Dec. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the whereabouts of this ancient baronial structure. 

 He states that he has for several years been fruit- 

 lessly anxious to learn some little regarding the 

 condition of an edifice designated by our great 

 heraldic authority, the learned and judicious 

 Nisbet, " an ancient monument of arms," and to 

 which, in the first volume of his Heraldry, he 

 makes reference upwards of twenty times in illus- 

 tration of the armorial bearings of as many barons, 

 " illuminated," to use his own expression, " in the 

 House of Falahall." AV. D. does not appear to 

 have received any answer through the source of 

 his inquiry, and he truly remarks that it seems 

 strange that every reminiscence of the heraldic 

 splendour of a fabric, which may be reasonably 

 supposed to have been entire for nearly half a 

 century after it was so strikingly characterised by 

 Nisbet in 1722, should have been altogether 

 blotted out of the memory of the oldest inha- 

 bitant. I should be glad if any of the corre- 

 spondents of " N. & Q." could throw any light on 

 this apparently dark subject. Aberdoniensis. 



Lord HurUitigdon. — Horace Walpole, in one of 

 his letters, says, " By as many ways as my Lord 

 Pluntingdon is descended from Edward HI." How 

 many ways was that ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



The Folger Family. — Dr. Franklin, in a letter 

 from London to one of his relatives, informs him 

 that there are no arms of this family in the Heralds' 

 College ; adding his belief that they were of 

 Flemish origin, and came to England in the time 

 of Queen Elizabeth, to escape persecution for their 

 religion. 



The recent mention in "N. & Q." of Flemish 

 settlements upon the borders of Wales, leads me 

 to inquire if there are any persons of the name of 

 Folger among them. The name is pronounced 

 Fole-jur, with the accent on the first syllable. 



D. TV. 



Philadelphia. 



Maiulies, Manillas. — In Hostus de Rei Num- 

 maricE, 1695, torn. i. p. 49., occurs the following 

 passage : 



" Nigrltse Libya; populi e plumbo candido nummos 

 signant, quos Maiulies nominant. Similiter habitatores 

 insuIfB Taprobanes." 



I can find no authority for the first statement, 

 and wish to know if any of your readers are better 

 informed on the subject. I know that in Kor- 

 dofan, and elsewhere in Africa, an iron currency 

 is used. Can the name given above be an error 

 for Manillas ? These manillas, however, are now 

 made either of iron, or of an alloy of copper and 

 iron. (Dr. Wilson's Arcliceology, p. 309. ; Hum- 

 phrey's Ancient Coins, p. 16.) W. H. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Bibliography of Hampshire. — If any of your 

 correspondents could direct me to a Bibliography 

 of Hampshire, or to any accessible collections, 

 topographical or antiquarian, relating to that 

 county, it would be esteemed and acknowledged 

 as a great service. Norfolk has had done for it, 

 by my father, and his friend Mr. W. C. Ewing, 

 what I fear no other county can boast, — its biblio- 

 graphy up to some dozen years ago collected with 

 care, and published in a volume, the bulk of which 

 is some measure of its worth, to those whom it 

 concerns. B. B. Woodwakd. 



St. John's Wood. 



'■''Man cannot build.'''' — Who was the author of 

 some lines which a few years ago appeared in 

 the Reading Gazette, without signature, com- 

 mencing, — 

 « Man cannot build a temple worthy of his Maker. 

 From noble Solomon's stupendous fane, 

 Down to the humble chapel of the Quaker, 

 All, all is vain!" 



E. G. F. 



Tenure by Drengage. — Mr. Worsaae, at p. 158. 

 of The Danes and Northmen, ranks drenges with 

 " other landed proprietors or agriculturists." Will 

 he be so good as to state the precise nature of the 

 tenure by drengage, as near as can be made out ? 



There exists an opinion that it was a mixed 

 tenure, half- predial, half-personal : i.e. part of the 

 services to be rendered were to be discharged^ in 

 cultivating the land ; other part in personal duties, 

 as finding or keeping a greyhound, going on mes- 

 sages, &c. ; differing slightly from villenage. 



J. C. 



Martial Law. — What is martial law, properly 

 so called ? What its powers ? its forms, if any ? 

 And are all crimes subject to the cognizance of a 

 military court, when martial law is proclaimed ? 



J. M. A. 



Coleridge's Additions to " Aids to Reflection." — 

 In Sara Coleridge's Introduction to her illustrious 

 father's Biog. Literaria [Pickering], p. cxxxix., 

 we read : 



" But what mere speculative reason cannot oblige us 

 to receive, the moral and spiritual within us may. 

 This is the doctrine of the ^ids 1o Reflection ; I believe 

 that my father, in his latter years, added something to 

 it, on the subject of ideas, which will appear I trust 

 hereafter." 



Has this " something" ever been published? If 

 not, who has the MS. ? C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



Meaning of Lyde. — You will oblige me by in- 

 serting the following Query in your valuable me- 

 dium of literary inter-communication. What is 

 the etymology and meaning of the word "Lyde ?" 



