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Langtry is in fact, as a moment's observa- tion will show, Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

H. T.

" FLANNELIZED." In a recently published novel (' Jasper Tristram,' by A. W. Clarke) a youth is referred to as having " flannelized," meaning that he had dressed himself in cricketing or boating flannels. As this is the first time I have noticed this expression in any work of literary pretensions it may be worth while recording it in the pages of
 * N. & Q.' FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

"BoYTRY." In Robert Ashley's translation from the French of Louis le Roy, entitled 'Of the Interchangeable Course or Variety of Things' (1594), there occurs, in fol. 86b, " puerilitie or boytrie." Only a single quota- tion (1542) for what seems to be the same word, boytrye but undefined, and apparently in a different sense is given in the ' Oxford Dictionary.' As regards the epenthetic t in its -try, boytry is like deviltry, current in East Anglia and the United States. F. H.

Marlesford.

" BATHETIC." Coleridge is generally cre- dited, but on insufficient grounds, with this unhappy invention. Edward Du Bois, in his 'Piece of Family Biography' (1799), vol. iii. p. 16, writes of "a phalanx of authors or authorlings, pathetic and bathetic," adding, in a foot-note : " Why not bathetic, from bathos, as well as pathetic, from pathos ? " For one reason, because, as Dr. Murray re- marks, pathetic is not from pathos. F. H.

Marlesford.

THE DISCOVERER OP PHOTOGRAPHY. I note in your highly interesting historical sketch of ' N. & Q.'s ' jubilee (9 th S. iv. 365) you quote MR. JOHN MACRAY in 'N. & Q.' for 8 Dec., 1860, who there gives Lord Brougham as the discoverer of photography. In Miss Mete- yard's book on china I remember reading that Tom Brierly, Wedgwood's partner at the latter end of the last century, was credited with the discovery, which happened during his attempts to give to earthenware a silver 'ustre. In her book is given a representa- tion of a photograph taken of a tea service made in this silver lustre by Brierly. It would be interesting to know for certain who was the first discoverer.

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

CHURCH OLDER THAN ST. MARTIN'S. In the grounds of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital at Canterbury (which was formerly a cemetery) there is an interesting ancient chapel, evidently of Roman origin. It is

called St. Pancras's Church. I inspected it, at the invitation of the secretary or that in- stitution ; it is a small building, but appears to be a genuine remnant of antiquity.

G. A. BROWNE. Camberwell.

ENIGMA BY W. M. PRAED. The short prayer attributed to Bishop Atterbury (see 9 th S. iv. 68, 137) reminds me of the poetical charade by the above-named author in its brevity and appropriateness. The answer is said to be unknown, though many guesses have been hazarded. W. M. Praecl died in 1839 :

Sir Hilary charged at Agincourt, Sooth ! 'twas an awful day !

And though in that old age of sport

The rufflers of the camp and court Had little time to pray,

'Tis said Sir Hilary muttered there

Two syllables by way of prayer.

My first to all the brave and proud

Who see to-morrow's sun; My next, with her cold and quiet cloud, To those who find their dewy shroud

Before to-day's be done ! And both together to all blue eyes That weep when a warrior nobly dies.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

"HANKY PANKY." The folio wing announce- ment, which appeared in the Monthly Mirror, July, 1796, p. 192, is worth quoting as a foot- note to the expression " hanky panky ": 'Married. Capt. Hankey, of the first regi- ment of Foot Guards, to Miss Pan key, of Bedford Square." W. ROBERTS.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest n order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.
 * o affix their names and addresses to their queries,

"SEEK" OR " SEEKE." " Blow the seek" occurs twice in the ' Oxford Dictionary,' under the verb blow, as if seek were a wind-instru- ment. As in the quotations referred to, so
 * n two others, all of them being from Bishop

Richard Mountagu, the context throws no ight on the meaning of seek. What does it signify? F. H.

Marlesford.

SUTTY, BOOKSELLER, 1700-1730. In vol. iii. of Dibdin's * Bibliographical Decameron ' some account of this man is given, apparently on the authority of Schelhorn, which I lave never yet succeeded in tracing to its