ctures were taken has the title _Mala Gallina, malum
Ovum_, and was published at Vienna and Nuremburg. It seems to have been a
satire on the female sex; but the text, I am sorry to say, is not in my
possession.

H. T. RILEY.

_"Hurrah," and other War-cries_ (Vol. vii., p. 596.).--The following
passage (which I find in my notes with the reference _Menagiana_, vol. ii.
p. 328.) may partially assist your correspondent CAPE:

"Le cri des anciens Comtes d'Anjou etoit _Rallie_. En voici l'origine.
Eude II., Comte de Blois, marchant avec une armee considerable contre
Foulke Nerra, Comte d'Anjou, ces deux princes se rencontrerent a
Pontlevoi sur le Cher, ou ils se livrerent bataille le 6 Juillet, 1016.
Foulke eut d'abord quelque desavantage; mais Herbert, Comte du Maine
(dit _Eveillechien_), etant venu a son secours, il rallia ses troupes,
and defit absolument, &c. Depuis ce temps-la le cri des anciens Comtes
d'Anjou etoit _Rallie_. Et a ce propos je vous rapporterai ce qu'en dit
Maitre Vace, surnomme _le Clerc de Caen_, dans son Roman de Normandie:

'Francois crie _Montjoye_, et Normans _Dex-aye_:
Flamands crie _Aras_, et Angevin _Rallie_:
Et li cuens Thiebaut _Chartre_ et _Passavant_ crie.'"

This last cry is not unlike the Irish "Faugh-a-Ballagh" in signification.

J. H. LERESCHE.

Manchester.

The following extracts from Sir Francis Palgrave's _History of Normandy and
England_, vol. i. p. 696., explain the origin of the word "Hurrah,"
respecting which one of your correspondents inquires:

"It was a 'wise custom' in Normandy, established by Rollo's decree,
that whoever sustained, or feared to sustain, any damage of goods or
chattels, life or limb, was entitled to raise the country by the cry of
_haro_, or _haron_, upon which cry all the lieges were bound to join in
pursuit of the offender,--_Haron! Ha Raoul!_ justice invoked in Duke
Rollo's name. Whoever failed to aid, made fine to the sovereign; whilst
a heavier mulct was consistently inflicted upon the mocker who raised
the _clameur de haro_ without due and sufficient cause, a disturber of
the commonwealth's tranquillity.

"The _clameur de haro_ is the English system of 'hue and cry.' The old
English exclamation _Harrow!_ our national vernacular _Hurrah!_ being
only a variation thereof, is identical with the supposed invocation of
the Norman chieftain; and th