Mar. 10. 1855.] 



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beautiful Stremunia and Alphonso the Wise, King of 

 Castile and Aragon, and Earl of Provence; with her 

 passionate Letters to the King on his chusing another 

 Mistress.' In Five Books. By the best Wits of the pre- 

 sent Age. London: printed for A. Bettesworth, at the 

 ' Ked Lion ' in Paternoster Row ; and C. Rivington, at the 

 ' Bell and Crown,' in St. Paul's Churchyard, mdccxix. 

 Price 3s." 



My' copy has the initials " S. P." on the title- 

 page. The book is one of a set which I bought a 

 short time ago; and one of the others has the 

 autograph of Samuel Parr, LL.D., and I think 

 this book also belonged to him. C. J. Douglas. 



Symondson Family. — Particulars relating to the 

 family of Symondson are requested, especially 

 such as may refer to Mr. Symondson, who was, I 

 believe, the legal adviser of the late Dr. Markham, 

 Archbishop of York. With whom did the said 

 Symondson marry ? What were his armorial 

 bearings ; the place of his death or burial ; and 

 are any representatives of his family still living ? 



An Inquiker. 



Grey and Ratcliffe Families. — Can any of your 

 genealogical correspondents assist me to ascertain 

 the names of the wives of the following gentlemen ? 

 Sir Thomas Grey of Northumberland, Knight, 

 temp. Edward III. ; Sir John Grey of Berwick, 

 son of the above Sir Thomas, living 1372 ; Sir 

 Henry Ratcliffe of Ratcliffe, in the county of 

 Lancaster, temp. Henry IH. and Edward I. ; John 

 Ratcliffe, son of the above Sir Henry. J. A. D. 



" What shadows we are, and what shadows we 

 pursue," was an exclamation frequently made by 

 a late eminent physician of Wiltshire, when con- 

 templating death-bed scenes. Is it a quotation ? 

 and if so, whence ? R. H. B. 



" / dreamt that, buried," ^c. — Who was the 

 author of the following lines, which (says The 

 British Critic, vol. xxvi. p. 633.) are in most 

 editions of Joe Miller ? — 



" I dreamt that, buried in my fellow clay, 

 Close by a common beggar's side I lay ; 

 And as so mean an object shock'd my pride, 

 Thus like a corpse of consequence I cried : 

 ' Scoundrel begone, and henceforth touch me not ; 

 More manners learn, and at a distance rot.' 

 ' How, scoundrel ! ' with a haughtier tone, cried he ; 

 ' Proud lump of earth, I scorn thy words and thee. 

 Here all are equal : here thy lot is mine. 

 This is my rotting-place, and that is thine.' " 



I. R. R. 



" Intensify." — Coleridge, in a letter to Mr. Al- 

 sop, claims the merit of inventing this word. It 

 is now commonly used by the best writers, espe- 

 cially those on religious and aesthetic subjects. 

 Was Coleridge's claim well founded ? 



C. !Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



Ela de Longespee. — Lascelles (Zi6. Mun. Public.') 

 says that this lady (eldest daughter and coheiress 

 of Stephen de Longespee, Justice of Ireland, whose 

 father was the famous William Longsword, Earl 

 of Salisbury) married Gerald Lord Offaley ; but 

 Mr. Burke says (^Extinct Peerage') her husband 

 was Roger le Zouche, by whom she was mother of 

 Alan, Lord Zouche, of Ashby. Which is right ? 



Y. S. M. 



Surnames ending in '■'■-house." — Will you be 

 good enough to inform me on what principle of 

 derivation surnames ending in " -house" are 

 formed: such as Hobhouse, Stonehouse, Sten- 

 house, Shorthouse, Waterhouse, Mirehouse, &c. ? 

 These names are often occurring in the public 

 prints, partly I suppose because most of the 

 owners of them are "celebrities:" as Sir John' 

 Cam Hobhouse, Mr. Waterhouse the Naturalist, 

 Dr. Stenhouse, and others. The names them- 

 selves do not appear very choice or euphonious. 

 What, for example, can be more contemptible 

 than the name of Mirehouse, which was actually 

 possessed by the late Recorder of London ? 



W. WOODHOUSE. 



County Histories. — Could any of your corre- 

 spondents furnish lists of all the county, parochial, 

 and other local histories of the United Kingdom, 

 with date of publication, and distinguishing such 

 as contain useful genealogical information from 

 the numerous class which are useless for such a 

 purpose? Also lists of every genealogical and 

 heraldic work of repute. These lists, if supplied 

 by many persons, and checked by the Editor, so as 

 to avoid duplicate names, would, if published from 

 time to time in " N. & Q.," be of the utmost as- 

 sistance to your readers who are engaged in such 

 pursuits, whether as amateurs or otherwise. I 

 shall willingly commence if you approve of the 

 suggestion. A correspondent in your tenth vo- 

 lume suggests the establishment of a Genealogical 

 Society. I drew up the prospectus of one proposed 

 to be established in Dublin a couple of years ago, 

 but the proiect was never made public. 



^ -^ Y. S. M. 



[We have not margin sufficient for the complete lists 

 suggested by our correspondent; besides, Upcott's En- 

 glish Topography, in three thick volumes, furnishes up to 

 a given date nearly all that is required on this subject. 

 A list of works on Topography since the publication of 

 Upcott, in 1818, would no doubt be valuable for literary 

 purposes, and we would endeavour to find space for it. 

 The works should be arranged under their respective 

 counties, and these placed in alphabetical order.] 



John Asgill. — In looking back to " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. ix., p. 376., I find mention made of a Mr. 

 Asgill. May I ask whether Mr. Asgill's Defence 



