J. S. Warden.
Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman (Vol. vii., pp. 133. 211.).—Your correspondent L. has not proved this story to be fabulous: it has usually been told of the wife of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, great-grandmother of the two queens, and, for anything we know yet of her family, it may be quite true.
J. S. Warden.
Rathe (Vol. vii., p. 512).—I can corroborate the assertion of Anon., that this word is still in use in Sussex, though by no means frequently. Not long since I heard an old woman say, "My gaeffer (meaning her husband) got up quite rathe this morning."
In the case of the early apple it is generally pronounced ratheripe.
See also Cooper's excellent Sussex Glossary, 2nd edit. 1853.
M.
Old Booty's Case (Vol. iii., p. 40.).—The most authentic report of this case is, I think, in one of the London Gazettes for 1687 or 1688. I read the report in one of these at the British Museum several years ago. It purported to be given only a few days after the trial had taken place.
H. T. Riley.