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 9*8. IV. July 1/99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 17 seen such hats in very recent days ; but I do not think that they went by the name of shaving hats. Your correspondent will pro- bably find a representation of a shaving hat, with a description thereof, in some early volume of the Lady's Magazine, which, ac- cording to Bohn's Lowndes's ' Bibliographer's Manual,' beganto run its course in July, 1770. Edwakd Peacock. This does not allude to any tonsorial head- gear, but to a hat made of shavings or chips. A largo quantity of them are manufactured at Luton, Beds, and are termed shaving hats. Had Elizabeth Canning's hat been made of straw, they would have taken from her "one straw hat." Hippoclides can readily purchase one for a shilling. Chas. F. Forshaw, LL.D. Hanover Gardens, Bradford. [Many similar replies are acknowledged.] "The white faunch hind"(9th S. iii. 169, 372).—The answers to this query of Mr. Harvie-Brown are very unsatisfactory. The word faunch is not likely to be an offshoot of faun or the same word as faunte, the old English word for child or infant. Is it not simply a misprint for fauch, a variant of fallow, Whyte - Melville's expression " the white fauch deer" being used in the same way as we speak of a white blackbird ? A. B. Steele. County Nicknames (9th S. iii. 388).—These nicknames are old. See two much fuller lists, of considerable antiquity, printed in 'Reliquiae Antiques,' ed. Wright and Halliwell, i. 269 and h. 41. Walter W. Skeat. Wind Indicator at Peckham (9th S. iii. 347, 478).—There is a " wind indicator " with a large dial like a clock-face on the front of Chelsea Barracks. H. K. John Massy (9th S. iii. 443).—I can pro- pound another theory for the origin of John Massy, the ancestor of the American family mentioned by F. J. P. John Massy, of Briggate in Leeds, drowned himself, and was buried at St. John's on 3 February, 1669/70. He was in good circumstances, and a mortuary fee was paid. On 9 February Morrice Dilladale, page of the bedchamber to the king, peti- tioned for the goods, lands, &c, of John Massy, of Briggate, Leeds, who had destroyed himself, and a caveat was issued in his favour ('Calendar of State Papers'). John Massy was married by licence, at Hunslet, to Sarah Ryther, of Headrow, 18 Dec, 1661, and had a son John born 23 April and baptized 3 May, 1666, at Leeds. My suggestion is that the Government provided for the son by sending him to America, Dilladale havingappropriated the father's estate, and consequently the family's means of subsistence. There were several families in Leeds of the name at the time in good position, and particulars of them will be found in the Leeds parish church registers published by the Thoresby Society. G. D. Lumb. Leeds. 'The Three Sergeants' (9th S. iii. 108, 374, 456).—If Gualterulus would like to have the loan of the book, I should be happy to send it to him. The title is 'The Three Serjeants; or, Phases of the Soldier's Life,' gublished by Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal xchange, 1858. C. L. Poole. Alsager, Cheshire. Corpus Christi Day (9th S. iii. 407).—The Supreme Court of Judicature Act 38 it 39 Vic. cap. 77, passed 5 August, 1873, order lxi., was amended by an Order in Council dated 12 December, 1883. By the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883, order lxiii., Michael- mas Sittings begin 24 October, end 21 De- cember; Hilary Sittings are from 11 January to Wednesday before Easter Sunday ; Easter Sittings begin Tuesday after Easter week, and end on Friday before Whit Sunday ; Trinity Sittings begin on the Tuesday after Trinity Sunday, and close on 12 August. Although Corpus Christi does not now strictly enter into the calculation of the law terms, now called sittings, it practically does so, as it always occurs on the Thursday fol- lowing Trinity Sunday, or the second day after " Trinity Sittings begin." Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. This feast ceased to regulate the beginning of Trinity Term after 1830, when 1 Will IV. c. 70 assigned fixed dates for law terms; and subsequent alterations—terms made way for sittings under Judicature Act of 1873—nave taken no account of Corpus Christi. C. S. Ward. Cricket (9th S. iii. 208, 273).—The following extract from a letter of one Robert Old to the Lord Carlisle of that day, dated Petersham, 13 August, 1751, is an early and amusing example of an eleven-a-side cricket match :— " You see in the papers that Lord Sandwich has won his match at cricket against the Duke, but what I think the best part of the story is not told there. The Duke, to procure good players on his side, ordered 22, who were reckoned the best players in the country, to be brought to play before him, in order for him to choose 11 out of them. They played accordingly, and he chose 11. The other 11,