'_Picardil_ is simply a diminutive of _picca_ (Span. and Ital.), a spear-head; and was given to this article of foppery from a fancied resemblance of its stiffened plaits to the bristled points of these weapons. Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that _Picadilly_ took its name frown the sale of the 'small stiff collars so called,' which was first set on foot in a house near the western [eastern] extremity of the present street by one Higgins, a tailor.'" The bands worn by the clergy and judges, &c., at the present day, are lineal descendants of the old _picadils_, reduced to a more sober cut; and the picked ornament alluded to by your correspondent no doubt derived its name from its resemblance in shape to these tokens of ancient fashion. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. _Mr. Justice Newton_ (Vol. vii., pp. 528. 600.; Vol. viii., p. 15.).--I did not answer MR. F. KYFFIN LENTHALL'S first Query, because it was {111} palpable, from the context, that the "Mr. Justice Newton" he inquired after could not possibly be the Chief Justice who flourished in the fifteenth century; and because I am not aware of any judge of the superior courts of that name, during the time of the Commonwealth, or the years which immediately preceded or followed that period. Indeed, his designation as "Mr. Justice Newton, _of the Middle Temple_," plainly proves that he could not have been a judge upon the Bench at Westminster. He may perhaps have been a Welsh judge; or, remembering that "Mr. Justice" was the common title for a Justice of the Peace, it is still more probable that he was merely a magistrate of the county in which he resided. EDWARD FOSS. _Manners of the Irish_ (Vol. viii., p. 5.).--In the very curious extract given by your correspondent H., _boyranne_ is very likely to stand for _borbhan_, the Irish for "lamentation" or "complaint." An Irish landlord knows full well that, even up to the present day, his tenants "keep the bread, and make _borbhan_." _Molchan_, I suspect, comes from _miolc_, whey. _Localran_ stands for _loisgrean_, corn turned out of the ear. As to the concluding line of the extract, I must leave it to some better Irish scholar than I can boast myself. "I am the geyest mayed of all that brought the somer houme," plainly has reference to the old practice, still prevalent in some parts of Ireland on May-day, when young girls carry about a figure dressed as a baby, singing the Irish song, [Irish: thugamar fein an samhra linn], "We have brought the summer with us" (See _Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society_). _Ultagh_ (_Ultach_) is Irish for an Ulster man, as H. will see by consulting any Irish dictionary, and can have no connexion with Utlagh, the Kilkenny money-lender. _Ugteller_ is of course a misprint for _Kyteller_. Would that H. would give us his real name and address, or at least allow me to ask whether H. F. H. do not constitute his initials in full. JAMES GRAVES. Kilkenny.