hand in ivory, slightly over an inch in length. The speaks of the magistrates as being susceptible to fingers on the hand are extremely well cut. The bribes, &c., he asks, "Had they a standynge at whole length of the instrument is about fifteen Shoters hyll or Stangat hole......to take a purse?" inches. Under a raised piece of the handle I shall be thankful to any one who will inform is a hole for passing through a band to hang it up me, through the columns of N. & Q.' or otherby in the dressing-room, or to be fastened to the wise, as to what and where were "Shoters hill " dress if taken to the play, for use in the theatre. and "Stangat hole." The above quotation of In bygone days, when ladies were not so particular Bishop Latimer is from a 12mo. volume of his serin respect to personal cleanliness, and when high mons, "Imprinted at London by Ihon Daye head-dresses once fixed remained without being dwellynge at Aldersgate & William Seres dwelldisturbed for a month, much to the annoyance of ynge in Peter College." the wearer and her friends, the little instrument THEODORE REYNOLDS. for scratching the back must have proved useful. I believe the instrument is still in use in India. Not long ago one with a neatly carved hand in

bone affixed to the end of a slender shaft of wood was brought for me from Bombay by a Hull seaman. It is the same length as the fine example bought in London. Can any reader kindly refer me to any notes on this subject? I have only seen those in the Book of Days.' WILLIAM ANDREWS. Hull Press.

BOLTON.-I should be much obliged if any reader of 'N. & Q.' would inform me when and to whom the following crest was granted, or whether it is only fictitious: "A horse courant saddled and bridled." Burke, in his 'General Armory,' attributes this crest to "Bolton or Boulton," and adds that the arms belonging to it are, "Ar., on a chevron gu. a lion's head or." Under "Boultoun (Suffolk)" he gives "Ar., on a chevron gu. a leopard's face of the field." The motto was, I believe, "Bolt on," being, of course, a play of words on the family name. The above arms were used by Ralph Bolton, of Wigan, co. Lanc., who died about 1842. He married, first, a Miss Davies, and by her had one son, William Bolton, of Wigan, who changed his name to Davies, and died unmarried about October, 1867. Ralph Bolton married, secondly, Dinah Nixson, of Carlisle, co. Cumberland. He had a brother, Robert Bolton, who was partner with him in a copper foundry in Wigan. Any further information with reference to this family would be very acceptable. Can any reader tell me the inscription on the stone in memory of this Ralph Bolton and his second wife in the churchyard of the old parish church, Wigan?

R. B. REGENT STREET.-When I was a boy at Charterhouse School, 1835-40, I recollect reading in a magazine a song, the burden of each verse of which ran thus: "I'm always young in Regent Street." Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' refer me to it? E. WALFORD, M.A. "SHOTERS HYLL" AND "STANGAT HOLE."In reading "The thyrde sermon of Mayster Hughe Latimer whyche he preached before the kynge wythin hys graces Palace at Westminster the xxii daye of Marche-MCCCCCXLIX," I notice, where he

Monson, Mass., U.S.

inform me if there is a good English translation
TRANSLATION.-Will one of your readers kindly
of the French song 66
Marlborough s'en va-t-en
guerre
"?
AUG. MARROT.
BLAKE FAMILY.-Can any reader inform me
whether there is anywhere published a pedigree of
the family of Blake, of Hants (Andover and Link-
enholt) and of Wilts, showing their connexion with
borne by the two families being the same.
the family of Admiral Robert Blake?-the arms

GILBERT W. WEST.

DESPAIR,' a mezzotint engraving. Size of plate, 15 in. by 103 in. Wanted, any information concerning the subject of the engraving, the date of publication, and the names of the artists employed. ERNEST RADford.

Hillside, Liverpool Road, Kingston-on-Thames.

INEEN DUBH, OR BLACK AGNES.-Can any one refer me to any work, other than the Four Masters, supplying trustworthy information about this remarkable personage, often called the Irish Helen MacGregor ? J. B. S. Manchester. MILITIA CLUB.-In the High Ercall Churchwardens' Accounts is the following: "1795, Ap. 25th. Returned to the Club 21. 2s., which the Revd. Mr. Pryse extracted from them thro: the power of Eloquence." The club here alluded to may possibly be the Militia Club, which in 1808 received from fifty-four subscribers 591. 148., but expended over 2181. in bounties (varying from

knights, who only purchase, or merit the honour by their wealth; and knights bachelors, who are created for their services in the war."

I find a variant notice in Blount's Law Dictionary,' 1691 ed.:—

"Knights of the Chamber (Milites Camera), mention'd in 2 Inst. fol. 666, and in Rot. Pat. 29 Ed. 3, par. 1, m. 29, seem to be such Knights Batchelers, as are made in Time of Peace, because Knighted commonly in the Kings Chamber, not in the Field, as in time of War." F. ADAMS.

Archdeacon Nares was of opinion that "Knights of the Carpet" was not an order, but only one of social jocularity, like that of the Odd Fellows, Knights of the Green Cloth, &c.; that they were knights dubbed in peace on a carpet, by mere court favour, not in a field for military prowess. He gives many quotations from old authors in support of this theory. For references to 'Carpet Knights' and' Knights of the Carpet,' see 'N. & Q.,' 3rd S. ii. 388, 476; iii. 15; 5th S. iv. 428; v. 15, 54; 8th S. ii. 225.

71, Brecknock Road.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

SIR JOHN BIRKENHEAD (8th S. v. 288, 395).— The mother of Sir John Birkenhead may possibly have been a Margaret Myddelton of the family which settled in Cheshire, descended from a common ancestor with the Myddeltons of Chirk. She certainly was not the daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton, the Parliamentary general, for she is stated in her father's funeral certificate and also on his monument in Chirk Church to have died a

maid. There is a letter of hers preserved at Chirk Castle, dated "Chirk Castel," Dec. 2 (1641), signed "Margarett Myddelton," to her father "Sr Thomas Myddelton K at Doctor Chamberlain's house in Whiteffriers."

St. Albans.

W. M. MYDDELTON.

The father of Sir John died in 1636, and in his will calls himself of Northwich, Cheshire, saddler. The name Nantwich was a foolish slip of the pen. The Lord Mayor Middleton had only two daughters, Alice, daughter by his first marriage, wife of John Dolbyn, of Haverfordwest, and Mary, daughter by his second, married to Sir John Maynard, K.B. G. MILNER-GIBSON-CULLUM.

RACES RIDDEN BY WOMEN (8th S. vi. 26).— There is an allusion to these races when the Duke of Cumberland's army was at Fort Augustus in 1746. SEBASTIAN.

TRIPLETS ATTAINING THEIR MAJORITY (8th S. vi. 6). When the Birmingham Daily Post for Nov. 14, 1893, remarked that medical authorities "state that a case of triplets reaching the age of twenty-one is unprecedented in England," either the paper or the doctors made a great mistake. Every middle-aged man hereabouts has seen

triplets (girls, the daughters of a late muchesteemed solicitor in this city) grow up into three of these are married, and although it may be of the finest women in the place. One, if not two, passing ungallant to guess a lady's age (and especially so when there are three in the nest), they cannot be a day less than thirty years old.

To-day's (July 14) Sloper's Half-holiday, in an account of "Bendigo," a great prize-fighter in my boyhood days, says:—

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were playfully dubbed Shadrach, Meshech, and Abed-
Bendigo was one of three boys at a birth, and these
nego. The popular vernacular corruprion of Abed-nego
was Bendigo."

The " champion's" real name was William Thomp-
HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

THOMSON (8th S. vi. 4).—I see that I have omitted a letter, and made Waller write ungrammatically. In justice to him I may mention that he wrote trees in the plural number, no tree in the singular :

Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live;
At once they promise what at once they give.
E. YARDLEY.
Compare also the first passage quoted from
'Spring' with Rapin's description (Gardiner's
translation) of " Atlantick apples ":-

They still new Robes of Fruit and Blossoms wear,
And fading Charms with fresh Supplies repair.
C. C. B.

(8th S. vi. 26).-Dr. Kirkland's name does not
THOMAS KIRKLand, M.D., MEDICAL WRITER
appear in the list of graduates in medicine in the
M.D. was conferred on him by the University
University of Edinburgh, because the degree of
of St. Andrews. His diploma of M.D., dated
December 27, 1769, is in my possession, and also
his diploma as a member of the Medical Society
of Edinburgh, dated 8th Calends of May, 1777.
In the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' he is stated to
have been a native of Scotland, but such was
not the case; he belonged to a family resident in
Derbyshire for several centuries.

There are two inaccuracies in MR. HIPWELL'S communication. Joseph Palmer died in London in December, 1759 (not 1750), and Elizabeth, his she was baptized at Ashby-de-la-Zɔucb, Jan. 6, wife, was probably born in 1686 (not 1689), as 1686/7. J. PAUL RYLANDS.

By an obvious misprint, Dr. Kirkland's baptism is recorded at the above reference as having been solemnized in 1772 in lieu of 1722. His son, James Kirkland, Surgeon to the Tower of London, published in 1813, 8vo., "An Appendix to an Inquiry into the Present State of Medical Surgery, by the late Thomas Kirkland, M.D., taken from his MSS. with a Preface and Introduction "

The Art of English Poetry, containing: I. Rules for Making Verses. II. A Collection of the Most Natural, Agreeable and Sublime Thoughts, from the best English Poets. III. A Dictionary of Rhymes. By Edw. Bysshe, Gent. Lon., 1702, with many reprints, 8vo.

'The Art of Poetry on a New Plan,' Lon., 1762, 12mo., compiled by Newbery, revised by Goldsmith. See Prior's Life of Goldsmith,' vol. i. p. 389 (Lowndes); Guest's 'History of English Rythms,' Lon., 1838 (revision by Prof. Skeat).

ED. MARSHALL.

GREEN-WAX PROCESS (8th S. v. 508).-Estreats delivered to the Sheriffs of the Exchequer, under the seal of that court, made in green wax, were so called. An estreat was a true copy or note of some original writing or record, and especially of fines and amercements imposed in the rolls of a court, and extracted or drawn out thence and certified into the Court of Exchequer, whereupon process was awarded to the sheriff to levy the same.

T. W. TEMPANY.

familiar with this quotation, as such. I have SOURCE OF QUOTATION (8th S. vi. 27).—I am twice been asked lately where it comes from. But 18 it a quotation which N. & Q' can properly assist in supplying? This is not a literary question, proper. The quotation is given out by one of the literary (soi-disant) papers with the offer of a large prize. Unless I am much mistaken, the principal cause, or, at any rate, a chief cause of such insertions is to promote the sale of the paper. The answer is, in all probability, in a pigeon-hole at ED. MARSHALL.

the office.

this should be informed that there is a prize of Unsuspecting correspondents who can answer 2501. offered for so doing. The most persistent endeavours are being made to get this information gratuitously. I have been asked several times for This word is mentioned in stat. 7 Hen. IV., c. 3. it, and no one has been straightforward enough to Tomlins, in his 'Law Dictionary,' gives the follow-say anything about the prize. ing definition:

Richmond, Surrey.

"Green-wax is where estreats are delivered to the

sheriffs out of the Exchequer, under the seal of that court, made in green-wax, to be levied in the several

counties."

"Estreats delivered to the Sheriffs of the Exchequer, under the seal of that court made in green-wax. CowelBlount."-Williams, Law Dictionary.'

C. E. GILDERSOME-DICKINSON.

"CAREFULLY EDITED

W. L.

(8th S. vi. 24).—MR. BAYNE's note on "a reprint of the original edition of Scott's 'Border Minstrelsy,' carefully edited by Alex. Murray, Dec. 26, 1868," raises the question whether this reprint is not identical with the edition produced by Mr. Alex. Murray, and enjoined by the Scotch courts as a piracy. About the year mentioned Messrs. A. & C. Black brought an action against Mr. Alex. Murray for publishing a piratical reprint of the Border Minstrelsy,' and succeeded in having it declared an infringement of their copyright. Messrs. Black did not exact the is, therefore, just possible MR. BAYNE may have penalty of confiscating the stock in hand, and it become possessed of a contraband copy of this interdicted publication. A. W. B.

Eden Bridge. SALISBURY AND OTHER CLOSES (8th S. 445).—In so far as Canterbury Cathedral is conV. cerned, may I correct E. L. G.'s correction? The four central openings under the tower of our cathedral are not all crossed by " strutting arches." The arches across the nave and the south transept SIR ALEXANDER BURNES (8th S. vi. 27).-In are so treated, the arch across the north transept the Genealogical Memoirs of the Family of Robert

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Burns,' by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D., printed
for the Royal Historical Society, London, in 1877,
it is stated that the grandfather of Sir Alexander
Burnes was brother to the father of Robert
Burns, the poet. From this work MAJOR PEARSE
might obtain the information he seeks, or Mr.
John Muir, of 48, Abbotsford Place, Glasgow, who
I find from a newspaper cutting dated July 18,
1892, is the editor of a publication called the
Annual Burns Chronicle, could give MAJOR
PEARSE the name of the present representative of
the family.
R. C. BOSTOCK.

MAJOR PEARSE, I am sure, would obtain all the
information that he requires by addressing Mrs.
Burnes (widow of Dr. James Burnes, K.H., Sir
Alexander's brother), at 40, Ladbroke Square.
E. WALFORD, M.A.

The only example of it that I have ever seen is that quoted from Skelton in the 'N. E. D.' I have long been curious about it, for if Skelton's meaning could be interpreted we might, perhaps, arrive at the origin of the surname, which, though rare, certainly exists. Some twenty years ago there were persons so called in the Isle of Axholme and the parts adjacent. White's 'Lincolnshire Directory for the year 1882 records the existence of Thomas Bullivant, of Whitton, and John T. Bullivant, of Cammeringham. Both of these were farmers. There was at the same time a grocer at Stamford who bore the name of Edward BulliEDWARD PEACOCK.

vant.

Bardsley, in English Surnames,' says: "Evilchild found itself face to face with Malenfant, Little-desire with Petitsire, Goodchild with Bonyfant, Bonenfant, or Bullivant, as we now have it." ECCLESIASTICAL ORNAMENTS (8th S. v. 448).-instance of the name, and that of a woman, HanIn the British Museum Catalogue there is only one Could "rede birds" mean lecterns ?

Ventnor.

A. F. G. LEVESON GOWER.

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nah Bullevant, Account of the Murder of,' by E.
Audley.
PAUL BIERLEY.

Four instances of the occurrence of Bullevant as a surname will be found in the Post Office

71, Brecknock Road.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

Belgrade. DOMRÉMY (8th S. vi. 9).-Domrémy (Vosges) is not the equivalent of Remichurch, but of St. Rémy (Bouches du Rhône), dôme being a loan-word Directory' for the current year. from the Italian duomo, which did not find its way into French before the fifteenth century. Domrémy is a contraction of Domnus Remigius, the Latin dominus becoming domnus in the Imperial period, and the title domnus being applied in Merovingian times to ecclesiastical dignitaries, especially to bishops and abbots. The common village names Dommartin and Dammartin are from dedications to Domnus Martinus, St. Martin of Tours, Dompierre and Dampierre to Domnus Petrus, Dammard and Dammas to Domnus Medardus, Domleger to Domnus Leodegarius, Dommarie, Dammarie, and Dannemarie to Domna Maria. On the Belgian and Spanish frontier dom often becomes don, thus Saint-Jean-de-Luz, near Biarritz, is known among the Basque peasantry as Don-Iban-Lohizun. We have a somewhat similar prefix in Ireland, Donnybrook, for instance, being a corruption of Domnach Broc," the church of St. Broc," the Old Irish domnach, a loan-word from the Latin dominica, meaning a Sunday." We are told in the tripartite Life of St. Patrick' that the title domnach was only applied to churches of which the first stone was laid on a Sunday, but it seems more probable that it was a general term for the Lord's house as well as for the Lord's day. As for the book ST. SWITHIN wants, I may inform him that I have in the press a work summarizing recent researches on the subject of French place-names, which will, I hope, meet his requirements.

There was a Wesleyan minister named Bullivant living at Melton Mowbray when I was a child. Bardsley says the name is a corruption of "Bonenfant." C. Č. B.

PRUSIAS (8th S. vi. 8, 38).-Prusias, the servile King of Bithynia, was an eminent contrast to Cæsar. Livy, in the last chapter of his history, so far as we have it, sums up the character of Prusias by a translation from Polybius :

"Polybius, eum regem indignum magistate nominis

66 church" and also

ISAAC TAYLOR.

"BULLIFANT" (8th S. v. 469).—I cannot make a reasonable guess as to the meaning of this word.

tanti, tradit; pileatum, capite raso, obviam vie legatis solitum, libertumque se populi Romani ferre; et ideo inin curiam, submississe se, et osculo limen curiae contisignia ordinis ejus gerere. Romæ quoque, quum veniret gisse: et Deos servatores suos' senatum appellasse, aliamque orationem, non tam honorificam audientibus, quam sibi deformem babuisse. Moratus circa urbem triginta haud amplius dies in regnum est profectus."

Prusias was put to death by his son Nicomedes, who had come with him to Rome, having been first brought to a state of ignominy:

"Prusias regno spoliatus a filio, privatusque redditus, etiam a servis deseritur. Cum in latebris ageret, non minori scelere, quam filium occidi jusserat interficitur." -'Justin.,' l. xxxiv, c. 4.

ED. MARSHALL.

GALVANI (8th S. v. 148, 238, 469).-Having read SIGNOR BELLEZZA's interesting note, I venture to remind him that the prosperity of a new fact, like that of a rare seed, depends upon the kind of soil that receives it. When Sulzer placed his tongue between two dissimilar metals and