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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. v. MARCH 17, im

song "Tak' your auld Cloak aboot ye." Jamieson's etymology is : " Teut. hurck-en, inclinare se ; Belg. hurk-en, to squat, to sit stooping," &c. " Hurklin' " is said to be used in Banffshire of "one who has rickety legs," and perhaps the term might not be con- sidered as inapplicable to a trained bear when on the move between his dances.

THOMAS BAYNE.

In Keightley's 'Fairy Mythology' I read this :

"A female relation of his own told Mr. Ritson of Robin Goodfellow's, it would seem, thrashing the corn, churning the butter, drinking the milk, and, when all was done, lying before the fire, ' like a great, rough, hurgin bear.'"

Hurgin seems to mean monstrous. Orcens, or Orcneas, are mentioned as monsters in the poem of ' Beowulf.' Reginald Scot speaks of an urchin as a supernatural being inspiring terror ; and perhaps Shakspeare uses the word with the same meaning, rather than as a hedgehog. Orcen, urchin, and hurgin may be the same. E. YARDLEY.

Surely the above is a local variant of hulk- ing, the liquid I being replaced by the liquic r, the k in like manner finding a substitute in the g, while the final g is dropped.

D. H.

CURIOSITIES OF COLLABORATION (9 th S. iv 475). As brother colabourers there occur to mind the brothers Tennyson, the brothers Hare, the brothers Mayhew. The earlies novel of Miss C. M. Sewell was edited by her brother, the Rev. W. Sewell.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

[Add also the brothers Paul and Victor Margue ritte in France.]

S. v. 108). I remember her as a custome of mine for school-books, when she resided a Royal York Crescent, Clifton, at a schoo kept by the Misses Rogers. They were in vited by the Empress, after her marriage, t spend a few days with her in Paris, an even which was a lifelong subject of talk wit' these ladies. The house is now occupied by French tutor and is called " Eugenie House.'
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JAMES FAWN.

Bristol.

PRINCE OF WALES (9 th S. v. 69). It is gener ally thought that the style and dignity o Prince of Wales are inherited by the heir apparent to the throne. This opinion natur ally enough has arisen from the fact tha very soon after his birth (or the accession o his predecessor to the crown as the case ma be), the heir-apparent has for a long perioc

eceived the title of Prince of Wales. The ukedom of Cornwall is his by inheritance, nd of course, like all sons of the sovereign, le is a prince by birth. The practice is lat he should be created Prince of Wales nd Earl of Chester bv special patent, but no creation is required for the purpose of nabling him to assume the dignity of Duke f Cornwall ; and therefore the eldest son of he sovereign cannot properly be styled other- wise than Duke of Cornwall until after the usual patents of creation pass through the ustomary forms.

George IV. was born on 12 August, 1762, and created Prince of Wales, &c., on 17 Augus \ n the same year.

Albert Edward, the present Prince of Wales was born on 9 November, 1841, and was created Prince of Wales on 4 December fol- owing. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

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The following information may be what R. BAYLEY requires. It would make it too engthy to give the innovations to what is stated. Edward of Caernarvon, fourth son of King Edward I., was summoned to Parlia- ment in 1303 by the title of Edward, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, being the first of the sons and heirs-apparent of the kings and queens of England that bore that title, which afterwards oecame ordinary to most of the rest. The title of Prince of Wales is created at the pleasure of the king by patent and other ceremonies. The first known charter of creation is dated 12 May, 1343. The earl- dom of Chester was first bestowed on a royal personage in 1254, when it was assigned to Edward, eldest son of Henry III. After 1343 this title has been usually joined with that of the Prince of Wales when that patent was granted ; the same with the earldom of Flint. The first Duke of Cornwall was Edward, eldest son of King Edward III. (17 March, 1337), and by this creation not only the first- born son of the king, but the eldest living, is Duke of Cornwall. Neither requires any new creation of this title, although sometimes it is joined with the creation of the above titles. He is entitled to all the rights and revenues, &c., belonging to the duchy from his birth, being deemed in law at full age on that day. The titles of Prince and Steward of Scotland, Duke of Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles and Baron of Renfrew, are limited by law (Act of Parliament, 27 Novem- ber, 1469) to the eldest son and heir-apparent of the sovereign of England and Scotland, which the king can never give or withhold. JOHN RADCLIFFE.