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 9°-s. vl. DEC. 22, 1900.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 497 The latter says, “ The author of the ‘ Hereford- shire Glossar ’ considers it a corruption of abettofr. Mr. Iiartshorne gives the A.-S. bote, auxilium.” _ JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. PITQHED BATTLE (9°" S. vi. 286).-The following passages may grove useful and interesting. One is from t e book of Samuel, and the probable date is B.c. 1063 :- “ And Saul and the men of Israel wereéiathered together, and pitched by the valley of ah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side; and there was a valley between them.”-l Sam. xvii. 2-3. The comment of Dean Stanley (A. P. S.) upon this in the ‘Dictionary of the Bible,’ s.v. ‘ David,’ is :- “The scene of the battle is at Ephes-Dammin, in the frontier hills of Judah, called, probabl from this and similar encounters, ‘ the bound of blood/ Saul’s army is encampled on one side of the ravine, the Philistines on t e other; the watercourse of Elah, or the ‘Terebinth,’ runs between them.”- Vol. i. 403. Another illustration is from a much more modern source, ‘Anne of Geierstein,’ pro- bable date 1474, while the speakers are Kilian, the squire of Sir Archibald de Hagen- bach, and the Scharfgerichter :- “ ‘ Thou art deceived,’ said the executioner, ‘ and hast never looked on men when they are about to die.’ ‘Have I not?’ said the sq_uire. ‘Have I not looked on five pitched fields, besides skirmishes and ambuscades innumerable? ‘That tries not the eourage,’ said the Scharfgerichter. ‘All men will fight when pitched against each other. So will the most paltry curs ; so will the dunghill fowls.”’- Chap. xiv. Joan Prcxronn, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. A pitched battle, according to Cassell’s ‘Encyclopaedic Dictionary,’ is a battle in which all the forces on each side areengzlifed. Neither this definition nor that of the ‘ .E.D.’agrees with the definition formerly present with GVBIY' Suffolk schoolbo _ In my schoolda s at pswich a pitched' battle was a fight stubbornly contested, whether by rival armies, rival schools or rival prize-fighters. Is not the idea in the phrase that the contestants “pitched into t e fight” (threw themselves into it) for all they were worth 'I K. Con or Anus (9"‘ S. vi. 349, 415).-It is little better than guessing, with imperfect data ; but it seems likely that the faded coat described is that of a Gregory of Styvechale, near Coventry. It should be, I think, Or, two bars az.; in chief a lion sant of the second. The martlet is probabllyafor cadency. Arthur Gregory living in 1581 (tests Glover), died in 1604. His ounger brother, son, or cousin, mi ht have Iiorne the coat with the martlet. Hut more evidence would be neces- sar in order to identify the person to whom they coat belonged. J ULIAN MARSHALL. The arms robabg belong to some branch of the famil) of urnaby or Burneby of Watford, co. Ilorthampton whose arms are, Argent, two bars gules; in chief a lion passant uardant of the second. The colour of the forelegs of the lion in the query seems to indicate that the beast was gules, and if the bars are similar to the other portion, the also may be gules. The arms being faded; the reguardant position would be difficult to decipher. J cms R.u>cL1rrn. “IHATTOCK” (9“' S. vi. 308, 413).-Generally the name of the German wild huntsman is rinted Hackelnber, not Hackelblock; but Grimm’s work, whicg ST. SWITHIN quotes, is an indisputable authority. It is said of Hackelnber that, when he was in the flesh he dreamt that a wild boar gave him a mortal wound. He awoke and meeting some days after a boar like that which he had seen in his dream, he killed it, and, supposing that all danger from it was over, he contemptu- ously kicked it, but, in so doing, wounded himself with the tusks and died of the wound. There are other stories like this, one of them being in the ‘ Ingoldsby Legends.’ E. YABDLBY. “Pvncnacss ” (9**‘ S. vi. 369).-This is from the French pourchasser, to seek after, to ursue, to petition for. The old Scots law Form was purchase to ursue at law. J.  J)ALLACE-JAMES, M.B. “ KHAKI ” as A Purrr N Icmuun (9“‘ S. vi. 387).-Whilst the discussion is proceeding may I register the fact (which I noticed at the time and intended to have then commu- nicated to you) that the term “ khaki,” in relation to electioneering, and particularly the term “to vote khaki, originated in this country at the York by-election before the General Election? A. C. Fox-Davms. Hnwrr on Hmwrrr (9"* S. vi. 249).-Joseph “Hewit,” admitted to Westminster School 4 April, 1766, was probably the third son of James Hewitt, created Lord Liiford in 1769. The Hon. Joseph Hewitt was aptpointed third Serjeant of Ireland 1787, secon Serjeant in 1789, and Judge of the King’s Bench in Ireland 6 July, 1791. He died unmarried in 1794. J. A. HEWITT. Port Elizabeth, S.A.