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rail of the staircase " Charming Betty Care- less." Published about ten years before 'A Rake's Progress,' i.e., in June, 1735, there is a less-known engraving, described in the British Museum Catalogue of Satirical Prints as "A Plagiary on Hogarth's Design for 'A Harlot's Progress,' plate in.," B.M. S.P. 2189, a print which is illustrated in certain verses called 'A Compleat Key to the Eight Prints lately published by the celebrated Mr. Hogarth/ 1735. Of " this "key" there is a copy in the Print Room, British Museum. These verses, while describing several notorious courtesans of that epoch, such as Mrs. Yeates, Fanny Cox, Mrs. Turner, and " Posture Nan "(who when naked whirled her- self in a bowl), mention Careless as " all fair in sable weeds " and " Betty with a gentle arm." She is supposed to be referred to in Hogarth's 'Marriage a la Mode,' plate iii., Satirical Print No. 2717, in the description of which it is noted that she is said to have died at Covent Garden workhouse in 1752. The erotic records of c. 1730-40 mention this woman as distinguished by her charms, reck- less life, and saucy wit, and as a frequenter of Tom King's Coffee- House in Covent Garden.

O. 3. See Deuteronomy iv. 34.

W. D. MACRAY.

"NANG NAILS": "NUBBOCKS" (9 th S. viii. 306). An "umbo" is a boss, knob, or pro- jection (L. umbo). Warts and corns have this characteristic, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans used the umbo idea in speak- ing of warts. If, however, the form "an umbock " can be found, then we have the connecting link between " umbo " and " nub- bock."

But one finds it under K. Jamieson gives " knapplach, knapplack," a large lump, knob, or protuberance, and follows with a cross- reference to "knabloch," which should be " knibloch " (knublach, knublock), meaning a knob, the swelling caused by a blow or fall. He also gives " kneeplach," " kneevlach," "kneevlack"= a knob, knot, protuberance. A "knap" is a protuberance, a swelling. See the 'Imperial Dictionary.' The ' H.E.D.' gives "knob," sb., 1 b, a wart, and " knublet," a small knub or lump. Nodal and Milner's small lumps.
 * Lancashire Glossary ' gives " knoblucks "=

It will be seen that the " knob " idea runs through all these forms, although "umbo" and " knapplach," for instance, are so different in spelling ; bifc so also are " knob " and "lump," therefore there is possibly no etymo- logical connexion. The golfer's friend the

" niblick " (not a favourite with the diction- aries ; I don't find it in Jamieson) is con- sidered by the * Imperial Dictionary ' to have a different derivation, viz., from nab, to catch. ARTHUR MAYALL.

Surely H. J. B. is under a misapprehension in attributing the meaning of deformed toe or finger nail to "nangnails." In the West Riding we give this name to the painful sensation we experience at the tips of our fingers when suddenly passing from keen frost to the warmth of a fire. The dia- lectic verbal form equivalent in North-East Switzerland to our Yorkshire " nangnails " is " unegla." See also Carr's * Glossary of the Craven Dialect.' CHARLES A. FEDERER.

Bradford.

In Derbyshire these are " nag - nails." Through inattention the toe - nails grow outwards and into the flesh, causing painful sores. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

"WENT" (9 th S. viii. 40, 214, 287). At the south-east border of Holmwood Common in Surrey there is a pond called the " Four Vents pond," and at the south-east corner of this pond four roads meet. When I was a boy local tradition accounted for the name because the pond was open to the four winds (Lat. ventus\ but I well remember that Mr. Lance, who once resided close to the pond on the Deepdene road one of the four roads meeting at the pond declared "vent" to be a corruption of "went"=a cross way or passage. F. DE H. LARPENT.

In .an old dictionary in my possession I read "Went, sub.; a way." B.

NEWCASTLE (STAFFS) FAMILIES (9 th S. viii. 225). Many of these families are mentioned, and the pedigrees of some of them are given,

in 'The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent

also, the Manorial History of Newcastle- under-Lyme/ by John Ward, 1843. Slight mention is made of some in 'The Natural History of the County of Stafford ; com- prising its Antiquities &c.,' by Robert

Garner, F.L.S., 1844. M. ELLEN POOLE.

Alsager, Cheshire.

According to ' A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American In- stances ' (which has an added interest of pathos in that not only the author, but also the dedicatee, the late President McKinley, have both gone over to the majority), the name Colclough has been associated with an estate in Staffs since the time of Ed ward III. ' The Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of