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showing that the wife of Walter FitzOther (not Otho) was called Beatrice, and that the Welsh marriage with the daughter of Rhiwallon rests on no historical basis.

As DR. DRAKE has corrected one or two mistakes made by the newspapers in con- nexion with the late Jane, Lady Carew (not Lady Jane Carew, as written by a slip of the pen), I may perhaps be permitted to nail another to the counter. Lady Carew was the daughter of Major Anthony Cliffe, of Abbey Braney, co. Wexford, and in the Spectator of 26 January, 1901, a correspon- dent, in the course of a discussion on ' Links with the Past,' wrote that he had fought with the rank of major at the battle of Dettingen in 1743. As Major Cliffe, accord- ing to Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' was born in 1734, he would only have been nine years of age in 1743, and although we know that commissions in the army were often given to children in those days, it seemed unlikely that a boy of such tender years should have held field rank on active service. The connexion of both myself and my wife with the family into which one of Lady Carew's daughters had married induced me to make some inquiries on the subject, and the result was that I ascertained that the battle in which Major Cliffe was engaged was not Dettingen, but Minden. As Minden was fought in 1759 he would then have been about twenty-five years of age, and although it is doubtful if he held field rank on the occasion, as Burke says he was made captain in the 4th Horse on 1 October, 1766, I have the authority of his granddaughter for stating that he was actually present at the battle. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

1, West Cliff Terrace, Ramssjate.

If your correspondent had sought infor- mation from the man who was mending the road instead of from "Welsh gentlemen," he would have found that the peasantry still call the place Carey, as their fathers have done from the beginning. H. V.

Though this name may be pronounced in the west of England, the original home of the family, as Carey, I do not think that it is universally so. We should scarcely recognize Sir Nicholas Carew, beheaded by Henry VIII. in 1539, as Carey, since Lodge tells us, in the memoir of him in his 'Por- traits,' that he sprang from the "ancient baronial House of (Jarru, or Carew, in Devonshire." Nor should we, detect the celebrated Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the gipsies, under the name Carey. There is much controversy as to whether

the great poet's name should be pronounced Cowper or Cooper, though I never heard any question as to that of Earl Cowley. The English language abounds with anomalies. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. New bourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

A. HEPPLEWHITE, DESIGNER OF FURNITURE (9 th 8. x. 128). A facsimile of a page of Hep- plewhite's ' Cabinet Maker's Guide,' published in 1787, will be found upon p. 193 (curiously this particular illustration is not indexed in the volume) of Litchfield's ' Illustrated His tory of Furniture ' (1892). The author, after referring to Chippendale, says :

" Other well-known designers and manufacturers of this time were 'Hepplewhite, who published a book of designs very similar to those of his contem- poraries, and Matthias Lock A copy of Hepple-

white's book, in the author's possession (published in 1789), contains 300 designs 'of every article of household furniture of the newest and most approved designs,' and it is worth while to quote from his preface to illustrate the high esteem in which English cabinet work was held at this time."

Here follows the <juotation.

" A selection of designs from his book are given, and it will be useful to compare them with those of other contemporary makers. From such a com- parison it will be seen that in the progress from the rococo of Chippendale to the more severe lines of Sheraton, Hepplewhite forms a connecting link between the two."

Some illustrations of his work and much interesting matter about the maker follow.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

" LUPO-MANNARO " (9 th S. ix. 329, 476; x. 34). The belief, says Thomas Wright in his edition of Giraldus Cambrensis (1863, p. 79), in men who could transform themselves into wolves was a very prevalent superstition, not only in the Middle Ages, but in much more recent times, and formed part of the witchcraft superstitions from which plenty of stories like that told by Giraldus "of a wolf which conversed with a priest" could be collected. In England, where wolves have long disappeared, the witches of late times turned themselves into hares. (See also Scott's ' Demonology,' 1831, p. 279.) The following is, I think, a hitherto unnoticed account of Dutch and German were-wolves of comparatively late date. It is from the Weekly Journal of 1 February, 1718:

" Letters from Over-Yssel in the United Provinces say that many hundreds of the Peasants there have made a strick Search in the Woods and Mountains in quest of more Creatures of the Kind of the young wild Woman which they lately took near the Lord- ship of Cranenbourg ; but finding none, the more Judicious take her to be the Issue of some deceased Were -Wolves, which are certain Sorcerers, W|IQ