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 448 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* a iv. NOV. 25, and that grave citizens were placed at every gate to breake the rapier's point of all passengers that exceeded a yeard in length of their rapiers." The carriages were made sometimes of leather, as were those. I believe, in the Meyrick collection, but they were frequently of velvet, embroidered and jewelled. When, in 'Hamlet,' V. ii., Osric says, " Three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit," we shall not, perhaps, be wrong in assuming that Shakespeare had in mind some of these decorated appendages that he may have seen in wear. Swords have been carried in different ways in different centuries: in the earlier centuries they were simply thrust through the waist-belt; in the seventeenth century they were hung from a shoulder-belt; the present method is com- paratively of modern date. B. H. L. PARRY FAMILY (9th S. iv. 398).—I should like to add one or two queries to MR. F. PARRY'S note. I am trying to identify two members of this family, or, at all events, two persons of the same name: (1) Ann Parry, whose portrait was painted by Romney and engraved by John Dean in 1778 ; and (2) Mr. Parry, whose portrait Romney also painted. In 1785 this Mr. Parry was living at Dulwich, but I presume he was in business in the City, as a copy of his portrait was some years afterwards sent to " The Warehouse, Whale- bone Court." Boyle's ' City Companion ' for 1798 gives a number of Parrys engaged in business or in professions in London. For instance, there was a Dr. Parry at 5, High- bury Place, Islington, and "Benj. Parry & Son, Esqrs.," at 21, Mincing Lane; a Philip Parry, of the Petty Bag Office, Chancery Lane, &c. I should be very glad of any information about either Miss Parry or Mr. Parry mentioned above. W. ROBERTS. 47, Lansdowne Gardens, S.W. HOLY COMMUNION (9th S. iii. 427, 498; iv. 273* 384).—ST. SWITHIN has marie a very amusing mistake, which he good - humouredly en- deavours to father on another writer. In his quotation from the book of Mr. Anson Farrer, who refers to "Elmham" and "Livius" as authorities regarding the battle of Agincourt. your correspondent assumes that the second is the historian of Rome, and concludes that " it must have been in one of the lost books of Livy that he predicted Agincourt" ! Of course, this is jocularly said ; but ST. SWITHIN has been led into error by substituting his " Livy " for Mr. Farrer's " Livius," who is evidently so called to distinguish the one from the other. I will candidly confess that, though I knew that the " Livius " mentioned was not the classic author, I had not the least idea who " Elmham " was. He was a writer as much unknown to me as " Ogilvie " to Lord Rosebery (speech at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution after hearing Mr. A. Birrell's lecture, 3 Nov., 1899). However, thanks to ' N. & Q.' (and heartiest congratu- lations on its Jubilee), it often happens that while one is endeavouring to solve the doubts of another, he is obtaining useful information for himself ; and this is a case in point. Besides Titus Livius Patavinus of ancient days, there is a chronicler of a later date, who bore the name of Titus Livius Foro-Juliensis, and wrote the life of King Henry V. of Eng- land. The full title of the book, which was edited by Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, is : "Titi Livii Foro-Juliensis Vita Henrici Quinti, Regis Anglise. Accedit Sylloge Epistolarum, a variis Anglise Principibus scriptarum. Oxonii, 1716, 8vo." The same learned and indefatigable editor published Elmham's book at Oxford in the year 1727. It is entitled : ' Thomse de Elmham Vita <fe Qesta Henrici Quinti, Angtorum Regis.' For these parti- culars I am indebted to Lowndes's manual. JOHN T. CURRY. Mr. Anson Farrer needs no correction. Has ST. SWITHIN never heard of Titus Livius, the historian of Henry V. 1 W. H. DAVID. " PEAT " (9th S. iii. 483 ; iv. 37, 76, 113, 216). —This word occurs in a document of 1428, in Sir W. Fraser's' Wemyss of Werayss' (1888), ii. 56 :— " To wyn and ger laboure and away hafe til hia awne propire oyse turfe pete and liathir quarale and fyschyne quharsumeuir thai may be fundin wythin the said landis." ROBT. J. WHITWELL. Oxford. " GINNS " IN THE FYLDE (9th S. iv. 345).— The word ginn in some cognate form is used pretty largely to convey the idea of a ravine. In the north of England we find the place- name Ne%vbiggin (in Scotland Newbigging, also Kyleakin), and in the south we have the Chines of the Isle of Wight, deep fissures leading to the seashore. In French we have cheneau for gutter, and in English the related words channel, canal, <tc. The Manchester Court Leet Records early in the seventeenth century use the word gynnell (and ginnell) for a gutter or drain, and the word ginnel is used to-day in the Lancashire dialect for a long narrow passage between houses. In Murray's ' New Dictionary' a quotation is given from Raynold (date 1545): "Betwene the Chines