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Er glish have at last been exasperated by the co itinual " pin-pricks " which have been gi r en them. HENRY GERALD HOPE.

Olapham, S.W.

PARALLEL PASSAGES IK BOCCACCIO AND SHAKSPEARE.-

'Anastasio having heard all this discourse, his hair stood upright like porcupines' quills." ' De- cameron,' Fifth Day, Nov. 8.

Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand au-end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.

'Hamlet,'!, v.

A. G. REID. Auchterarder.

" ASK NO QUESTIONS, AN' YOU 7 LL GET NO

LIES ! "Among gossips, here and elsewhere, this may often be heard in reply to what is known as "pumping" that is, seeking for information on subjects dear to the gossip. Another form is " Ask me not questions, and I'll tell you no lies." More blunt is "Ax now questions, an' yow'll get now lies !" Another phrase amongst the gossips is "If yow ex novvt, yow '11 get nowt."

THOMAS RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

GENERAL INDEX TO FOURTH SERIES. In the entry " Johnson," p. 84, 1. 16 from foot, for 311 read 301. The same error occurs in the Index to 4 th S. iii. Z. Z.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

DE FERITATE. The founder of the Border family of Le Brun (or "Broyne" as some of the fourteenth-century members spelt the name) settled in Cumberland at the end of the eleventh century. In the third generation the name De Feritate was given to them, on account of the number of woods, wastes, and morasses in lands owned by them a descrip- tive term, which in time became almost a surname, and which clung to them for a period of 150 years. The first of those to whom it was given was the "Had de Feri- tate" of the Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry I., 1154-8. The next that I read of bearing the dismal name was a son of the above, William de Ferte or Feritate, who, temp. Richard I., released all his rights to some waste ground near Kirkbride in Cum- berland to the monks of Holme Cultrum.

The same William de Ferte and Radulf his brother signed, with others of their family, a charter of release given by Margaret ae Whampool, the wife of Robert de Wham- pool, of lands in Newby, near Carlisle, to the abbey of Holme Cultrum. These are the only references to this particular member of the family I have met with, unless the William de la Ferte of the ' Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium,' temp. John, is the same. " Diversse terrse concessse Willo Pippard quse fuerunt Willmi de la Ferte." Then again : " Rex con- cessit Willo de Feritate manorium de Mere- den Com. Wilts." Also for the fourteenth year of John we find the following entry : " Pro Willo de la Ferte de diversis terris in manori de Taneocote Karr, Charleton, Analeg, Beketon, Waisburn, Bourc et Ansington in Comtat. Devon."

I am anxious to know if any connexion can be established between William, the son of Raufe of the Wastes in Cumberland, and the De Feritate of the above extracts.

I should also be glad of any information re the above-mentioned lands in Devon and Wilts, and William de Feritate's connexion with the same. The local histories of these counties I have consulted have lacked such. Is there any record of any other family than that of Le Brun bearing this alias between the time of John and the close of the reign of Edward I. ? J. HIXON IRVING.

WORDSWORTH. In George Eliot's 'Silas Marner' the following lines appear on the title-page :

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts.

Wordsworth.

The line in italics does not appear in my edition of Wordsworth (' Michael'). I should be glad to know if it occurs in the early editions. LIESE M. SHERRING.

Willesden.

EDGEWORTH'S * PARENTS' ASSISTANT.' In the preface to my edition of Miss Edge- worth's 'Parents' Assistant' (1831), after referring to a passage from Dr. Reid's ' Intel- lectual Powers of Man,' and speaking of the great interest and value which would attach to a systematic record of the early develop- ment of a child, Miss Edgeworth goes on to say :

"An attempt to keep such a register has actually been made ; it was begun in the year 1776, long before Dr. Reid's book was published. The design has from time to time been pursued to this present year, and though much has not been collected, every circumstance and conversation that has been preserved is faithfully and accurately related.