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particularly at Osgathorpe, Walton-on- Wolds, 

 Snibston, and Heather. Pie founded a hospital at 

 Osgathorpe, and endowed the same at 60/. for 

 the maintenance and support of six clergymen's 

 ■widows. Moreover he also erected a free-school, 

 'which he endowed with 60/. a year. He married 

 Mai-y, widow of William Kemp, citizen of London. 

 . His daughter, and sole heiress, married into the 

 . family of Bainbrigge of Lockington Hall, county 

 of Leicester ; whiclx alliance cai-ried with it the 

 ■estate of Thomas Harley into that family. 



The arms of Thomas Harley are : Crest, a lion's 

 head rampant ; shield, Or, bend cotized sable. 



Is the foregoing family a branch of that of 

 Herefordshire, now ennobled ; or does it come 

 down from one of the name anterior to the time 

 •when such earldom was made patent, viz. from 

 .Sir Richard Harley, 28 Edward I. : whose armorial 

 bearings, according to one annalist, is mentioned 

 as Or, hend cotized sable ? 



Brian de Harley, son of Sir Robert Harley, in 

 ■the reign of Henry IV., changed his crest ; which 

 -was a buck's head proper, to a lion rampant, gules, 

 issuing out of a tower, triple towered proper. 



Aldbokandus. 



Xieicester. 



Lord Cliff. — In 1645, James Howell published 

 iiis EpistolcB Ho-EliancE ; amongst the letters was 

 one on Wines, addressed to the Right Hon. Lord 

 Cliff. Who was he ? The letter is dated Oct. 7, 

 1634. Y. S. M. 



Dublin. 



Enough. — Was this word always pronounced 

 :as at present, enuf? I am inclined to think not ; 

 for Waller, in his poem " On a War with Spain," 

 -srhymes it with bough : 



" Let the brave generals divide that bough, 

 Our great Protector hath such wreaths enough." 



And again, in his " Answer to Sir John Suckling's 

 "Verses," he couples it with plough, in those anti- 

 Jklalthusian lines : 



"" The world is of a large extent we see. 



And must be peopled : children there must be ! — 

 So must bread too ; but since there are enough 

 Born to that drudgery, what need we plough?" 



When did the change of pronunciation take 

 "place ? Perhaps some reader of " N. & Q." can 

 also give the etymology of the word. 



Robert Wright. 



Archbishop Magee. — In a committee of the 

 House of Lords, 182.5, Lord Holland asked Arch- 

 bishop Magee : " Does your grace really think 

 that there is any person capable of holding such a 

 monstrous opinion, as that the Roman Catholic 

 Teligion is idolatrous?" The Archbishop calmly 

 fixed his eyes on Lord Holland's countenance, 



and replied : " My Lord, some have sworn to it."" — 

 I only quote so much of the anecdote (which your 

 readers will find in Archbishop Magee's Worhs^ 

 vol. i. p. 67., 1842) as my purpose requires. 



As reported in 2'he Times, on April 18, 1853, 

 Lord Lansdown, speaking of an old committee in 

 the House of Lords, said : 



" During those two days, a right reverend prelate 

 was examined ; and he was required to state upon oath 

 whether the Creed of St. Athanasius was necessary to 

 salvation. The reply was, ' He would not say whether 

 it was that, but a great many persons had sworn that 

 it was,' " 



Some correspondent may be able to state 

 whether these two extracts pertain or not to one 

 and the same occurrence, and which is the true 

 version. Indagatob. 



Cai'pets at Borne. — In a cutting from a news- 

 paper or periodical, apparently of the year 1790, 

 narrating an accident that happened to Lady 

 Augusta Clavering, daughter of the Duke of 

 Argyle (whilst staying at Rome) by her muslia 

 dress catching fire, it is said : 



" Fortunately, the gentlemen did not lose their pre- 

 sence of mind ; and there happening to be a carpet in 

 the room, a thing very uncommon in that country, they 

 covered her with it," &c. 



Can any of your readers oblige me by informing 

 me whether it is a fact, that the luxury of a car- 

 pet was very uncommon at Rome at the period 

 referred to ; and when carpets were first intro- 

 duced at Rome ? L. A. M. 



Great Yarmouth. 



Nursery Rhymes. — Can you or any of your cor- 

 respondents tell me where I shall find an account 

 of the origin of our common nursery rhymes ? Is 

 there not reason to believe that many of them are 

 of great antiquity ? L. 



Oxford. 



Gloves at Fairs. — I think that I have read, that 

 at some large fixir it was customary to hang out on 

 the town-hall a large gilt glove, as a token of free- 

 dom from ai-rest for debt during the period that 

 the fair lasted. Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me if such was the case, and where ? In 

 Halliwell's Dictionary, " hoisting the glove" is said 

 to be practised at Lammas Fair, in Devonshire : 

 but why ? In the east of England certain village 

 fairs are called Gants, — Mattishall Gant, &c. 

 Forby derives this from A.-S. gan, to go ; but 

 may it not have some reference to the French 

 gants, gloves ? E. G. R. 



Mr. Caryl or Caryll. — Every one knows that the 

 Bape of the Loch was written at the request of 

 Mr. Caryl, stated by Pope to have been private 

 secretary to James XL's queen before the Revola- 



