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 496 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. VL DK. 22, woo. time, if Morris had cared to know, he would have been told in two minutes exactly how much he was worth. I desire to say this in justice to those who always kept his accounts most carefully. GEORGK YOUNG WARDLE. C. C. B. may well be puzzled over the suggestion " that the neglect of detail is one of the secrets of success." Nor to my mind is "detachment from routine" synonymous with "neglect of detail," with which it has nothing whatever in common. Speaking as a business man of many years' standing, lam satisfied that no business of any importance was ever built up upon a foundation of en- during success otherwise than by close and unremitting attention to minutest points of detail. It is the development of the school- days' advice respecting the care of one's pence which I am delighted to say here was the foundation of my own modest position in the commercial world. In fact, I ascribe ray own advancement as much to detachment from routine—to looking at things from an original standpoint, to not being overborne by ourdens of precedent—as to any critical and continuous vigilance over the minutest points of detail; and I am satisfied that many readers or 'N. <k Q.' who possess business knowledge will endorse my state- ment straight away. M. L. I i BRESLAR. WORCESTERSHIRE FOLK-LORE (9th S. vi. 410). —Would not the crumb of bread mean that the groom wishes the bailiff might starve; the string and the empty pea-pod that he might be hanged, and (according to the barbarous old custom) be drawn—i.e., disem- bowelled ; and the clod of earth that he might hear of the bailiffs funeral' J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Wimbledon Park Road. As to the symbols contained in the envelope the crumb of bread = the bailiff's body; the piece of earth = burial; the string=death by hanging; the empty pease-cod = the bailiffs value as estimated by the sender. JOHN-P. STILWELL. Yateley, Hants. GRACE CHURCH (8th S. viii. 148, 377, 415).— We have a Grace Church Street in this city, and it is interesting to note that it is situated in White Abbey Road. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Bradford. DOUBLE CONSONANTS (9th S. vi. 408).—I presume to say that as Bayle en me from the south of France—from Foix—he continuec writing such words with one consonant only according to the spelling custom of the whole jf Provence. One reason why the consonants , m, n, p, t are doubled is generally because [besides etymology) the syllables in which you take, for instance, words like poele, d6me, >*mpete, the consonant need not be double 3ecause the preceding syllable is long. ALF. HAMONET. GENERAL SIR JOHN COPE (9th S. vi. 329,395). —I find he left an only daughter, described as of Grafton Street. She married, 1771[ at St. George's, Hanover Square, Alexander Leith, Esq., M.P. for Tregony, Cornwall. What became of his son John, named in some letters, I cannot discover. The general may have been John, son of Sir John Cope, Knight and Baronet, born 1705. died 1760, or else one of the descendants of Col. John Cope, of Jamaica, who, I fancy, was of the Canons Ashby branch. I wonder his pedigree is not recorded, as he was made Knight of the Bath. (Mrs.) J. HAUTENVILLE COPK. Sulhamstead Park, Berkshire. MEDIEVAL TITHE BARNS (9th S. vi. 309, 397).—The very beautiful and ornate tithe barn, called the Abbott's Barn, is still existing at Glastonbury. It is in use and in good preservation. H. W. U. "BUTTY" (9th S. vi. 409).—I would suggest that butty, a comrade, is a mere abbreviation of booty-fdlow, one who shares in in..,:;. ; hence, a comrade. The full form occurs in Palsgrave, and is duly explained in the 'H.E.D.,'s.v. 'Booty,'§5. WALTER W. SKEAT. I have always had it in my mind that butty is short for deputy: whether there is any justification for that idea I know not My grandfather used to style the district allotted to each gamekeeper his "deputa- tion." Strictly speaking, I believe the "deputation" is the deed appointing the man, not the district itself. I do not hear the word used in that sense now. The head gamekeeper may have called these under keepers his " deputies" or "butties," although in trie eye of the law they were the deputies of the lord of the manor. SHERBORSE. Although this word cannot be said to be in common use in this locality, it may still occasionally be heard. I have certainly come across it many times, and it would pass current without remark, as meaning a par- ticular friend or constant companion, with any native of this village. Both Miss Baker and Sternberg include it in their glossaries
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