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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xir. AUG. 29, 1903.

mistaken in speaking of Miss Charlotte Walpole as being " later Mrs. Atkyns, Duchess [?] of Ketteringham." There has never been such a title in the peerage as Duke or Duchess of Ketteringham.

Miss Charlotte Walpole was one of the three famous nieces of Horace Walpole, and grand- daughter of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards first Earl of Orford. Her father was the Hon. Sir Edward Walpole, and her mother Mary Clement. The three sisters were named Laura, Maria, and Char- lotte.

Laura married 13 September, 1758, the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Keppel, afterwards Bishop of Exeter, brother of the Earl of Albemarle, and had four children. Maria (who died 23 August, 1807) married 15 May, 1759, (1) James, second Earl Waldegrave (d. 1763), and among her descendants are the Duke of Grafton, the Marquis of Hert- ford, and the Earl Waldegrave. She married also, 6 September, 1766, (2) H.R.H. William, Duke of Gloucester, and by this marriage became the mother of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, and his sister Sophia, both of whom died without issue. Charlotte, the subject of this reply, married in 1760 Lionel, Lord Huntingtower, who afterwards suc- ceeded his father as fourth Earl of Dysart. She is said to have died 5 September, 1789, and had no children. RONALD DIXON.

46, Maryborough Avenue, Hull.

CHADWELL FAMILY (9 th S. v. 247). William Chad well lived and was buried in Broad well, near Stow-on-the Wold, besides many others of the family, and there are some fine tombs in the churchyard erected to their memory, dating from 1577.

L. M. LEIGH.

EDITIONS, r. 1600 (9 th S. xi. 509). The term is quite indefinite. A printer supplied 100 or so of the same book to different publishers, each with a different title-page ; and this was continued so long it leads one to fancy that some books were kept in "standing type." The alternative difficulty is that others were printed sheet by sheet, and the type distributed, so that signature c or i> might be worked with the same font as A or u

A. H.

"CYCLOPEDIA": "ENCYCLOPEDIA" (9 th S. xii. 27). How could MR. LYNN quote the Oxford English Dictionary ' as to this ugly word, without also mentioning that the 1 Dictionary ' prefers the nice-looking English word with an e instead of the archaic ee ? All diphthongs ought to be banished from the language. Many years ago, to the best of

my recollection, the Philological Society re- commended the English word "encyclopedia " instead of the Latin form. I would suggest that before any readers reply to this letter they read what the 'O.E.LV says, and also 9 th S. iii. 325 ; iv. 126. RALPH THOMAS.

PICTURES COMPOSED OF HANDWRITING (9 th S. v. 127, 255, 367 ; vi. 131, 215). To my pre- vious reply (9 th S. vi. 131) I may add the following :

" Menage mentions he saw whole sentences which were not perceptible to the eye without the micro- scope ; pictures and portraits which appeared at first to be lines and scratches thrown down at random ; one formed the face of the Dauphiness with the

most correct resemblance There is a drawing of

the head of Charles I. in the library of St. John's College at Oxford wholly composed of minute written characters which, at a small distance, re- semble the lines of an engraving. The lines of the head and the ruff are said to contain the book of Psalnis, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer. In the British Museum we find a drawing representing the portrait of Queen Anne, not much* above the size of the hand. On this drawing appear a number of lines and scratches, which the librarian assures the marvelling spectator includes the entire contents of a thin folio, which on this occasion is carried in the hand." D'Israeli, 'Curiosities of Literature,' ninth edit., revised (London, Edward Moxon, 1834), vol. ii. pp. 37, 38.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.

Mount Nachi, Kii, Japan.

^"1" PRINTED WITH SMALL LETTER (9 th S.

xi. 448 ; xii. 73). In connexion with this I take the opportunity of asking what is the origin or raison d'etre of the dot over the small " i." C. L. F.

RIMING EPITAPH (9 th S. xi. 487 : xii. 51, 92).

" Hogarth. The Election. PL 4. Chairing the Members. We should perhaps direct attention to the punning motto on the church-dial, ' We must ' the sentence being supposed to be completed by the name of the dial ' die all.' A story is told of a gentleman who, not perceiving the point, such as it is, of the motto ' We must,' in its peculiar appli- cation to a dial, transferred it to a clock fixed on the front of his house." Penny Magazine. 1835, iv. 146.

A variation of this story is told in Mrs. Gatty's ' Book of Sundials,' third edit., 1890, p. 378 :

" At Kedleston, in Derbyshire, it is We Must ; and on a house at Easton, near Stamford, there is )Yee thai/. An old story connected with this quaint conceit is that a certain pious cleric, who had seen the inscription * We Must ' on a sundial, and ascertained how the ' die-all ' to conclude the sentence was obtained, ordered the words 4 we must to be inscribed on the clock face of his church ! It is a very old witticism. Silvanus Morgan finishes his work ' Horologiographia Optica,' published in 16o2, with these words : ' So that as I began with