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the royal Scottish arms either at. or after, 1471 without the tressure. Lyon tninks that the traditional French origin of the Scottish double tressure " is very pretty, but it is not history." GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

"SHIMMOZZEL" (9 th S. vi. 266, 371 ; vii. 10, 130). The Berlin slang boasts the same beautiful word under the form of der Schla- massel. Low women designate as such a man without means or unwilling to be liberal. It is not necessary to have recourse to the German schlecht for the explanation of its first element, but the word may be fully accounted for from the Hebrew. It is compounded out of she=he (who), /o=not masol (pron. mdzdl)=\uck : ^TDN^. Thus it would signify literally " who (has) no luck." DR. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

JOHN COE AND FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 348). A case of Coe v. Brond appears in the Suffolk Chancery Proceedings in the time of James I. Henry Coe contributed at St. Matthew's, Ips- wich, to the relief of the captives at Algiers, on 21 October, 1680. William and Charles Coe appear on the Subsidy Roll of West Row, Suffolk, 15 Charles I. The name of Coe will be found on the tombstones at the churches of St. Margaret, Ipswich, Creeting St. Peter, and Hessett, all in the county of Suffolk. East Anglian, vols. iv. vi., new series.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"FOULRICE" : "LOCK ELM": "CHINCHERER" (9 th S. vii. 229, 353). "Foulrice" would be "foul smelling " twig or shoot, of which " foulrush " would be a very apt rendering, for the twigs or shoots are very rush or reed like in growth. Loudon in his 'Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum,' ii. 1010, calls it " C. sanguinea, L. The blood-red-leaved, or common, dog- wood [sic]" adding a number of synonyms with their derivations, e.g., " Virga sanguinea is literally the bloody twig, alluding to the colour of the shoots, though they are not nearly so red as those of Cornus alba" "Lock elm" is not given by Loudon (iii. 1376-7), nor any other synonym ; but it may have been one of the plants used in witchcraft to open locks and reveal hidden treasure (see Dyer, ' Folk-lore of Plants,' 51, 82, 196-7). I think I have noticed a specimen during the last quarter of a century at the south-west corner of Hospital Bridge, Twickenham, between the Han worth Road and the ceme- tery. THOMAS J. JEAKES.

Tower House, New Hampton.

" ROUEN " AND " SUCCEDANEUM " (9 th S. vii. 149, 214, 258, 316). At the third reference MR. WILSON carries back the date of " rouen " to 1534. It is, however, of much higher antiquity ; for not only does it appear with the spelling "raweyne in the 'Promptorium Parvu- lorurn' of 1440, as MR. MAYHEW observed at the second reference, but there is evidence in the following quotation from Raine's * English Miscellanies' (publications of Surtees Soc., Ixxxv. 85) that it was current in the four- teenth century : "Aftermath In the Dur- ham Surveys, scec. xiv., the Latin word for it is Rewaynum. Cf. [Publ.] S[urt]. S[oc]. xxxii. 170, 201, 212, 242." " Rewaynum is, of course, rewayn(e) latinized. Let me briefly advert to the etymology. The derivation from Middle English " row," rough, proposed in the * En- cyclopaedic Dictionary, is ridiculous. The word is identical with French regain, and, like " reward," has filtered into our language through a French dialect, w for hard g being common in the north-east of France. Littre notes as Picard forms reguin and rouain, and from Moisy's ' Glossaire Anglo-Normand ' I learn that revouin is the Norman word for our "ro wen "(art. 'Revouins'). The etymology is discussed more fully, if diversely, in the dictionaries of Littre, Scheler, and Hatzfeld, the last named being the latest authority.

In connexion with my reply at the last reference, it may interest;MR. WILSON to learn that the Old French term for "ruen cheese" was fromage de gaain, the primitive form of (re)gain being, says Hatzfeld, ga'im, guaim (with which may be compared Ital. guaime), while Scheler adduces gain and iva'in as its O. Fr. representatives. For examples see Godefroy, art. 'Gaain.' F. ADAMS.

" Aftermath," or second mowing, was not used by New England farmers in the last century. " Rowen " was their term, derived doubtless from those eastern counties where their forefathers lived. Nor has "rowen" been yet displaced. JAMES D. BUTLER.

Madison, Wis.

VAN DER MEULEN AND HUCHTENBURG (9 th S. vii. 87, 117). My best thanks are due to the correspondent who kindly called my attention to Van der Meulen's pictures at Versailles. A visit there enabled me to identify the subject of my picture.

ST. GILES'S CHURCH, NORTHAMPTON (9 th S. vii. 367). "Down to 1489 the mayor and burgesses of Northampton met in St. Giles's Church, and did their municipal business there," is true in a sense a newspaper sense and the authority may be found in ' The