April 29. 1854.] 



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bought to be paid for in annual sums, one of these 

 is called a yearly gale. I have supposed, I cannot 

 now say why, that this was an Irish expression. 



Uneda. 



Cobb Family (Vol. ix., p. 272.). — I have much 

 reason to believe that Mr. Arthur Paget will 

 find a clue to his inquiries in the following par- 

 ticulars extracted from documents in my posses- 

 sion. The estate of St. Katharine's Hall, or St. 

 Kattern's, near Bath, belonged to the family of 

 Blanchard; and in 1748 the property passed to 

 the family of Parry of St. Kattern's by marriage 

 with the heiress of the Blanchards, who is thus 

 described : 



" Thomas Parry, and Querinah his wife, niece and 

 heiress-at-law of William Blanchard, who was only son 

 and heir of Henry Blanchard, and Querinah his wife," 

 [only child of John Curie, Esq.], 



In 1795 Thomas Parry devised the estate to 

 his son John Parry, who was the rector of Stur- 

 mer, co. Essex; and by his will [May, 1797] his 

 property went to his sisters, Elizabeth Knight, 

 Querinah Cobb, and Hannah Parry. Elizabeth 

 married, Aug. 1781, Henry Knight of Lansdown, 

 near Bath. Querinah married, Nov. 1781, Wil- 

 liam Milles Cobb, of Ringwood, gentleman, third 

 son of Christopher Cobb, merchant, and Sarah his 

 wife. 



I have in my possession some portraits of the 

 Blanchard, Curie, and Parry families ; two by 

 Sir Peter Lely, which may afford Mr. Paget 

 farther evidence of the consanguinity of Richard 

 Cobb, Esq., and the Cobbs of Ringwood. 



J. Knight. 



Aylestone. 



On the principle that every little helps, and out 

 of gratitude for Cranmore's assistance in the Mil- 

 ton-Minshull controversy, I would offer the follow- 

 ing suggestions, which may haply serve as finger- 

 posts to direct him on his way. William Cobb, Esq,, 

 of Adderbury, Oxon, immediate ancestor of the 

 baronets of that name and place, derived from the 

 Cobbs of Sandringham, in the hundred of Free- 

 bridge, Norfolk. Blomefield's History of the latter 

 county might be consulted with advantage. The 

 Cobbs of Adderbury bore " Sable, a chevron 

 argent between three dolphins naiant embowed or, 

 a chief of the last." Randle Holme, in his Academy 

 of Armory, 1688, gives the following as the arms 

 of Cobb, — "Per chevron sable and gules, two swans 

 respecting each other and a herring cobb argent." 

 Thomas Cobb, of Otterington, Yorkshire, a" loyal 

 subject of King Charles I., compounded for his 

 estates in the sum of 472Z. There is a brass in 

 Sharnbrook Church, Bedfordshire, commemorating 

 William Cobbe, who died in 1522, Alice his wifi? 

 a son Thomas, and other children. T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



"Aches" (Vol. ix., p. 351.).— I am not aware of 

 any rhyme which fixes the pronunciation of aches 

 in the time of Shakspeare, but I think the follow- 

 ing quite as decisive : 



" Of the Fallacie in the Accent or Pronunciation. 



The fallacie of the accent is, when a false thin" is 

 affirmed under colour of pronouncing it as another thing 

 that is true. For example : 



4 Where no ache is, there needs no salve ; 

 In the gout there is no H, 

 Therefore, in the gout, there needs no salve.' " 

 The. Elements of Logiclte, hy Peter Dumoulin. 

 Translated out of the French copie hy 

 Nathanael De-Lawne, with the Author's 

 approbation: London, 1624, 24mo. 

 " Anthony. Thou bleedest apace. 

 Scarus. I had a wound here that was like a T ; 

 But now 'tis made an H." 



Ant. and Cleop., Act IV. Sc. 7. 

 See also on the "aitch" question, Letters of an 

 Irish Student, vol. i. p. 256., London, 1812: and 

 The Parlour Window, by the Rev. Edward Man- 

 gin, p. 146., London, 1841. H. R C. 

 U. U. Club. 



"Meols" (Vol. vii., pp. 208. 298.).— There is 

 an extensive parish called North Meols (the fa- 

 vourite watering-place of Southport being within 

 it) in the sandy district to the south of the estuary 

 of the Ribble, in Lancashire. Prestoniensis. 



Polygamy (Vol. ix., p. 246.). — The practice of 

 monogamy had been established among the Jews 

 before the Christian era, as is shown by various 

 expressions in the New Testament ; but their law 

 (like that of other oriental nations) still permitted 

 polygamy, and they were expressly prohibited by 

 an enactment of the Emperor Theodosius, of the 

 year 393, from marrying several wives at the same 

 time (Cod. 1. 9. 7.) ; so that the practice was not 

 then extinct among them. Monogamy was the 

 law and_ practice of all the Greek and Italian 

 communities, so far back as our accounts reach. 

 There is no trace of polygamy in Homer. Even 

 in the incestuous marriages supposed by him in 

 the mythical family of iEolus, the monogamic rule 

 is observed, Odyssey, x. 7. The Roman law re- 

 cognised monogamy alone, and hence polygamy 

 was prohibited in the entire Roman empire. It 

 thus became practically the rule of Christians, and 

 was engrafted into the canon law of the Eastern 

 and Western Churches. L. 



Wafers (Vol. ix., p. 376.). — I have in my 

 possession a volume of original Italian letters, 

 addressed to a Venetian physician (who appears 

 to have been eminent in his profession), Michael 

 Angelo Rota, written during the early part of the 

 seventeenth century. Many of these letters have 

 been sealed with red wafers, still adhering to the 



