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graving under the celebrated Sharpe, and many 

 of his works in that line are excellent. The sign 

 is very well painted, but time and the elements 

 are telling upon it. R. W. B. 



Lord Fane : Count de Sails (2"^ S. viii. 186.)— 

 A reference to Sir Bernard Burke's Peerage (Ap- 

 pendix, Foreign Noblemen) supplies the infor- 

 mation Mr. Redmond desires. He will there find 

 that Jerome, second Count de Salis, married in 

 Jan. 1735, the Hon. Mary Fane, eldest daughter 

 of Charles Viscount Fane, by whom he was an- 

 cestor of the present Count. 



This lady, on the decease, without issue, of her 

 brother Charles, last Viscount Fane, in 1772, suc- 

 ceeded to the estates of the Fane family in Ireland, 

 and her grandson Jerome, Count de Salis (a J. P. 

 and T). L. for Armagh and Middlesex), obtained 

 in Dec. 1835 a royal licence permitting him to 

 assume the name of Fane in addition to that of 

 De Salis, as the inheritor of the estates and next 

 male representative of Charles, last Viscount 

 Fane. 



On the same authority we find (vide Cleve- 

 land) that William, younger son of Sir Chris- 

 topher Vane, Knight, created Lord Barnard, 

 "was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, 13 Oct. 

 1720, as Baron Duncannon and Viscount Vane, 

 honours which expired with his lordship's son and 

 successor, William, second Viscount, in 1789." 



These two accounts differ both in the Christian 

 names of the peers (as to the sirname, it is written 

 Fane or Vane indifferently), and in the date of 

 the extinction of the peerage. 



On the former point I find in the Liber Mune- 

 rum Hiberniae an abstract of the creation of — 



" William Vane, Esq. (younger son of Christopher, the 

 first Lord Bernard in England) — 



" Title — Viscount Vane in Ireland. 



" Privy Seal, St. James's, June 12th, 1720 ; Patent, 

 Dublin, Sept. 13, 1720." 



On the other hand, I find it stated in Collins's 

 Peerage by Brydges, vol. iv., that a sister of 

 James, first Earl Stanhope, married Charles Fane, 

 Esq., of Basleton, co. Berks, who was created 

 Lord Viscount Fane and Baron of Longhuyre 

 (sic), in the co. Limerick, in 1719. 



How are these variations to be explained ? I 

 believe an account of extinct Irish peerages is 

 still a genealogical desideratum. 



John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Bartholomew Cokes (2"^ S. viii. 187.)— Your 

 correspondent will find, among the dramatis per- 

 sonce of Bartholomew Fair, " Bartholomew Cokes, 

 an Esquire at Harrow." A glance at the play 

 (e. g. Act I. Sc. 5. ; Act II. Sc. 4. and 5.) would 

 soon convince R. B. P. that B. Cokes, Esq. is a 

 very good representative of an empty-headed, vain 

 simpleton. Probably Crowne borrowed the word 

 from this play. Libya. 



The Termination ^^-hat/ne" (2"* S. viii. 171.) — 

 Your querist may be assured that the instances of 

 the termination " -hayne," as applied to the names 

 of homesteads, is to be found in many other parts 

 of the county of Devon, as well as around Sid- 

 mouth. It cannot, therefore, have any reference 

 to the occupants of Blackbury camp, I take it, 

 like the termination "-layes," which is equally 

 common, to be the plural of the word hay, than 

 which there is no ending to the names of farms 

 used more frequently in the county. Hay is the 

 Anglo-Saxon hege, a hedge, fence, or enclosure, 

 and is in daily use in the more secluded parts of 

 the north of Devon. A hedge and its two ditches 

 are there called the " hay and ditchen," J. D. S. 



It would have been desirable to know all those 

 names ending in -hayne. In the few which are 

 mentioned, this termination appears to be of 

 Saxon origin ; and I have little doubt that it is 

 a contraction of the Ang.-Sax. hagan, or hagum, 

 nomin. or dat. plur. of haga, which means a 

 thorn, a fence, a fenced piece of land. This de- 

 rivation becomes more plausible if we bear in 

 mind that the German Hain, which also occurs 

 as the second part of compound names of 

 places, is likewise a contraction of the Middle 

 High German hagen'=a. thorn, a hedge, an abatis, 

 which latter signification may perhaps also be ad- 

 mitted for the Anglo-Saxon haga, being particu- 

 larly convenient for localities in the neighbourhood 

 of an ancient castle. G. D, 



Weapon-salve (2"'^ S. viii. 190.) — I have much 

 pleasure in attempting still farther to satisfy 

 Professor De Morgan on the authorship of the 

 Discours. The title of the French work does not 

 in any way indicate the seat of the " celebre assem- 

 blee" before which the lecture was pronounced. 

 But, at p. 69., speaking of the amazing ductility 

 of gold, the author thus expresses himself : — 



" II est constant que par ce moyen, ce petit bouton 

 d'or peut estre tant ^tendu qu'il arrivera de cette Ville de 

 Montpellier h. Paris, et pourra meme passer au delk" 



The translator. White, at p. 49. of my copy, 

 thus renders the original : — 



" Let us do the like to all the rest of the beaten gold, 

 it will appear by this means this small button of gold 

 may be so extended, that it may reach from this city of 

 Montpellier to Paris, and far beyond it." 



In the " Information to the Knowing Reader," 

 prefixed to the translation, White says, " This 

 discourse was made lately (&:c.) in one of the most 

 famous academies of France;" and the passage 

 above cited would, without farther evidence, jus- 

 tify the announcement on the title of " Mont- 

 pellier" as the academy in question. Digby 

 himself may not have sanctioned the publication 

 of his lecture ; still less have superintended the 

 work. White, however, states in the same " In- 

 formation," that the facts and opinions " were . 



