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[2.4 S, No 1, Jan, 5. 56. 
mud, and that consequently it was determined in 
high judicial conclave, in order to avoid a recur- 
rence of the unseemly ridicule the accident oc- 
casioned, that the procession should in future be 
made in carriages. ; 
As a sequence to Mr. Cutaeert Bepr's Note, 
I would ask any city antiquary to inform me when 
first a Lord Mayor's state coach was built? and 
what is the age of that which now gladdens the 
eyes “of the commonality ” ? D.S. 
The Office af High Sheriff (1% S. xii. 405.) — 
I rather think it has not been uncommon for the 
same individual to serve the office of sheriff twice 
in Wales. In vol. ii. p. 188. of that excellent 
publication, The Cambrian Journal, it is stated 
that Foulke Lloyd, of Foxhall, was sheriff for 
Denbighshire, in 1592 and 1623, and that Dr. 
Ellis Price, of Plas Jolyn, was four times sheriff 
for that county within twenty-one years. There 
also appeared to be other instances in the extracts 
from Cathrall’s North Wales, given at p. 186. of 
the same work. C. S. GREAVEs. 
County Magistrates (1* S. xii. 494.) —In re- 
spect to Sussex, I have the satisfaction of inform- 
ing Mr. Frere, that the custom of excluding the 
clergy from the Commission of the Peace has been 
wisely broken through by the Lord Lieut. of the 
County, the Duke of Richmond, within the last 
year or two, by the appointment of two clergy- 
men in the eastern division as magistrates, one of 
them, however, not being a beneficed minister. 
The custom is said to have been introduced here 
by the Duke of Neweastle, who was lord lieut. of 
the county in the early part of last century. 
Hastings. 
No clergyman has been placed in the Commis- 
sion of the Peace for the county of Derby for 
many years. The last clergyman who was a ma- 
gistrate for that county had originally been a 
barrister, and was afterwards ordained, and he 
had been put in the commission before he was 
ordained. 
C. S. Greaves. 
Horse-chestnut (1* §. xii. 407.) — The Query 
respecting this common name of @sculus, brings 
to my mind several instances in which the equine | 
prefix is used in naming objects of the animal as 
well as of the vegetable kingdom; thus we have 
horse-crab, horse-leech, horse-mussel, reference 
being obviously made to the external resemblance 
of these animals respectively to those bearing the 
simple names, but on a larger and coarser scale. 
Among vegetables we have the names horse-bean, 
horse-mint, and horse-vetch, employed to indicate 
species of large size or rank quality. With re- 
spect to that excellent adjunct to our national 
fare, the horse-radish (cochlearia), it appears to 
have been so named merely to distinguish it from 
a nearly allied plant, the common radish (rapha- 
nus), a supposition which its adaptation to table 
rather than to stable purposes would tend to con- 
firm. Query, May not the use of such terms as 
horse-laugh, and horse-play, suggest a possible 
corruption of the word coarse in some of the above 
names ? H. M. 
Dublin, 
Bale, Bishop of Ossory (1* S. ix. 324.) — Has 
the Rev. J. Graves seen the list of John Bale’s 
works, which is found in The Ng and General Bio- 
graphical Dictionary, 12 vols., 8vo., published by 
LT. Osborne, &c., 1761? A very long list is there 
given, taken from Mr. Fuller. ERR, 
Norton (1* 8. ix. 272.) —I have always under- 
stood the name of Norton simply to mean North- 
town, and if the situations of all the Nortons is 
looked to, the name, I believe, will be found to 
be properly applied in this sense. IR. Rh. 
Theobald Walter (1* S. xii. 30.)—As it can 
scarcely be disallowed to such celebrated and 
educated men as the brothers Theobald and Her- 
bert Walter, to have been well informed of the 
parentage of their mother, I suggest whether a 
variation he has: pointed out between Lodge’s 
Pedigree and the statement of Theobald, as pro- 
fessed to be given in his charter to the Abbey of 
Owney, may not have arisen from an error of 
transcription from the original document, or a 
misprint in the Charte Antique of the Irish Re- 
cord Commission ; whence he has quoted, “ Ma- 
tilde de Waltines, matris mee.” 
There is no deficiency.of evidence of both the 
brothers on the subject; and I have a note of the 
foundation charter of the same Theobald, of the 
Convent of Arklow, a cell to Furness, erected for 
the soul’s health, initial, “‘ Matilda de Valunciis, 
matris mee,” and “ Hervei Walteri, patris mei.” 
(Dugd. Monast., vi. 1128.) 
The pedigree from the Harl. MS. is also other- 
wise inaccurate. It was Maud, daughter of Le 
| Vavasour, widow of Theobald Walter, Pincern. 
Hib. (and not Maud de Valoines, his mother), 
who had to her second husband the famous Fulke 
Fitz Warine. He, in the 9th year of Jobn, paying 
a fine to the king of 1200 mares and two palfreys 
for the marriage ; and eight years afterwards had 
livery of the lands of her dowry lying in Amun- 
dernesse, co. Lanc.: which lands appear to have 
been the grant of John, Earl of Moreton, as Earl 
of Lancaster, to his favourite Theobald, her first 
husband. 
May I conclude this Note by repeating a Query 
(1* S. x. 46.) respecting another celebrity of the 
same age: William le Mareschal, wherefore his 
appellation De la Grace ? LEVERET. 
