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le person continue tout temps apres user eth & Isabel n'cst ou poient estre un nome i L' 1. Ass. p. 16, & 30 1. Ass. L>9, est a voyer que Mar garet Maryet ou Margery vary & sont divers, i L'l) 1. Ass. p. l(i, (ielian & Julian soit (sont) tenu severals. & en cf^t. Case grant al un ne serra pris grant a le auter, & Agnes & Anne ne sont un coni il appere 33 H. 6, 19 H. 6." Anderson's Reports ed. 1664, p. 212. "Eins" is nevertheless, "issint" likewise and "nemy " not.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon.

Marget or Margett is, of course, a verj common form of Margery. Is there any con nexion between it and Margetting, so familia to the readers of Nicholas Ferrar's 'Memoirs, or with Margaretting, a post town in Essex ?

MICHAEL FERRAR. Little Gidding, Ealing.

MONOLITH WITH CUP - MARKINGS IN HYDE PARK (9 th S. vii. 69, 115). By far the fines example of a cresset stone in Europe I con sider to be the seven-cupped one in the ancien fifteenth - century church of St. Martin ai Lewannick, in North-Eastern Cornwall. A measured drawing of it by myself appearec in the Building News for 13 June, 1879.

HARRY HEMS Fair Park, Exeter.

The relation of monoliths, such as those oi Hyde Park, Stonehenge, Carnac, &c., to phallic worship is a large question treated of in the extensive literature on megalithic remains to which Fergusson and many others have con- tributed. I have not a copy of the paper at hand, but I think the subject was briefly noticed by me when drawing attention to monoliths arid cup-markings in India, vide 'N. & Q.; ' Ancient Masons' Marks,' 8 th S. vii. 334. Recent research goes to support the view referred to by your correspondent. Un- luckily, no information is available as to the companion stones in Cornwall or Devonshire mentioned by the Board of Works. My query was inserted in the hope of tracing the locality, and of obtaining other details.

J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC, Colonel, A.D.C. to the King. Schloss Wildeck, Switzerland.

AUTHOR AND REFERENCE FOR VERSES WANTED (9 th S. vi. 469). The lines are to be found in the collected poems of the author of 'Lalla Rookh,' in a poem entitled 'A Dream of Hindostan.' M.

Mangalore.

ORIENTATION IN INTERMENTS (9 th S. vi. 167, 276, 335). There are four modern churches

(Anglican) within a mile of each other in London, to my knowledge, which do not lie east and west : St. Michael's Star Street, Paddington (north and south) ; St. Mark's, Marylebone Road (north and south) ; St. James's, Paddington (altar at west end) ; and Christ Church, Lancaster Gate (north and south). IBAUUE.

" PETERING " (9 th S. vii. 29). It seems to me thattheterm "petering out "was originally ap- plied to the exuding of crystals of lime from new or damp walls. It is extended in Western America to the giving out or exhaustion of various things, such as the season, one's courage, a vein of ore in a mine, &c. M.

Mangalore.

I first heard this expression in 1891, when the house surgeon at a hospital I was con- nected with answered an inquiry as to the condition of a patient in whose case I was personally as well as officially interested by saying, " I am terribly afraid she will peter out before morning." The phrase struck me so much that I made a note of it.

E. E. STREET. Chichester.

To "peter out," originally a miner's phrase, is from petrus (Lat.), a rock, and is said of a mine or lode when the bed-rock is reached, and consequently the supply has ceased. The American equivalent of the phrase "to be down on one's luck " is " to be down on the Ded-rock," i.e., penniless, so that " to peter out" means to diminish gradually and then cease. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

EARLY LINES ON CRICKET (9 th S. vi. 506 ; fii. 72). It may be well to note that the gentleman's Magazine for October, 1756, x 489, contains some verses entitled 'The Jrarne of Cricket.' John Kersey's 'General English Dictionary,' third edition, 1721, has

' Cricket a sort of play with a ball."

ASTARTE.

PORTRAIT OF ARCHBISHOP USSHER (9 th S. . 188). I am anxious to see the catalogue f the sale mentioned by S. A., and I should be ery glad if your correspondent can say where i) may be consulted. I may mention that the Bodleian Library possesses a portrait of the rchbishop, a half-length, which was ex- ibited at South Kensington, 1866, No. 639. t is by an unknown artist. Another was xhibited at the same place by the Archbishop f Armagh, 1868, No. 670. a bust, 30 in. by 4 in. A portrait of him by Lely was engraved y Miller. W. ROBERTS.

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