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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. JULY -2, '<

residence of the Moseley family, called Huff- end and Noo-end, and written Hough-end. Not living in Dunkenhalgh, I am unable to

S've its local pronunciation. Residents of eighley, in Yorkshire, pronounce that word as Keithleiiy and I believe I have heard Leigh, in Lancashire, pronounced as Leith.

JOHN J. GREGSON SLATER. 34, Kennedy Street, Manchester.

Ulgham, in Northumberland, is not pro- nounced ulfam, but Ujfam. Heugh is pro- nounced Ilufe, and Haugh Harfe, the r very slightly, if at all, sounded. R T B.

GLADSTONE AS A VERSE- WRITER (9 th S. i. 481). The Alliance News of 18 June, the date on which my former communication on this subject appeared, says :

" The following is a copy of Mr. Gladstone's poem to his grandchild called Dorothea : To LITTLE DOROTHY. I know where there is honey in a jar,

Meet for a certain little friend of mine ; And, Dorothy, I know where daisies are

That only wait small hands to intertwine

A wreath for such a golden head as thine.

The thought that thou art coming makes all glad ;

The house is bright with blossoms high and low, And many a little lass and lad

Expectantly are running to and fro ;

The fire within our hearts is all aglow.

We want thee, child, to share in our delight On this high day, the holiest and best,

Because 'twas then, ere youth had taken flight, Thy grandmamma, of women loveliest, Made me of men most honoured and most blest.

That naughty boy who led thee to suppose He was thy sweetheart has, I grieve to tell,

Been seen to pick the garden's choicest rose And toddle with it to another belle, Who does not treat him altogether well.

But mind not that, or let it teach thee this, To waste no love on any youthful rover

(All youths are rovers, I assure thee, miss). No, if thou wouldst true constancy discover, Thy grandpapa is perfect as a lover.

So come, thou playmate of my closing day, The latest treasure life can offer me,

And with thy baby laughter make us gay. Thy fresh young voice shall sing, my Dorothy, Songs that shall bid the feet of Sorrow flee."

I do not know where this was first pub- lished. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

REV. LOCKHART GORDON (9 th S. i. 348). In reply to your correspondent who wishes for some identification of this person, I beg to say that he and his brother Loudon Harcourt Gordon were the two sons of the Hon. Lock- hart Gordon, Judge Advocate - General of Bengal, who died at Calcutta in 1788. He was son of John, third Earl of Aboyne.

Lockhart Gordon was in deacon's orders

only. For some particulars not much to his credit see the Gentleman's Magazine, 1804, vol. i. pp. 485 and 594. For the trial see Cox's 'Recollections of Oxford' (1870) under the year 1804, the 'Annual Register,' and Gentle- man's Magazine. See also ' Letters of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe,' vol. i. pp. 248 and 530. W. K. R. BEDFORD.

His wife died, " of a broken heart," in her twenty-first year. See 'Annual Register, xlvi. 484. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

STYLE OF ARCHBISHOPS (9 th S. i. 389). Your correspondent is not quite correct in this matter. The Archbishop of Canterbury styles himself "by divine providence," the Archbishop of York " by divine permission." The Bishop of Durham styles himself "by divine providence," all the other bishops " by divine permission." JAMES PEACOCK.

Sunderland.

According to the Spectator, ]8 July, 1891, among the bishops Durham alone is "by divine providence." W. C. B.

ANGELS AND THEIR TRADITIONAL REPRE- SENTATION (9 th S. i. 407). Mrs. Jameson, who is an undoubted authority on angels (nearly a hundred pages of the first volume of her ' Sacred and Legendary Art ' are devoted to them), has apparently no doubt as to their sex at least in art. " They are always sup- posed to be masculine," she tells us, and this because, according to Madame de Stael, "the union of power with purity (la force avec la jmrete) constitutes all that we mortals can imagine of perfection."

OSWALD HUNTER BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus, N.B.

It is safe to say that there was no such thing as the representation of a feminine angel prior to the Renaissance. In a general sense they were messengers and sons of God. The duties of the angels were not of a feminine character. They were divided into counsellors, governors, and ministers. This last class, which might have been supposed to exhibit feminine characteristics, was the most masculine, for its symbols were "the soldier's garb, golden belts, holding lance- headed javelins, and hatchets in their hands " (Didron). There is, however, a larger ques- tion which covers that asked, and goes to the root of the case. It lies in the distinction between a symbol and a figure. ' Christian Iconography,' Didron-Stokes (Bohn, 1888), i. 343, says, inter alia, "We are required to receive a symbol, but may be persuaded to admit a figure." A further development shows