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Roman Catholic Patriarchs. — Has any bishop 

 in the Western Church held the title of patriarch 

 besides tlie Patriarch of Venice ? And what 

 peculiar authority or privileges has he ? 



W. Fbaser. 



Tor-Mohun. 



The " Temple Lands " in Scotland. — I am 

 txnxious to learn some particulars of these lands. 

 I recollect of reading, some time ago, that the 

 superiorities of them had been acquired by John 

 B. Gracie, Esq., W. S. Edinburgh; but whether by 

 purchase or otherwise, I did not ascertain. Mr. 

 Xjrracie died some four or five years ago. Perhaps 

 some correspondent will favour me with some 

 information on the subject. In the Justice Street 

 of Aberdeen, there is a tenement of houses called 

 Mauchlan or Mauchline Tower Court, which is 

 said to have belonged to the order. In the 

 charters of this property, themselves very ancient, 

 reference is made to another, of about the earliest 

 date at which the order began to acquire property 

 in Scotland. Abeedonensis. 



Cottons of Fowey. — A family of " Cotton" was 

 settled at Fowey, in Cornwall, in the seventeenth 

 century. The first name of which I have any 

 •notice is that of Abraham Cotton, who married 

 ■at Fowey in 1597. They bore for their arms. 

 Sable, a chevron between three cotton-hanks. Or 

 a crescent for difference : crest, a Cornish chough 

 liolding in the beak a cotton-hank proper. William 

 <Dotton, mayor of Plymouth in 1671, was probably 

 one of this family. The name is not Cornish ; and 

 these Cottons had without doubt migrated at no 

 distant period from some other part of the king- 

 dom. Any information relating to the family or 

 its antecedents will be very gratefully received by 



R. W. C. 



Draught or Draft of Air. — Will some of your 

 ■contributors inform a reader what term or word 

 may be correctly used to signify the phrase 

 ■" cui-rent of air " up the flue of a chimney, or 

 through a room, &c. ? The word draught or draft 

 is generally or universally used ; but that signifi- 

 cation is not to be found attached to the word 

 draught or draft in any dictionary accessible to 

 the Inquirer. The word is used by many English 

 scientific writers, and was undoubtedly used by 

 Dr. Franklin to signify a current of air in the flue 

 of a chimney (see also lire's Diet.). Yet the word 

 cannot be found in Johnson or Ogllvle's Imp. Diet. 

 with this signification. The word " tirage " is also 

 used by French writers with the above signifi- 

 cation ; and though in French dictionaries its 

 meaning is nearly the same, and nearly as ex- 

 tended as the English word draught or draft, yet 

 it cannot be found in the Diet, de VAead. to signify 

 iis above. 



New York. 



Admiral Sir Thomas Tyddeman commanded 

 the squadron sent during the war with the Dutch 

 in the reign of Charles 11. to assist in the capture 

 of certain richly laden merchant vessels which 

 had put into Bremen, but (owing to the treachery 

 of the Danish governor, who instead of acting in 

 concert with the English, as had been agreed, 

 opened fire upon them from the town) Nvas unable 

 to effect his purpose. 



After the admiral's return to England, a question 

 was raised as to his conduct during the engage- 

 ment; and some persons went so fixr as to accuse 

 him of cowardice; but the Duke of York, who was 

 then in command of the fleet, entirely freed him 

 from such charges, and declared that he had acted 

 with the greatest discretion and bravery in the 

 whole affair. 



He died soon after this. In 1668, according to 

 Pepys's account, of a broken heart occasioned by 

 the scandal that had been circulated about him, 

 and the slight he felt he was suflTering from the 

 Parliament. Perhaps some of your readers can 

 inform me where I may meet with farther particu- 

 lars relating to Admiral Tyddeman. I am parti- 

 culaidy desirous to gain information as to his 

 family and his descendants ; also to learn upon 

 what occasion he was created a baronet or knight. 



Captaiiv. 



Pedigree Indices. — Is there any published table 

 of kin to Sir Thomas White, the founder of St. 

 John's College, Oxford, or of William of Wyke- 

 ham, after the plan of Stemmata Chicheliana ? 



Is there any Index to the Welsh and Irish 

 pedigrees in the British Museum? Sims' valu- 

 able book is confined to England. 



Are there Indices to the pedigrees in the Lam- 

 beth Library, or the Bodleian Library at Oxford ? 



The proper mode of making a search In the 

 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge wanted ? 



Y. S. M. 



Apparition of the White Lady. — I observe in 

 two works lately published, an allusion made to an 

 apparition of the "White Lady," as announcing 

 the death of a prince ; in the one case of the 

 throne of Brandenburgh *, the other that of 

 France, t Can any of your readers point out the 

 origin of this popular tradition ? C. M. W, 



Rundlestone. — Can any Information be given of 

 the origin of the term " Rundlestone," as applied 

 to a rock off" the Land's End ; and also to a remark- 

 able stone near Hessory Tor ? (Vide Mr. Bray's 

 Journal, Sept. 1802, in Mrs. Bray's work on the 

 Tamar and Tavy : and see also in the Ordnance 

 Maps.) J. S. Pw 



Garrison Library, Malta. 



* In Michaud's Biographie. 



f Louis XVII., by A. De Beauchesne. 



