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NOTES AND QUERIES, rw a v. F. 17. ina
ray assistance, as far as I am able ; but, as I hav
never wrote anything in a historical way, have now
and then suggested hints to others as they wer
writing, and never published but two pamphlets-
one was to justify the taking and keeping in ou
pay the 12,000 Hessians, of which I have forgot th
title, and have it not in the country ; the other wa
published about two years since, entitled * Th
Interest of Great Britain Steadily Pursued ' i
answer to the pamphlets about the Hanover forces
1 can t tell in what manner, nor on what heads, t
answer your desire, which is conceived in sucl
general terms : if you could point out some stated
times, and some particular facts, and I had befor
me a sketch of your narration, I perhaps mi^ht b
able to suggest or explain some things that are
come but imperfectly to your knowledge, and some
anecdotes might occur to my memory relating to
domestic and foreign affairs, that are curious and
were never yet made public, and perhaps not prope
to be published yet, particularly with regard to the
alteration of the ministry in 1717, by the remova
ot my relation, and the measures that werepursuec
in consequence of that alteration ; but in order to
do this or any thing else for your service, requires a
personal conversation with you, in which I should
toe ready to let you know what might occur to
I am most truly,
v Sir,
Your most obedient and most humble servant.
To the Rev. Henry Etough. DKAH ETOUGII, Wooltferton > SeP*- 10, 1755.
1 cannot forbear any longer to acknowledge the many favours from you lately; your last was the 8th of this month. His majesty's speedy arrival among his British subjects is very desirable and necessary, whatever may be the chief motive for Ins making haste. As to Spain, I have from the beginning told my friends, when they asked, both in town and country, that I was not at all appre
fienSlVfi rha.r, Sttain umiilsl !: :il- in ._
fnr th u
is, tor this plain reason, because it could not
possibly be the interest of the Spaniards to do t; for should the views of the French take place in making a line of forts from the Missisippi to Canada and of being masters of the whole of that extent of Country Peru and Mexico, and Florida, would be
them than theBritish settle -
Mr. Fowle has made me a visit for a few days
and communicated to me your two pieces relating
to my brother and Lord Bolingbroke, and I think yoS
do great justice to them both in their very different
and opposite characters, but you will give me leave
to add with respect to lord Orford, there are
several mistakes and misinformations of which I
am persuaded 1 could convince you, by conversa
fe nf"!3 - observat i ns are nofc Woper for a Jtter Of this more fully when I see you, but when that will be I can't yet tell.
I am ever most affectionately yours, &c. Neither of the above letters appears in the index volume to Mrs. Toynbee's valu- able work. No letter to Dr. Birch earlier than 1/58 appears in the 'List of Corre- spondents, arid no letter at all is indexed as -addressed to the Rev. H. Etough.
I should like to point out that in her
note 3, vol. xiii. p. 249, Mrs. Toy n bee is
m error in calling the Earl of" Strath-
more, who was the first husband of Mary
-h-Ieanor Bowes, the seventh earl. He was
the ninth earl. FRANCIS H. HELTON
9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.
" : " PiKLE ' (10* S. v. 26, 93).-
beheve MR. WHITWELL will find this word
on some of the maps of Marylebone Park,
1768-1806, in the Grace Collection (Map
Portfolio xiv.) in the Print-Room, British
Museum. I say this from recollections of
tour years ago, when I had occasion to study
those maps very carefully ; but I cannot now
spare time to verify it. My impression is
that the name was applied to a small en-
closure immediately adjoining one of the
inns, which was probably a dwelling-house
of the seventeenth century.
A. MORLEY DA VIES. Winchmore Hill, Amersham.
Blount's 'Glossographia,' 1674, says that
ptcle,pitle, orpightel signifies "a little small
close or inclosure.' 1 In Dr. Adam Littleton's
'Syllabus Vocabulorum,' 1703, is " Pictellum,
a Picel or Pightd of ground, a little close,
a P-mgle." The word pingle is still in common
use in the Midlands. In Harris Nicolas's
Notitia Historica,' 1824, at p. 137, a tl pick of land" is stated to be "a parcel of land that runs into a corner." This definition is not satisfactory. The i in pikle would be sounded long, as in pike, and probably also n ptctel, which occurs in the old deed set out jy MR. WHITWELL. Pick would in early irnes probably have the same sound as pike* or we get "right" from rectus, and Wight the isle) from Vectis, and some of the old hronicles wrote Fights forthePicts (Gibson's
Camden,' pp. 1081-6). Pight was also an old orm of the past participle pitched ('Imp. )ict.'). Pightel most probably meant a piece f ground staked out or fenced with strong palings or palisades. Such protection round
homestead or a foldyard would be necessary n primitive times. W. R. H.
I have to thank MR. ADDY for his early uotation, and MR. W. FARRER for a most aluable series of quotations, which I have anded to Dr. Murray.
These quotations make it needless to look nto the High Wycombe instance. It is ossible that the word in * Leger Book I ' is, fter all, not pightle in any form, but articulns. H. T. Riley (who reported on le book) may have been an East Anglian, r may for some other reason have believed lat the dialect word pightle is English for