"My man Shuttleworth, of Harking, made this form and here will I sit when I come; and any cousin Nowell may make one behind me, if he please, and my son Sherburne shall make one on the other side; and Mr. Catteral another behind him; and for the residue the use shall be, _first come first speed; and that will make the proud wives of Whalley rise betimes to come to church_." Which seems to convey the idea, that it was at that time customary for persons to make their seats in the churches. Query, When did pews come into general use? R.W.E. Hull. [The earliest notice of pews occurs in the _Vision of Piers Plouman_, p. 95., edit. 1813:-- "Among wyves and wodewes ich am ywoned sute Yparroked _in puwes_. The person hit knoweth." See also _The History of Pews_, a paper read before the Cambridge Camden Society, 1841.] {57} _Flemish Account._--T.B.M. (Vol. i., p. 8.) requests references to early instances of the use of this expression. In the _History of Edward II._, by E.F., written A.D. 1627 (see "NOTES AND QUERIES" Vol. i., pp. 91. 220.), folio edition, p. 113., I find "The Queen (Isabella) who had already a French and an Italian trick, was jealous lest she should here taste a Flemish one;" because she feared lest the Earl of Henault should abandon her cause. This instance is, I think, earlier than any yet referred to. S.G. _Use of Monosyllables._--The most remarkable instance of the use of monosyllables that I remember to have met with in our poets, occurs in the Fire-worshippers in _Lalla Rookh_. It is as follows:-- "I knew, I knew it could not last-- 'Twas bright, 'twas heav'nly, but 'tis past! Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never lov'd a tree or flow'r But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die! Now, too--the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee, hear thee, call thee mine,-- Oh misery! must I lose _that_ too? Yet go! On peril's brink we meet;-- Those frightful rocks--that treach'rous sea-- No, never come again--tho' sweet, Tho' Heav'n, it may be death to thee!" This passage contains 126 words, 110 of which are monosyllables, and the remainder words of only two syllables. The sentiment embodied throughout is that of violent mental emotion; and it affords a further illustration of the correctness of MR. C. FORBES'S theory (Vol. i., p. 228.) that "the language of passion is almost invariably broken and abrupt." HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, W.I., Nov. 1850. _Specimen of Foreign English._-- "RESTORATIVE HOTEL, FINE HOK. KEPT BY FRANK PROSPERI, FACING THE MILITARY QUARTER AT POMPEII.