the like bulks and bodies of wood, or earth, or other substance, that lie floating in deep waters, which by winds or other natural motions do stir, are diversely raised or depressed: so these, at some time, are so carried by some natural cause, not so fully appearing to man's understanding. And if once or twice in many ages such an accident fall out, at, or before the death of an heir, as easily it may come to pass, this hath more force to give wings unto such a flying report than ten experiences to the contrary shall ever call in again." There are engravings of Brereton Hall in Nash's Mansions of England and in Ormerod's History of Cheshire-a fine structure, the foundation stone of which is said to have been laid by Queen Elizabeth. It has been supposed by some to have been the original of Bracebridge Hall in The Sketch-Book of Washington Irving, and it certainly was once the property of the family of that name at the beginning of this century. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. ENTIRELY (6th S. vii. 208, 275).—This word in the Shakesperian sense is of constant occurrence in old wills. The Lord Treasurer Dorset, in his will, 1608, speaks of the Lady Cicely as his " most vertuous, faithfull, and intirely beloved wife"; and Sir William Uvedale, in his will, dated Dec. 17, 1651, mentions his "entirely beloved wife the Lady Victoria Uvedale." G. LEVESON GOWER. PRENDERGAST (6th S. viii. 20).—This is the name of a parish adjoining to and forming part of the borough of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. "The place derives its appellation from an ancient family of the same name, to whom the whole parish formerly belonged. The last member of that family who enjoyed this property was Maurice de Clare, to Ireland" (Lewis, Top. Dict., s.v.). The Prendergast, who accompanied Strongbow, Earl of derivation is, to my thinking, sheer nonsense. name has a Norman-French look. Mr. Ferguson's BOILEAU. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. REV. CYRIL JACKSON (6th S. vi. 488; vii. 216). -I think I can throw some light on the descent of Dr. Cyril Jackson, Dean of Christ Church. His father, Cyril Jackson, M.D., of Stamford, was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Jackson, Rector of Adel, Yorkshire, from 1703 until his death in 1730, when he was aged sixty-nine. This Robert THE FRENCH PREPOSITION À (6th S. vii. 108). Jackson appears, from a matriculation entry at-Surely the word à after such verbs as ôter, prenChrist Church, Cambridge, dated Nov. 20, 1678, dre, soustraire, may be identified with the Latin when he was aged fifteen, to have been the son of preposition ab. E. McCRobert Jackson, and to have been born " apud Guernsey. Coates Hall inter perbienses" (sic), and taught by Mr. Baskerville, of Wakefield, York. In 1737 the Rev. William Jackson (d. 1766, at. fifty-two), second son of Rev. Robert Jackson, was inducted to Adel. He had an only son, William Jackson, of no profession (b. 1750, d. at Leeds 1773), who was father of an only child, Elizabeth. She married the Rev. George Hutchinson, and had issue. In Adel Church there is a memorial window to the son, Rev. William Jackson, the grandson, William Jackson, and the great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Hutchinson, of the Rev. Robert Jackson. Coates is, I believe, in the parish of Barnoldswick, Yorkshire. From the matriculation paper of Dean Cyril Jackson, of Trinity College, Oxon, dated June 20, 1764, he Cyrillus Jackson, 18, Cyrilli de Civit. Eborac. Doctris fil." This probably accounts for no entry of his birth being found at Stamford by MR. JUSTIN SIMPSON. appears as 66 W. H. M. J. CANDLEMAS OFFERINGS (6th S. viii. 8).-In the High School of Glasgow, in 1826, the scholars, of whom I was one, were informed shortly before Candlemas by the head master of the class that they were expected to bring him an offering on that day; and if my memory serves me well, it was further given out by the master that the offer Shakespeare as an Angler. By Rev. H. N. Ellacombe, possible to quarrel with him. He has argued his brief so pleasantly, and with so much ingenuity and research, that we hope before long he will find another phase of the poet's babits yet to illustrate. S. Wilfrith's Life in Sussex and the Introduction of Christianity. By Frederick Ernest Sawyer. Reprinted from the "Sussex Archæological Collections." (Lewes, Wolff.) MUCH has been written, wisely and foolishly, about the great Saint Wilfrid. His moral force and intellectual power none can doubt; but his life was cast in troubled times, and his career lends itself, unhappily, far too easily to modern religious controversy, so that the work of a great and good man has been to some extent ob scured by senseless janglings concerning matters of which he could never have had the slightest fore-knowledge. Mr. Sawyer keeps clear of controversy, and has given us a lucid biography of the saint so far as he was connected with Sussex. There are but four (perhaps we should say three) original authorities for Wilfrid's life. The more important passages in these are given in a translated form in parallel columus. This is a useful arrangement, as we can thus take in the whole picture at a glance. Sussex was converted to the faith of Christ by Wilfrid, and it is therefore natural that to Sussex men his career should be of extreme interest. Mr. Sawyer gives a list of those places in the county the names of which he believes to be taken from the divinities of the old religion. It is an obscure subject, and it is not unlikely that some of his identifications may be wrong, but his catalogue will be servicable to future inquirers in this most interesting and obscure field. Folk-Medicine: a Chapter in the History of Culture. By William George Black. (Folk-lore Society.) MR. BLACK has produced a useful, but by no means an exhaustive book on a very interesting branch of folklore. The place that folk-medicine holds in the history of science is an important one. We are accustomed to put well-nigh implicit trust in our medical advisers, knowing that their practice is based on carefully conducted experiments. Our forefathers had probably quite as firm a belief in the doctors of their time, who knew nothing of experiment at all, but were guided in their treatment of sickness almost solely by traditions handed down from man to man, and by observing the outward characters of plants and other objects which by their likeness to parts of the human body were thought to indicate their use in medicine. Though the folk-lore element in medical practice has nearly died out among professional men, we find it still current among persons who would be offended if it were implied that they were superstitious or ill educated. We know a lady who always carries a potato in her pocket as a charm against rheumatism, and another-the wife of a clergyman-who gave her children fried mice to eat as a specific for the whooping-cough. 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