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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. i. JAN. i,

appears piecemeal in successive years. This may necessitate reference to any one of a series of some fifty-four volumes besides the current one. R. B.

Upton.

The DUKE DE Mono will probably find fullest details of the genealogies of the old French noblesse in Anselme's ' Histoire Genea- logique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, des Anciens Barons,' &c. This work is brought down to recent years by M. Potier de Courcy. J. F. MOERIS FAWCETT.

ST. SYTH (8 th S. xii. 483). Your correspon- dent MR. HALL, in referring to St. Osyth, the virgin wife of King Sighere, and quoting from Butler's * Lives of the Saints,' ascribes the period of her martyrdom to "circa A.D. 870." Now, this date is certainly erroneous, for St. Osyth was the daughter of Raedwald, King of East Anglia, with whom Eadwine, King of Northumbria, took refuge in 617. I mention these facts to prove that her death took place much earlier than the year men- tioned by Alban Butler. The generally accepted date of her execution by the Danes is A.D. 635. T. SEYMOUR.

9, Newton Road, Oxford.

" COUNTERFEITS AND TRINKETS " (8 th S. xii. 467). Halliwell, in his ' Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,' explains that imitation crockery was known as counterfeits," and a " trinket " was another name for a porringer, a vessel used for porridge. For the word " trinket " quoted for saucers, see ' N. & Q.,' 7 th S. vi. 27, 158, 372.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

I cannot explain " counterfeits," but " trin- kets " was formerly a common word for tea- cups and mugs. It was used by Defoe in this sense in his 'Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal.' See ' N. & Q.,' 6 th S. x. 521.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

NAPOLEON'S ATTEMPTED INVASION OF ENG- LAND IN 1805 (8 th S. xii. 481). DR. SYKES, after a long quotation from Warden's con- versations with Buonaparte, writes : " The authority of this interesting narrative, the truth of which is beyond suspicion, is another proof that the invasion of England in 1805 was a real intention and not a feint." The truth of this narrative is not beyond sus- picion. As DR. SYKES appears to have come across this book for the first time, allow me to refer him to an article written by John Wilson Croker in the October number of the Quarterly Review for 1816, when he will learn the true character of Warden and his book

On p. 210 he will find : " These precious etters from St. Helena were concocted and VEr. Warden, or the person employed by him margin opposite the italicized sentence my grandfather has written "Dr. Combe "; which hows what contemporaries thought and said HI this subject. H. S. V.-W.
 * o forge the correspondence, <fec. On the

STEVENS (8 th S. xii. 469). I think I may say, without fear of contradiction, that no )ortrait of R. J. S. Stevens was ever engraved. ! have been looking diligently for one during more than thirty years ; and had there been me in existence I believe I should have seen t. The British Museum has it not, nor have ! it, nor has the Charterhouse, where he was organist, and where they would be very glad lis successors at the Charterhouse, put this question to me twenty years ago ; and I had
 * o have it. The late Mr. John Hullah, one of
 * o give him the same answer then that I must

now give to your correspondent A. F. H.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

The Athenaeum of 2 Nov., 1895, announced bhat the name of Richard John Samuel Stevens, musician, born 1757, died 1827, would be included in a forthcoming volume of the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' That just published terminates with the name Stanger. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

THE ETYMOLOGY OF IRISH "TONN" (8 th S. xii. 429). Whatever may be the derivation of this word, it must be the same as the Welsh word ton, a wave. I find that Dr. W. Owen Pughe, the Welsh lexicographer, gives this as derived from the Greek. The Welsh word ton is pronounced exactly as ton in place- names such as Southampton. The word ton, pronounced as the English tone, is also used in Welsh, and is equivalent in meaning, as well as in pronunciation, with the English tone. D. M. R.

JULES CHARLES HENRY PETIT (8 th S. xii. 489). Has not MR. SCATTERGOOD made a mis- take in alluding to a 'Book of Crests'? I have a MS. Book of Mottoes, of some five hundred pages, entitled " A Dictionary of the Mottoes used by the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland as well as those used by most of the best of Continental Families, the whole collected and arranged into order by Jules Charles Henry Petit." It forms the most complete collection of family mottoes that I know of ; and I may say that I am daily adding to it, for I never miss an opportunity of making a record of a motto that I find in use. The late Mr. Petit was