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mentioned Samuel Allsopp, who succeeded the said Benjamin Wilson. Whether the latter built the first brewery he occupied or riot is a moot point. See further Marchant's ' In Praise of Ale,' p. 531 and following pages.

G. GREEN SMITH. Moorland Grange, Bournemouth.

READE FAMILY (9 th S. v. 68). William Reade (or Rede), Bishop of Chichester, 1369- 1385, was a native of the diocese of Exeter, and was studying at Exeter College, Oxford, before 1337. In 1344 he was Fellow of Merton, and was a great benefactor to the libraries of Exeter, Oriel, Balliol, and New colleges. Archbishop Simon de Islip _ (formerly a Fellow of Merton) in 1363 appointed William Reade Provost of Wingham College (for secular canons) in Kent, which position he resigned three years later, and became Arch- deacon of Rochester. Pope Urban V. ap- pointed him Bishop of Chichester, and he was consecrated at Avignon. Died 18 August, 1385, and was buried in his cathedral. For further particulars (and also of Robert Reade) see ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' and ' Memorials of Chichester,' by Dean Stephens. In the Gentleman's Magazine, 1817, part ii. pp. 322 r 7, William Rede is said to be of the Read family in Marden, Kent, but the * Diet. Nat. Biog.' says he was born in the diocese of Exeter. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

In reply to the inquiry of H. S., I may say that I have the printed bill of a sale by auction in 1802 of property belonging to the then late Mr. William Reade, at the foot of which is, "Further particulars may be known by application to Mr. G. Reade, or Messrs. Hodding, in Salisbury." The above William Reade, of Fryan Court, Fordingbridge, was the partner of Alderman Michael Burrough in the New Sarum Bank. PLANTAGENET.

THE LATE MR. BERNARD QUARITCH (9 th S. v. 83, 116). What MR. G. J. HOLYOAKE says at the last reference is the hardest public rap the second-hand bookselling fraternity has received for many a day. It amounts to this, that Mr. Quaritch cleared away ninety-nine books from a poor man's table for less than the value of a halfpenny newspaper, and for the hundredth book gave twelve shillings less than its market value, and then told the un- fortunate seller that he (the seller) could "do better without them." We must accept the statement, for it is not a hearsay report, but written over the respected name of one of the actual parties to the transaction. Per- sonally I considered Mr. Quaritch a rather blunt and offhand book-dealer, but certainly

incapable of such a transaction. I can imagine one defence, viz., that they were not worth the room they took up ; but in that case why take them at alii We must also remember that seller and purchaser living next door the cost of packing and carriage was practi- cally nil. NE QUID NIMIS.

" ENTIRE " (9 th S. v. 100). This word was fully discussed in 'N. & Q.,' 8 th S. ix. and x., where it is shown that, as now used by brewers, it is meaningless.

RALPH THOMAS.

"AN END" (9 th S. v. 65, 137). When the cobbler whose words are reported said of his buttons, "Because they most an ind stops on," he certainly meant " for the most part." See the 'Oxford Dictionary,' under 'An-end.' Understood as above, most an end was good enough English for Bishop Sanderson and Milton ; and Bishop Warburton has it in his 4 Divine Legation, Dedication to the Free- thinkers ' (1738). Here in Suffolk, a labourer advancing in years may still be heard to say, " My working-days are over most an end"

F. H.

Marlesford.

All your correspondents on this phrase ignore the 'H.E.D.,' which gives a full ex- planation in the article on 4 t An, prep. Obs[olete].' The article on * An-end,' marked also "Obsolete," contains several examples of most an end dated from 1570 to 1691, where most means " almost," and an - end " con- tinually," the expression "to the end" im- plying continuity. Other meanings of an-end are " in the end " (obsolete), and " on end," or " upright," in which sense it is at least above sixty years older than Dr, Murray's earliest example (1593), being noted by Palsgrave in 1530 at p. 530 a, "sette hym an ende, mettez le debout." .

MR. RATCLIFFE'S explanation is wide of the mark. An end may, as he says, be a short provincialism for "a waxt end "in London usually called "a wax-end"; but such an article has nothing to do with the phrase under notice. " Wax-ends," with needles for using them, it will perhaps interest MR. RATCLIFFE to know, have for some time been vended by London gutter traders. I have used them myself to repair a valise. An end is noted by Halliwell, but a reference to the dialect dictionary would be useful.

F. ADAMS. 109, Albany Road, Camberwell.

"HANKY PANKY" (9 th S. v. 26). The fol- lowing from the Daily Chronicle of 20 Jan. leserves to be enshrined in the pages of