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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2'»<i S, VIII. Dkc. 17. -oO- 



« while withdrawn. He was then reduced to 

 grisat poverty, and was glad to accept the office of 

 bdrrack-master. After that he returned to this 

 country, and settled in Vernon Place, Bloomsbury 

 Square. He was unfortunately knocked down and- 

 run over by a cari-iage at the corner of Southamp- 

 ton Street, and killed, December 20, 1814, leaving 

 a widow destitute, two sons, and a daughter. 



Can you give me any information concerning 

 those sons or their descendants ? Bkistoliensis. 



Captain Thomas Rudd. — Can any of your 

 readers supply me with the date and places of 

 death and burial of this officei', or any particulars 

 of his services and history ? By the Army List 

 he seems to have been appointed chief engineer 

 July 4, 1627, which office he retained, very pro- 

 bably, till the death of Charles I. In 1650 he 

 published a work called Practical Geometry in 

 two parts; and in 1651 Euclid's Elements of Oeo- 

 metry ; in both of which he styles himself " Chief 

 Engineer to his late Majesty." M. S. R. 



Snuffboxes in Memoriam of Rohert Emmett. — 

 A friend has lately shown me a snuffbox, made of 

 box-wood, in the fashion of a coffin, with a death's 

 head and cross-bones inlaid in ivory on the im- 

 moveable part of the lid. He has informed me, 

 on the information of others, that the snuffboxes 

 of which this is one, were conceived and made at 

 Dublin on the occasion of the execution of Robert 

 Emmett, and were greedily bought by the friends 

 of that agitator, and the enemies of the existing 

 government. 



Is this information correct? Can any reader 

 of " N^. & Q." give me any farther light upon this 

 subject ? H. C. C. 



The Murder of Sir Roger Beler, and the Laws 

 of Chivalry. — On the 29th of January, 1326, Sir 

 Roger Beler, of Kirby-Belers in this county, one 

 of the Barons of the Exchequer, was waylaid and 

 murdered, when on his way to Leicester, by his 

 neighbour Sir Eustace deFolville, between whom 

 a deadly feud existed, or rather on the part of the 

 latter against the former. 



Sir Roger was killed on the spot ; but in the 

 aflfray Sir Eustace was wounded with an arrow 

 by one of the Judge's attendants, which caused 

 his death shortly afterwards. 



Alicia, the widow of De Beler, prosecuted the 

 appeal of murder ; and the king granted a com- 

 mission of oyer and terminer for the trial of the 

 offenders ; all the survivors, however, fled the 

 country, and escaped the penalty of the crime in 

 which they had participated. 



The two deceased knights were interred in the 

 south aisle of their respective churches of Kirby- 

 Belers and Ashby-Folville, in which their tombs 

 may yet be seen ; their effigies, in alabaster, 

 being almost identical in design. Sir Roger Be- 



ler is represented as clad from head to foot in the 

 rich and picturesque armour of the period, whilst 

 on his surcoat appears the outline of a lion ram- 

 pant (argent), his heraldic device. He wears a 

 jewelled girdle, but neither shield, sword, nor 

 dagger; whilst above the tomb are suspended 

 portions of his funeral atchievemeut, consisting of 

 helmet and crest, and a gauntlet and spur, but no 

 offensive weapons. 



In like manner no weapons are represented on 

 the tomb of Sir Eustace de Folville, whilst the 

 fragments of his helmet form the only part of his 

 funeral. atchievemeut now remaining. 



I seek to be informed why both the knights 

 should be represented as unarmed. I can under- 

 stand why Sir Eustace de Folville, as a felon and 

 a convicted murderer, should, by the laws of chi- 

 valry, be thus degraded by being deprived of his 

 arms ; but why is his victim similarly represented, 

 with the exception of the heraldic device on his 

 surcoat? William Kelli. 



Leicester. 



" The Load of Mischief" — Can any of your 

 readers explain a sign once in the city of Norwich, 

 termed " The Load of Mischief ? " 



It represented a man carrying his drunken wife 

 on his shoulders, who has a bottle in one hand, a 

 glass in the other, with a monkey on her shoulders 

 and a magpie on her head. X. Y. 



E. Farrer. — Can you give me any biographical 

 particulars regarding E. Farrer, a gentleman of 

 Oundle, who published The Trial of Abraham, a 

 dramatic poem, 1790, 8vo. ? Was the author of 

 the same family as Nicholas Ferrar (or Farrer), 

 the friend of George Herbert ? R. Inglis. 



Lopez de Vega. — Who is the translator of 

 Romeo and Jidiet, a comedy written originally in 

 Spanish by that celebrated dramatic poet, Lopez 

 de Vega, 8vo., 1770. (London ?) R. Inglis. 



Minav ^autrtei taitb ^n^trS. 



" Puppy-Pie.'' — What is the origin of the slang 

 question which is said so especially to infuriate 

 bargees on the Thames, viz., " Who ate the puppy 

 pie under Marlow Bridge ? " P. J. W. 



[A gentleman residing at Marlow, whose larder was 

 occasionally robbed bj' the " bargees," had a puppy-pie 

 prepared, and planted as a trap. The larder was again 

 assailed, and the pie carried off and eaten with great re- 

 lish under Marlow Bridge on board a barge. Hence the 

 galling interrogatorj", " Who ate the puppy-pie under 

 Marlow Bridge? " At some parts of the river we under- 

 stand the question is, " Who ate the cat ? " Where Father 

 Thames flows by Cookham in Berkshire, the inquiry ad- 

 dressed to the bargees is peculiar : — " Has he got his 

 shoonon?" (Shoon = shoes.) The facts are these. It 

 having been remarked that the bargees were " after " a 

 calf grazing in the churchyard, the calf was withdrawn 



