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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°« S. No 75., JtTSE 6. '57. 



Bjrche ; my brother-in-law, Thomas Byrche, 

 gent. ; Robert Becke to have the custody of 

 Thomas my son until he come of age; George 

 Byrche, mercer, to have the custody of my son 

 George ; Elizabeth my wife to have the custody 

 of my daughter. Robert Becke and George 

 Byrche aforesaid, my executors ; Thomas Byrche, 

 gent., Edward Rediot, Miles Gylsford, and An- 

 thony Hygen, supervisors." 



In 1575 he is a legatee under the will of his 

 uncle William Birch, " pastor of Stanhope in 

 Weardale," co. Durham, and first Warden of 

 Manchester after the Reformation ; and he is 

 also named as joint-executor in the will of 

 George Birch of Birch, gent., dated July 28, 

 1611, to whom, as " Mr. Deane of Ripone," there 

 is a bequest of " one gowne, and clothe to cover 

 the pufpitt w*''all." Of his connexion with the 

 Cecil family I know nothing ; but should Pa- 

 TONCE succeed in establishing any such connexion 

 I should be glad to be made acquainted with it. 



John Booker. 

 Prestwich. 



Naked-Boy Court, Sfc. (2""^ S. iii. 254. 317.) — 

 I have more than once heard the dark red wall- 

 flower called Bloody Warrior in Norfolk. Sir 

 J. E. Smith (a Norwich man) calls the Cheiran- 

 thus Chei?-i " the bloody wallflower of our 

 gardens," English Flora, Cheir. fruticulosus. In- 

 deed, about nine per cent, of Barnes' Dorsetshire 

 words are in common use in Norfolk ; and Wil- 

 braham remarks the same thing with respect to 

 Cheshire words. I would extend my suggestion 

 by deriving St. Mary Matfelon, now called White- 

 chapel, from the Centaurea Scabiosa, or knapweed, 

 the Matfellon of our old herbalists. Saffron Hill, 

 Garlickliythe, &c., most probably took their names 

 from the sale of those articles there. N. Bailey, 

 $«A(JA.oyos, derives Gracechurch Street " of a grass 

 (i. e. herb market) anciently kept there," which 

 does not seem very probable. E. G. R. 



Bleeding Heart Yard (2°* S. iii. 254, 317.) — 

 Why " Heart" instead of " Hart," as in the London 

 Directory ? May the court not have derived its 

 name from some ancient hostel to which it was 

 attached ? Its shape and general appearance, 

 even at the present day, suggest such a derivation. 

 "The Bleeding Hart" is the sign of at least one 

 tavern in London, and is not infrequent in the 

 provinces. A. Cuallsteth. 



Gray's Inn. 



Solomon's Seal (2""* S. iii. 291.) — The figure 

 called the Seal of Solomon is often engraved in 

 the bottom of a drinking cup among the Maho- 

 metans. It is like a star; two equilateral tri- 

 angles intersecting each other ; which the berry of 

 the flower, which bears the same name, is like. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



^•Pupilla Ocidi" (2°'i S. iii. 389.) — 



" Llanrldeiniol Fab, Deiniolen, in Anglesea. 

 Llanddeiniol or Carrog, Deiniol, in Cardiganshire. 

 Bangor Fawr, Deiniol, in Carnarvonshire. 

 Llanddeiniolen, Deiniolen, in the same county. 

 Deiniol in Flintshire. 

 Deiniol in Denbighshire. 

 Deiniol in Herefordshire. 

 Llanfor, Mor and Deiniol, in Merionethshire. 

 Llanuwchllyn, Deiniol, in the same county, 

 Ytton, or Llanddeiniol, Deiniol, in Monmouthshire. 

 Churches dedicated to St. Daniel in Wales." 



From Rees's Ussai/ on the Welsh Saints, Appx. iii. 

 Sec also pp. 192. 20G. 258. 281. 



J. C, J. 



''Times'' Articles (2"'^ S. iii. 407.) — If G. P. 

 will send me his name and address (or the latter) 

 I shall be happy to lend him the "magnificent 

 literai'y article in The Times" upon Oliver Crom- 

 well. Like G. P., I greatly admired the paper ; 

 and was induced, as is my wont, to cut it out, and 

 add it to my other literary treasures. 



E, J. Sage, 



Upper Holloway, N. 



The article on Cromwell appeared January 4, 

 1855. It was headed " Carlyle's Cromwell and 

 Guizot's English Republic and Cromwell." 



H. G. D. 



Casa Bianca (2"^ S. iii. 248. 414.)— As the ac- 

 count of the death of the younger Casa Bianca is 

 given by Alison in his description of the battle of 

 the Nile, and as the authority of a received his- 

 torian is certainly more satisfactory than that of 

 a compiler of anecdotes (I refer to the Percy 

 Anecdotes), I subjoin the extract containing the 

 information which I think your correspondent re- 

 quires : — • 



" Casa Bianca, captain of the 'Orient,' fell mortally 

 wounded, when the flames were devouring that splendid 

 vessel ; his son, a boy of ten years of age, was combating 

 beside him Avhen he was struck, and, embracing his 

 father, resolutely refused to quit the ship, though a gun- 

 boat had come alongside to bring him off. He contrived 

 to bind his dying parent to the mast, which had fallen 

 into the sea, and floated off with the precious charge : he 

 was seen after the explosion by some ef the British 

 squadron, who made the utmost efi'orts to save his life; 

 but in the agitation of the waves following that dreadful 

 event, both were swallowed up and seen no more." 



Eras. W. Rowseli,. 



Admiralty. 



Musical Acoustics (2"* S. iii. 409.) — Mr. Green- 

 wood is informed there is no work of any real 

 value which treats of harmony and acoustics, ex- 

 cept that of Mr. D. C. Hewitt published in 1828. 

 The articles in the Penny Cyclopcedia are perhaps 

 the best of its kind, to which let me add the new 

 edition of the little book by General Thompson. 

 But all these sorts of treatises proceed on the prin- 

 ciple that we may lengthen or shorten' a string 

 where we please, or cut off here and there, and call 



