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of wedlock have been legitimatised, on the mar- 

 riage of their parents, by being placed beneath 

 the mother's apron, and having the string tied 

 over them, during the ceremony. 



Perhaps some of your correspondents can give 

 information as to whether such a provision does, 

 or did, exist in the Scotch marriage law. 



F. H. Beett. 



Wirksworth. 



^^ Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,'" 

 (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 72.). — These lines will be found 

 in Act I. Sc. 1. of J. P. Kemble's comedy of The 

 Panel, which is an alteration from BickerstafTs 

 comedy of Ti* Well Ifs No Worse. Not having 

 access to the original comedy, I am unable to say 

 to which of the two authors the lines should be 

 given ; but I presume them to be Kemble's. 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Burial-place of Spinosa (Vol. vi., p. 510.). — 

 Spinosa died at the Hague on Sunday, 23rd Fe- 

 bruary, 1677, and was on the following Tuesday 

 interred in the new church there. See his life by 

 Colerus : 



" Le corps fut porte en teire le 25 Fevricr, accom- 

 pagn6 de plusieurs personnes illustres. et suivi de six 

 carosses. An retour de Tenter rem ent, qui se fit dans 

 la nouvelle eglise sur le Spuy, les amis particuliers ou 

 voisins furent regales de quelques bouteilles de vin, 

 selon la coutume du pays, dans la maison de I'Hoto 

 du defunt " (den schilder H. van der Spyck op de 

 paviljoengracbt). — From the Navorscher. 



B. 



St. Adulph (Vol. vii., p. 84.). — Trajectensem 

 certainly applies to either Utrecht or Maestricht. 

 One was Trajectum ad Rhenum, the other Tra- 

 jectum ad Mosam. I incline to the opinion that 

 the latter place is intended : Utrecht being, I 

 believe, generally expressed by Ultrajectum. 



C. W. G. 



Samuel Daniel (Vol. vi., p. 603.). — The writer 

 will be happy to communicate with I. M. on the 

 subject of the life, &c. of this poet and historian ; 

 for which purpose his address is left with the 

 Editor. . E. D. 



La Bruytre (Vol. vii., pp. 38. 114.). — There 

 lies before me an elaborate MS. history of the 

 family of Brewer, with a pedigree. The former, 

 which commences with Ralph de Bruera (temp. 

 William I.), has been compiled from papers in the 

 Heralds' Office, Brompton, Dugdale, and the more 

 modern historians, general and local. The last in- 

 dividual mentioned therein is a physician, who 

 bore the name and ancient arms of Brewer, and 

 died in 1618. The pedigree embraces about sixty 

 names, including the alliances, but reaches no fur- 



ther downwards than the sons of Roger Mortimer 

 in the reign of Henry III. These documents do 

 not contribute in any way to answer the inquiry 

 of one of your correspondents as to La Bruyere ; 

 and it may be satisfactory to the other to know 

 that there is nothing in them to show any con- 

 nexion with the name of De la Bruere. J. D. S. 



Murray, titular Earl of Dunbar (Vol. vi., 

 p. 11.). — In correcting Lord Albemarle's mistake 

 re.»<pecting " James Murray, titular Earl of Dun- 

 bar," your correspondent C, (2.), Portsmouth, 

 seems to have fallen into a similar error, which I 

 hope he will pardon me for pointing out. 



The Christian name of Murray of Broughtou 

 was not James, but John ; and the ancient Border 

 family to which he belonged was so distinctly 

 connected with that of Stormont (a branch of 

 Tullibardlne), that even genealogical tradition was 

 silent. His activity as an agent recommended 

 him to Prince Charles, who employed him as his 

 secretary during the campaign of 1745, to the 

 misfortunes of which he added by fomenting the 

 Prince's distrust of Lord George Murray : and 

 his final treachery to his master and his cause has 

 condemned him to an immortality of infamy. He 

 had nothing in common with "James Earl of 

 Dunbar," save the name which he disgraced and 

 the cause which he betrayed. 



James Murray, second son of Lord Stormont, 

 and elder brother of the famous Lord Mansfield, 

 escaped to the court of the exiled Stuarts after 

 1715. He became governor to the prince; and, 

 under the title of Earl of Dunbar, chief minister 

 and secretary to his father. He never returned 

 to Scotland, but died in 1770 at Avignon, at the 

 age of eighty. His honorable fidelity to a ruined 

 cause is admitted even by Junius, when, " willing 

 to wound," he taunts Mansfield with this Jacobite 

 connexion ; while the intensity of loathing with 

 which Scotland viewed his infamous namesake is 

 illustrated by the anecdote of old Walter Scott 

 throwing the cup out of the window, lest " lip of 

 him, or his, should come after John Murray of 

 Broughton." D. B. 



Balfour. 



Loggerheads (Vol. v., p. 338.). — As I do not 

 find that any correspondent of " N. & Q." on the 

 subject of the sign of " We Three" has mentioned 

 the existence of a similar sign in a small village 

 in Denbighshire, on the border of Flintshire, to 

 which a curious tradition is attached, I am induced 

 to forward the account of it. The last years of 

 Wilson, the landscape painter (who died in 1782), 

 were passed at a house called Clomendu, the dove- 

 cote, situated on a property to which he had suc- 

 ceeded in the little village of Llanoerris, through 

 which the high road from Mold, his burial-place, 

 to Ruthin passes. Wilson was fond of ale, and is 



