Jeremy Taylor and Christopher Lord Hatton.—Bishop Jeremy Taylor, in his dedication of the Great Exemplar to Christopher Lord Hatton, entreats his lordship to "account him in the number of his relatives." Was Jeremy Taylor in any way connected with Lord Hatton by marriage? His first wife was a Mrs. Joanna Bridges of Mandinam, in the parish of Languedor, co. Carmarthen, and supposed to be a natural daughter of Charles I., to whom she bore a striking resemblance. Do any of your readers know of any relationship between this lady and Lord Hatton, or any other circumstance likely to account for the passage above mentioned?
Clarence Hopper.
"Pylades and Corinna."—Can anybody tell who was the author? Could it be De Foe?
P. R.
The Left Hand; its Etymology.—I have read with much pleasure Trench's Study of Words. The following passage occurs at p. 185:
"The 'left' hand, as distinguished from the right, is the hand which we 'leave,' inasmuch as for twenty times we use the right hand, we do not once employ it; and it obtains its name from being 'left' unused so often."
Now I should certainly be sorry to appear
"Ut lethargicus hic, cum fit pugil, et medicum urget."
I am not the person to aim a word at Mr. Trench's eye. Although I am Bœotian enough to ask, I am not too far Bœotian to feel no shame in asking, whether it is quite impossible that "left" should be corruption of lævus, λαιὸς. We have, at all events, adopted dexter, the "right" hand, and the rest of its family.