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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 1. 1855. 



circa 1613, married Frances, daughter to Randal 

 Aldersey of Spurston. GnUlim, p. 398., refers to 

 Visit, de Com. Cest. in Coll Arm., c. 38. fol. 80. B. 



R. J. A. 



" The cold Shade of the Aristocracy r—i:\\\& has 

 become quite a cant phrase lately. Who first used 

 it ? William Fbaser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Rev. Mr. Harwood. — In the English Baronetage, 

 published by T. Wotton in 1741 (vol. i. p. 519.), 

 in the pedigree of the Prideaux of Netherton, it 

 is stateil, that a daujjhter of Sir Peter Prideaux 

 mari'ied the Rev. Mr. Harwood. Sir Peter Pri- 

 deaux married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 

 Bevil Granville, and died in 1705. Can any of 

 your correspondents inform me who this Mr. Har- 

 Tvood was, and what was the Christian name of 

 the lady he married ; and what children, if any, 

 they had ? H. 



Gale and Stukeley Collections. — Can any of 

 your readers inform me what became of the col- 

 lections of antiquities formed by Roger and 

 Samuel Gale, and by their brother-in-law Dr. 

 Stukeley ? Roger Gale's coins went, I am aware, 

 to the public library at Cambridge. A. W. F. 



The Three Martins. — I have seen the follow- 

 ing lines somewhere : 



" Martin the Ape, the Drank, and the Mad, 

 The three Martins are, whose works we have had: 

 Should a fourth Martin come, after JIartins so evil, 

 He'll be neither man nor beast, but Martin the Devil." 



I suppose honest Luther stands for the second. 

 Wlio are the other two ? Martinus Quabtus. 



Bashett. — Wanted, an authentic account of 

 " who was Bashett f^' whose arms are to be found 

 in the General Armoury , British Museum, and which 

 are, " Or, a lion rampant gules, within a bordure 

 sable bezantee." Also, a genealogical account of 

 the family, showing who was the founder of it. 



H. Baschet. 



Waterford. 



Thomas Warton. — In the first volume (p- 49.) 

 of Nicholas Amherst's Terrae Filius, he mentions 

 three productions of Thomas Warton (Professor 

 of Poetry, 1718— 1728,) : — 1. "The Hanover 

 Turnip." 2. " Verses upon the Chevalier's 

 Picture." 3. " Verses upon the Death of the 

 Young Prince." These are not in the collection 

 of his Poems, published in London, 1749. Where 

 are they to be found ? Magdalenbnsis. 



Five Pound Piece of Victoria. — I have heard 

 it stated, that a five pound piece of Victoria was 

 struck, of wliich there are only nine in existence. 

 Can yon inform me of the peculiarities of it, and 

 why so very limited was the number taken ? H. 



No. 318.] 



Meaning of " Leystower — Upon a brass in 

 Chearsley Church, Bucks, is the following in- 

 scription : 



" Here Ij^eth John Frankeleyn, and Margarete hys 

 w^-ff, which ordeyned | leystowe to this chirche, and divine 

 service to be doone every holy day in the yere. A" M" 

 CCCC" Ixijo, on whose soules God haue mercy. Amen." 



What is meant by leystowe f* I have consulted, 

 without success. Lye, Minsheu, Phillips, Bailey, 

 Ash, Nares, and Halliwell. L. A. B. W. 



Playing Tables (Backgammon ?) brought by 

 Pompey from the East. — In a work by Franciscus 

 Patricius, of Senensis, entitled De Regno et Regis 

 Institntione (lib. iii. tit. xii. f. 132., edit. Paris, 

 1567, but originally printed in 1519), is a chapter, 

 " De Calculorum sive Latronum ludo," in which 

 occurs the following passage : 



" Hunc gemmarum ludum, vel gemmam appellari k 

 nonnuUis Latinis constat, in adulationem Cn. Pompeii, ut 

 quidam opinantur, qui in tertio triumpho, quern de piratis, 

 Asia, Ponto, gentibus, regibusque egit, Alveum trans- 

 tulit cum calculis tesseri.sque ex duabus gemmis, latum 

 tres pedes, longum pedes quatuor. Gemmei quoque erant 

 calculi, diverso inter se colore discreti." 



No authority is given for this statement re- 

 specting the playing tables brought by Pompey 

 from the East ; but, probably, some of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." may be able to supply the name of 

 the classical writer from whom Patricius has taken 

 the above passage. m- 



Sir James Lowthers Man-of-War. — I re- 

 member to have lieard that during the American 

 war. Sir James Lowther, Bart., M.P., made an 

 offer to the government that he would buihl a 

 third-rate man-of-war of seventy-four guns, equip 

 and provide her in every respect at his own and 

 sole expense, to be at the disposal of the Admi- 

 ralty for the service of his country. If any reader 

 of " N. & Q." can state when and where this most 

 patriotic proposal was made, and if it were accepted 

 and carried into effect, I beg he will do so. I have 

 understood it was surmised that in consequence 

 of this magnificent offer, Mr. Pitt, then Chan- 

 cellor of the Exchequer, about the close, or 

 shortly after the American war, recommended 

 His Majesty George III. to elevate the baronet to 

 the peerage as Earl of Lonsdale ; but as probable 

 a conjecture may be, that Sir James being son-in- 

 law to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, might have 

 occasioned his being exalted to an earldom. 



QuiESITUS. 



Leamington. 



Frith Silver. 

 silver ? 



What is the meaning of frith 

 C. Makszield Ingleby. 



•[* Maj' not this be the word Uestover of the Magna 

 Charta, ch. vii., meaning necessary sustenance? See also 

 Du Cange, in voce Estovcrium, in the first meaning, Siis- 

 tenlatio rationabilis.'\ 



