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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL JUNE 15, 1001.

four ; Monmouth ; Norfolk, two ; Northamp- ton, three ; Northumberland, two ; Oxford, two ; Rutland ; Somerset, five ; Stafford ; Suffolk, two ; Sussex, three ; Warwick ; Westmoreland, two ; Worcester, two ; York, five. O. H. DARLINGTON.

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

" LYNGELL " (9 th S. vii. 49, 314). This word occurs in ' Dowsabell,' a poem written by Michael Drayton (1563-1631), and may be found in Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ' :

His aule and lingell in a thong, His tar boxe on his broad belt hong.

It means probably a waxed end used by cobblers for mending shoes what used to be called a "taching end" in the north of England. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

" Lingle " is in use in Aberdeenshire to denote any long string, and generally the adjective "lang" is prefixed. In particular it is the technical term for a string made of plaited rushes from which the pith is stripped out, used for twisting round the shank of a heather besom. In finishing, a flat, pointed bar of iron, called a cod needle, having an eye near the point, is driven through the shank of the besom ; thelingle is put through the eye and drawn through the shank, dividing it into two and so making it flat.

J. MILNE.

LOTUS FLOWERS AND LOTAHS (9 th S. vii. 346). A lotah is not a little dish or plate, but a drinking vessel. It is about the depth of an ordinary jam-pot, narrowing towards the neck and bulging out towards the base. With a string round its neck, the lotah is often let down into a well, and, after it has filled itself therein, it is drawn up just as is done with a bucket. A lotah is defiled when one of lower caste than its owner presumes to handle it or drink from it.

GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

Lotahs are not little dishes or plates, but more or less globular brass vessels for carry- ing fluids, having generally a mouth suf- ficiently wide to admit the hand therefore not a bottle. JAMES DALLAS.

JOAN OF ARC (9 th S. vii. 408). 7 th S. x. 407 contained a statement and query respect- ing a MS. copy of the trial, which was said to have been in the possession of Messrs. Longman & Co. A correspondent replied (p. 430) that doubtless it had passed into the Ashburnham Library, and thence into the

British Museum. He also added it was one of the three official copies of the proceed- ings, the other two being in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris ; but in one of those copies some of the evidence had been omitted. At p. 497 will be found the title, being an extract from a catalogue of the sale of books, &c., belonging to Messrs. Longman in 1816. The MS. was priced at 60.

EVERARD HOME GOLEM AN. 71, Brecknock Road.

ADAM BUCK (9 th S. vii. 361). I have two miniatures on ivory by one of the Bucks : one of my father, a most perfect like- ness, and one of his uncle. Both were in the same regiment, the llth. Cork being the chief port of departure for the front from Ireland during the Peninsular war, and there being no steamers in those days, a regiment had often to wait for days there for a favour- able wind or a convoy ; and the officers fre- quently used the time by getting their por- traits painted to send home to those whom they might never see again. Buck used to have the bodies done, and even occasionally the facings of the regiments, and so if pressed for time had only to put in the faces ! These miniatures are as fresh to-day as when they were done. My father left the service in 1816. His uncle's portrait was done a long time before, as may be seen by the great difference of the uniform I have reason to believe it was also an excellent likeness, for, happening to be in Dublin several years ago, I saw by the morning papers that the old regiment was to embark at Kingstown one day for foreign service. Never having seen it, I went to Kingstown to do so, particularly as I knew that a grandson of my father's uncle, whom also I had never seen, was sur- geon there. A friend happened to meet me there, and I said to him, " Did you ever see that officer wearing a cocked hat with a green plume 1 ?" He looked carefully at him, and then said, "Who is he? You have his por- trait, but the uniform is quite different." Buck also painted a miniature of my father's first cousin and my godfather, who was also in the regiment; but it was not in uniform and not a favourable likeness. I could men- tion other cases of " throwing back," where a member of the fourth generation was scarcely distinguishable from his ancestor. K. J. J.

" GONE TO JERICHO " (9 th S. vi. 405 ; vii. 65). Since my reply at the latter reference I have made the rather remarkable discovery that on the Patent Roll of 22 Hen. VIII., pt. ii. m. 4, is entered a lease (in Latin) from the king, dated 16 February (1530/1), and