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Murray guide-books. Perhaps some Essex antiquary can supply more exact details.

JAMES HOOPER. MADAME HUMBERT AND THE CRAWFORDS (9 th S. xii. 407, 456). Was there not in Lord Lytton's 'The Disowned' an unscrupulous millionaire called Crawford ? I am writing from memory.

F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART.

FABLE AS TO CHILD-MURDER BY JEWS (9 th S. xii. 446). This ghastly story seems uncom- monly like a variant upon the "Wild Darell" tragedy, recorded by John Audley, and re- ferred to in a note to * Rokeby ' by Scott, as having occurred at Littlecote, in Wiltshire, about the beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury. The main features of the two stories are at any rate quite identical. Is it possible that, in the general jumbling up of matters by the "ignorant person'' alluded to by MR. PEACOCK, the reference to 'Rokeby' as the source of the story may have, in some sort of topsy-turvy manner, suggested the name of the accoucheur ("Roque or Roche or Rock") in this Whitechapel version of the horror? It may be significant to note that the date of this version (August, 1813) was just after the appearance of Sir Walter Scott's poem. Receiving it in a distorted form, perhaps at third or fourth hand, did the writer reset it, with other variations, for a purpose of his own, possibly malicious ?

JOHN HUTCHINSON.

Middle Temple Library.

[J. B. W., MR. E. YARDLEY, and other corre- spondents send the same suggestion. The REV. J. PICKFORD refers to Erskine Neale's ' Reminiscences of a Gaol Chaplain,' vol. i., 'The Foreign Ambas- sadress.']

CISTERCIAN VISITATIONS (9 th S. xii. 247). Your correspondent might obtain the in- formation he requires by turning to 4 th S. vii.
 * 268 and 5 th S. i. 15, where he will find a long

list of works treating on Cistercian monas- teries, principally in England.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

MACAULAY AND DICKENS (9 th S. xii. 189). Without being a citation, Thackeray's ' ' The Campaigner" ('Newcomes') brings to mind significantly Dickens's "The Old Soldier'' {' Dombey '). H. P. L.

CARDINALS (9 th S. xi. 490 ; xii. 19, 174, 278, 334). Mrs. Minto Elliot, in the third chapter of her 'Roman Gossip,' says that Cardinal Antonelli told Lady Anne San Giorgio that he was a deacon only, not a priest, and there- fore could marry. This story is false on the face of it, for deacons in the Catholic Church are bound to celibacy ; sub-deacons, even, in

the West are so bound. MR. WHITE gives no authority for his statement that Antonelli never was ordained priest.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

RALEIGH : ITS PRONUNCIATION (9 th S. xii. 366). There is a fine (Dodsworth, 106, f 21) by which, in 1432, "Thomas Oudely de Reyle in the county of Essex," with his wife conveyed her lands in Sutton in Holder- ness. It may have been written in Yorkshire but the scribe would do his best to imitate the pronunciation of Audley or his family, and that seems to have been " Rayley " or "Reyley." THOS. BLASHILL.

The pronunciation of Raleigh seems to have been Rawleigh as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century that is, if one may judge from the following extract in the Weekly Journal of 29 June, 1723: " A.D 1618. Sir Walter Rawleigh, who had lived a condemned Man many Years in the Tower of London, now to procure some Liberty propounded to the King a Pro- ject for the fetching of Gold from a Mine in Guyana, and that without any wrong to the King of Spain," &c. Raleigh itself seems to be a corruption of what is a not uncommon surname to-day, namely, Rawley, a surname derived in its turn from the place - name Rawleigh, in Devonshire. " Raw " or " row " means rough, whence we have also Rowley, Rowland, i.e., rough meadowland ; Raw- march, in Yorkshire, the rough marshy place; Rougham, in Norfolk and Suffolk, the rough home ; and Rough-Lee-Booth, in Lancashire, the hut -on -the -rough -land. Bacon's 'Sylva Sylvarum ; or, a Naturall Historic in Ten Centuries,' was published by William Raw- ley, Doctor in Divinity, in 1639.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

There are two- parishes in Devonshire, the one named Colyton-Rawleigh, the other Combe-Rawleigh, and both names are pro- nounced as written. The former is said to have been a manor once belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh. See Lewis's ' Topographical Dictionary,' s.v. the former word.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

CUSHIONS ON THE ALTAR (9 th S. xii. 346, 398, 436). It seems to be that the fashion for these has fallen into disuse ; and 1 take it that it is a very good thing that it should be so, for they were not only uncomfortable, but great collectors of dust and dirt. I can re- member their being in use in St. George's Church, Camberwell, where I attended in my boyhood's days, my father being the master