2»«> S. VII. Jan. 8. '69.] 



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London (1733-34), by whom he had one son, and 

 several daughters. John, first Lord Olmius, died 

 in Sept. 1762, and was succeeded in his title and 

 estates by his only son, Drigue Billers Olmius, 

 second and last Baron ; born March 12, 1746, 

 and received the uncommon name of Billers from 

 that of his maternal grandfather above-men- 

 tioned ; his other singular prefix of Drigue I 

 cannot explain. He married Sept. 8, 1767, Miss 

 Coe, of Essex, but died, issueless, in Dec. 1786, 

 setat. 41, when the title became extinct ^ and the 



Eroperty of the family descended to his sole heir, 

 is eldest (and also, apparently, only surviving) 

 sister, Elizabeth, who had married July 1, 1766, 

 the Hon. Captain John Luttrell, R.N., younger 

 son of Simon, Lord Irnham, afterwards Earl of 

 Carhampton, who assumed, by royal sign manual, 

 March 29, 1787, the additional surname and arms 

 of Olmius. The Hon. Mrs. Luttrell-Olmius died 

 June 14, 1797, leaving one surviving daughter — 

 her two sons, John and James, having both died 

 in infancy in 1769-1772, — Frances Maria, born 

 Sept. 1763, married 1789, Sir Simeon Stuart, 

 fourth Baronet of Hartley Mauduit, in Hamp- 

 shire, and had issue. John Luttrell-Olmius be- 

 came eventually third Earl of Carhampton, 1821, 

 but died, 1829, without male surviving issue, 

 though he had married again, 1797, when all his 

 honours became extinct. A. S. A. 



Barrackpore. 



Attorney- General Noye and John Noyes (2"*^ S. 

 vi. 221. 310. &c.)—Geneai.ogus has made a slight 

 mistake with regard to the monument in Maw- 

 gan churchyard. Colonel Humphry Noye was 

 second son and heir of the Attorney-general. He 

 married a coheiress of Henry Lord Sandys of 

 the Vine, but his only son died unmarried, and 

 coheiresses carried the family estates to the 

 Davies Gilberts, who with the Cartwrights of 

 Aynhoe, descended from Catherine, daughter of 

 Sir William Noye, now represent the family. 

 No representatives of the Attorney-general in 

 the male line exist, but his grandfather, William 

 Noye, left a numerous family of sons, whose 

 descendants in the male line continued in the 

 neighbourhood of St. Buryan till very lately, 

 when the last of them emigrated to America. 

 The arms borne by the Attorney-general, az. 3 

 cross crosslets in bend arg., were granted (or, as 

 I believe, confirmed to his grandfather " William 

 Noy or Noyes" (sic in Register of the College 

 of Arms), in 1592. I have been unable to trace 

 the connexion between this family and that of 

 John Noyes, M. P. for Calne ; but I have evi- 

 dence that the same arms were borne by different 

 branches of his family at a period long antece- 

 dent to their grant or confirmation to William 

 Noye. Libya, who inserted the letter of John 

 Noyes, would much oblige the undersigned by 



stating in whose possession the original document 

 is, or was at the time he copied it. Memoh. 



Parish Registers (2°* S. vi. 379. 462. 507.)— 

 Your correspondents on the subject of parish 

 registers do not, so far as appears, seem aware 

 of the statute 17 & 18 Victoria,- chapter 80, by 

 which the registration of births, marriages, and 

 deaths in Scotland has been put on a very satis- 

 factory footing. It is highly worth their con- 

 sulting, as it may afford useful suggestions for 

 improving the English system. It contains a pro- 

 vision in particular, (see section 18) enforcing the 

 transmission of all parish registers to a General 

 Registry Office in Edinburgh, where they are kept 

 for preservation, and where they may now be 

 consulted by any one, on payment of a small fee. 

 This enactment is not simply prospective in its 

 operation, but applies to all such registers from 

 the earliest period of their existence. Lord Elcho 

 has the merit of having carried through this 

 measure. G. 



Edinburgh. 



Sundries (2°"^ S. vi. 522.)— Barnaby Bright must 

 have some reference to the Saint as well as to the 

 ladybird. Witness the Lay of the last Minstrel : 



" It was but last St. Barnabright 

 They sieged him a whole summer's night." 



Again (p. 523. col. 2. 1. 10. from bottom) *'blue"! 

 nonsense ! " red and white " to be sure. Thirdly 

 (pp. 525, 526.), who is it first tells the story of 

 the cattle going down on their knees at the first 

 moment of Christmas Day, and refusing to acknow- 

 ledge the change of style ? The late Davies Gil- 

 bert used to tell, of his own knowledge, how an 

 old gentleman and lady always walked to church 

 in full dress on the abandoned Christmas Day, 

 and, after trying in vain to enter, walked back 

 and read the service at home. Fourthly (p. 535.), 

 Zeus makes it doubtful whether Abraham New- 

 land was the originator of the epitaph : and I add, 

 that in my childhood the children had it in the 

 West of England, the first verse being 

 " Here Cock Robin lies." 



This was too near 1807 to allow of the supposition 

 that it had become current from Newland's tomb- 

 stone, with a variation. The epitaph of the school- 

 man, Durandus (why i^a^Aer Durand?) has lost 

 some of its point. It ought to be — 



• " Durus Durandus jaeet hie sub marmore duro ; 

 An sit salvandus, ego nescio, nee ego euro." 



Fifthly (p. 536.), it was not Denon who was 

 subjected to this annoyance : where would have 

 been the point of waking him from sleep ? It was 

 M. Galland, the translator of the Arabian Nights, 

 who was roused, night after night, not by ladies but 

 by the wags, with " M. Galland, si vous ne dormez 

 pas, nous vous supplions, en attendant le jour qui 



