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COL. HENRY HUGH MITCHELL (9 th S. vii 107) was not, as supposed, the only office below the rank of general mentioned in the Waterloo dispatch. "The Engineers anr Artillery, commanded by Col. Smyth and Sir George Wood respectively, gave me much satisfaction," or to that effect, is a paragraph from the dispatch. This Col. Smyth, after wards Major-General Sir James Carmichae Smyth, Bart., was Governor of the Bahamas subsequently of British Guiana, where hi died in 1838. Field-Marshal Sir John Forste Fitzgerald, who died at an advanced age some quarter of a century back, was gazetteo an ensign at twelve years of age. D. F. C.

COUNT GIUSEPPE PECCHIO (9 th S. vi. 308, 395 vii. 51). Monsieur Pecchio (as he liked to be called) was not a count, though Sydney Smith in the amusing tale of his wedding terms him count (see ' Memoir of Rev. Sydney Smith, vol. i. pp. 176-7). He married Philippa, daughter of the late Benjamin Brooksbarik, of Helaugh Hall, co. York. As her family did not approve, the bridegroom having no money, the wedding took place from Sydney Smith's house at Foston. His widow never- changed the fashion of her dress after his death. I remember her in the early sixties (when all women wore large crinolines and small sleeves) in a short, tight skirt with puffed tops to the sleeves. He was an excellent and charming man, quite unlike Count Fosco. IBAGUE.

D'AUVERGNE FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 68, 117, 176). In reply to MR. ANDERSON it is neces- sary to point out that the communication to 'N. <k Q.' from a high authority on French family descents, the Marquis de Monclar (ante, p. 117), shows that P. Dauvergne, what- ever he was, was riot either " titular Duke of Bouillon " nor "a peer of France," whatever that may mean. The term " peer of France " is only used in France of those who were members of the Upper House during the Revolutionary monarchy of July i.e., between July, 1830, and February, 1848. D.

MEDLEVAL TITHE BARNS (9 th S. vi. 309, 397, 496 ; vii. 93). There is in Mr. Charles G. Harper's ' The Bath Road ' a good illustration of one still to be seen at Harmonds worth :

"An ancient tithe barn standing next the

church, was once part of an obscure Priory standing here. The ' Gothic Barn ' is built precisely on ecclesiastical lines, with nave and aisles, and is the largest of the tithe barns now remaining in England, being one hundred and ninety-one feet in length and thirty-eight feet in breadth. The walls are built of a rough kind of conglomerate found in the locality and called pudding-stone The in-

terior of the barn is a vast mass of oak columns an open roofing."

The illustration referred to is of this interior.

RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston.

CHAVASSE FAMILY '9 th S. vii. 48, 130). DE. FORSHAW ought to know that the Right Rev. Francis James Chavasse does not now reside at Wycliffe Lodge, Oxford, but at The Palace, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, by virtue of his office as Bishop of Liverpool. Strict accuracy is an essential in 'N. & Q.'

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A.

Lancaster.

DR. FORSHAW has unaccountably omitted to state that the Rev. Francis James Chavasse, sometime Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and brother of Dr. Chavasse, of Birmingham, is the present Bishop of Liverpool. For the sake of historical accu- racy in 'N. & Q.' this should appear. A cousin of the bishop's was, some few years since, a resident tutor at Oxford possibly is now. He, I suppose, is a son of Dr. Pye Chavasse. C. T. SAUNDERS.

Birmingham.

"TAPPING " AND "TIPPING " (9 th S. vii. 105). May one suggest that there is an important difference between " tapping " and " tipping," in that the former is done by the waiter and the latter by the visitor 1 ? Presumably the waiter taps the visitor's pocket ; and the analogy lies in such expressions as " tapping a cask," "tapping the treasury," and "tapping telegraph wires." But there is an overlapping even in the derivation ; for Webster, under Tip,' v.t., with a meaning " to bestow gifts upon," compares " L.G. tippen, to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap, to strike gently."

ARTHUR MAYALL.

Mr. Gill, K.C., was perfectly right. "Tap- Ding " is the opposite to " tipping," it being
 * he demand or hint for a debt, loan, or "tip."

[t is very common to hear a man say to his companion in the street, on being asked what a third person wanted, "He wanted to tap me ror a fiver." The allusion is to the tap on the shoulder from the old-time sheriff's officer, >erhaps latterly confused with a beer- tap; quite different words, of course. H. P. L.

RALEGH'S SIGNATURE (9 th S. vii. 7, 158). The statement of your correspondent B. B. is to the descendants of Sir Walter having hanged the mode of spelling their name to Raleigh " is not altogether correct. The ignatures of his son Carew, and of the atter's children and grandchildren, invari-