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scripts from well-known originals, made by a group of Welsh antiquarians early in the eighteenth century. They all came into the possession o William Jones, F.R.S., father of the celebrated Sir William Jones, and were bequeathed by him to his friend and patron George, the second Earl o Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society. The tradition is that the Basque MSS. formed part o: this bequest, and it is slightly confirmed by the facl that some leaves of a Welsh MS. are bound in the third volume of the ' Basque Dictionary.' In the eighteenth century, and long since, there prevailed a mistaken opinion that the Basque language belonged to the Celtic family. George Borrow started his examination of the language on the assumption that it was Irish. He soon found that this theory was untenable, and begins one of his chapters with the quaint heading ' Basque not Irish." A German scholar in 1807 wrote a long disserta- tion, in which he compared the Basque, Welsh, and Gaelic languages. It is remarkable that he did not learn from the vocabularies which he collected and compared, that the latter two languages have little or no affinity with the former. Such being the state of learned opinion in the last, and the begin- ning of the present, century, we may conjecture with some probability that the Welsh antiquarians purchased the Basque MSS. under the impression that they had some possible bearing on Celtic studies. Whether they bought them direct from the Basque refugee who wrote them, or whether they obtained them from a bookseller, to whom they had been sold, is a point on which, as yet, we have no information. The tradition of the source from which they come seems to have existed in the library from the first, and is given as unquestionable by the cataloguer of the library in 1860.

X. L.

CAPT. S. GOODERE (9 th S. v. 209, 275, 341). There is a pedigree of the Goodere family- compiled by one S. Foot (a relative of Samuel Foote, the comedian), who assumed the name of Goodere, and who claimed to be the heir of Sir J. Dinely Goodere, who was murdered at Bristol in the collection of tracts and broadsides made by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the British Museum, which might be consulted for what it is worth.

JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury Mansions, N.

PRINCE OF WALES AS DUKE OF CORNWALL (9 th S. v. 4, 215, 363).* It may be of interest to give, as showing what is officially considered the present full official style of the Prince of Wales, the text of the words in which, at the Quarterly Communication of the United Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons of England, on 7 March, he was pro- claimed as Grand Master by the Acting Grand Director of Ceremonies :

"Be it known The Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Illustrious Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Saxony, Duke of Cornwall and


 * And see ante, pp. 69, 214.

Rothesay, Earl of Chester, Carrick, and Dublin, Baron of Renfrew and Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin- guished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, is installed Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons of England, whom may the Great Architect of the Universe long preserve."

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BLAKE'S IRON RAILWAY (9 th S. v. 268). The Surrey Iron Railway is mentioned in most books which deal with the history of the sub- ject, but the best account I know is that which appeared in the Engineer of 5 and 19 Jan., pp. 7 and 57. An earlier article on the subject appeared in the same journal on 8 Feb., 1895, p. 110. Speaking from memory, there is no mention of a plate by Blake, but the refer- ences may be useful all the same. I spent an hour or so in the Print Room at the British Museum the other day, but could find no trace of the engraving in question. R. B. P.

"BUTT," THE COUNTERFOIL OF A CHEQUE (9 th S. v. 336). In glazing such a structure as a greenhouse, when the sheets of glass are brought evenly edge to edge, so as not to overlap, they are said to be " butted." Like- wise a paperhanger, papering a room, takes care to " butt " the pieces that is, to join the side-edges exactly, so that there shall be no break in the pattern, and no gaps.

W. C. B.

"CHOYS" (9 fch S. v. 356). -The 'N.E.D.' has, as usual, been neglected ; there are several examples of the spelling choys for choice. Indeed, it is the usual old spelling, like M.E. mys for mice, &c. In my ' Glossarial Index to Chaucer,' s.v. * Chois,' I give three examples of chois and four of choys, as occurring in Ohaucer alone. WALTER W. SKEAT.

VIRTUES AND VICES (9 th S. v. 289). Viollet- e-Duc has a very interesting article on the subject of the representation of the virtues and vices by the sculptors of the Middle Ages n his * Dictionnaire de 1 'Architecture Fran- aise,' art. ' Vertus.' He remarks that it is not until the latter half of the twelfth century that any examples are to be met with, but after that time they are constantly to be found, not only on religious, but also on secular buildings. Illustrations are given of