nd Rivers_, p. 137.
(London, 8vo. 1849.)

C.I.R.

_Havior_.--Without offering an opinion as to the relative probability
of the etymology of this word, offered by your various correspondents
(No. 17. p. 269.), I think it right that the use of the word in
Scotland should not be overlooked.

In Jamieson's admirable _Dictionary_, the following varieties of
spelling and meaning (all evidently of the same word) occur:--

"_Aver_ or _Aiver_, a horse used for labour; commonly an old
horse; as in Burns--

"'Yet aft a ragged cowte's been kenn'd To mak a noble
_aiver_.'

"'This man wyl not obey.... Nochtheles I sall gar hym draw lik
an _avir_ in ane cart'--_Bellend. Chron._

"'_Aiver_, a he-goat after he has been gelded: till then he is
denominated a _buck_.

"_Haiver_, _haivrel_, _haverel_, a gelded goat (East Lothian,
Lanarkshire, Sotherland).

"_Hebrun_, _heburn_, are also synonymes.

"_Averie_, live-stock, as including horses, cattle, &c.

"'Calculation of what money, &c. will sustain their Majesties'
house and _averie_'--_Keith's Hist._

"'_Averia_, _averii_, 'equi, boves, jumenta, oves, ceteraque
animalia quae agriculturae inserviunt.'"--Ducange.

Skene traces this word to the low Latin, _averia_, "quhilk signifies
ane beast." According to Spelman, the Northumbrians call a horse
_aver_ or _afer_.

See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently
congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson.

EMDEE.

_Mowbray Coheirs_ (No. 14. p. 213.).--Your correspondent "G." may
obtain a clue to his researches on reference to the _private_ act
of parliament of the 19th Henry VII., No. 7., intituled, "An Act for
Confirmation of a Partition of Lands made between _William_ Marquis
Barkley and Thomas Earl of Surrey."--Vide _Statutes at Large_.

W.H. LAMMIN.

_Spurious Letter of Sir R. Walpole_ (No. 19. p. 304.)--"P.C.S.S."
(No. 20. p. 321.) and "LORD BRAYBROOKE" (No. 21. p. 336.) will find
their opinion of the letter being spurious confirmed by the appendix
to _Lord Hervey's Memoirs_, (vol. ii. p. 582.), and the editor's
note, which proves the inaccuracy of the circumstances on which the
inventor of the letter founded his fabrication. In addition to Lord
Braybrooke's proofs that Sir Robert was not disabled by the stone, for
some days previous to the 24th, from waiting on the king, let me add
also, from Horace Walpole'