he is interested in, I will consult my MS. list of them, and give him any information in my power.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A.

78, Church Street, Lancaster.

THE MANX NAME KERRUISH (9 th S. i. 87, 173). The rhyme quoted on p. 173 does not apply to all the island, but only to the parish of Maughold. See Moore's ' Surnames and Place-names of the Isle of Man,' p. 94. Kerruish is by no means " one of the three most common names in the Isle of Man " ; in fact, Mr. Moore says of it that it " is almost confined to the parish of Maughold."

ERNEST B. SAVAGE.

St. Thomas, Douglas.

MOTTO OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (9 th S. i. 29, 105). The printer's device here described is very much older than 1680. It was used, in a larger and a smaller size, by John Legat, printer to the University of Cambridge, at least as early as 1605. The chalice, receiving rain-drops from a cloud, is in the Mater's left hand, the sun in her right. Hayes reversed this. In the larger size the back- ground shows a river, with a sail-boat upon