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NOTES AND QUERIES. p* s. 11. JULY ie, '93.

'Clergy List,' This is not so remarkable as that the only dean in the diocese of Meath, which is conterminous with the ancient kingdom, is called "of Clonmac- noise," where there is now no cathedral. We have also a " Dean of Ardagh," in which diocese there is only a parish church at Ardagh. T. C. GILMOUR.

Ottawa, Canada.

GEORGE ELIOT: THE PSEUDONYM (9 th S. i. 344). George Donnithorne Elliott was posted to the 33rd Regiment Bengal Native Infantry as ensign 24 September, 1835; promoted lieutenant in the same, 12 February, 1838; posted to the invalid establishment at Nynee Tal, 7 September, 1846; transferred to Meerut, 1851 ; drowned at Nynee Tal, 29 July, 1854.

KILLIGREW.

" DROO " (8 th S. xii. 189, 237). This word is said to be a Berkshire word, " used to express the condition bees are in just before winter." In the ' E. D. D.' material the word (written " drew ") is found in Berkshire glossaries and collections. I should be glad to get any information showing that the word was in use in the surrounding counties or elsewhere.

A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

"TEXTILE" (9 th S. i. 8). The use of the word textile = spinnable fibre is not new either in France or England. My use ('Folk-lore of Filatures') of "filatures" as a collective name for things spun, things spinnable, and things of like nature or sub- stance, I believe is new. Perhaps no one has hitherto had occasion to speak of these things collectively, and so the word has not been required in that sense. It is certainly more appropriate than "textile," since all textile fabrics, except mere mats or wickerwork, must first be spun before they are woven, whilst the great bulk of things spun is never destined to be woven at all. This is less the case, certainly, in these days of mastless anc riggingless vessels with chain cables ; bul still there is plenty of rope, twine, and sew- ing-cotton still used. THOMAS J. JEAKES.

MARGINAL REFERENCES IN THE BIBLE (9 th S. i. 446). The explanation of the variation in the number of references in our common Bibles of the Authorized Version at the pre sent time, in comparison with those in the 1611-1769 editions, is this :

" Considerable errors in process of time crept into the text ; so much so that ' Archbishop Seeker recommended that aversion of the A.V. should be made in the University of Oxford ; and severa learned persons undertook, in conjunction with th

Delegates of the University Press, to prepare an
 * dition more perfect than any which had preceded

t. The result of this undertaking was the pub' ication, in A.r>, 1769, of two editions commonly snown as Dr. Blayney's, one in 4to., and the other n folio, the latter of which was taken as the jtandard for the A.V.' (Dr. Cardwell's letter to the editor of the British Mayazine, March, 1833)...... At

the suggestion of Archbishop Seeker a large addition was made by Dr. Blayney to the number of marginal references," Latham's ' Oxford Bibles, and Printing n Oxford,' Oxford, 1870, pp. 31-2.

The references were largely increased. Thirty thousand four hundred and ninety - ive new references were inserted in the margin. Dr. Blayney communicated to the 9entlemaris Magazine for November, 1769, a
 * ull account of his alterations (vol. xxxix.

pp. 517-9). The italics, the etymology of proper names, the summaries of chapters, the running titles, the punctuation, the chrono- ,ogy, came in for revision as well as the references. See H. Home on 'S. S.,' 1846, vol. v. pp. 100 sqq. ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

Not only from Ecclesiasticus does our Lord quote, but from the most questionable of all Apocryphal books, the second Esdras. See Matt, xxiii. 34, 37, and Luke xi. 49, 50, which repeat 2 Esdras i. 30, 32. Besides omitting all references to the Apocrypha, we are now greatly losers by the rejection of the fashion of putting capital letters to every substantive, which began about 1660, and still continues in German, Danish, and Norse, though not so necessary in any of those languages as in English, as Franklin pointed out in one of his last letters. In Proverbs xx. 25 the sense varies according as the word " vows " be taken as a verb or a substantive. In some foreign versions it is taken each way ; and without reference to a Bible of Queen Anne's time we cannot tell which is right.

E. L. GARBETT.

CARMICHAEL OF MAULDSLAY (9 th S. i. 248, 454). The present representative of the Earls of Hyndford is Sir Robert Windham Carmichael Anstruther, of Carmichael and Westran, co. Lanark, also of Anstruthers of Elly. E. E. THOYTS.

JOHN WESLEY (9 th S. i. 449). During the years 1809-13 the works of John Wesley were published by Mason in sixteen volumes. The first six contain his 'Journal' from 1735 to 1790, probably in full. Another edition of the ' Journal ' only was issued in 1864. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

John Wesley records in his ' Journal ' three visits to Downpatrick. On the first occasion, in June, 1778, he slept there, and refers to the