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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



285 



me;" but does not now occur among his papers 

 in the Lansdowne Collection, Query, what has 

 become of it ? John Gough Njchojus. 



Minav €i\xtviti» 



King Bomha. — What is the origin of this 

 sobriquet? and when and by whom was it first 

 applied to the present King of Naples ? J. H. 



Aquaria or Vivaria. — As the favourable season 

 has arrived for commencing an aquarium, will any 

 reader of " N & Q.," who has had experience In 

 such matters, favour one anxious to begin, and to 

 whom expense is an object, with a few hints as to 

 their management? — and tell me, for instance, if, 

 after stocking a marine aquarium (using artificial 

 sea-water), any of the animals die, and the water 

 is poisoned by sulphuretted hydrogen, can I re- 

 cover the salts by evaporation ? and is there any 

 way by which I can rid of the poison, and save the 

 expense of fresh salts ? A. Y. M. 



Abbott Lawrence . — In the obituary eolumns of 

 the Gentleman's Mag. for this month, there is a 

 short memoir on the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, for- 

 merly ambassador to this country from the United 

 States. It asserts that 



" He was descended from John Lawrence, who emi- 

 grated from England with Governor Winthrop in 1630, 

 and took the freeman's oath at Groton, on the 17th April, 

 1637." 



From some very scanty memoranda in my pos- 

 session, it appears that a daughter of Lord Effing- 

 ham married a Mr. Townley, and had issue Mary 

 Townley, who was married to Joseph Lawrence. 

 They had issue John Lawrence, whom I believe to 

 be the individual in question, as this John Law- 

 rence went to America; and it is stated that 

 records at New York confirm the genealogy thus 

 far. I believe these Lawrences originally resided 

 at Chard, in Somersetshire and its immediate 

 neighbourhood. I have been informed that several 

 persons In New York have at difierent times borne 

 the name of Effingham Lawrence. 



As I am particularly interested in tracing the 

 genealogy of this John Lawrence, and also of 

 ascertaining if any of his descendants are living in 

 this country (which I believe to be the case), I 

 should feel greatly obliged to you, or any corre- 

 spondent of " N. & Q." who could either supply 

 me with some information on the subject, or refer 

 me to some source from which I could obtain it. 



E. H. V. 



Bayswater. 



Reporters. — It would be interesting to be fur- 

 nished with a list of the names of the various 

 distinguished individuals who commenced their 



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career as reporters, and who subsequently attained 

 to great literary eminence. Such a list, apart 

 from its general Interest, would act as a stimulant 

 to the study of that most useful, but most neg- 

 lected art, the art of short-hand writing. Btrom. 



Bells at Hedon : Wightman the Bellfounder. 

 — On examining the inscriptions and legends on 

 the bells in Hedon Church, I find on a border of 

 small bells, and leaves cast round one of the bells, 

 a shield between every two, bearing the letters 

 l'^^-^ I shall be obliged if you can give me any 

 imfbrmation as to what is the meaning of these 

 letters, S. S. Is any thing known of AVilliam and 

 Philip Wightman, who appear to have been bell- 

 founders in 1686-7 ? G. E. P. 



Hedon. 



Etymology of He, Ivel, and Yeo. — Will any of 

 your correspondents kindly give me the etymo- 

 logy of lie, Ivel, and Yeo, the names of a river in 

 Somersetshire? X. Y, Z. 



" Treatise on Real Presence." — Who was the 

 author of a book entitled A Treatise showing the 

 Possibilitie, Sfc, of the reall Presence of our Sauiour 

 in the blessed Sacrament? A woodcut In the title. 

 At Antwerp : imprinted by Joachim Trognesius, 

 1596, 8vo. T. G. L. 



Lichfield. 



Vesek, — Can any of your readers tell me the 

 equivalent for this Russian measure of liquids in 

 English measure ? B,. J. A. 



" Essay on Mental Tillage." — Can any of your 

 correspqndents kindly inform me who is the author 

 of the Essay on Mental Tillage, from which the 

 following is an extract ? — 



" Instruct your son well yourself, or others will instruct 

 him ill for you. No child goes altogether untaught. Send 

 him to the school of wisdom, or he will go of himself to 

 the rival academy, kept by the lady with the * cap and 

 bells.' There is always teaching of some sort going on, 

 juat as in fields vegetation is never idle." 



Who is the lady referred to ? and what the 

 origin and explanation of the phrase, " cap and 

 bells " ? Easbt. 



Outram Arms. — What are the arms of Robert 

 Outram of Woodhouse, in Derbyshire? About 

 the beginning of the seventeenth century his 

 daughter married Thomas Eyre, after that mar- 

 riage called Eyre of Woodhouse, by Dronfield. 



V. A. R. 



Calmady and Wescombe Families.^-Wou\d Mb. 

 Ellacombe, or any of your correspondents, 

 kindly give any Information they may possess as 

 to the families of Calmady and Wescombe, with 

 any account of their alliances with each other ? 



Also, who Sir Martin AVescombe, Bart., mar- 



