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NOTES AND QUERIES, [9* s. vn. MARCH 2, 1901.

battalion or sections in a company is changed, as constantly happens, the order is restored by telling off the battalion or company afresh. HERBERT MAXWELL.

DEFINITION OF GRATITUDE (9 th S. vii. 89, 138). Madame de Sevigne wrote in 1671 (Letter 156): " L'ingratitude attire les reproches, comme la reconnaissance attire de nouveaux bienfaits." V. R.

One of La Rochefoucault's maxims (305) is "Gratitude with most men is a strong secret desire to receive greater benefits." Another one (230) has practically the same idea, " Gratitude is often like the honesty of traders : we pay our debts to get future credit." CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallow field, Reading.

" THE POWER OF THE DOG " (9 th S. vii. 106) MR. AXON has hardly recognized the mean- ing of the cardinal's reference to the Gospel of St. John. That portion of the first chapter which deals with the mystery of the Incar- nation, "Verbum caro factum est," was used as a charm against witchcraft, posses- sion, storms, evil eye, &c See ' N. & Q., 6 th S. viii. 490 ; ix. 37, 156, 215 ; 9 th S. iv. 515, where references to interesting instances may be found. W. C. B.

GOVERNOR HAYNES'S GRANDFATHER (9 th S

vi. 88, 515). I missed the first of these queries

or would have answered it sooner, as I sup

pose I am better posted in the various Hairieb

genealogies of England than any one else

living. I have long pedigrees of the Reading

family and of the Herts and Essex family

Nicholas Haynes was certainly not the fathe

of Governor John, as he only left one son

Richard, who was buried, as your corre

spondent observes, 21 April, 1634. Richarc

left only a daughter, Susan, who marriec

Edward Hopkinsori in 1631. One daughte

of Nicholas married into the Kay family o

Woodsorn, Yorks. Nicholas and his brother

John, William, and Thomas were Yeomen o

the Guard to Queen Elizabeth, and helc

various offices under her as Purveyor of Se

Fish, Sergeant of Catery, Yeoman of th

Toils, Purveyor of Grain, Overseer of Mea

dows. The other brother, Christopher, wa

an innkeeper at Arundel. None left child rer

unless it were William, if he is to be ideritifiec

with the William Haynes, citizen and me

chant tailor of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, wh

left a large and flourishing family (to who

the Benedict and Henry mentioned belongec

at Hackney and Chisingdon and Godston

This family also died out in male line, Thorn

zine, who married John Evelyn, of Godstoi

t the age of fourteen), coming in as heir to ler brothers ,,. x

The name Haines (in various spellings) ccurs in Essex and Herts from the earliest mes. Governor Haynes's grandfather was robably John Haynes of "ye Milles," Much ladham, whose will (20 July, 1551, proved October, 155-) is in the Commissary Court f Essex and Herts. Governor John s father ould then be George Haynes (will 9 Novem- er, 1584, proved 4 January, 1584/5) by an arlier wife than Agnes Alles, of Aldbury, 'horn he married by licence in 1571. Inere s a great deal to be found out about this amily from the Manor Rolls of Much Had- am 'and neighbouring manors, as well as ! rom the various church registers. Ine Haines wills in the P.C.C. and Essex and Herts Courts are quite numerous. The name ppears from the earliest times with the s. Both the Reading and Essex families used he arms, with crescents and the heron as rest. Richard Haines, of Reading, very possibly came from Essex or Herts. Mv wn family has used a coat identical with hat of Hezekiah Haynes, major-general ot Cromwell's army, since 1680. I shall be lappy to give any of your correspondents lurther particulars on any subject connected with the name Haines, or I can refer them o my book published last year and reviewed n your columns. C. REG. HAINES.

Uppingham.

WILLIAM MORRIS AS A MAN OF BUSINESS 9 th S. vi. 406, 495 ; vii. 54, 118). IB AGUE says, 'It is somewhat unlucky to speak of Dr. Swift as though he had no regard for detail, and thus bracket him with the foolish man in Job." He has missed the point of my communication. These two were put together not on account of their own regard, or dis- regard, of details, but because they both spoke as if it were part of the necessary magnificence of God's character wholly to neglect them. Doubtless the dean's regard for his dinner made him anxious to believe that God did not regard it. W. C. B.

"Wise" (9 th S. vii. 45). I fear^that your genial correspondent is labouring under something like a delusion -as to this word. He does me too much honour. I modestly disclaim the credit of " manufacturing " A.-S. z0i'sc = meadowland (marshy or otherwise), for the simple but sufficient reason that it occurs in several A.-S. land-charters, and reappears, as wyssh, in Middle-English documents, is duly recorded in the latest published part of Prof. Toller's 'Anglo-Saxon Dictionary,' while full references for its occurrence are