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WiG":=BuN (5 th S. i. 261, 474 ; ii. 138, 178 9 th S. vi. 454). At the last reference we ai asked how the sentence against a fraud ulen baker was carried out, when he had bee sentenced to the judicium clayce, or punisl ment by hurdle. "The culprit was draw upon a hurdle from Guildhall, through th most populous and most dirty streets, wit the defective loaf hanging from his neck ('Liber Albas,' introd., p. ci). See my not to * Piers Plowman,' Text C, passus iv. 1. 79. WALTER W. SKEAT.

The offending baker was tied (seated) to common hurdle, to which two horses wer attached ; usually a deficient loaf was hun round the culprit's neck, and then "he wa drawn from the Guildhall to his own house through the great streets where there b most people assembled and through th great streets that are most dirty " (' Libe Albus'). J. G. WALLACE- J AMES, M.B.

Haddington.

ENGLISH ACCENT AND ETYMOLOGY (9 th S vi. 267, 335, 455). The question was no which pronunciation of inundate is the best but which is most common. Undoubtedly imindate is preferable every way, but when I pleaded for the retention of the r sound in certain words I was laughed at and what is the use of opposing custom ? We must follow the vagaries of fashion, even if fashion wouk have us call them vagaries, as probably ii will do soon. C. 0. B.

COUNTING ANOTHER'S BUTTONS (9 th S. v 496 ; vi. 30, 273, 371, 456). When a school- boy I was sometimes offered a horoscope by a comrade, who had prepared a list of trades and professions numbered, e.g., (1) soldier, (6) draper, (20) lawyer, &c. Another time I was offered a roll inscribed with a similar list, my future career being determined by the name at which I ceased to unfold the roll. Great was my boyish wrath at finding myself cast for a "tot-hunter," a slang term, I believe, for a rag picker or sorter. Some of us used to half believe in this mild amateur jugglery. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

BrixtonHill.

The idea appears to be mentioned in Shake- speare. In * Merry Wives,' III. ii., the Host of the Garter says : " He will carry 't, he will carry 't ; 'tis in his buttons: he will carry 't."

H. P. L.

ST. HUGH'S DAY (9 th S. vi. 469). The " special liturgy " or Proper Mass of St. Hugh may be found in any complete printed Sarum Missal or in any complete MS. made sub^

sequent to the introduction of the festival. It may be readily consulted in Dickinson's edition of ' Missale ad Usurn Sarum,' Burnt- island Press, 1861-83, cols. 971, 972. Under the term " special liturgy " your correspond- ent would probably include the Breviary Office with its proper lessons on the life of St. Hugh, for which see Proctor and Words- worth's 'Sarum Breviary,' Camb., 1886, fascic. iii. cols. 1059-1070. So much for the " Proper " portions. The other portions of the services were from the Common of a Confessor, for which see the above-named Missal, col. 700"*. and Breviary, fascic. ii. col. 409. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

Eefer to 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. xi. 279 ; 7 th S. vii. 348, 454 ; 8 th S. xi. 307 ; xii. 71.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

COLUMBARIA, ANCIENT DOVE OR PIGEON COTES (9 th S. vi. 389, 478). There is a very fine columbarium of the fourteenth century at Garway on the river Monnow, close to the interesting Norman church dedicated to St. Michael. G. F. R. B.

See paper on 'Pigeon Houses in Hereford- shire and Gower,' by Alfred Watkins, read at the Gloucester annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute, 15 August, 1890 Arch. Journ., vol. xlviii. pp. 29-44).

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A. Lancaster.

SIR JOHN BORLASE WARREN, BART., 1753- 1822 (9 th S. vi. 490).-! find that the London Magazine, vol. xxi. p. 528, records the mar- iage on 14 Nov., 1752, of "John Borlace Warren, Esq.; of Stapleford, near Notting- iam, to Miss Bridget Rosell"; and that the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxiii. p. 445, ecords the birth on 3 Sept., 1753, oy the Lady of John Borlace Warren, Esq. : of a on." tt C.

"DUDE" (9 th S. vi. 450). As I lately ex- gained the etymology of this word in the '.thenceum, perhaps I may be allowed to make few remarks. I stated that it is obviously a lortened form of the Low G. Duden-dop or Duden-kop, a blockhead. A few criticisms followed, mostly (as it seems to me) irrelevant, le latest of them being, however, exactly o the point. The writer showed that the lortened form dude also occurs in German, ut is not given in anv of the smaller ictionaries. It is notecj, nevertheless, in by the l&h "stupidus," and refers us to
 * he great dictionary by Grimm, who explains