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tells us that " a Russian lias never more than one 

 Christian name, which must be always that of a 

 saint." To these a patronymic is often added of 

 the father's name, with the addition vich, as in the 

 case of the present Czar, Nicholas Paulovich, the 

 son of Paul. W. Denton. 



Torquay. 



Pedigree to the Time of Alfred (Vol. viii., p. 586.). 

 — Some ten or twelve years since I was staying 

 at the King's Head Inn, Egham, Surrey (now 

 defunct), when a fresh-looking, respectable man 

 was pointed out to me as Mr. Wapshot, who had 

 held an estate in the neighbourhood from his an- 

 cestors prior to the Conquest. Pie was not re- 

 presented as a blacksmith, but as fanning his own 

 estate. I am not connected with Egham or the 

 neighbourhood, or I would make farther inquiry. 



S.D. 



Palace of Lucifer (Vol. v., p. 275.). — If R. T. 

 has not observed it, I would refer him to the note 

 in the Aldine edition of Milton, vol. iii. p. 263., 

 where I find " Luciferi domus " is the palace of 

 the sun (see Prolusiones, p. 120.) ; and not, as 

 T. Warton conjectured, the abode of Satan. 



I. R. R. 



Monaldeschi (Vol. viii., p. 34.). — Relation du 

 Meurtre de Monaldeschi, poignarde par ordre de 

 Christine, reine de Suede, by Father de Bel, is to 

 be found in a collection of curious papers printed 

 at Cologne, 1664, in 12mo. It is given at length 

 in Christina's Revenge, and other Poems, by J. M. 

 Molfatt, London, printed for the author, 1821. 



E. D. 



Anna Lightfoot (Vol. vii., p. 595.). — T. H. II. is 

 referred to an elegantly printed pamphlet called 

 An Historical Fragment relative to her late Ma- 

 jesty Queen Caroline, printed for J. & N. L. Hunt, 

 London, 1824, which, from p. 44. to p. 50., contains 

 a very circumstantial account of this extraordinary 

 occurrence. E. D. 



Lode (Vol. v., p. 345.). — It would not appear 

 that this word means " an artificial watercourse," 

 at least from its use at Tewkesbury, where there 

 is still the Lower Lode, at which a ferry over the 

 Severn still exists ; and there was also the Upper 

 Lode, until a bridge was erected over the river at 

 that place. Will this help to show its proper 

 meaning ? I. R. R. 



" To try and get" (Vol. ix., p. 76.).— Uneda 

 inquires the oi'igin of this erroneous mode of 

 expression? Doubtless euphony, to avoid the 

 alliteration of so many T's : " to the theatre to try 

 and get," &c. But evidently the word to is under- 

 stood, though not supplied after the word and. 

 Thus, " to try and (to) get," &c. Celcrena. 



Abbott Families (Vol. ix., p. 105.). — In reply 

 to Mr. Abbott's Query, I have a pedigree of 

 Samuel Abbott, born in 1637 or 1638 ; second son 

 of Wm. Abbott of Sudbury, who was born 1603, 

 and who was son to Charles Abbott of Hawkden 

 and Sudbury, an alderman, which Charles was 

 son to Wm. Abbott of Hawkden. This Samuel 

 married Margaret, daughter to Thomas Spicer. 

 Should Mr. Abbott wish it, I would forward him 

 a copy of the pedigree. I can trace no connexion 

 between this family and that of Archbishop Ab- 

 bott, whose father, Maurice Abbott of Guildford, 

 was son of Abbott of Farnham, co. Surrey. 



I wish especially to know what became of 

 Thomas Abbott, only son of Robert, Bishop of 

 Sarum ; which Thomas dedicated his father's 

 treatise against Bellarmine in 1619 to his uncle 

 the Archbishop, calling himself in the preface, 

 " imbellis homuncio." His sister was wife to Sir 

 Nathaniel Brent, whose younger son Nathaniel 

 left all his property to his cousin Maurice Abbott, 

 of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Gent., in 1688 ; which 

 Maurice was possibly son to Thomas. 



G. E. Adams. 



36. Lincoln's Inn Fields. 



" Mairdil" (Vol. viii., p. 411.). — Is there any 

 affinity between the word mairdil, which is used 

 in Forfarshire, to be overcome with fatigue by 

 any oppressive or intricate piece of work, and the 

 word mardel or mardle, which signifies to gossip 

 in Norfolk, as stated by Mr. J. L. Sisson ? What 

 will H. C. K. say to this subject ? Jamieson con- 

 fines mairdil to an adjective, signifying unwieldy; 

 but I have often heard work-people in Forfarshire 

 declare they were "perfectly mairdiled" with a 

 piece of heavy work, using the word as a passive 

 verb. Trachled has nearly the same meaning, but 

 it is chiefly confined to describe fatigue arising 

 from walking a long distance. Henry Stephens. 



Bell at Rouen (Vol. viii., p. 448.). — Your va- 

 luable correspondent W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A., 

 has probably taken his account of the great bell 

 in the cathedral at Rouen from a note made 

 before the French Revolution of 1792-3, because 

 the George d'Ambois, which was once considered 

 the largest bell in Europe (it was thirteen feet 

 high, and eleven feet in diameter), excepting that 

 at Moscow, shared the destructive fate of many 

 others at that eventful period, and was melted 

 down for cannon. In 1814 the bulb of its clapper 

 was outside the door of a blacksmith's shop, as 

 you go out of the city towards Dieppe. It was 

 pointed out to me by a friend with whom I was 

 then travelling — a gentleman of the neighbour- 

 hood, who was at Rouen at the time it was brought 

 there — and there, if I mistake not, but I cannot 

 find my note, I saw it again within the last ten 

 years. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Rectory, Clyst St. George. 



