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Traherne, who in 1630 married Margaret "Williams of Aberperg win? E. T.

PATTENS (9 th S. i. 44, 336, 413. 471 ; ii. 95, 235, 334, 432). I am willing to admit there were two kinds of clogs, although I have seen but one sort of this foot-wear, namely, a "clog" = a piece of unbendable wood, iron-shod, with upper-leathers shoe shape. This was and is the " clog " proper called clog, I suspect, because in most parts of the Midlands a block of wood less than a whole tree is "a clog." The hinged wooden-soled shoes I knew well, but not as clogs. In these it would be quite impossible to walk any consider- able distance, because a sole with a hinge in the middle gives no support to the foot when walking. The nearest church to my resi- dence as a boy was two miles away, and on rainy and snowy Sundays many women walked there in ordinary pattens, which they could not have done in the hinged wooden- soled shoes. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

I have never seen the annexed epigrams in print, and as one of them contrasts clog with patten, your readers may think them worthy of being recorded under this head :

On the Marriage of Capt. Foote with Miss Patten. Through the rough paths of life, with a Patten your

guard,

May you safely and pleasantly jog ; May the knot never slip, nor the ring press too

hard, Nor the Foot find the Patten a clog.

By Leigh Perrot, uncle of Miss Austen. .

May the union cemented last Wednesday at mattin Be blissful and crowned with abundance of fruit ; May the Foot ever closely adhere to the Patten, The Patten for ever stick close to the Foot ! And though Pattens are worn but in moist, dirty

weather, May their journey through life be unclouded and

clean ;

May they long fit each other, and, moving together, May only one sole be still cherished between !

By an unknown author.

ALDENHAM.

At Plymouth, equally celebrated for the beauty of its young women and for its forty- inches rainfall, " a pretty face and a pair ol pattens " used to be spoken of as the heritage of the maidens. J. K. LAUGHTON.

"JUMBLE": REFERENCE FOR QUOTATION (9 th S. ii. 409). I have to thank more than one correspondent for the place of Swift's words quoted by Johnson. They are in his caustic ' Preface ' (as he calls it) to one oi Bishop Burnet's introductions to his 'His- tory of the Reformation.' I was quite wrong in supposing an unusual sense for the word

Swift employed it in its ordinary sense shaking up and mixture of things incon- ruous, and so, no doubt, Johnson understood im. C. B. MOUNT.

THE ROSES OF KILRAVOCK (8 th S. iii. 142, 393). I have only just noticed a most im- portant error in my note at the last refer- ence. The two summonses there referred to are said to be dated 23 James I. They are, in fact, of 23 James IV., or eighty -three years later.

I may add that the Sutherland of Duffus

Eedigree, from the death of Alexander Suther- md, circa 1450, to that of William Suther- land in 1C26, is in the usual authorities wholly unreliable. I am, however, unable at present to construct a correct pedigree.

A. CALDER.

29, UPPER GROSVENOR STREET (9 th S. ii. 448). On reference to Horwood's map of Lon- don of 1794 I find that No. 29 occupied the same position then as at the present time. It is true some alterations in the numbers of the houses have been made from what is now Grosvenor House onward to Grosvenor Square, but the alterations in question do not seem to have affected the five or six houses nearest to Park Lane. H. A. H.

SILHOUETTES OF CHILDREN (9 th S. ii. 307, 353, 39G, 436). Apart from the question asked by MR. TUER, it may be of use to note that this art is fully explained in 'Lavater on Physiognomy.' HAROLD MALET, Col.

MIDDLESEX (9 th S. ii. 469). The county of London is only an "administrative" county. Lands situate in that part of the county of London which was formerly part of the county of Middlesex are for some purposes correctly described as being situate in Middle- sex. Ownership of such lands may confer the right to vote for Parliament for a division of Middlesex. Thus the ownership of land in the parish of Islington in many cases confers the right to vote in the Hornsey Division of the county of Middlesex. Conveyances of such land require to be registered in the Middlesex Registry. The old descriptions or parcels are often retained in order to preserve evidence of identity. The description "in the county of Middlesex " is also retained to remind solicitors of the necessity of regis- tration. W. X.

MACKENZIE (9 th S. ii. 408). The most autho- ritative opinion upon these Scottish names is that of the late A. J. Ellis, expressed in his ' Early English Pronunciation,' part i. p. 310, where he mentions Menzies, Dalziel, Mac-