of his tenancy, later editions of Boyle's Court Guide than those I had seen show that, in 1826, the number was changed to 32. A few years ago this house was pulled down, and the present building is entirely new. It follows, therefore, that the next-door house, now No. 31, which retains much of its eighteenth-century character, in spite of some alterations, was the original No. 23, where my great-great-grandfather lived: not the present No. 23, as I long believed. That Nos. 31 and 32 occupy the exact sites of the old 23 and 24 I have satisfied myself by a study of R. Horwood's Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster' (1799), and of W. Faden's fourth edition of the same work (1819). In this fine production, which is on a scale of 25 inches to the mile, and is a credit to the map-engravers of the period, each house is separately shown, and the earlier number is clearly indicated. A desire for accuracy has impelled me to send this second communication. It is to be wished that a tablet could be affixed on No. 32, to the effect that George Romney occupied the house, No. 24, which formerly stood on the same spot. EDWY G. CLAYTON. 10, Old Palace Lane, Richmond, Surrey. HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST (10 S. v. 483; vi. 52, 91, 215, 356, 497; vii. 312, 413, 472). I am glad to say that the work of indicating houses of historical interest is going forward with considerable rapidity, a tablet having been recently affixed to No. 1, Orme Square, Bayswater, in which Sir Rowland Hill resided from 1839 to 1845. He had previously resided at 2, Burton Crescent, Euston Road. He lived at Bertram House, Hampstead, from 1848 until his death in 1871. The latter residence of the postal reformer had been indicated by the Society of Arts, but the premises have since been demolished. With reference to the house in Burton Crescent, it was proposed to place a tablet thereon; but the fessee refused her consent, in consequence of which there was no course open but to place the tablet upon the house in Orme Square, where for three years, from 1839 to 1842, Rowland Hill was engaged in the heavy work of introducing and supervising the complicated machinery incidental to bringing uniform penny postage into operation. Between the years 1845 and 1848 he resided at Brighton, engaged in reorganizing the Brighton Railway Company. It is pleasurable to record that a memorial tablet was, on Thursday, 20 June, placed upon No. 54, Great Marlborough Street, W., with an inscription recording that Sarah Siddons, the great actress, lived there. It is regrettable that a slip should have occurred in the 'D.N.B.,' for it is there stated that "from 1790 to 1802 Mrs. Siddons had resided at Great Marlborough Street; thence she seems to have moved to Gower Street, where the back of her house was' effectually in the country.' This would appear to be contrary to what Mrs. Siddons has stated, for in a letter written after her return from Ireland in the autumn of 1784, she tells us: "We have bought a house in Gower Street....the back of which is most effectually in the country." This letter is quoted in full in Kennard's 'Mrs. Siddons.' The correct order of her residences is given in the capital book on 'The Kembles' by Percy Fitzgerald, for he says: "She had lived in the Strand, had removed thence to Gower Street, from Gower Street to Great Marlborough Street." It would appear from a paragraph in The London Argus of 22 June that the numbers of the houses in Great Marlborough Street have been changed, for it is there stated that "in Boyle's 'Court Guide' for 1792 and following years the name of W. Siddons' appears against No. 49, the last such entry occurring in 1784. A comparison between Horwood's map of 1799 and the street-numbering plan of 1882 shows that no alteration in the number of the house had taken place in the meantime. In the latter year the number was altered to 54, and has not since been changed." Virtually the house is now as it was in the have been made, including the addition of a days of Mrs. Siddons; but some changes story. It was in this house she resided when at the height of her professional career; here her youngest child, Cecilia, was born in 1794; and here her daughter Sally died in 1803, so the house is in many ways worthy of its commemorative tablet. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. I really cannot follow my friend MR. ABRAHAMS at all. Unless my memory is very bad, the topography of the particular spot is all against him, as I daresay he now realizes from the remarks made by COL. PRIDEAUX over his own. Unless there has since been some volcanic eruption, the canal must have been at precisely the same level then that it is now. MR. ABRAHAMS imagines that on account of the steep declivity Dyer must have broken his neck. Dyer stepped forward and got into the canal. MR. D. M. MOORE: NEW YORK UNDER a 66 66 If we have to turn them back into Anglo- The correct rendering in Bracton would have been oghene hyne; so that it is good as usual, has ignorantly prefixed an h. The enough except that the Anglo-French scribe, sense is de propria familia.' 66 BRITISH RULE (10 S. vii. 466). Was the Governor of New York who is here referred to Sir Henry Moore, Bt., who died, while Governor in 1769 ? He was created baronet in 1764, and according to G. E. C.'s Complete Baronetage,' v. 130, the baronetcy became extinct when the Governor's only son and heir," Sir John Henry Moore, Bt., died, " unmarried," in 1780. See also the 'D.N.B.,' xxxviii. 354, 372. If the baronetcy thus became extinct in 1780, the late Mr. D. M. Moore can hardly have been a grandson of this Governor, unless, indeed, he was a son of a daughter. One daughter, Susanna Jane, is mentioned in Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies' (second edition), 366; but her marriages, if any, are ignored. Some explanation of Mr. D. M. Moore's alleged descent from Governor Moore seems, Against deriving hog from a root undertherefore, to be needed. This Governor's lying high and hoga speaks our diasuccessors at New York were John Murray, lectal fourth Earl of Dunmore (1769), William Eber. Tryon (1771), and James Robertson (1778). See the 'D.N.B.,' xxxix. 388; lvii. 276. One Thomas William Moore-who, according to the Winchester College Register, was born at New York on 30 Jan., 1769 was elected a Winchester scholar in 1781. In Foster's Alumni Oxon.' he appears as son of Thomas William Moore of New York, and as matriculating from Worcester College in Dec., 1788. Was he related to Governor Moore? In any case I should be grateful for further particulars of him and his career. H. C. HOCK: HOG: HOGA (10 S. vii. 401, 494). -The titles of articles are distracting. Under the above heading, which involves hock, unconnected with either hog or hoga, a question is asked concerning hoghenchine, which has no relationship with any of the foregoing. 6 May I just remind the contributors to the Hockday quotations that the exhaustive article on Hockday in the N.E.D.' begins with the remark that received so much etymological and historical investigation"? 66 66 few words have WALTER W. SKEAT. der Hacksch Weigand connects hecken to procreate. Berlin. IRISH GIRL Aand Barbary PIRATES (10 S. vii. 469).—The poem BARBARY is in search of is the last poem written by Thomas Davis, 'The Sack of Baltimore,' giving in vigorous by two Algerine galleys on 20 June, 1631, verse the story of the attack on that town The fragments your querist quotes are all from the last four lines of the second last stanza: The maid that Bandon gallant sought is chosen for The complete poem will be found in the edition of Davis's verse edited by Wallis The quotation in Bracton refers to or in A Treasury of Irish Poetry,' edited section 23 of the Laws of Edward the Con- by Stopford Brooke and T. W. Rolleston, fessor, for which see Thorpe's 'Ancient Laws,' vol. i. p. 452. The spelling in Thorpe is somewhat less corrupt than that in Bracton, but it is bad enough. Thorpe's version is: "Quod si tercia nocte hospitatus fuerit, et ipse forisfecerit alicui, habeat eum ad rectum, tanquam de propria familia: quod Angli dicunt-tuua nicte geste, the thirdde nicte agen hine.' Another MS. has: tuo niht gest, the thridde oyen hine." Stromness, Orkney. J. E. H. SIR THOMAS BLOODWORTH, LORD MAYOR 1665-6 (10 S. vii. 409, 454).-Is Sir Thomas known to have actually died at Leatherhead? Otherwise it is impossible to reconcile the fact of his interment there with his will, which, though it does not (as I previously remarked) specifically name the buryingplace, yet directs burial in the parish he may die in. Several writers, more or less contemporary, state that he "lived and died at Camden House, Maiden Lane," which would involve interment in St. John Zachary's. On the other hand, the length of time which was mentioned at the last reference as having elapsed between the respective dates of death and interment favours the supposition that he was conveyed a distance to be buried. If, therefore, he really died in the City at his town residence, and was carried into Surrey to his country seat for sepulture, how is the non-compliance with the direction contained in the will to be accounted for ? A briefer, but even more pungent version of the story to which G. E. C. alludes is given by Allen in the first (1827) volume of his history of London. WILLIAM MCMURRAY. 'WOODLAND MARY' (10 S. vi. 347).-If the inquirer regarding this old ballad will send his or her address to Mrs. Law, 12, Albert Terrace, Edinburgh, a copy of it will be forwarded. J. LAW. ZOFFANY'S INDIAN PORTRAITS (10 S. vii. 429). Quite a number of Zoffany's portraits and conversation pieces (some of them unidentified) were shown at the interesting Georgian Exhibition held in the Whitechapel Art Gallery in April of last year. In a brief memoir of the painter, given on p. 71 of the catalogue, it is said that after his return to England from Italy, he "set off to India in 1783, and made much money, providing the Anglo-Indian nabobs of the time with portraits. Some of these still remain in India, but many were carried back by their purchasers with their rare china and curios to the country houses of England, where they are still to be found." One of these imported pictures, lent by Mr. Humphry Ward, was shown at the exhibition. It was No. 280 in the Lower Gallery, and catalogued as 'Two Children and a Dog.' Zoffany's portrait of Warren Hastings was No. 238 in the same gallery; but whether this was painted at home or abroad I have no means of determining. Dublin. W. J. LAWRENCE. A friend of mine has a large fulllength Zoffany Indian portrait of a beardless man with curious cap, scarlet robe, and Eastern arms, while in the background "PRINCE BOOTHBY (10 S. vii. 405).— In The Connoisseur, vol. ii. (1902) p. 37, will be found an article by Mr. Algernon Graves on the subject of this gentleman, illustrated by two portraits of him and one of (most probably) Miss Elizabeth Darby, all painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 66 Mr. Graves says that the first of the portraits of Mr. Boothby was among the unknown" until just before the date of the article in question, and was then in the possession of François Kleinberger, of Paris. 66 Charles It has an inscription on the back: Boothby Scrimshire, Esq., of Tooly Park, Leicester, aged 18. 1758.' The second portrait of him was painted in 1784; and this, as well as the portrait of Miss Darby, is in the collection of Lord Leconfield at Petworth. Tradition has it that he was at one time engaged to her, and by his will he bequeathed to her “ my three half-length pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds.' Probably the two at Petworth were purchased by the Earl of Egremont at the sale of "Prince Boothby's effects in September, 1800, after his death. An account of the suicide of "Charles Scrimpshire Boothby Clopton, of Clarges St., Piccadilly," is given in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1800, and this confirms MR. READE's statements as to his family and his properties. Miss Darby died in 1838, and was buried in St. George's Burial-Ground in the Bayswater Road. ALAN STEWART. See Jesse's 'Life of Beau Brummell,' 1854, p. 64 :— "Civility, my good fellow,' observed the Beau, 'may truly be said to cost nothing: if it does not meet with a due return, it at least leaves you in a creditable position. My friend Prince Boothby had a large fortune left him by an old lady, a perfect stranger, simply because he handed her into a sedan-chair in the lobby of the Opera.' A MS. note in my copy of the above adds he was then, a rather short man, possessed of an exceptionally large and intellectual head. Rarely wearing a coat, and with shirtsleeves turned up to the armpits, he was proud of displaying very hairy arms. He suffered from a bad impediment in his speech, but, for all that, was exceedingly fond of reciting, with much dramatic action, lengthy quotations from Shakespeare. Bunyan resided in a low court (happily now swept away) leading out of Essex (then the Lower) Road, Islington, exactly opposite to Cross Street. It was an alley almost entirely inhabited by a rough type of poor Irish. The last time I saw him was in the middle of the sixties, and I heard that he passed away a few years later. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. "BAT BEARAWAY I remember having read in Herbert (10 S. vii. 168, 258). Spencer's Principles of Sociology,' vol. i., a paragraph devoted to the superstition that associates bats with human souls. According to a Chinese work, 'Sin-i-piking,' after a bat is a hundred years old, it Merebook, a book describing the meres or boundaries. W. D. MACRAY. Mareboake is apparently="mere-balk," is in the habit of inhaling man's vital essence boundary ridge left in ploughing. Viere is furrow; cf. O.E. fyrh, dat. of furh, and veering, id., in Halliwell. [W. C. B. refers also to the 'N.E.D.' and Halli- heavens, that is, the Taoist paradise. well.] H. P. L. BUNYAN AND MILTON GENEALOGIES (10 S. vii. 329).-A middle-aged man possessed of distinct individuality, named John Bunyan, who claimed to be a direct descendant of the author of The Pilgrim's Progress,' was in my late father's employ as a porter from 1841 until 1855. Those were the days when men of that class were accustomed to wear what were called "knots" upon their shoulders the better by so doing to bear the heavy burdens then usually carried. The same kind of knots may still be seen in use at Billingsgate. the My father's place was at 39, Upper Street, Islington, N. In the early forties the thoroughfarei.e., extending from corner of Liverpool (formerly Back) Road, so far as Islington Green-was known as Hedge Row. It afterwards became High Street, but for many years has now been incorporated with the Upper Street. Our Bunyan was a tinker by trade, and asserted that his ancestors had always followed the same modest vocation. I entertain vivid remembrances of him as in order to obtain longevity; and when it attains its tercentenary, it is thereby enabled to assume human shape and to fly about for amusement in the various Another Chinese work, Yu-ming-luh,' by Liu I-King, of the fifth century A.D., gives an instance of a diabolical bat carrying away human hair. The story runs :— "About the beginning of the Tsung dynasty (421 A.D.), it happened in the province of Hui-nan that nightly an unknown being came to cut off he knew how to discover it, daubed walls with birdmany persons' hair. Chu Tan, the governor, saying lime in good quantity. That evening a bat, as big as a cock, was thus caught. Killing the animal, he put a stop to the mischief, and, after searching, found the locks of several hundred men, which it had accumulated under rafters."-"Yuen-kien-lui-han,' 1703. Charles Skrymsher (1688–1762), only son of Dr. Gerard Skrymsher (1618-1700), of High Offley, Staffs, by Catherine his wife, who was, I have given the strongest reasons for believing, sister to Michael Johnson. All the evidences I collected of the family go to prove that Skrymsher was the accepted spelling during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Scrimshaw -in spite of Dr. Johnson-must be considered a vulgar corruption. But as the " 'great lexicographer" knew so little of his cousin as to inquire for him twenty-two years after his death, we need not be asked to accept his spelling of that cousin's name. 66 ALEYN LYELL READE. Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool. AN EARLY LATIN-ENGLISH-BASQUE DICTIONARY (10 S. iv. 143, 255, 333; vi. 51). Dr. Abbott has continued the study of this dictionary in La Revue de Linguistique of Paris and the Hermathena of Dublin. A handsome edition of the manuscripts of J. d'Etcheberri, discovered by Don Julio de Urquijo at Zarauz, was published on 12 Nov., 1906, at the bookshop of M. P; Geuthner, 68, Rue Mazarine, Paris. N. & Q.' is, however, not the best medium for criticizing it. It is a valuable contribution to Bascology. EDWARD S. DODGSON. LAWYERS' WILLS (10 S. vii. 266).-The wills of famous lawyers which have come before the courts for construction or for some other reason include those of Chief Baron Thomson, Chief Justice Holt, Chief Justice Eyre, Chief Justice Saunders, Baron Cleasby, Serjeants Hill and Maynard, Baron Wood, Mr. Justice Vaughan, Francis Vesey, jun., Mr. Preston and Thomas Braithwaite (both conveyancers), Lord Chancellor St. Leonards and Lord Chancellor Westbury, and, very recently, that of Sir Francis Jeune, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester. According to The Standard of 6 April, p. 7, col. 4, the late "Lord Davey made his will on a sheet of rough foolscap, and omitted to nominate any executors; but this omission was remedied by him in a codicil of the same date." Beaumont and Fletcher's play 'Rule a Wife This is the earliest mention of the word STURMY OR ESTURMY FAMILY (10 S. vii. 209, 312). For pedigrees of this family see Hoare's History of Wiltshire,' vol. i. pt. i. p. 117; Foster's Visitation of Yorkshire," pp. 177 and 196; and Morant's 'History of Essex,' vol. i. p. 265. CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead. COURT LEET: MANOR COURT (10 S. vii. 327, 377). In the manor of Old Paris Garden, Southwark, a Customary Court (designated a Court Baron) is held twice a year for the copyhold portion of the manor, with special courts at intervals, at which surrenders and grants are duly made per virgam, the ebony rod used bearing the date 1697. It is needless to point out that the criminal jurisdiction of the Court Leet has long ceased to exist, although a court so called exists in many localities, at which officers are elected to more or less sinecure offices, and convivialities are indulged in. The Manorial Society (1, Mitre Court Buildings, Temple, E.C.) has for one of its objects the collection of information relating to surviving manorial jurisdictions. It is hoped that local antiquaries will assist the Society by reporting any such survivals in their respective localities. NATHANIEL J. HONE. 3, Clarence Road, Kew Gardens. "JOMMOX": WUDGET":"WOMPUS (10 S. vii. 447).-Your American correspondent will find in Halliwell's dictionary a more closely related word for "wudget |