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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



:[2'"iS. X.July 21. '60. 



Thomas K,. of that Ilk ; his cousin (son of John 

 Rutherfurd of Edzerston, lineally descended from 

 Thomas, second son of James, first Baron of Ed- 

 zerston "), who married Catharine, daughter and 

 heir to Walter Riddle of Minto (by Catharine, 

 sister to Sir John Nisbet of Dirleston). He bore 

 the arms of Riddle and Nisbet quarterly, and his 

 paternal arms of Rutberfurd in surtout. Debrett 

 gives 1724 as the date of extinction of the title. 



Henry W. S. Taylor. 



OupHANT (2"* S. ix. 386. 434.) — In Duchesne's 

 list of Battle Abbey-roll given in the Appendix 

 to Thierry's Norm. Conq. by Hazlitt, 1847, vol. i. 

 p. 419., occurs the name of Olifaunt. Can this 

 be the origin of the modern Oliphant ? It does 

 not appear in either of the lists by Leland given 

 with the above. The variation noticed by your 

 correspondent (p. 434.) is doubtless a misnomer 

 for Oliphant, though with reference thereto it is 

 worthy of remark that the Lords Oliphant of 

 Scotland bore for supporters the cumbrous ap- 

 pendages of two elephants, though neither arms 

 nor crest bear any allusion to the idea conveyed. 

 Burke in his Armory gives one or two instances 

 of crests of families of the name bearing reference 

 to tlie supposed connexion with elephant, for 

 which there seems no countenance afforded by 

 the arms accompanying, which tiniformly are 

 composed of the crescents borne by the ancestor 

 of the house. David de Oliphant, whose seal, ap- 

 pended in witness " to several^donations " (of King 

 David I.) to religious places, particularly in one 

 to the priory of Coldingham, bore three crescents 

 which were most probably of Eastern origin. 



. Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Baptismal Names (2°*^ S. ix. 475.) —Mr. H. 

 W. S. Taylor, writing on the subject of baptis- 

 mal names of rare occurrence, says : — 



" Two at least of the names of Job's three daughters 

 may be occasionallj' seen. I have a faint recollection of 

 once meeting with the third." 



There were recently baptized in' one parish, in 

 Leicestershire, two children, who now rejoice in 

 the name " Kerenhappuch." There is a strange 

 fondness for Scripture names in the place, e. g. 

 Keziah, Eunice, Eber, Tamar, Ezra, Benoni, &c. 

 And of the same family as the Kei^nhappuchs 

 are Coniah, Er, Manoah, Zillah, Drusilla : as also, 

 which rather startled the officiating minister, 

 Ellen Abijah ; for he did not recognise, at first, 

 the latter as the name of a woman in Scripture. 



s. s. s. 



Powell's " Official Handbook to Bray," 

 ETC. (2"* S. ix. 462.) —When the Handbook re- 

 ferred to made its appearance I wrote to the pub- 

 lisher pointing out numerous errors it contains 

 relating to this city ; and I have now merely to 

 repeat that "Southeywaa born at No. 11. Wine 

 Street, Bristol." George Prycb. 



ChurchjTowers (2"'' S. ix. 342.) —The cathe- 

 dral of Exeter has two towers, and they are in 

 the centre, neither over the altar, nor at the west 

 end, but forming the transepts. One of these 

 towers (northern) appears to me larger and higher 

 than the other ; and this I understand is not ac- 

 cidental, but as symbolical of the supremacy of' 

 the spiritual over the temporal power. Is this the 

 case ? If so, I shall be grateful to any corre- 

 spondent of " N. & Q." who will kindly refer me 

 to authority on the subject. A. C. M. 



Centenarianism (2"* S. x. 13.) — In corrobora- 

 tion of the remarks made by J. R., M.D., I instance 

 a case which recently came under my own notice. 

 An old woman who was supposed to be nearly a 

 hundred years old died. Her age at death was 

 given to the registrar of deaths, and was inserted 

 on her coffin as 96 or 97, I forget which. I had 

 the curiosity to inquire into the date of her bap- 

 tism, having previously ascertained that she had 

 been baptized in early infancy. The result of my 

 inquiry proved that her real age at death was by 

 many years short of that which had been stated 

 to the registrar and on the coffin. W. C. 



Elegy on Frederick, Prince of Wales (2""^ 

 S. X. 2. note^ — The following rather different ver- 

 sion is given in Walpole's Memoirs of George the 

 Second, i. p. 504. (quarto edition) : — 



" Here lies Fred, 

 Who was alive and is dead ; 

 Had it been his father, 

 I had much rather : 

 Had it been his brother, 

 Still better than another ; 

 Had it been his sister, 

 No one would have missed her ; 

 Had it been the whole generation, 

 Still better for the nation ; 

 But since 'tis only Fred, 

 Who was alive, and is dead, 

 There's no more to be said." 



R. F. Sketciiley. 



Toads found in Stone (2"^ S. x. 10.)— The 

 last account of this often-cited phenomenon oc- 

 curred at Barking in Essex about ten years ago, 

 where, in taking down a defective pier in the 

 church, a living toad was found in the solid stone. 

 The architecture is Early English, so that the 

 creature must have been in that position at least 

 600 years. Can any reader of " N. & Q." tell me 

 what became of him? It was said one of the 

 clergy kindly took him under his especial protec- 

 tion, and provided him a safe retreat in his garden, 



A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



CoQUELiNER (2""* S. X. 11.) — It is never safe to 

 conclude that a word has not a certain meaning 

 because it is not found in the dictionary we may 

 be in the habit of using, even if it be the Dic- 

 tionnaire de VAcademie. It is absurd to suppose 



