Jan. 23. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ask the woman's dowry, viz. the tokens of spousage ; and 

 by these tokens of spousage are to be understood rings, or 

 money, or some other things to be given to the woman by 

 the man ; which said giving is called subarration (i. e. 

 wedding or covenanting), especially when it is done by 

 the giving of a ring" — A Rational Illustration of the 

 Book of Common Prayer, §*c. (Tegg, 1845), p. 408. 



Perhaps the word subarration may suggest to 

 R. C. a clue, by which he can mend his extract ? 



J. Sansom. 



Clarence (Vol. viii., p. 565.). — I made no note 

 of it at the time, but I remember to have read, I 

 think in some newspaper biography of William IV., 

 that the title of Clarence belonged to the Plan- 

 tagenets in right of some of their foreign alliances, 

 and that it was derived from the town of Chia- 

 renza, or Clarence, in the Morea. As many of the 

 crusaders accpjired titles of honour from places in 

 the Byzantine empire, this account may be correct. 

 Lionel Plantagenet's acquisition of the honour of 

 Clare by his marriage with Elizabeth de Burgh, 

 may have induced his father Edward III. to re- 

 vive the dormant title of Clarence in his favour. 



HoNOBE DE MaBEVILLE. 



Guernsey. 



" The spire whose silent Jingc?;" Sfc. (Vol. ix., 

 p. 9.).- 



" And O ! ye swelling hills and spacious plains ! 

 Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-tow'rs, 

 And spires whose silent finger points to heav'n." 



Wordsworth, Excursion, vi. 17. 



Coleridge uses the same idea in his Friend, 

 No. xiv. p. 223. : 



" An instinctive taste teaches men to huild their 

 churches in flat countries with spire-steeples ; which, 

 as they cannot he referred to any other ohject, point 

 as with silent finger to the sky and stars ; and some- 

 times, when they reflect the hrazen light of a rich 

 though rainy sunset, appear like a pyramid of flame 

 burning heavenward." 



F. R. M., M.A. 



The following lines conclude a pretty little 

 poem of Rogers's, entitled A Wish. They furnish 

 at any rate a parallel passage to, if not the correct 

 version of, the above : 



" The village church, among the trees, 



Where first our marriage vows were given, 

 With merry peals shall swell the breeze, 

 And point with taper spire to heaven." 



C. W. B. 



Henry Earl of Wotton (Vol. viii., pp. 173. 

 281. 563.). — In reply to the editors of the 

 Navorscher I have to state — 



1. That neither of the Lords Stanhope mentioned 

 died childless, the letters s.p. being a misprint for 

 v. p. (vita patris) ; Henry having died during the 

 lifetime of his father : and it was " in rejjard 



that he did not live to enjoy his father's honours" 

 that his widow was afterwards advanced to the 

 dignity of Countess of Chesterfield. 



2. It was Charles Stanhope's nephew (of the 

 half-blood), Charles Henry van der Kerckhove, 

 who took the name of Wotton. The insertion of 

 the word "thereupon" between "who" and "took," 

 on p. 281., would have made the sentence less 

 obscure. 



3. Philip, first Earl of Chesterfield, had, besides 

 Henry Lord Stanhope, two daughters and ten 

 sons. These were — John, who died a student at 

 Oxford; Ferdinando, M.P. for Tamworth, 1640, 

 killed at Bridgeford, Notts, 1643; Philip, killed 

 in defence of his father's house, which was a gar- 

 rison for the king, 1645 ; Arthur, youngest son, 

 M. P. for Nottingham in the parliament of 

 Charles II., from whom descended the fifth earl ; 

 Charles, died s.p. 1645 ; Edward, William, Tho- 

 mas, Michael, George, died young. 



The earldom descended in a right line for three 

 generations to the issue of Henry, Lord Stanhope, 

 viz. Philip, his son, second earl ; Philip, third earl, 

 his grandson ; and Philip, fourth earl, his great- 

 grandson. 



The Alexander Stanhope mentioned by the 

 editors of the Navorscher was the only son of 

 Philip, first Earl of Chesterfield, by his second 

 marriage. His mother was Anne, daughter of 

 Sir John Pakington, of Westwood, co. Worcester, 

 ancestor of the present baronet, late Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies. Broctuna. 



Bury, Lancashire. 



Tenth (or the Prince of Wales's Own) Begiment 

 of (Light) Dragoons (Vol. viii., p. 538. ; Vol. ix., 

 p. 19.). — The monarch of this realm reviewing a 

 regiment, of which the heir apparent was not only 

 Colonel, but took the command, and directed all 

 the military evolutions on the occasion, was such 

 a particular event as to merit being commemo- 

 rated by the splendid picture at Hampton Court 

 Palace. Your correspondent $., who desires to be 

 informed on what particular day that review took 

 place, will find that it was on Thursday, Aug. 15, 

 1799. In the daily paper, The True Briton, o£ 

 Aug. 16, 1799, he will find some details, of which 

 the following is an abridgment : 



" The Prince of Wales's regiment (the 10th Light 

 Dragoons) was yesterday reviewed by his Majesty on 

 Winkfield Plain. The troops practised their man- 

 oeuvres through Cranbourne Woods, &c. His Royal 

 Highness gave the word of command to his regiment, 

 and wore in his military helmet 'an oak bough.' The 

 Prince of Wales gave an entertainment afterwards to 

 the officers at the Bush Inn, at Staines." 



The general officers in attendance upon his 

 Majesty, and represented in the picture, were the 

 Commander-in-Chief, Field-Marshal H. R. H. the 



