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peerage ; one as baron ; three as viscounts, the 

 last dying in 1762, without offspring. The family, 

 however, is represented through a female by the 

 present Earl of VVinchilsea and Nottingham, whose 

 ancestor, Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham 

 and sixth Earl of Winchilsea, married Anne, the 

 daughter of Christopher Viscount Hatton (son of 

 the first lordj. Mk. Hopper's reference to Dug- 

 dale being employed by Lord Hatton reminds me 

 of the following passage in Pepys : — 



" 28th November, 1661. ... To the Chancellor's, 

 and there met with Mr. IJugdale; and with him and 

 one Mr. Simons (I think that belongs to my Lord 

 Hat ton) and Mr. Kipps and others, to the Fountaine 

 Tavern." 



How they passed their time there, may be guessed 

 from the opening words of the entry for the next 

 day : " 29th. I lay long in bed." In the Fairfax 

 Correspondence (Bentley, 1849) some additional 

 traits of Hatton's character will be found, as illus- 

 trated by his quarrel with Sir Richard Browne. 

 The details of this quarrel show how difficult it is to 

 write history, even upon contemporary evidence. 



J. DORAN, F.S.A. 



Irish Knights (2°^ S. x. 27.) — The opinion 

 alluded to by Abhba was one given upon an ex- 

 parte statement. The law officers of Ireland, upon 

 a fuller statement of facts, gave an opposite 

 opinion, and the result was a case to the judges, 

 by an order (I think) in council. The judges 

 were all unanimous that the Lord Lieutenant had 

 the power before the Union, and retained it sub- 

 sequently to the Union with England. See the 

 opinion printed in Nicolas's Hist, of the Orders of 

 Knighthood, vol. i.. Introduction, p. xiii. xiv. 



The expression Irish knights is an absurdity. 

 Knighthood is an honour universal, and anyone 

 knighted by the Lord Lieutenant is a knight bache- 

 lor everywhere. G. 



"Mors Mortis Morti" (2"* S. ix. 513.)— I 

 forward another version : — 



" Had not the Death of death to death death by death 

 given, 

 Closed on us had been the gate of life and heaven ! " 



The Cambridge Tart mentions these lines as 

 having been found among Porson's papers ; but 

 adds that their authorship is doubtful. 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Solent, Swale, and Solway Firth (2"'' S. x. 

 6.): (^Qy . properly '■^ Frith, a Fretumf") — Though 

 rather sceptical as regards the first two — that the 

 derivation of a name in the case of the somewhat 

 prevailing element of water is to be looked for in 

 that of earth, as " soil " or " sully," &c., I am not 

 in a position at present to advance anything defi- 

 nite otherwise. It is different, however, as re- 

 spects our Cumberland estuary of the Solway : 

 though certainly containing in its broad expanse 

 a dangerous sand-bank or two, such as " Kobin 



llig," &c., they are pure sand from the flow of the 

 Atlantic, and partake in no degree of "soil" or 

 " sully," &c., or their synonyms. It has surprised 

 me to see a similar derivation, of such a modern 

 aspect too, attributed to the Frith by local ety- 

 mologists also of some repute. Its shores at ebb- 

 tide show perhaps the greatest extent of clear, 

 hard, pure sand of any locality in the kingdom. 

 We must look to a classical source for the origin 

 of the name of " Solway." It is no doubt derived 

 from the " Selgovae," one of the most considerable 

 of the Caledonian tribes (whether Pictish or 

 British), who inhabited and possessed its northern 

 shore. This is also the learned Dr. Prichard's 

 opinion, Phys. Hist, of Man, vol. iii. p. 153 : " The 

 Selgovag .... to the north of the Solway, which 

 preserves their name." The philological affinity 

 of " g " and " w " is of course one of the com- 

 monest. A peculiar and deeply-indented bay in 

 its sea-line, into which both the Waver and Wam- 

 pool empty themselves, might have been expected 

 to haye borne such a name ; but, on the contrary, 

 the " ocean " element only is preserved in it. It 

 is " Moricamb " Bay — " Mor-i-camb," the turn- 

 ing, twisted, or indented " sea." So also its larger 

 and more southern namesake " Moricamb " Bay 

 near Lancaster, though it undoubtedly exhibits 

 extensive mud banks at ebb, either from the pe- 

 culiar formation of its flat shallow bed, or the 

 wash of the rivers Kent and Winster, or both 

 causes. Frecheville L. B. Dykes. 



Rutherford Family (2°"* S. ix. 403. ; x. 18.) 

 — The pedigree of the Lords Rutherfurd, extinct 

 peers of Scotland, is given by Nichols in his 

 Compend. (vol. ii. p. 478., ed. 1729), and I beg 

 to offer the following summary for the informa- 

 tion of your correspondent Alpha. The account 

 commences with " Sir Robert de Rutherfurd, who, 

 in the English war in the reign of King Edward 

 I., eminently appeared in the interest of his coun- 

 try." James Rutherfurd of that Ilk, temp. Jac. 

 II., obtained a charter of the Barony of Edzer- 

 ston ; he married Margaret Erskine, and had two 

 sons, Richard (who died vita patris) and Thomas ; 

 Richard left another Richard (who died issueless), 

 and two daughters ; the eldest, Helen, married 

 Andrew Rutherfurd of Hunthill, son of William 

 Rutherfurd of Quarreholl (by Isabel, daughter to 

 James Steuart, Earl of Traquair), who was created 

 by King Charles II. Baron *, and afterwards Earl 

 of Teviot, and dying 1664, «. p. that title expired. 

 The Barony of Rutherfurd by his last will de- 

 volved upon three brothers of the House of Hunt- 

 hill, the two eldest of whom (Sir Thomas and 

 Archibald) died s. p. The youngest, Robert, 

 " made over the estate, title, and arms (by disposi- 

 tion with a procuratory resignation) in favour of 



* " With Limitation of the Honour to his Heir, As- 

 signs, or whomsoever he should name," 



