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 454 NOTES AND QUERIES. P* s. VL DEC. s, im Hainault and of Holland; her mother, Margaret, d. of Lewis I., Duke of Brieg in Silesia. C. S. WARD. Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke. The date (1419) given by MEGAN as that of the marriage of Jean sans Peur with Mar- garet of Bavaria is the date of his death. According to the ' Dictionnaire des Dates,' Paris, 1845. and 'A Dictionary of General Biography, by Gates, London, 1885, he was assassinated on the Bridge of Montereau on 10 September, 1419. According to Betham's 'Genealogical Tables.' London, 1795, Mar- garet his wife, daughter of Albert, Count of Holland, Zeeland, West Friesland, and Hainault, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Adolph, Count of Cleves, died in 1426 (see Tables 566 and 577). ROBERT PIERPOINT. PAIRING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS (9th S. vi. 390).—At 7th S. vi. 409 I gave the following quotation from the ' O'Connell Correspondence ' (1888), i. 188 :— " When a gentleman disposed to vote for me in the usual way wrote to the Treasury to ask to tie with a Government member, he got an official letter stating to him that it was not to be opposed by the Ministry." The extract is from a letter by O'Connell, dated May, 1829. I asked whether to " tie was an earlier expression than to " pair," or an alternative, but I had no reply. I have a note, though whence derived I do not know, that on 6 March, 1743, a motion was made in the House of Commons that " no member of this House do presume to make any agreement with another member to absent themselves from any service of this House, or any committee thereof; and that this House will pro ceed with the utmost severity against all inch members as shall offend therein," and that this was negatived on a division. G. L. APPERSON. "Wio"=BuN (5lh S. i. 261, 474; ii. 138 178).—On Saturday, being Trinity Eve, 1376 Reginald Hikke, baker of French bread, wai brought before the Mayor and certain alder men (named) of the city of London with a halfpenny loaf, called wygge, weighing les than the just weight by viii*. iid.; and wa. sentenced to the judicium clayas. How w this judgment of the hurdle carried out ? Q. V. QUOTATION FROM CARLYLE (9th S. vi. 288 338, 376).—After having shared in a dis cussion in which there was some question a to whether Henry Curwen was an historian or a myth, it gives one a suggestive shock tx find him specially distinguished in the pre face to a notable book of 1892. In that yea arlyle's previously uncollected lectures on le 'History of European Literature and Culture' were issued by Messrs. Curwen, fane & Co., Bombay. Mr. Henry Curwen vas the head of this firm, and Carlyle's editor hus refers to him in his preface :— "I cannot conclude without acknowledging my bligations to Mr. Henry Curwen, the editor of the "'imes of India, for the great interest he has taken n this work from the beginning, and for reading ver the proof-sheets," &c. f a man thus eminently connected narrowly misses a mythological repute in the short pace of eight years, there is_ surely little •com for surprise over difficulties regarding he authorship of the 'Letters of Junius,' .he 'Eikon Basilike,' or 'Christis Kirk of be Green,' to say nothing of the problems mcompassing the personality of Homer and .he composition of the Pentateuch. THOMAS BAYNK. STIKLASTAD (9th S. vi. 385).—The late Wil- iam Bell, Ph.D., read a paper at the Solstitial meeting of the Chronological Institute of London, 29 December, 1857, which paper was printed in the Transactions of that society, being art. xix. in vol. i. part iv., with the heading, 'On the Date of the Death of Olaf the Fat, afterwards St. Olave, King of Norway, at Stikklastad, near Tronyem; with reference to the total sun- eclipse, A.C. 1030.' W. C. B. A FRIDAY SUPERSTITION (9th S. vi. 265, 373). —My wife recently wanted a fresh servant, and advertised for one in a local newspaper. A girl, a native of Devonshire, applied for the situation, and appearing to be in every way suitable, she was engaged and asked to come on a given date. That date happened to be on a Friday, but the girl positively refused to enter on a new situation on a Friday. She said she would " rather give up the place." We had to submit, and she came to our house on a Saturday. A. J. DAVY. Torquay. GEO. OFFOR'S LIBRARY (9th S. vi. 389).— The famous collection of books belonging to the late George Offor, of Grove House, South Hackney, where he died on 4 Augustj 1864, was removed to the sale-rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, the eminent book auctioneers, Wellington Street, Strand. On the morning of 29 June in the following year a fire broke out and destroyed much valuable property, including the greater portion of Mr. Offer's library, which was catalogued to occupy eleven days' sale. The residuum of the library was sold as salvage