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where not specially granted by deed or charter : 

 perhaps this word may refer to such a grant. 



A. B. R. 

 Belmont. 



I venture to suggest, but with no great confi- 

 dence in their correctness, the two following pos- 

 sible derivations of this word : 



1. Wagessiim, a corruption of " Vagerassin, 

 (Tiropd5r]v, in Gloss. Lat. Grcec." Gloss. Manual, 

 Adelung, Halas, 1784, in v. Anglice, scattei-ed. 



2. Vaivce, aid gaivce, i. q. vagce, gessice. Angl. 

 stray treasures (waifs). 



"Gessia(l.) Gessite, divit'm, in glossis jsid. In ex- 

 cerptis aclditur paza; : pro quo mendose scriptum putant 

 gessice." — Ibid, in v. 



Your correspondent will, perhaps, say whether 

 either of these meanings would suit the passage in 

 question. E. A. D. 



Moustaches ivorn hy Clergymen (2""^ S. i. 183.) 



— The latest instance, I should say, of a clergy- 

 man wearing a moustache, is the Reverend Dr. 

 Livingston, who appeared with that manly ap- 

 pendage, at our merchants' meeting the other day 

 at the Mansion House. May I remark, that, in so 

 doing, the intrepid Doctor, by braving the preju- 

 dices of his countrymen, evinced, I think, a course 

 inferior only to that which he must have so often 

 exhibited among the savage inhabitants of Central 

 Africa ? Mercator, A.B. 



Dr. Sleatlis Engraved Portraits (2""^ S. il. 492.) 



— Mr. Paslam is informed that at the death of 

 Dr. Sleath his library was sold, and no doubt, 

 inter alia, the volumes of engraved portraits. 

 Many old pupils who had been educated under 

 him at Repton were anxious to possess relics of 

 their former master. After his resignation of the 

 Head Mastership of Repton, he retired to Etwall 

 Hospital in Derbyshire, over which he presided 

 until his death, " multis ille bonis flebilis occidit ; " 

 a monument has been erected to his memory in 

 the church at Repton. At the advanced age of 

 eighty Dr. Sleath married. He is yet " freshly 

 remembered" by many an old Repton man. 



OxONIBNSIS. 



Sydserff Family (2"^ S. ii. 367.) — In " N. & 

 Q." of Nov. 8th, J. M. has published some lines by 

 the Alexander St. Clare of Roslyn who flourished 

 in 1652, on the death of Marion Sydserff, daughter 

 of the Bishop of Galloway, and states that he has 

 no doubt that the writer was the same gentleman 

 who married Jean, daughter of Robert, seventh 

 Lord Temple. The likelihood of this is strength- 

 ened by the fact that the Temple and Sydserff 

 families had intermarried. 



The bishop was, I believe, a brother of Sir Ar- 

 chibald Sydserff, the head of a very old family in 

 East Lothian, which for a lengthened period pro- 



vided lairds for the lands surrounding the village 

 of SydseriF, anciently St. Serf. About three cen- 

 turies ago the adjacent property of Ruchlaw was 

 acquired, and the latter estate still rjpmains in the 

 family. 



J. M. mentions the literary and theatrical 

 talents of Thomas, the brother of Marion, as well 

 as his loyalty to the house of Stuart. He seems 

 to have made the former minister to the latter by 

 carrying, under various disguises, intelligence to 

 the Marquis of Montrose, when most pressed in 

 his gallant but vain struggle to prop up a decay- 

 ing dynasty. Lord Mahon, in his Historical 

 Essays, quotes the following passage from " Co- . 

 vent Garden Drollery," printed in 1672, in allu- 

 sion to one of these adventures : 



«* Once like a pedlar they have heard thee brag, 

 How thou didst cheat their sight and save thy * craig ' 



(neck) ; 

 When to the Great Montrose, under pretence 

 Of godly books, thou brouglit'st intelligence." 



Notwithstanding the peril to his " craig," the 

 son of the bishop must have enjoyed the joke of 

 passing safely through the Presbyterian armies by 

 assuming the character of a zealous hawker of 

 their tracts, in which no compliments were paid to 

 his own branch of Christianity. C. R. 



St. Govor (2"'^ S. ii. 31.) — This saint, of whom 

 F. B. inquires, is probably identical witii St. 

 Goicer, whose feast was kept in the diocese of St. 

 Asaph, on the 11th of July ; or may be the same 

 with St. Goar, or Gtcver, who gives his name to 

 the well-known town on the Rhine. But how 

 either of these saints might be connected with a 

 spring in Kensington Gardens is unknown to 

 ^ ° F.C.H. 



Dr. Wiseinan's Lectures (2"'' S. iii. 12.) — The 

 request of A. M. B. for reference to a full and 

 exact review of Dr. (now Cardinal) Wiseman's 

 Lectures on the principal Doctrines and Practices 

 of the Catholic Church, will perhaps be satisfac- 

 torily complied with by informing him that these 

 Lectures were reviewed in the British Critic, 

 No. XL. for October, 1836 ; in the Catholicon, 

 vol. i. No. 8., for August, 1836 ; and in the Edin- 

 burgh Catholic Magazine for 1837, where a full 

 review will be found in two notices, occupying 

 upwards of forty pages. F. C. H. 



Robert ^mmetfs Father (2"'' S. iii. 31.) — 

 Robert Emmett's father was a physician, Jind un- 

 less I greatly mistake, state physician, resident in 

 Dublin. He married Elizabeth Mason, daughter . 

 of James Mason, of Ballydowney, in the county of 

 Kerry ; both families, though of English extrac- 

 tion, were, I believe, long settled in Ireland. I 

 have heard from my father, who knew the family 

 intimately, that, notwithstanding his connexion 

 with the Irish Court and Government, the topics 



