Close of the Wady Mokatteb Question (Vol. iv., p. 481.; Vol. v., pp. 31. 87. 159., &c.).
—I should not have said another word on the above question, had not DR. TODD seen fit to give a somewhat different turn to the criticism on Num. xi. 26. As it is, I must beg space to say, that it is the learned whose attention I solicit to examine the value of our respective criticisms, and not that of the unlearned, as DR. TODD intimates. I do not think that there are many regular readers of the "N. & Q." who can be classed amongst the unlearned. To the judgment of the learned, therefore, I now resign this protracted disquisition.
MOSES MARGOLIOUTH.
Was Queen Elizabeth dark or fair? (Vol. v., p. 201.).
—Paul Hentzner, who was presented to Queen Elizabeth at the palace of Greenwich, describes her majesty, who was then in her sixty-fifth year, as "very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant. She wore false hair, and that red." Delaroche, however, in his well-known picture at the Luxembourg, has given her a very swarthy complexion.
Query: What was the celebrated Lunebourg table, of some of the gold of which, according to Hentzner, a small crown which she wore was reported to be made?
H. C.
Workington.
Meaning of Knarres (Vol. v., p. 200.).
—A knare is a knot or lump, "knarry, stubby, knotty" (Coles's Dictionary, 1717). It was, no doubt, as J. BR. says, sometimes written gnare; and in that form is the root of Shakspeare's "gnarled (or knotty) oak." In Norfolk and Suffolk, small plantations—not "scrubby woods"—are called carrs, as J. BR. states, but certainly not from knare, but, as I rather think, from their square shape, carré. Those that I am acquainted with in those counties are generally of that form, and look like plantations made on purpose for game. When you hear a carr mentioned in those counties, you always think of a pheasants' preserve. I know not whether the same word and meaning extend inland. Nor do I think that knare has any affinity with snare.