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 9 th S. II. DEC. 3, '98.]

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perhaps he would be most gratified by being paid in "professional coin," stepped aside, and wrote the playful lines beginning

Of yore in Old England it was not thought good To carry two visages under one hood, &c.,

and handed them to 'his guest. They will be found in any good edition of Scott's poems.

Being absent from nearly all my books at present, I cannot give the exact date of Alex- andre's visit to Abbotsford.

I have read somewhere that when Alex- andre was once near Temple Bar he threw his voice if that is the correct phrase to use into a wain of hay that was passing along, and imitated the cries of a person who was apparently in the act of being stifled under the hay. The cart was stopped, the hay turned out, and there was, I presume, a handsome " block " in the Strand or Fleet Street. Alexandre, of course, quietly de- camped. JONATHAN BOUCHIEE.

Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.

MAELSTROM (9 th S. ii. 285). In a book

Eassing through the press I saw this word itely in the form maelstrom. On referring to the ' Encyclopaedic Dictionary ' I find " Mael'-strom, s. [Dan. = rnillstreamj," which, according to the dictionary's scheme of pro- nunciation, represents a dissyllable with the a sounded like a in " fare." The implication that the Danish spelling is " maelstrom " is a graver literary offence than the orthoepic misdirection ; but the figured pronunciation is a trap for the unwary, " Maelstrom " being certain to be improved into "Maelstrom," as exemplified above, by those who ignore the scheme of pronunciation and do not forget that the proper place of the diseresis is over the second of two vowels. So true is it that errors beget errors. F. ADAMS.

I think there can be little doubt (as sug- gested by youv correspondent) that we have derived our spelling of this word from old Dutch, which would be "maelstroom," thesame as in modern Flemish. The Spaniards would certainly get their spelling of this word from the Spanish Netherlands.

JAMES PEACOCK.

Sunderland.

In the English edition (1831) of that ancient geographer M. Malte-Brun the word is written mal-stroem (viii. 534).

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

PARNELL PORTRAITS (9 th S. ii. 347). In ' The Poetical Works of Dr. Thomas Parnell,' in Cooke's edition of " The British Poets," pub- lished in 1796, your correspondent will find an

excellent engraving by Hopwood from an original picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

CHARLES GREEN. 18, Shrewsbury Road, Sheffield.

WILLIAM DODDINGTON (9 th S. ii. 127, 375). Might I point out to M.A.OxoN. that if John Doddington, of Sacomb, died in 1544 he could not have been the father of William Dodding- ton who was at Westminster School in 1574?

G. F. R. B.

THOMAS KEYES (9 th S. ii. 48). At this reference Miss THOYTS inquires who was Thomas Keyes, husband of Lady Mary Grey; where and when did he die ? And as long ago as 1852 (1 st S. vi. 128) the question was asked, Who was the first wife of Thomas Keyes, who by his second marriage became allied to the blood royal of England 1

In Knight's ' Life of Sir Thomas Gresham ' we are told that Thomas Keyes had served twenty-two years at Court, that he was a handsome man of gigantic stature, more than double the age of Lady Mary, and a widower and the father of several children. Fuller speaks of him as "of Kent"; and in the ' Diet. Nat. Biography,' under Lady Mary Keys, it is stated that he " was a native of Kent, probably related to Eichard Keys of Folkestone, who received from Henry VIII. a grant of the monastery of St. Rhadegund." At his marriage with the Lady Mary Grey the queen showed her anger by at once separat- ing them and committing Keyes to the Fleet. He was liberated in 1568, and ordered to live at Lewisham in Kent ; and from Lewisham Keyes dates a letter, 26 October, 1 568, to Sir W. Cecil, begging him to intercede with the queen "He would rather end his life than remain a banished man." In May, 1570, he was at Sandgate Castle, whence he implored Archbishop Parker that " he will be a means to the queen for mercy, and that according to the laws of God he may be permitted to live with his wife."

On 5 September, 1571, Lord Cobham, then Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, announced to Lord Burghley the death of Capt. Keyes, the Serjeant Porter, taking the opportunity of recommending his younger brother, Thomas Brooke, to succeed him. We are told that Sir Thomas Gresharn wrote that Lady Mary Keyes took the death of her husband much to heart, and asked the queen to restore her to her favour, " God having removed the occasion of her Majesty's justly conceived displeasure," and desired that she might be allowed to bring up his ihildren.

Hasted's ' History of Kent ' is silent as to