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married descendants of Cromwell are : the Earls of Darnley, Lytton, Lathom, Lord Stanley of Preston, Sir W. Harcourt, M.P., Sir A. Borthwick, M.P., Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M.P. The late Sir George Cornewall Lewis, the statesman and author, was a descendant of the Protector ; and Lady Theresa Lewis, his wife, author of a work in illus- tration of Lord Clarendon, was a descendant at once of Oliver the Protector and of Edward Hyde the Chancellor." v "

A. JR. BAYLEY.

^ Of Bridget, eldest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and afterwards Mrs. Ireton and Mrs. Fleetwood, there is a portrait by Sir Peter Lely in the collection of Mrs. B. M. Beadnell at Sundridge, Kent. There is another by Cornelius Janssen in the collec- tion of Mrs. Frankland-Russell-Astley at Chequers Court, Bucks. There is also a miniature by Lawrence Crosse in the royal collection at Windsor Castle.

Of Elizabeth, Oliver's second daughter, and afterwards Mrs. Claypole, there is a por- trait by Joseph Michael Wright in the National Portrait Gallery. There is a minia- ture by Samuel Cooper in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, and another by the same artist in the royal collection at Wind- sor Castle. There is also a miniature in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch.

Of Mary, Oliver's third daughter, and afterwards Lady Fauconberg, there is a portrait by Cornelius Janssen in the collec- tion of Mrs. Frankland-Russell-Astley and a miniature by Lawrence Crosse in the royal collection at Windsor Castle. There is also a miniature in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch at Montagu House, London.

Of Frances, Oliver's fourth daughter, after- wards Mrs. Rich and Lady Russell, there is a portrait in the collection of Mrs. Frankland- Russell-Astley at Chequers Court.

Excellent reproductions of all these may be seen in 'Oliver Cromwell,' by the late Dr. S. R. Gardiner, published by Messrs. Goupil & Co. in 1899 in their series of illus- trated historical biographies.

CHARLES R. DAWES.

" LINNEY " (9 th S. x. 228, 319). See under 'Linhay 'in Halli well's 'Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words ' and in the ' English Dialect Dictionary.' In 1768 Toplady used it as a Devonshire word, ' Works,' 1841, p. 14.

W. C. B.

PRONUNCIATION OP " NG " (9 th S. x. 266). I venture to add to the valuable article by PROP. SKEAT on this subject that not only "in some dialects the old pronunciation of singing as (singgingg) may still be heard," but that in certain districts, especially in and about Liverpool, this is the usual form. Moreover,

it has been noticed by me as habitual among persons far above the working class, who would certainly resent a hint as to deficiency in education.

I am unable to point to another district, and it does not extend to Manchester, though I suspect it occurs further north.

This peculiar. sound of ng is, moreover, not confined to dissyllables, as one might infer from PROF. SKEAT'S note, but is very distinct in all words ending in ng. Sing, ring, bring, long, strong, -young, hang, Ifec., are all sounded as singg, &c, while tongue is pro- nounced precisely as its spelling denotes (like French langue), i.e., tongg. One constantly hears "Ringg the bell," quite an awkward form for a Southerner.

On the other hand, here in the South we incline to clip ng into a simple sound, even in finger, which is always ving-er, like literary singer. Moreover, when the er is the com- parative inflexion^ the second g (invariably sounded in standard English) is dropped. Thus, longer, younger, stronger, &c., are all pronounced like singer, while the final g in words like shilling, willing, &c, is always dropped. It is in pronunciation such as that here dealt with that our dialects are most likely to retain their local peculiarities long after polite English will have been ground down to one dead level. F. T. ELWORTHY. Wellington, Somerset.

FYNES MORYSON'S 'ITINERARY' (9 th S. x. 247, 315). From the prospectus of MR. HUGHES'S edition of the Fourth Part of this

Itinerary ' it appears that it will consist of a reprint, with a few omissions, of the MS. in the library t)f Corpus Christi College, Oxford, mentioned by MR. E. H. COLEMAN. If it received the imprimatur of Thomas Wilson in 1626 it was apparently intended for publi- cation, and MR. HUGHES may perhaps be able to explain why this intention was not carried out.

I have referred to C. H. and THOMPSON COOPER'S paper in 2 nd S. xi. 321, but find that, while it contains many points of interest, it does not convey the information for which MR. HUGHES specially asked, viz., the date of Moryspn's death, the place of his burial, and the existence of his portrait.

W. F. PRIDE AUX.

LAMB ON THE Ass (9 th S. x. 307). The following extract from an article on ' The Sufferings inflicted on our Four - footed Friends,' which appeared in a New York newspaper in 1896, would appear to imply that this custom still prevailed in some places even as recently as that date :