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[No. 120. 



is clearly unfounded. The not uncommon names 

 of De la Pole, Atte Pole, and Poole, are of English 

 origin ; belonging to the minor class of local cog- 

 nomina, like Brook, Gate, Wood, &c. The family 

 from which the cardinal sprang was wholly distinct 

 from the De la Poles, earls and dukes of Suffolk, 

 and can only be traced for three generations : but 

 the series of" Pedigrees of Noble Families related 

 to the Blood Royal," made, it is believed, by 

 Wriothesley Garter, and printed in the first volume 

 of the Collectanea Topogr. et Genealogica, throws 

 some light upon it. It appears that Sir Richard 

 Pole and Alianor, who was married to Ralph 

 Verney, Esq., and had issue, were the children 

 of Geoffrey Pole of Buckinghamshire by Edith, 

 daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, and half-sister to 

 Margaret, Countess of Richmond, the mother of 

 King Henry VII. Sir Harris Nicolas, who edited 

 the pedigrees in question, remarks upon this 

 alliance : 



" It has been a subject of surprise that Sir Richard 

 Pole, of whom, or of whose family, little was known, 

 should have married Margaret Countess of Salisbury, 

 the last descendant of the Plantagenets. One of these 

 pedigrees proves that Sir Richard Pole was nearly 

 related to the king, which accounts for the fact." 



Sir Harris Nicolas further remarks, that where, 

 in another page of the same manuscript, the arms 

 of Sir Geoffrey Pole (for he was, it seems, a 

 knight) ought to have been inserted, the shield is 

 left blank ; and that the coat which is engraved on 

 the garter-plate of Sir Richard Pole at Windsor, 

 being Party per pale argent and sable, a saltire 

 engrailed counterchanged, appears as if it may 

 have been formed upon the saltire of the Nevilles, 

 in allusion to the great inheritance of his wife, the 

 Lady Margaret of Clarence. J, G, N. 



Sir Gammer Vangs (Vol. ii., pp. 89. 280. 396.). 

 — I have just found some account of this absurd 

 story in Swift's Correspondence, Scott's edition, 

 vol. xvi. p. 306. It seems to have been printed in 

 a pamphlet, a copy of which was sent to the Dean 

 by his friend Mr. Ludlow (Sept. 10, 1718), under 

 the name of Sir Politic Would-be, who gives it 

 sportively (as I always thought it really had) a 

 political meaning, and there seems to have been 

 some allusion in it to the Dean himself. The 

 pamphlet may, perhaps, be found in some of the 

 Irish libraries. C. 



Delighted, Meaning of (Vol. ii., pp. 113. 329.). — 

 A discussion was, some time ago, carried on in the 

 pages of " N. & Q." relative to the signification of 

 the word delighted as used by Shakspeare. The 

 same word occurs in a sense very different from 

 that which it now bears in the "Epistle Dedicatory" 

 (dated 1667) to The City and Country Purchaser 

 and Builder, by Stephen Primatt. The book is 

 dedicated to Sir Orlando Bridgman and " tlie rest 

 of the Justices and Barons appointed for 



Determination of Differences touching Houses 

 burnt down or demolished by reason of the late 

 Fire in London," and the following is the passage 

 alluded to : 



" The truely merited reputation by your Honours 

 equal ballancing the Scales of Justice, hath, and is the 

 daily cause of so many Petitioners to you for the same, 

 especially in the late wisely-erected Court of Judica- 

 ture ; wherein your Honours, by your quick and 

 delighted equitable dispatch of such differences as have 

 come before you, hath sufficiently testified your un- 

 doubted loyalty to our Sovereign Lord the King, and 

 amity to his people," &c. 



R.C.H. 



Stops, when first introduced (Vol. v., p. 1.). — 

 The semicolon had been freely used in England 

 some years before the date (1589) of Puttenham's 

 Arte of English Poesie. If Sir Henry Ellis will 

 turn to the first edition of Archbishop Sandys' 

 Sermons, Sermons made by the most rerierende 

 Father in God, Edwin, Archbishop of Yorke : At 

 London, printed by Henrie Midleton, for Thomas 

 Charde, 1585, he will find semicolons in abundance. 

 I see that the note of interrogation occurs in A 

 Compendiovs and very frvtefvl treatyse teachynge 

 the waye of Dyenge well, by Thomas Lupsete; 

 London, 1541. It is no doubt to be found at an 

 earlier date, but my poor library does not afford an 

 older English book. The same mark, I may add, 

 was used as a note both of interrogation and of 

 exclamation. A. J. H. 



Force of Conscience (Vol. iii., p. 38.). — The 

 relation given by your correspondent J. K. is also 

 to be found in a volume entitled The Providence 

 of God illustrated, 12mo., London, 1836, pp.386, 

 387., in very similar words, but no authority is 

 ijiven. Many anecdotes equally extraordinary are 

 to be found in this work ; it would be very desir- 

 able to authenticate them. 



W. Spabeow Simpson, B.A. 



Monton in Pembroke (Vol. iv., p. 371.). — I have 

 to remark that this mountain, or monton (the 

 meaning of which B. B. finds it difficult to explain), 

 is situated outside the walls of Pembroke on the 

 adjoining hill ; and there is now the remains of a 

 priory in or about the midst to which this village 

 belonged, and that in old deeds it is written 

 Monkton, or Moncton. Perhaps this may solve 

 his difficulty. J- D« 



Catterick for Cattraeth (Vol. iy., p. 453.). —I 

 understand Mr. Stephens to insinuate that Cat- 

 traeth means Catterick, or vice versa. That both 

 names begin with cat, and so much only, I am 

 able to concede. 



Catterick was Cataractonium, or Cataracta, a 

 Latin word of Greek derivation, alluding to the 

 rapids of the Swale. No man can dispute that 

 Cat-traeth is a compound of regular and truly 

 idiomatic formation. Therefore the best meaning 



