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Simon Drew; and that he conveyed his part to 

 the said Simon Drew at a fee-farm rent of 21*. 

 per ann., and reserving to Sir Wm. Esturmy a 

 right of way under the stone front. Blomefield 

 farther states that Lady Alice de'Boyland was 

 probably wife or mother of Sir Richard Boyland, 

 the judge; and that Wm. de Esturmy was at that 

 time Keeper of the city of Norwich for the king. 

 Is anything farther known of these circumstances ? 

 Alan Henry Swatman. 

 Althorp Household Books. — In the Appen- 

 dix to the interesting tale of The Washingtons, 

 Mr. Simpkinson has printed copious extracts from 

 the Althorp Household Books, which afford a 

 wonderfully clear insight into the mode of house-, 

 keeping in a nobleman's country-house at the be- 

 ginning of the seventeenth century. Among the 

 preparations for the royal visit to Althorp in 1634, 

 the following payments are entered (App. p. 

 xxi.) : — 



" To the musick of Daventree, 21. ; to the Harpers for 

 their rewarde, 21. ; to the Ines truinpe, Is." 



Can any reader of "N. & Q." explain this last 

 entry ? The editor, in a note, says : — 



" Inn's trump ? Was this article and functionary a re- 

 gular part of the establishment of an Inn ? " 



It was suggested to the editor by a correspon- 

 dent that the words might be Jewe's trumpe. 

 "Jew's harp" is still so called in Scotland. But 

 it seems that the word in the MS. is unmistakably 

 Ines. 



A decisive contradiction of the story about the 

 knighting of the loin of beef by Charles II. oc- 

 curs at p. xlvi. : — 



" Jan. 162§. For a S' loin, a rumpe, a buttocke, 2 

 necks, and a rond of beef." 



Where is the epigram of four lines to be found 

 (I cannot quote them correctly) which states this 

 knighting to have taken place ? * Jaydbe. 



George III. and Hannah Lightfoot. — Dr. 

 Doran, at the commencement of his Life of Queen 

 Charlotte, in his amusing Lives of the Queens of 

 England, refers to the stofy of George III.'s early 

 marriage with Hannah Lightfoot, a Quakeress. As 

 the story is there told, the marriage was cele- 

 brated in 1759, at the Curzon Street Chapel, by 

 the Rev. Alexander Keith, with George's brother, 

 the Duke of York, as a witness ; and it is stated 

 that children were born of the marriage, and that 

 after a time the Quakeress wife was got rid of 

 "by espousing her to a gentle Strephon named 

 Axford, who, for a pecuniary consideration, took 

 Hannah to wife, and asked no impertinent ques- 

 tions." What truth is there in this story r If 

 this marriage were really celebrated, would it not 

 have been a valid marriage, being prior to the 

 Royal Marriage Act ? I have heard that a son 



[* See "N. & Q." !«' S. ii. 332.— Ed,] 



born of this marriage was sent, while a child, to 

 the Cape of Good Hope, with the name of George 

 Ilex, and that he still lives there, and bears this 

 name.* Inquirer. 



" History of Robespierre." — Who was the 

 author of an octavo (pp. 136.) entitled The His- 

 tory of Robespierre, Political and Personal, Sfc, 

 London, 1794 ? And what authority is there for 

 stating, as in p. 2,, that this detestable monster 

 was at one time " in so low a situation as porter 

 in a shop in Dublin" ? Abhba. 



Sir Thomas Williams. — Can any correspon- 

 dent say to what family Sir Thomas Williams be- 

 longed ? styled in a document, 1st Sep. 31 Eliz., 

 " of Tintern in the county of Wesheford (Wex- 

 ford) in the realm of Ireland." He died 12th 

 Aug. 1591, and left six sisters his coheiresses, and 

 was possessed of a considerable property in Mon- 

 mouthshire, where the name is common; and it 

 might be inferred that he was a native of the 

 county, but no such person appears in any pedi- 

 gree of the various families of the name connected 

 with it. T. W. 



Heraldic Visitations op Irish Counties. — 

 Are thei'e extant any heraldic visitations of coun- 

 ties in Ireland besides the one of Wexford, which 

 was made, in the year 1618, by Sir Daniel Moly- 

 neux, Ulster King-at-Arms, some of whose genea- 

 logical and topographical MSS. are in the library 

 of Trinity College, Dublin? And if so, where 

 are they deposited ? Abhba. 



Verneb and Lammie or L'Amys Families. — 

 Information wanted as to the time the Verners of 

 Church Hill, co. Armagh, settled in Ireland, and 

 from whence they came ? Also the Lammies, or 

 L'Amys, who settled at Raphoe, co. Donegal? 

 — one of whom (tradition says) was Bishop of 

 Raphoe, in said county. Where did they come 

 from ? C. Lammie Vernbe. 



Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, America. 



Joseph Scaliger. — In Sir William Hamilton's 

 Lectures on Metaphysics (vol. i. p. 259.), he says, 

 in speaking of the power of abstraction, that 



" Joseph Scaliger, the most learned of men, when a 

 Protestant student in Paris, was so engrossed in the study 

 of Homer, that he became aware of the massacre of St. 

 Bartholomew, and of his own escape, only on the day 

 subsequent to the catastrophe." 



In the Quarterly Review for July, the critique 

 on Jacob Bernays' Life of Scaliger says (p. 50.) : — 



" On the 22nd of the fatal month of August, 1572, 

 Scaliger, who happened to be at Lyons on business, re- 

 ceived notice to meet Monluc at Strasburg. He set off, 

 taking the route through Switzerland, and slept at Lau- 



[* Is there not some mistake here? for, supposing the 

 son to have been born in 1760, he would now be a cente- 

 narian. Is the George Rex referred to the son of an 

 older George Rex ? — Ed,] 



