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ST. S WITHIN may be interested to know
that if you do not run when you first hear
the cuckoo, you will be idle all the year after.
Also if you hear the cuckoo for the first
time when you are in bed, you will be idle
all the year. These facts were told me this
year in Hampshire. G. E. P. A.
[CuRious also thanked for reply.]
CONSTITUTION OF HIGHLAND SEPTS (11 S. xii. 220). MR. CBOOKE will, I think, find the information he desires in General David Stewart's (of Garth) ' Sketches of the High- landers and Highland Regiments,' published about a century ago. Donald Gregory's 4 History of the Western Islands,' published at a later date, is also a valuable work. The following books may be consulted with advantage : ' Description of the Western Highlands of Scotland,' by Martin Martin, 1716 ; ' History of the Highlands and High- land Clans,' by James Browne ; and John- son's ' Journey to the Western Isles of Scot- land,' with Boswell's * Journal of a Tour in the Hebrides.' A. H. MACLEAN.
COL. GEORGE BODENS (11 S. xi. 267, 477 ; xii. 17, 230). If MR. BLEACKLEY will consult the official Army List of 1785, among the War Office records at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, possibly he may find the date of Col. Bod ens' s death noted against his name. If not to be found there, the Pay Lists should be seen.
In event of there being a, widow, the Pay- master-General's books will show from what date her pension began, and her husband's death would be of the previous day's date. A. H. MACLEAN.
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JOHN STEWART, EDINBURGH : SYBELLA BARBOUR (11 S. xi. 432; xii. 15). I am obliged to MR. JOHN A. INGLIS and to MR. JOHN MACGREGOR for their courtesy in making replies to my query. ' The Scots Peerage,' by Sir James Balfour Paul, gives in the Index in vol. ix. (Edinburgh, 1914) a reference to Sybella Barbour, " wife of Major-Gen. John Stewart of Pittendreich." The latter was the second son of Francis Stewart, seventh Earl of Moray, and the account in vol. vi. p. 324, says, " He died unmarried, at Musselburgh, 13 Aug., 1796, in the 88th year of his age." In vol. ix. at p. 140, under ' Addenda et Corrigenda,' instructions are given to delete " unmarried," and the following additional data appear : "In a letter to his brother [James], the [eighth] Larl [of Moray], dated from Munich Hof, near -Breda, 17 January, 1764, he says: fc lt has pleased
God to afflict me by taking from me on 15th inst^
my dearest wife.' (Moray Writs, ex inform. John Macgregor, Esq., W.S.). 'He had decree of declara- tor of marriage against Sybella J^arbour, daughter of the deceased John Barbour, Bailie of Inverness, 19 December, 1732. She at the same time raised a counter action of freedom, &c. (' Consistorial Processes,' &c., Scot. Rec. Soc., No. 281)."
Can any reader suggest how information^ might be secured as to the subsequent history of Sybella Barbour ? !. BEAUCHAMP.
CAPT. JAMES KING (US. xii. 160). There was a James King, Ensign in the 57th Regiment of Foot, date of commission 24 Dec.- 1774. See Army List of 1777. He does not appear in that of 1787 (I have no List between 1777 and 1787), but one William Balfour, who in the former appears as junior to King by less than a year, is in the 1787 List senior captain in the 57th, date of commission 6 Sept., 1780. The regiment in. 1777 and later was in America. If James King did not die or retire before 1784, it is reasonable to suppose that he attained the- rank of captain. ROBERT PIERPOINT.
PUNCTUATION: ITS IMPORTANCE (11 S. xi. 49, 131, 177, 217). I drew the attention of Canon Vere of St. Patrick's, Soho Square, to this correspondence, and he wrote in reply :_
"The Missals I have consulted Tournay (?) ? Mechlin, 1864 and 1892 ; also Ratisbon, 1875 read Crucifixus etiam pro nobis : sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est ' (A).
" A small Mechlin, 1884, reads ' Crucifixus &c .... passus, et sepultus est' (B), leaving out he stop ( : ) after nobis.
" The Plain Chant Ratisbon, 1881-90, reads- as A.
" In Dr. Husenbeth's Missal for the Laity the branslation reads (1853) ' Was crucified also for- us : suffered under Pontius Pilate and was- Juried.' The Latin is as A. I do not know what authority HARMATOPEGOS has for his contention that the comma ought to come after ' Pilato.' I should think the great Dr. Husenbeth knew what
was about.
" As for choirs singing, they make strange pauses, &c., and so do some of the composers of the music of the Mass."
LEO C.
PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORD " GLADIO- LUS " (11 S. xii. 220). The ' N.E.D.' gives
- wo pronunciations, " gladiolus " and
" gladi6lus " (long o), and, as usual, doe& not say which is preferable. The principle of the Dictionary in this respect is " to register the current pronunciation." This " latest fact in the form -history of the word " is, we are told, " the starting-point of all investigations into its previous history," and " the only fact in its form-history .to
