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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



r2ndS. N'ST^JuLS-S. '56. 



Monson Township in Massachusetts. — Among 

 the intelligent contributors on the other side of 

 the Atlanuc to "N. & Q," some one may be able 

 to explain whence originated the name of Monson 

 Township in Massachusetts. Some members of 

 a younger (Catholic) branch of the Monson family 

 are believed to have emigrated to the United 

 States about 160 years ago, and the name is said 

 to be not uncommon there. Are any particulars 

 known of their early colonial lineage, or could 

 they be obtained from provincial histories or any 

 documents like parochial registers ? Monson. 



Gatton Park. 



Germination of Seeds long buried. — It has been 

 stated that botanists have discovered new varieties, 

 and even new plants, in railway cuttings, from 

 seeds which had long been buried having ger- 

 minated on exposure to the air and light. Where 

 can an account of such plants be seen ? And 

 what plants have been noticed ? E. M. 



Oxford. 



Allow. — What is the meaning of this word in 

 the Baptismal Service — " and nothing doubting 

 but that He favourably alloweth this charitable 

 work of ours," &c. 



The Church does not teach that infant baptism 

 is merely a thing allowed or permitted, but that 

 it is commanded. In Romans vii. 15. ov yivdxTKu 

 is rendered by the authorized version, "I allow 

 not," and by Moses Stuart, " I disapprove." Again 

 in Luke xi. 48., avuivSdKeirs is rendered, "ye allow." 

 Many instances might be brought to show that 

 allow formerly had the meaning approve, or ap- 

 plaud. Two occur closely together in Latimer's 

 Sermons (ed. Parker Society), p. 176. : " Ezekias 

 did not follow the steps of his father Ahaz, and 

 was well allowed in it." And again, p. 177. 

 " Much less we Englishmen, if there be any such 

 in England, may be ashamed. I wonder with 

 what conscience folk can hear such things and 

 allow it." Of course in this sense the word is de- 

 rived from ad, and laudare. E. G. R. 



Butler Posse.ssions in Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, 

 and Essex. — In 13 Hen. IV. Sir William Butler, 

 on his son's marriage with his wife Isabella, 

 settled a moiety of East and West Grafton and 

 Woolton, in Wiltshire ; a moiety of the manor of 

 Stoppesley (near Luton), called Halynges, in 

 Bedfordshire ; a moiety of the manor of Chalk- 

 well in Essex ; and a messuage called Houghton's, 

 and one hundred acres of land, and twenty acres 

 of pasture, with the appurtenances, in Berdfield 

 in the same county. These possessions occur in 

 family deeds of the Butlers in 9th, 19th, and 31st 

 Hen. VI., 20 Rdw. IV., and 14 Hen. VIL All of 

 them, except perhaps Stoppesley, appear to have 



been originally a portion of the possessions of the 

 great family of Clare ; and the IButlers, who held 

 them as mesne lords, probably acquired them by 

 the marriage of some co-heiress. Any of your 

 readers acquainted with county history will confer 

 a favour by stating how and when the Butlers 

 acquired the above properties. B. 



Cor.sican Brothers : Nicholas and Andrew Tre- 

 maine. — In the Church of Lamerton, near Tavi- 

 stock, are the effigies of Nicholas and Andrew 

 Tremaine, twin brothers, born in that parish, of 

 whom it is related that not only were they so 

 alike in person that their familiar acquaintances 

 could not always distinguish them apart, but that 

 an extraordinary sympathy existed between them, 

 for even when at a distance from each other they 

 performed the same functions, had the same appe- 

 tites and desires, and suffered the same pains and 

 anxieties at the same time. They were killed to- 

 gether at Newhaven in 1663.* 



Can any of your correspondents authenticate 

 these, or furnish any further particulars relating 

 to these individuals ? Under what circumstances 

 did they die ? R. W. Hackwood. 



Reginald Bligh, of Queen's College, Cambridge 

 (B.A. 1779), was an unsuccessful candidate fi» a 

 Fellowship in that College, and published a 

 pamphlet on the subject. Information is re- 

 quested as to his subsequent career. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Rev. Charles Hotham, originally of Christ's 

 College, Cambridge, and afterwards Fellow of 

 Peterhouse, published various works between 

 1648 and 1655. We shall be glad of further par- 

 ticulars respecting him, especially the date of his 

 death, and the place of his sepulture. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Thomas Hood, M.D., sometime Fellow of Tri- 

 nity College in Cambridge, and afterwards teacher 

 of the mathematics in London, published various 

 works in and previously to 1598. Is the date of 

 his death known ? C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



Lawn Billiards. — In my young days, when this 

 game was introduced, it was called Troco. To 

 what country does this name belong ? Not to 

 Morocco, where the game is played, with some 

 deviation in the form of the stick or cue. 



F. C. B. 

 Diss. 

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[* These twins are noticed in our 1'' S. xi. 84., but the 

 date of their deaths is there given as in 15G2. To avoid 

 recapitulations, we would recommend our correspondents 

 to consult the General Index to our First Series previously 

 to forwarding their communications.] 



