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Pinkerton will show that, however we may "shuffle the cards," there is not much to learn since the last century but one. Pictish is shown to have Celtic and Teutonic analogies, indicating a mixture between Britons from the south and Teutons from the north-east, say Scandinavia.

A. HALL.

Highbury.

MIQUELON (9 th S. v. 375). In the seven- teenth century there was much quarrelling about the Newfoundland fisheries, so that in 1697 an inquiry was held at St. Sebastian on the subject. One of the witnesses gave the following evidence :

" Que en el tiempo de su memoria, que la tiene de cuarenta y ocho afios a esta parte, habia visto que los naturales de esta provincia ban ido a las islas y costas de Terra Nova a hacer pesca de bacallao en cualquier puerto, comoson Traspas, Santa Maria, Cunillas Placencia, Petit Placencia, Petit Paradis, Martiris, Buria Chumea, Buria Andia, San Lorenz Chumea, San Laurenz Andia, San Pierre, Fortuna, Miquele Portu, Chasco Portu, Senoria, Opot Portu, Tres Islas "

It may be inferred from the above passage that the name of Miquele Portu, which no doubt refers to the roadstead at the north of the island, has no connexion with St. Michael, otherwise "San" would have been placed before it, as is the case with several other names in the list.

This is the earliest mention of the island that I have been able to find. It is occasion- ally called Mechlin or Heckling Isle.

T. P. ARMSTRONG.

Timperley.

GRAMMATICAL USAGE (9 tb S. v. 288, 360). I beg leave to add three examples of the use of here comes and where is with plural sub- stantives, which I happened to observe in Marlowe quite recently, and subsequently to my last communication : ^Eneas, see, hero comes the citizens.

' Dido,' II. i. By 'r lord ! here comes the king and the nobles.

'Edw. II., 'I. i.

But where's the king and the other Spencer fled ?

'Edw. II.,' IV. v.

Any one who lies in wait for similar examples may, with some diligence, find more.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS DILKES (2 nd S. x. 449 ; xi. 52 ; 9 th S. v. 377). Surely MR. DILKS should have looked at a naval history or at the ' Dictionary of National Biography' before writing to you. The best-known por- trait of this most distinguished officer is not that named by MR. DILKS, but that in Green- wich Hospital. A. S. T.

HOT CROSS BUNS (9 th S. v. 334). Your correspondent ranks it as a sign of deca- dence that these delicacies are "not unfre- quently buttered." Considerably more than fifty years ago the purveyors of these articles in the Midlands woke us on the morning of Good Friday with the welcome cry :

muns.

ap em in your

V.H.I.L.I.C.I.V.

THROWING A BONNET OVER THE WINDMILLS (9 th S. v. 268). "She has thrown her cap over the mill " is a very common expression in France to signify that a woman has " stooped to folly." MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

"LA FE ENDRYCZA AL SOBIERAN BEN" (9 th

S. v. 187, 258). This is explained at the last reference, but the language is not given. It is obviously meant for Prove^al But sobieran should be sobeiran; and endrycza is not quite satisfactory. However, it may have been taken from some provincial form of Languedoc. WALTER W. SKEAT.

The language is Spanish ; ben is an anti- quated, also a Catalan form of bien : " Faith raises (?) to the sovereign good (or supreme good)." Endrysca I cannot find in dictionaries old, dialect, or modern. Probably it is an penthetic form of en(d)riscar, with the frequent transposition of sc into cs (Diez). Enriscar = tQ raise, elevate ; or is it enderezar, derezar, drezar, endrezar, enderecar, to guide, prepare? C. G. S.-M.

" COLLY" (9 th S. v. 208).-! shall be glad to know the meaning of the name " Colli- shaw." I have friends in two families so called. C. C. BELL.

REV. CHARLES FORSHAW (9 th S. v. 229, 294). DR. FORSHAW may be interested to know that the Rev. Charles Forshaw was chaplain to the mock corporation of Newburgh, Lan- cashire. (See Manchester City News, 14 April.) This corporation, like that of Sefton, was a convivial club. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

FIRST EDITION OF MOLIERE (9 th S. v. 266). Both according to Brunet's ' Manuel ' and Despois and Mesnard's standard edition of Moliere (in 11 vols. 8vo., Par., 1873-93), the first collected though not complete edition, comprising his ten earliest comedies, in 2 vols., appeared in 1666; the second and tnird, each consisting of 7 vols., in 1673 and 1674-76. The five supplementary volumes which com-