[The pedigree of this family will be found in two copies by Munday of the "Visitation of Devonshire," A.D. 1564, in the Harleian MSS. 1091. p. 90., and 1538, p. 2166. The only difference in the arms is, in both copies, that there is _no bordure engrailed_; but this has probably been added since as a _difference_, as was often done to distinguish families. The name is here spelt _Kelloway_, and the pedigree begins with "Thomas Kelloway of Stowford in County Devon, who married Anne, daughter of ---- Copleston, of ----, in county Somerset," and ends with "John Kelloway, who married Margery, daughter of John Arscott of Dunsland, and left issue Robert, who married ----, and Richard."] _Regatta._--What is the etymology of the word _regatta_? From whence is it derived, and when was it first used in English to mean a boat-race? C. B. N. C. J. S. [Baretti says, "Regatta, _palio che si corre sull' acqua_; a race run on water in boats. The word I take to be corrupted from _Remigata_, the art of rowing." Florio, in his _Worlde of Wordes_, has "_Regattare_, Ital. to wrangle, to cope or fight for the mastery." The term, as denoting a showy species of boat-race, was first used in this {530} country towards the close of the last century; for the papers of that time inform us, that on June 23, 1775, a regatta, a _novel_ entertainment, and the first of the kind, was exhibited in the river Thames, in imitation of some of those splendid shows exhibited at Venice on their grand festivals. The whole river, from London Bridge to the Ship Tavern, Millbank, was covered with boats. About 1200 flags were flying before four o'clock in the afternoon, and vessels were moored in the river for the sale of liquors and other refreshments. Before six o'clock it was a perfect fair on both sides the water, and bad liquor, with short measure, was plentifully retailed. Plans of the regatta were sold from a shilling to a penny each, and songs on the occasion sung, in which "regatta" was the rhyme for "Ranelagh," and "royal family" echoed to "liberty."] _Coket and Cler-mantyn._--Piers Plowman says that when new corn began to be sold-- "Waulde no beggar eat bread that in it beanes were, But of _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_, or else of cleane wheate." What are _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_? Also, what are _coronation flowers_, and _sops in wine_? CERIDWEN. [Both _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_ mean a kind of fine bread. _Coronation_ is the name given by some of our old writers to a species of flower, the modern appellation of which is not clear. _Sops-in-wine_ were a species of flowers among the smaller kind of single gilliflowers or pinks. Both these flowers are noticed by Spenser, in his _Shepherd's Calendar_ for April, as follows: "Bring coronations and sops-in-wine Worn of paramours."] * * * * * Replies.