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kenzie, and part ii. pp. 574, 575, where the examples are Dalziel, Menzies, Denzil. In ' N. & Q.' there has also been some reference to them (9 th S. i. 211, 258). T. must have made a slip in saying that the z when not sibilant. is pronounced g, which can only apply to Menzies (and the place-name Enzies), but not to the others, where the z is equi- valent to y, so that Mackenzie and Denzi] are respectively Mackenyie and Denyil. An- other place-name, Monzievaird, has its first element pronounced like the English word money. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

This name is now generally pronounced as a sibilant, though formerly, and still in country districts in Scotland, as Mackengie. The name Menzies amongst tradespeople, who do not know that the z represents the old 3, is sometimes pronounced as a sibilant ; but amongst the educated class, from the venerable chief of the clan, Sir Robert Menzies of that ilk, downward, the correct pronunciation Mengies is retained. Lord Brougham, when Chancellor, corrected the mispronunciation of the name by an advocate when pleading at the bar of the House of Lords. A. G. REID.

Auchterarder.

The zie in Mackenzie is pronounced exactly the same as the zy in " frenzy." E. T. M.

USE OF Low LATIN IN THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (9 th S. ii. 108, 156). MR. THORNTON will find on his own side of the Atlantic what he wants in F. T. Cooper's 'Word -Formation in the Roman Sermo Plebeius' (New York, Ginn & Co., 1895). The book contains an excellent list of authorities (pp. xi-xiii), from which, however, as reviewers have pointed out, the 'Corpus Glossariorum ' of Loewe and Goetz is strangely omitted.

ALEX. LEEPER.

Trinity College, Melbourne University.

AUTHOR WANTED (9 th S. ii. 387, 430).' The Country Gentleman's Vade-mecu m ' is by Giles Jacob, London, 1717, 12mo. Giles Jacob was born at Ramsey, in Hampshire, in 1686. He received a legal education, and became steward and secretary to the Hon. Wm. Blathwayt. He was a poetical and dramatic writer and compiled a large number of law- books. He died in 1744.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

PHILIP THICKNESSE (9 th S. ii. 341, 454). I used the term "palimpsest" in strict accord- ance with the custom of antiquaries to describe a memorial placed on the back of a record which had been previously used, face

W. C. B., I did not thus misapply the term. See the Archaeological Journal, iv. 362, 363, and v. 160 ; H. Haines's ' Monumental Brasses,' i. xlv-li : Boutell's ' Monumental Brasses and Slabs,' 147, 151. Long ago the meaning of this term had been extended beyond what is, after all, only assumed to be Cicero's limit for it. F. G. STEPHENS.

HYMN (9 th S. ii. 369). I find this little hymn in a 'Selection 'published at Newcastle- uppn-Tyne in 1841 ten years before the first edition of 'Lavengro' was published but the words are not quite the same as those given by Borrow :

Jesus, I cast my soul on thee,

Mighty and merciful to save_ ; Thou wilt to death go down with me,

And gently lay me in the grave. This body there shall rest in hope,

This body which the worms destroy ; For surely thou wilt bring me up

To glorious life and endless joy.

Both in the 'Selection' and in 'Lavengro' the word "thee" in the first line and the word "thou" in the seventh line are not printed with an initial capital letter. W. S.

P.S. The hymn is on Genesis xlvi. 4, and is No. 91 in the first volume of 'Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures,' by Charles Wesley (Bristol, 1762).

The double stanza quoted is a complete hymn in itself, and may be seen in Dr. Osborn's 'Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley ' (published by the Wesleyan Conference Office, 2, Castle Street, City Road, London), vol. ix. p. 30. It is by Charles Wesley, and is one of his ' Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture.' The passage to which it relates is Genesis xlvi. 4.

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

LA MISERICORDIA : RULE OF LIFE OF THE THIRD ORDER OF FRANCISCANS (9 th S. i. 408, 456 ; ii. 55). A ' Manual of the Third Order of St. Francis ' can be obtained from Messrs. Burns & Oates, 28, Orchard Street, W., or from any Catholic bookseller.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

PAUL JONES (9 th S. ii. 306, 353). On the occasion of this noted sea-fight, 23 September, 1779, when the Bon Horame Richard had Decome water- logged, and in great danger of sinking, Paul Jones blew out the brains of lis first lieutenant, Mr. Grubb, who was ?oing to strike the colours. I once when a joy possessed a large coloured engraving, rather rudely executed, representing this