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Butler in the parrot's phrases " Rope " am "Walk, knave, walk," he was not the inventoi of them. They were proverbial, and older than Butler, for Shakespeare mentions ''the prophecy, like the parrot, * Beware the rope'; end ' " (' Comedy of Errors,' IV. iv.) ; and Ben Jonson introduces a dialogue with a parrot : What 's that you say ? How, walk, knave, walk ! I think you 're angry with me, Pol.

' Magnetic Lady' (1632), V. v.

W. C. B.

SACK AND SUGAR (9 th S. vii. 148). Sugar- plums, candy, lumps of delight, syrups, and such like delicacies, from the year 1253, are fully discussed in ' N. & Q.,' 8 th S. iii. 407, 489; iv. 58, 118, 193.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

AN AMERICAN INVASION (9 th S. vii. 227). The responsibility for the "orthographic heresies " complained of by H. T. rests with brother Jonathan, Sir W. Besant's book having been printed here from stereotype plates sent from America under the American copyright law. F. ADAMS.

I was glad to see H. T.'s protest against this abominable habit (manifested by some of our leading publishers) of having books by English authors and intended for English readers published in American spelling. I myself remonstrated with the representatives of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. in their shop (or " store," as I suppose they will soon be calling it) at Cambridge for printing their ' Life of Cromwell,' by Morley, according to the American "notions" of spelling. It is a sign of the times. To be distinctively Eng- lish is nowadays stigmatized as Chauvinism, jingoism, insularity, and what not.

REGINALD HAINES.

Uppingham.

H. T. seems to have forgotten that theater was so spelt in England some three hundred years ago. The Pilgrim Fathers carried it to America. Of course, the word is decidedly ugly, but to accuse the Americans of having perpetrated it is absurd. If your contributor- will look back into English books of long ago he will find many words spelt exactly as they are printed in America to-day. In ' The Whole Art of the Stage,' 1684, "theatre" is spelt theater. S. J. A. F.

CAMPBELLS OF ARDKINGLASS (9 th S. vii. 187). An account of the Ardkinglass family of Campbells in Anderson's 'Scottish Nation,' i. 569, opens thus :

" The Ardkinglass family was an old branch of the house of Argyle. Sir Colin Campbell, the son

and heir of James Campbell of Ardkinglass, descended from the Campbells of Lorn, by Mary his wife, the daughter of Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy, was created a baronet in 1679. The family ended in an heiress, who married into the Livingstone family, and was the mother of Sir James Livingstone, baronet, whose son, Sir James Livingstone Campbell of Ardkinglass, was for some time governor of Stirling Castle.

After telling of Sir James's appointments and activities, the narrative goes on to say that on his death in 1788 he was succeeded by his son Sir Alexander, who died in 1810, when the title and estate descended to the next heir of entail. Col. James Callander, his cousin, son of Sir James's sister Mary Living- stone and Sir John Callander of Craigforth, the celebrated antiquary. On Col. Callan- der's death, without legitimate issue, the title became extinct. THOMAS BAYNE.

Being a descendant of the Campbells of Ardkinglass and having many notes concern- ng them from 1493 and a complete descent
 * rom 1646, I would probably be able to give

. NIALL D. CAMPBELL information on any particular point he may require.

LOUISA WALLACE-JAMES. Tyne House, Haddington, N.B.

DATE WANTED (9 th S. vii. 27, 96, 153, 237). MR. MYDDELTON'S communication at the last reference makes it clear that no fewer than )lundered over this question. My blunder s astonishing by reason that before the imultaneous appearance of " the first two eplies " I sent in a solution of the problem dentical with MR. MYDDELTON'S, giving the late as 4 June, which was not inserted. GNOMON'S note, however, " fogged " me, and n my eagerness to correct his figures I unfortunately lapsed into his error with egard to the negative sign used in his iquation instead of the positive an error hat I might have avoided merely by looking at Sir H. Nicolas's tables. I find there, for nstance, that in 1627 when the difference >etween the styles was still ten days, as in he preceding century the date of Easter is $iven as 25 March in the Old and 4 April in he New Style ; O.S. 25 May .(a month, like March, of thirty -one days) corresponds there- ore to N.S. 4 June alike for 1627 and 1543.
 * our correspondents, including myself, have

apologize for occupying so much space in lemonstrating what is so obvious.

F. ADAMS.

BUTTON FAMILY (9 th S. vi. 409, 517 ; vii. 4, 117, 174). The Button who is most likely o have been at Poictiers, though in the Prince f Wales's rather than in Lord Audley's etinue, would be Thomas de Button, who