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himself in his revolutionary career, the name has a queer significance, and might lead the curious to speculate as to whether it was a cognomen bestowed in remote ages upon some unknown ancestor of Carthaginian race whose disposition reappeared in the bitterness of the People's Friend. In the absence, however, of any evidence, we are equally at liberty to assume his distant forefathers to have been valiant Roman legionaries, who, it may be, served in the Punic wars and finally settled down in the conquered territory." Pp. 15-16.

What was the hereditary faith which Marat's father renounced in favour of the Calvinism of his adopted city ? Was it Catholicism or Judaism 1

The word "proselyte," according to Cham- bers's 'English Dictionary,' signifies "one who has come over from one religion to another : a convert, especially one who has left the heathen and joined a Jewish com- munity.'*'

The portrait of Marat by David, taken some hours after Marat's assassination, exhibits a strikingly Semitic cast of features.

JOHN HEBB.

powerful story in All the Year Round for October, 1859, the scene of which is laid in Salem, Mass., in 1691-2, the heroine being an English girl, one Lois Barclay, daughter of the vicar of Barford, Warwickshire. Who wrote the story 1 R. B. P.
 * Lois THE WITCH.' This is the title of a

HAWKINS'S 'INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN.' I am anxious to refer to the first and second editions (1814 and 1816 respectively) of Col. Peter Hawkins's 'Instruc- tions to Young Sportsmen,' in order to ascertain whether a certain passage appears therein. I have been unable, however, to find a single copy of either edition in any public library in London. I shall be, there- fore, obliged if any reader who may possess a copy of either will be so good as to communicate with me. MILLER CHRISTY.

115, Farringdon Road, E.G.

DIALECTAL WORD FOR " SEE-SAW." I heard recently a Lincolnshire child speak of a see- saw by a word which sounded something like highkle or ikle. Can any of your readers give me the correct word 1 I have looked in Mr. Edward Peacock's scholarly work on 'Manley and Corringham Words, 'but without success, although I have no doubt that this learned antiquary has not overlooked the word.

A. R. C.

" ACCORDER." In ' The Narrative of Capt. David Woodard and Four Seamen who lost th3ir Ship while in a Boat at Sea, and surrendered themselves up to the Malays in

the Island of Celebes' (second edition, London, 1805), p. 43, I find the following : "I immediately agreed with the accorder (or captain of the proa) to take us to Solo." Again in the same book (p. 120) we have : i4 The captain, who is called an accorder: the mate, jere mode : boatswain, jere bottoo : and nine sailors, ourari." These are probably Malay words of which I desire an explana- tion. The 'N.E.D.' gives only accorder in the sense of "one who accords, one who agrees." Is it possible that in the above passages accorder can be a corruption of Pers. ndkhudd, "a skipper " 1 See Yule's ' Hobson- Jobson,' s.v. ' Nacoda.' EMERITUS.

"HEALEN PENY" : "GiNG STICK." In the churchwardens' accounts of Camborne, Corn- wall, I find, "1675. Reed ffor the healen peny, 17 s 5 cl ." Other years have similar entries, the amount, however, varying.

" 1704. Pd Edward Hos-king for three ging sticks for the bels, 1 s ." The purchase of ging sticks was frequent, the cost being, as here, 4d. apiece.

What was the "healen peny," and what a "ging stick"? YGREC,

VETO AT PAPAL ELECTIONS. A privilege, "vested more by usage than by any formal act of recognition " (Cardinal Wiseman, 'Re* collections of the Last Four Popes,' London, 1858, p. 416), enables Austria, France, and Spain (4 fch S. vii. 163, 269) to interpose a veto before the votes of two-thirds of the cardinals centre on any one person. In the Conclave of 1829 Austria, through Cardinal Albani, vetoed the election of Cardinal Severoli ; and in the Conclave of 1830-1 Spain, through Cardinal Marco, vetoed the election of Cardinal Giustiniani (Wiseman, op. cit,, p. 417). It has been stated that in the election of Cardinal della Gonga, who became Pope Leo XII., France interposed a veto which was inoperative. Is there any ground for this statement 1 ? Was there any veto in the Conclave which resulted in the election of Pius VII. 1 JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

GRIFFITH JONES'S PORTRAIT. Is there any portrait in existence of Griffith Jones (1683- 1761), the rector of Llanddowror, and founder of the Welsh Charity (or Circulating) Schools'?

DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

MINERALOGIST AND BOTANIST TO GEORGE III. I shall be glad if any of your readers can say whether there ever was such an appoint- ment as the above. If so, who were the per- sons who held it ? Did a salary attach 1

MISTLETOE.