, _i. e._ the
owner of the _vowson_; this last {335} word being anciently used for
_advowson_, as may by seen by the glossary to Robert of Gloucester's
_Works_.

C. H.

I submit that this word means _advowsoner_, that is, "owner of the
advowson."

Q. D.

_Word-minting_ (Vol. ix., p. 151.).--To MR. MELVILLE'S list of new words,
you may add: _talented_ (Yankee), _adumbrate_ (pedantic), _service_. The
latter word is of very late importation from the French, within three
years, as applied to the lines of steamers, or traffic of railways. It is
an age of word-minting; and bids fair to corrupt the purity of the English
language by the coinage of the slovenly writer, and adoption of foreign or
learned words which possess an actual synonym in our own tongue. MR.
MELVILLE deserves our thanks for his timely notice of such "contraband"
wares.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

Your correspondent MR. MELVILLE will be surprised to learn that the words
_deranged_, _derangement_, now so generally used in reference to a
disordered intellect, or madness, are not to be found in any dictionary
that I have seen.

J. A. H.

_Fair Rosamond_ (Vol. ix., p. 163.).--The lines which your correspondent
C. C. inquires for are from Warner's _Albion's England_, which first
appeared in thirteen books in 1586:

"Fair Rosamond, surprised thus ere thus she did expect,
Fell on her humble knees, and did her fearful hands erect:
She blushed out beauty, whilst the tears did wash her pleasing face,
And begged pardon, meriting no less of common grace.
'So far, forsooth, as in me lay, I did,' quoth she, 'withstand;
But what may not so great a king by means or force command?'
'And dar'st thou, minion,' quoth the queen, 'thus article to me?'
. . . . . . . . . .
With that she dashed her on the lips, so dyed double red:
Hard was the heart that gave the blow, soft were those lips that bled."

J. M. B.

_Death-warnings in ancient Families_ (Vol. ix., pp. 55. 114. 150.).--

"As a Peaksman, and a long resident in the Isle of Man, Peveril was
well acquainted with many a superstitious legend; and particularly with
a belief, which attached to the powerful family of the Stanleys, for
their peculiar demon, a Ban-shie, or female spirit, who was wont to
shriek, 'Foreboding evil times;' and who was generally seen weeping and
bemoaning herself before the death of any person of distinction
belong