xtinct in 1764, upon the decease of Sir John Gerrard
Downing, the last heir male of the family." According to Hutchinson,
Sir George died in 1684.]

_Unkid_.--Can any of your readers inform me as to the derivation of this
word, or give any instance of its recent use? I have frequently heard it in
my childhood (the early part of the present century) among the rural
population of Oxon and Berks. It was generally applied to circumstances of
a melancholy or distressing character, but sometimes used to express a
peculiar state of feeling, being apparently intended to convey nearly the
same meaning as the _ennui_ of the French. I {222} recollect an allusion to
the phrase somewhere in Miss Mitford's writings, who speaks of it as
peculiar to Berks; but as I was then ignorant of Captain Cuttle's maxim, I
did not "make a note of it," so that I am unable to lay my hand on the
passage.

G. T.

Reading.

[Mr. Sternberg also found this word in Northamptonshire: for in his
valuable work on _The Dialect and Folk Lore_ of that county occurs the
following derivation of it:--"UNKED, HUNKID, _s_. lonely, dull,
miserable. 'I was so _unked_ when ye war away.' 'A _unked_ house,' &c.
Mr. Bosworth gives, as the derivative, the A.-S. _uncyd_, solitary,
without speech. In Batchelor's _List of Bedfordshire Words_, it is
spelt _ungkid_."]

_Pilgrim's Progress_.--The common editions contain a _third_ part, setting
forth the life of _Tender-conscience_: this third part is thought not to
have been written by Bunyan, and is omitted from some, at least, of the
modern editions. Can any of your readers explain by whom this addition was
made, and all about it? The subject of the _Pilgrim's Progress_
generally--the stories of a similar kind which are said to have
preceded--especially in Catholic times--the history of its editions and
annotations, would give some interesting columns.

M.

[Mr. George Offor, in his Introduction to _The Pilgrim's Progress_,
published by the Hanserd Knollys Society in 1847, notices the third
part as a forgery:--"In a very few years after Bunyan's death, this
third part made its appearance; and although the title does not
directly say that it was written by Bunyan, yet it was at first
generally received as such. In 1695, it reached a second edition; and a
sixth in 1705. In 1708, it was denounced in the title to the ninth
edition of the second part, by