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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-«> S. VII. June 25. '59. 



because the garrison takes all such prying people 

 to be spies. J. H. van Lennep. 



Zeyst 



Sir Thomas Lawrence (2°'i S. vli. 486.) — The 

 house in which this distinf|;uished artist is said to 

 have been born is No. 6. Redcross Street, in this 

 city. Some years ago an engraving of this and 

 adjacent houses, by Skelton, from a drawing by 

 Rowbotham, was published In Skeltons Etchings 

 of the Antiquities of Bristol, to perpetuate the 

 remembrance of this fact ; and as the house (No. 

 6.) Is still referred to by old Brlstollans as that 

 in which the great painter first saw the light, there 

 is no reason, that I know of, for disputing the 

 correctness of the statement. George Phtcb. 



City Library, Bristol. 



The Regent Murray (2°'* S. vi. 395.) — Your 

 correspondent P. C. will find in Essays upon 

 several Subjects concerning British Antiquities, 

 Edinburgh, 1747 (by Henry Home, Lord Kalmes), 

 at p. 103., " King llobert's Charter to Ranulph, 

 Earl of Murray : " — 



" Robertus, Dei gratia, Rex Scotorum, omnibus probis 

 hominibus totius terraa suae salutem. Sciatis nos dedisse, 

 concessisse, et hac praesenti carta nostra confirmasse 

 Thomse Ranulpho militi, dilecto nepoti nostro, pro homa- 

 gio et servitio suo, omnes terras nostras in Moravia, sicut 

 fuerunt in manu Domini Alexandri Regis Scotise praede- 

 cessoris nostri ultimo defuncti," &c. 



And at p. 84 : — 



" With regard to Scotland, the oldest Patent of an Earl 

 I have seen, is that granted to Ranulph Earl of Murray. 

 King Robert I. grants certain Lands to him, and to the 

 Heirs male of his Body, to be held of the Crown in libera 

 comitatu. As no other Form or Ceremony was used in 

 creating this Gentleman an Earl, the Charter is full Evi- 

 dence that in those Days the Title of an Earl was consi- 

 dered as merely a territorial Dignity. A Copy of the 

 Charter is annext (p. 103.) for the Satisfaction of the 

 Curious." 



Will you excuse this long extract, and if you 

 think it worth a corner of your valuable paper, it 

 win be " for the satisfaction of the curious." 



Belater-Adime. 



History of Brute (2"'* S. ii. 128.) — In the 

 library of Trin. Coll., Dublin, there are, I think, 

 two MSS., E. 2. 2. and 2. 24., containing this 

 poem. Your correspondent 'AXieis, if I am not 

 mistaken In his Identity, could give you some 

 farther information respecting these MSS. 



Y. S. M. 



Red Winds (2"«' S. ill. 299. 399.) —Apropos des 

 bottes, I recollect a certain Lord Mayor of Dublin 

 at a public meeting, a good many years since, 

 when describing the nuisance of the dust on the 

 Blackrock road, called It " red-hot dust." The 

 expression conveyed a good idea of the hot choak- 

 ing feel of clouds of summer dust ; but the name 

 of "red-hot dust" was bestowed on his lordship 



in ridicule, and with the usual pertinacity of a 

 sobriquet It stuck to him through life. Y. S. M. 



Surnames altered by Common Use (2°* S. vl. 

 202.) — In the south-eastern part of Norfolk, and 

 the adjoining part of Suffolk, I have met with the 

 following instances ; almost all of them In writing, 

 or in monumental inscriptions, many of them be- 

 longing to one person, but always to the members 

 of one family : — 



Baldwin, changed to Balding and Bolding. 



Beaumont, to Bumment, Bamment, Bemment. 



Goldsmith, to Goldsplnk. 



Ilearne, to Heme, Hern, Hurrin. 



Cullingford, to Ford. 



Seaman, to Seamans, Semmons, Simmons. 



Almost all names were occasionally varied by 

 the addition of an s, B. B. Woodwaru. 



Haverstock Hill, 



Carthaginian Passage in the Pcemdus (2°'* S. vli. 

 393.) — A. A. R. will perhaps be assisted by a 

 reference to Kenrick's Phoenicia, p. 167., where 

 he speaks of the Marseilles tablet, a Phoenician 

 relic found In pulling down an old house In 1845. 

 It Is a tariff of the prices to be paid by the order 

 of the Suffetes of Carthage for the various ani- 

 mals offered in sacrifice to Baal. It consists of 

 94 words, 74 of which occur In the O. T., and 

 many of these are peculiar to the Hebrew, and 

 are not found In the cognate languages. The 

 restoration of the Punic passage In the Pcemdus 

 has only been effected through reference to the 

 Hebrew. J. M. N. 



MONTHLY FEUILLETON ON FEENCH BOORS. 



" De L'Aristocratie au XIX« Sifecle. Par Anatole de 

 Barth^lemy, Membre non resident du Comite des Travaux 

 Historiques et des Societ^s Savantes. 12o. Paris, Aubry." 



" La Noblesse Flamande de France, en presence de 

 I'Article 259 du Code penal, suivie de I'Origine de I'Or- 

 thographe des Noms de Famille des Flamands de France. 

 Par M. Louis de Baecker. 12". Paris, Aubry." 



" Histoire de la Crinoline au Temps passe, par Albert 

 de la Fizelifere, suivie de la Satire sur les Cerceaux, 

 Paniers, etc., par le Chevalier de Nisard, et de I'lndignit^ 

 et I'Extravagance des Paniers par mi Pre'dicateur. 12". 

 Paris, Aubry." 



" Procfes du trfes mechant et de'testable Parricide Fr. 

 Ravaillac, Natif d'Angoulesme, publie pour la premiere 

 fois sur des manuscrits du temps, par T. . . . D. . . . 

 120. Paris, Aubry." 



" Des Gravures en Bois dans les Livres D'Anthoine Ve- 

 rard, Maitre Libraire, Imprimeur, Enlumineur et Tailleur 

 sur Bois, de Paris. 1485-1512. Par J. Renouvier. 8". 

 Paris, Aubry." 



"Entrees de Marie d'Angleterre, Femme de Louis XII., 

 h Abbeville et h, Paris (1514), publi^es et annot^es par 

 H. Cocheris ; in-8. Figures, fac-simile d'apres les Gravures 



