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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. x. JULY 12, 1902.

known that the late President was commonly called Felisque Faure by the Parisian popu- lace when they did not say Felisque tout court. My personal experience is that, living in France and having a dog named Fox, I used to hear the servants call him Fosque, while one or two specially idle ones would say Foss. X has, of course, disappeared from Italian altogether. M. HAULTMONT.

As Aix is a phonal abbreviation of the plural of Aqua (probably late Latin Aques), the pronunciation should be aiks. From this point of view ai and aiss are alike incorrect. G. W. JACKSON.

14, Church Hill, Walbhamstow.

" LUPO-MANNARO " (9 th S. ix. 329, 476). My brother, the late Mr. Clement Southam, F.S.A., contributed an article on werewolves to All the Year Hound, October, 1883. If MR. CLARE JERROLD has not seen this, there are references which may be of interest to him. HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Shrewsbury.

DISAPPEARING CHARTISTS (9 th S. ix. 144, 251, 391, 496). The latest contribution of MR. HOLYOAKE hardly justifies the virile octogenarian's dictum therein, that " the correction of error is the establishment of truth." MR. HOLYOAKE confounds the name of MR. W. E. ADAMS, Newcastle-on-Tyne, with that of MR. F. ADAMS, London, and attributes to the latter, instead of to the former, the note on ' Disappearing Chartists,' in which some trifling errata in communica- tions of MR. HOLYOAKE and MR. CECIL CLARKE are pointed out. The spheres of activity of MR. HOLYOAKE and MR. F. ADAMS are so ' widely apart that a certain degree of ignor- ance of each other's work is pardonable. The veteran " agitator " I use trie term in no invidious sense should not, however, have permitted himself to assert that "MR. W. E.

ADAMS has spent his life in reading for

'literals.'" MR. F. ADAMS unquestionably the gentleman MR. HOLYOAKE had in his mind when he wrote last to ' N. & Q.' is, without disparagement to any of his col- leagues, the most accomplished member of the reading staff of Messrs. Sppttiswoode & Co., and his erudition and lucidity of style a somewhat rare combination have been ex- hibited, to the delight and instruction of the readers of 'N. & Q.,' for a number of yean past. JOHN GRIGOR.

" LE FIZGERT " (9 th S. ix. 487). The mean ing of this is " the son of Gert." Fiz, more familiar to us as Fitz, was the regular Anglo- Norman form of fils. So David is "le fiz

Tesse " (Garnier's ' Vie de Saint Thomas,' 1. 96), Tesus " le fiz Deu " (' L'Evangile de Nicodeme,' p. 79, 1. 187, Soc. des Anc. Textes Franc,.), and Harold " le fiz God wine " (Wright's Feudal Manuals,' p. 80).

But is not " Gert " an error for " Gent " ? ' Cresse filius Gente" is mentioned frequently Between the dates 1244 and 1282 in the ifteenth volume, recently published, of the Selden Society's publications. * In the earliest of these instances (p. 9) he appears as " Deu- ecresse filius Gente," and at p. 38 the name " Cresse " is explained in a foot-note as fol- ows : " More properly Deulecresse (i.e., Deus eum crescat,' a barbarous Latinization of the Hebrew in^nj)." F. ADAMS.

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EVOLUTION OF A NOSE (9 th S. ix. 445). SIR D. OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR is mistaken in supposing the Somerset nose came from the Leveson-Gowers. It came by the mar- riage in 1766 of Elizabeth Boscawen, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, with Henry, fifth Duke of Beaufort. Admiral Boscawen had it in a very marked degree, and it has continued in all his descendants, Boscawens and Somersets, in none more markedly than in his grandson F.M. Lord Raglan. The Leveson-Gowers at that time had no particular nose. INVESTIGATOR.

" DAGGERING": " DOGGERING" (9 th S. ix. 507).

If COL. HOZIER will refer to the ' N.E.D.' at the article dogger 1, he will find that his word is a correct reproduction of the West- Country pronunciation of daggering, or pri- vateering. Q. V.

CORONATION DRESS OF THE BISHOPS (9 th S. ix. 506). MR. CHARLES HIATT says, " The

rochet is in the case of the bishops to

give way to splendid copes." This would, indeed, be a new departure, for the cope is worn over surplice, or alb, or rochet, not without one or other of these vestments.

GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

SWORN CLERKS IN CHANCERY BEFORE 1765 (9 th S. ix. 408, 512). The lists to which DR. MACRAY refers do not contain the names of the sworn clerks (otherwise known as the sixty clerks). J. B. W.

SHERIFFS OF STAFFORDSHIRE (9 th S. ix. 342, 415, 514). In 1898 the Stationery Office pub- lished a "List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the earliest times to A.D. 1831,

the Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews,' edited by J. M. Rigg, 1901.
 * ' Select Pleas, Starrs, and other Records from