. ii., 1842) that "mob
is _mobile_."

_Cash_ appears to be from the French _caisse_, a chest, cash.

J. W. THOMAS.

Dewsbury.

_Cash_ is from the French _caisse_, the moneychest where _specie_ was kept.
So _caissier_ became "cashier," and _specie_ "cash."

_Mob_, Swift tells us (_Polite Conversation_, Introd.), is a contraction
for _mobile_.

CLERICUS RUSTICUS has not, I fear, Johnson's _Dictionary_, where both these
derivations are given.

C.

_Ampers &._ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 284.; Vol. viii. _passim_).--MR. INGLEBY
may well ask what "and-per-se-and" can mean. The fact is, this is itself a
corruption. In old spelling-books, after the twenty-six letters it was
customary to print the two following symbols with their explanations

&c. et cetera.
& (per se), and.

Children were taught to read the above "et-cee, et cetera" and "et-per-se,
and." Such, at least, was the case in a Dublin school, some ninety years
ago, where my informant, now many years deceased, was educated. As _se_ was
not there pronounced like _cee_, but like _say_, there was no danger of
confounding the two names. In England, where a different pronunciation of
the Latin word prevailed, such confusion would be apt to occur; and hence,
probably, English teachers substituted _and_ for _et_; from which, in
course of time, the other corruptions mentioned by MR. LOWER were
developed.

E. H. D. D.

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_The Keate Family, of the Hoo, Herts_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--The following
account is taken from Burke's _Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_,
Lond. 1841:

"William Keate of Hagbourne, in Berkshire, left five sons. The second
son, Ralph Keate of Whaddon, in Wiltshire, married Anne, daughter of
John Clarke, Esq., of Ardington, in Berkshire, and had with other issue
Gilbert Keate, Esq., of London, who married, first, John, daughter of
Niclolas Turbervile, Esq. of Crediton, in Devon, and, secondly,
Elizabeth, daughter of William Armstrong, Esq., of Remston, Notts, and
by her had another son, Jonathan Keate, Esq., of the Hoo, in the county
of Hertford, which estate he acquired with his first wife, Susannah
daughter of William, and sister and heir of Thomas Hoo, of the Hoo and
Kimpton, both in Hertfordshire. Mr. Keate was created a baronet by King
Charles II., 12th June, 1660. Sir Jonathan was sheriff of the county of
Hertford, 17 Charles II., and knight of the same shire in Parliament,