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 464 NOTES AND QUERIES. (of course, we both mean the same root); this I connect with the A.-S.gudh or guth, war, battle, supposed root of Goth and' Jute : so here we nave the guttural vocalized. Now, can all this be separated from Judic, Judish, Judethil ? Cf. Judah, Judith, and remember Josephus and the "wars of the Jews." As to the suffix had, why not el. eal ? Cf. English Aafe, Greek KaA.ds, Sanskrit khalu. All research shows that a literate speech, once formed, spreads like—electricity. A. H. A RIMING WARNING TO BOOK - BOR- ROWERS (9th S. i. 360, 512 ; ii. 115, 376 ; iv. 153, 316).—The following, in use when I was at school over forty years ago, may now also be of use:— Hie liber est meus, Testis et est Deus; Si quis me furetur, Per collum pendetur, Ad hunc modum, Quod est bunum. Then followed the picture of a man hanging from a gallows. C MASON 29, Emperor's Gate, S.W. J. G. Kohl, 'Austria' (London, Chapman & Hall, 1843), p. 103, says s.v. ' Visit to the House of an Austrian Peasant' :— " At the house of ' Meier in der Tann ' I found a flour-Back speaking in the first person, and where we less poetical North Germans would have placed simply a stamp, or have contented ourselves with the name, Fritz Meier, the flour-sack had it :— Be it known to every man I belong to Meier in the Tenn." THOMAS J. JEAKES. "SPUN BUTTER" (9th S. iv. 419).—I ought to be familiar with all the dairy terms of the Midland counties, but I do not remember to have heard this. A niece, who says she has too often had to "give the churn a spin," suggests that possibly it signifies butter made in a barrel-churn, not in a dash-churn ; but I do riot think the churn would make any difference in the butter. C. C. B. I am told that this is butter and other good things (eggs, ike.) strained through a colander, or butter solus squeezed through a canvas strainer; also that it is known as " fairy butter." GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool. THE WHORWOOD FAMILY (9th S. iv. 394).— My ancestress Ursula, Lady Whorwood, was sole daughter and heiress of George Brome, Esq., of Holton, co. Oxon. She had the title of " Lady " as being the wife of Sir Thomas Whorwood, of Sand well Hall, co. Staff., Knt. During the siege of Oxford Col. Ireton married Bridget, Oliver Cromwell's daughter, from Holton, and stayed one night at the house to do so. As a memorial of the event he gave to Lady Whorwood a silver cup which Oliver Cromwell had given him, which cup I now possess. SHERBORNE. "PiNS" (9th S. iv. 287, 358).—From the fol- lowing meaning of the word " pin " given in ' Glossographia; or, Dictionary interpreting Hard Words,' by T. B., of the Inner Temple, Barrister, London, 1670, it would appear that only one pin was inserted into the wooden mug, which would consequently divide the liquid into two portions only:— " Pin, as, he is in a merry pin, it was an ancient kind of Dutch artificial drunkenness, the cup, com- monly of wood, had a pin about the middle of it, and he was amounted the man, who could nick the pin, by drinking even to it, whereas to go above or beneath was a forfeiture. This device was of old the cause of so much debauchery in England, that- one of the Constitutions of a Synod held at West- minster, in the year 1102, was to this effect; That Priests should not go to public drinkines, nee ad Pinnas bibant, nor drink at Pins. And King Edgar made a law, that none should drink below the Pin." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. BEAR AND BAGGED STAFF (9th S. iv. 398).— John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1553. used the cognizance of the bear and ragged staff, as the staff ragulee is called, applied to a part of the stem of a tree from which the branches have been cut roughly. In the 'Tower of London,' by W. H. Ainsworth, is a woodcut of the curious carving made on the wall by the Duke just before his He- capitation. In the centre of it is the staff ragnlee, on the dexter side a chained bear, on the sinister a lion supporting it, and underneath "John Dvdle." It is surrounded by a border of roses, acorns, and flowers intermingled with foliage. According to Ainsworth this sculpture is still to be seen (i.e., in 1840) in the niessroom of the Beau- champ Tower. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1551-53, and Earl of Warwick 1547-53, had three badges : 1. A bear argent, muzzled gules, collar and chain or, supporting a ragged staff of the first. 2. A ragged staff argent (both Warwick). 3. A cinquefoil pierced ermine. His two crests were: 1. Out of a coronet or, a lion's head azure, langued gules, and charged with a crescent of the first (Northumberland). 2. Abearrauzzled and leaning on a ragged staff argent, collared and chained or (Warwick). Robert Dudley, his