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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[294 S, No 5., Fen. 2. °56. 
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cease of Col. J. Strode, his nephew, Thomas 
Chetham, by will, inherited the Southill estate, 
and took the name of Strode. He died in 1827 
without issue, and under the uncle’s will his bro- 
ther, Col. Richard Chetham, succeeded to the 
estate and name; he died without issue, and was 
succeeded by his brother Randall Chetham, who 
also died without issue, and was succeeded by his 
brother, Admiral Sir Edward Chetham (Strode), 
K.C.B., G.C.H., &c. I should be glad to be put 
in communication with Mr. Hacxwoop, whose 
address is not given. ‘“Chepton” means Shepton 
Mallet. H. E. 
P.S. — Sir E, Chetham Strode has a numerous 
family. 
DE WITT QUERIES. 
(18S. xii. 244. 310.5 2 8. i. 84.) 
It appears to me that the most complete answer 
to the virtually unsolved Queries of your cor- 
respondents G. L.O. and Mr. Joun Jess, is to 
be found in the Histoire Métallique de la Répub- 
lique de Hollande. That work contains engrav- 
ings and explanatory details of the medals partly 
described in 1% S. xii. 244. 310. Two other 
medals are added, and the Amsterdam edition of 
1690 gives a fifth specimen relating to the De 
Witts. All are interesting, but an entire quota- 
tion would be too lengthy for “N. & Q.” 
In preparing, a few years ago, my English 
version of the long-lost Treatise on Life Annuities 
by the Grand Pensionary De Wit, I was at con- 
siderable pains to ascertain whether his name 
ought to be spelt with one final ¢, or with two. 
The medals above mentioned gave evidence as 
follows (that is to say, presuming them to have 
been correctly engraved) : 
No. 1. Medal with busts of the brothers, and 
reverse of two ships foundering under the same 
wave ; the legend, “Una mente et sorte.” One ¢. 
No. 2. Medal with the busts, and reverse, 
“'Twee Witten eens géezint, gevloecht,” &c. One t. 
No. 3. Medal with the busts, and reverse of the 
brothers torn by wild beasts; legend, “ Nune 
redeunt animis ingentia consulis acta, et formidati 
Sceptris oracla Ministri,” &c. Two ¢s. 
No. 4. Medal with the car drawn by men with 
crowns, representation of the massacre beneath, 
and reverse, “ Wie op’t Gheluck teveele steunt,” 
&c. One t. 
No. 5. Medal with busts, and representation of 
the massacre on the reverse. One ¢. 
Thus far there were four examples of one ¢, 
compared with one of two @’s. 7 
Next came under review contemporary pub- 
lications. These did not solve the question, as 
they point in both directions, although (nu- 
merically considered) rather to the one than to 
the two ?s. 
I then renewed a search for an autograph sig- 
nature, and the only one I had an opportunity of 
seeing is subscribed to a Latin letter, and spelt 
with one? This suspended the doubt pro tem, 
and I had the name printed with one ¢. Some 
months afterwards I was shown a lithcgraphed 
copy of a letter of the Grand Pensionary, in 
Dutch, in which his signature is with two ?@’s. 
Biographies were turned to, but they answered 
both ways in a most teasing manner. Genealo- 
gists gave no aid, for some described a descent 
from the old family of De Witte or De With, 
others from that of De Witt or De Wit. I came 
to the conclusion that the probabilities are in 
favour of the Grand Pensionary having spelt his 
name both ways, like Buonaparte or Bonaparte, 
&e. 
Mr. Perer Cunnincuam, in his interesting 
article in 2"7 §. i. 8., quotes a ¢riad of Sir John 
Vanbrugh’s ways of spelling bis name, viz. Van- 
brook, Vanbrug, Vanbrugh. The triad becomes 
a decad if we include the modes in which others 
spelt it. This example reminded me that in the 
case of so great a man as John de Wit, some of 
your readers, either here or abroad, might be in- 
duced to take the necessary amount of trouble to 
set the following Queries at rest. H 
Query No. 1 Did the Grand Pensionary, in 
his Latin correspondence with learned foreigners, 
or in signing diplomas and instructions in Latin, 
spell his name habitually with one ¢? i 
Query No. 2. Did the Grand Pensionary sign 
letters and state documents, in Dutch, habitually 
with two Z's ? 
Query No. 3. Was there a period when the 
Grand Pensionary changed his ways of spelling 
his signature ? 
Query No. 4. If Queries Nos. 1. to 3. remain 
unsolved, are we not nevertheless justified in as- 
suming that the facts above adverted to are suffi- 
cient to leave it open to us to spell the name 
either with one ¢ or else with two és? and to be 
equally free from the possible discomfort of the 
criticism of etymologists, or from the charge of 
abetting the ambiguity with which the printer's 
devils of all countries treat the name of De Wit ? 
Freperick Henprixs, 
POPE PIUS AND THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. 
(27 S. i. 60.) 
We are, it seems, contending about a point 
which we cannot settle. We can only hold to 
our own opinions. 
Mr. Harinerton seems to think that the Pope 
actually made the offer. On the contrary, I con- 
