I sent a communication to 'N. & Q.,' which appeared in 5th S. viii. 347, showing that this custom prevailed at Great Yarmouth. Other correspondents said it was general at Clovelly, North Devon, and in the Isle of Man. At the latter place it was customary in the Litany to insert the phrase "and the produce of the seas in the clause in which the blessing of God was asked upon "the fruits of the earth." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

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one evening with a party of which John Kennedy, detour of the fishing quarter of the town, chanting the of Baltimore, an American writer of some repute, Here the vicar of the parish gave an appropriate address Litany, a position was taken up overlooking the sea. I am told, was one. While the evening was still and prayers were offered asking a divine blessing on the young Thackeray rose to leave the party, stating as fisherman's calling. The service concluded by the singhis excuse that he was under promise to furnishing of the well-known bymn, 'Eternal Father, strong to next day a chapter of The Virginians' which he save.' had not yet written. The whole company joined in protesting that he, the life of the party, should not thus break it up, and John Kennedy added to his protest the offer to go and write the required chapter, urging that, as it was to deal with incidents in a country with which he was personally more familiar than Thackeray, a mere indication of the line to be followed would enable him to act as an efficient substitute. To this proposal Thackeray ultimately assented. No copy of Thackeray being at hand, I was unable to obtain the number of the chapter referred to, which I was told is about the longest in the novel, and subsequent search has not led me to an identification. Is this story known? And is it true? If it be true, which is John Kennedy's chapter? Readers of N. & Q' interested in Thackerayana will be able to explode the myth, if such it be, and it is well, therefore, that the story, if it has not hitherto appeared in print, should now be subjected to the test of criticism. B. B.

71, Brecknock Road.

"SMOKER": "SLEEPER": "DINER."-Apropos to the "kneeler" question, the railway people in the United States have pretty well established "" smoker for smoking car, and there the names sleeper" for sleeping couch, but on a recent trip across the American continent I for the first time heard the dining car called "the diner." F. J. P.

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FULWOOD'S RENTS. (See 8th S. ix. 385, 454).At the first of these references is a paragraph, cut from a provincial newspaper, recording the demolition of the old houses which have been known for more than three centuries as Fulwood's Rents. The effacement of any legendary or historical site

in London deserves to be recorded in the columns
of N. & Q.'; but it would be well if the informa-
tion were based on sourder authority than a stray
paragraph in a local print. The extract in question
is misleading in more than one particular. One
mistake has been exposed by MR. HEBB; another
is to the effect that the original name of the cluster
of buildings which is now in course of demolition
Chris-
was Fuller's Rents. This is not the case.
topher Fulwood seems to have been in possession
of the property at the end of the sixteenth century,
and it was after him that it received its name.
Douthwaite, in his 'History of Gray's Inn,' cites
an order of 5 Feb., 1593, under which the Benchers
paid 150l. to Fulwood "for a parcel of ground in
Holborne for building a gate out of Gray's Inn
into Holborne," and "Jane Fulwood, gentle-
woman, sister unto Christopher Fulwood, Esquire,
out of Fulwood's Rents, was buried the first of
December, 1618" (Register of St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, quoted by Cunningham, 'Handbook of
London,' 1850, p. 193). Some time in the seven-
teenth century the locality became generally known
as Fuller's Rents, and under that designation it
frequently figures in the lighter literature of the
period. Good accounts of the place are given in
Wheatley's London Past and Present,' ii. 82,
and in Thornbury's 'Old and New London,' ïi.

536; and at p. 534 of the latter work will be found
a reproduction of one of the engravings in Archer's
Vestiges of Old London,' representing an interior
on the ground floor of an old Jacobean house,
which stood about the centre of the east side of
the court. It would be interesting to know the
fate of the fine carved woodwork of this house.
The old red-brick house at the north-west corner,
abutting on Field Court, Gray's Inn, which was
identified by Timbs-for whose authority I do not
Vouch-as Squire's Coffee House, was dismantled
and pulled down in the summer of 1894, and I
presume that shortly there will be nothing left to
remind the passer-by of this picturesque haunt of
riotous frondeurs and impecunious wits.
W. F. PRIDEAUX,

gives the arms thus: Gules, two bars or, each charged with three mascles az., on a canton of the last a leopard's head of the second. The arms of the respective families of Gery, Gerry, Geary, and Gerre are very similar.

Also, is anything known of the parents of Pierce Lynch, of Leighcarrow, co. Galway? He (by his wife Ellen Butler) was the father of Elizabeth Lynch, who married William FitzGerald, of Lahardine, co. Clare; their son was the Right Hon. James FitzGerald, who married Catherine, Baroness FitzGerald and Vesey (creation 1826). KATHLEEN WARD.

Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

OAK BOUGHS.-On 1 August, 1799, George III. reviewed the volunteers of the county of Kent in the Mote Park, Maidstone. All the volunteers wore oak boughs in their hats. The royal family, on arrival, "requested to have oak boughs to decorate themselves, which were immediately brought, and the Queen and Princesses put them in their caps and pinned them to their bosoms "> (Gentleman's Magazine, lxix. part ii. p. 703, August, 1799). Query, reason for this E. S. use of oak boughs ?

PRINCE CHARLES AND MLLE. Luci.-In 17501752 a young lady, spoken of by Prince Charles [See 7th S. xii. 289, 374, 417, 454.] as Mademoiselle Luci," befriended him when in hiding near Paris. She bought books for him, and GORDON FAMILY.-I should be obliged if the did his "shopping" in general. Who was she? readers of 'N. & Q.' would furnish me with She had a married sister, spoken of as "La information relative to the genealogical tables of Grandemain"; both were very intimate with the family of Gordon and its branches published Montesquieu. Had the Duchesse d'Aiguillon during the early part of this century. (née Florensac) an unmarried sister? Circumstances point to Madame de Vassé (née De Pezé), but she was fille unique of her father and mother; her father may, however, have married twice, and had a daughter Mlle. Luci by another wife. Mlle. Luci died in October, 1752. Can any one help me as to this Mlle. Luci? I have vainly tried De Luynes, D'Argenson, and other writers of

memoirs.

A. LANG.

'A LEGEND OF READING ABBEY': 'THE CAMP OF REFUGE.'-Information is desired as to the authorship of above. The 'Legend' was issued in Knight's "Shilling Library" in 1845, and was stated to be by the author of "The Camp of Refuge. Any information as to the latter work will also be acceptable. P. H. T.

GERRY FAMILY. Can any genealogical contributor give me information respecting the Galway family of Gerry? The mother of Catherine Vesey, Baroness FitzGerald and Vesey, is described thus in Burke's 'Extinct Peerage': "Mary Gerry, daughter and coheiress of George Gerry, of Galway." This Mary Gerry was the wife of the Rev. Henry Vesey, Warden of Galway, who died 1774. Burke's General Armory' informs me that the family originated from Lancashire, and

WILLIAM DOWNING. Chaucer's Head Library, Birmingham.

MANOR OF TOLEY FEE, OR TULEY FEE.—I should be glad if any one could give information which would enable me to identify this place. The name occurs in the Yorkshire Feet of Fines, temp. Eliz., and is mentioned in connexion with several places in the East Riding of Yorkshire, viz., Great and Little Driffield, Beswick, Kyllum, Righton, and Sureby; so probably Toley Fee also is in the East Riding. There is, I believe, a Toly Park in Leicestershire, but I hardly think this can be the same place. I have met with a reference to a Peter Toly, of Driffield, in a fifteenth century document, which seems to make it probable that Toley Fee is to be looked for about there. any traces of the place in existence now? 41, Park Square, Leeds.

Are there

B. P. S.

SOLDIER'S MARRIAGE.-Can any of your readers say if the marriage of a soldier whilst abroad with his regiment, about 1740-5, would be registered, and also the births of his children. Did not each regiment keep some sort of a register; and, if so, where will they probably be now? The particular regiment I want is the Buffs (East Kent Regiment), the old 3rd Foot. I have tried at the General Register Office and the War Office.

S. H. DOBSON.

in Ellis's 'Campagna of London,' p. 100. The writer imagined the female head to be a portrait of Elizabeth of York, the queen of King Henry VII. ; but there is no doubt that it represented the arms of the Mercers Company. Nelson, in his 'History of Islington,' 1811, p. 405, wrote that after the "Crown" was pulled down, "the original in stained glass" was preserved in a window in the house of Mr. Clifton, apothecary, on the terrace, Lower Street, and more than thirty years afterwards Lewis (History of Islington,' 1842, p. 153) stated that the glass was lately in the possession of the former owner's son, Nathaniel Clifton, Esq., surgeon, of Cross Street. I do not know of a later reference to it, but should not be surprised to learn that it is still in existence.

Kingsland, Shrewsbury.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

RIDER'S 'BRITISH MERLIN.'-Will some of your numerous readers inform me if they know 16, Overstone Road, Hammersmith, W. anything of a little work called 'Rider's British Merlin,' compiled by Cardanus Rider, and pubHERIOT AND COWAN HOSPITALS.-Has a cata-lished by R. Nutt, 1757? Was it an annual publogue ever been printed, stretching back to the lication; or was this the only year in which it beginning, giving the names of the teachers and appeared? The copy which is before me has an pupils of these two ancient Scottish institutions, interesting history attached to it, if it is true. one of which is located at Edinburgh, the other Some years ago an "ambassador of commerce " being at Stirling? Did either, as teaching estab- was travelling through a desolate portion of the lishments, at the beginning, or down to present south island of New Zealand, when he met a century, or later, profess to give anything more "swagger" who had come to the end of his rethan elementary instruction? SELPPUC. sources, and begged for charity's sake some money, the little volume whose title I have given above. offering in exchange the only possession he had, The "swagger" stated that this was an heirloom in his family, and had been presented by Capt. Cook to his grandfather, who had been an officer WILLIAM WARHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTER-in one of Cook's voyages to the South Seas. The BURY.-I want to know the names of the parents of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1502 to 1530. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Dundrum, co. Down.

COMNENI AND NAPOLEON I.-Is it true that Napoleon was a descendant of Constantine Comnenus, 1676, and therefore of royal descent?

A. C. H.

TIMBER TREES.—A friend of mine, who is writing the history of a parish in Kent, has sent me an extract from a deed relating to a charity in the early part of this century, in which the term "timber trees " occurs several times, remarking that it is a curious expression. I believe that it refers to growing oak trees, that could be used for shipbuilding, but am not certain; so I beg to ask if any reader of 'N. & Q.' versed in timber lore can throw any light on the subject.

AYEAHR.

book is beautifully bound in old red morocco, elaborately tooled in gold with figures of birds, insects, and flowers. It has silver clasps, which close by means of a long, thin needle of lead (?) blank pages, some of them smeared with a white with a silver top. The work is interleaved with composition upon which the marks made by the lead needle appear distinctly.

ALEX. H. TURNBULL.

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SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED.—“’He who is catching at a crown will not fish for gudgeons,' as Cleopatra once said to Mark Antony.' Something approximate to this, not necessarily the exact words. Could any references be traced in English plays or other sources ? S. T. S.

"FEER AND FLET."-What was this? In 1429 Avice, widow of Wm. Opwyk, surrendered a cottage in Bury Street, Fulham, to Robert Eyre, on condition that she should have for her life her dwelling house at the east end of the house called "ferehous," with "feer and flet" in the same, and part of the herbs growing in the cur

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tilage, with free ingress and egress towards the same when she pleased. I suppose ferehous= ferry-house.

CHAS. JAS. FERET.

49, Edith Road, West Kensington.

Beylies.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.
(8th S. x. 8.)

ALEXANDER CARLYLE, D.D., 1722-1805.John Hill Burton, who edited, in 1860, the well- It is not difficult to reply to PROF. ATTWELL'S known 'Autobiography' of this Scottish divine-two queries. So early as the fourteenth century the the Jupiter Carlyle of Sir Walter Scott-mentions somewhere a collection of papers, letters, &c., left by Carlyle. Were they ever deposited at any public institution ?

SELPPUC.

POMPADOUR.-As is generally known, pompadour, as a colour, is a sort of dark claret purple, and the 56th Foot is called the "Pompadours," from their claret facings; but whence is this name for the colour derived? Isabelle colour has, I believe, already been discussed in 'N. & Q.' JAMES HOOPER.

JACK SHEPPARD.-Can you inform me where the portrait of Jack Sheppard (painted by Sir James Thornhill in 1722 for George I.) is at present? WILLIAM HOLLES.

TOUT FAMILY.-Will some one give me any kind of information relating to the Tout family? John Tout migrated from East Halton to Barnoldby-leBeck, Lincolnshire, somewhere about a century ago. Had the aforesaid John any brothers? Is the name known in Yorkshire as a surname? Is anything known as to the origin of our singular C. GARDNER (née TOUT).

name?

47, Chichester Road, Leytonstone, E. SHEEP OF THE OLD HIGHLAND BREED. Before 1750 there existed a small species of sheep in the Highlands, having white or reddish faces, but so delicate that they required to be housed in the winter. They had very fine wool, and their mutton was very sweet. Had this old breed of native sheep any distinctive name? Is the breed now totally extinct? Seeing that these sheep were regarded as such tender animals that they could not be left in winter in the open air, and, it is said, could not defend themselves and their young from foxes and golden eagles, was it a native breed? I shall be glad of references should this breed be noticed by any of the early travellers in the Highlands. R. HEDGER WALLACE. CHURCHWARDENS.-The parish of Wingham appoints both the churchwardens at a vestry meeting, so that both are people's wardens. Is this common? The reason given is that since the college was suppressed, in 1547, there had only been a perpetual curate, who cannot appoint a churchwarden. Is this legally true?-as many perpetual curacies existed. Owing to the custom, it is said the vicar cannot now appoint.

Wingham, Kent.

ARTHUR HUSSEY.

sect of Church reformers, then known as Lollards,
conceived that the title of "Saint" savoured of
papistry, and discontinued prefixing it to the
names of those deceased individuals whom the
Church had authoritatively designated as having
been exemplarily holy in their lives, and there-
fore entitled to special veneration after death.
At the date given by Colville, 1526, the soi
disant reformers, not yet known as Protestants,
had generally abandoned the use of the eccle-
siastically official title.

In the succeeding reign (Elizabeth) these
Gospellers, from a reputed austerity in mode of
life, came to be known as Precisians, more fre-
Thus we find the court
quently called Puritans.*
favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, popu-
larly reputed to be a Puritan, or a favourer of the
Puritan-the Precisian-sect. This body adopted
even more strictly the usuage, or non-usage, in
this respect of their precursors, the Lollards.

During the great Civil War the Low Church
party-to use a convenient designation-followed
the earlier innovators in reprobating the custom
of affixing the canonical title, which the High
Church-the Cavalier-section of the community
as stubbornly declined to ignore. Is not PROF.
ATTWELL acquainted with the charming story in
the Spectator of Sir Roger de Coverley's experi-
ence in his youth when the war between king and
How, inquiring for
Parliament was raging?
St. Anne's Lane, to which he had been directed,
a sour-visaged Precisian angrily asked him, Who
made Anne a saint and, denouncing the lad as
a malignant Prelatist, refused to assist him in his
search; and how the youth-to accommodate his
locution to the tone of the time-asked the next
wayfarer he happened to meet where Anne's Lane
was, receiving for reply a hearty curse, for a prick-
eared cur, and the information that St. Anne was
a saint before the juvenile inquirer was born, and
would continue to be known and venerated as
such long after he was hanged; but not obtaining
the information he sought?

For the next hundred years the habit of drop-
ping the prefix continued general, spreading from
the lower to all orders of society. This covers
the time of Pope. I opine that the increasing
attention given to Church matters during the
latter part of the eighteenth century led to the
popular recognition, and hence reintroduction, of
the canonical designation.

*See Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night,' passim.

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