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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. MAR. 26, '98.

altar. "A soul in pain" I should render "soul in purgatory." "In France special services are held for the dead on 2 November." Certainly, as in all Catholic countries. " The festival of the dead," a commemoration, not a festival. "Dominical rest," better "Sunday rest." "Seated at his table": "kneeling" would be more accurate, referring, as the passage does, to the Easter communion. f ' Litanies of Holy Virgin": Litany, in the singular, commonly called "of Loreto." "First confirmation class," obviously "first com- munion class": this mistake two or three times repeated. "Grand vicar" should be "vicar-general"; "Dominical Mass" should be "Sunday Mass"; "special decision "" de- cree " would be better.

When English men (or women) translate French Catholic books they should submit such translations to some educated English Catholics, who might revise and correct their renderings of ecclesiastical phrases.

GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

I assumed that Matthew Arnold had before him, when he wrote "a garland for the communion table," at Christmas in Languedoc, the words for the communion rails, " table de communion." But that was to excuse him too easily, because, for once in his life, he became an English, if not an Anglican, "adapter." Eugenie de Guerin ('Journal,' 29 December, 1834) wrote, in her open-hearted Catholic way: "Le givre fait de belles fleurs. Nous en vimes un brin si joli que nous en voulions faire un bouquet au saint Sacrement"

W. F. P. STOCKLEY.

Fredericton, Canada.

"TRUNCHED" (9 th S. i. 28). In Wright's 'Provincial Dictionary' there is the word "Trunch, ad j. = short and thick," belonging to the Eastern Counties dialect. I have no doubt this is the word PROF. BUTLER inquires about. Trunched in the excerpt he quotes would seem to = thick-set. C. P. HALE.

Probably identical with the East Anglian trunch, explained by Halliwell as meaning " short and thick." F. ADAMS.

Halliwell, in his 'Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,' has " Trunch, short and thick. East." H. ANDREWS.

In Nail's ' East Anglian Glossary,' 1866, I find " Trunch-made, short and thick, squab. Dan. trunte, a stub, log. Fr. tranche" And in Rye's 'Glossary of Words used in East Anglia' (English Dialect Society, 1895)

trunch and trunch-made are similarly ex- plained. Our American friends would often find in East Anglian glossaries odd, early words which occur in their records.

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

HERALDIC (9 th S. i. 67). The arms inquired about are evidently those of Schwaiger von Wiesenfeld : Azure, a griffin segreant holding in the claws three stalks of wheat, all or. Crest, a demi - griffin as in the arms. Wiesenfeld is a settlement near Munich, and was founded by Dominicus Schwaiger, who was raised to the nobility by Kurfiirst Karl Theodor in 1790. LEO CULLETON.

LADY SMYTH (9 th S. i. 187). Lady Smyth, daughter of a Mr. Blake, of Hanover Square, London, was married in 1770 to Sir Robert Smyth, Bart., who became a banker in Paris, and renounced his title at the famous British dinner held there on 18 Nov., 1792, when Thomas Paine and Lord Edward Fitzgerald were present. Lady Smyth, while in Paris, corresponded with Paine, who spells her name Smith, a proof that it was then so pro- nounced. She died 4 Feb., 1823.

J. G. ALGER.

Paris.

The entry in Evans's 'Catalogue,' vol. i., refers to the print in the query :

"Smyth, Charlotte Delaval, wife of Sir Robert S., with her children, 1789, fol., 3s. ; coloured, 5s. Bartolozzi."

ED. MARSHALL.

Bromley mentions this lady's portrait and name (p. 427), Charlotte de Laval, wife of Sir Robert Smyth. I hope this indication may help F. C. K. in his researches after her identity. JULIAN MARSHALL.

TYRAWLEY= WEWITZER (9 th S. i. 168). In a ' Brief Dramatic Chronology of Actors,' com- piled by Ralph Wewitzer, published 1817, is the following: "1772. Miss Wewitzer (now Lady Tyrawley), F. A., C. G. as Daphne, ' Daphne and Amyntor ' (Nov. 4)." * Daphne and Amintor,' by Bickerstaffe, was first pro- duced at Drury Lane, October, 1765, but it is probable that the piece was put up at Covent Garden for a benefit, which may account for the date in the 'Chronology.' Wewitzer may be credited with accuracy as to his sister's first actual appearance, al- though, as your correspondent represents, she does not figure in the bills as a regular per- former till 14 Nov., 1776, and her name is not given before the ninth representation of the 1 Seraglio ' on 18 Dec. Genest's list makes no