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 S. XII. JULY 25, 1903.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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curious haunts generally discovered by youths of inquiring dispositions. The words "lush- ington " and " lush " are both used by Borrow in ch. iv. of ' Wild Wales.' JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

WALTER MONTAGU (9 th S. xi. 421, 482). An interesting letter of Montagu's is printed in an article contributed by the undersigned to the Library, July, 1901. It refers to the difficulties as ito the'licensing of the ' Miscel- lanea Spiritualia.' It is perhaps worth men- tioning that ' Heaven Opened ' (1663), by the Capucin Father Cyprien, chaplain of Hen- rietta Maria, is dedicated to Lord Walter Montagu, who is styled her almoner. A good life of Walter Montagu would be a useful addition to our knowledge of the seventeenth century. There are sufficient materials.

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

In answer to the query at the bottom of the first column of 9 th S. xi. 422, the title of " Honourable " is not dropped at ordination, as the living examples of the Hon. and Most Rev. Edmund Stonor, Archbishop of Trebi- zond, the Hon. and Right Rev. Algernon Charles Stanley, Bishop of Emmaus, and the Hon. and Rev. Basil Feilding sufficiently show. I do not, however, know of any in- stance of a priest styling himself Esquire, unless Walter Montagu was one.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BELL : LINDLEY : PERRY (9 th S. xi. 349, 495). The Joseph Bell who was baptized at Great Marlow on 26 September, 1751, seems to have been a member of a family which was founder's kin at Winchester College. The College possesses a folio book containing manuscript pedigrees of the founder's kin, and, according to entries in this book, Joseph Bell, of Aylesbury, Bucks, married Caelia, daughter of Hugh Barker, of Great Horwood, Bucks, and Elizabeth Whitehead, of Titherly, Hants. Their children are stated to have been : (1) Joseph Bell, Fellow of New College, Oxford ; (2) Henry St. John Bell, who married Elizabeth Hone, of London ; (3) Hugh Barker Bell, who married Anne Philips, of Newbury : (4) Elizabeth Bell ; and (5) William Bell, a scholar at Winchester.

Of these five children, the first, Joseph Bell, was admitted scholar at Winchester on 19 September, 1726 (College Register); became vicar of Stowe, Bucks, on 16 May, 1760, and rector of Radcliffe, Bucks, on 6 February, 1761 (Liber Institutionum) ; died on 9 Feb- ruary, 1772 (Gentleman's Magazine), and was the father of Robert Barker Bell, who was admitted scholar at Winchester on 16 August,

1777 (Register). The third, Hugh Barker Bell, had a son of the same names, who was admitted scholar on 10 September, 1753 (Register). The fifth, William Bell, was admitted scholar on 10 September, 1736, and was deprived of his scholarship on 6 August, 1739, "propter absentiam ultra tempus in Statutis Umitatum " (Register).

The Joseph Bell who was baptized at Marlow in 1751 is not mentioned in the pedigree book, which is incomplete, but the Register shows that he was admitted as a founder's kin scholar on 7 September, 1765. "Recessit sponte, Mar. 13, 1768." H. C.

POTATOES, WHISKY, AND LEPROSY (9 th S. xi. 428). Apropos, if a little irrelatively to the main question, of MR. HOOPER'S interesting communication, perhaps the following from Chambers' Edinburgh Journal of 1 June, 1839, will be acceptable as bearing upon the etymology of " usquebaugh " :

"Who would ever dream of any connexion be- tween the words denoting the national beverage of Scotland and the far-famed and dreaded Biscay? As of old the Biscavans exhibit the same con- fusion, or rather identification, of the sounds of 6 and v, a phenomenon which is also observable in many other provinces of Spain. This singularity of articulation, combined with their ancient cha- racter as ardent votaries of Bacchus, led to the well-known pun of a Roman Emperor : Apud Biscay os vivere et bibere idem est. The correct name for Biscay is Vizcaya, which, curtailed to its first syllable, becomes Vizc, evidently identical with the Celtic uisc, implying ' water,' whence Vizcaya denotes 'a maritime district.' The con- nexion between uisc and ivhisky was explained in a former article."

Camden, in his * Britannia,' quotes one whom he takes to be J. .Good, a priest educated at Oxford, and schoolmaster of Limerick about the year 1566. This author, in the course of his description of the wild Irish of the Middle Ages, who lived in the remoter parts of Ireland, says that " when they are sharp-set they make no scruple to eat raw flesh, after they have squeezed out the blood ; to digest which they drink Usque- baugh in great quantities" (ed. 1722, vol. ii.

p. 1422). J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

KURISH GERMAN (9 th S. x. 406 ; xi. 90, 477). I must thank your correspondent for his courteous correction of my slip. " Ausland " is, of course, correct ; my version was a gross instance of Anglo-Kurish carelessness in grammar. DR. G. KRTJEGER makes a strong point against me in the matter of Lettish syntax in Kurish German, but in the other matters on which he touches we are practically in agreement. I gave instances of dialectic German, and suggested that there