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of the tenth appendix to the Commission's Fifteenth Report. Have any further extracts been published ? O. O. H.

MANX WORDS. Without the aid of a glossary an obvious want the reader of Mr. Hall Caine's Manx stories is occasionally at a loss to understand the full force of what are apparently interesting dialect forms. In ' The Deemster,' for example, there are such expressions as " five maze of fish " and " the mar-fire is rising." What is the meaning of maze and of mar-Jire, and what is their etymology? W. B.

BARBICAN WATCH TOWER. I am anxious to know if there is existing a picture of the old Barbican watch tower, and shall be grateful for any help your readers may be able to render. The Gardner and Grace col- lections of prints have been examined. There is a good description of the watch house in Stow, but no illustration. In Knight's 'Lon- don ' there is a small drawing of the Barbican, showing a portion of the watch house, but I can find no authority for it.

H. A. WRIGHT.

19, Northfield Road, Stoke Newington, N.

" RUMPING." " Taking that kind of notice of the king's principal servants which at Court is called rumping" ('Memoirs,' by James, Earl Waldegrave, E.G., 1821, p. 62). Is this word still in use at Court ? J. J. F.

Halliford-on-Thames.

" ALEHOUSE LETTICE ": " ADMIRE." Certain lines addressed by Lord Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) "to his mistress on his friends' opinion of her," said to have been preserved in MS. and published by the Countess of Devonshire in 1660, begin as follows : 0'iie with admiration told me He did wonder much and marvel (As by chance he did behold ye) How I could become so servile To thy Beauty, which he swears Every die-house lettice wears, &c. Was a maid of an alehouse generically called "Lettice," as a kitchen-maid, spoken of as one of a class, used sometimes to be called Bridget ; or is it implied merely that just as fair a beauty as the one addressed could be found behind the red lattice of every ale- house ?

"Admiration" in the first line is evidently used in the old sense of "astonishment." This leads me to note that I recently observed a quotation wrongly placed in the 'H.E.D.' Under definition 1, subdivision d, of "ad- mire," where that word, in the sense of "to wonder," "to marvel," &c., is used with the

infinitive in obsolete or dialect phrases, there is quoted from Miss Alcott's 'Little Women,' "I admire to do it." But the New England dialect use of "admire" in similar phrases is not at all expressive of wonder or astonish- ment, but of pleasure. Miss Alcott's character meant to say, " I delight to do it."

There lingers, however, in New England, or did linger until recently, a colloquial use of the word expressive of astonishment. In former days I have often heard in country districts, following some surprising statement, the expression " I admire to know," equiva- lent to " I am amazed to hear it."

M. C. L.

New York.

CHAPLAIN TO WILLIAM III. I shall be greatly obliged to any one who can give me the Christian name and surname of the chap- lain who accompanied William III. to Ireland in 1689, vouched for by reference to some absolutely authentic document.

ENQUIRER.

PORTRAITS IN DULWICH GALLERY. I shall be obliged for particulars concerning the portraits of two Mrs. Cartwrights in the Dulwich Gallery who they were, and whence the portraits came. L. J. C.

CALCRAFT FAMILY. Can any one give me the maiden name of the wife of John Cal- craft (the elder) 1 She is utterly ignored in Calcraf t's memoir in the ' D.N.B.' Her death is recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1794. THOS. U. SADLEIR.

Trin. Coll., Dublin.

CAPT. KIRKUS SANDERSON. Family tra- dition has it that he was taken captive by the Dutch, and died as one of their prisoners" of war, circa 1660. I believe he belonged to the Lincolnshire Sandersons. Any particu- lars as to his parentage, marriage, death, descendants, or the regiment to which he belonged, would be most acceptable to me. CHAS. H. CROUCH.

Nightingale Lane, Wanstead.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER, FIRST EARL OF STIRLING. Can any of your readers put me in the way of obtaining authentic in- formation about this poet and statesman ? The points on which I specially wish to be enlightened are his connexion with the Argyll family and his travels in France, Spain, and Italy. It is of no use to refer me to Rogers's ' Memorials of the Earl of Stirling ' or to the 'D.N.B.,' for both are incorrect. In the 'Argyll Papers' it is said that he travelled with the Earl of Argyll, Gillespie