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-hat pattens received their name from "beau- iful clue-eyed Patty, who first wore them," 1 mbtless had in mind Charles Dibdin's song titled ' The Origin of the Patten.' Patty bme hoarse as a consequence of getting shoes wet. Her lover longed to hear her again, and he tells My anvil glow'd, my hammer rang, Till I had form'd from out the fire, To bear her feet above the mire, An engine for my blue-ey'd Patty. Again was heard each tuneful close, My fair one in the patten rose, Which takes its name from blue-ey'd Patty.

F. JARRATT.

MR. PEACOCK writes as if he believed that the derivation oipattens from Patty originated with the sporting writer of 1812. I hasten, therefore, to inform him that the honour- belongs to Gay, who concludes the first book of his ' Trivia ' with a neat little story of the invention (line 223 to end). It will suffice here to quote the final couplet : The patten now supports each frugal dame, Which from the blue-ey'd Patty takes the name.

My mother wore pattens up to beyond the middle of the century, and never could be induced to wear clogs or goloshes, which superseded them, and have themselves "now become nearly, if not quite, extinct in London.

May I ask if the " clogs " (as they are called) worn by factory hands I intend no joke in the cotton city are not somewhat like the old London pattens 1 My impression is that these " clogs " have an iron rim fixed in and running round the sole ; and I shall never forget the clatter that dinned my ears when I passed on foot through Manchester, twenty years ago, at the very hour when the factory girls were leaving oft work. F. ADAMS.

106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

[Very many replies are acknowledged.]

GOUDHURST, IN KENT (9 th S. i. 87, 154). I

am grateful to the two correspondents who have answered my question about the deri- vation of this name ; but as their replies do not agree, I venture to ask for a pronounce- ment from Prof. Skeat, Canon Taylor, or some other learned etymologist who will be so good as to enlighten me.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

U HOAST":/'WHOOST" (9 th S. i. 247). As pronounced in Craven, this word may be best signified by the letters hooze. Carr's ' Craven Glossary ' gives it as the equivalent of " the Isl. hoese," " a difficulty of breathing in cattle." Compare wheeze, A.-S. hiveosan. Grose, * Prov. Diet./ has " hoased= hoarse, West." I see the

Dictionariolum Islandicum' (1688) gives hooste a,s = tussis t "S. hporta, Anglis Septen- trional, hauste" W. H N B Y.

I cannot say that I have ever heard the second form in use ; but in this neighbour- hood oats are frequently called whoats, and whot is in some parts used for hot. May not luhoost be merely a similar mispronunciation 1 In Nottinghamshire a peculiar wheezing cough to which cattle are liable is called hooze. C. C. B.

Ep worth.

This is host in Mid-Derbyshire. The cough of cattle and sheep on still nights can be heard a long way, and in the case of the latter has a most distressful sound. " Hark how them sheyp host ! They '11 heck ther hearts out wi' nostin'." THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

DEDICATION OF ANCIENT CHURCHES (9 th S. i. 208). The Catholic rule as to the patronal festival of churches dedicated simply to St. Mary is clearly laid down in the following decree of the Congregation of Kites, dated 10 March, 1787 : "The Feast of the Assumption (15 Aug.) is to be considered the titular feast of churches dedicated to the B.V.M. without the addition of any particular mystery." The Assumption is not, of course, one of the five (not seven, as MR. WATSON implies) feasts of the B.V.M. commemorated in the calendar of the Anglican Prayer-Book ; but it has the same authority and origin as the others, having been imported with them from the East not later than the seventh century. (See Duchesne, ' Origines du Culte Chretien,' and 'Liber Pontificalis'; and Mr. Frere's intro- duction to the Sarurn Gradual, p. xxiii, note.) The titular festival of churches dedicated to St. Saviour is celebrated on the Feast of the Transfiguration, 6 Aug. (Decree of Congrega- tion of Kites, 29 Nov.. 1755, and 23 May, 1835). That of churches dedicated to the Holy Trinity is, naturally, Trinity Sunday.

OSWALD HUNTER BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus, N.B.

A church may be dedicated in honour of the B.V.M. simply as St. Mary, or in special commemoration of some mystery or event connected with her. Thus we might have the Church of the Annunciation ; the feast of the title would then be 25 March. Or St. Mary of the Snow (Sancta Maria ad Nives), 5 Aug. Or St. Mary of the Assumption, 15 Aug. So with St. Peter. A church may be called St. Peter, or St. Peter and St. Paul, or St. Peter of the Chains (Ad Vin- cula), 1 Aug., as is, I think, the case with St.