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at Grantham, tlie place of his early education, 

 recalls to ray recollection a memorial of him, about 

 ■which I may possibly leai'n a few particulars from 

 some one of the numerous readers of " N. & Q." 



I remember hearing when a school-boy at the 

 college, Grantham, some thirty-five years ago, that 

 Newton's name, cut by himself on a stone in the 

 recess of one of the windows of the school-house, 

 was to be seen there no long time back ; but that 

 the stone, or the portion of it which contained the 

 name, had been cut out by some mason at a time 

 when the building was being repaired, and was in 

 the possession of a gentleman then living in the 

 largest house in Grantham — built, I believe, by 

 himself. Those of your readers who knew Gran- 

 tham at the time, will not need to be told the 

 name of the gentleman to whom I allude. The 

 questions I would wish to ask are these : 



1. Was such a stone to be seen, as described, 

 -some forty or fifty years since ? 



2. Is it true that it was removed in the way 

 that I have stated ? 



3. If so, in whose possession is the stone at this 

 present time ? M. A. 



Mammon. — Perhaps some of your readers could 

 refer me to some work containing information in 

 reference to the following allegation of Barnes, on 

 Matt. vi. 24. : 



" Mammon is a S3'riac word, a name given to an idol 

 worshipped as the god of riches. It has tiie same mean- 

 ing as Plutus among the Greeks. It is not known that 

 the Jews even formally worshipped this idol, but they 

 iised the word to denote v/ealth." 



My question relates to the passages in Italics. 



B. H.,C. 



Derivation of Wellesley. — In a note to the 

 lately published Aritohiogi-aphic Sketches of Thomas 

 De Quincey, I find (p. 131.) the following passage : 



" It had been always known that some relationship 

 existed between the Wellesleys and John Wesley. 

 Their names had in fact been originally the same ; and 

 the Duke of Wellington himself, in the earlier part of 

 liis career, when sitting in the Irish House of Com- 

 mons, was always known to the Irish journals as 

 Captain Wesley. Upon this arose a natural belief, 

 that the aristocratic branch of the house had improved 

 the name into Wellesley. Cut the true process of 

 change had been precisely the other way. Not Wesley 

 had been expanded into Wellesley, but inversely, Wel- 

 lesley had been contracted by household usage into 

 Wesley. The name must have been Wellesley in its 

 earliest stage, since it was founded upon a connexion 

 with Wells Cathedral." 



May I ask what this connexion was, and whence 

 the authority for the statement ? Had the illus- 

 trious_ Duke's adoption of his title from another 

 town in Somersetshire anything to do with it ? 



J. M. 



Cranwells, Bath. S ^m. ^ Z73.' 



The Battle of Cniden — A Query for Copen- 

 hagen Correspondents. — In the year 1059, in the 

 reign of Malcolm III., king of Scotland, a battle 

 was fought on the Links of Cruden, in the county 

 of Aberdeen, between the Danes and the Scots, 

 in which the Prince Royal, who commanded the 

 Danish forces, was slain. He was buried on the 

 field, near to which, according to the custom of 

 the times, King Malcolm " biggit ane kirk." This 

 church was overblown with sand, and another 

 built farther inland, which is the present parish 

 church. To the churchyard wall there leans a 

 black marble gravestone, about 7 ft. X 3 ft. 6 in., 

 which is said to have been sent from Denmark as 

 a monument for the grave of his royal highness. 

 The stone has the appearance of considerable an- 

 tiquity about it, and appears to have been inlaid 

 with marble, let into it about half an inch ; the 

 mai-ks of the iron brads, and the lead which se- 

 cured it, are still visible. 



" Tradition says it did from Denmark come, 

 A monument the king sent for his son." 



And it is also stated that, until within the last 

 hundred years, a small sura of money was annually 

 sent by the Danish government to the minister of 

 Cruden for keeping the monument in repair. I 

 should be glad to learn if there are any documents 

 among the royal archives at Copenhagen, which 

 would invalidate or substantiate the popular tra- 

 dition. Abeedosensis. 



Ampers and (£5* or &). — I have heard this 

 symbol called both ampers and and apiisse and. 

 Which, if either, is the correct term ; and what is 

 its derivation ? C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



The Myrtle Bee. — I should feel ranch obliged 

 to- any reader of "N. & Q." who would answer 

 the following questions respecting the bird called 

 the Myrtle Bee ; separating carefully at the same 

 time the result of his personal experience from any 

 hearsay evidence that he may have collected on 

 the subject. In what places in the British Isles 

 has the bird been seen? During what months? 

 Is it gregarious, or solitary ? IVhat are its haunts 

 and habits, and on what does it feed ? What is 

 its colour, shape, and size ? Its mode of flight ? 

 Does any cabinet contain a preserved specimen, 

 and has any naturalist described or figured it 

 either as a British or a foreign biid ? 



W. 11. D. Salmox. 



Birmingham. 



Henry Earl of Wotton. — Jan van Kerckhove, 

 Lord of Kerkhoven and Ileenvliet, who died at 

 Sassenheim, March 7, 1660, married Catherine 

 Stanhope, daughter of the Earl of Chesterfield ; 

 and had issue Charles Henry, who in 1659 was 

 chief magistrate of Breda, and was created Earl 



