_The Letter "V"_ (Vol. iv., p. 164.).--If S. S. will turn again to my remarks on this letter, he will see that I did not state that _Tiverton_ was ever pronounced _Terton_. I accede to what he has said of _Twiverton_; Devonshire was inadvertently written for Somersetshire. With regard to the observations of A. N. (p. 162.), he will find those remarks were confined to the _v_ between two vowels, _i.e._ without any other consonant intervening; and, therefore, other forms of contraction did not fall within the scope of them. I refrained from adverting to any such words as Elvedon and Kelvedon (pronounced respectively Eldon and Keldon), because the abbreviation of these may be referable to another cause. In passing I would mention that I think there can be no reasonable doubt that the word _dool_, about which he inquires, is no other than the Ang.-Sax. _d[=a]l_, a division, from _daelan_, to divide; and whence our words _deal_ and _dole_. But to return to the letter _v_, if MR. SINGER be correct as to _devenisch_ in the MS. of the _Hermit of Hampole_ being written for Danish (p. 159.), it seems an example of the peculiar use of this letter to which I have invited attention, for the writer hardly intended it to be pronounced as three syllables if he meant Danish. However, if that MS. be a transcript, may not the supposed _v_ have been originally an _n_, which was first mis-read _u_, and then copied as a _v_?
_Cardinal Wolsey_ (Vol. iv., p. 176.).--The following anecdote, taken from a common-place book of Sir Roger Wilbraham, who was Master of the Requests in the time of Queen Elizabeth, appears to have some bearing on the subject referred to in the page of your publication which I have quoted above:--
"Cooke, attorney, at diner Whitsunday[1] ista protulit.
"Wolsey, a prelate, was flagrante crimine taken in fornication by S'r Anthony Pagett of y'e West, and put in y'e stokes. After being made Cardinall, S'r Anthony sett up his armes on y'e middle Temple gate: y'e Cardinall passing in pontificalibus, and spying his owne armes, asked who sett them up. Answare was made y't y'e said Mr. Pagett. He smiled saying, he is now well reclaymed; for wher before he saw him in disgrace, now he honoured him."