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 vii. JUNE 15, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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of the eighteenth century for one of the Society's monographs.

Personally I fear that so great an under- taking as a catalogue of British engraved portraits could not be carried out unless Government granted aid, and surely public aid to so important a national object would be amply justified.

HENRY B. WHEATLEY.

The most numerous list of portraits of the last century (nineteenth) is Mr. F. Boase's in his ' Modern English Biography.'

MR. MASON makes no reference to the enormous collection of portraits at the Bodleian in the Hope Collection. The dealer MR. MASON refers to would have had to give up business when he began the catalogue, or as his catalogue increased his business would decrease, at least in all probability.

RALPH THOMAS.

'THE Two DUCHESSES' (9 th S. vii. 423). MR. W. ROBERTS calls attention to certain alleged blunders in the naming of the por- traits which illustrate * The Two Duchesses.' It is a pity that MR. ROBERTS did not call attention to these during Mr. Vere Foster's lifetime, so that Mr. Foster might have had the opportunity of justifying the titles and the selection of the portraits that illustrate the work, for which he alone was responsible. It would be rather extraordinary that he should be in error as to the portraits of his own grandmother (Lady Elizabeth). It is a wise child who knows its own father ; the ordinary child's grandmother is not usually called in question, especially if granny's por- traits are family possessions.

BLACKIE & SON, LTD.

CLUNY AND CLUNIE (9 th S. vii. 408). These, together with Clones, and the numerous com- pounds of don- in Ireland, are surely the same word Gadhelic duain, a meadow. Canon Taylor's ethnological map, in his 1 Words and Places,' does not extend so far east as Sa6ne-et- Loire, but it shows a bunch of Celtic names some 120 miles to the west thereof, while to the south lies Lugdunum (Lyons), well known to be of Celtic origin in both its components. H. P. L.

ROMAN CATHOLIC RECORDS (9 th S. vii. 389). --John Southerderi Burn in his ' History of Parish Registers in England,' London, 1842, states that "the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland have not, until lately, been accustomed to keep any register whatever." R. E. Chester Waters, B.A., in his 'Parish Registers in England,' says, "It is a positive fact that

until 1 January, 1864, the births and deaths of the entire population of Ireland, and the marriages of the Catholic majority, were sufffered to remain wholly unregistered." It was not till February, 1863, the Government brought in a Bill to establish civil registra- tion in Ireland. Possibly reference to early Roman Catholic literature and periodicals might in some cases furnish information, for which lists see 3 rd S. xi., 6 th S. iii., 7 th S. i.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

That in the eighteenth century the Catholic

vol. i. p 387, we are told that the loyalists among other plunder stole a Catholic parish register, which they in their ignorance thought was a list of rebels. The document was probably written in Latin.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

BISHOP'S HEAD AND FOOT (9 th S. vii. 409). I have an explanation to offer of these place-names. They are probably, a transla- tion from the Cornish pen beagle and troz beagle respectively. In Cornish and Welsh beagle and bugail mean a pastor or shepherd, and thence by analogy sometimes a bishop. The original meaning of Pen Beagle was "Shepherd^ Headland," with "Shepherd's Foot" as its lower extremity. There is a farm on high land near St. Ives called Penbeagle, i.e., the Shepherd's Headland. JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND REPRODUCED IN AMERICA (7 th S. v. 467 ; vi. 212, 330). Queries about names of English counties reproduced n the United States have more than once appeared in 'N. & Q.' In some cases when a settlement was made the town was given the lame of an English town, and the county when Massachusetts there are counties of Ply- mouth, Barnstaple, and Bristol. In Pennsyl- vania there are counties named from General Richard Montgomery, the Countess of Hunt- ngdori, and the Duke of Cumberland ; and in Georgia one from General Benjamin Lincoln. There are in the thirteen colonies (including Maine and Vermont) six Montgomeries. Scotland is not represented ; Ireland only Ulster county, New York ; England by sixty-nine : Bedford, two ; Berks, two ; Bucks ; Chester, three ; Cumberland, six ; Durham ; Essex, five ; Gloucester, three ; Hampshire, two ; Huntingdon ; Kent, two ; Lancaster, three ; Lincoln, two ; Middlesex,
 * ormed was named from the town. Thus in