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well known at the British Museum as a mos conscientious worker. I feel certain that ME SCATTERGOOD has made an improper use o inverted commas in both the instances tha appear in his communication.

LEO CULLETON.

I beg to suggest that the author of the book of crests inquired for by MR. SCATTERGOOE may be Louis Michel Petit, and not Jule Charles Henry Petit. L. M. Petit was a French engraver. Pauley wrote ' Notice su L. M. Petit,' which was published in Paris in 1858. There is a copy of the work cited in the British Museum, No. 9365 bb., and in i there would be some mention of the book i M. L. M. Petit wrote and illustrated it.

J. POTTER BRISCOE.

Public Library, Nottingham.

" (8 th S. xii. 447). The word would pear to be also in use in Ireland. The coachman here (a co. Wicklow man) observec quite lately, a propos of the stable-yard, tha it was " sniving with rats."

KATHLEEN WARD. Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

This word is well known in South Notts and occurs in Mr. Prior's * Hippie and Flood -"the river snies with fish" (I quote from memory). Mr. Prior's book, by the way, is not only a capital story, but a treasury of Nottinghamshire dialect. C. C. B.

This word was dealt with in 'N. & O. 7 th S. vi. 249, 371. W. C. B?

PRINCES OF CORNWALL (8 th S. xii. 328, 417). That Henuinus, or Hen wing, descended from Corineus I myself supposed ; it is gratifying to find that I am not singular in this. Uori- neus left descendants according to the legend. Henuinus may have been one ; but, alas i where are the connecting links 1 The chain of descent, even if broken at some points, would be interesting, for it is the male line (although not originally the royal one that came through Ehegaw, King Lyr's daughter, from Brutus) of the kings of Britain.

CURIOSO.

SUPERSTITION (8 th S. xii. 88, 158, 212). "As the wind blows on Martinmas Eve so it will prevail throughout the winter." This whim is one of a legion in folk-lore all analogous in nature. None of them, however, can stand its ground in the view of any one who con- siders how the adoption of the New Style made all fixed feasts movable or pushed them ten days ahead. If the day we now call Martinmas has thaumaturgic power over wind, it either had no such dynamic force

before 1752, or an Act of Parliament changed air currents no less than the writing of dates. The Martinmas superstition no doubt ante- dates the New Style, and so believers in it should judge of the winds that are to come by watching those that blow on the day which would now have been Martinmas had the Old Style never been disturbed.

JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wis., U.S.

COLD HARBOUR (8 th S. xii. 482). Has it ever been suggested in ' N. & Q.' that a possible derivation is caldarium, the chamber in which in Koman bathing establishments the hot bath was placed 1 If it is the case that most of the Cold Harbours are situated on old Roman roads, it is by no means unlikely that they were originally rest houses by the way, where the fatigued traveller could get his warm bath. If this derivation be correct it is a remarkable instance of the manner in which names, by the mere force of sound, are changed in meaning. H. S. BOYS.

PETER THELLUSSON (8 th S. xii. 183, 253, 489). MR. THOMAS'S sources of information enable us to correct not only Haydn's 'Dates,' but also the Times leader of 5 July, 1859, the writer of which was under the impression that " the Court of Chancery has so clipped and pollarded his oak, that it is not much larger than when he left it." But the case was not settled so early as 1805, as MR. THOMAS seems to imply, for the final decision of the House of Lords was not given until July, 1859. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M,A. Hastings.

CANNING AND THE 'ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITAN- NIC A' (8 th S. xii. 486). I ask permission to remark that MR. W. T. LYNN'S statement that bhe great George Canning's family "on the father's side had been English for centuries " is really misleading, because your corre- spondent has forgotten the fact that the ancestors of the man of genius who was

bred a statesman and born a wit " were settled at Garvagh, co. Londonderry, from
 * he time of Elizabeth. Baron Garvagh is the

lead of the race, and the lineal descendant of the George Canning who received the

rant of the manor of Garvagh from the

& reat queen. I may add that the father of


 * he future Prime Minister of England was the

Greorge Canning, an Irishman and author of

orne poems, who, having been disinherited

Dy his father, Col. Stratford Canning, for

marrying, in 1768, Miss Costello, a beautiful

rish actress, left his Irish home and settled

n London on an income of 1501. (from the