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One of her aunts married the Hon. Edward the two sons of Edward III.-William, Butler, son of the sixth Earl of Ormonde; the second, born 1336 at Hatfield, Yorks, and her second husband, Viscount Purbeck, who died soon after; and William, the sixth, was cousin to Mary, Countess of Arran. born at Windsor, 1347, died 1357; see Lady Muskerry resided at Somerhill, Ton-D.N.B.' and Miss Strickland's memoir of bridge, and her husband was lord of the Queen Philippa. Strange to say, neither manor on which the mineral springs, other- Burke nor Lodge notes the birth of the wise "The Wells," are situated. latter prince in their tables of the royal lineage.

She was apparently a well-known character at Tunbridge Wells, and in my copy of an old guide relating to the place the following appears :

"The two darling foibles of this lady were dress and dancing. Magnificence of dress was totally incompatible with her figure, which was that of a woman enceinte without being so; but she had a much better reason for limping, for of two legs uncommonly short, one was much shorter than the other; a face suitable to this description completed the tout ensemble of this disagreeable figure for though her dancing was still more insupportable, she never missed a ball at Court, and the Queen had so much complaisance for the public as to make her dance."

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According to the Mémoires de Grammont' her ladyship must have been the butt for the maids of honour, as several ludicrous anecdotes are related concerning her.

R. VAUGHAN GOWER. Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.

CHILDREN WITH THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (10 S. xii. 365).-Dr. Samuel Freeman, Dean of Peterborough, when Rector of SS. Anne and Agnes with St. John Zachary, London, bestowed his Christian name, solely and without addition, upon no fewer than three sons, the entries in the parish register (kept by the Rector himself at all times) running thus :

18 Jan., 1684.*" Samuel y son of Samuel & Susannah ffreeman, Rect", was xtn'd."

23 April, 1688.- Sam. ye son of Dr. Sa. ffreeman, Rect of this Parish, & Susan his wife, born Apr. 5."

16 July, 1689.-" Samuel ye son of Sam. ffreeman, D.D., & Susan his wife, borne June 29."

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The query put by MR. C. R. HAINES at 10 S. vii. 413 relates, not to the brothers of the Protector Somerset, but to his sons. The eldest by his first wife, Sir Edward Seymour, was the ancestor of the Dukes of Somerset ; while Sir Edward by the second wife became Earl of Hertford, and married Lady Katharine Grey. This was stated at 1 S. xi. 133. New York.

N. W. HILL.

WOODEN SHIPS THEIR LONGEVITY (10 S. xii. 467).-The subjoined note in the handwriting of Admiral Sir T. Byam Martin may be of interest :

"James [II.] escaped from Rochester in a small vessel of about 80 tons burthen belonging to the Dockyard, and it is a curious fact that the very same vessel has continued in the King's service from that time to the present moment, employed in conveying stores from one dockyard to another, and has from the time that she took James to France ever gone by the name of the Royal Escape. I once took occasion to point the vessel out to the present King William IV., who said, as William III. might have said, 'She did a good service for my family.'

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DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT (10 S. xii. 490).— In reply to MR. BLEACKLEY'S inquiry, I may say that I have before me as I write Historical Records of the 1st Devon Militia (4th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment), with a Notice of the 2nd and North Devon, Militia Regiments,' by Col. H. Walrond. 4th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment, with 27 illustrations (Longmans & Co., 1897). At p. 24 Col. Walrond says:

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An exceedingly fine lithograph (2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in.), by A. H. Swiss, Army Printer of 111, Fore Street, Devonport, was published about a decade ago, and forms a concise history of the Devonshire Regiment from its formation in 1685 until 1895. It gives admirable illustrations of the first captain's colour in 1687, and of the present colours (two), and full-length pictures of a musketeer in 1686, a company officer in 1790, and a The letterpress sergeant of modern times. accompanying these illustrations is stated to be abbreviated from the official records. HARRY HEMS.

PARAMOR FAMILY OF KENT (10 S. xii. 329, 397). MR. E. R. MARSHALL will find some additional information respecting the Minster branch of this family, supplementing that given by Planché, in the Visitation of Kent taken by the College of Heralds in 1663-8, and published by the Harleian Society, No. 54.

The name occurs frequently in the parish registers of Margate, and there are eight entries concerning the family in those of St. Laurence, Ramsgate, 1560-1653; the latter have been printed.

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Richard Paramor, weaver, was an Intrante " (admitted to live and trade on payment of an annual fine) of Northgate, Canterbury, in 1489-92 and 1495-6; his fine was 8d. See Intrantes of Canterbury, 1392-1592,' by J. M. Cowper.

In the adjacent county of Sussex there was a Roger Paramorer or Paramor, member of Parliament for the Rape of Bramber, Hundred of Steyning, 1307 (Horsfield's Sussex'). He is presumably the same person referred to in the following quotation from the Feet of Fines 33 Ed. I. in the same work :

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'Rape of Bramber (Sussex), 1305. John de Shipcombe and Matilda his wife sold to Roger Parramer one messuage and four acres.

"William Paramour, late abbot's bailiff of Brightwaltham, N. Berks, fell into disgrace and was impleaded by the Abbot of Battle, 1297 (Patent Rolls, 25 Edw. I.)."

The following early occurrences of the name may be of interest to MR. MARSHALL : Richard and William Paramor, Normandy, 1198 (The Norman People and their Descendants ').

John Paramour, Lincolnshire (Hundred Rolls, about 1273).....De Porremore, Devonshire (ibid.).

John, the son of William Paramours of Effingham (Surrey), mentioned 1325-6 (Hist. MSS. Com., vol. ix.).

Richard Paramore was of Alfreton, Derbyshire, about 1606 (Hist. MSS. Com., Earl of Verulam's Papers ').

Thomas Paramour, member of Parliament for Lyme Regis, co. Dorset, about 1654.

Holcombe Paramore was a place-name in Devonshire about the fifteenth century Henry (Inquisitions Post Mortem temp. C. WARBURTON BRAND. VII.).

[MR. HARRY HEMS also thanked for reply.]

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I suggest buyong (Malay), an earthenware jar, spelt in Dutch bojong, and misspelt bajang by an eighteenth-century supercargo. There is a Malay word bujang, but this signifies a bachelor, an unlikely item of cargo, and the Dutch spelling is bœtjang. S. PONDER.

Torquay. Is not the Dutch bæijen=(?) chains or irons, i.e., prison chains, intended? J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

THOMAS MOORE'S WIFE (10 S. xii. 427).– See A Book of Memories,' by S. C. Hall (London, 1870), p. 21 :—

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Though her [Mrs. Moore's] early beauty had faded under the influence of time and anxiety, enough was left not only to tell of what she had been, but to excite love and admiration then. Her figure and carriage were perfect; every movement was graceful; her head and throat and her voice, were exquisitely moulded; when she spoke, was soft and clear. Moore once said to me: My Bessy's eyes were larger before she wept them away for her children.' But when I knew her, the sockets were large. but the soft, brown eyes fell, as it were, back, All her other features were really beautiful: the delicate nose; the sweet and expressive mouth; the dimples, now here, now there; the chin so soft and rounded; the face a perfect oval. Even at that time no one could have entered

a room without murmuring, What a lovely

woman!'"'

Mrs. Moore died at Sloperton Cottage, 4 Sept., 1865, and was buried beside her husband and three of her children in the churchyard of Bromham, near Chippenham. Mr. Hall says that she left what she had to her nephew Charles Murray. He was dead at the time Mr. Hall wrote, but was survived by a widow and two daughters.

Is it not likely that the Marquis of Lansdowne has a portrait of Mrs. Moore at

Bowood ?

WM. H. PEET.

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"A mulatto man, named Crispus Attucks, who was born in Framlingham, but lately belonged to New Providence, and was here in order to go for North Carolina, also killed instantly; two balls entering his breast, one of them in special goring the right lobe of the lungs, and a great part of the liver most horribly."

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Winterton, Doncaster.

J. T. F.

DEANERIES UNATTACHED TO CATHEDRALS

(10 S. xii. 469).—I know no work on this subject, but another Irish Deanery not mentioned by R. B. is that of Raphoe, held by the Very Rev. Edward Chichester (subsequently 4th Marquis of Donegall) from A. T. B. 1832 till his death in 1889.

Bessell's Green, Kent.

In this county (Durham) there were deans of the collegiate churches of Auckland St. Andrew, Chester-le-Street, Darlington, and Lanchester, and each had its prebends. There are old buildings at each place (except Chester) still known as

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Subject to the better knowledge of American correspondents, I think this is conclusive as to Attucks's negro blood, as if a native Indian his birthplace and sub-deanery"; but on the site of the Deanery at Chester-le-Street a comparatively modern sequent movements would not be so accucalled "The Deanery." rately known or chronicled, and I under- mansion has been erected, which is still 66 mulatto would stand also that the word not have been used unless one of the parents was of negro race.

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The newspaper, which is strongly antiBritish, gives a very vivid account of the whole business. A great portion of the issue is taken up with copies of the resolutions passed by the towns round Boston, pledging themselves not to use any British goods, and denouncing those who do; and among the names of the citizens prominent in asserting their rights are those of Hancock, Adams, and others who afterwards became

famous.

Melbourne.

EDWARD STEVENS.

CHARTERHOUSE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 1515 (10 S. xii. 468). The Nately from which John Jakys entered New College, Oxford, would be not Netley, but Up-Nately, a parish on the Basingstoke Canal, five miles east from Basingstoke. JOHN P. STILWELL.

Yateley, Hants.

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MAR" IN MARDYKE (10 S. xii. 310, 475). Mardyke "would seem to denote the dyke or drain through the marsh," that which passes through the three Saltfleetbys in Lincolnshire on the north side of the main road. In St. Peter's parish it is comparatively small, though larger than "The Marsh"; but, the field-drains in receiving tributary drains all the way, it becomes, in St. Clement's parish, quite wide and deep, a remarkable-looking drain indeed, and might be taken for a river, were it not

The collegiate church of Middleham, Yorkshire, had also its dean and prebends.

South Shields.

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Probably the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. would say in his ' Cathedralia.'. PECULIAR ITS " COURT SELBY, YORKS: -MR. S. S. M'DOWALL does not quite touch AND PARISH REGISTERS (10 S. xii. 409, 475). the point of my inquiry. I know that the original registers in a more or less imperfect but I want inforstate are at Selby; as the are known mation about what one would Bishops' Transcripts, which expect to find at the Diocesan Registry, On inquiry I am told that they are York. not there because Selby was a Peculiar Court. Where are these transcripts now, if they have been preserved ?

It appears to me that the parishes within the Peculiar Court should have sent the

copy of their register to the bishop, as reHENRY FISHWICK. quired by the ordinance of 1597.

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For sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first.
Fruitless inquiries for the source of this line
were made at 3 S. ii. 166 and 4 S. viii. 426.
W. C. B.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. description of Castle Hedingham-the great xii. 509).— fortress of the De Veres-shows us the best side of one of the finest of its kind. To us it has but one merit, spacious rooms, and its defects are many: windows too small to make the rooms cheerful, yet quite large enough to make it cold in the absence of any glazing; each side of the room an outside wall; a fireplace with a short flue and small vents; the sleeping-places (if any) BAKERS' SERVANTS, c. 1440 (10 S. xii. mere bunks in recesses burrowed in the walls; 427, 498). On the analogy of proweour= cooking carried on either in the hall itself or at purveyor in Langland (Stratmann-Bradley), long distances from it. Peak Castle in Derbyshire soureour may mean surveyor, with no dis-had two rooms (perhaps four if an attic and a must have been very much harder to live in. It cordant sense. cellar floor were ever constructed and used), the lower lit by two small slits in the wall, the upper (measuring 22 ft. by 19 ft.) having in addition two closets hollowed in the walls. There though probably they existed. Yet this was a were no fireplaces, and there is no trace of hearths, famous place in its time, and many of the peel towers on the Borders built three centuries later were little better.

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CANON PELLING (10 S. xii. 367). The Christian name of Canon Pelling was John. In The Fruits of Endowment,' London, 1840, the following entry occurs: "Pelling, John, D.D. Canon, Windsor [published] Sermon: Before the Clergy (Exod. xx. 5).

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Growth of the English House: a Short History of its Architectural Development from 1100 to 1800. By J. Alfred Gotch. (Batsford.) It is our pleasant duty every now and then to direct the attention of the public to a wholly admirable book: we feel sure that readers of N & Q.' will agree with us that Mr. Gotch's latest publication is entitled to that distinction. In the space of 300 pages he deals with over 200 historical houses, illustrating his remarks by 214 photographs, drawings, or plans. He writes for the general public, making no demand on any knowledge of architecture, though professional students will find much in it to interest them. All sorts of buildings, from Norman keeps to mansions in St. James's Square, are described in turn, and the chain of development from first to last is kept steadily in view. Considered as a dwelling-house, a Norman keep must have been singularly uncomfortable from every point of view-cold, dark, and inconvenient: it had but one merit, that of being safe from a sudden surprise. Mr. Gotch's full

All these towers were four-square, the round Windsor), as at the time of its vogue in France tower finding little favour in England (we except Englishmen were building fortified or moated manor houses. What is really curious and unexplained is the building of such a place as Boston) on the model of a Norman tower so late Tattershall Castle (half way between Lincoln and as the middle of the fifteenth century. We can understand the use of Warkworth Castle-its contemporary-and admire the skill shown in planning it, so as to combine something of the fortress; comfort of a manor house with the security of a purpose-it was not a dwelling-place for the but Tattershall seems built to no man who built South Wingfield Manor House.

However it may be, the great single room of the Norman Castle suited the temperament of English builders, for it was the central point of domestic architecture till Stuart times. The first fortified manor houses consisted of a great hall, with a kitchen near the doorway for the service, and a solar at the other end as a retiring room for the lord. Every important building down to the days of Elizabeth repeated and enlarged on this plan the kitchen developing into the ments. Lastly, the hall began to lose its importservants' wing, the solar into the family apartance in some houses it becomes a gallery running parlour. the whole length of the front, in others it is a mere examples of the hall in its various stages. The Mr. Gotch has described many fine finest of them, and the earliest, is Oakham Castle, in Rutland; while Stokesay Castle in Shropshire is a later and very interesting form. No work Hall or Kenilworth Castle, but it will be seen that on English homes could possibly omit Haddon the author has gone to considerable pains to avoid hackneyed examples. kitchens at Stanton Harcourt and Glastonbury His account of the is extremely good.

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chapters dealing with Elizabethan and Jacobean
Mr. Gotch is at his best, we think, in the
houses-interiors and exteriors alike—but especi-
ally when treating of
and panelling; and he is least happy when
the decorative plaster
referring to "the influence of the Amateurs."
The elevation of fig. 159 from Kent's Designs of
Inigo Jones' is almost a copy of one of Palladio's
drawings with a few banal additions; while

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many of the houses figured in the chapter on the
Palladian style do not recall any features of his
work. Of course the truth is that no one could
live in England in a really Palladian house-one
would have to follow Lord Chesterfield's advice
and live in a house opposite to enjoy a view of it.
ugly
The reaction from the grand style to the "
but comfortable " is comprehensible, if deplorable.
No work will ever displace in our affections
Turner and Parker's Domestic Architecture in
the Middle Ages,' but Mr. Gotch's little book
It is just
will stand beside it on our shelves.
the sort of book to give to any one who is inclined
to be interested about old buildings without
Without any parade
knowing much of them.
of teaching, it will direct attention to obvious
features of style and set the student on the right
One feature we are specially pleased with
is the Chronological List of Castles and Houses.'
It does not pretend to include even all the more
notable historic houses of England, but it is a
beginning, and the buildings given here, being
all dated, will serve to fix the dates of many others
A complete list of the
whose origin is unknown.
historic houses of England is not an impossible
undertaking, and we should like to see it done.
Unfortunately, there are difficulties in the way.
Travelling is often costly and uncomfortable
Here is a book describing 200 fine
in England.
buildings, but one's heart sinks when one realizes
that the attempt to see any of them out of the
beaten tourist track means a day's labour, the
discomfort of bad food, and, probably, overcharge
for it. An association like the Touring Club de
France is badly wanted in England for the educa-
tion of English hotel-keepers. All the same we
are grateful to Mr. Gotch for having mapped out
new objects of interest in rural England, and
refreshed our memories of old friends.

the first three The Fortnightly opens with chapters of Meredith's posthumous novel, Celt and Saxon.' So far the Celt only is exhibited in a young Irishman, who comes to Wales on a chivalrous quest concerning his brother. Mr. Garvin's review of ' Imperial and Foreign Affairs is almost entirely concerned with Germany and the question of the Navy, and is a good example of his vigorous writing. Mr. W. S. Lilly in Eyes and No Eyes' considers the Irish question, and no more succeeds in giving an impartial view Mr. Lilly's style is too heavy of than most writers. "The Later Heroines to be attractive. Maurice Maeterlinck' are the subject of a pretty The version in English piece of prose by his wife. by Mr. A. T. de Mattos is excellent. Mr. Archibald Hurd considers The Naval Issue' once more, and declares that our present fleet is two-Power standard.' admittedly above a Mr. He regards 41,000,000l. as necessary for the Navy Estimates of the coming year. E. H. Pickersgill writes on Imprisonment for Debt,' proposing changes in the law which seem to us by no means sure to do good. The Committee on the subject of which he was chairman were divided in opinion, but he claims a majority for his views. Mr. Alfred Stead dwells on the virtues of Prince Ito, Patriot and Statesman,' which are generally recognized by the thoughtful. Prof. H. H. Turner has an interesting article Migrating Stars,' and belongs to the small body of scientific men who can both write and observe. Mr. F. G. Aflalo in The Mind of the

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Sportsman' reviews several recent books sport. Fiction in The Fortnightly is generally worth reading, and An Unofficial Divorce,' by Mr. Stephen Reynolds, is an effective story of a fisherman and his brother who married the wrong girls, and changed their wives to their mutual satisfaction.

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IN The Nineteenth Century Sir Bampfylde on The Fuller writes, doubtless, good sense Indian Responsibilities of Liberal Politicians,' but his style is too full and wordy to please A General the public of to-day. The title of Strike' is hardly justified by Mr. B. C. Molloy's What he considers is a strike of coalarticle. miners so general as to paralyze virtually all is the Co-partnership industry. offered, which does not seem so easy as this interesting paper suggests. M. André Beaunier writes delightful French in La Littérature Française Contemporaine,' which is, like that of other countries, in a state of anarchy, and suffering from too much writing by everybody. Former good readers are now bad writers. Symbolism is no longer a power in poetry. The theatre attracts literary talent, and the results are generally deplorable, for writers seek to flatter the least respectable desires It is suggested that Novelists have not the public they had in the days of Zola and Daudet. His many imitators do not count. Anatole France is not so original as he was thought to be. M. Maurice Barrès and M. Jules Lemaître are In The Making of a selected as worthy of special notice, and brilliantly Mr. Stephen Gwynn brings forward for praise the work of Mr. W. H. Davies and Mr. James attractive. Incidentally, he makes some general Stephens, and his summary is both fair and statements which seem to us of doubtful validity. 'Some Reminiscences of Mr. Gladstone,' by Sir Algernon West, are pleasant, though, like other papers on the subject, they remind us that Gladstone either had no Boswell, or did not A Self-Supporting Penal Labour Colony,' by Edith Sellers, is an The Director, often say notable things. account of Witzwil in Switzerland. whose name is not given, must be a remarkable organizer, with a sympathetic Government at Miss Rose his back. Nothing better than such a combinaof the unemployable. tion can be wished for solution at home of the problem Bradley has an article which is both lively and In the Shadow of the Tower' gives instructive on Boswell and a Corsican Patriot.' The title no idea of the pathetic human interest of Mr. Gabriel Costa's account of a morning at the London Appeal Board under the Aliens' Act. In the little office in Great Tower Street many an native land, gains the chance of a fresh start in the hoped-for alien, driven by persecution and want from his life of freedom in a free country is not destined England, or learns, alas! that She succeeds in extracting matter of to be found." Miss Viola Tree is new to us as a writer. interest from the Blue-book on The Censorship of Stage Plays,' though it seems to us tolerably absurd to talk about "the high intellectual 'The Ito Legend' Mr. F. T. Piggott adds from standard of both questions and answers.' personal recollections to the chorus of praise which surrounds the memory of the far-seeing patriot.

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