FORD FAMILY AND family of Ford does the crest of a lion rampant and a demi-lion rampant belong? ARMS.-To which NUNS AS CHAPLAINS.-In an article on Kirklees Priory, by S. J. Chadwick, F.S.A., in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, part 63, p. 325, 1901, it is stated in a note that I shall be glad if any one can give me the pedigree of the family of Richard Ford, genealogist, born in or about 1776 (probably at Somerset). He died at the Vicarage, Kew, in 1842, having previously resided at Worcester Park House, Surrey, and 5, Ladbrooke Terrace, Notting Hill. He had a large family. My grandfather Dr. Alfred Ford had the pedigree when he was living at Pimlico about 1856. Please reply direct. ARTHUR NAPIER FORD. Homestead, Uxoridge Road, Surbiton. LORD BYRON AND CAPT. CRAWLEY.-I shall be much obliged for a reference to the original of the following story, which I take from 'A Treatise on the utility of Swimming,' by H. Kenworthy, 1846, p. 21 :— "Capt. Crawley of the Philomel British brig ot war and Lord Byron, after a merry day spent on shore at the island of Solmondrachi, were returning on board the brig, when the boat was upset by a squall of wind. His lordship saved Capt. Crawley's life by pulling him on the keel of the boat...... [Byron] swam to an Italian vessel three miles distant, from whence a boat was sent for his companion, who but for this act of high intrepidity must have perished." RALPH THOMAS. "the chaplains of nuns were sometimes women. The lines of Chaucer referred to are :— Another Nonne also with hire hadde she, That was hire chapelleine, and Preestes thre, upon which the editor of my edition (1853) observes in a note : "These and the following lines have been condemned by Tyrwhitt as spurious. See his Discourse, p. 78." Upon what authority does Tyrwhitt call St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. ST. DUNSTAN'S-IN-THE-WEST: ITS CLOCKS. -The famous projecting clock and its two figures have been lost to Fleet Street for nearly forty years. Their cost and date of erection are well known : then living at the end of Water Lane, London, "On the 18th of May, 1671, Mr. Thomas Harrys, made an offer to build a new clock with chimes, and to erect two figures of men with pole-axes, whose office should be to strike the quarters...... The whole of this he proposed to perform and to keep it in order for the remuneration of £80 and the old clock."-Denham's 'St. Dunstan-in-the-West.' It is on record that the vestry finally agreed to give the sum of 351. and the old clock "for as much of his plan as they thought proper to adopt, and on the 28th October, 1671, the work was completed." LATHOMUS. Is anything known about this earlier FREEMASONRY: W. GORDON.-An alleged exposure of Freemasonry appeared in the eighteenth century in а book entitled Every Young Man's Companion,' of which the author or editor was a W. Gordon. The British Museum Library has a copy of the third edition, dated 1759. Can any reader give me the date of the first edition? PIG GRASS: FIONING GRASS.-This is a weed which grows in some cornfields, and runs to a great length along the ground. The commonest name for it amongst farming men is pig-grass," and they consider it quite useless. 66 What may be the allusion to Richardson in the following lines? Haste, O Richardson, and with thee bring I see thee coming; thy fame it spreads around; When they gave up turnips for the best of hay. Worksop. clock? With respect to the "two figures ENGRAVING BY J. G. WILL AFTER TOCQUÉ. The portrait is within oval. The shield a hillock and a mullet arg. Crest 2 arms Few know my Face, tho' all Men do my Fame ;- E. H. BATES. Replies. WORDS AND PHRASES IN OLD (10 S. xi. 469; xii. 10.) Caly. Years ago I noted at p. 80 of DUTCH BOY AND THE DYKE.-I shall be Romans's 'Florida' the following passage, greatly obliged if some reader can give me describing the Indian game of chunké dates and authorities for a Dutch tale." They make an alley of about two hundred The incidents relate to a brave boy who, feet in length, where a very smooth caly finding a leak in a dyke as he was going ground is laid, which when dry is very hard"; home somewhat late at night, stopped the and I concluded that caly was a misplace with his hand until he was relieved print for clay. Romans's work contains next morning by some passer-by, and so various typographical peculiarities, some saved the neighbouring village from being intentional, some not. overflowed. A. G. FLINT PEBBLES AT BRIGHTON.-Brighton beach is covered with more or less rounded flint pebbles, caused, of course, by the action of the sea, with comparatively few broken or chipped. Inland, everywhere, are to be found immense quantities of pieces of flint, most of which appear as if chipped, with indications that they were once more or less round, like those on the beach-unbroken or unchipped pieces being as few, I should say, as broken pieces on the beach. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' explain this? J. BROWN. 66 Campus.-The "accurately dated instance prior to 1880" MR. THORNTON will find in Colonial Society of Massachusetts for March, a paper printed in the Publications of the 1897, iii. 431-7. The word arose in 1774— exactly how is not known-at the College whence it gradually spread south, then of New Jersey (now Princeton University), west, and finally east and into Canada, until about 1870 it had supplanted almost everywhere the earlier college yard." The latter term, one of the earliest of Americanisms, was in use at Harvard College in 1639, still remains in use there, 88, St. Leonard's Road, Hove. and was employed at Princeton when the word " campus originated. MR. THORNLORY OR LAWRY FAMILY.-I should be TON is mistaken in defining "campus as glad of any information concerning this the common expression for a college family. Richard Lory of St. Anthony, playground." At a few colleges the word Cornwall, married in 1681 at St. Keverne, has this restricted meaning, but usually it Cornwall, Emblyn Kyner. Their great- means the college grounds in general. grandson Jacob of St. Keverne married Cradley. I take this to be an adjective there in 1773 Alice Harvey of Grade. One formed from cradle." If so, cradley of his sons was William, Commander R.N. land" is land where it is necessary to use a I especially want to know who were Jacob's | cradle, a light frame of wood attached to brothers and sisters, and who their descend- a scythe, having a row of long curved teeth T. W. PENDARVES LORY. parallel to the blade, to lay the corn more evenly in the swathe ('N.Ě.D.'). ants are. Lowestoft. 66 66 Dandles.-In The Salem (Mass.) Gazette of 18 Dec., 1812, are the following lines, taken from an Albany paper of 9 Dec. :"He goes, he goes, the Conqueror goesClap your dandles, shake your toes.' "He comes, he comes, the General comes Bite your fingers, suck your thumbs."-Old Ballad. These lines, whether from a real or merely pretended 'old ballad," are perhaps a 66 66 satirical version of Carey's famous song "He comes, he comes, the hero comes. But the word dandles " is doubtless a misprint for daddles. In The Yankee (Boston, Mass.) of 11 June, 1813, occur the lines : I remember, the first book about this "Buffer" and "buffing are from Fr. bouffer, bouffé, to swell, swollen: a "puffed Shook his daddle, and ask'd him the news of the person, swollen with self-importance or day. I call'd on Old Rifle at Burlington Bay, pretence. 66 Caly ground" I have always understood to be solid ground, as distinguished from swampy. In that case it is either from Fr. calé, steady, of firm foundation, or Sp. calar, chalky, of calcareous foundation. "Cradley ground" is probably named as suitable to the short up-and-down strokes of a reaping-cradle; but it may refer to the rocking motion of teams which have to cross it. "Dandles" is old baby-talk, and not more an Americanism than "" tootsies or "old Fanny Wright.-Frances Wright was a Scotchwoman, having been born at Dundee 6 Sept., 1795. Why MR. THORNTON says that "she married (?) a man named Darusmont," I do not know; for the marriage," ol' 'weetums" would be. If the though an unhappy one, certainly took ballad " ever existed, it was probably a place. In the notice of her in the 'D.N.B.' nursery rime. the marriage is said to have occurred in France in 1838. This is an error, as appears from the following notice taken from Niles' Register (Baltimore) of 31 March, 1832 (xlii. 83): "The celebrated Miss Fanny Wright has married a Frenchman at Paris-the aid of Lucina was invoked by her previous to the wedding." In the same paper of 2 Aug., 1834, it is stated that "Madam Darusmond, formerly Miss Frances Wright, is delivering lectures on education in London" (xlvi. 380.) Her husband's name was Phiquepal Darusmond. The date of her death-2 Dec., 1852given in the 'D.N.B.' is also incorrect. The Daily Evening Transcript (Boston, Mass.) of Friday, 17 Dec., 1852, had a notice of her, beginning as follows: She was "Frances Wright D'Arusmont-better known as Fanny Wright-died, in our city, on Monday of last week [i.e. 13 Dec.], from the effects of a fall received by her some months since. about seventy years of age [an error for fifty-seven), and was pretty extensively known as a progressiveite in religion—that is, one who wished to upset Christianity, and who could use nothing better in place of it. She has a husband living somewhere in the world, and a daughter, we believe, now resident in New York City.' A dumb-betty was simply a dumbwaiter. The figure of speech is the same in both cases-a dummy servant. Hartford, Conn. FORREST MORGAN. Archbishop Laud's orders enjoined at his metropolitical visitation of the Cathedral Church of Chichester. "4. That you use some means with Mr. Peter the piece of ground called Campus now in his posCoxe, an Alderman of the City of Chichester, that session be laid open again; that the Scholars of your free School may have liberty to play there, as formerly they have had time out of mind; and if he shall refuse, to give us notice, or our Vicar-General, upon what reason and ground he doth it." Chichester. R. H. CODRINGTON, D.D. STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES (10 S. xi. 441).—Regarding the statement that Bosworth Field is " unmarked by any memorial," ," I take leave to say that about forty years ago I visited the spot and made my way to (as it was locally called) "King Dickon's Well," on a stone above which was a Latin inscription, stating, if I rightly remember, that King Richard on the eve of the battle had slaked his thirst there. it would be interesting if some resident in Market Bosworth, which is near by, would supply a copy of this inscription. Stanmore Road, Edgbaston. HENRY SMYTH. In the park of Rushton Hall, about eleven miles from Naseby, there is an alcove placed on an eminence from which one looks in the direction of the battle-field. In this alcove the following lines, written by Dr. Bennet, Bishop of Cork, have been placed :Where yon blue field scarce meets our streaming eyes : A fatal name for England, Naseby, lies. Victorious Cromwell chased the Northern horse. Leicester. H. PAGE. I was on Bosworth Field in September last. "Dickon's Well"-as it is called locally-was then in a good state of preservation. It bore a tablet with a Latin inscription, which was affixed in 1812, when the well was restored and cleaned out by Dr. Pau. Unfortunately, the tablet is much defaced by the carved initials and names of foolish visitors. It is about time that a short Act of Parliament was passed making this wanton mutilation of public monuments a penal offence. JOHN B. TWYCROSS. Streatham Hill. There is a remarkable pedestal, as it is called, near Leominster, commemorating the battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461, in the Wars of the Roses, and celebrated by Shakespeare; see 'Henry VI.,' Part III. Act. II. Sc. i. It is curious that no monument or column commemorates the battle of Towton, one of the greatest battles ever fought in England. MR. JOHN T. PAGE would find much information concerning battlefields and commemorative monuments in England in 'Visits to Fields of Battle,' by Richard Brooke, F.S.A., which has also excellent plans. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. LYNCH LAW (10 S. xi. 445, 515).-The case of the Irishman Lynchy, mentioned by M., cannot possibly have any relation to "lynch law,' or be the progenitor of the term. Indiscriminate murder out of revenge is as old as the world, and never was called "law." Lynch law is a formal though extra-legal trial-the lynchers professing to represent for the time society itself, freed from artificial restraints which hamper its proper action-on the alleged ground of offences recognized as felonies by the very law which they supplant, though not perhaps chargeable with the same penalties. I am of course not excusing lynch law, but simply defining it. This is the original and genuine meaning: the later development, where a mob simply seize an alleged offender and murder him without even the form of trial, often after he has been legally sentenced to death and with the avowed purpose of substituting a mob murder for a legal execution-often, too, for trivial offences punishable lightly or not at all by law-is not lynch law at all, but merely mob violence, though it usurps the name of the former. Even this is legitimate compared with the action of a band which simply perpetrates a wholesale massacre of innocent people in revenge for what no society ever made even a legal offence. Whatever the origin of the term, it sprang from no such event as this. Hartford, Conn. FORREST MORGAN. or MR. ALBERT MATTHEWS is positive, but not convincing. The practice of inflicting hated summary punishment upon but was known in Great Britain many suspected persons is not peculiar to America, centuries ago-in England under the names Lydford Law" and "Halifax Law," and in Scotland under the names Cowper Law and "Jedburgh Justice." It hardly helps, then, to tell us, as MR. MATTHEWS does, that in America there was formerly another name. The only points are: (1) When did the equivalent expression Lynch Law" come in? and (2) What was its origin ? The 'N.E.D.' answers the first point with the date 1817, from an American book, but leaves the second point unanswered. The Annual Register for 1816, with its account of the treatment of Lynchy in Ireland, gives a possible clue, to which, in my opinion, the attention of the readers of the N.E.D.' should have been called; for, having regard to the stream of emigration from Ireland to America, which had prising in finding that an American writer then begun, there would be nothing surwas early in possession of the facts of Lynchy's case. MR. MATTHEWS cites two writers on the origin of the expression, but shows them to be mutually destructive. M. LUMLEY FAMILY (10 S. xi. 508).-The descent of the Earls of Scarborough from Uchtred, son of Liulf by Aldgita, daughter of Earl Aldred and sister of Elfleda, wife of Siward, governor of Northumberland, is based upon no evidence, and may be treated as pure fiction. This Uchtred is named as a benefactor of the monastery of Yarrow, as were Liulf his father and Earl Aldred, his maternal grandfather (Leland, Collectanea,' ed. 1774, p. 383). His brother Morcar was placed under the tuition of the monks as a novice by his kinsman Earl Waldeve when the Earl gave the church of Tynemouth to that monastery (ibid.; Hoveden, ed. Stubbs, i. 134; Hist. Dunelm. Script. Tres,' Surtees Soc., p. xviii; Sym. Dunelmensis,' Surtees Soc., i. 99). Of Uchtred and Morcar, so far as I am aware, nothing further is known. It is, however, possible that Uchtred was the “Utredus filius Ligolfi" who gave to St. Mary of York a third part of Croglin with the church, two oxgangs of land in Eston, parish of Arthuret, the mill of Scotby, half a ploughland in Cumwhinton, and tithe of the demesne of Temple Sowerby (Cal. Chart., 1300-1326,' p. 116). There is no evidence that any of the places here named descended in the line of the donor. The notes relating to these gifts compiled by Chancellor Prescott in his edition of the Register of Wetherhal' indicate that those towns were soon after in the possession of different holders of Cumberland and Westmorland fees. A full century after the murder of Liulf, father of Uchtred and Morcar, which occurred in A.D. 1080, the first upon record of the house of Lumley comes into view in the person of Matthew de Lumley, who confirmed to Uchtred, son of Uchtred de Udeshende, and his heirs the town of Woodsend, which the grantor's father and uncle (unnamed) had given to the said Uchtred, son of Uchtred. Among the witnesses of this deed is Geoffrey de Conyers, parson of Sockburn, who is named in the Durham Pipe Roll for 1195-6 ( Priory of Finchale,' Surtees Soc., 76). About this time Agnes, relict of Ralph Prenthut of Lumley, gave to the monks of Finchale many parcels of land in Lumley, a fishery in Wear, and rent in Woodsend; amongst the attestants being Matthew de Lumley and Matthew his son (ibid., 113). In the time of Bishop Hugh Pusac, probably between 1180 and 1190, William, son of Uchtred, with the consent of Juetta his wife and Agnes, sister of the same Juetta, gave to Gerard the Marshal in marriage with the grantor's sister a parcel of land in Durham lying before the monks' gate (Feod. Prioratus Dunelm.,' Surtees Soc., 198 n.). Juetta There and Agnes were daughters and coheiresses of Robert de Heseldene, Agnes being the wife of Ralph Prenthut of Lumley. are indications that William, son of Uchtred, acquired the name of Lumley from lands obtained in that town by marriage to the coheiress of Robert de Heseldene (Priory of Finchale,' 113). It is possible that William, son of Uchtred, was brother of Uchtred, son of Uchtred de Woodsend, and de that both were kinsmen of Matthew Lumley; but it is improbable that William and Matthew were brothers, as asserted by Segar in his 'Baronage.' In 1211 and again in 1213 Roger de Audre and William de Lumley each rendered account of 40s. for surety of Robert Bertram (Pipe Rolls). The evidences for proof of the descent of Roger de Lumley, Kt., from William, son of Uchtred, are inadequate, but surer ground is reached in 1269, when Sibyl, wife of Roger de Lumley, was found to be one of the daughters and coheiresses of Hugh de Morewich, and then aged 21 years ('Cal. Inq.,' i. 230, 246). Hall Garth, Carnforth. W. FARRER. G. D. would probably do well to consult 'Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle,' by Edith Milner, edited by Edith Benham (George Bell & Sons, 1904). ST. SWITHIN. CAWDOR DISPATCH (10 S. xi. 508).-The Cawdor dispatches and letters referred to by G. H. W. are in my possession. They are inserted in Holland Rose's' Napoleon,' my F extra-illustrated into 28 vols. folio (see Collectanea Napoleonica,' A. M. Broadley and W. V. Daniell, p. 48). Other portions of them are published in Napoleon and the Invasion of England' (H. F. B. Wheeler and A. M. Broadley, voi. i. chap. iii.). They are also alluded to in Dumouriez and the Defence of England against Napoleon.' They have not been published in extenso, but all the material portions of them will be found in the above works and the G.W.R. travel-book South Wales, the Country of A. M. BROADLEY. Castles.' The Knapp, Bradpole, Bridport. NAMES TERRIBLE TO CHILDREN (10 S. x. 509; xi. 53, 218, 356, 454).-To the names that have appeared surely Morgan should be added. See Prof. Rhys's Celtic Folklore,' 1901, vol. i. p. 372. It is about the lake of Glasfryn in Wales : "Mrs. Williams-Ellis's own words: Our younger boys have a crew of three little Welsh boys who live near the lake, to join them in their boat-sailing |