V. MARCH 10, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
195
Wegwijzer is also used in Flanders as the
equivalent of our " directory."
JOHN A. RANDOLPH.
The prefix is a form of " twist," see Halli- well, "a double fruit; that part of a taeel S*JfP .8* see where the branches divide from the stock I " 515 ' to roll or twist." A. HALL.
cramp rings, and that Lady Clinton, in 1538
writes, " I received a cramp ring of gold."
In 1611 cramp rings were worn with agates
r*s*4- C M 4-Vn-irv* "Dii rtl*-l,rv nrl/lci ** T?/io"\irf i n nr
set in them.
Buckle adds, "Respecting
Middleton's 'Works,' 1840,
GUINEAS (10 th S. v. 105). The following
quotation from ' An Historical Account of
English Money,' by Martin Leake, London,
1745, bears out the accepted derivation :
"The Guineas took their name from the gold "brought from Guinea by the African Company ; who, as an encouragement to bring over gold to be coined, were permitted, by their Charter, to have their stamp of an Elephant upon the coin made of the African gold."
FRANCIS C. BUCHANAN.
TITLE WANTED (10 th S. v. 109).
MR, MURCH states that he finds no exposi-
tion of the idea that a ring was useful in
discovering enchantments. Elworthy, in his
interesting work on 'The Evil Eye' (Murray,
1895), p. 35, refers to a remarkable book by
Martin Delrip, of Louvain, 1603, in which the
discussed at great length whether
laracters, rings, or images there is power
to perform miracles. The discussion is
closed with the remark, "Respondeo stul-
torum esse numerum infinitum." Elworthy,
from p. 442 to p. 446, treats of the arts
practised by the ancient Greeks, and
mentions divination by enchanted rings
.
Your Calcutta correspondents description of (8a*ervA.o|*avTtaX and rings used as counter-
laiarujs, wiiicii weio v;<v
SaKTvXcovs <a/)/Aa/aras.
JAMES WATSON.
a book wanting a title suggests ' Woman, | charms, which were called by Aristophanes
the Sphinx,' by Fergus Hume.
T. REEVES.
Is not the novel referred to by MR. R. M. Ross ' Woman, the Mystery,' by Fergus Hume?
EDITOR OF 'BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.'
Folkestone.
JENKYN, LITTLE JOHN, &c. (10 th S. v. 109,
155) I thank LADY RUSSELL for her reply.
The lines she quotes are almost identical with
DOGS IN
v. 36).
WAR (10 th S. iv. 488, 537
1. Bungartz. Der Kriegshund und seine Dressur,
Leipzig, 1892.
2. Otto von Kreckwitz. Der Kriegshund. Miin- chen, 1894.
3. Berdez. Anleitung zur Dressur und Verwen- dung von Kriegshunden. Bern, 1903. 1m. 50.
4. Jupin. Les chiens militaires dans l'arme irancaise. Les chiens de guerre moderne les chiens de guerre des armees europeennes.
5. Army and Navy Gazette, 1894
6. Melentjew. Kriegshunde (aus dem Russischen iibersetzt). Berlin, 1891.
7. Vorschrift fiir Behandlung und Verwendung von Kriegshunden. 1902.
et
19/20. Jahrgang viii., No. 11, p. 203, Der Kriegs-
und Sanitatshund. J. ix. No. 21, p. 407, Kriegs- und
Tostenhunde in Sitdwest-Afrika.
G. KRUEGER. Berlin.
those of the Cornish version, except that in
the Cornish we send the offender to "Jamaica
to make apple pies" apple pies being pre-
sumably a traditional corruption.
With" respect to the spelling of the name Meriasek, LADY RUSSELL has overlooked the fact that this is the Cornish form of the Breton Meriadec or Meriadoc. The ' Beunans Meriasek' contains both forms. The church of Camborne, in Cornwall was "ecclesia S. Meriadoci," but the frequenters of the holy well nearby (for prevention of madness) were known till its recent destruction as " Merrasickers."
But the point is why Jenkin and Little sed in preference to Peterkin, or Little Bob, or any other name. Their preva- lence shows that there must be some good reason for the practice. YGREC.
If any one desires to read a graphic and particular account of the mumming as practised in Dorsetshire and the parts adjacent, let me refer him to 'The Return of the Native,' by Thomas Hardy, and the description of a Christmas party at Mrs.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER : FOLK - LORE
MEDICINE (10 th S. v. 129). MR. HERBERT
MURCH gives some instances of folk-lore
medicine in Beaumontand Fletcher's 'Knight , ,
of the Burning Pestle,' and asks for further Yeobnght's in honour of her son's return, instances in the literature of the sixteenth XT , Jj PICKFORD, M.A.
and seventeenth centuries. Buckle, at ^ewbourne Rectory, Woodbndge. p. 334, vol. ii., ' Miscellaneous Works/ states ARCHER OF UMBERSLADE (10 th S. v. 148). t our ancient Plantagenet kings claimed There is a long account of the Archer family
e gitt of curing the cramp by means of | in Collins's 'Peerage of England,' 1768,
