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 9 th S. II. JULY '2, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

that the symbol is a myth as appertaining to faith, and that a figure is an allegory which rests on opinion. Angels as such may be treated as women, but the angelic idea is neither masculine nor feminine. It has been portrayed by oxen, eagles, lions, and fiery winged wheels full of eyes. For further points see the above work, i. 85 et seq.

ARTHUR MAYALL.

In the Bible there is no mention of female angels. I think ' Myths of the Middle Ages, by Baring-Gould, discusses the question. ] have once or twice found Angell as a man's Christian name. E. E. T.

SIR RICHARD HOTHAM, KNT. (9 th S. i. 448). If the following rather meagre details are of use to MR. BODDINGTON, I am glad to give them. They come direct from the present head of the Hothani family The facts as stated in the query about the Hothamton property are correct ; Sir Richard had also in Bognor a house, which still exists. He left, it is believed, four sons : one remem- bered by people now living was known as " old Mr. William Hotham "; another was a cutler in Millsom Street, Bath ; and a third was in a cloth manufactory at Leeds, near the Town Hall. Nothing is known of the other names mentioned. Sir Richard was not in any way related to the Hothams of Yorkshire. LONSDALE.

He attempted to exploit Bognor, and wished to change the name to Hothampton but unsuccessfully. See Horsfield's ' Sussex,' ii. 64, and ' Sussex Arch. Colls.,' xxv. ] 15 ff. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

BISHOP EZEKIEL HOPKINS (8 th S. x. 176, 261 ; xi. 212). I cannot find a copy of Foster's 'London Marriage Licences here, and I shall, therefore, be obliged if some reader would kindly say when Bishop Ezekiel Hop- kins was married I believe he married twice, first Alecia Moore, and secondly Lady Aramintha Robartes and also state if there is any record of his son Samuel's marriage to Susannah Prior. CHARLES H. OLSEN.

Montreal, Canada.

ROTTEN Row, NOTTINGHAM (8 th S. xii. 347 : 9 th S. i. 217, 314, 372, 470). I believe it will be found that my statement is perfectly correct, viz., that " no English dialect turns the true Teutonic d into t." For, of course, the qualifications which MR. MAYHEW very properly suggests have no relevance whatever to the question which we were discussing, viz., the origin of Rotten Row, and the

attempt to explain Rotten from the German word for red. It is perfectly clear that I was speaking of the Teutonic d in single words, unaffected by other consonants. The final -it for -ed in Scottish is also quite another matter ; for in such cases the final syllable is unaccented, which makes all the difference. It is difficult to obtain any final result in our discussions unless we adhere to the points discussed.

The latest suggestion is that, if G. rothen can exist in one place, viz., " Rotten-herring- staith," it can exist in others. This is extremely unlikely, because the instance given is one of a most exceptional kind. The introduction of a High-German form has been shown in that case to be due to a special importation from Germany. But I cannot admit that a German family has always settled down in every place where the name Rotten Row is known. That would be a very big guess indeed, and I decline to make it. WALTER W. SKEAT.

PASSAGE IN DICKENS (9 th S. i. 507). In 'John Francis, Publisher of the Athenceur.i' (Bentley), vol. ii. p. 525, will be found the following :

"On the 18th of November, 1843, in reviewing ' The Keepsake.' the Athenaeum quotes a poem by Dickens entitlea ' A Word in Season,' which, 'we should think, will startle a round hundred at least of aristocratic readers in their country houses.' "

The poem is given in full. The verse quoted by CAPT. KELSO should read as follows : So I have known a country on the earth,

Where darkness sat upon the living waters, And brutal ignorance, and toil, and dearth,

Were the hard portion of its sons and daughters ; And yet, where they who should have oped the door

Of charity and light, for all men's finding, Squabbled for words upon the altar-floor,

And rent The Book, in struggles for the binding.

N. S. S.

"MESS OF POTTAGE" (9 th S. i. 466}. This vas a " familiar expression " more than one lundred years before the Genevan Bible was lublishea. In the heading of Genesis xxv., Matthew's Bible, 1537, it says, " Esaw sellith lis byrthright for a messe of potage." It is lie same in Crumwell's and Cranmer's Bibles, 539-41, &c., Taverner's 1539, Becke's 1549, and all the early Bibles I have consulted, sxcept Coverdales 1535, but in the text of .hat it has "And Jacob dight a meace of neate." R. R.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

BRITISH MUSEUM READING -RooM (8 th S. rii. 465). While "M.P." appended to a name may mean Member of Parliament, the ex-