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The being styled Mayoress." If not, and if Boston portrait having been left in an the common use of the word

painted in Rome, because Coleridge's stay in that city ended somewhat abruptly.

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unfinished state, it may perhaps have been a woman is right, why not king " for a woman ruler ? The Princess Mary is reported to have addressed the Lady Mayor" (so styled in the Press) of Cheltenham as "Mr. Mayor when receiving a deputation on Feb. 10, 1922. F. H. C.

In the same Gallery there is a portrait of Dickens by Francis Alexander. The record of this picture is clear, for it was painted in 1842 at the Tremont House on Dickens's first visit to Boston. It is reproduced in W. Glyde Wilkins's Charles Dickens in America,' but with a loss of the strong character of the features.

E. BASIL LUPTON. 10, Humboldt Street, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

"SCOOTER.”—Everyone now knows this toy, which, however, is not mentioned as such in the 'N.E.D. or in the Concise Oxford Dictionary.' This latter authority

has :

Scoot, v.i. (slang). Run, dart, make off [var. of shoot].

Possibly, however, the noun may be connected with scout, not shoot. Prior, in 'An Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd, Esq.,' wrote:

For as young children, who are tried in
Go-carts, to keep their steps from sliding,
When members knit, and legs go stronger,
Make use of such machine no longer;
But leap pro libitu, and scout

On horse called hobby, or without; &c.
I am not a philologist so write with diffidence.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Queries.

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

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AUCHER: DEPEDENE.-Can

any reader tell me if the following genealogical particulars are correct, or add to them in any way? Richard de Depedene, temp. Edw. II. and III., held half a knight's fee of the Auchers of High Laver and Copt Hall, Essex; Fisherton Anger, Wilts, &c.

This Richard probably came from Depden in Suffolk (Burke's Armory names it as their county), and his s. and h., John de Depedene, Knight of the Shire for Essex (1352), married Elizabeth FitzAucher, one of the daughters of Sir Aucher FitzAucher, who had been summoned to Parliament, 1309, as Lord FitzHenry.

John de Depedene subsequently acquired High Laver and all the Yorkshire estates, including Tibthorpe, Eastburn, and Torpe Arches, from his brother-in-law, Sir Henry FitzAucher, and assumed the Aucher arms.

The s. and h. of the aforesaid marriage, Sir John Depedene, married Elizabeth, dau. and h. (widow of Sir William Nevill) of Sir Stephen Walleys, himself s. and h. of Lord Walleys.

C. J. BRUCE ANGIER.

The s. and h. of this marriage, another Sir John Depedene (whose seal quartering Walleys with Aucher is extant; see Yorks. Arch. Journal, vol. xiii.), died s.p. 1402. These arms, with the additional quartering of Loring, were subsequently quartered by the Lords Wharton of Wharton, probably through descent from a sister and heir or coh. of the last Sir John Depedene. Can any "MAYOR" AS A WOMAN'S TITLE.-When reader give me particulars of Sir John's the head or chief officer of the municipal heirs and say how the Whartons came to corporation of a city or borough is a woman, quarter Aucher and Walleys? what is her correct title ? She is usually styled "the Mayor" and Her Worship the Mayor." Is this correct? defines the word "mayoress as "the wife ANNE SCOT (née BASHE).-Sir Ralph was one of a mayor," but gives as a nonce-word of the Knights of the Bath at Charles II.'s **a woman holding the office of a mayor." Coronation, and Sir Edward was knighted in The reference, however, is American, the 1691. The former married Anne, sister of word occurring in The North American Sir Thomas Skipwith, Bt., of Gosberton, Review of September, 1895: When women Lincoln, and Sir Edward Bashe married shall have become mayoresses or Anne Wade. One of them was the mother alderwomen." Now that women have at- of Anne Bashe (third wife of Thomas Scot the tained to those positions, is there any record regicide), concerning whom and her children of a woman holding the office of a mayor I am anxious for any information.

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The 'N.E.D.,

SIR RALPH AND SIR EDWARD BASHE :

Anne

Scot was married after 1645 and became a
CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

widow in 1660.

Swallowfield Park, Reading.

[Our correspondent may like to be reminded that Grace (née Mauleverer), second wife of the regicide, Thomas Scot, to whom there is a tablet in the chapel of St. John the Evangelist at Westminster Abbey ("Hee that will give my Grace but what is hers," &c.), died in 1646.]

LATIN PROVERB: ORIGIN SOUGHT.-Can any reader tell me the origin of the Latin proverb "Nescit sanus quid sentiat aeger aut plenus quid patiatur jejunus"? It is quoted as vulgare proverbium by St. Bernard (De Gradibus Humilitatis,' &c., cap. iii.), but I have not been able to find it in any dictionary of quotations.

BARTON R. V. MILLS.

THOMAS LOVELL.-Will some contributor who is familiar with materials for Lincolnshire history be so good as to tell me whether the private Act, 1 James I., c. xxxv., For the Releife of Thomas Lovell,' has been printed? It seems probable that a number of words occurring in Stat. 16 and 17 Charles II., c. 11, may be usefully extracted for 'O.E.D.' Q. V.

JELLYMAN FAMILY: REGISTER OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, OXFORD.-When searching the parish registers of All Saints (All Hallows), Oxford, last September, I observed in one register, C. 1663, a note, I think written about that date, that the register 1653 to 1662 is “in the hands of Jellyman.'

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It must be presumed that no one tried to obtain it from him in order to put it in its proper place. In the register of Bloxham, Co. Oxon, I noted the family name of Jellyman about the end of the eighteenth century.

Probably there may be several entries of this name in the registers.

Is anything known concerning the lost register of All Saints ?

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

If so, would the penalty for breaking this
oath involve the husband's recall and the
wife's death?
T. H. SOULby.

Kestor Glen, Chagford, South Devon.

UNIDENTIFIED PORTRAIT ON WOOD PANEL. -I have had for some 40 years a painting on wood panel of a lady with a large silk frill or ruff and pearls. I do not know the subject or the painter, but in the right-hand upper corner is painted

ELISABT D. C. DYCISS BIABA.

Perhaps some reader may be able to let me know something about the lady, for I cannot ascertain anything about her.

A. O'C.

PORTRAITS BY VANDYCK.-Has the portrait of the Two Young Cavaliers' recently acquired for the National Gallery ever been engraved ? If so, what is the description of the engraving (if any) given beneath it?

Has the portrait (whole length) of Jane Goodwyn, daughter of Arthur Goodwyn of Winchendon, Bucks, and second wife of Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, ever been engraved, and, if so, what is the description given beneath it? I am acquainted with an engraving of a lady in a white satin dress from a painting by Vandyck, entitled 'Jane Goodwyn,' but it does not appear to be the same lady as portrayed in the picture at Chatsworth, who is in black velvet. Where is the original painting by Vandyck of this lady in white satin, described on the engraving as 'Jane Goodwyn '?

CROSS CROSSLET.

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CATHERINE, DUCHESS OF GORDON.-Duer, in his Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling' (New Jersey, 1847), states, p. 13. that the Duchess accompanied her second husband, Gen. Staats Long Morris, to PILATE'S WIFE.-Have we any authority America on a visit to his relation. for naming Pilate's wife Claudia Procula? was "long remembered in New York for Is it true that in the reign of the Emperor her masculine habits, blunt manners, frank Augustus a provincial Roman Governor conversation and good heart." Is there any could not be accompanied by his wife, contemporary reference to her in American and that in the reign of his successor, literature? J. M. BULLOCH. Tiberius, the law was amended, so that a Governor's wife could share her husband's foreign home after taking an oath that she

37, Bedford Square, W.C.1.
GRANGER'S 'BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.-

would not interfere in matters of State? The 'D.N.B.' (xxii. 373) states that two fine

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[“The sense of maintenance," says the N.E.D. on this subject, "here is obscure." In the first quotation, c. 1485, the expression is hat of maintenance. The cap of maintenance is mentioned as having been sent by the Pope to Henry VII. and Henry VIII.; and in 1551, along with the crown or diadem as one of the insignia of a prince. The question of its origin has been discussed in our columns at 9 S. vii. 192-8 S. v. 268, 4154 S. ii. 560; viii. 399, 520-1 S. vi. 324. Nothing was elicited as to its origin, though many particulars as to its use were supplied.]

JOHN FILMER EMMETT graduated B.A. at Cambridge University from Trinity College in 1827. I should be glad to obtain particulars of his parentage and career. He was born Oct. 31, 1805. When and where did he die ? G. F. R. B.

LAZENKI PALACE, WARSAW: LATIN INSCRIPTIONS.-I should feel much obliged for information on the following points. Over the entrance door of the Lazenki Palace, Warsaw, there is (or was before the Great War) an inscription running thus :—

HAEC DOMUS ⚫

ODIT • AMAT. FUNDIT COMMENDAT ET OʻTAT · TRISTITIAS PACEM BALNEA ·

RURA

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A little lower to right and left of the portal are medallions, two in number, one symbolizing the Genius habitantis, the other the Genius loci. That of the habitans has inscribed within: FRONS SERENA VOX • SINCERA. That of the locus: MENTI · QUIES (and two more words I cannot remember). The notes I had made on the spot of these inscriptions and of the symbolic medallions have been mislaid. I have tried in vain for references in usual works. The first inscription is a quaint concetto when read in proper collocation. Are there many similar ones to be found? I have forgotten the exact symbolic figures in the medallions.

The Lazenki was the summer palace of the last King of Poland, Stanislas Augustus.

Obviously optat.

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"THE TALE OF Two CITIES': THE DRUGGING OF DARNAY.-How was Charles Darnay drugged ? Has the exact nature of this drug been ascertained? According to chap. xiii. of the novel, Darnay noticed that a curious vapour was present in the cell just before Sydney Carton rendered him unconscious. This seems to In chap. xi. it is stated to be a mixture suggest chloroform (discovered in 1831). and probably also a poison. Perhaps the lack of details is due to the fact that Dickens was guilty of a daring anachronism. What was the date of the article in The British Medical Journal on The Medical Accuracy of Dickens' ? J. ARDAGH.

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Roger de Vilers gave half a hide in Chich, Hamo his brother two parts tenths of Walchra and all the mill.

1140c. Hamon de St. Clair grants the mill of Walchra to St. Mary Walchra in perpetual alms.

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Charter of King Richard refers to gifts of Roger de Vilers and Hamon his brother, Hamon de St. Clair, Wm. de St. Clair, Eudes le Seneschal (Eudo Dapifer), &c.

120 (1226-35). Henry, bishop of Rochester, narrates inspection of confirmation by Pope Alexander to the above monastery of certain gifts including that from Hamon de St. Clair of all tenths in the village of Chalcra.

In another work (Sinclairs of England,' pp. 216/7) the following charters are said to be in the Harleian collection at the British Museum :

1145c.

1180c.

Charter of Hubert de St. Clair to the church of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, about the church of Chalke, and land and an annual return in the same

manor.

Charter of William de Lanvaley confirming the donation of Hubert de St. Clair, his grandfather, as above; particularly various matters between the prior of Bermondsey and the prior

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concerning the advowson of the church
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Do the above references in the Latin to "Walchra " and St. Mary Walchra mean Chalk"? If so, much light will be thrown on the relationship of various personages in feudal times.

Roger de Vilers is described as nepos suus to Eudes de Ryes, in a grant by the

latter to the Abbey of St. Amand, Rouen.

Is not Hamon, brother to Roger de Vilers, identical with Hamon de St. Clair mentioned in the Colchester Cartulary? Hamon and William de St. Clair were brothers; they and their father before them owned the property of Vilers (after wards known as Vilers-Fossart) in the canton of St. Clair, near St. Lô, chief town St. Clair-sur-l'Elle. They also owned the barony of Thaon in Normandy, the chapel of which is still extant. The querist has moulages of the seals of Wm. de St. Clair, his son Geoffrey and grandson Thomas.

If Hamon de St. Clair was brother to'

Roger de Vilers then he also was nepos Eudonis, which will explain his succession to Eudes de Ryes.

Roger de Vilers, I am inclined to think, may be identical with Roger nepos Huberti, who obtained a Crown grant of the manor of Chalk and was succeeded by his son Gervase de Cornhill, sheriff of Kent, Surrey, and London. See 31st Report of the Public Records, 1868-69, and the article 'Pedigree of Gervase de Cornhill,' pp. 304-12, in Geoffrey de Mandeville,' by J. Horace Round, where the grants of the manor of Chalk to Roger and Gervase respectively are cited as in Duchy of Lancaster Royal Charters Nos. 3 and 6; in respect of the latter see also Pipe Roll Society, Ancient Charters,' p. 66.

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St. Clairs may have been sons of Muriel by a second marriage.

There are many notices in the Colchester Cartulary of persons of the family of Hamley (de Amblia, Normandy) in close connexion with the St. Clairs, one of whom is Eudes de Hamley and probably the same as Eudes nepos Huberti appearing therein. May this Eudes be brother to Roger nepos Huberti, grantee of Chalk ?

I take the surname Lanvaley to be in reality "Langvale," dervied from the place in Kent held in 1087 by Adam fils Hubert, known reason the family of that name is brother of Eudes de Ryes. For some unstated to come from Brittany and the name is generally spelt "Lanvallei."

FITZ-MINSTRELLE CLARISTIAN.

POEM WANTED..-Two or three years ago there appeared in The Daily News a poem by " Gertrude S. Ford "supposed to be addressed by a wife to a husband. The Daily News people cannot trace the date of publication. Can any reader help? W. FORSTER.

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AUTHORS WANTED.-1. In the Echo de Paris of Feb. 11, 1922, there is a reference to Les EtatsUnis qui avaient proclamé que tout homme a la sienne et la France.'" deux patries : Who attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but also to was the author of this saying? I have seen it Henri de Bornier, the French Academician who died in 1901. Usually the version is Tout homme a deux patries: la sienne et puis la France." If the saying is Franklin's, what was the exact form of the English original?

F. H. C.

the author of the line:-
2. Can any reader oblige me with the name of

"And morning brings its daylight and its woe."
A. T.

Replies.

WANTED.
(12 S. x. 109.)

May St. Mary Walker mean St. Mary Walcher? Walcher fils Osbern, a nephew of Eudes de Ryes, was buried on the same day and in the same tomb as the celebrated Eudes. May Walcher be one of the brothers WHITE OF SELBORNE PORTRAIT of the two St. Clairs mentioned in their charters as buried in the grounds of the monastery? Walcher was a son of Osbern fils Walter, tenant-in-chief of Bichelswade IF MR. W. COURTHOPE FORMAN will send hundred in Bereforde in Bedford. Osborn me his address, I shall be pleased to send fils Walcher, apparently his son, appears him a photogravure copy, from my private in the Colchester Cartulary as of Leiham, plate, of a small pen-and-ink sketch, probably and there is notice of his sons. Osbern by an amateur friend, of Gilbert White of fils Walter was married to Muriel, sister Selborne. The original sketch, in one of of Eudes de Ryes, and there is an appearance his books, is now in the British Museum of his son Walcher as early as 1086. The It is perfectly well known in his family, of

whom I am the present head, that the by his great-grandnephew, Rashleigh Holtnaturalist never sat for his picture to a White, with pedigree, portraits and illusportrait artist. trations. (In two volumes. London, John Murray, 1901. 8vo.)

RASHLEIGH HOLT-WHITE.

In answer to MR. COURTHOPE FORMAN'S inquiry with regard to a portrait of Gilbert White, I may say that his family has always been of opinion that no picture of him was ever painted. The figure in the frontispiece to the first edition of The Natural History of Selborne,' at one time supposed to represent its author, has been shown to be someone else.

A picture labelled 'The Rev. Gilbert White,' picked up for a few shillings in the Caledonian Market and stated to show every sign of having been painted in Gilbert White's time, was engraved by Mr. John Glen, of 3, Bennett Street, S.W.1. A reproduction of this portrait appeared in The Selborne Magazine for 1913, on p. 64.

Another painting of a much younger man, also labelled 'Gilbert White,' at Knebworth, is in the collection of the Earl of Lytton, by whose courtesy it was reproduced in The Selborne Magazine for 1913, on p. 143.

A few years ago a copy of Homer's Iliad, by Pope, and presented by him to Gilbert White, when the latter took his degree, was discovered in Hampshire, and in it is a sketch labelled “G. W. ' penned by 'F. C.,' together with a chess-score, in which the names of Gilbert White and F. Chapman occur. This and another sketch with no title were reproduced in The Selborne Magazine for 1914, on p. 128.

This last portrait is crude, but one cannot help being struck by the resemblance between it and the painting in the possession of Lord Lytton. WILFRED MARK WEBB.

In reply to the inquiry of MR. COURTHOPE FORMAN, I beg to say that I possess the only known portrait of Gilbert White, which I shall be pleased to show him if he will call

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ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS. Library, Constitutional Club, W.C. COLONEL CHARLES WHITEFOORD (12 S. x.. 108).-If this query could be answered in the form in which it is put, the baronetcy of Whitefoord of Blaquhan would not be extinct. But your correspondent should. consult a note by S. S. (Mr. Shaw Stewart) in The Genealogist of July, 1880, in which the writer takes a very broad view of Scottish marriages.

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Of the celebrated Caleb Whitefoord (17341810), there are several memoirs accessible and portraits, one by Sir Joshua Reynolds, of which the engravings are scarce. He did not marry until very late in life. son, the late Rev. Caleb Whitefoord, rector of Burford, was born in 1806. In 1887, more than 150 years after the birth of his father, he was kind enough to allow me to peruse his collection of family papers, including a letter from Sir Walter Scott, which is worth quoting. When the 1829 edition of Waverley' was published, the origin of the story of the mutual good offices of Col. Talbot, Waverley, and Bradwardine was told in the Introduction, but with some slight inaccuracies, such as Allan for Charles and one "o" in Whitefoord. Young Caleb, then at Queen's College, Oxford, had the temerity, as he expressed it, to write to the author, pointing this out, and pleading the love of his family for the old name. Walter replied: "Dear Sir,-Dearly as I am myself particular in the spelling of my name to a 't' I had no right to treat your 'o' as a cypher," and promising that in the next edition the emendation should be made. This was done, as will be seen in the paragraph now printed in the Appendix.

Sir

The Rev. Charles Blaquhan Whitefoord, R.C. Chaplain to the Forces, grandson of the rector of Burford, died of wounds in France, May 29, 1918. Of this gallant descendant and namesake of the Waverley colonel an officer wrote:

One incident will show the spirit in which he worked among us. He was in a ruined village about a thousand yards from the fighting. Shells were falling, glass and bricks were flying about, Father Whitefoord found a man who had lost his steel helmet. In an instant he handed his own to the soldier, and then carried on excellent work in succouring the wounded.

A. T. M.

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