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NOTES AND QUEBIES. 



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daughter of Sir John Denham the judge, and 

 sister of Sir John Denhara the poet, and it appears 

 by the parish register at Amersham, that she was 

 buried June 29, 1626, and her husband the 10th 

 of December following. 



The arras of Tothill, as quartered by the Drakes 

 on their monuments in Aofiersham Church, Az. on 

 a bend, arg. cotised, or, a lion passant, sa., were 

 granted in 1563 (by WiUiapi Harvey Clarencieux) 

 to Geoffrey Tothill, Recorder of Exeter : 88 it 

 would therefore appear that William Tothill was 

 descended from the Recorder, I send a pedigree 

 compiled from the Visitations and Westcote's 

 Collections. 



Geoffrey TothiH} of Peamore, co. Devon, Re- 

 corder of Exeter from 1563 to 1574, in which 

 year he probably died ; by his wife Joan, daughter 

 of Robert Dillon of Chimwell, he had three sons, 

 Henry, Robert, and Aris. I^enry, the ehlest, in- 

 herited Peamore, and was Sheriff of Devon in 

 1623 and 1624 ; he married Mary, daughter and 

 heir of Nicholas Spark of Dunsford, and had by 

 her a son Nicholas, who died December 22nd, 

 1622, and was burled at Shillingford, and two 

 daughters, Joane, the wife of Robert Norleigh of 

 Matford, who inherited Peamore, and Grace, the 

 wife of William Tothill of the Middle Temple (her 

 second cousin) ; she died February 24, 1623, aged 

 eighteen, and was buried at Exminster, leaving 

 no issue. 



From a comparison of dates it would appear 

 that William Tothill, of Shardeloes, was a son of 

 either Robert or Aria, and grandson of the Re- 

 corder ; but can any reader of ** N. & Q." say of 

 which, and who bis mother was? John Tuckett. 



35. Hart Street, Bloomsbury. 



" Call me not pale, but fair" (2"'^ S, ji, 431,)-" 

 C. S. G, T. will find the following line in the con- 

 clusion to part the first of Coleridge's Christabel :■ 

 " Her face, Oh call it fair, pot pale," 



J. K. R. W. 



Grace Worthier/ (2"^ S. i. 144.) — Mr. Stein- 

 man will find an account of this unfortunate lady 

 in the introduction to the Diary of the Times of 

 Charles II., edited by R. W, Blencowe in 1843. 

 In one of her letters' addressed to Henry Lord 

 Sidney, p. xxxii. she says : 



« How I wish I were to accompany King William in 

 his progress into Cheshire; that I might once before I 

 die iiuake a visit to the great old wooden house at Stoak, 

 within three n\ilea of Nant^\^ch, where I was born anci 

 bred ; and if your Lordship does attend on the king in 

 his progress, let me beg of you to make a step to Stoak, 

 'tis but fourteen miles from West Chester, and I hear the 

 king goes to Chester. You will find my Cousin, Edward 

 MynshuU, will give you a very generous entertainment, 

 and so will my Cousin Sir Thomas Mainwaring, of Ba- 

 delly ; and Stanley of Houghton, and Chemley of Vale 

 Eoyal; and forty more of my relatives there; if you 

 please to do them the honour of visiting their innocent, 



clownish habitations { and when you have viewed Stoak 

 Hall, where I was born, then I piust beg of your Lord- 

 ship to tell me whether you don't think it was an agree- 

 able portion for me to be attended from your door by a 

 Constable and a Beadle. Gaysworth too will be able to 

 entertain you, that was my great grandfather's ; but my 

 Lord Macclesfield complains that the old house is ready 

 to fall upon his head. I love Gaysworth, because my 

 Mother was born there. I like Stoak as well * ♦ * I 

 wish youv Lordship would incline to do what is reason- 

 able by me, that I might go into Cheshire and there end 

 my days. I should enjoy more happiness in one month 

 in Cheshire, than I have done in all the twenty-five 

 years 1 have miS'Spent in London." 



Perhaps this extract, which I have made from 

 one of her letters, will give Mb. Steinman all the 

 information he wishes for. R. W. B. 



Ormonde Arms on Rochford Church Tower 

 (2""^ S. ii, 418.) — The tradition that this tower 

 was built by an Earl of Ormonde in Henry VII.'s 

 reign is most likely correct ; as Thomas, the 

 seventh Earl of Ormonde, and also Earl of Wilt- 

 shire in England, wag a complete absentee, living 

 on his great possessions in England until his death- 

 The tradition that he was the builder of Rochford 

 Tower is very interesting ; and should there 

 linger other local information about him in the 

 neighbourhood, it would be very desirable that it 

 should be recorded. Replies tq the following 

 Queries will also be very acceptable : -r-^ 



}. Where is to be found a full account of the 

 English possessions of Thomas, Earl of Orraonde, 

 which, after his death, passed tp hi? hws general, 

 the Boleyns and St. Legers ? 



3. What is the Wazou pf the arnis on Roghford 

 Church tower ? Jambs Graves (Clk.) 



ICilkenny, 



The Boomerang (2"^ S. ii. 407. 475.) — In my 

 communication on this subject, I omitted to say 

 that, instead of *'cubitu," which is destitute of 

 meaning, I had adopted " recubitu," as given by 

 Lemaire, on the authority of three of the MSS., a 

 word which is supposed to mean " by a rebound." 

 I say supposed only, because it is in no other in- 

 stance to be fbund. "Adlabi" does not of ne- 

 cessity mean, to move in any particular direction, 

 but simply to move from a point where the object 

 is at rest — in this instance the spot at which it 

 has fallen short of the mark — towards some 

 other point. " Propius " can hardly mean " near 

 the beast aforesaid ; " for a hunter would not be 

 likely to use a weapon a second time, which by 

 moving away from him, without touching the 

 prey, would only entail additional trouble on the 

 thrower. On the other hand, if the staff returned 

 nearer the thrower, than it was at the moment that 

 it stopped short (a thing that the boomerang 

 really does), we can understand its utility as a 

 hunter's weapon. 



There is considerable justice in what T. P. saya 

 as to the ordinary force of " etiamsi ; " still Pliny 



