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NOTES IND QUERIES. [9 th B. vm. NOV. 9, 1901.

His brochure 'On the Bankruptcy Law of England and Scotland ' is a contribution Of some importance to the literature of his own profession. See 'Biographical Sketch, by Anna Macgregor Stoddart, 1892.

THOMAS BAYNE.

BISHOPS' ORNAMENTS (9 th S. viii. 206, 289). There are two passages in Milton's earlier poems which, considering their source, have an interesting bearing on this discussion. One is in the Latin poem on the death ot the Bishop of Winchester (L. Andre wes), where, as Mr. Gardiner points out in his l History, the bishop is described as entering heaven dressed in the vestments of the Church :

Vestis ad auratos defluxit Candida talos, Infula divinum cinxerat alba caput.

'In obitum Prassulis Wintoniensis/ 11. 55,56 The other and better-known passage is from 'Lycidas'(ll. 108-12):

Last came, and last did go,

The pilot of the Galilean lake ;

Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain

(The golden ope>, the iron shuts amain).

He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake. J. A. J. HOUSDEN.

BACK-FORMATIONS (9 th S. viii. 322). The word empt = empty is in constant use in Northamptonshire. I was not before aware that it emanated from cockneydom. Here it is very often prefixed by on or un, e.g., "un- empt that cart." See Miss Baker's ' Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases.'

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

KIPLING'S 'VAMPIRE' (9 th S. viii. 306).- This poem was printed in the catalogue of the New Gallery pictures, tenth summer exhibition, 1897, p. 8. J. J. FREEMAN.

THE PARISH REGISTER OF BROADWOOD WIDGER, DEVONSHIRE (9 th S. viii. 259, 333). The copy of the parish register former" lot 1172 in Messrs. Sotheby's sale of 25 July and is thus described in the sale catalogue

" MS. Parish Register of Broadwood-Widger, co Devon (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, and Col lections on Briefs), 1654-97."

T. G. BLACKWOOD PRICE. Broadwood Vicarage, Lifton, N. Devon.

LEIGH IN LANCASHIRE (9 th S. viii. 303). A lengthy residence in this town, while making me thoroughly familiar with its old loca pronunciation, has never enabled me t( attain to the dignity of pronouncing it. T do so one has to be to the manner born although a Scotchman can nearly manag it. So far as its sound can be rendered i letters, MR. PIERPOINT has, I think, given i

lore briefly I should spell it "Laith," but rith a guttural ending. As MR. PIERPOINT orrectly observes, the old pronunciation is ow seldom used, save by a few of the Idest inhabitants. To nearly every one the town it is "Lee," and few would ecognize it by any other sound.

"Leigh toasting cheese," too, is a thing of he past so far as the town is concerned. 1 elieve that at one time a considerable usiness was done in this article, but it has massed away. I am told that the last casting cheese was made some forty years go in Westleigh, one of three townships into ^hich the town is now divided. A recently Deceased friend informed me some year or wo ago that the cheese was then still made ,t a farm in Atherton (an adjoining town- hip, but within the ancient ecclesiastical )arish of Leigh). Probably it is made there ret. One may still see it ticketed for sale n certain shops in Manchester, which most ikely obtain it from the farm last named.

W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

PECHE FAMILY (6 th S. viii. 409; x. 207, 313 ; ) fch S. viii. 232). I am anxious to learn the origin of the statement by MEMOR ET FIDELTS at the last reference as to "a younger son of a Due de Peche who settled in England (county unknown) temp. Henry I., and is said to have been the ancestor of the family." Mention is also made thereat of members of the Warwickshire and Cambridge- shire branches, and it is asked how these were connected with the Peches of Kingsthorpe, Leicestershire, and Sherow Hall, Derbyshire. I have never been able positively to identify this Kingsthorpe, and it is singular that so little is recorded concerning this branch of the family. Evidence, however, exists which goes far to connect it with Knightsthorp in Loughborough, and in a deed concerning the reafforesting of Charnwood Forest (near Loughborough) in 1245 the names of Hamon and Bartholomew Peche occur. From this it- would appear that the family had been in a measure connected with that district for more than 200 years anterior to the period mentioned by Sir Edward Bysshe in his con- firmation (1663) 9f the arms of Peche of Kingsthorpe, Leicestershire, to William Peachey of Newgrove, Petworth, Sussex, the ancestor of the Selsey (barons) branch of the family.

A study of Peche heraldry teaches that there were three principal branches : Warwickshire (Wormleighton), Cambridge- shire (Brunne), and Leicestershire (Kings-