66 is " Grenhilington." This appears to be (d. 1478), by whom he was father of Sir green-hill-ing-ton"; but if, as I under- Richard of Nettlestead and Edward of stand, hill is Anglo-Saxon, and ing is Scandi- Henston; and (2) Elizabeth Nevil (d. 1515), navian, this combination can scarcely be who had no issue by him. While differing right. The place was certainly occupied as to who was the mother of Sir Henry's by Norse Wickings, who made their way children, Foster and Rutten agree that he up the Ribble Valley, presumably about had no son John. A.D. 900. Field- and farm-names are conclusive on this point. We have such names as Grain, Farlands, Withens, Holme, Ing, Greaves, Lumb, Micklehurst, Steelands. Will PROF. SKEAT be so kind as to state whether a Norse derivation is permissible, and to analyze the name, now that greendale-ton" proves inadmissible? Grindleton, Clitheroe. FRED. G. ACKERLEY. Richard Wentworth of Nettlestead, Essex. It is clear from this that Sir Henry Wentworth of Pontefract had issue besides that given by Foster and Rutten, and that John Wentworth of Pontefract was his son by his second wife. It would appear, therefore, that the John Wentworth of Pontefract, whose daughter Elizabeth married Roger Wentworth, was the son of Richard Wentworth of West Bretton, an estate situated about half way between Barnsley and Huddersfield, were it not for the facts that, in a seventeenthcentury pedigree of Day of Elmsall, Thomas Wentworth of Thurnscoe Grange, son of Roger Wentworth of Hangthwaite and South Kirkby, is recorded as having inWENTWORTH OF PONTEFRACT.-Flower, herited property at Pontefract from his Norroy King, in his ' Visitation of Yorkshire,' maternal grandfather John Wentworth, 1563 (Harl. MSS. publ.), records that Roger who had inherited it from his mother Wentworth of Hangthwaite and South Elizabeth Wentworth, formerly Nevil; and Kirkby, co. York (son of Thomas Wentworth also that by a deed of 1557 Elizabeth, wife of North Elmsall), married Elizabeth, of Roger Wentworth of South Kirkby, daughter of John Wentworth of Pontefract, became possessed of property at the same and had by her a son Thomas of Thurnscoe place formerly belonging to her uncle Grange, who had, with other issue, a son Hugh and a daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Day. Hugh's granddaughter Mary (daughter of Thomas) also became in 1631 the wife of Thomas Day of South Elmsall. Flower gives the descent of Roger Wentworth from his great-grandfather John, son The question arises whether all Sir of John Wentworth of North Elmsall; Henry's children were by his first or second the last had also two younger sons, Richard wife, or whether he had issue by both, and of Bretton, and Roger. No issue of the also what other issue he had. A careful third son Roger is recorded, but Richard examination of dates seems to suggest that had a son Richard, who had three sons, Sir Richard of Nettlestead (whose wife died Matthew, John, and William. Genealogists 1502) and Edward of Henston were by the have differed in their accounts of the parent- first wife, and John of Pontefract (and age of John Wentworth of Pontefract. perhaps others) by the second wife. InforFoster, in his Pedigrees of Yorkshire mation on these points would be thankFamilies,' is vague on this point, merely fully accepted by me. CHARLES FILEY. stating, like Flower, that Roger Wentworth married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wentworth of Pontefract, and that the second Richard Wentworth of West Bretton had with other issue a son John, living 1488; but he also adds (which Flower omits) that Sir Roger Wentworth of Nettlestead, Essex, one of the three sons of John of North Elmsall, had a son Sir Philip of Nettlestead, who was father of Sir Henry of Pontefract, who had by his wife Elizabeth Nevil (m. 1494) several children, not one of whom bore the name of John. Rutten, in his Family of Wentworth,' deals chiefly with the Essex and Cambridgeshire branches of the family, and records that Sir Henry Wentworth (d. 1499) married two wives: (1) Anne Say Did SIR SAMUEL MORLAND.-What became of Sir Samuel, the second baronet ? he marry and leave descendants? (Mrs.) HAUTENVILLE COPE. Sulhamstead, Reading. SANDERSON OF GREAT BRADLEY, SUFFOLK. -Any information regarding this family would be most acceptable to the undersigned. They were settled in Suffolk in 1626, for in that year administration of the goods of Martin Sanderson of Great Bradley was granted to Agnes his wife (P.C.C.). Mary Sanderson of Great Bradley paid for three hearths in 1676; and I find that the will of William Sanderson of Great Bradley, gent., was proved at Bury in 1704; also the will of Philippa Sanderson of Great Bradley, widow, in 1747. Extracts from these wills would be much appreciated, and I shall be pleased to correspond with any one interested in the name, whether of Great Bradley or elsewhere. Were these Sandersons connected with those of Little Thurlow, in which branch the Christian name Martin occurs ? CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 48, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N. MAJOR W. LAWLOR.-I am anxious to discover the parentage of Major William Lawlor, of the 1st Battalion Halifax (Nova Scotia) Regiment, who resided in 1807 at Thornton Avenue, Greenwich, Kent. He was father of Sophia Reed, the wife of Sir John Theophilis Lee, R.N., D.L., J.P., of Lauriston Hall, Torquay; and of Elizabeth, who married Provo Featherstone Wallis, and who had among other children Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, G.C.B., and Elizabeth, who married Capt. Lord James Townshend, son of George 4th Viscount Townshend. par I also desire to know the names of Major Lawlor's wife and of her parents, and ticulars of the family to which she belonged, with dates; and the names of the children of Major Lawlor, with dates of their births, marriages, and deaths. R. VAUGHAN GOWER. Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells. BLANCHER OR BLANCHERD OF HULL. Can any reader of N. & Q.' say where I may find the Christian name of Alderman Blancher or Blancherd of Hull, circa 1640, or the name of his wife? He had a daughter Mary, who became the second wife of Thomas Pigott of Banagher, King's County, son of John Pigott of Raheenduff, Queen's County, by his second wife, daughter of Francis Edgeworth (probably the clerk in the Hanaper Office, Dublin, whose will was proved 1627) of Edgeworthstown, co. Longford, and widow of Pierce Moore of Raheenduff. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down. THOMAS BAINBRIDGE, c. 1568.-Is anything known of the family of Thomas Bainbridge, said to have been burnt for heresy before 1568? The name of Bainbridge occurs in the old deeds of the manor of East Tytherley, Hants, of which they are supposed to have been lords early in the fifteenth century. The 'D.N.B.' gives a Thomas Bainbrigg, Master of Christ's College, Cam bridge (d. 1646), and another Thomas, 16361703-both too late. I shall be grateful for information. (Mrs.) F. H. SUCKLING. Romsey, Hampshire. CLEMENT'S INN KNOCKER.-What became down? Albert Smith's of the colossal brass knocker which up to of the Hall of Clement's Inn, now pulled less than twenty years ago adorned the door description in Christopher Tadpole a knocker evidently intended for the use of some ogre residing there, who lives entirely upon broiled clients, garnished with fricasseed indentures"-will keep its memory green; but, apart from that, I have the personal recollection of a debating society held at the Hall in 1869, and should be glad to know if this probably unique door-knocker is in public or private hands, and where. W. B. H. "THE MILLENNIAL STAR.'-Can any one tell me where there is a file of this newspaper? I do not find it in the British Museum. It was an exponent of Mormonism in the early days of the movement, and was, I think, printed in Liverpool. Another early Mormon paper, The Prophet (New York), appears to be exceedingly rare. I found some numbers of it at Salt Lake City in 1907. RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C. ESSEX'S IRISH CAMPAIGN.-To which episode in Essex's Irish campaign, 1599, is reference made in the opening scene of Much Ado about Nothing'? See Temple H. H. STEWART. edition. SCOTTISH LAW CASE: SIR COOLIE CONDIDDLE. What was the case alluded to by Sir William Ashton in the following passage in The Bride of Lammermoor' ? Condiddle of Condiddle, who was tried for theft under trust, of which all the world knew him guilty, and yet was not only acquitted, but lived to sit in judgment on honester folk."—Chap. xvi. It was said in Scotland prior to the Union, Show me the man, and I will show you the law." JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "I remember the celebrated case of Sir Coolie 66 THIRD FOOT GUARDS AT THE BATTLE OF BAYONNE, 1814.—I should be greatly obliged if any correspondent could give a few notes concerning the above regiment about this time, viz., the date of embarkation from England, with name of vessel; port of ailing; date of battle; also names of Replies. NICHOLAS BREAKSPEAR, officers killed, and the counties to which they belonged. Is there published a detailed account of the battle? F. K. P. [There was five days' fighting at Bayonne, 9-13 Dec., 1813; and on 14 April, 1814, the garrison made a desperate sortie, in repulsing which 800 British soldiers were killed, and Lieut.-General Sir John Hope was wounded and taken prisoner. Have you consulted Sir William Napier's History MR. A. H. TARLETON, who lives at a of the War in the Peninsula and South of France'?] house known as Breakspears (near UxSIR PATRICK HOUSTON.—It is stated in bridge), a place associated with the life of Burke's 'Extinct Baronetage' that Sir Nicholas Breakspear, published a few years After Patrick Houston of Houston, created 1668, ago (1896) a full life of Adrian IV. married Anne, daughter of John Hamilton, stating that Pope Adrian IV. died at Anagni Lord Bargeny." Had he another wife, from quinsy, he adds :Lady Janet Cunningham, by whom he had a daughter Sarah Houston, married to Walter Dennistoun of that ilk, and of Colgrain, co. Dumbarton? Whose daughter was this Janet Cunningham ? 66 WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. ΟΧΕΝ DRAWING CARRIAGES.-Can any reader kindly say whether it was Fuller or Defoe who saw an ancient lady being drawn to church in her own coach by six oxen ? The locality was near Lewes in Sussex. In G. Roberts's Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England' (1856), p. 487, the authority is given as Fuller; elsewhere Defoe's Tour of England' is cited. A reference to the edition and page would be greatly welcomed. WALTER JOHNSON. 5, Berber Road, Wandsworth Common, S. W. EGG GOOD IN PARTS.-About once a week one reads in the newspapers that something or other is "like the curate's egg, good in parts." Is the origin of this phrase known? RICHARD WELFORD. [The story is old, but we do not know its earliest source.] 66 Many legends have been circulated about his death. The usual accusation of poisoning was made, but it has never had a shadow of evidence to support it. The followers of Barbarossa invented a story that he [Adrian] was choked while drinking at a fountain by a fly, but this probably was a distorted account arising from the nature of his illness, about which there is no doubt. It was also added by his enemies that his death was the judgment of God for his excommunication of Frederic" (Barbarossa). Mr. Tarleton adds to his volume (pp. 266-8) a useful Bibliography of Nicholas Breakspear. The full description of his book is 'Nicholas Breakspear, Englishman and Pope,' by Alfred H. Tarleton, London, 1896, 8vo. 187, Piccadilly, W. A. L. HUMPHREYS. The following is the account in lib. v. of Bale's' Acta Romanorum Pontificum' (p. 263 in the Leyden ed. of 1615) :— "Sed non multo post, cum exspaciaretur cum 1159, quinto Pontificatus anno, poenas dedit. Musca suis apud Anagniam, tantæ impietatis anno Domini enim involavit in os: quæ, quia medicorum arte eximi non poterat, præclusit illi spiritum, atque ita suffocatus obiit." ing Platina, William of Newbury, and Leland. William of Tyre asserts that he died of a quinsy. Bale (De Script. Brit.,' Cent. XII. Appendix), on the authority of Joannes Funcius and Pagi, avers that he was choked by a fly getting into his throat while he was drinking. Fuller (Worthies') adopts the same story. Matthew Paris, however, is confident that the Supreme Pontiff fell a victim to Roman revenge. He had borne in mind the advice of the King of England against unworthy appointments, and was secretly got rid of, to make way for a less conscientious Pope (Vit. Abbat. St. Alban.,' 74)." CHRISTMAS PIG (10 S xi. 27).-See 8 S. ii. 505, under Rural Christmas Festivities in the Fifties,' for a description of these as I remember them in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and (I believe) Warwickshire. I am under the Perhaps OCTOGENARIAN is seeking the impression that an article dealing entirely reference to Fuller. S. L. PETTY. At p. 108 of ' Pope Adrian IV.' (the Lothian Essay, 1907), by J. Duncan Mackie, it is stated : "Imperialist tradition ascribed to divine interposition the opportune removal of the Pope, who had dared to resist the mighty Barbarossa, and told with awe how he was choked by a fly which he swallowed in a draught of water.' Mr. F. A. Lumlye, whose life of the Hertfordshire Pope is printed in Memorials of Old Hertfordshire,' 1905, says :— "It has been asserted that he was poisoned, but this theory never had a shadow of evidence to support it. The Emperor's party invented a silly tale that he was choked, while drinking, by a fly. This idle story is frequently found in modern books whose writers ought to know better." Bishop's Stortford. W. B. GERISH. [BRUTUS also refers to Ince's 'Outlines.'] 66 with these pigs appeared early in 1893 in Folk-lore, but I have no copy of it. It is certain that, in response to a request from Miss Burne, I caused some pigs to be made for her, which were exhibited at a meeting of the Folk-lore Society at which a paper on the subject was to be read. The theory then put forward was, I believe, that the "pigs" were a survival of a ceremonial eating of swine at the ancient Yule festival. In my article in N. & Q.' I omitted to say that the paste used for making the "pigs" might be either the usual "porkpie" paste or puff paste,' as used for mince-pies, &c. The "filling was the same as for mince-pies, but at Christmas this always contained some ingredient from the pig. C. C. B. 66 It would seem that this is merely a variant of the Yule dough cake, which is not peculiar to any one county, and is suggested by the Christmas dish of the pig or boar's head. In Cornwall a boar is always a pig," for instance. I remember, when a boy, their being made in my own family, stuck with currants, and the grocer always used to send a quantity of raisins and almonds for similar Yule confections. In other parts the cakes were made in the form of babies, or dolls; and the Christmas before last I noticed such whimsical examples of pastry in a confectioner's shop at West Kensington, opposite the railway station. 66 66 J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. "THE WOOSET (10 S. xi. 27).-A wooser," wooset," 'husset,' hoset," or whuzzer seems to have its derivation in a whizzer," a machine "which rotates rapidly and drives out most of the moisture from wet places "--hence anything impressive by reason of violence or size, as a stinging blow. Any one who has seen, as I often have, a carthorse's cranium excavated from the depths of the London soil, could not but be impressed with its enormous size, and it was probably such a skull that was carried about at the Christmas "Hoodenings.' See The Dialect Dictionary,' s.v. 'Whizzer' and 'Hooset.' J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. ORKNEY HOGMANAY SONG (10 S. xi. 5).— May I call attention to two striking coincidences in the above with the Swallow Song' preserved in Athenæus, viii. 360 c. ? Get up, old wife, and shake your feathers; Dinna think that we are beggars; We are children come from home, Seeking our Hogmanay. ἄνοιγ ̓ ἄνοιγε τὴν θύραν χελιδόνι οὐ γὰρ γέροντές ἐσμεν ἀλλὰ παιδία. Gie's the lass wi' the bonnie broon hair, Or we'll knock your door upon the floor. εἰ μέν τι δώσεις—εἰ δὲ μή, οὐκ ἐάσομεν, ἢ τὰν θύραν φέρωμες ἢ θοὐπέρθυρον ἢ τὰν γυναῖκα τὰν ἔσω καθημέναν... H. K. ST. J. S. BEFANA EPIPHANY (10 S. xi. 6).—Mr. Marion Crawford gives a very interesting account of the Befana and the fair in the Piazza Navona in his Ave Roma Immortalis, pp. 282-4. It was formerly held in the Piazza di S. Eustachio; see Hare's 'Walks in Rome,' ii. 141, where there is a quotation from Story's 'Roba di Roma.’ 6 JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. FOLKESTONE FIERY SERPENT' (10 S. x. 509). I hope that COL. FYNMORE's reference to this curious old ballad will lead to some further information. I rather think it was of Dover origin. It was first published about 1843, by Thomas Rigden of Snargate Street, Dover, at the time when the SouthEastern Railway Company purchased Folkestone Harbour, and tried to capture the Channel passenger traffic by running passenger steamers from Folkestone to Boulogne before the railway was finished to Dover. The rivalry between the two ports seems to have given rise to the satirical ballad. Dover. JOHN BAVINGTON JONES. [Reply from MR. A. RHODES next week.] LEG GROWING AFTER DEATH (10 S. x. 506). -I cannot quote authorities for the statement, but I remember reading in more than one book of folk-lore that a hand will sometimes thrust itself through the turf above a grave. The superstition is German, but I believe that it is not confined to Germany. The hand will protrude in spite of all efforts to give it permanent burial. Whether it grows again if cut off I am not certain. If my memory is accurate, it is not infrequently held out of the grave in protest against some injustice done to the dead while he was yet alive, or against the people who killed him. T. R. E. N. T. FREEHOLDERS IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH (10 S. x. 470).-Sims's 'Manual' (1888 ed.) gives the following lists of freeholders preserved in the British Museum among the Lansdowne and Harleian MSS. : Lists of Freeholders in the Counties of Bedford, Hertford, Lincoln, Oxford, Suffolk, and York, A.D. 1561. Lansd. MS. 5. Names of Freeholders in Cheshire, 1579, 1580. Harl. MS. 1424, f. 7. Names of Freeholders in Essex [n.d.]. Harl. MS. 2240, f. 6. Lansd. MS. 5. List of Freeholders in Lancashire, A.D. 1600. Harl. MS. 2042, f. 185; 2077; 2085; 2112. 66 W. B. GERISH. COCKBURNSPATH (10 S. x. 430).-With respect to the designation of this place as Coppersmith," it may be noted as an interesting fact that this name is given to it by Oliver Cromwell. In the library of Sir Richard J. Waldie-Griffith at Hendersyde Park, Kelso, there is a pamphlet printed at the office of The Courant, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1847, being a reprint of Four Letters from Oliver Cromwell to Sir Arthur Heselridge, Governor of Newcastle-on-Tyne.' At that date the originals were in the possession of Robert Ormston, a connexion by marriage of the Waldie family. One of them (to be quoted) is described as written entirely by Cromwell; in the other three the signatures only are in his writing. The one to which reference has been made is as follows: To the Honble. Sr Ar Heselridge DEERE S', Wee are upon an engagement very difficult, the enimie hath blocked up our way att the passe at Copperspith, thorough wch wee canott gett wthout almost a miracle, Hee lyeth soe upon the Hills that wee knowe not how to come that way without great difficultye, and our lyinge heere dayly consumeth our men, whoe fall sicke beyond imagination. I perceave your forces are not in a capacitye for present releife, wherefore (whatever becomes of us) itt will bee well for you to gett what forces you can together, and the South to helpe what they can, the businesse neerely concerneth all good people. If your forces had beene in a readinesse to have fallen upon the back of Copperspith, itt might have occasioned supplies to have best, all shall work for good, our Spirits are comcome to us, but the only wise God knowes what is fortable (praised bee the Lord) though our present condition bee as it is, and indeed wee have much hope in the Lord, of whose mercy we have had |