12 s. m. JAN. 20, WIT.? NOTES AND QUERIES.
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of " ea " is still preserved in " break,"
" steak," " wear," and very many other
words, and is very common in our dialects,
as well as in Ireland, in words from which
in polite usage it has disappeared. Many
English rustics still speak of " a cup o' lay"
and are onaisy if they cannot get it.
C. C. B.
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU'S WORKS (12 S. ii. 450; iii. 15). A bibliographical list of Le Fanu's writings, by Mr. S. M. Ellis, will be found in The Irish Book Lover (a monthly review of Irish literature), October-November, 1916.
Some interesting particulars about Le Fanu and his family appear in the October, 1916, issue of The Bookman, also from the pen of Mr. Ellis. The article is accompanied by several portraits and other illustrations.
R. B.
Upton.
FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS (12 S. ii. 172, 254, 292, 395, 495; iii. 39). I think the grave of Owen Glynn Jones, B.Sc. London, mathematician and mountaineer, should be included in the above. He was the author of a number of technical articles, but the work he is best known for is ' Rock Climbing in the English Lake District,' 2nd edn., 1900, 322 pp., 20s. net, Keswick, G. P. Abraham & Sons, with a memoir and portrait of the author. Born in 1867, for some years he was the youngest, and by no means the least distinguished, member of the Alpine Club. He was killed by a fall on the Dent du Midi in 1899, and was buried in the little graveyard of the Roman Catholic church at Evolena. A gravestone was added at a later date by his friends, to whose company it was my privilege to belong.
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
" JOBEY" OF ETON (12 S. ii. 248, 295, 394)' I find that the only letter on this subject which appeared in The Times during Feb- ruary of last year was the final one dated the 10th, by A. C. A., whose forthcoming book on ' Eton in the Fifties of Last Century' cannot fail to be most interesting to old Etonians in general, and to me in particular. PHILIP NORMAN.
CAPT. Ross (BASS) AND THE GLUCKSTAD (12 S. ii. 531). Gluckstad is the name of the ship which looks like "Cluckhead" on the weathered gravestone at Minster-in-Sheppey. She was captured from the Danes in 1807, and added to our navy as a brig of twenty guns.
Edward Ross commanded her in 1809. He
was a commander of Feb. 19, 1798, does
not appear to have attained the rank of
post-captain, and disappears from the Navy
List in 1810. A. G. KEALY,
Chaplain, R.N., retired. Bedford.
SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES : UNDERGRADUATES' GOWN (12 S. ii. 469, 537). In 1635 Sir William Brereton, a Cheshire gentleman, visited Glasgow, and records in his diary :
" This college is governed by one principal, four regents, and about one hundred and twenty students. Here the scholars may be distinguished from others by gowns (in Edenborough they use coloured cloaks), though coloured, some red, some- gray, and of other colours, as please themselves." ' Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, . England, Scotland, and Ireland,' by Sir William Brereton, Bart. (Chetham Society), 1844.
ARTHUR BOWES. Newton-le-Willows, Lanes.
METAL-BRIDGE, DUBLIN (12 S. ii. 487). The bridge was constructed, in lieu of a ferry, by Alderman John Claudius Beresford and William Walsh, Esq., who derived their right to the tolls as a remuneration. The bridge, which is 140 feet long, exclusive of the end piers, and 12 feet wide, cost 3,OOOZ.. See also Warburton, Whitelaw, and Walsh's ' History of the City of Dublin,' vol. ii., 1818; Dublin Evening Telegraph,Feb.3, 1887; and M'Cready's ' Dublin Street-Names,' 1895,. p. 12. J. ARDAGH.
Dublin.
HERALDIC QUERIES (12 S. ii. 529). 1. The crest of a talbot's head is held by the elder branch of the Sotheby family. Arms were granted to Robert Sotheby of Birdsall, Yorkshire, in 1563 A.D.
The initials W. S. probably refer to William Sotheby, F.R.S.,F.S.A. (1757-1833); . vide ' D.N.B.' DUNCAN PITCHER, Col.
30 Evelyn Mansions, Carlisle Place, S.W.
RISK OF ENTERING A NEW HOUSE (12 S.-
ii. 509). EMERITUS may be glad to have the Hebrew side of this interesting query. Among the very pious of the Old School, every removal to a new residence was followed by a cheenooch, a Dedicatory Service of Prayer, to which the occupant invited all his friends and relatives, after which a gallant feast was provided. I do not find' the Order of Service in my Prayer Book.. Some of the Psalms, such as Hallel and. Songs of Degrees, form part of it.
M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney.
