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NOTES 'AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIIL AUG. 3, 1901.

says of it, u a line that Pixerecourt had stamped on each volume in his library. Possibly the inquirer's, attribution to Desbar- reaux Bernard refers to an earlier date. "Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde," is attributed by the first-men- tioned authority to Gilbert [ate]. A dictionary of quotations with exact references in every case is one of the publications that students awa it. ARTHUR MAYALL.

LOTUS FLOWERS AND LOTAHS (9 th S. vii. 346, 472). In Kipling's story of 'The Daughter of the Regiment/ Mulvaney tells how, when the men were stricken with cholera, " Quid Pummeloe "

"turns up her sleeves and steps out for a well behind the rest-camp little Jhansi trotting behind wid' a lotah an' string, an' the other women folio win like lambs, wid' horse-buckets an' cookin'-pots. In Mr. J. L. Kipling's illustration little Jhansi leans against the well where her mother is drawing water, and holds by a string a tiny globular, narrow-necked pot, similar in shape to the larger one upon the ground beside her. The familiarity of author and illustrator with East Indian matters makes this authoritative. It agrees also with the ' Century Dictionary's ' definition of "lotah " as "a globular or melon-shaped pot, usually of polished brass, used in the East Indies for drawing water, drinking, and ablutions," and also with its illustrative quotation from J. W. Palmer's ' The New and the Old,' to the effect that a "dismayed sirdar found the head of a fourth [kitten] jammed in the neck of his sacred lotah," used for " his pious ablutions."

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LORD DONORE (9 th S. viii. 64). Sir Henry Docwra was created Lord Docwra of Cool- more in 1620, and in a list of Irish peers given in Beatson's ' Political Index' for 1786 his name appears next to that of Lord Caul- field, Baron Charlemont (1620), and above the names of Viscount Valentia (1621), Lore Blayney (1621), and Lord Aungier (1621). L it riot possible that "Donore" should hav( been written " Docwra" in the list mentionec by SIGMA TAU ]

In the sixth edition of Sir John Temple't 'Irish Rebellion,' published in 1724, there i; a list of the king's army in Ireland in 1641 before the rebellion began. Lord Docwn commanded one of the foot companies, whicl consisted of six officers, viz., captain, lieu tenant, ensign, "chyrurgeon," sergeant, and drum, and forty-four soldiers. The title wa evidently extinct before the year 1682, as i is not mentioned in my copy of Sir William

Dugdale's 'Catalogue of Irish Nobility' second edition, 1682).

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Shrewsbury.

Taking into consideration that the next

reation to that of the "Lord Caulfield "

among the Irish baronies was the barony of

)ockwra of Culmore, created in May, 1621,

and ranking before Aungier, Blayney, and

Esmond, it seems probable that "Donore"

s meant for Culmore, which barony would

otherwise be omitted in the list of the 1634

Darons. On the death of Theodore, second

3aron Dockwra of Culmore (L), 19 April,

650, the title became extinct. G. E. C.

RAWLINS- WHITE (9 th S. vii. 428, 513). I am obliged to MR. J. H. MATTHEWS for his infor- mation about Rawlins-White, but confess to i feeling of disappointment at his humble

M. C. L.

rigin, for I had hoped he might have been i,t least a "fisher of men," mayhap a bishop, ittle dreaming that a poor Welsh fisherman

could excite the malice of Queen Mary. When was the name of White dropped by descendants 1 F. RAWLINS.

GODLING " (9 th S. vii. 506). A very much earlier instance of the use of this word than 1826 may be found. In the under-mentioned dictionaries it is described as meaning "a little divinity, a diminutive god " ; John Ash, D.D., 1775 ; Samuel Johnson, 1814 ; also of a more recent date James Knowles, 1855, and Annandale in the 'Imperial Dictionary,' 1882.

Dryden (1631-1700) wrote : We puny godlings of inferior race Whose humble statues are content with brass.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

" GENTLIER " (9 th S. vii. 468). MR. HUTCHIN- SON asks whether there is any precedent for the use of the form gentlier as a comparative adverb. Shakspeare uses freelier ; and the passage in which he so uses it, in ' Corio- lanus,' I. iii., is quoted by Johnson in his dictionary without comment. So it seems clear that Johnson did not think the word wrong. The couplet of Tennyson that is quoted by MR. HUTCHINSON contains a very pretty thought ; but, though not wanting in euphony, it does not seem to me remarkably euphonious. E. YARDLEY.

"GRAND TOUR" (9 th S. vii. 509). If MR. WHALE has an English instance of the phrase "Grand Tour" in 1692, Dr. Murray will doubtless be glad to have it for the ' Supple- ment' to the 'H.E.D.,' to the fourth volume