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on the wolds, in the East Riding. In 1451 a Dean of York gives a legacy to a boy named Robert Sixindale (vol. xlv. p. 116). The old forms in English are all set out in vol. xlix. p. 529 : Sixtedale, Sixtendale, Xistendale, Sexendale, Sixendale, and are all identified with the Thixendale of the modern Ordnance Survey. W. C. B.

" WICKEY-UP." This North American term for a hut of boughs (as opposed to a tent of skins) is given in the ' Century Dictionary ' without etymology. I have ascertained that it is from the language of the Sac or Saki Indians, a western branch of the Algonquins. I have taken some pains to get at the exact origin of this word, because I think it bids fair to become a permanent and popular addition to our vocabulary. I have met with it lately in no fewer than three magazines viz., the English Illustrated (vol. xxv. p. 30), the Pall Mall (vol. xxyiii. p. 27), and last, but not least, in an amusing story by Rudyard Kipling in the Windsor for December (vol. xvii. p. 12), where one of the characters says, "See those spars up-ended over there? I mean that wickey-up thing ] " I recommend this for inclusion in the * N.E.D.'

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

ARCHBISHOP KING'S PRISON DIARY, 1689. This MS. by the well - known writer Wm. King, D.D., successively Dean of St. Patrick's, Bishop of Derry, and Archbishop of Dublin, written during his imprisonment in Dublin Castle, is now being published by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. The Rev. H. J. Lawlor, D.D., of Trin. Coll., Dublin, to whom the public are indebted for " Some Worthies of the Irish Church, by the late Geo. T. Stokes, D.D.," 1899, and other works, has added a very interesting preface, as well as valuable notes. That Dr. King's correspondent, with whom he appears to have succeeded in keeping up communica- tions, was George Toilet there can be little doubt, though the editor makes no reference to him.

After Archbishop King's death in 1729, his papers passed to his nephew and executor, Archdeacon Dougatt (the Scottish "Duguid "), who died about a year after his uncle, when they came into the possession of the arch- deacon's nephews and heirs, the Rev. Robert Spence, rector of Donaghmore, and the Rev. Robert Bryan, from whose descendants the King collections of MSS. in Trin. Coll., Dublin, and those noticed in the Hist. MSS. Commission's Reports have been derived.

Dr. Lawlor, in his preface, states that the owner of the Diary, Capt. J. A. Gordon King,

Scots Guards, of Tertowie, Aberdeenshire, a property purchased by his father, the late Lieut.-Col. W. Ross King, is " the representa- tive of the Barra (Archbishop King's) family in Scotland." Such a claim is more easily made than proved, as the only families law- fully entitled to bear the Barra coat of arms undifferenced are those of King of Corrard, baronets, and King of Newmilne, co. Elgin, the latter's right to the arms having been confirmed to Wm. King of that place in the middle of the eighteenth century, nearly a hundred years before the grant of arms to Capt. Gordon King's family was recorded.

GENEALOGIST.

WITCHCRAFT IN ESSEX. The following cutting from the East London Advertiser of 1 August gives an interesting example of a state of mind which not even Education Acts and the united efforts of forty thousand school teachers seem to have much power to deal with :

" Those who have read Mr. Arthur Morrison's book ' Cunning Murrell ' are in possession of some interesting facts about witchcraft in Essex half a century ago. Here is an up-to-date item. A Bishop Stortford barber was cutting the hair of a customer from a neighbouring village on Tuesday, when he was requested to save a piece of hair from the nape of the neck. The barber ascertained that the man imagined some one in the village had done him an injury, and to have revenge he intended to cast a spell upon him. The hair from the nape of the neck, the lip, and armpits, the parings of the nails, and other ingredients, mixed with water, were to be corked up in a bottle and placed on the fire at night. Desiring sickness to fall upon his enemy, his wish would be accomplished as the bottle burst, which would be as near midnight as possible."

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

terns.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

" PALTOCK'S INN." Is anything known as to the history of this expression, used in the end of the sixteenth century for " a poor or inhospitable place of sojourn"? Thus S. Gosson, ' School of Abuse,' 1579(Arber, p. 52), " Comming to Chenas, a blind village, in com- parison of Athens a Paltockes Inne, he [Ana- charsis] found one Miso well governing his house." And shortly after (1583) Stanyhirst, in his version of Virgil's * ^Eneid,' renders iii. 60-61,

Omnibus idem animus scelerata excedere terra, Linqui pollutum hospitium, et dare classibus Austros,