Records, 6th Foot). As far as I know the inversion of precedence of the 8th and 9th Regiments, as mentioned in the new Records of the 8th Foot, stands alone in its singularity. Some years ago, when examining the work entitled A Representation of the Cloathing of His Majesty's Household, 1742, British Museum, I noticed with surprise that the representations of these two regiments had evidently been crossed, the 9th standing in the place of the 8th. At the time I attributed it to a binder's error. Last year, however, when the pages of the earliest printed army list (1740) were being examined in my library, it was noticed that although the regiments were unnumbered and simply placed in succession, Read's, now the 9th, stood before Onslow's, now the 8th Regiment. Millan's Succession of Colonels, 1742, gives all the regiments properly numbered, and in the recognized order which obtains up to the present time. This seems to point to the fact that the 9th Regiment was for some time, previous to 1742, considered senior to the 8th. Possibly there may be documents at the Record Office or the War Office throwing light on this singular case. S. M. MILNE.

TENNYSON AND LOCKHART (6th S. vii. 325). I cannot think that Tennyson borrowed his "famous line" from so poor a writer as Lockhart. Tennyson was quite capable of inventing it for himself, and the thought is common. The same idea has been expressed in slightly varying forms innumerable times, one of the earliest of

which is:

"For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickednes." Psalm lxxxiv. 10.

Whether Tennyson regularly read Blackwood or not I cannot say; his lines to Christopher North prove that he read him at least occasionally. But he appears to have read Fraser, for I have, and value very highly, several pen-and-ink copies of the portraits by Maclise which appeared in that magazine done by Alfred Tennyson when a boy. They are very clever and spirited indeed, and show more than ordinary artistic ability. If Tennyson borrowed the line from Lockhart, from whom did Lockhart borrow? Or are we to understand that he really was able to make it for himself?

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STEWART OF LORN (6th S. vii. 248).-Sir Colin Campbell of Glenurchy, first Lord Campbell, married, secondly, Janet or Margaret Stewart, eldest of the three daughters and coheiresses of William (John) Stewart, Lord of Lorne, with whom he got the land called the Brae of Lorne, and at the death of her father the greatest part of the lordship of Lorne, and quartered the galley of Lorne with his paternal achievement. Sir Colin

being "tutour" to his nephew Colin, afterwards first Earl of Argyll, he married him to Isabel Stewart, second daughter and coheir of William (John) Stewart, Lord of Lorne, and afterwards gave up to him his own share of Lorne. Walter, Lord Lorne, Isabel Stewart's uncle, resigned the title of Lorne, which was confirmed to the Earl of Argyll by charter in 1470, and he added the "galley" to his own achievement. It is thus that the Earl of Breadalbane and the Duke of Argyll descend from the ancient Lords of Lorne. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

GLASTONBURY: YNYSVITRIN (6th S. vii. 301).— May I be allowed to offer a protest against the Glastonbury, in the A.-S. Chronicle "Glæstingapreposterous proceeding of deriving the name of burh," from the British name "Ynysvitrin"? In the first place I would observe that Ynysvitrin is not a British, i. e. a pure Celtic, word at all, the latter element being clearly of Latin origin, namely from vitrum, glass. Secondly, as applied to Glastonbury the word is comparatively modern. I should be very much surprised if an instance could be adduced from any Cymric author before A. L. MAYHEW.

A.D. 1200. Oxford.

LECOMTE FAMILY (6th S. vii. 307).-Philippa Le Comte, "an heiress," married, circa 1780, John Bellew, of Stockleigh; and Mr. Le Conte, of New York, married, about 1680, Grace, daughter of George Walrond, of Barbadces, ancestor of Mr. Walrond, of Dulford. SIGMA.

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DISCHARGE WARN OFF (6th S. vii. 248).— During the hearing of a case in the Towcester County Court on June 11, a witness said, "I should have finished the job, but the defendant discharged me off the ground." H. C. W. Northampton.

SHILLITOE FAMILY (6th S. vii. 329). - Wm. Ryland, of Birmingham (ancestor of the Rylands of Bearley), married, Feb. 27, 1726, a daughter of the Rev. W. Shillitoe, of Birmingham. John Cutler, of Darfield, eldest son of Egerton Cutler, of Yorkshire, married, about 1730, Hannah, dau. of John Shillitoe, of Barnsley, but died s.p. 1756.

SIGMA.

SMOCKHOLD (6th S. vii. 329).—Mr. Archibald Brown, in his edition of Scriven's Law of Copy

submitted to him by Bartolomeo Mosca, ambassador of the Emperor of Germany; its importance is extreme, as illustrating the policy of the duke and his attitude to wards Sigismund. The Turin-Asti papers, amounting to upwards of thirty, and printed on the same principle as those we have just been enumerating, have supplied, inter alia, M. Faucon with the marriage contract between Valentina Visconti and Louis, who was then Duke of Touraine. This document, drawn up on the 27th of January, 1386, was confirmed only December 20, 1387. From what we have said our readers will observe that the work noticed here is really a calendar of materials rather than a history properly so called.

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The Poetry and Humour of the Scottish Language. Charles Mackay, LL.D. (Paisley, Gardner.) WE are sorry to be unable to commend this very amusing and, in a certain way, instructive book. It is, however, manifestly impossible to do so. The very first page contains the startling paradox that the tongue spoken in Scotland is not a dialect of English, but "the Scottish language." When this was contended for in the beginning of the century, the true method of studying language was unknown; guesses, if they were but clever, passed for reasons. Now we know the true method of work, and it is simply grotesque error to call the Scottish folk-speech a language, unless we mean something different by the word from the interpretation that is in ordinary persons' minds. If by language Dr. Mackay means a dialect only, and is prepared to talk of the language of Lancashire or of Kent, we have nothing to say, except that he strangely misuses words. If he means that the northern English spoken over the Border is or ever has been a separate tongue from that on the southern side, he is manifestly in error.

We apprehend that Dr. Mackay is a Gaelic scholar. He has given us many derivations of words from that tongue which to our unenlightened minds are of purely Teutonic origin. The derivation of words is no easy matter. They are not among the wisest of men who use it as a pastime such as guessing riddles was to our forefathers. Though we do not accept many of Dr. Mackay's derivations, we are bound to say that he has given us many interesting quotations and anecdotes illustrative of the meaning and history of the words he has had occasion to notice. The part of the book which is a select glossary is in most places very amusing, and few can read it through without gaining some new knowledge. Dr. Mackay seems to be under the impres sion that peel, in the sense of a tower, is a word confined to the Borders. This is an error; we have traced it into South Yorkshire, and believe that it occurs much further from Scotland than that. Skelp, too, is good eastern counties English. We assure our readers that the good wives of Holderness and Lindsey much oftener skelp their bairns than they smack, slap, beat, or thrash them.

Parish Institutions of Maryland, with Illustrations from Parish Records. By Edward Ingle, A.B. Part VI. of Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. (Baltimore, published by the University; London, Trübner & Co.)

THE sample which has reached us of the " Johns Hopkins University Studies" is one likely to be read with interest on both sides of the Atlantic. The parish is a microcosm in the New World as in the Old, and in both cases it is beginning to receive the attention which it deserves, and to draw forth the descriptive powers of the rising generation of historical students. The picture which Mr. Ingle paints for us of olden Maryland is, mutatis mutandis, very like what would be the picture of many

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an eighteenth century English country parish. Maryland churches were generally, indeed, very humble structures, but they had a reading-desk, or "pew," and "a place for the clark to sit in." And the worshippers had “high-backed " pews, with seats around three sides, which sometimes had doors, "locked against intruders -so great in America, as in England, was the eighteenth century fear of Lazarus as an "intruder " upon the prayers of Dives! Even the nineteenth century has, perhaps, something still to learn. The extracts which Mr. Ingle prints from the parochial records of Prince George's, All Saints, St. John's, and other parishes in the province, contain many curious details of life and manners in old Maryland days. We sincerely echo Mr. Ingle's hope that their publication may excite sufficient interest to promote a general movement towards the printing of such records. In the meanwhile we thank him and his university for the Parish Institutions of | Maryland.

Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society. Vol. V. (Bemrose & Sons.) THERE is always plenty of interesting matter to be found in the annual volume of this Society, and the number just issued is no exception to the general rule. Mr. J. C. Cox, the well-known Derbyshire antiquary, contributes "Notes on the Rectors of Staveley," and a paper on the "Ancient Documents relating to the Tithes in the Peak." Mr. George Bailey has written another interesting article on the "Stained Glass at Norbury Manor House." The coloured plates which accompany Mr. Bailey's article we cannot praise too highly, and we hope his suggestion that all heraldic glass should be carefully copied and preserved, for the benefit of succeeding genealogists, will meet with the attention that it deserves. glad to learn from the report that the Society has not this year been called upon to protest against any acts of vandalism in the county, and we heartily congratulate it upon the good work it has already done in the interest of archæology.

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C. L. W.-To our thinking Prendergast is a name of local origin; however, Mr. Ferguson (Surnames as a Science, p. 114) takes the opposite view. He says: "The most common phonetic intrusion is the r, and one of the ways in which it most frequently occurs is exhibited in the following group of names: Prendgast, Prendegast, Prendergast, Prendergrass. Prendgast is, I take it, an ancient compound, from the stem bend [A.-S. band, bend, crown, chaplet] (p. 44), with gast, hospes. It first takes a medial vowel between the two words of the compound and becomes Pend-e-gast. Then e naturally becomes er, passing the very slight barrier which English pronunciation affords, and the name having become Pendergast finds the need of a second to balance the first and becomes Prendergast."

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