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 9 th S. I. JUNE 18, '98.]

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field. It was preceded by music, and was afterwards hoisted up outside the ancient Guildhall, and remained in situ there during the time the fair (long since extinct) was supposed to be in progress. The interesting custom died out with good old Joe's death, some half a dozen years ago.

HARRY HEMS. Mafeking, Bechuanaland.

" DEWSIERS " (9 th S. i. 387). Halliwell in his ' Dictionary of Provincial Words,' and Wright in his ' Dictionary of Obsolete English,' both give the meaning as " valves of a pig's heart " as used in Westmoreland.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

A lady friend, well up in the domestic economy of a farmhouse, once called my attention to the valves of a pig's heart, which she carefully cut off and had put out of the way of cat and dog, because they were said to be poisonous. In Oxfordshire they are called " deaf ears." J. ASTLEY.

"NYND" (9 th S. i. 385). This word is in common use in South Notts in two slightly different senses, neither of which is precisely the same as any of those noted by MR. RATCLIFFE in the north of the county. " Are you going to Goose Fair?" "I nynd am." One of Mr. Bret Harte's Americans would express the same meaning by the words " You bet ! " Or we hear the word, even more frequently, in such sentences as "You'll nynd be happy when you get what you want." Here the meaning is " surely." The word is almost always used with a sarcastic intention.

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" TIGER"-- A BOY GROOM (9 th S. i. 326). " Jackal " would seem a more suitable name for creatures of Alexander Lee's species. I have not a heraldic dictionary, but venture a wild guess that the Barrymore arms may have suggested a tiger's stripes. What was the Barrymore livery 1 Q. V.

THE MAUTHE DOOG (8 th S. ix. 125 ; 9 th S. i. 96, 194). May not the second half of this name be the Manx " Dooyh, ill, bad, dire," as recorded in 'A Dictionary of the Manx Language,' by Archibald Cregeen (Douglas, 1835)? Your correspondents whose replies have been published already seem to prefer to associate it with doo= black, dark; Erse doov. The moral sense of the two adjectives is practically the same. Has moddey, the other half, any connexion with French madre = sly? Littre's etymology for this word seems farfetched. PALAMEDES.

NATHAN TODD (9 th S. i. 428). There is, or was, an inscription at Tuddenham in memory of the wife of the Rev. Nathaniel _ Todd, who died 19 July, 1820, and of two of their children.

W. C. B.

ANCHORITES : Low SIDE WINDOWS (9 th S. i. 186, 392). I am much obliged by the answers to my query, especially to MR. EDW. ALEX. FRY for his kind offer to lend me a volume of the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club. But my object was to bring into notice the suggestion of C. Kingsley, and to ascertain whether there was any illustration of it to be met with in the church of Kingston Tarrant, as this use by the anchorites is one which is not commonly thought of.

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

THEROIGNE DE MERICOURT AND MARAT (9 th S. i. 206). With regard to Theroigne de Mericourt, who was known as "La Belle Liegoise," and as the impure Joan of Arc of the public streets, noted for her fanaticism and popular eloquence, it may be said that she hastened to join every insurrection. Dressed in a riding habit of the colour of blood, a sword by her side, and two pistols in her belt, she was the first who broke open the gates of the Invalides. She was one of the first to attack the Bastille ; and as a reward a sabre d'homme was voted her on the breach by the victors. She, on horseback, led the women of Paris to Ver- sailles. She brought back the King to Paris. In proportion as the Revolution became more bloody, she plunged deeper and deeper into it. But the end of the beautiful creature was awful in the extreme. When she sought to stay the progress of the Revolution, the women called the " Furies of the Guillotine " resented her conduct, stripped her of her attire, and pub- licly flogged her on the terrace of the Tuileries on 31 May, 1793. This punishment, more terrible than death, turned her brain, and she was placed in a mad-house, where she lived twenty years. Alphonse de Lamartine, in his * History of the Girondists' (London, Bohn, 1849, 3 vols.), says :

" Shameless and bloodthirsty in her delirium, she refused to wear any garments, as a souvenir of the outrage she had undergone. She dragged herself, only covered by her long white hair, along the flags of her cell, or clung with her wasted hands to the bars of the window, from whence she addressed an imaginary people, and demanded the blood of Suleau." Vide vol. i. p. 492.

HENRY GERALD HOPE.

Clapham, S.W.

REMEMBRANCE OF PAST JOY IN TIME OF SORROW (9 th S. i. 123, 251, 414). "We will