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1225, married Rohesia or Rose de Verdun, not 

 Verno7i. She was so great an heiress that she 

 retained her own name, and her posterity also bore 

 it. She founded the Abbey of Grace Dieu, 

 Liecestershire, in 1239; and died 1247-8. Her 

 husband died in 1230, leaving two sons : John de 

 Verdun, who inherited, and Nicholas, who died in 

 Ireland without issue ; and one daughter Maud, 

 TyIio married John FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel. 



Walter Devereux. 

 Hampton Court Palace. 



Vault at llichmond, Yorkshire (Vol. viii., p. 388.). 

 — Touching the "vault," or underground passage, 

 "that goeth under the river" of Swale, from the 

 Castle of Richmond to the priory of St. Martin, 

 every tradition, i. e. as to its whereabouts, is, I 

 believe, now wholly lost. 



Your Querist, however, who seems to feel an 

 interest in that beautiful and romantic portion of 

 the north countrie, will perhaps welcome the fol- 

 lowing mythe, which is connected, it is possible, 

 with the identical vault which is depictured by 

 Speed in his Plan of Richmond. It was taken 

 down from the lips of a great-grand-dame by one 

 of her descendants, both of whom are still living, 

 for the gratification of your present correspon- 

 dent, who, like Luther, 



" Would not for any quantity of gold part with the 

 wonderful tales which he has retained from his earliest 

 childhood, or met with in his progress through life." 



But to my legend : 



Once upon a time a man, walking round Rich- 

 mond Castle, was accosted by another, who took 

 him into a vennel, or underground passage, below 

 the castle; where he beheld a vast multitude of 

 people lying as if they were sleeping. A Jiorn 

 and a sword were presented to him : the horn to 

 blow, and the sword to draw ; in order, as said 

 his guide, to release them from their slumbers. 

 And when he had drawn the sword half out, the 

 sleepers began to move ; which frightened him so 

 much, that he put it back into the sheath : when 

 instantly a voice exclaimed, 



" Potter I Potter Thompson ! 

 If thou had either drawn 

 The sword, or blown the horn. 

 Thou had been the luckiest man that ever was born." 



So ends the Legend of the Richmond Sleepers 

 and Potter Thompson ; which, mayhap, is scarcely 

 worth preserving, were it not that it has preserved 

 and handed down the characteristic, or rather 

 trade,_ cognomen and surname of its timorous at 

 least, if not cowardly, hero. 



M. AlSLABIE DeNHAM. 

 Piersebridge, near Darlington, Durham. 



Lord Audleijs Attendants at Poictiers (Vol. viii., 

 p. 494.). — A notice of the arguments in opposition 



to the statement, rested mainly on the grant of 

 arms by John Touchet, Lord Audley, to the de- 

 scendant of Sir James de Mackworth, in con- 

 sideration of his having been one of these esquires, 

 occurs in Blore's Rutland, p. 130. and p. 224. And 

 it appears to be satisfactorily shown by the grant 

 itself, that it was not made on account of the 

 services of Sir James. J. P. Jun. 



Portraits at Brickwall House (Vol. vii., p. 406.). 

 — Immerzeel says, in his Levens der Kunstschilders 

 (^Lives of the Painters), vol. iii. pp. 238,239. : 



" Thomas van der Wilt, born at Piershil in the 

 district of Putten, was a disciple of Verkolje at Delft, 

 where he also settled. He painted portraits, domestic 

 scenes, &c., which were not free from stiffness. He 

 also engraved in mezzotinto after Brouwer, Schalken, 

 and others. His drawings were engraved by his son 

 William, who died young." 



He was living in 1701, and was probably 

 grandson of a person of the same name who re- 

 sided in 1622 at Soetermeer near Leyden, for 

 in the register of the villages of Rhynland are 

 found : 



" Jan Thomas van der Wilt and Maritgen Pietersdr, 

 his wife, with Thomas, Maritgen, Pieter, Cornells, 

 Grietge, Jannetge, and Ingethen, their children." 



The portrait painted by Terburgh probably 

 represents Andries de Graeff, who, in 1672, is 

 called by Wagenaar, in his Vaderlandsche Hist, of 

 that year (p. 82.), late* burgomaster of Amster- 

 dam. It is then necessary to ascertain whether 

 this late burgomaster died in 1674. The family de 

 Graeff also resided at Delft, where several of its 

 members became magistrates. Elsevir. 



The portrait of the old gentleman is, in my 

 opinion, doubtless that of Andries de Graeff, who 

 was elected burgomaster of Amsterdam in 1660, 

 and filled the office several times afterwards, 

 although after the year 1670 his name no more 

 appears on the list of burgomasters, which can 

 very well agree with the date of death (1674) on 

 the portrait. — From the Navorscher. 



A. J. VAN DER Aa . 

 Gorinchem. 



The Words ''Mob" and ''Cash" (Vol. viii., 

 pp. 386. 524.). — Clericus Rusticcs will find 

 the origin and first introduction of the word tnob 

 fully stated in Trench's Lectxires on the Study of 

 Words (p. 124. fourth ed.). In addition to the 

 quotations there made, Clericus Rusticus may 

 refer to Dryden's preface to Cleomenes (1692), to 

 the 230th number of The Tatler, written by Swift 

 (an. 1710), and to the Desnu's Introduction to Polite 

 Conversation. 



Cash. — What Lord Holland may have meant 

 by a legitimate English word it is hard to say. 

 Dr. Johnson derives it from the Fr. caisse (or 

 casse), which Cotgrave interprets " a box, a case, 



