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king's Champion), who afterwards married, as her second husband, Sir Ed. Wootton, Knt., Treasurer of the Parts about Calais.

EDWARD M. BOREAJO. The Library, Guildhall, E.G.

HEBREW NUMERALS (9 fch S. ii. 288, 335). Of these it may be remarked that there is a peculiarity. Aleph is 1, and beth is 2, and so on to jod for 10, while jod-aleph stands for 11, or 10 and 1. Instead of jod-he for 15, which would involve the use of two letters of the holy name, the Israelite uses the letters teth-vau, 9 and 6, while for 16 he uses the letters teth-zain, or 9 and 7. For 17 he re- verts to jod-zain. This may be seen by reference to a Hebrew almanac.

JOHN E. NORCROSS.

Brooklyn, U.S.

MOUNTGYMRU (9 th S. i. 188). MR. STREETS is safe in assuming this word to be a Welsh form of Montgomery. It would be natural to a Welshman in the last century to sup- pose that the second half of the name was akin to Cymru (in apposition Gymm), the Welsh for Wales, pronounced " Cumry."

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

BOOKS ON GAMING (7 th S. vii. 461, 481 ; viii- 3, 42, 83, 144, 201, 262, 343, 404, 482 ; ix. 24, 142 ; xi. 337, 375). In MR. JULIAN MAR- SHALL'S articles on the subject he states (7 th S. viii. 42) that there is only one copy of the second edition of Hoyle's ' Short Treatise on Whist' (1743) known to be in existence, viz., that in his own possession. I have another copy. It agrees with MR. MARSHALL'S de- scription of his own, even to the gilt edges, except that the price in mine is not mentioned on the title-page, and the leaf ("To the Reader ") facing it is absent. The difference seems to indicate that my copy is a still older one than MR. MARSHALL'S. Reference to the General Index, Seventh Series, of ' N. & Q.' discloses that these interesting and useful notes have never been finished, although MR. MARSHALL undertook (7 th S. xi. 375) to con- tinue them. Will he not fulfil that promise ? It is a pity to leave the record in ' N. & Q.' incomplete. J. S. McTEAR.

Bangor, Down.

" RIGHT HONOURABLE " AS APPLIED TO A LADY (9 th S. ii. 307). "The Right Honour- able the Viscountess " is correct style.

To avoid waste of space, I refer POLITICIAN to the 'Directory of Titled Persons' (pub- lished at the office of 'Whi taker's Almanack '), in which he will find an exhaustive exposi- tion of the mode of addressing titled ladies.

Your correspondent could have obtained the information he asks from Burke's or some other ' Peerage.' F. ADAMS.

All peeresses of the United Kingdom below the rank of marchioness, and afl the daughters of peers above the rank of viscount or baron, are entitled to this prefix. A marchioness is styled "most honourable," and a duchess " her grace."

CROSS-CROSSLET.

Porny, in the dictionary towards the end of his ' Elements of Heraldry,' s.v. ' Honourable,' says : " Right Honourable, for Earls, Viscounts and Barons." As these are dignities, not offices, the title is correctly applied to countesses, viscountesses, and baronesses. On the subject of titles generally, has a satisfactory etymology for " baron " been settled 1 ARTHUR MAYALL.

POLITICIAN should be aware that "Right Honourable" is the customary prefix of the addresses of the wives of peers below the rank of marquis. Is its use in an announce- ment what strikes him as open to question 1 ?

KILLIGREW.

POLITICIAN will find " Right Honourable " applied to a lady on p. 317 of the same number of 'N. & Q.' in which his query appears. W. C. B.

FRENCH PROVERB (9 th S. ii. 344). MR. T. P. ARMSTRONG may like to be reminded that Friday and Sunday are associated in other popular sayings than the one he quotes. Friday's hair and Sunday's horn Go to the Devil on Monday morn.

" Wet Friday, wet Sunday : wet Sunday, wet week," was a bit of weather wisdom known in my nursery, where, too, it was said, "If you sing before breakfast you '11 cry before night" : a recognition of the fact referred to by MR. ARMSTRONG, "Sorrow treads on the heels of joy." ST. SWITHIN.

SILHOUETTES OF CHILDREN (9 th S. ii. 307, 353, 396). I notice at the last reference some remarks on silhouettes in which attention has been drawn to some illustrations of mine to two of the ' Ingoldsby Legends,' in which that process is reversed.

The designs are spoken of with generous appreciation, but the account of the manner in which they were produced is not quite accurate. Will you spare me a little space to explain ? The designs were cut with scissors out of white paper, the idea being, if I may so express it, "felt out" in the cutting. Afterwards, to add to the effect, the eyes, hair, drapery, &c., were marked with the