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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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an answer to this inquiry, as Bishop Ridley's MS. 

 Reply to Bishop Hooper is, for the first time, 

 about to be printed by the Parker Society, 

 through the kind permission of its possessor, Sir 

 Thomas Phillipps, Bart., in the second volume of 

 the Writings of* Bradford which I am editing ; 

 and, to make Ridley's reply fully intelligible, ac- 

 cess is needed to Bishop Hooper's Book to the 

 Council. A. Townsend. 



Weston Lane, Bath, 

 February 23. 



The Title of " Dominus." — How is it that at 

 Cambridge the title of Dominus is applied to 

 B. A.'s, while at Oxford it is confined to the doc- 

 torate ? W. Fkaseb. 



Tor-Moliun. 



The De Rous Family. — Hugh Rufus, or De 

 Rous, was Bishop of Ossory, a.d. 1202. He had 

 been previously an Augustinian Canon of Bodmin, 

 in Cornwall. Query, Was he a cadet of the an- 

 cient family of De Rous ; and if so, what was his 

 descent ? James Graves. 



Where was the Fee of S. Sanxon? — At the 

 end of " Ordericus Vitalis," in the Gesta Norman- 

 norum, is a list called the " Feoda Normannias," 

 wherein, under the title " Feoda Ebroic," occurs 

 the entry : 



" S. Sanxon dim. f. in friche." 



Francis Drake, in his Antiquities of York, Lon- 

 don, 1736, p. 70., speaks of " Sampson, or Sanxo" 

 ihe archbishop of that see; and elsewhere men- 

 tions the parish church of S. Sampson, " called by 

 some Sanxo." 



What I wish to ask is, Where was this half fee 

 of S. Sanxon ? Whether it had any connexion 

 with Sanson sur Rille ? And whether it was the 

 place from which " Ralph de S. Sanson" or " San- 

 son Clericus" of the Domesday Book, who was 

 afterwards Bishop of Worcester, derived his 

 name ? * * 



Russian Emperors. — Is there any truth in a 

 rumour that was current two or three years since 

 respecting the limited period that was placed 

 upon the reign of any Russian monarch ? Twenty- 

 five years was the time stated, at the termination 

 of which the Emperor had to abdicate. As this 

 period has elapsed, and no abdication has taken 

 place by the present Autocrat, some one may 

 perhaps be able to state how such a statement 

 originated, and upon what grounds ? 



Thos. Crosfield. 



Episcopal Insignia of the Eastern Church. — 

 Having seen in a late number of the Rlustrated 

 London Neivs (Feb. 11, 1854) a peculiarly shaped 

 episcopal staff, with a cross rising from between 

 two in-curved dragons' heads, which is repre- 



sented in the hand of the metropolitan of Walla- 

 chia, I would be glad to know whether this form 

 is peculiar to any branch of the Eastern Church. 

 A reference to a work of authority on the subject 

 will oblige a provincialist. James Graves. 



Amontillado Sherry. — What is the real meaning 

 of this epithet ? A friend, who had travelled in 

 Spain, and visited some famous cellars at Xeres, 

 told me that the peculiar flavour of the Amontil- 

 lado Sherry was always an accidental result of 

 mixing butts of wine brought to the merchant by 

 a variety of growers. I mentioned this to another 

 friend who had the wine on his table ; and he 

 ridiculed the account, saying that the Amontil- 

 lado Sherry was from a grape peculiar to the dis- 

 trict. What district, I could not ascertain. 



Alfred Gatty. 



Col. Michael Smith's Family. — Perhaps some 

 of your readers may be enabled to give me some 

 information of the family of Smith, to which Col. 

 Michael Smith, Lieut.-Governor of Nevis about 

 1750, belongs. A West Indian. 



Pronunciation of Foreign Names. — How shall 

 we pronounce Sinope, Citate, and many other 

 words which are now becoming familiar to our 

 eyes ? I think the bookseller who should give us 

 a vocabulary of proper names of foreign persons 

 and places, with the correct pronunciation at- 

 tached, would be encouraged by an extensive sale. 

 So far as my knowledge extends, such a work is a 

 desideratum. Thinks I to Myself. 



Artesian Wells. — One who is about to dig a 

 well on his land would be glad to know: — 1. 

 Whether, in all cases, artesian wells are preferable ? 

 2. If yes, why they are not universally adopted, 

 and whether they are more expensive than the 

 common sort ? 3. If not preferable in all cases, in 

 what cases they are preferable ? Stylites. 



Norman Towers in London. — Can you inform 

 me if there is any other church in the city of 

 London with a Norman tower, besides Allhallows, 

 Mark Lane ? which, by the bye, has been colour- 

 washed : I suppose, to preserve it ! J. W. Brown. 



Papyrus. — Where, or of whom, can a specimen 

 of Papyrus be obtained ? R. H. 



Islington. 



Mathew, a Cornish Family. — I am anxious to 

 know the connexion of a family of Mathew, late 

 of Tresungar, co. Cornwall, with any stock in 

 Wales ; and I will gladly defray any necessary 

 expense of search, if I can attain this object. The 

 descent of a family of the name, apparently the 

 same from the arms, in an old recueil of Devon- 

 shire families, is headed " nuper de Wallia ; " and 

 a visitation of that county ascribes their bearing 



